SAMBD Team

Ikhlaq Sidhu is an academic, technology expert, entrepreneur, author, and advisor. His areas of research excellence are technology management, communication networking, industrial engineering, data science, and technology commercialization, with a particular interest in innovation engineering. He is also the author of the book “Innovation Engineering” and the creator of the popular Data-X course at UC Berkeley, and holds over 50 patents in networking, communications, and computing technologies.

Guillermo is well known to IE as a professor in the Information Systems area and has directed the four graduate-level Data Analytics programs for the past two academic years. He brings to this role a vast set of experiences, networks, and two doctoral degrees.

In addition to his doctorates in engineering and applied economics, he graduated from IE’s MBA in 2002, cum laude, at which time he started teaching at IE University. Guillermo, who wrote three case studies as a student, has since collaborated in case study workshops and other university activities.