Alumni Board of Directors
The ECE Alumni Board meets on campus two times a year. The board’s overall purpose is to link alumni with the department’s leadership and to support the department’s strategy. Specific tasks include selecting recipients of the department’s alumni awards, assisting with a number of awards for current students, interacting with current students via annual events, and facilitating the annual student welcome calling program.
Officers
President
Chris George
Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
cgeorge@hfzlaw.com
President-Elect
Phillip Lachman
Lockheed Martin
phillip.m.lachman@lmco.com
Past President
Denise Turic
Microchip Technology
engineeress@ieee.org
Eastern, Vice President
David Yeh
Texas Instruments
david.yeh@src.org
davidy@ti.com
Midwest, Vice President
Ben Sander
AMD
ben.sander@amd.com
Western, Vice President
Karen Coperich Branch
Sandia National Laboratory
kmcoper@sandia.gov
Treasurer,
Christy Westendorf
westendo@hotmail.com
Board Members
Jonathan Ashbrook
Finisar
jonathan.ashbrook@finisar.com
Richard T. Chan
BAE Systems
Richard.t.chan@
baesystems.com
Michael Hattendorf
Intel
michael.l.hattendorf@intel.com
Vamshidhar Kommineni
Microsoft
Vamshidhar.Kommineni@
microsoft.com
Srinivas Kuchipudi
Trilos Ventures
skuchipudi@trilos.com
Mark Laufenberg
PowerWorld Corp.
lauf@powerworld.com
Thanh Tran
Texas Instruments, Inc.
thanh.tran@ti.com
Alek Tziortzis
Research in Motion
atziortzis@rim.com
Michael L. VanBlaricum
Toyon Research Corporation
mikevanB@Toyon.com
Ex-Officio Members
Alumni and Student Relations Coordinator
Sarah Heier
sheier@illinois.edu
Faculty Coordinator
James Coleman
jcoleman@illinois.edu
Alternate Faculty Coordinator
Brian Cunningham
bcunning@illinois.edu
Undergraduate Student Rep
Neha Shafizadah
nshafi3@illinois.edu