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College Committees

(updated 9/1/26)

College Personnel Committee (CPC) 

  • Maciej Ciesielski (ECE)
  • Joyita Dutta (BME)
  • Mike Knodler (CEE)
  • Matthew Lackner (MIE)
  • Jessica Schiffman (CBE) 

Link to Department Personnel Committees

Dean's Advisory Committees

Link to listing of all advisory committees to the dean

AI in Undergraduate Education Working Group

  • Sam Wojda (Chair)
  • Egemen Okte
  • Lixin Gao
  • Chaitra Gopalappa
  • Jacob Dyer-Spiegel
  • Martin Hunter
  • Peng Bai

College Curriculum Committee 

  • Chase Cornelison (BME)
  • Eric Gonzales (CEE)
  • Sarah Perry (CBE)
  • Marco Duarte (ECE)
  • Yossi Chait (MIE)
  • Sam Wojda (Dean)

Research Advisory Council 

  • Chang Liu (BME)
  • Nick Wu (CBE)
  • Anuj Prahdan (MIE)
  • Chaitra Gopplappa (MIE)
  • Yanrui Sang (ECE)
  • Holly Yanco (MIE)
  • Michael Knodler (CEE)
  • Paul Siquiera (ECE)
  • Wei Fan (CBE)
  • Julie Moses (RDS - Dean)
  • Caitlyn Butler (Chair - Dean)

Riccio CoE Computing Advising Committee 

  • Jinwei Zhang (BME)
  • Jimi Oke (CEE)
  • Peng Bai (CBE)
  • Yeonsik Noh (ECE)
  • Golbon Zakeri (MIE)
  • Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi (Dean)

Riccio CoE Faculty Excellence Committee

  • Erin Baker
  • Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi 
  • Paula Rees
  • Kelley Ives (Chair)

Program Directors

You can find a listing of both graduate program directors (GPD) and undergraduate program directors (UPD) in the Riccio College of Engineering on our Department Advisors page.

The Graduate School also has a listing of all campus GPDs here.

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