2025 Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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  Advanced Computing: 4th International Conference, IACC 2024, Bali, Indonesia, December 13–14, 2024, Revised Selected Papers

  Vishnu Pendyala, Deepak Garg, Suneet Kumar Gupta, and Mohammad Najafzadeh

  This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing, IACC 2024, held in Bali, Indonesia, during December 13–14, 2024. The 17 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. They focus on topics such as: Advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Applications of Large Language Models; AI in Healthcare and Medical Imaging; AI for Disaster Management and Renewable Energy and Challenges and Ethical Considerations in AI.

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  Veiled Voices in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema, Women’s Vocal Presence and Rethinking Acousmatic Sound

  Raha Shojaei

  This book explores the concept of the veiled voice, which conceals the bodily aspects of the voice and suppresses its discursive power. Focusing on the veiling of women’s voices in New Iranian Cinema, it examines their relationship to authoritative voices, their limitations within cinematic space, and their detachment from the female body. The book argues that this detachment can function as a feminist strategy to bypass restrictions on women’s on-screen representation. It analyzes how female voices are marginalized structurally and narratively within patriarchal frameworks and investigates moments of unveiling, where the female voice becomes an object of aesthetic admiration and desire while navigating censorship.

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  Scenic Design for "Georgiana & Kitty - Christmas at Pemberley"

  Andrea Bechert

  I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Georgiana & Kitty – Christmas at Pemberley" produced by TheatreWorks, and performed at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, in December of 2025. 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 both ¼”=1’-0” scale color models (there are two for this production), paint elevations, and drafting.

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  Ink and Ink and Flesh and Length

  Anne F. Walker

  These 100-word prose poems are contained. They spread between sections. They break out of themselves. They repeat. They reflect on landscapes, bodies, travel, time, and rooted memories, concentrating on precision of image, narrative, and language. All different shapes, colors, and textures fly over and in the multiple same-sized square boxes of the prose poem form. This collection began on the train journey between the Bay Area and Toronto, and is supported by Walker's appreciation and integration of visual art techniques. It bursts with various narrative voices, synesthetic and surprising imagery, and a fluidity between seemingly historical events and dreamlike voyaging.

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  International Marketing: Strategy and Theory

  Sak Onkvisit, Michael A. Merz, and John J. Shaw

  This comprehensive text provides students and practitioners with a solid foundation in international marketing theory, research, and practice. It demonstrates the complexities of marketing on a global scale. The text serves as core reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of international and global marketing, marketing management, and strategic marketing.

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  Agrippina the Younger: Poems

  Diana Arterian

  A poetic journey through the past of the Roman Empress Agrippina looks toward the future. Agrippina the Younger follows one woman’s study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter in a golden political family, destined for greatness—but she hungered for more power than women were allowed. Exhausted by the misogyny of the present, Diana Arterian reaches into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today. In lyric verse and prose poems, she traces Agrippina’s rise, interrogating a life studded with intrigue, sex, murder, and manipulation. Arterian eagerly pursues Agrippina through texts, ruins, and films, exhuming the hidden details of the ancient noblewoman’s life. These poems consider the valences of patriarchy, power, and the archive to try to answer the question: How do we recover a woman erased by history?

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  Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education Case Studies of Special Education Teachers of Color

  Saili Kulkarni

  Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education centers and elevates narratives of special education teachers of color, an overlooked and underserved population in public education, as a vehicle for analyzing the tensions of race and disability. Special education teachers of color, who work and may themselves live at the intersections of these complex identity constructs, are uniquely positioned to develop effective approaches to countering racism and ableism. This book offers five critical case studies of special education teachers of color, whose replicable practices span preschool through high school classrooms while also holding urgent implications for teacher education programs. Building toward an original framework that synthesizes DisCrit and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, these narratives refuse deficit readings of disability among students of color and instead prepare teachers to model collective joy and pride in their identities.

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  Trends in Sustainable Computing and Machine Intelligence: Proceedings of ICTSM 2024 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati, Surekha Lanka, and Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo

  This book is a collection of best selected research papers presented at International Conference on Trends in Sustainable Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICTSM 2024) organized by Stamford International University, Bangkok, Thailand, during September 12–13, 2024. The book includes original research by researchers working in the field of machine learning. The book covers important topics like decision support systems, neural networks and applications, machine learning, natural language processing, automated problem solving, AI and evolutionary algorithms, intelligent information systems, computational intelligence, computer vision and image processing, cognitive and biologically inspired vision, soft computing and applications, hybrid intelligent systems, distributed computing, pattern recognition and analysis, ubiquitous and high-performance computing, security, trust and privacy, big data for sustainable computing, and energy-aware machine learning.

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  Divine Feminine Energies in Vedic Anthologies: A Scientific Inquiry Using AI and Large Language Models

  Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

  This groundbreaking book explores the sacred and often overlooked dimensions of feminine divinity in the Vedic tradition, weaving together ancient wisdom and modern technology to uncover the enduring power of the divine feminine. Rooted in the timeless legacy of the Vedas-the oldest surviving body of human memory and spiritual knowledge - this work illuminates the role of feminine energy in shaping not only Hindu theology but also global cultural and spiritual consciousness. With a focus on Vedic chanting, archelogy, history, architecture, symbolism, and inscriptional poetry, the book examines how the divine feminine has been expressed, preserved, and interpreted across centuries. Using tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and acoustic analytics, it offers a multidisciplinary lens into etymology, rhythm, iconography, and energy patterns of sacred texts. At its core, this book is a call to reclaim the sacred feminine as a vital force in personal empowerment and societal transformation-honoring women not just as equals, but as essential bearers of life, wisdom, and spiritual balance. A compelling blend of philosophy, technology, and cultural history, this work redefines the place of the divine feminine in both ancient traditions and contemporary discourse.

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  Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach (11th edition)

  Greg Payne

  The book explores human movement across the lifespan, has been used in scores of universities throughout the world and translated into several other languages.

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  Core Java, Volume I: Fundamentals (13th ed)

  Cay Horstmann

  This is the thirteenth edition of the classic two-volume comprehensive reference to the Java language and core API, updated for the latest Java release. The book is aimed at experienced programmers who want to learn how to write useful Java applications. No hype, no toy code, no language lawyering, just solid facts and in-depth research to help the reader write real programs.

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  Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival

  William Armaline and Davita Silfen Glasberg

  Asserting a critical sociological perspective, Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival reveals the contested historical processes through which fundamental human needs are constructed as “rights” under international law, and how those rights are confronted by the ruling relations and crises inherent to contemporary global capitalism and the waning American hegemonic world order. Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival offers critical analysis of contemporary politics and options for students, scholars, organizers, and stakeholders to grapple with some of the most pressing social problems of human history.