CMU - Key Persons
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
- Department
Adrian Ott is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and former senior-level tech executive with a proven track record for visionary business strategies that result in exponential revenue. She has led billion-dollar high technology organizations and assisted innovative ventures to identify and commercialize new product opportunity. Consulting Magazine called her "one of Silicon Valley's most respected strategists." As CEO and founder of a technology services business in 2001, Harvard Business School and NAWBO recognized her as one of the most inspiring leaders in Silicon Valley.
In addition to teaching technology venture classes at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, she serves on the National Faculty for the NSF Innovation Corps (National Science Foundation I-Corps). As a National Adjunct, she assists cohorts of promising technology entrepreneurs to commercialize innovations they have developed at top U.S. universities. She has also served in fiduciary and advisory board roles at private for-profit corporations.
Adrian is the award-winning author of two business books that won Best Business Book of the year accolades. She has contributed thought-leading articles to Fast Company and Harvard Business Review and has been featured in national business television, radio, and publications such as Forbes on the latest trends.
Prior to founding her own company, she was an HP executive for 15 years serving in functions such as product management, new ventures, strategic alliances, marketing, and software development. She was recognized in an annual report for "infusing HP with new revenue streams, new technologies, and new business models."
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- Senior IT Support Specialist / Department
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- Marketing and New Product Development
- Marketing and New Product Development, Tepper School of Business
Boatwright has been with Carnegie Mellon University since 1997, joining as a faculty member of the Tepper School of Business. In his current role for the Tepper School, he serves as the Allan D. Shocker Professor of Marketing and New Product Development and has taught business coursework at CMU's campus in Doha, Qatar.
Boatwright is originally from Denton, Texas. He spends his free time focused on being a dad.
Pixar founder, Alvy Ray Smith, inspires Silicon Valley students in the Integrated Innovation Institute, whose master's degrees combine studies in design, business, and engineering disciplines.
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- Campus Administrative Coordinator / Department
- Campus Administrative Coordinator, CMU Silicon Valley
As a people-first organizer, Audrey Jin is often the first person students turn to with questions. She supports the CMU-Silicon Valley campus as the Administrative Coordinator, assisting the Senior Operations Director and working closely with the student affairs team. Audrey also helps facilitate the in-person I-9 verification process for CMU student workers, staff, and faculty on the Silicon Valley campus.
Audrey Jin has been part of the CMU-Silicon Valley team for over seven years, bringing deep expertise in coordination, communication, and cross-campus support. Before joining CMU-SV, she worked as an administrative assistant, gaining hands-on experience in logistics and office operations. She holds a BFA degree in Graphic Design & Photography from SJSU and brings a creative lens to her work with students and staff. Audrey is known for her calm presence, thoughtful approach, and ability to connect the dots across teams and initiatives.
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- Professor in Information Networking / Founding Director, Education, Training and Outreach
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- AV Support Specialist / Department
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- Distinguished Service Professor / Department
- Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
- Distinguished Service Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
Catherine Fang is a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a seasoned and passionate researcher and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in both the software industry and academia. Fang's research and product expertise lies in personalized healthcare, clinical trials, AI-based therapy, and data mining on digital audience behavior profiling and targeting. With multiple US patents to her name, she also serves as an associate editor for the IEEE reliability society. Fang's entrepreneurial spirit has led her to co-found AiCare, a cutting-edge AI and cloud-powered Healthcare & Medical platform. Prior to this, Fang served as global/senior product manager and architect at LinkedIn, Yahoo, Bluekai (acquired by Oracle), and Sun Microsystems.
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- Assistant Director of Academic & Student Services / Department
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- Associate Professor of the Practice
- Associate Professor of the Practice With Carnegie Mellon University 's Information Networking Institute
- Associate Professor of the Practice, Information Networking Institute
Cynthia Kuo is an associate professor of the practice with Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute. Based out of CMU Silicon Valley, Kuo brings industry experience as a startup founder, product lead, and user experience researcher. She uses sensors to invent new, impactful technologies.
Kuo co-founded Vibrado Opens in new window to create truly smart apparel. Vibrado brought the best skill development coaches to athletes, with real-time motion capture and instant verbal feedback. During the 2015-2016 season, University of Maryland basketball players who practiced with Vibrado's smart sleeve saw a 12% average in-game increase in their free throws (vs. 4% without). Vibrado has been featured in media outlets such as CNN, CNET, and CBS Sports.
Kuo designed the first version of Google Safe Browsing Opens in new window, which officially launched in 2007 as the first major phishing (web forgery) warning. Today, Safe Browsing protects billions of devices each week as part of Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
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- Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
- Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cécile Péraire has more than 25 years of software engineering experience working in both industry and academia. She earned her Ph.D. in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland). Following a postdoctoral research fellowship at SRI International and Hewlett Packard, she worked at Rational and IBM where she played different roles covering the many facets of software development. She has contributed significantly to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and IBM's internal methods.
Péraire is a teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She is a recipient of CMU College of Engineering Dean's Early Career Fellowship Award, as well as CMU College of Engineering Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award for her contribution to the development of ECE's unique and distinctive Software Engineering Master Opens in new window program offered in Silicon Valley, California. She has published and taught extensively in her areas of specialization. She has a passion for innovation in practices and tools that enable teams to more effectively develop and deliver software-intensive systems.
Teaching:
Throughout her career, Péraire taught 16 different undergraduate, graduate, and industry courses (most of them several times) at EPFL, HP, Rational, IBM and CMU. She has contributed to the design of many of these courses. Here are the courses that she is currently teaching at CMU:
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- Chief Business Officer / Department
- Chief Business Officer, College of Engineering
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
- Department
- Product Team Leader, Advisor
David Miller is an entrepreneur, product team leader, advisor, and educator. He works with Fortune 500 companies as well as venture capital backed start ups to help find the elusive product market fit and build and manage teams of product managers, designers, and developers.
Throughout his career, Miller has worked with companies big and small to bring game changing products to life. He has consulted or worked for companies including Comcast, Oracle, Nextel, Sprint, Prudential, GMAC Commercial Mortgage, SEI Investments, and Cushman & Wakefield. He personally founded three companies in the ad-tech, ride sharing, and payment processing industries.
Currently, as a product coach, Miller helps companies accelerate and hone their product organizations to more efficiently launch and maintain products, reduce backlogs, build integrations, scale, gain market share, and drive profitability.
Miller's focus areas include product management leadership, mentorship, organizational design, design thinking, and conversations that focus on how to unlock creative potential. Also, how organizations create high performing teams through an inclusive environment that values and honors respect for differences, humility, difficult dialog, managed conflict, hard decision making, resilience, empathy, and risk-taking to meet the grand challenges of tomorrow.
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- Associate Teaching Professor / Department
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- Adjunct Professor
- Founder
- Adjunct Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
- Department
Deana Anglin is a founder (intrapreneur) and general manager of a startup within Google and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She has more than 12 years of experience as a hybrid product development and user experience (UX) practitioner for global products and services. Anglin is often found in-field learning about people across Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.
She informs and guides product strategy from conception to launch for products that support small businesses and connects them with consumers including a new AI branding startup for entrepreneurs, and previously orderfood.google.com Opens in new window and "Reserve with Google" service booking products. She advises US, Africa, and Brazil-based startups through Google's startup programs. A native of Jamaica, she is founder of the Azarae Foundation Opens in new window, a non-profit enabling access to education and opportunities for Caribbean youth.
Anglin received a Ph.D. in computing from Georgia Tech where she focused on designing technologies to solve socio-economic challenges around the globe like youth development and rural water quality monitoring.
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- ECE Administrative Coordinator / Department
- ECE Administrative Coordinator, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Director, Software Management Program / Department
- Director, Software Management Program, Information Networking Institute, Integrated Innovation Institute
Gladys M. Mercier has 12 years of software engineering experience, with a focus on industrial automation systems for steel manufacturing. She has been a certified professional project manager (PMP) since 2002, and has served in a variety of roles throughout her career, including analyst, developer, designer, architect, tester, trainer, and team lead. Mercier joined Carnegie Mellon in Silicon Valley in 2003, and has played an instrumental role in the growth and success of the M.S. in Software Management (MSSM) program.
Mercier grew up in Sacramento, California, and attended college in Boston and Pittsburgh. After earning her undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, she launched her software career in the city's steel manufacturing industry. Her work allowed her to travel extensively, installing systems in many cities in the U.S. and Brazil.
Mercier has been a part of the CMU community for nearly 20 years. After earning her master's degree at CMU, she developed and taught a project management course for Heinz College. When she moved back to California, she continued her CMU career by joining the Silicon Valley campus.
Mercier spends her free time both outside and on the ice. She studies landscape architecture, urban design, and California native plants. Her favorite pastime is playing ice hockey, traveling across the U.S. as part of winning teams and leagues. After living in Pittsburgh for 16 years (and during the Mario Lemieux era), she continues to be a devoted Pittsburgh Penguins fan, despite the cheers of her San Jose Sharks-loving neighbors.
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- Education
- Professors at CMU Silicon Valley
- Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University, Hakan Erdogmus was an independent consultant based in Ottawa, Canada, specializing in software engineering methods, engineering economics, process improvement, and software measurement and quality. He has published and presented extensively in these areas. From January 1995 to June 2009, he worked for the Canadian National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology, where he was a senior research officer in the Software Engineering Group. Erdogmus is a past editor in chief of IEEE Software and a current associate editor of the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering. He held an Erasmus Mundus visiting scholarship, a position funded by the European Union, at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. Erdogmus is co-editor of two volumes, Advances in Software Engineering: Comprehension, Evaluation and Evolution and Value-Based Software Engineering, both published by Springer. He is a founding faculty member of ECE's M.S. in Software Engineering Program. Since 2018, Erdogmus has been serving on ECE's Silicon Valley Strategy Committee as its academic lead and lead for the Software Engineering Program.
Erdogmus received his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from INRS-Université du Québec (Montreal), his M.Sc. degree from McGill University's School of Computer Science (Montreal), and his B.Sc. degree from Boğaziçi University's Computer Engineering Department (Istanbul). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society, and a member of ACM. From 2010 to 2014 he served on Computer Society's Board of Governors as an elected member. In 2003, Erdogmus received the Eugene L. Grant Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He received the Dean's Early Career Fellowship and the Philip L. Dowd Education Fellowship Award from Carnegie Mellon in 2016.
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- Manager, Information Services & Technology / Department
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- English Language and Communication Specialist / Department
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- Department
- Professor
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
John Paul Shen was a Nokia Fellow and the founding director of Nokia Research Center - North America Lab. NRC-NAL had research teams pursuing a wide range of research projects in mobile Internet and mobile computing. In six years (2007-2012), NRC-NAL filed over 100 patents, published over 200 papers, hosted about 100 Ph.D. interns, and collaborated with a dozen universities. Prior to joining Nokia in late 2006, John was the director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab at Intel. MRL had research teams in Santa Clara, Portland, and Austin, pursuing research on aggressive ILP and TLP microarchitectures for IA32 and IA64 processors. Prior to joining Intel in 2000, John was a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he supervised a total of 17 Ph.D. students and dozens of M.S. students, received multiple teaching awards, and published two books and more than 100 research papers. One of his books, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, was used in the EE382A Advanced Processor Architecture course at Stanford, where he co-taught the EE382A course. After spending 15 years in industry, all in Silicon Valley, he returned to Carnegie Mellon in the fall of 2015 as a tenured full professor in the ECE Department and is based at the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley campus.
Shen's broad technical expertise encompasses computer architecture and processor design, mobile and ubiquitous computing, mobile sensing and user behavior modeling, web-based software systems and services, wireless based cloud computing infrastructure, and power and energy efficient supercomputing. His current research interests include modern processor design and evaluation, architecture and compilation for instruction-level parallelism, and dependable and fault-tolerable computing.
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
- Department
- Distinguished Leader
Jorge Taborga is a distinguished leader in organizational transformation, digital innovation, and product development. His career spans high-tech, healthcare, and cloud services industries, where he has consistently driven strategies that foster growth, operational excellence, and groundbreaking innovations.
Most recently, Taborga served as chief transformation officer at Medical Solutions, where he led a targeted digital transformation to improve customer, employee, and partner experiences. His initiatives leveraged advanced technologies, including machine learning and generative AI, to modernize processes, platforms, and operations.
Before that, Taborga spent 12 years at Omnicell, where he held multiple leadership roles, including executive vice president of Global Research & Development and vice president of Manufacturing, Quality, and IT. At Omnicell, he oversaw the development of over 15 industry-leading products and cloud services for medication management, combining hardware, software, and robotics innovations. He led global teams across eight locations, drove significant operational efficiencies, integrated acquisitions, and championed sustainability efforts, earning industry recognition.
Earlier in his career, Taborga held senior leadership roles at companies such as Bay Networks (Nortel), Quantum, and fusionOne. He successfully implemented enterprise-wide systems, managed post-merger integrations, and delivered solutions that transformed operations and accelerated growth. Additionally, he founded and operated Taborga Consulting, where he partnered with clients to reengineer business models, implement transformative systems, and improve organizational performance across industries.
In addition to his extensive corporate leadership, Taborga brings his industry expertise to Carnegie Mellon University, where he mentors and prepares the next generation of technology and business leaders. He holds a Ph.D. in organizational systems from Saybrook University and M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science from Texas A&M University.
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- Associate Director of Student Services & Engagement / Department
- Associate Director of Student Services & Engagement, CMU Silicon Valley / Student Advocate
Julie is the on-campus go-to for student services at CMU-SV, supporting areas like health and wellness, international student resources, housing, and transportation. She also partners closely with the student community - and her team of student workers (aka the fun squad) - to organize school-wide social events that help students relax, connect, and feel at home on campus.
Julie Kailath has been part of the CMU-Silicon Valley community for 1.5 years, where she supports student services and engagement through creative, community-driven initiatives. Before joining CMU-SV, she spent 18 years in learning and development roles, including teaching at public schools in Oakland and Belmont, and serving in program roles at the Institute of International Education and LeaderSpring Center. Julie holds a master's in education from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's in communication from Santa Clara University. Her expertise spans event planning, curriculum development, and building vibrant, inclusive communities. She's passionate about creating engaging, supportive spaces where students can thrive.
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- Adjunct Professor, Applied AI
Dai has served on the boards of various private tech companies in the fields of autonomous driving, neurotech, and bioinformatics. She is a board governor and member of the Audit & Risk Committee and the Lab & Research Committee of GIA, the largest gem and jewelry research, education, and laboratory services organization in the world. She also serves on the board of Kubit, which provides cloud-native product analytics platform built for product and data teams.
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- Department Head and Tanoto Professor / Department
- Department Head and Tanoto Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE Head
- Professor and Head of Electrical
Larry Pileggi is the Tanoto Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and has previously held positions at Westinghouse Research and Development and the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1989. He has consulted for various semiconductor and EDA companies, and was co-founder of Fabbrix Inc. (acquired by PDF Solutions) and Extreme DA (acquired by Synopsys).
His research interests include various aspects of digital and analog integrated circuit design, and design methodologies. He has received various awards, including Westinghouse corporation's highest engineering achievement award; a Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation; Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Awards in 1991 and 1999; the FCRP inaugural Richard A. Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award; the SRC Aristotle award in 2008; the 2010 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Mac Van Valkenburg Award; the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation in 2011; the Carnegie Institute of Technology B.R. Teare Teaching Award for 2013; and the 2015 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award.
He is a co-author of Electronic Circuit and System Simulation Methods (McGraw-Hill, 1995), and IC Interconnect Analysis (Kluwer, 2002). He has published more than 300 conference and journal and holds 39 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
ECE Head Larry Pileggi talks to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about a new interdisciplinary AI-opera course. "Our students love when there's any kind of real world application. And for many of them, the crazier the better," he says.
ECE Head Larry Pileggi shares his opinion on U.S. computer chip manufacturing in The New York Times. "Our U.S. work force is of insufficient size, but also, large populations of our technical work force are focused on learning A.I. and software development, which makes immigration of semiconductor technologists even more imperative," he says.
ECE Head Larry Pileggi will be honored with the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award for his pioneering contributions to circuit simulation and optimization that have enabled the industry to address the challenge of interconnect delay dominated designs, and for his innovations in electrical and computer engineering education.
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs / Department
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- Senior Academic & Student Services Advisor / Department
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- Associate Director of Career Services / Department
- Associate Director of Career Services, CMU Silicon Valley
- Consultant at CMU - SV
As the go-to career consultant at CMU-SV, Leigh supports graduate students in their professional development through a mix of individualized coaching, advising, and interactive workshops. She also leads the Peer Career Consultant team, a group of current students who help their peers polish resumes, navigate networking in Silicon Valley, connect with alumni, and support students by conducting mock interviews for software engineering, product management, and security engineering.
Leigh joined CMU-SV in 2016 as the Student Services Coordinator within the Integrated Innovation Institute. Prior to CMU-SV, she served as the Assistant Director of Operations for summer programs at Georgetown University. Leigh holds a master's degree in Organization and Leadership with a concentration in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of San Francisco and a BA in Psychology from UC San Diego.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor / Department
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- Telepresence Specialist / Department
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- Adjunct Professor
- Department
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
- Department
- Product Leader and Technologist
Omid Saadati is an accomplished entrepreneur, product leader and technologist with over a decade of experience in developing strategies and leading organizations. Saadati's expertise lies in building and scaling developer platforms across various sectors including ad-tech, commerce, and cloud-based networking. He has had key positions at industry-leading companies such as Google, Meta, and Cisco. Currently, Saadati leverages his extensive experience to advise high-potential startups and mentors early-career individuals in the technology sector. He also serves as the chief product officer for an AI-based startup operating in the national security and open source intelligence (OSINT) domain. Saadati's core competencies encompass areas identifying product-market-fit, formulating go-to-market strategies, and managing products. His industry focus includes ad-tech, commerce, and developer platforms. His strategic insights and leadership have consistently driven growth and innovation in these areas.
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- Associate Teaching Professor / Department
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- Director and Co - Founder of the Integrated Innovation Institute Opens
Peter Boatwright is the director and co-founder of the Integrated Innovation Institute Opens in new window. As an expert in innovation education, he has co-authored two books and teaches coursework on related topics such as product innovation, brand strategy, new product management, pricing strategy, and market research.
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- Professor of the Practice / Department
- Professor of the Practice at the Information Networking Institute
- Professor of the Practice, CMU Silicon Valley, Information Networking Institute
Quinn Jacobson is a professor of the practice at the Information Networking Institute (INI) and based in CMU's Silicon Valley campus. He is creating programs to teach entrepreneurship and execution to the next generation of technical cofounders and strengthen CMU's engagement with the startup community. His research includes secure distributed systems, neuromorphic computing, and domain-specific accelerators.
Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University, Jacobson led engineering efforts at several innovative startups, in high-performance distributed software systems and domain-specific hardware accelerators. He cofounded Vibrado Technologies, a venture-backed CMU spinout that created the first truly smart apparel. Before discovering his passion for startups, Jacobson worked on advanced technology development. He developed the world's first commercially released soft core for FPGAs at Altera, architected the world's first multi-core SPARC microprocessors at Sun Microsystems, and led the development of one of the first crowdsourced smartphone services at Nokia. He holds more than 70 granted U.S. patents. His work has been presented in many diverse forums, from GEOINT to Hot Chips to the NABC Convention at the NCAA Final Four.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor / Department
Saugata Ghose is redesigning the graduate-level ECE course Modern Computer Architecture & Design in both content and structure.
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor at the Integrated Innovation Institute
- Adjunct Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
- Department
- Senior Software Engineering Leader
Shantha is a senior software engineering leader and entrepreneur with a proven track record of growing and mentoring technical teams. Her efforts have led to significant ROI for customers worldwide. Retail Solutions Inc. Opens in new window,the company she co-founded, is a leader in retail analytics in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) domain. She spearheaded the scaling of the product development team worldwide, a testament to her leadership and management skills, and was instrumental in delivering multiple analytic applications.
Prior to Retail Solutions, Shantha amassed over 20 years of experience in managing mission-critical systems for semiconductor and other high-value-added manufacturing. At Consilium, now part of Applied Materials, she oversaw the development of three generations of manufacturing execution systems. These software systems are not only mission-critical but also highly scalable and available, with companies like Intel and Infineon relying on them for their manufacturing processes. This experience underscores her technical expertise and reliability in handling complex systems.
Outside CMU, Shantha mentors start-ups and students from her undergraduate alma mater. She provides career advice to new graduates and those making career transitions. She is a member and volunteer of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), where she mentors women engineers and engineering students. Shantha is also a member of The Carnegie Mellon Women's Association (CMWA) and has been active in the Barbara Smith Women's Mentoring Program since 2019. Her book Roots and Wings - Inspiring stories of Indian Engineering Women Opens in new window was published in 2018. She co-authored Demystifying AI for The Enterprise Opens in new window, published in 2021. Most recently, she authored a book on leadership titled Leadership Lessons With The Beatles Opens in new window, published in 2022, with a German translation published also in 2022 and an Indian edition published in 2024.
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- Associate Professor of the Practice
- Associate Professor of the Practice for the
- Associate Professor of the Practice, Integrated Innovation Institute
Based at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, Sheryl Root is an associate professor of the practice for the M.S. in Software Management program. In her role as faculty, Root both develops curriculum and teaches courses that merge technology with entrepreneurship.
Outside of Carnegie Mellon, Root is the owner of RootAnalysis, a consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy and marketing. For more than 13 years, her firm has worked with C-level Silicon Valley executives at high-tech companies, such as HP-Compaq, Oracle/PeopleSoft, Hyperion, Philips, Novell, and many startup organizations.
Prior to joining academia, Root had an extensive career in the software industry, including a 20-year tenure working for Hewlett-Packard (HP). While at HP, she excelled in a number of roles, including director of business strategy, director of marketing operations for services, director of the software initiative, and manager of Unix environments. Specializing in the area of software, she led internal teams of consultants for HP operations across the globe, advancing the company's process practices in software engineering and business management.
Root is a leader, board member, and advocate for many world-renowned institutes and organizations. She is chairman of the Advisory Board for Women in Technology International (WITI), a member of the Board of Advisors for the Stanford Business School Sloan Program, and board member of Netswitch Technology Management. She has coached numerous startups to achieve success in high-tech industries. Additionally, she is a frequent speaker in high-tech subject areas such as agile marketing, strategy, women in STEM, career planning, leadership, new business models, and organizational structures.
Outside of work, Root is a connoisseur of wines and previously owned her own vineyard. In a previous life, she used to race cars.
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- Facilities and Events Manager / Department
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- Administration
- Student Affairs Consultant / Department
- Student Affairs Consultant, CMU Silicon Valley
Stephanie helps to keep the wheels turning behind the scenes for the Student Affairs team at CMU-Silicon Valley. From student enrollment data to special projects (and just about everything in between), she's a go-to collaborator for all things processes, spreadsheets, and the "can you help with this?" moments that help make a campus run.
Stephanie Caruso is a seasoned student affairs professional with over a decade of experience supporting graduate students across academic advising, student engagement, and operations. She began her career in course and enrollment management, supporting faculty and advising student organizations, before transitioning into academic advising, where she helped students align their academic choices with their goals and values. At Yale University, she served as Assistant Director of Student Affairs, working closely with student organizations and councils to plan events, navigate challenges, and build inclusive communities. Returning to CMU-Silicon Valley, she served as Associate Director of Student Affairs, leading efforts in enrollment systems, student support, onboarding, and cross-campus collaboration. Now in her role as Student Affairs Consultant, she focuses on student data strategy and process design. Stephanie holds a B.S. in Kinesiology and an M.Ed. in Student Affairs Administration. She is known for her calm clarity, strategic execution, and ability to make even the most complex systems feel simple and student-centered.
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- Senior Director of Operations
- Senior Director of Operations / Department
- Senior Director of Operations of Carnegie Mellon University 's Silicon Valley
- Senior Director of Operations, CMU Silicon Valley
Steven Rosenberg is currently senior director of operations of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus. He was previously the associate director of the campus, as well as associate director for planning and technology incubation, Disaster Management Initiative, and a visiting scientist in the Cylab Mobility Research Center.
Before coming to Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Rosenberg worked for many years at HP Labs, most recently as associate director in the technology transfer office, where he was responsible for developing technology incubations. At HP Labs he led the development of a novel cloud-based service, new computer input devices, enterprise workflow solutions, disk drive optimization tools, and solutions for enterprise and commercial printing. Earlier, he ran HP Labs' first university research program. Rosenberg created HP Labs "science centers" at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and MIT, and numerous other successful university research partnerships. He also developed HP Labs' first research program with Chinese universities, and established the HP Labs research subsidiary in Israel. As a research manager at HP Labs, he led the creation of an expert systems language and tool kit used within HP and at several leading universities. Expert system solutions he developed for HP included photolithography error diagnosis, computer configuration tools, a best in class mass spectroscopy analysis tool, and the gold standard (at the time) handwriting recognition system.
Prior to HP, at the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley, Rosenberg developed tools for visualizing the distribution systems for energy resources in the U.S. and understanding the impact of disruptions to the US energy distribution grid. As a member of M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, he engaged in research on computational linguistics, reasoning and knowledge representation.
Rosenberg has been on the advisory boards for the Computer Science Departments of UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a consultant to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), ActivNetworks, Apple, and the Internet Archive. He holds a B.S. with First Class Honors from McGillUniversity, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 35 publications, and eleven patents granted.
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- Member of the Board
- Distinguished Service Professor / Director, CMU Emirates ILab / Department
- Distinguished Service Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute / Director, CMU Emirates ILab
Stuart Evans is a board member, educator, author, and expert on dynamic high-tech ventures. As a distinguished service professor, he shares his expertise by teaching related coursework for our degree programs in Silicon Valley, M.S. in Software Management and M.S. Technology Ventures. Additionally, Evans is the director of the CMU-Emirates iLab, a partnership between Carnegie Mellon's Integrated Innovation Instititue (III) and Emirates Airlines for innovative education and research specialized for the airline industry.
Evans' professional career spans across many areas of entrepreneurship, featuring extensive experience within the tech ecosystem of Silicon Valley. He has conducted research for SRI International and Stanford Graduate School of Business; consulted with Bain and Company; worked in investing for Sand Hill Venture Group; and served as executive management for Shugart Corporation, a Xerox subsidiary. Prior to his time in Silicon Valley, he taught at Cambridge University's Judge Business School.
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- Adjunct Professor
- Leader
- Adjunct Professor, Integrated Innovation Institute
- Department
Timothy Morey is a leader in product strategy, innovation, and design. Throughout his career, he has worked with public and pre-IPO companies across retail, automotive, consumer, healthcare, and technology sectors to bring new products and services to market.
Currently he is the global head of Method Opens in new window, a digital product consultancy that is part of GlobalLogic and Hitachi, where he leads a team of 300 engineers, product managers, and designers. Prior to joining Method, Morey led frog design, a global creative consultancy.
Morey regularly speaks on innovation, strategy, and design and his frameworks have been published in strategy and business publications including Harvard Business Review.
William H. Sanders is the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, of computer science, and in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He is a leader in engineering research and academia, a well-respected collaborator in higher education who builds strategic public-private partnerships.
Sanders previously served as the Herman M. Dieckamp Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the interim director of the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in the University of Illinois System where he led the joint education, research, and innovation institute in its efforts to drive technology-based economic growth. Backed by a $500 million appropriation from the state and more than $400 million in private funding, DPI spans three universities and includes eight other academic partners.
Before coming to CMU, Sanders spent 25 as a tenured professor at Illinois in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests include secure and dependable computing and security, as well as resiliency metrics and evaluation, with a focus on critical infrastructures. He has published more than 300 technical papers in those areas. Sanders has also directed work at the forefront of national efforts to make the U.S. power grid smart and resilient.
Beyond his significant scholarly record, he was the founding director of the University of Illinois' Information Trust Institute in 2004, growing its faculty to more than 100 and attracting $80 million in external research funding by 2011. Sanders then served as director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory from 2010-2014 and was head of the university's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2014-2018. He also co-founded the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore in 2009, which is Illinois' first international research facility.
Sanders earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering; master's degree in computer, information, and control engineering; and doctoral degree in computer science and engineering, all from the University of Michigan. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
His awards include the 2016 IEEE Technical Field Award, Innovation in Societal Infrastructure, for "assessment-driven design of trustworthy cyber infrastructures for societal-scale systems." Sanders is also an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Network Perception Inc.
Bill Sanders is installed as the inaugural holder of the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Dean in the College of Engineering.