Leadership
Ikhlaq Sidhu
Chief Scientist & Faculty Director
Sutardja Center, IEOR Professor
Ken Singer
Chief Learning Officer & Managing Director
Sutardja Center Faculty
Tarek Zohdi
Academic Director,
Associate Dean for Post Baccalaureate Programs, College of Engineering
David Law
Director
Global Academic &
Startup Programs
Susan Giesecke
Director
Global Engagement
Jocelyn Weber
Director
X-Lab and Xcelerator Programs
Jesse Dieker
Director of Operations
Vicky Howell
Director
Professional Programs
Ricardo San Martin
Director
Alt: Meat Lab
Keith McAleer
Chief Marketing Officer
Michelle Lee
Manager
Academic Programs
Melissa Glass
Manager
New Initiatives
Ricardo Rodríguez
Global Programs Coordinator
Jennifer Nice
Director
Industry and Alumni Relations
Thomas Azwell
Director
Disaster XLab
Tim Wraith
Program Coordinator
Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator
Aaron Lower
Program Manager
Professional Programs
Celia Homyak
Program Manager
Alt: Meat Lab
Sukh Singh
Program Coordinator
Disaster Lab
Students
Jacqueline Lee
Web Design & Development Lead
Mallika Luthar
Marketing & Editorial Lead
Mod Yensuang
Web Design & Development Lead
Nora Lam
Operations Intern
Sejal Goel
Operations Intern
Faculty & Industry Fellows
Continuing Lecturers & Industry Fellows
Summer and Fall 2021 Faculty & Industry Fellows
- Aleks Gollu
- Alka Roy
- Anne Fletcher
- Derek Chan
- Christyna Serrano
- Gert Christen
- Gigi Wang
- Ikhlaq Sidhu
- Ken Sandy
- Mark Searle
- Mathieu Aguesse
- Naeem Zafar
- Ricardo San Martin
- Shomit Ghose
- Shuo Chen
- Stephen Torres
- Victoria Howell
Recent Faculty & Industry Fellows
- Anne Fletcher
- Arash Nourian
- Bill Reichert
- Conrad Voorsanger
- Edward Henrich
- Gert Christen
- Gigi Wang
- Ken Singer
- Leah Edwards
- Luke Kowalski
- Mark Searle
- Mehdi Maghsoodnia
- Michael Kyriacou
- Pamela Induni
- Pamela Park
- R Paul Singh
- Rachel Powers
- Ricardo San Martin
- Rick Rasmussen
- Shira Abel-Shvo
- Shomit Ghose
- Stephen Torres
Global Ambassadors
Board Members
Advisory Board
Supporting the sustainability & strategy of the Center
- Pantas Sutardja
- Ting Chuk
- Charlie Giancarlo, CEO of Pure Storage and a former senior executive of Cisco Systems and Silver Lake Partners
- Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor, College of Engineering
- Mike Olson, Cloudera
- Kim Polese, CrowdSmart, ClearStreet
- In Sik Rhee, Vertex Ventures
- Marc Tarpenning, Cofounder of Tesla Motors
- Karl Van Bibber, Professor and Executive Associate Dean for the College of Engineering
- Yael Zheng
Industry Advisory Board
Helping to connect the Center to industry
- Charles Fan, CTO, Cheetah Mobile
- Cosmos Nicolaou, GRAIL
- Keval Desai, InterWest Partners
- Nir Merry, Applied Materials
- Peter Cnudde, Yahoo Inc.
- Shomit Ghose, Onset Ventures
- Stefan Heuser, Samsung
Faculty Advisory Council
Connecting the Center with the greater Berkeley campus
- Shankar Sastry - Board Chair
Professor, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences; Former Dean, College of Engineering - Alper Atamturk, Professor, UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
- Sara Beckman, Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- Amy Herr, UC Berkeley Professor in Bioengineering
- Trond Petersen, UC Berkeley Professor in the Department of Sociology
- Costas Spanos, UC Berkeley Professor in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
- Candace Yano, Professor, UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and Haas School of Business
- Tarek Zohdi, Chair of the UCB Computational & Data Science & Engineering Program; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Dean for Post Baccalaureate Programs, College of Engineering
Affiliated Faculty
- Burghardt Tenderich, Fellow and Assoc. Professor, USC, Former Exec Director, CET
- Greg Niemeyer, Department Chair, Associate Professor of Media Innovation
- Ilan Adler, Professor, IEOR
- Jonathan Marshall, Director, Legal Studies Program
- Ken Goldberg, Professor, IEOR
- Lisa Wymore, Department Chair, Associate Professor, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
- Richard K. Lyons, Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer, UC Berkeley; Professor, Former Dean, Haas School of Business
- Sara Beckman, Professor, Haas School of Business
- Trond Petersen, Professor, Sociology
- Zuo-Jun “Max” Shen, Department Chair, Professor, IEOR
Program Development Fellows
- Elisa Balestra, Innovation-X
- Nathan Gold, BMoE Bootcamp
- Mike Grandinetti, Data X-Lab
- Elizabeth Saunders, Professional Programs
- Mark Searle, Professional Programs
- Scottie Spurzem, BMoE Bootcamp
- Po Chi Wu, Blockchain X-Lab
Innovation Fellows
- Charles Huang, Industry Fellow and Co-Founder Guitar Hero
- Don Proctor, Cisco Systems
- Jerry Fiddler, Industry Fellow and Founder WindRiver
- Michael Marks, Industry Fellow, Chairman of the Board, SanDisk Corporation
- Steve Blank, Faculty and Author
Visiting Scholars
- Claire Leveneur, Fulbright Scholar, University of Paris II, PhD Blockchain & Law (Spring 2021)
- Dorine Cornet, University of Paris I, PhD Economics (2020)
- Nathapol Vimolchalao, University of Cambridge, M. Philosophy (2020)
- Woseook Choi, Seoul National University, B. Law (2020)
- Dhrubes Biswas, Industry Fellow (2019 - Present)
- Jinming Hu (2018-2019)
- Rohini Banskota (2018 - 2019)
- Numakura Kensuke, Awakens University (2018)
- Sukwoon Choi, KAIST University (2018)
- Tomohiro Takano, Awakens Univerity (2018)
- Yuta Matsuda, Awakens University (2018)
- Ann Snitko, (2018)
- Steven Banerjee, Industry Fellow, University of Canterbury, M. Engineering (2017 - 2019)
- Holger Assenmacher, Affiliated Professor (2016 - 2017)
- Xiaohui Yuan, Tsinghua University, (2016 - 2017)
- Christie Lagally, Industry Fellow and Senior Scientist at The Good Food Institute (2016)
- Sullivan Songhe Ye, University of Cambridge (UK) (2015 - 2016)
- Alexander Fred Ojala, Visiting Scholar (2015)
- Charlotta Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden (2013 - 2014)
- Rebecca Friederike Loeffler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) (2013 - 2014)
- Mari Suoranta, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2011 - 2012)
- Ashish Rajendra Kumar Sai, University of Limerick, PhD CS
Founders
- A. Richard Newton, Founding Dean
- David Dornfeld, Founding Board Member
- Ikhlaq Sidhu, Founding Director
- Ilan Adler, Founding Board Member
- Jim Davidson, Founding Board Member
- Jon Burgstone, Cofounder
- Lee Schruben, Founder Department Chair, IEOR
- Michael Marks, Founding Board Member
- Stacey Lawson, Cofounder