2023 Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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A Love Letter

Carmen Kennedy-Saleh

"A Love Letter" steps you into the sharp tenderness of a loved one’s transition. “Its pages expose your mind to the various mirrors of an embrace while also walking you down the predatory nodes of a medical system that serves capital and rage with equal measure. In a few pages, you are years changed,” writes the former San Francisco Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen Martin. "A Love Letter" should make you feel uncomfortable. It should confront you with humanity and inspire your active support for newly imagined forms of universal, comprehensive care that is free for us all.
Applied Organizational Behavior and Leadership Development: An Identity Approach

Gretchen Lester

An Identity Approach to Applied Organizational Behavior and Leader Development serves as a bridge between education and training for the emerging leader. While grounded in sound leadership and organizational behavior theory and current research, what sets this leadership textbook apart from others is that the authors personalize the leadership development process in an accessible, applied, and experiential way. The materials are coordinated to allow students to enhance their competencies across the range of leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities. While other leadership texts focus on educating students about leadership, this text provides students with a pathway towards developing a leader identity.
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Food Security

Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

Climate change, increasing population, food-versus-fuel economics, pandemics, etc. pose a threat to food security to unprecedented levels. It has fallen upon the practitioners of agriculture and technologists of the world to innovate and become more productive to address the multi-pronged food security challenges. Agricultural innovation is key to managing food security concerns. The infusion of data science, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, satellites data, geospatial data, climatology, sensor technologies, and climate modeling with traditional agricultural practices such as soil engineering, fertilizers use, and agronomy are some of the best ways to achieve this. Data science helps farmers to unravel patterns in fertilizer pricing, equipment usage, transportation and storage costs, yield per hectare, and weather trends to better plan and spend resources. AI enables farmers to learn from fellow farmers to apply best techniques that are transferred learning from AI to improve agricultural productivity and to achieve financial sustainability. Sensor technologies play an important role in getting real-time farm field data and provide feedback loops to improve overall agricultural practices and can yield huge productivity gains. Advanced Analytics modeling is essential software technique that codifies farmers’ tacit knowledge such as better seed per soil, better feed for dairy cattle breed, or production practices to match weather pattern that was acquired over years of their hard work to share with worldwide farmers to improve overall production efficiencies, the best antidote to food security issue. In addition to the paradigm shift, economic sustainability of small farms is a major enabler of food security. The book reviews all these technological advances and proposes macroeconomic pricing models that data mines macroeconomic signals and the influence of global economic trends on small farm sustainability to provide actionable insights to farmers to avert any financial disasters due to recurrent economic crises.
Bicoastal Collective: Chapter 6

Aaron Lington

The sixth installment of the Bicoastal Collective - a joint musical project by saxophonist Aaron Lington and trumpeter Paul Tynan. "Tynan and Lington have an intimate familiarity with their instruments, and along with the New York rhythm section of Dimitrov and Abba, they capture an electronic and groove filled formula that few others could emulate." - Tom Haugen, Take Effect
Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging

Binh Danh

Binh Danh was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US in 1979. Early in his career, Danh pioneered printing images directly onto plant matter, activating the plants’ chlorophyll with sunlight. Using this process, Danh printed images associated with the war in Vietnam onto the leaves of tropical plants and grasses. Danh has traveled across the American West for almost a decade, making daguerreotypes of scenic. Danh imbues this scenery with his distinctly personal perspective—an attempt to negotiate his connection as a Vietnamese American with the landscape and history of the United States. This monograph features two volumes, bringing together bodies of work and a separate book of essays and memorabilia that contextualizes Danh's work.
Braided [Un]Be-Longing

Rosanna Alvarez

Braided [Un]Be-Longing is an intricately woven cultural journey across space and time. The debut poetry collection by Rosanna Alvarez offers a poetic glimpse into the collective excavation of journeying toward belonging and reads like a complicated love letter to community, family, and culture. A 2023 finalist for the International Latino Book Awards, the book has been honored with two awards: a silver medal for The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award and a bronze medal for Best Cover Design. Hailed as "a poetic gem" and "a healing echo," the collection continues to spark conversations about our collective liberation.
CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action (2nd ed)

Scott Myers-Lipton

CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action helps students learn how to bring about the change they believe will improve their community. What distinguishes an experiential social action class from other social change courses is that students are actively involved in enacting a policy change of their choice, providing first-hand experience of democracy and power. Students can choose to start a new campaign, keep a campaign going from a previous semester, or join a community campaign. This valuable new edition includes updates to the student victories section, reordering and updating of chapters for better student learning, and updates to all of the portfolio assignments.
Intelligent Computing and Communication: Proceedings of 6th ICICC 2022

Vishnu Pendyala

This book features a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2022). It focuses on innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence, and sustainability that can be applied to provide practical solutions to a number of problems in society, the environment, and industry. Further, the book also addresses the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in various disciplines of science, technology, and healthcare.
Introduction to Blockchain Technology

Ahmed Banafa

This book explores the fundamentals and applications of Blockchain technology. Readers will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, distributed ledger, and the trust model that defines Blockchain technology. They will also be introduced to the basic components of Blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain), its operations (hashing, verification, validation, and consensus model), underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Private and public Blockchain networks similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum will be introduced, as will concepts of Smart Contracts, Proof of Work and Proof of Stack.
Introduction to Machine Learning with Applications in Information Security (2nd ed.)

Mark Stamp

The book covers core classic machine learning topics in depth, including Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and clustering. Additional machine learning topics include k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), boosting, Random Forests, and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). The fundamental deep learning topics of backpropagation, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Multilayer Perceptrons (MLP), and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are covered in depth. A broad range of advanced deep learning architectures are also presented, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), Extreme Learning Machines (ELM), Residual Networks (ResNet), Deep Belief Networks (DBN), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and Word2Vec. Finally, several cutting-edge deep learning topics are discussed, including dropout regularization, attention, explainability, and adversarial attacks.
La Lluvia y la Sequía

Christopher Luna-Mega

"La Lluvia y la Sequía" is a field recording sound collage in which Christopher Luna-Mega explores the intrusion of the urban in the rural, drought, rain, and a week in the lives of a San Joaquín Valley ranch, in Central Valley, CA. "La Lluvia y la Sequía" continues Luna-Mega’s career-long trajectory of utilizing environmental sound as a primary component of musical fabric, both in orchestral-instrumental and electronic media. Different techniques of microphone recording, sound processing, instrumental performance, and collage are combined to create an intimate portrait of a place, both stark and inviting. Commissioned by the Rural Situationism record label.
Magic Within

Rhoda Shapiro

Magic Within is an empowering book for women, featuring rituals, meditations, and practices centered around healing the womb. When a woman can forge a deeper connection to her womb, she's able to realize her potential and connect to her own personal magic. In Rhoda Jordan Shapiro's newest book Magic Within, she shares ancient wisdom to support women in owning their feminine power more fully to create joy, peace, and clarity in their lives.
Mystical Theology and Renaissance Platonism in the Time of Cusanus: Essays in Honor of Donald F. Duclow

Jason Aleksander

Edited by Jason Aleksander, Sean Hannan, Joshua Hollmann, and Michael Moore, "Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus" engages with the history of mystical theology and Neoplatonic philosophy through the lens of the 15th century philosopher and theologian, Nicholas of Cusa. The volume comprises nineteen essays that break down the barriers between medieval and Renaissance studies, reinterpreting Cusanus’ place in the history of thought by exploring the archive that informed his thinking, while also interrogating his works by exploring them from the standpoint of their later reception by modern philosophers and theologians.
Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World

Yoon Chung Han

My AI-generated 3D animated video design “Plastic Landscape - The Reversible World” was exhibited as a part of Seoul Light Gwanghwamun in Seoul, South Korea from December 15, 2023 to January 21, 2024 on the media facade of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History. The work shows the apocalyptic and surreal world surrounded by artificial plastic mixtures and objects in the ocean, urban city, antarctica, and forest. Four different scenes are animated, with the camera panning slowly from left to right. Viewers can observe how the plastics are decomposed at a slower speed by looking at particle animations. Surreal objects/buildings in this animation made out of plastic look beautiful and mesmerizing at first glance. However, the viewers can notice that they are the decayed objects and destroyed nature impacted by human beings. This new multi-sensory artwork addresses the awareness of plastic pollution through the apocalyptic lens.
Practical Battery Design and Control

Naoki Matsumura

Battery technologies play a vital role in day-to-day life. With the continued growth of the battery market, there is an increasing demand for a comprehensive text such as this, that encompasses aspects of chemistry, materials science, and artificial intelligence. Aimed at early-to-mid career battery engineers, this book addresses common problems that are likely to be encountered on the job, including how to extend battery longevity with machine learning algorithms. Designed to help readers obtain practical knowledge through intuitive explanations and broad coverage of battery topics, this one-of-a-kind book is a must have resource for practicing battery engineers throughout their career.
Public Art as Resistance in San Jose

Katherine D. Harris, Kerri J. Malloy, and Alena Sauzade

Public Art as Resistance in San José, an ongoing project with a series of activities that investigates the history of resistance embedded in downtown San José public art. The research required to create a walking tour, panel of art experts, and community exhibit each act as sites of community dialogue and engagement that can afford agency through art. The primary resulting activity, a guided walking tour, begins on the urban campus of San José State University and continues through downtown San José, highlighting a history of resistance and community empowerment through twelve unique works of public art. While the art works that make up this tour are among the many murals, monuments, sculptures and ephemeral pieces of pieces of public art in this area and in the city at large, this particular walking tour takes a singular approach by considering how San José’s communities actively challenge narrow and exclusionary interpretations of local history through public art creation. The digital footprint for this project as a static website and a self-guided tour using a free mobile app, will be amplified with proposed funding requests to the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an augmented reality version in a unique mobile app that will create a sustainable digital representation of this tour and all of its collaborative partnerships. We continue to add works of art (and unfortunately retire some due to demolition of murals on buildings) with each successful funding. The activities inherent to building this project may become one of the future HonorsX courses and continue the tradition of our SJSU students becoming tour guides and experts about the social justice of public art.
Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education

Elena Klaw, Andrea Tully, and Elaine K. Ikeda

This book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. The book describes innovative models, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense of the tensions and rewards inherent in the work. Guidance, examples, and benchmarks provided are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest.
Scenic Design for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"

Andrea Bechert

I was the Scenic Designer for the musical production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on November 29, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.
Smart Breast Pump

Lin Jiang
Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistics Landscape

David Malinowski

This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy, and culture learning in the linguistic landscape of visible and audible public discourse. Written from conceptually rich and disciplinarily varied perspectives, its ten chapters address methodological and practical problems of relating language learning to the lived and rapidly changing places of the late modern world.
Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish

Avizia Long

This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic structures, and learner characteristics, which is reflected in the contributions in this volume. This diversity of approaches illustrates how the second language development of sociolinguistic variation during study abroad depends crucially on a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors and can be measured in distinct ways. Thus, this collection will be an indispensable resource to researchers and students of second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in language development during study abroad.
The Early Works of Luis Miguel Valdez in El Excentrico Magazine: El Machete Critiques of American Society

Rosanna Alvarez and Gregorio Mora-Torres

With his scathing criticisms of American society and its institutions, the published collection of Luis Miguel Valdez’s early writings as “El Machete” in El Excentrico Magazine are timely and important. A series of contributor essays reflecting on the themes and social, political, and cultural implications of the early writings of Luis Miguel Valdez accompanies the collection.
The Latinx Guide to Graduate School

Magdalena L. Barrera

In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current students with a roadmap for surviving and thriving in advanced degree programs. They document the unwritten rules of graduate education, demystifying and clarifying the requirements for navigating graduate school for students who are often the first in their families to walk that path. Topics include finding the right program, developing a graduate student identity, nurturing relationships, and mapping a career plan. Equal parts how-to guide, personal reflection, and manifesto, this book gives a culturally resonant perspective for the unique Latinx graduate student experience.
The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence

Gil Zamora

The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence has been written to assist public and private sector investigators in gathering reliable information from eyewitnesses. It’s a resource that offers the reader evidence-based techniques to enhance gathering reliable evidence and reveals the assessment component that measures the reliability of cognitive evidence. It is notable that eyewitness interview training is cursory at best, and most often nonexistent. This book aims to inspire a change in how we distinguish interrogations of suspects from interviewing eyewitnesses that are often victims and initial witnesses to certain events.
Advances in Global Leadership (Volume 15)

Joyce Osland

Advances in Global Leadership (a blind-reviewed book and journal) collects insights from leading scholars and practitioners, as well as newcomers to the field. In addition to accepting chapters on traditional research, Volume 15 promoted the under-researched topic of power and global leadership. In the final chapter, Dr. Osland and co-editors synthesized the books' insights and identified research directions and gaps for other scholars in "Power and Global Leadership: Marking the Transition and Suggesting Future Directions." For this volume, Dr. Osland also co-authored two chapters with research teams: "Leading Effective Global Change: Three Design Imperatives That Support Success" (Johnson, Ludema & Osland, 2023) and "A Model of Trigger Events and Sensemaking in the Intercultural Context: A Cognitive Approach to Global Leadership Effectiveness" (Osland, Bird, Reiche & Mendenhall, 2023). Furthermore, she interviewed one of the field's founders: "Asking Big Questions That Matter: An Interview with Nancy Adler" (Osland, 2023) and co-edited the book.