SUPERTECH FT - Key Persons


Aiman Omer

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Albert Hu

Job Titles:
  • Teacher
In recent years, Dr. Hu has devoted his time to helping disadvantaged students of downtown San Francisco as his way of giving back to the community, and paying it forward to the next generation. Dr. Hu received his Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the area of Bayesian Learning and Optimization of Semiconductor Processes. The IEEE journal publication from his Ph.D. thesis, as ranked by Google Scholar, is the most cited in its subject area in the past 25 years. Dr. Hu also received two executive education certificates from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB); one on EPGC (Executive Program for Growing Companies), the other on Negotiation and Influence Strategy. Dr. Hu was a tenure-track faculty member at San Jose State University, appointed first in mechanical engineering and then electrical engineering departments from 1992 to 1996. Engineering students voted Dr. Hu as Professor of the Year in 1993-1994. From 1996, Dr. Hu left university to start or join technology companies as CEO, board director, founders, or advisors.

Andra Keay

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Bobby Jones-Hanley

Job Titles:
  • Advisor, Community Service
  • Social Justice Change Agent
Bobby Jones-Hanley is a social justice change agent specializing in helping reentry, homeless, and low-income individuals remove barriers, secure employment and achieve housing stability. He believes strongly in the power of second chances and works tirelessly, volunteering with several organizations which focus on improving the lives, educational attainment and economic standing of marginalized communities.

Carolyn Watson

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Charmaine Lai

Job Titles:
  • Teacher
George Williams has held senior leadership roles in software engineering, systems, data science, and AI research, including tenures at Apple's New Product Architecture group and at New York University's Courant Institute. He can talk on a broad range of topics at the intersection of e-commerce, machine learning, cybersecurity, computer hardware, and computer science. He is an author of several research papers in computer vision and deep learning, published at NeurIPS, CVPR, ICASSP, ICCV, and SIGGRAPH. George is regularly invited to present at meetups and technology conferences, including recent talks at Open Data Science Conference, Apache Spark Summit, JupyterCon, AnacondaCon, and Caltech's Space Computing conference. He also holds the position of Embedded AI Chair for the ValleyML.ai conference.

David Koepsell J.

Job Titles:
  • Board Director
Dr. David Koepsell is a scholar, a philosophy Ph.D., a philosophy professor, an author, a lawyer, and an author; famous for his work on ethics in science and technology.

Elvin Li

Job Titles:
  • AI Robotics Ambassador

Ender Li

Job Titles:
  • Lab and Teaching Assistant
Ender is a second year Electrical Engineering student at the University of California, Davis. He enjoys coding and interacting with his work physically. Ender enrolled in the robotic program in summer 2021, he discovered his interests in robots, machine learning, and more. Since then, he dedicated himself to helping other students discover their interest in STEM and robotic. In 2018 Ender was a Peer Counselor of the Job Readiness Program, helping students prepare for the workforce in general. Ender took one more step forward to help students prepare for the Robotic workforce.

Genevieve Hope Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Advisor, Innovation / Design
  • UX Specialist
As an interaction designer and UX specialist, Genevieve advocates for user needs to make digital interfaces as pleasant and intuitive as possible. Genevieve has worked as a designer for numerous educational and environmental nonprofits, including 826LA, Let Live, Planet of the Humans: The Facts, and the Santa Monica College Sustainability Center. During summer 2020, she taught Intro to Web Design at Code Tenderloin. You can check out her portfolio at ghjdesigns.com.

Heiko Hoffmann

Job Titles:
  • Teacher
George Williams has held senior leadership roles in software engineering, systems, data science, and AI research, including tenures at Apple's New Product Architecture group and at New York University's Courant Institute. He can talk on a broad range of topics at the intersection of e-commerce, machine learning, cybersecurity, computer hardware, and computer science. He is an author of several research papers in computer vision and deep learning, published at NeurIPS, CVPR, ICASSP, ICCV, and SIGGRAPH. George is regularly invited to present at meetups and technology conferences, including recent talks at Open Data Science Conference, Apache Spark Summit, JupyterCon, AnacondaCon, and Caltech's Space Computing conference. He also holds the position of Embedded AI Chair for the ValleyML.ai conference.

Jacob Fink

Job Titles:
  • Teacher, Data Analysis / Languages & Tools

Joanne Pransky

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Joey Shimono

Job Titles:
  • Director of Administrations and Finance
Joey has professional experience as Chief Operating Officer in the Landscape and Architecture industry. Currently, he is working on a business consulting startup where he strives to impact organizations of all backgrounds and classifications. Joey received his bachelor's degree from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and seeks to obtain a joint MBA and JD master's degree one day in the future. He loves to stay active, travel the world, and spend time with his friends and family.

Ken Urquhart

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Teacher

Krystof Litomisky

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

M.K. Hicks

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Michael Sims

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Mojtaba Azadi

Job Titles:
  • Teacher
George Williams has held senior leadership roles in software engineering, systems, data science, and AI research, including tenures at Apple's New Product Architecture group and at New York University's Courant Institute. He can talk on a broad range of topics at the intersection of e-commerce, machine learning, cybersecurity, computer hardware, and computer science. He is an author of several research papers in computer vision and deep learning, published at NeurIPS, CVPR, ICASSP, ICCV, and SIGGRAPH. George is regularly invited to present at meetups and technology conferences, including recent talks at Open Data Science Conference, Apache Spark Summit, JupyterCon, AnacondaCon, and Caltech's Space Computing conference. He also holds the position of Embedded AI Chair for the ValleyML.ai conference.

Nicholas Chan

Job Titles:
  • Lab and Teaching Assistant
Nicholas Chan is a 2nd-year undergraduate pursuing a major in Biomolecular Engineering with a Concentration in Bioinformatics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is interested in learning more about the applications of math, statistics, and computer science in proteomics and genomics. In the summers of 2019 and 2020 Nicholas interned at Code Tenderloin's Intro to Web Design Program which inspired his interests in using beginner-level web building as a tool for communication. Nicholas' final project during his 2020 Code Tenderloin Internship was a website that could function as a means of communication with the UCSC Bioinformatics Club (Link to it is available in Nicholas' LinkedIn page).

Prabhjot Singh

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

Rasamanjari Nandan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
Currently Rasamanjari is working as a Consultant in PwC India in the Financial Risk and Regulation domain and helping Fortune 500 companies to achieve their goals. Prior to this, she worked as a Data Scientist in BRIDGEi2i Analytics Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (currently Accenture). In terms of her education, she has completed her Master's degree in Statistics from IIT Kanpur and earned Bachelor's degree in Statistics from Presidency University, Kolkata. She wants to work and enhance her skills in the Data Science domain to leverage solutions by predictive analytics. Email:rnandan@supertechft.com

Reid Blackman

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Rufino Olay III

Job Titles:
  • Advisor, Operation / International
Rufino has over 25 years managing the design and launch of hi-tech products and company operations throughout Silicon Valley and internationally. He earned an MBA from Saint Mary's College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. Rufino has also served as Chairman of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Executive Committee.

Sandeep Asdhir

Job Titles:
  • Director of Digital and Public Communication Lead of Audit
  • Senior Credit and Risk Analyst
Sandeep Asdhir is a Senior Credit and Risk Analyst who has worked for multi-national banks such as CitiBank and Canadian Bank - CIBC. Sandeep Asdhir was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario and has recently moved to Silicon Valley. Sandeep is a passionate and driven individual who is working on his CFA and has a passion on the market, macroeconomics, as well as fundamental credit analysis.

Sanjib Basak

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Stanley Yang

Job Titles:
  • Board Director

Tom Green

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Tom Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Teacher