Engineering Science Faculty & Staff
Regular Faculty
Dr. Jagan Agrawal
Chairman and Professor
Phone: (707) 664-4438
Office: Salazar Hall #2004
Email: jagan.agrawal@sonoma.edu
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Jagan received his Ph.D. in EE in 1972 from N.C. State. He has held faculty positions at several institutions since then. His areas of interest are communications, networking and switching. He lives in Rohnert park.
Dr. Farid Farahmand
Assistant Professor
Phone: (707) 664-3491
Office: Salazar Hall #2010A
Email: farid.farahmand@sonoma.edu
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Dr. Farid Farahmand received his Ph.D. in EE in 2005 from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has several years of industry as well as academic experience and will be joining the department in January 2009. His areas of interest are optical networks, wireless and sensor networks, burst switching and communications.
Dr. Mohammad Haider
Assistant Professor
Phone: (707) 664-3462
Office: Salazar Hall #2010B
Email: haider@sonoma.edu
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Dr. Mohammad Haider received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Dec. 2008 and joined the department in January 2009. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Haider had been a faculty member at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His areas of interest are analog and digital electronics and electronic circuit design, VLSI design and low power communications devices.
Dr. Saeid Rahimi
Dean of the School of Science and Technology and Professor in the departments of Engineering Science and Physics and Astronomy
Phone: (707) 664-2171
Office:Darwin Hall #115
Email: saeid.rahimi@sonoma.edu
Saeid received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1981 from Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Sonoma State , Dr. Rahimi was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology working on Deep-level Impurities in III-V semiconductors. His fields of speciality are optical and electrical properties of semiconductors.
Dr. Bala Ravikumar
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Science
Phone: (707) 664-3335
Office: Darwin Hall #116I
Email: ravi@cs.sonoma.edu
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Dr. Shailendhar (Shally) Saraf
Assistant Professor
Phone: (707) 664-4020
Office: Salazar Hall #2010C
Email: saraf@sonoma.edu
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Shally received his Ph.D. in EE in 2005 from Stanford University. He has over 15 years of industry design experience in electrical, optical and biomedical engineering. His areas of interest are in high-power lasers, quantum electronics and high-frequency circuit design.
Department Staff
Ms. Jen Aaseth
Administrative Support Coordinator
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: Salazar Hall #2004
Email: jen.aaseth@sonoma.edu
Jen began working in the Engineering Science Department in the spring of 2008. She graduated from Sonoma State University with her B.A. in English Literature, and went on to earn her Master’s Degree in English. While attending Sonoma State, Jen worked in the Writing Center and as an Instructional Student Assistant in the Theatre Arts Department.
Mr. Shahram Marivani
Network Analyst and Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2150
Office: Salazar Hall #2002
Email: shahram.marivani@sonoma.edu
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Shahram received both his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the California State University at Fullerton. He joined the Engineering Science Department in 2002. He has several years of experience in RF, Microwave and computer hardware and software technologies.
Associated Faculty
Dr. Elaine McDonald-Newman
Professor of Mathematics
Phone: (707) 664-4461
Office: Darwin Hall #114C
Email: elaine.mcdonald@sonoma.edu
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Dr. Hongtao Shi
Assistant Professor of Physics
Phone: (707) 664-2013
Office: Darwin 300J
Email:hongtao.shi@sonoma.edu
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Hongtao received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2002 from West Virginia University. He joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Sonoma State University in Fall 2004. He is the co-director of the Keck Microanalysis Laboratory at SSU, which houses facilities such as Scanning Electron Microscope, Atomic Force Microscope, X-ray Diffractometer, and Auger Electron Spectrometer. His areas of interest are nanostructured semiconductors and magnets, exchange coupling, electrochemical synthesis of nanometer scaled templates.
Dr. Lynn Stauffer
Professor of Computer Science
Phone: (707) 664-2268
Office: Darwin Hall #116D
Email: lynn.stauffer@sonoma.edu
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Dr. Sunil Tiwari
Professor of Mathematics
Phone: (707) 664-3418
Office: Darwin Hall #114L
Email: tiwari@sonoma.edu
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Adjunct Faculty
Mr. Gaurav Agrawal
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: gaurav34@hotmail.com
Mr. Alan Bloom
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: bloomal@sonoma.edu
Alan earned his BS in Physics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and his MS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mr. Jim Brede
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: Jim.Brede@tellabs.com
Mr. Eric Drucker
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: eric_drucker@agilent.com
Eric earned his BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan, and his MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Dr. Don Estreich
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: don_estreich@agilent.com
Don earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University
Mr. Atul Garg
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: atul_garg@yahoo.com
Dr. Tim Griesser
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: tim_griesser@agilent.com
Dr. Leonid Grigorov
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: L_Grigorov@msn.com
Leonid earned his MS in Physics from Moscow State University, his Ph.D in Biophysics from Moscow Institute of Physical Technologies, and his D.Sc in Phys.- Math Sciences from Karpov Physico-Chemical Institute.
Dr. Mark Scott Johnson
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: Scott@ScottJohnsonRE.com
Mark Scott received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in the area of systems software. His over 25-year computing career includes teaching at San Francisco and Sonoma State Universities and software development and management positions at HP Labs, Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, Kabira Technologies, and various Internet and software start-ups.
Dr. Abdi Karbassi
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: Karbassi.a.r@gmail.com
Abdi Karbassi received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in electrical engineering in 2007. His area of interests are multi-functional scanning probe microscopy, Localized spectroscopy of biological samples and thin-film materials, and Microwave/RF circuit and system design. He worked at Agilent Technologies as an R&D Hardware Engineer.
Dr. Ali Kujoory
Adjunct Professor and Data Networking Consultant
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: Salazar Hall #2005
Email: ali.kujoory@ieee.org
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Ali received his M.S. and Ph.D. in EE in 1974 from University of Pennsylvania, PA. He has over 22 years of R&D experience at IBM, AT&T Bell Labs (a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff), and Alcatel-Lucent, and over 20 years of academic experience at several institutions including Drexel University in PA and Stevens Institute of Technologies in NJ. His areas of interest are secure real-time applications over the Internet, broadband access, and metropolitan networks.
Dr. Salam Marougi
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 577-3773
Office: tbd
Email: salam_marougi@agilent.com
Salam Has received his Masters and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Birmingham-United Kingdom in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He has many years of academic experience in various Universities. He has taught courses for Santa Clara University and for The University of California- Berkeley Extension. For the past fourteen years, Dr. Marougi is working full time in the Hi-Tech industries. Currently he is with the Signal Sources Division of Agilent Technologies. His areas of interest are Test and Measurement, Signal Analysis, and Synchronization in Telecommunications.
Mr. Chris Miller
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: chris_miller@agilent.com
Chris earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Mario Righi
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: Mario_righi@agilent.com
Mario earned his Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ancona in Italy, and his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria B.C., Canada.
Mr. Vinay Singh
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: vsingh@FFIC.com
Mr. Gordon Stuck
Adjunct Faculty
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: ghstuck@sonic.net
Gordon has a MSEE from University of Colorado at Denver in digital signal processing. His areas of interest are digital embedded systems, microprocessors, FGPA hardware design, communications and signal processing.
Dr. Giampaolo Tardioli
Adjunct Professor
Phone: (707) 664-2030
Office: tbd
Email: tardioli@hotmail.com
Giampaolo earned his Diploma di Maturita’ Scientifica from the Liceo Scientifico G. Galilei in Foligno, Italy; his Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ancona in Italy; and, his Ph.D in Computational Electromagnetic and Numerical Modeling from the University of Victoria, Victoria B.C., Canada.
