Industrial Advisory Council

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 Vice President, Solution Marketing at Nokia, where he leads a global team focused on innovative networking solutions that include open optical networking and intelligent software automation.

Tim brings more than 30 years of networking and telecommunications experience across business and technical organizations, including roles in marketing, product management, and engineering in executive and managerial roles at vendor and service provider companies, including Infinera, Coriant, Tellabs, ARRIS, Cadant, Ericsson, and AT&T Mobility. Tim was also a Principal Analyst at ACG Research. Tim is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has authored numerous articles. He holds an MBA from Webster University, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University. He also holds eight patents and is a member of IEEE and Optica.

Rathish Jayabharathi is the Director of Silicon Engineering at AMD. Before that, he worked for approximately thirty years at Intel Corporation as a Senior Staff/Technical Lead where was involved in all aspects of EDA and silicon development and also managed a team that designed and tested Smartphone System-on-a-Chips (SoCs). Rathish has a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Jazmine Jayasi graduated from the SIUC School of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering in December 2021 with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. After graduation, she worked at the Center of Neuroregeneration in the Department of Neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Research Institute. She worked with neuroscientists and engineers to employ innovative techniques involving optogenetics, electrophysiology, and transplantations to translate research into clinical therapies to restore the nervous system. Jazmine is now working as an engineer at Moderna in Norwood, Massachusetts. As an MS&T team member in Moderna’s new mRNA Individualized Neoantigen Therapies, Jazmine is responsible for being the subject matter expert for drug substance, drug product, and lipid nanoparticle processes including troubleshooting and equipment issues during cGMP manufacturing. Jazmine is also responsible for process implementation, technical support, change controls, and manufacturing investigations to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.

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.

Janet K. Tinoco is CEO/owner of Runways To Space LLC and Professor Emeritus at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), O’Maley College of Business in Daytona Beach, FL. Her expertise is in technical and strategic management, innovation, and business policy, particularly concerning defense and space systems.  She has 40 years of industry and academic experience in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. After graduating with her engineering degree in electrical systems and sciences from SIUC, Dr. Tinoco became a systems integration engineer and technical manager for Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman before leaving to pursue her PhD in strategy.  Since her time at ERAU, she has been involved in space research, focusing her efforts on spaceports, as well as space debris mitigation from the business perspective.  Dr. Tinoco has received several research and industry awards, most notably the Lockheed Martin Fire Control Division’s “Top 100” for her engineering contributions.  She has published in numerous academic journals, co-authored research reports for industry and government agencies, and is the lead author on an introductory book on spaceports. Dr. Tinoco is a senior member of AIAA, a member of ASTM International Committee for Spaceport Standards, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Commission on Space Policy, Law, and Economics

Jason Wibbenmeyer started his career in the United States Air Force at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, OH.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and an MBA and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University.  He is a Missouri licensed Professional Engineer and a certified Project Management Professional.  Jason has over 25 years of experience in engineering, project management, research, and development and currently serves as the Technology Transfer Manager at Ameren in St. Louis, MO.

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