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Meet the Summer Institute for Humanitarian Technology Team!

  • Silvia Figueira, Computer Engineering
    Professor Computer Science and Engineering, SIHC Program Leader
    Dr. Silvia Figueira

    Dr. Silvia Figueira is co-founder and co-lead of the SIHC program with Dr. Dan Lewis. She assists with the direction of program initiatives, contributes curriculum to the program, shares the responsibility of selecting program participants, and works with partners to identify real-world needs for SIHC participants to work on.

Dr. Daniel W. Lewis

Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, SIHC Program Leader

Biography

Dr. Lewis joined SCU in 1975 where he is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering.  He led the effort to establish the Computer Engineering department in 1988, and served as its first Chair until 2007.

Since 2004, Lewis has focused on computer science in the K-12 pipeline, raising more than $2.5M from NSF and private sources to provide summer camps, professional development for high school and middle school teachers, and improved computer science curricula for their students.

He is a founding member and a steering committee member of the Alliance for California Computing Education for Students and Schools that is working to improve California K-12 computer science education policy.

Elizabeth G. Sweeny

SIHC Program Coordinator, Director of Programs and Partnerships (Frugal Innovation Lab)

Biography

Elizabeth Sweeny is an honors graduate from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, and is currently a degree seeking graduate student at the School of Engineering (M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering). 

Elizabeth has been a project lead for several successful projects and continues to expand and scale the capacities of FIL to better aid social enterprises that look to the lab for critical solutions for their field operations. Elizabeth is now Director of FIL Programs and Partnerships, and serves as Program Coordinator for the Summer Institute of Humanitarian Computing.

Jackie Hendricks

Technical Writing Instructor

Biography

Dr. Jackie Hendricks is an Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer in the English department. She teaches Critical Thinking and Writing, Advanced Writing, and Engineering Communications. She guided the SIHC participants in the writing of their papers and preparation of their posters and presentations.

Susan Boyd

Library Liaison, Santa Clara University

Biography

Susan Boyd is the library liaison to the School of Engineering and the Mathematics and Computer Science department. As the Engineering/Math Librarian, she provides reference, instruction and collection development services. Susan supports the research efforts of Dr. Jacquelyn Hendricks and the participants in the SIHC.

Amr Elkady

Technical Instructor

Biography

Amr Elkady is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Computer Engineering department and the ​technical instructor for the SIHC program. He teaches ​SIHC students a comprehensive introductory workshop on mobile programming and mobile application development where they get to develop their first set of mobile apps.

Neela Annamalai

SIHC Teaching Assistant, Santa Clara University

Biography

Neela Annamalai serves as teaching assistant for the SIHC program. She helps students to scope out the mobile app using design tools, coach them towards getting approval of application ideas, troubleshoot the actual code implementations, and review technical contents in the posters and conference papers.