Program Administration (Program Committee)

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 10:50
The Program Faculty is composed of members of participating IGMCS departments and other individuals with relevant expertise who have been nominated for membership by their respective department heads and approved by the Program Committee. The Program Committee, a subset of the Program Faculty, is responsible for making administrative decisions and for formulation and implementation of Program policies. The Program Committee is composed of the following:
  • Greg Peterson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) (Chair)
  • Steven Abel, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)
  • Vasilios Alexiades, Mathematics (MATH)
  • Paul Armsworth, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
  • Ryan Bond, University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI)
  • Alex Bentley, Anthropology (ANTH)
  • Kivanc Ekici, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE)
  • Joshua Fu, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
  • David Keffer, Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
  • Jim Ostrowski, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE)
  • Thomas Papenbrock, Physics (PHYS)
  • Sharani Roy, Chemistry (CHEM)
  • Liesel Schneider, UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA)
  • Shih-Lung Shaw, Geography & Sustainability (GEOG)
  • Tongye Shen, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB)
  • Peiling Wang, School of Information Sciences (SIS)
  • Russell Zaretzki, Statistics (STAT) and the Bredesen Center