Rohollah (Roham) Moghadam, Ph.D., SMIEEE, Assistant Professor

Overview

I view service as an integral part of academic life. My service activities focus on student success, faculty governance, research advancement, and community engagement through STEM outreach. I contribute at the departmental, college, university, and professional levels through committee leadership, mentoring, proposal review, and professional society activities.

University Service

• Member, Grade Appeal Panel (Fall 2025-present)
• Member, Institutional Scholarship Committee (Fall 2023-present)
• Member, Sac State's AI Steering Committee (Fall 2025-present)
• Academic Advisor, Competitive Robotics Club (Spring 2023-present)
• Member (College Representative), ECS College Academic Council (Fall 2025-present)
• Member, ECS Outstanding Faculty Awards Committee (Fall 2023-Spring 2026)
• Member, Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Awards Committee (Fall 2023-Spring 2026)
• Juror for Spring Student Research and Creative Activity Symposium (Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
• Panel Chair, RCA Review Committee (AY 2024-2025, AY 2025-2026)
• Member, Faculty Policies Committee (Fall 2023-Spring 2024)
• Member, EEE Department Curriculum Committee (Spring 2026-present)
• Chair, EEE Department Assessment Committee (Fall 2024-Spring 2025)
• Member, EEE Department Assessment Committee (Fall 2022-Fall 2024)
• Member, EEE Department Part Time Faculty Evaluation Committee (Spring 2023-Spring 2025)
• Member, EEE Department Graduate Committee, (Fall 2025-Spring 2026)

Professional Service

• NASA Technology Payload Challenge (TechLeap) Evaluation Panel (2025)
• Reviewer, NASA's Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities 2026 (NSGRO26)
• Member, NSF Review Panel (2023, 2024, 2025)
• Reviewer, IEEE A&A Committee of Senior Member Applications (Fall 2024)
• Co-chair, The 1st Colorado River Basin Symposium on Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Urban Development (CRB-SEED) in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Spring 2024)
• Reviewer, Journal and Conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transaction on Neural Network and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
• Reference for Candidates Seeking IEEE Senior Member Elevation

Outreach Activities

• Vallejo High School Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab Visit, February 2026
• Esparto High School Career Day, November 2025
• Robotics Day at Sacramento State by Competitive Robotics Club, March 2025/April 2026
• Esparto Elementary Schools Career Technical Education (CTE) Night, April 2024