People

A headshot of Joseph Camp, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Joseph Camp

Department Chair ad interim
Professor

camp@smu.edu

A headshot of Kenneth Berry, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Kenneth Berry

Research Professor

ksberry@smu.edu

A headshot of Kevin Brenner, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Kevin Brenner

Assistant Professor

brenner@smu.edu

A headshot of Jerome Butler, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Jerome Butler

University Distinguished Professor

jkb@lyle.smu.edu

JC Chiao

J.-C. Chiao

Mary and Richard Templeton Centennial Chair Professor

jchiao@smu.edu

A headshot of Carlos Davila, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Carlos Davila

Associate Professor

cd@lyle.smu.edu

A headshot of Bruce Gnade, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Bruce Gnade

Clinical Professor

bgnade@smu.edu

A headshot of Scott Kingsley, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Scott Kingsley

Program Director of Network Engineering
Senior Lecturer

mkingsley@smu.edu

A headshot of Choon Lee, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Choon Lee

Associate Professor

csl@lyle.smu.edu

A headshot of Duncan MacFarlane, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Duncan MacFarlane

Associate Dean for Engineering Entrepreneurship
Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship
Professor of Electrical Engineering

dmacfarlane@lyle.smu.edu

A headshot of Sukumaran Nair, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Sukumaran Nair

Vice Provost for Research and Chief Innovation Officer
Director AT&T Center for Virtualization
University Distinguished Professor

nair@lyle.smu.edu

A headshot of Dinesh Rajan, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Dinesh Rajan

Senior Associate Dean
Professor

rajand@lyle.smu.edu

A headshot of Ron Rohrer, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Ron Rohrer

Cecil & Ida Green Chair and Professor

A headshot of Mitch Thornton, a member of the Lyle School of Engineering Faculty.

Mitchell Thornton

Cecil H. Green Chair of Engineering,
Executive Director, Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

mitch@lyle.smu.edu

Name Title
Robert Baumann Visiting Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Yanbo Chen Visiting Scholar
Luke Graham Visiting Scholar
James Guenter Affiliate Executive in Residence
Chunyi Huang Visiting Research Assistant
Sharif Iqbal Sheikh Visiting Scholar
Bruce Snider Visiting Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Fellow of Engineering Entrepreneurship
Jiahao Yan Visiting Research Assistant
Linjun Yang Visiting Scholar

Delores Etter

Founding Director, Caruth Institute for Engineering Education
Caruth Professor of Engineering Education
Distinguished Fellow, Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security
Professor

detter@lyle.smu.edu

James Dunham

Associate Professor

jgd@lyle.smu.edu

Mission

Provide external, professional perspective and guidance to ensure that the SMU ECE Department continues to be a provider of internationally recognized engineering leaders. 

 

Goals

  • Support the department in the achievement of its strategic goals.
  • Become an active and positive external spokesperson for the Department.
  • Assist in curriculum development and ABET accreditation.
  • Secure financial, technical and research support for the department
 

Members of ECE Executive Board

Name Title Company
Solyman Ashrafi SVP & CTO Global Operations Mavenir
Ceená Beall Senior Director, Strategic Solutions C3 AI
Ranjit Bhatia Vice President, Head of Software Sales and Sales Development BA Digital Services (North America), Ericsson
Joe Camp ECE Department Chair, ad interim SMU Lyle School of Engineering
Kevin Ding Advanced Digital Systems Director Center Point Energy
Charles Hanley Senior Manager of Grid Modernization Sandia National Labs
Sreenivasan Koduri, Ph.D. (Chair) Director, Analog and Power Technology Roadmapping Texas Instruments, Inc.
Ben Kroposki Director, Power Systems Engineering Center National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Giridhar D. Mandyam, Ph.D. Chief Security Architect for all IoT and Automotive Qualcomm
Elisabeth Marley, Ph.D. Director of Project Management QORVO, INC.,
Paul Pinsukanjana Vice President Technology/ Business Dev Intelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc.
Kamakshi Sridhar, Ph.D. VP, RAN Technology and Strategy/Sr. Fellow CTSO Mavenir
Bill Stuart President and CEO Photodigm, Inc.
Matthew Tonnemacher, Ph.D. Staff Engineer, Research Samsung Research America
Karthik Vasnath Vice President and General Manager for Data Converter Business Unit Texas Instruments
Harvey Wiggins President and Founder Plexon, Inc.