Program Advisory Board and Chair Members

Thank you to our chairs and advisory board members for your continued service and dedication our UCSC Extension Silicon Valley programs!

AI Application Development

Jason Samaha

Asst Prof, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience

Mike Schmidt

Director of Software Engineering, AMD

Paul Baldassari

Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Flex

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Artificial Intelligence

Jason Samaha

Asst Prof, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience

Mike Schmidt

Director of Software Engineering, AMD

Paul Baldassari

Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Flex

Advisory Board

Bioinformatics

Janani Rangarajan

Statistical Data Analyst, Gilead Sciences | Program Chair

Paul A Saunders

Biotechnology Consultant

David Bernick

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Project Scientist/Lecturer

Gregory Frank

Biosciences Instructor, UCSC Extension Consultant

Robert Knight

Founding CEO MyClassText.org Statistics Instructor, UCSC Extension

Advisory Board

Biotechnology

Edward James Rozhon

Program Chair | Retired Sr. Manager, Clinical Operations, Genentech

Thomas R Pamukcu

CEO, Health Wallet

Abizar Lakdawalla

Director, Proxeom

Ahmed Hamdy

Head, Early Stage Clinical Development

Alyson Falwell

Clinical Research Operations Manager

Michael Huston

Huston Associates, LLC

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Business Administration

Dianne V Conry

Consultant, Kranz & Associates | Program Chair

Judy A Lacroix

Talent Management & Development | Leadership & Organization Development

Richard B Rondeau

Agile Coach/Program Manager Safeway

Stephanie Evans-Wemusa

Director, DEI & Belonging, Mindbody | Advisor, UCSC Ext. HR Management

Benjamin Wang

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer NeVap, Inc

Larry O'Connell

Former Instructor, Business Administration Program

Phil Brotherton

Principal, Phil Brotherton Consulting

Wenlei Shan

Former Instructor, Business Administration Program

Advisory Board

Clinical Trials Design and Mana…

Edward James Rozhon

Program Chair | Retired Sr. Manager, Clinical Operations, Genentech

Narinder Singh

Pharmacy Director, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Thomas R Pamukcu

CEO, Health Wallet

Ahmed Hamdy

Head, Early Stage Clinical Development

Alyson Falwell

Clinical Research Operations Manager

Michael Huston

Huston Associates, LLC

Advisory Board

Computer Programming

Ajay K Mittal

Senior Software Engineer, SCIF

Bineet Sharma

Director/Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Silicon Valley|Chair/Instructor UCSC SV

Jagadeesh Vasudevamurthy

Software Engineer, Xilinx (AMD)

Advisory Board

Data Engineering

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Data Science

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Data Science and Data Analytics

Parthasarathy M Padmanabhan

Data Engineering Lead, New Relic | Program Chair

Armen Pischdotchian

Academic Mentor, IBM Watson Solutions

Ashish Gupta

Senior Staff Engineer, LinkedIn

Ching-Fong (CF) Su

Director of Engineering, Machine Learning, Quora

Lise Getoor

Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Piyush Bhargava

Senior Director in Data & Analytics Organization, Cisco

Rama Oruganti

Principal Engineer in the Data & Analytics organization, Cisco

Advisory Board

DEI For Educators

Shindale Seale

CEO, SEADE Coaching & Consulting | Program Chair

Advisory Board

Diversity Equity Inclusion

Darin L Matthews

Chief Procurement Officer, California Polytechnic State University

Shindale Seale

CEO, SEADE Coaching & Consulting | Program Chair

Stephanie Evans-Wemusa

Director, DEI & Belonging, Mindbody | Advisor, UCSC Ext. HR Management

Yvette Durazo

Principal Consultant, Unitive Consulting

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Early Childhood Education: Asso…

Melissa Chi Le

Teacher | Program Chair

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Early Childhood Education: Site…

Ninet Moradi

Instructor | Program Chair

Robyn F Stone

Leader in STEM Education

Alicia Arizmendi

TUPE Coordinator & Student Support Specialist, Morgan Hill Unified School

Angel Chang

Bilingual Educator and Researcher, Stanford University

Nell Redaniel

President and State Director, Santa Clara Valley Chapter of CAAEYC

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