Industrial Advisory Council | School of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering | SIU

David Addison graduated from SIU School of Electrical Engineering with a Doctorate of Philosophy in May 2017.  He works as a Senior Electronic System Design Engineer at MAXAR Technologies Space Infrastructure in Palo Alto, CA.  He and his team develop custom antenna products to meet the requirements of MAXAR's customers across all its product lines.  The customers whose products David has worked on include NASA, Sirius XM, Hughesnet, Ovzon, BSAT, Hispasat, Intelsat, Asiasat, Star One, Bulgaria Sat, EchoStar, PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantar, nbn, Facebook/PointView, and internal products including WorldView Legion.  His responsibilities include future and current product development, risk assessment and mitigation, and product testing support.

Craig Davis is the Chief of Medicine Service at the Veteran Affairs Marion HealthCare System. Earlier, he was the System Director of Hospitalists at Southern Illinois Healthcare. Previously, he was a Hospitalist with Southern Illinois Healthcare in Illinois and also with Duke Health in North Carolina. He received his BS in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in North Carolina. He received his Medical Doctor degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Illinois. His Internal Medicine Internship and Residency was at Indiana University in Indiana.

Tim Doiron is a Senior Director at Infinera. Before that, he was a Principal Analyst, at Intelligent Networking practice, at ACG Research.  Doiron’s work is focused on network innovations and transformations in the areas of packet optical transport, data center interconnect (DCI), transport/multi-layer SDN, and network function virtualization (NFV). Before joining ACG Research, Doiron was Vice President, Product Management at Coriant.  Doiron has more than 25 years of telecommunications industry experience.  In addition to previous General Manager, product planning, and product management posts at Tellabs, Doiron has held a variety of leadership positions in software development, product management, business development, and marketing at ARRIS, Cadant, Ericsson, and Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems. Doiron began his career working on fighter jets as an engineer in the avionics labs at McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a Master of Business Administration from Webster University. Doiron also holds seven U.S. patents and is a long-time member of both the IEEE and the Business Marketing Association (BMA).

Moiz Khan is a Technical Manager at TSMC. Earlier, he was with Synopsys Inc. He joined Synopsys in 2006 where he was a senior member of the R&D staff and Manager in the Test Automation Group In the Test Automation group. He worked on TetraMAX and DFTMAX, industry-leading ATPG and test compression solutions, and managed a team of engineers working primarily on ATPG power and diagnosis. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 2006. He has published and is an active reviewer of several conferences and journals. He has served on the technical program committee of ISQED (2007-12) and ASQED (2009-12). He is also a senior member of the IEEE.

Michael Krenz is a Technical Fellow in Electrical Generation/Distribution at Collins Aerospace in Rockford, IL. Prior to that he was the Manager of Emerging Technologies, and his responsibilities included monitoring competitive technologies and working with companies in adjacent markets on new technologies.  Prior responsibilities at UTAS include Advanced Technology Department Head, Systems Engineering Department Head, and Software Engineering Manager.  Prior to UTAS, Mike spent almost 20 years working for Rockwell Collins (RC) in Cedar Rapids, IA where he managed the Advanced Products product line, and held various technical and managerial roles in software, electrical hardware, sub-systems, and systems engineering.  Mike currently holds 28 US Patents, 19 issued in association with his work at RC, and 9 more with UTAS.  His formal educational background consists of a BSEE from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and an MSECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) from the University of Iowa.

Sandeep Kumar joined Silicon Laboratories in 2006 and is responsible for worldwide CAD organization, process engineering and package engineering, product and test engineering, quality assurance, failure analysis, manufacturing engineering, as well as the prototype production and reliability test labs. Dr. Kumar’s group drives the company's technology strategy and supplier choices. Before joining Silicon Labs, Dr. Kumar managed global test engineering teams and was responsible for worldwide product and test engineering for the storage business at Agere Systems, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T Bell Labs. As a member of the Bell Labs technical staff, Dr. Kumar also was a member of the group that designed ISDN U-interface chips, Speaker Phone Codec, and Sigma-Delta A/D converters. Dr. Kumar has a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Evansville in Indiana, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Saravanan Padmanaban received a B.E. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2000 and 2003 respectively.  He was a visiting assistant professor with the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore between 2003-2004.  Saravanan joined Intel Corporation in 2004 as a senior CAD engineer, working on projects in the area of layout processing, layout synthesis, and process shifting.  He currently leads a team, developing tools for layout processing.

Andrelina C. Rodriguez is the Director of Software Engineering at Siemens Smart Infrastructure in Chicago. IL. Earlier, she worked for 20 years at Motorola, since 1999, in GMS Networks and Motorola Mobility. Andrelina received a bachelor’s and an MS degree in Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Eric Rossi is the founder and President of EMAC, Inc. where has been employed for the last 22 years. Along with his business acumen, Eric has a wealth of knowledge in embedded systems development using a variety of hardware platforms and operating systems. During his tenure at EMAC, he led the development of EMAC's proprietary hardware and software products and has determined the strategic direction of the company. Prior to working at EMAC, Eric was employed at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale. As an Assistant Professor, he taught classes in electronics and computer programming. Before being employed at SIU Eric was employed as an Engineering Manager for Advanced Energy Technology Inc. (AETI). Projects he managed include an Energy Management System, a Parabolic Solar Tracking System, and an Ethanol Plant Monitor and Control System. Eric worked for several electronic companies where he performed various engineering and programming tasks before working at AETI. Eric attended college at SIU where he received a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Technology, an Associate’s Degree in Electronic Technology, and a Minor in Math.

Claudeliah Roze is Vice President, Program Excellence at TTM Technologies. Earlier she was a Senior Systems Engineer with Raytheon Corporation, worked with several teams to develop, test, and validate software solutions for military intelligence agencies, and provided test and acceptance expertise to capture new business with international customers. She received a BSEE from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 2002.  Since then, Claudeliah has held various test and evaluation positions with the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Boeing Company.

Gary Sommer brings 34 years of experience in Management and Engineering in a diverse range of fields including Financial, Medical, Networking, Gaming, and Communications.  Gary currently serves as Vice President of Engineering for Exegy driving programmable hardware, software, testing, and performance teams delivering top-performing market data appliances for high-frequency and enterprise trading customers.  He has worked in engineering and management roles for BioMérieux, Celox Networks, 3Com, WMS Gaming, and U.S. Robotics.  Gary received his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lisa Steinhoff is a Sr. Director – US Hardware Engineering at bioMerieux, St. Louis, MO,  since August 2015, and has been with bioMerieux since August 2001. She holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, a Masters in Engineering Management from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Graduate Certificate in Systems and Product Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management.

James Stewart is the Chief Scientist in Electromagnetic Warfare at NSWC Crane, IN. He received a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (EE) and Master's of Science in EE from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. degree in EE at Purdue University in Indiana. James Stewart began his professional career at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Crane, Indiana as an electronics engineer for DARPA's Highly Integrated Photonics (HIP) headed by Dr. Preston Marshall.  He has been active in Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) systems supporting both the EA-6B Prowler and EA-18G Growler jamming platforms as the project site lead for Jamming Techniques Optimization (JATO).   James was also a lead engineer for Next Generation Jammer's (NGJ) funded Advanced Technique Group (ATG) where he was charged with developing modulations and techniques for manipulating communications and RADAR systems.  He's also a naval lead engineer for DARPA's Adaptive Radar Countermeasures (ARC) program as well as DARPA's Communications through Extreme RF (CommEx) program.  James holds three patents in UAS technologies with the Navy and one pending with Purdue University where he is pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering.  His PhD research involved optical obscurants due to Kerker scattering suppression of silica nanospheres with metallic fractal structures and the characterization of such spheres with a novel flow cell as well as pure dielectric metasurface focusing lens using a post structure array to achieve greater than 2pi phase manipulation.

Kashyap Tadisina M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Earlier he was a Peripheral Nerve Surgery Fellow at WUSTL, before then he was a Resident in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Saint Louis University and also held a research and teaching appointment with the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He received his BS in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) in 2009 and his Medical Doctor degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in 2015. He has authored/co-authored over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals primarily in the area of plastic surgery.

Dannaka White joined Pfizer in Memphis, TN, in January 2022. He received his BSEE at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in December 2021.