Industry Advisory Boards

Soyeb Barot
Distinguished Analyst, VP – CDAO, Data & Analytics, AI
Gartner Inc.

Azhar Bhatt
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Acutis

Kiran Bhujle
Global Head of Cyber
Managing Director, SVAM International Inc

Sherly Chaco
Senior Director of Information Technology Services
Nassau Community College

Hy Goldstoff
CEO
InterSoft Associates

Michael Halper, Ph.D
Professor and IT Program Director
NJIT

Sandra Kopecky
IT Specialist
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Manan Shah
Head, Product Management Mobility Team
Thomson Reuters

Gaurav Sharma
Professor
University of Rochester

Ahmed Abo-Donia
Schedule Controls Manager
Interbuild Consulting Services LLC

Chris Hargrove
Construction Manager
Global Holdings Management Group

James Mills Ph.d.
Retired, Project Engineer
Brookhaven Lab

Afshin Farhadi
Senior Project Manager 
JFK Airport Redevelopment 

Luis J. Osorio
Discipline Engineer | Civil Engineering
H2M architects + engineers

Amila Salihbasic
Head of Planning and Design
Skylla Group 

J.C. Chiao
Professor
Southern Methodist University
jchiao@smu.edu

Michael Cress
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
mikecress@gmail.com

Arvin Emadi
Technical Staff Manager
Illumina
arvin.emadi@gmail.com

Dean La Rosa
CEO & Owner
Transformational Innovative Solutions LLC
Sr. Dir Eng, Zebra Technologies Corp. / Retired
dean.larosa@tisolns.com

Maysam Ghovanloo
Senior Design Engineer
Silicon Creations
mghovan@gmail.com

Abtin Amini
Principal Product Manager
Microsoft
amiab01@hotmail.com

Kazi Ahmed
NYIT
Teaching Assistant Professor

George Alexandrou
VP & CIO
MANA

Lak Amara
NYIT
Associate Professor
Chair

Ramdane Benferhat, Ph.D
Director, MTA
New & Applied Technologies,
RTO/RCC and Communications Based Train Control – Rail Operations Support/Service Delivery

Swetha Chinta
Oracle Cloud Expert | IEEE Senior Member
Chair, IEEE CIS – ENCS Region 3 USA

Robert DiFazio, Ph.D.
Fellow/Retired
InterDigital Communication Corp

Ryan Duke
NYIT
Teaching Assistant Professor

Divyanshu Joshi
Leader Solution Architecture

Vitto Leggio
XTREME SOLUTIONS, LLC.
V.P. and Chief Network Architect
Network Researcher

Mark E. Leibowitz
Chief Engineer – Mission Computing
Electronic Systems, C4ISR, Tactical Systems
BAE SYSTEMS

David Mesecher
Integrated Systems,
AEW & EW Systems
Northrup Grumman Corporation

Richard Meyers
NYIT
Associate Professor

Hamid Namdar, PE
Professor
Queensborough Community College
Engineering Technology Department

Ted Pappas
National Grid, USA for LIPA

Lazaros Pavlidis
NYIT
Associate Professor

Daniel Rogers
Staff Engineer
Telephonics

George Salayka
Former NYIT Professor – Retired

Bruce Willins
Vice President, Marketing and Engineering
Hauppauge Digital Inc.

Robert Allgor
Lead Program Manager
National Grid

Thelma Arceo
Senior Project Manager
Edison Energy LLC

Fredric Goldner
President
Energy Management & Research Associates, Inc.

Peter Krumdieck
Principal
Pure Energy Consulting

Joseph Lopes
Principal
Lopes Energy Consulting

Andrew Vourlos
Senior Surveillance Engineer
UL Solutions

Vincent A. Benenati
CEO
East Coast Orthotic & Prosthetic Corp.

Joseph Lee
Senior Research Specialist
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Amir Elzawawy
Program coordinator of Vaughn’s ME program
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

George Papadopoulos, Ph.D.
Principal/Director for Advanced Programs
Innoveering, LLC

Azhar Ali     
Stryker

Hossein Rahemi, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Engineering and Technology
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

Zachary Sanzo
Senior Program Manager/Director of Operations
Curtiss-Wright Corporation/Dayton T. Brown, Inc

Dr. Hong Zhu, Ph.D.
Manager, R&D
Becton Dickinson