Eun-Young Elaine Kang, Ph.D.

Dr. Kang is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at Cal State LA and currently serves as Chair of the Computer Science Department. Her research interests are in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Augmented/Mixed Reality, and Game Programming. She has served as principal undergraduate advisor for the Computer Science department for several years. Also, she has served as PI/Co-PI on multiple educational projects sponsored by NSF programs including NSF S-STEM, NSF GK-12, and NSF TUES.

Mohammad Pourhomayoun, Ph.D.

Dr. Pourhomayoun is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at California State University Los Angeles ©l State LA). He is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Research Lab at Cal State LA. Dr. Pourhomayoun’s research interests focus on Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning for healthcare and biomedical applications. Before joining Cal State LA, he was a Technical Project Manager and Senior Data Scientist at WANDA Inc. working on Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Large-scale Machine Learning for Healthcare applications. At the same time, he was also a Research Scientist at UCLA. Prior to this position, he was a Post-Doctoral Associate and Research Manager at the UCLA Computer Science Department. His postdoc research focused on Predictive Analytics and Advanced Machine Learning for mobile health and biomedicine. Before joining UCLA, he was a Research Scientist with Cornell University working on Large-scale Machine and Deep Learning. Dr. Pourhomayoun has more than 70 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers in his research field. He has received 3 “Best Paper Awards” in different conferences so far.

Zilong Ye, Ph.D.

Dr. Ye is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Cal State LA. His research interests focus on algorithm and system design in the computer networking areas, including Network Function Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking, Fog Computing, Information-Centric Networking, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, and Optical Networking.

Natalie Gallegos

Natalie is a software engineer working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She has been working with JPL for the past four years on the NASA Trek Portals project; a project which aims to provide the public and the scientific community with information gathered from various orbital instruments. She started as an intern while working towards a master’s degree in computer science. She currently works on developing user interfaces, machine learning algorithms for analyzing features on images, and developing/maintaining various web APIs. She is a proud alumna of California State University of Los Angles and is thrilled to be part of the NASA/JPL community.

Sweta Kadam

MS in Computer Science from California State University Los Angeles with a 3.9 GPA. Strong understanding of OOP, Software Architecture, Complex Data structures, Algorithms, Design Patterns, and Agile methodology.
Mumbai University, India —Bachelor Of Engineering, JUNE 1999 - MAY 2002. Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from a top school in India with First Class.

Currently, she is working at Autogravity where she led the ground-up development and delivery of the Turn Android app in 3 months as a sole Android Engineer using Kotlin, Coroutines, MVVM, Clean code, Google architecture components like navigation, pagination, live data, view models, Koin for dependency injection and material design components. She worked with the iOS team toward their shared goal to improve architecture, make existing code base unit-testable, and refactor existing code for scalability and faster delivery. Collaborated with the web team to raise awareness about SEO and provided guidelines based on previous work experience, which resulted in increased organic traffic on turncar.com. Worked with the product design team to explain the nuances of the mobile checkout flow.

Janet Barrientos

Janet Barrientos was born in San Francisco and grew up in the troubled city of Compton during the '90s. She attended college at the University of California San Diego, where she earned her bachelor's degree in computer science. After college, she worked as a software engineer in test at Microsoft in Seattle where she stayed for three years. After missing the sun for so long she returned to San Diego to work for Classy.org, a company that builds fundraiser platforms for non-profits. In March of 2019, she finally decided to return home to Los Angeles by joining Hulu as a software developer in test. In her free time, she loves practicing yoga, playing with her 4 year old dog.