Leadership
Ken Singer
Executive Director &
Chief Learning Officer
Sutardja Center Faculty
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Tarek Zohdi
Academic Director,
Associate Dean for Post Baccalaureate Programs, College of Engineering
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Thomas Azwell
Director
Disaster XLab
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Jesse Dieker
Director of Operations
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NIck Friedland
Program Manager, Xcelerator Operations
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Susan Giesecke
Director
Global Engagement
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Celia Homyak
Co-Director
Alt: Meat Lab
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Vicky Howell
Director
Professional Programs
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Michelle Lee
Manager
Academic Programs
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Aaron Lower
Program Manager
Professional Programs
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Keith McAleer
Chief Marketing Officer
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Jennifer Nice
Director
Industry and Alumni Relations
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Ricardo Rodríguez
Manager
Global Programs
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Ricardo San Martin
Co-Director
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Sukh Singh
Program Coordinator
Disaster Lab
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Ikhlaq Sidhu
Founding Director
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Jocelyn Weber
Director
X-Lab and Xcelerator Programs
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Margot Welk
Global Engagement Coordinator
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Tim Wraith
Program Coordinator
Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator
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Students
Idean Azari
Operations Intern
Kamya Venkatesan
Design Lead
Karen Alarcon
Innovation Fellow Challenge Lead
Lauren McBride
Operations Intern
Maxine Sy Chu
Innovation Fellows Marketing Lead
Mod Yensuang
Web Design & Development Lead
Nora Lam
Operations Lead
Rachel Eizner
Innovation Fellows Marketing Lead
Sabrina Wu
Operations Intern
Tara Menon
Innovation Fellows NFT Lead
Veerela Wang
Editorial Lead
Vicky Liu
Video Editor & Multimedia Producer
Xinyi Zhu
User Experience Lead
Faculty & Industry Fellows
Continuing Lecturers & Industry Fellows
Fall 2022 Faculty & Industry Fellows
- Celia Homyak
- Derek Chan
- Gert Christen
- Gigi Wang
- Gorick Ng
- Luke Kowalski
- Mark Searle
- Mathieu Aguesse
- Shira Abel
- Shuo Chen
- Thomas Azwell
- Victoria Howell
Recent Faculty & Industry Fellows
- Aleks Gollu
- Anne Fletcher
- Anita Balaraman
- Carrie Requist
- Conrad Voorsanger
- Dan Shields
- Gail Gannon
- Ikhlaq Sidhu
- Jill Finlayson
- Michael Morris
- Mehdi Maghsoodnia
- Phillip Alvelda
- Ricardo San Martin
- Takaaki Hirakawa
- Tomasso di Bartolo
Spring 2022 Industry Fellows
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