New Executive Board Members Bring Industry, Academic and Philanthropic Expertise
By: Daniel Steele | September 10, 2025
The University of Texas at Dallas welcomed four new members to the Executive Board during its fall meeting on Sept. 11. Incoming members bring expertise in philanthropy, engineering innovation, STEM advocacy and academic leadership, having served the University through professional and advisory roles supporting the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, as well as industry-academic partnerships.
New Members
Kyle Edgington PhD’13
Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Cook Children’s Health Foundation
Kyle Edgington PhD’13 is senior vice president and chief development officer for Cook Children’s Health Foundation, where he is currently leading a $1.25 billion expansion project for Cook Children’s Medical Center – Fort Worth.
Edgington joined Cook Children’s in 2025 after 16 years at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he held multiple teaching and administrative leadership roles. Most recently, Edgington served as vice president for development and alumni relations at UT Dallas. In this position, Edgington spearheaded the launch of New Dimensions: The Campaign for UT Dallas, helping to raise over $440 million toward the campaign’s $750 million goal. During this time, UT Dallas boosted its annual gift count by 183% and donor count by 70%, and the market value of the University’s endowment more than doubled.
Edgington holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University, an MBA from Wayland Baptist University and a PhD in public affairs from UT Dallas.
Ashish Khandelwal
Founder and CEO, Stealth Mode Semiconductor Startup
Ashish Khandelwal is a semiconductor CEO and deep-tech strategist with over 20 years of global leadership experience. He has led multibillion-dollar P&Ls, executed large-scale turnarounds and created over $10 billion in enterprise value across the semiconductor, AI infrastructure, consumer electronics and healthcare sectors.
Most recently, Khandelwal served as corporate vice president and general manager at Renesas Electronics, where he led the global power semiconductor business across 35-plus sites. Prior to Renesas, Khandelwal spent 17 years at Texas Instruments, holding senior leadership roles across power management, sensors, RF and embedded systems.
In addition to his industry leadership, Khandelwal has long been active in academic and workforce development. He has partnered with UT Austin and MIT through recruiting and research support initiatives and continues to mentor young engineers, entrepreneurs and students. He is particularly passionate about strengthening the education-to-industry pipeline and preparing the next generation of leaders in semiconductors and AI.
Fern Yoon BS’07, MS’08
Vice President of Worldwide Quality, Texas Instruments
Fern Yoon BS’07, MS’08 is vice president of worldwide quality at Texas Instruments, where she has worked since completing her master’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering — alongside minors in music and business — at UT Dallas in 2008. Yoon is an engineer who turned her passion for math and science into business and executive management roles that scale new technologies broadly into new markets and new applications.
As a McDermott Scholar at UT Dallas, Yoon cultivated a passion for elevating women in STEM and carried that passion to Texas Instruments. At TI, she spearheaded educational programs that encourage more females to pursue science, technology, engineering and math. For more than a decade, she helped run Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, a program providing young women in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with exposure to STEM fields.
Yoon is a member of the board of High-Tech High Heels, a nonprofit working to achieve equitable representation for women in the STEM workforce. In 2025, she received the 2025 Green and Orange Award for her service to UT Dallas.
New Ex Officio Member
Robert Glosser
Professor Emeritus of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas
President, UT Dallas Retiree Association
Robert Glosser is professor emeritus of physics in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UT Dallas and currently serves as president of the UT Dallas Retiree Association.
Since 1967, Glosser’s experimental work has focused on the optical properties of solids with an emphasis on modulation spectroscopy, Raman scattering and photoluminescence. He received his PhD and MS from the University of Chicago and his SB from MIT. Following his graduate work, Glosser spent two years at Michelson Lab in China Lake, California, before serving as a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He then worked as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland and came to UT Dallas in 1975 as an associate professor.
During the course of his academic career, Glosser mentored 25 PhD students and served as a consultant for the Naval Weapons Center, Varo Inc. and Northrop Grumman.