Board of Directors – Fiscal Year 2025 – 26
President – Cecilia (Ceal) D. Craig, PhD (SWE SCV)
Currently a nonprofit board of director officer in several local organizations, Dr. Cecilia (Ceal) D. Craig is a retired technology executive with 35+ years of experience in high-tech industries — printed circuit boards, typewriters, personal & mini computers, disc drives, Ethernet switches.
She earned a BSME (Mechanical Engineering: The Ohio State University), MSE (Engineering: California State University at Fullerton), and a PhD in Education (Walden University). A SWE Fellow and Distinguished Service Award recipient, she has been a Society of Women Engineers member for 50 years. Dr. Craig’s passion is supporting activities that inspire young women to pursue engineering, physics, and computer science careers.
Vice President – Kim Parnell, PhD (ASME)
Dr. Kim Parnell is Principal and Founder of Parnell Expert Consulting (PEC), an engineering consulting firm focusing on providing litigation support as an Expert Witness and engineering support for early stage medical device and technology companies. He is an ASME Fellow, an IEEE Life Senior Member, and a Member of SAE and ASM. Kim is a Board Member for IEEE-CNSV (Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley) and has been an active leader for the IEEE-SCV Section (largest in the World) (Past-Chair IEEE-SCV, Past-Chair IEEE-CNSV) and for ASME-SCVS.
He has over 35 years of consulting experience including design, regulatory, and failure/reliability issues of a variety of consumer products, medical devices, and industrial equipment covering a wide range of equipment and systems.
Kim was a full-time Adjunct Faculty at Santa Clara University in Mechanical Engineering from 2010-2012 and a Visiting Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and is a coach and mentor for the innovative Stanford Biodesign program and a member of the Board of Directors for CSIX Connect.
Dr. Parnell is a Stanford PhD and MSME in Mechanical Engineering, holds a BES from Georgia Tech, and is also a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in California.
Kim plans to focus on expanding the Technical & Engineering Societies to become active Members of SVEC.
Treasurer – Jing Baughman (ACM)
Jing Baughman holds an accountant qualification certificate from China and has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration/Accounting from San Jose State University. After working for over 25 years in accounting and administration in China and the U.S., she has expanded her knowledge and experience across various industries, including nonprofit organizations, start-ups, biotech, electronics & computer, and construction. She was not only passionate about helping businesses achieve success, but also worked for the accounting service at San Jose State University and volunteered for other nonprofit organizations.
Learning and improving herself is always her passion. Currently, she works at World Financial Group, holding a California life and health insurance license #4416258. Jing’s passion is using her knowledge and experience to help young professionals live peacefully.
Secretary – Karthikeyan Chinnusamy (ACM)
Karthikeyan Chinnusamy possesses over 25 years of experience in Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development, and Education. He holds the titles of Fellow of IETE, Fellow of IE, Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of ACM, and is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Additionally, he serves as a Reviewer and an Editorial Board Member for R&D Journals. He is a Board Member and Program Director for SF DAMA and SFBAY ACM. Furthermore, he reviews for the IEEE Silicon Valley Senior Member Elevation and for journals published by Springer Nature. He has also chaired the Synopsis special mention awards, sponsored by SFBAYACM, on two occasions.
Director – Catherine Fang, PhD (SWE SCV)
Catherine Fang is a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a seasoned and passionate researcher and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in both the software industry and academia. Fang’s research and product expertise lies in personalized healthcare, clinical trials, AI-based therapy, and data mining on digital audience behavior profiling and targeting. With multiple US patents to her name, she also serves as an associate editor for the IEEE reliability society. Fang’s entrepreneurial spirit has led her to co-found AiCare, a cutting-edge AI and cloud-powered Healthcare & Medical platform. Prior to this, Fang served as global/senior product manager and architect at LinkedIn, Yahoo, Bluekai (acquired by Oracle), and Sun Microsystems.
Director – Glenn Friedman (IEEE)
Glenn Friedman is Principal Technologist for GXTec Consulting where he’s created strategies for novel device manufacturing, consulted on materials, processing, foundry relationships, and startup operations. He is an Adjunct Professor SJSU.
Current and past Chair of IEEE SFBA Nanotechnology Council, Friedman also served as Chair and Vice Chair of IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section in 2019, 2018.
Friedman’s held engineering and management positions in both silicon and compound semiconductor wafer fabs and fabless services foundries.
Friedman’s R&D portfolio includes phase change memories, interlevel dielectrics, multilevel interconnects, high-temperature superconducting thin films.
He’s reviewed 100 SBIR/STTR proposals for NSF for: manufacturing, semiconductors, memory devices, photovoltaics, batteries, MEMS, optical & electronic materials, hi-tech medical, biomedical nanotechnology, and nano-instrumentation.
Friedman earned an MS Electrical Engineering – Applied Physics from UC San Diego and an MS and BS in Physics from North Carolina State University
Director – Marziya Hasan, PhD (SPE)
Dr. Marziya Hasan is a materials engineering leader with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a B.S. in Chemistry from Texas Lutheran University. Her academic research focused on the design and development of porous shape memory polymers for medical and aerospace applications. With deep technical training in polymer characterization and synthesis, she has authored over 20 scientific publications, holds two U.S. patents, and served as co-investigator on NIH-funded research grants totaling approximately $3 million.
Professionally, Dr. Hasan is the Senior Manager of Chemistry at Shape Memory Medical Inc., where she oversees cross-functional engineering teams, leads material development projects, and ensures compliance with manufacturing and quality standards. Her work spans R&D scale-up, product testing, supplier management, and regulatory documentation. Beyond her technical role, Dr. Hasan is highly engaged in the scientific community, serving as a journal reviewer, editorial board member, and mentor and board member for the Society of Plastic Engineers – Golden Gate Section.
Director – Ethan Lipman (EAASV)
Ethan Lipman is a Solar PV and EV Charging consultant. I’m focused on the deployment of electric vehicle charging hardware, solar power, and stationary energy storage systems. Ethan helps home owners make well informed decisions. Through EVPV, he also provides his expertise to various Fortune 500 clients to navigate smart infrastructure investments. Mr. Lipman brings to his current position over 20 years of experience, having previously worked at Borrego Solar, EVgo, and Chargepoint.
Director – Yanika Schneider, PhD (SPE)
Dr. Yanika Schneider received her Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara in materials chemistry and did a post-doc at UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Since 2013, she has worked at Eurofins EAG where she specializes in the characterization of diverse materials using infrared and x-ray fluorescence spectroscopies. She also works as a project manager leading complex multi-technique investigations involving polymer degradation, contamination and deformulations.
In 2019, Dr. Schneider was invited to develop curricula related to polymer science at San Jose State University. She currently teaches two undergraduate courses (Polymers and Polymer Composites) and a master’s course (Research Methods). Dr. Schneider leads a research group focused on structure/function relationships in polymeric materials, including renewable and biodegradable polymers, anti-microbials and innovations in materials recycling.