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School of Engineering External Advisory Board

The UC Merced School of Engineering External Advisory Board (EAB) meets regularly with the Dean of Engineering for the purposes of:

  • Assisting the School of Engineering in developing strategic relationships with the engineering and business communities across the state and beyond.
  • Improving the school’s responsiveness to the needs of the engineering profession and those organizations employing the school’s graduates.
  • Identifying and helping implement development programs necessary to ensure that the school can meet its academic and professional goals into the foreseeable future.

Meet our EAB Members

Tom Blair

Vice President, Corporate Engineering
E&J Gallo Winery

Kent Carey

Keysight Technologies (retired)

Ekta Dang

Founder and CEO
U First Capital

Sanjit Singh Dang

Co-Founder and Chairman
U First Capital

Lakshmi Hanspal

formerly of Amazon Devices and Services

Gloria Hoefler

VP Research
Pacific Biosciences

Ronak Jani

Managing Director
Jani Group of Companies

Anantha Kadur

Project Director
California Department of Health Care Services

Yan Li

VP of Engineering, Silicon Technology & Manufacture
Western Digital Corporation/SanDisk Corp
Eric McAfee

Eric McAfee

Founder, Chairman and CEO
Aemetis

John A. Miller

Associate Director
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

KRS Murthy

CEO
Proton Equity Global
Spike Naryan

Spike Naryan

former Director, IBM Science and Technology
IBM Research – Almaden
Tony Oliveira

Tony Oliveira

Consultant
Oliveira Advisory Services

Raj Samran

Chief Operating Officer
Hilltop Ranch, Inc.

DD Sharma

Formerly of AT&T Labs

Keith Vanderveen

Senior Engineer
Sandia National Laboratories