Dean’s Advisory Groups
The Dean's Advisory Groups provide a platform for members of the college community to interact directly with Dean Sanjay Raman. Advisory group members are expected to provide thoughtful input on college climate, direction, needs and other topics as requested. Six groups have been established:
- staff
- undergraduate students
- master’s students
- PhD students
- tenured faculty
- untenured faculty/research faculty/post-docs.
Members are solicited through a nomination process, including self-nominations, which are reviewed by an impartial selection committee. Advisory group members commit to meeting with the Dean in a small group once per semester. Members serve a minimum of one academic year term, but may be requested to continue past the end of their one-year term. Please direct questions to Assistant Dean Paula Rees (rees [at] umass [dot] edu).
Staff Members
Natalia Kolk, BME
Amity Lee, CHE
Christine Langlois, ECE
Dana Parsons, MIE
Julia Hoke, Dean’s Area
Jennifer Gazzil, UMTC
Dan Lawlor, ECS
MS Members
Sydney Foster, CHE
Paige Liu, CHE
Abhishek Patil, ME
Sahana Natarajan Hariram, CE
Rishi Shukla, EE
Tenured Faculty Members
Yu Chen, BME
Sanjay Arwade, CEE
Wei Fan, CHE
Wayne Burleson, CompE
Neal Anderson, EE
Hari Balasubramanian, IE
Frank Sup, ME
Undergraduate Members
Brianna Harnden, BME
Aidan Provost, CEE
Hansen Tjo, CHE
Ananya Rao, CompE
Marcus Mei, EE
Gabriel Kieto Mahaniah, IE
Selena Cho, ME
Mary Gerace, JSES
Liz Lim, BME
Telvin Abariga, CHE
Grace Elliott, CHE
Sarah Widrow, IE
PhD Members
Cole Ferreira, BME
Anthony Brouillard, CHE
Mariam Alkattan, CEE
Akansha Bansal, CompE
Nagarjun Bhat, EE
Ron Colmon, ME
Bridget Benner, ME
Fangda Zhang, IE
Untenured/Research/Post-doc Faculty Members
Cathal Kearney, BME
Simos Gerasimidis, CEE
Dandan Xu, CHE
Fatima Anwar, CompE
Amir Arbabi, ECE
Anuj Pradhan, IE
Juan Jimenez, ME
Apoorva Baja, research faculty
Nhu Nguyen, ME, post-doc