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Departmental Committees


A number of administrative committees advise the chair and oversee various aspects of the department’s daily operations.

ABET/SACS

  • Ye Xia (ABET)
  • Mohammad Al-Saad (SACS)
  • Meera Sitharam (SACS)
  • Lisha Zhou (SACS)

Curriculum

  • Jonathan Kavalan (co-Chair- Fall 2026)
  • Sonja Schemer-Galunder (MS)
  • Ye Xia (CpE)
  • Ashish Aggarwal
  • Jeremiah Blanchard (CpE)
  • Pete Dobbins (Ex-Officio)
  • Joshua Fox (DAS)
  • Rong Zhang (co-Chair – Fall 2026, Chair Spring 2027+)
  • Lisha Zhou
  • Jessica McCarthy

Graduate affairs

  • Arunava Banerjee
  • Alin Dobra
  • Jamie Ruiz (Chair)
  • Baba Vemuri
  • Adrienne Cook

Graduate recruiting

  • Lisa Anthony
  • Kiley Graim (Chair)
  • Kyla McMullen
  • Daisy Wang
  • Kristina Sapp

Graduate admissions

  • Eakta Jain
  • Alireza Entezari
  • Kejun Huang (Spring 2027+)
  • Sumit Jha
  • Eric Ragan (Spring 2027+)
  • Sara Rampazzi
  • Jamie Ruiz (Chair)
  • Meera Sitharam
  • Alper Ungor
  • Daisy Wang
  • Kristina Sapp

Steering

  • Vincent Bindschaedler (Speaker)
  • Bonnie Dorr (Interim – Fall 2026)
  • Jorg Peters (Spring 2027 +)
  • Christan Grant
  • Zhe Jiang
  • Sanethia Thomas

TA assignment

  • Neha Rani

Undergraduate affairs

  • Alin Dobra
  • Jonathan Kavalan (Spring 2027+)
  • Ashish Aggarwal
  • Pete Dobbins (Chair)
  • Martha Pennock Schaub

Scholarships and awards

  • Vincent Bindschaedler
  • Sharon Chu (Spring 2027+)
  • Sumit Jha
  • My Thai (Chair)
  • Anand Rangarajan
  • Andrew Appling
  • Adrienne Cook

HCC Ph.D. advisory

  • Lisa Anthony
  • Kyla McMullen (Chair)
  • Christina Gardner-McCune
  • Eric Ragan (Spring 2027+)

UF Online

  • Cheryl Resch

Space coordinator

  • Kristy Boyer

Colloquium and graduate seminar

  • Kristy Boyer
  • Christina Boucher
  • Alireza Entezari (Chair)
  • Eakta Jain
  • Sartaj Sahni

Mentoring

  • Jorg Peters (Chair)
  • Shigang Chen
  • Kristy Boyer
  • My Thai
  • Daisy Wang

Task Force: LLMs in Teaching

  • Emmanuel Dorley
  • Bonnie Dorr
  • Marvin Andujar (Chair)
  • Fatemeh Tavassoli

T&P advisory

  • Prabhat Mishra
  • All tenured faculty

Teaching assignment

  • Arunava Banarjee (Chair)
  • Shigang Chen (Networks & Cybersecurity)
  • Joshua Fox (DAS)
  • Christina Gardner-McCune (HCC & Graphics)
  • Christan Grant (Systems and Software Engineering)
  • Anand Rangarajan (AI & ML)
  • Cheryl Resch (UF Online)
  • Alper Ungor (Databases & Theory)
  • Cheryl Resch (Core)
  • Andrew Appling
  • Carleigh Shannon

Industrial advisory board

  • Kristy Boyer
  • Kevin Butler (Chair)

Certificate program

  • Sartaj Sahni (chair)

Newsletter

  • Drew Brown

Career Fair coordinator

  • Sanethia Thomas

Faculty liaison with CISE student organization leaders

  • Rong Zhang

Commencement representative

  • Kevin Butler

Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Santa Fe program application evaluation

  • Jessica McCarty

College curriculum committee

  • Jonathan Kavalan (Fall 2026)
  • Rong Zhang

College honors and awards representative

  • My Thai

College commencement marshals

  • Marvin Adujar
  • Long Chen
  • Emmanuel Dorley
  • Kejun Huang (Spring 2027+)
  • Kiley Graim
  • Zhe Jiang
  • Jonathan Kavalan (Spring 2027+)
  • Yuanyuan Lei
  • Sara Rampazzi
  • Sonja Schmer-Galunder
  • Jingwei Sun
  • Fatemeh Tavassoli
  • Dung Tran

College sabbatical representative

  • Christina Boucher

College faculty council and university senate representatives

  • Jeremiah Blanchard
  • Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira
  • Jorg Peters
  • Cheryl Resch

College tenure and promotion representative

  • Prabhat Mishra