ECSE Administrative Assignment
Department Head: Hussein Abouzeid
Graduate Program Director: Rich Radke
Associate Graduate Program Director: Tong Zhang
Undergraduate Program Director: Meng Wang
Curriculum Chair: James Lu
ABET Coordinator: Shayla Sawyer
Department Committee Assignments
- Undergraduate Studies Committee: Meng Wang (Chair), Rena Huang, James Lu, Alex Patterson, Shayla Sawyer, Fred Schubert, Luigi Vanfretti, Kyle Wilt, Tong Zhang, Rama Hamarneh (ex officio)
- Graduate Studies Committee: Rich Radke (Chair), James Lu, Area Committee Chairs (Ali Tajer, Koushik Kar, Agung Julius, Meng Wang, Bob Karlicek, Rich Radke, Tong Zhang), Melanie Ungar (ex officio), Hussein Abouzeid (ex officio)
- Graduate Admission Committee: Tong Zhang (Chair)
- Communication and Networked Systems (Ish Jain)
- Computer Systems and Architecture (Liu Liu, Kanad)
- Autonomy, Robotics, and Control (Santiago Paternain)
- Smart Energy Technologies and Systems (Zheyu Zhang)
- Microelectronic and Photonics Systems (Paul Chow, Wenwen Zhao)
- AI Foundation and Applications (Esen Yel, Qiang Ji, Ali Tajer)
- Accreditation Committee: Shayla Sawyer (Chair), James Lu, Agung Julius
- Laboratory Courses and Facilities Committee: Kyle Wilt (Chair), James Lu, Shayla Sawyer, Meng Wang
- Promotion and Tenure Committee: Tong Zhang (Chair), Qiang Ji, Birsen Yazici
- Faculty Recognitions Committee: Rich Radke (Chair), Robert Karlicek, Qiang Ji
- Student Recognition Committee: Kyle Wilt (Chair), Junichi Kanai, Rena Huang
- Grainger Award Committee: Meng Wang (Chair), Jian Sun, Luigi Vanfretti, Zheyu Zhang, Prabhakar Neti
- ECSE Image and Communication Committee: Rich Radke (Chair), Ali Tajer, Shayla Sawyer, Rama Hamarneh
- Douglas Mercer Innovation and Exploration Laboratory: Shayla Sawyer (Director), Kyle Wilt, Chris Rinaldi
- ECSE and Mercer Seminar Coordinator: Santiago Paternain (Chair) (assisted by Gina Moore)
ECSE Lab and Classroom Spaces
- Bill Mnich: JEC 4th floor classrooms, Faraday Lab, Robotics Lab, courses without classroom needs
- Chris Rinalidi: JEC 6th floor courses, CII ECSE spaces, Mercer XLab, ECSE Stockroom
Undergraduate Advisors: (transfer students, new faculty)
- Transfer Advisor: Muhsin Celik (assisted by Rama Hamarneh)
- Class of 2025: Qiang Ji, James Lu, Santiago Paternain, Jian Sun, Meng Wang (taking over for Randolph Franklin starting spring 2023)
- Class of 2026: Robert Karlicek, Prabhakar Neti, John Wen, Birsen Yazici, Tong Zhang, Rama Hamarneh (taking over Dylan Rees' advisees)
- Class of 2027: Rama Hamarneh (taking over Mona Hella's advisees), Junichi Kanai, Alex Patterson, Shayla Sawyer
- Class of 2028: Paul Chow, Rena Huang, Kimberly Oakes, Fred Schubert
- Class of 2029: Hussein Abouzeid, Luigi Vanfretti, Kyle Wilt, Esen Yel, Zheyu Zhang
- Degree Clearance Officer: Koushik Kar (assisted by Rama Hamarneh)
Club Advisors:
- HKN Chapter Advisor: Alex Patterson
- IEEE Student Chapter Advisor: Alex Patterson
- Embedded Club Advisor: Kyle Wilt
- Robotics Club Advisor: Kimberly Oakes
Events:
- Accepted Students Day (March/April 2026): As assigned
- Medalist Day: As assigned
- Fall Open House: As assigned
- Founders Day: As assigned
- Student Orientations: As assigned
School of Engineering and Institute Committees:
- Curriculum Committee: James Lu
- ABET Committee: Shayla Sawyer
- SoE Award Committee: Paul Chow
- SoE P&T Committee: Koushik Kar
- Institute-Wide P&T Committee: Rich Radke
- Library Liaison: Muhsin Celik
Area Committees (area course offering and coverage, image and marketing, research coordination, graduate student recruiting)
- AI Foundations and Applications: Ali Tajer (Chair), Tianyi Chen, Qiang Ji, Rich Radke, Birsen Yazici (Secondary: Agung Julius, Liu Liu, Santiago Paternain, Luigi Vanfretti, Meng Wang, Esen Yel)
- Communications and Networked Systems: Koushik Kar (Chair), Hussein Abouzeid, Ish Jain, Kyle Wilt (Secondary: Tianyi Chen, Ali Tajer, Luigi Vanfretti)
- Autonomy, Robotics, and Control: Agung Julius (Chair), Junichi Kanai, Kimberly Oakes, Santiago Paternain, John Wen, Esen Yel (Secondary: Hussein Abouzeid, Qiang Ji, Bob Karlicek, Koushik Kar, Rich Radke, Jian Sun, Luigi Vanfretti)
- Smart Energy Technologies and Systems: Meng Wang (Chair), Paul Chow, Prabhakar Neti, Jian Sun, Luigi Vanfretti, Zheyu Zhang (Secondary: Hussein Abouzeid, Agung Julius, Koushik Kar, James Lu, Ali Tajer)
- Electronics and Photonics Systems: Bob Karlicek (Chair), Muhsin Celik, Steve Han, Rena Huang, James Lu, Boon Ooi, Alex Patterson, Shayla Sawyer, Fred Schubert, Wenwen Zhao (Secondary: Paul Chow, Jian Sun, Zheyu Zhang)
- Computer Systems and Architectures: Tong Zhang (Chair), Kanad Basu, Liu Liu (Secondary: Hussein Abouzeid, James Lu)
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