ECE Advisory Board
The Mission of the Advisory Board is to help craft & guide the strategic directions for the UCSB Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, for maximal alignment with the needs and involvement of industry.
Serving as a critical component of the Departments’ renewed outreach efforts, the Board is made up of individuals who have strong technical backgrounds, are experienced in their industries and are recognized leaders in the profession.
ECE Advisory Board Members
- Michael Peters, Director, RF Plasma Generation, Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc. (LinkedIn) (ECE Advisory Board Chair)
- Mark Abel, Executive Director, UCSB IEE
- Doug Baney, Corporate Director of Education, Keysight (LinkedIn)
- Bobby Brar, President, Teledyne Scientific Company (LinkedIn)
- Robert Hammond, Founder, CSO, Cryocooler Corporation
- Mrinalini Lakshminarayanan, Fractional CPO and GTM Executive, Transformation, Turnarounds, (LinkedIn)
- Tom Lookabaugh, Retired VP Technology, Viasat Inc., and President, Thomas Lookabaugh Associates, LLC (LinkedIn)
- Dennis Monticelli, Fellow Emeritus, Texas Instruments (LinkedIn)
- Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, SVP & CTO, Optical Egineering, Marvell
- Katharine Schmidtke, Co-Founder, Eribel Systems LLC
- Ranganathan Sudhakar, Chief Development Officer, d-Matrix (LinkedIn)
- Yulun Wang, Executive Chairman & Co-founder, Sovato Health
- David Wong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, D2 Nova
