Faculty governance
SCAI committees and councils
Members of the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence committees and councils serve the school and university in an advisory, process-making, or hearing role for the continued innovation and progression of the institution.
Learn more about the responsibilities of the SCAI committees and view membership of each in the toggles below.
Inquiries concerning this roster may be directed to [email protected].
SCAI Committees
Administration & Planning Committee (APC)
The APC will solicit input from the SCAI Academic Assembly and advise the SCAI Director regarding salary matters, budgets, space and other resource allocation, staff, strategic planning and other critical issues raised by the Director, and communicate faculty concerns to the Director. The elected members of the APC will serve as a subcommittee with responsibility for hearing faculty grievances, performance evaluation appeals and coordinating evaluations of School administration. The subcommittee shall solicit input from the Program Faculty on the performance of the Program Chairs each year and provide the results to the Director.
CSE
K. Selçuk Candan Term (2025-2027)
CSE
Yanjie Fu (2025-2027)
IE
Bing Si (2025-2027)
SE
Ajay Bansal (2025-2027)
At Large
Ted Pavlic (2025-2027)
At Large
Huan Liu (2024-2026)
IE Program Chair
Feng Ju
CSE Program Chair
Arunabha Sen
SER Program Chair
Srividya Bansal
Graduate Admissions Committee (GAC)
The GAC is primarily responsible for admission/rejection recommendations for PhD applicants. The GAC will review applications and, for each applicant with a complete application file, they will recommend to the CGF Chair either: admission without an explicit recommendation of funding; admission with an explicit recommendation of funding; or denial. Appointments shall be for one year.
Personnel Committee (PC)
The Personnel Committee is responsible for executing the faculty shared governance role in faculty personnel matters.
Douglas Montgomery (2025-2028)
Guoliang Xue (2025-2027)
Gail-Joon Ahn (2025-2027)
Giulia Pedrielli (2025-2027)
George Runger (2025-2027)
Adam Doupé (2024-2026)
Fish Wang (Fall 2025)
Farideh Tadayon (2024-2026)
Chitta Baral (2024-2026)
Hessam Sarjoughian (2024-2026)
CSE Program Faculty Committees
Arun Sen, Program Chair ([email protected])
Aviral Srivastava, Graduate Program Chair ([email protected])
Janaka Balasooriya, Undergraduate Associate Program Chair ([email protected])
CS Graduate Programs Committee (GPC)
The GPC will solicit information from the CGF and advise the CGF Chair on matters of membership of the CGF, admissions standards, deficiency management, curriculum content and procedures, and graduation requirements of the graduate degree programs. In particular, the GPC is responsible for the maintenance of the Student Handbooks for all CS graduate degree programs. GPC may submit agenda items to the CGF Chair for the CGF meetings.
Chris Bryan
Yan Shoshitaishvili
K. Selçuk Candan
Adam Doupé (Spring 2026)
Xusheng Xiao (Fall 2025)
Rida Bazzi
CS Undergraduate Program Committee (CS UPC)
The Undergraduate Programs Committees will solicit information from the Program Faculty and advise the Program Chair on admissions standards, curriculum matters and graduation requirements. In particular, the Undergraduate Program Committees are responsible for the maintenance of the Requirements and Procedures Document for each undergraduate degree program.
Joshua Daymude
Yanjie Fu
Yinong Chen
Zahra Sadri Moshkenani
Hua Wei
CSE Undergraduate Program Committee (CSE UPC)
The Undergraduate Programs Committees will solicit information from the Program Faculty and advise the Program Chair on admissions standards, curriculum matters and graduation requirements. In particular, the Undergraduate Program Committees are responsible for the maintenance of the Requirements and Procedures Document for each undergraduate degree program.
Aman Arora
Hokeun Kim
Sarma Vrudhula (Spring 2026)
Pending (Fall 2025)
Samira Ghayekhloo
Other Advisors and Coordinators
Transfer Courses (ACETS) Reviewer
Janaka Balasooriya
ABET Coordinator(s)
CS
Janaka Balasooriya
CSE TA Chair
Janaka Balasooriya
Capstone Coordinator(s)
CS
Maria Elena Chavez Echeagaray
DSAE Program Faculty Committees
Rong Pan, Program Chair ([email protected])
DSAE Graduate Programs Committee (GPC)
Jia Zou (CS)
Hao Yan (IE)
Petar Jevtic (SoMSS)
Nicolo Michelusi (EE)
Zhichao Cao (At Large)
Rong Pan (Program Chair)
IE/EM Program Faculty Committees
Feng Ju, Program Chair ([email protected])
IE Graduate Programs Committee (GPC)
Ashif Iquebal
Hao Yan
Minseok Ryu
Paul Grogan
Baoyu Zhou
Feng Ju (Program Chair)
Allison Curran (non-voting member)
IE & EM Undergraduate Programs Committee
Linda Chattin
Daniel McCarville
Giulia Pedrielli
Geunyeong Byeon
John Cavallaro
Ali Kucukozyigit
Feng Ju (Program Chair)
Allison Curran (non-voting member)
Sue Lafond (non-voting member)
DEng Graduate Program Committee
Daniel McCarville
Douglas Montgomery
George Runger
Feng Ju (Program Chair)
Allison Curran (non-voting member)
Christina Sebring (non-voting member)
Other Advisors and Coordinators
ABET Coordinator(s)
IE
Giulia Pedrielli
IE Seminar Series Coordinators
Deniz Berfin Karakoc
Lacy Greening
IE&EM Alumni Coordinator
Ali Kucukozyigit
IISE Advisor
Ashif Iquebal
INFORMS Advisor
Geunyeong Byeon
ASEM Advisor
Ali Kucukozyigit
Barrett Honors Faculty Advisor
Daniel McCarville
SER Program Faculty Committees
Srividya Bansal, Program Chair ([email protected])
Ajay Bansal, Assoc. Program Chair ([email protected])
SER Undergraduate Program Committee (SER UPC)
The SER Program faculty will establish an Undergraduate Program Committee (UPC) for the Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. The UPC will solicit information from the Faculty Assembly and advise the Program Chair on admissions standards, curriculum content and procedures and graduation requirements.
Tyler Baron (Chair – Fall 2025)
Ruben Acuña (Chair – Spring 2026)
Robert Heinrichs
Pranut Jain
In Jung Kim
Ajay Bansal (Assoc. Program Chair)
SER Graduate Program Committee (GPC)
The SER Program faculty will establish a Graduate Program Committee (GPC) for the Master of Science in Software Engineering. The GPC will solicit information from the Faculty Assembly and advise the Program Chair on admissions standards, curriculum content and procedures and graduation requirements. The GPC is responsible for working with the SCAI Graduate Advising Center to revise the Graduate Handbook, which must be accepted by the SER Program Faculty. The GPC is also responsible for considering suitability for Master’s thesis members who are not Graduate Program Faculty according to the most recent version of the Graduate Handbook.
Ajay Bansal (Chair)
Kevin Gary
Alexandra Mehlhase
Nouh Alhindawi
Srividya Bansal (as Program Chair)
SER Undergraduate Assessment Committee (SER UAC)
The SER Program faculty will establish a committee responsible for conducting assessment activities necessary to maintain ABET program accreditation of the Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. These procedures are defined in the Continuous Improvement Process manual (CIP) of the program. The UAC will also recommend improvements to the CIP manual for approval by the SER Program Faculty.
Robert Heinrichs (Chair)
Alexandra Mehlhase
Douglas Sandy
Tyler Baron
Ajay Bansal (as Assoc. Program Chair)
Other Advisors and Coordinators
Transfer Courses (ACETS) Reviewer
Tyler Baron
Capstone Coordinator
Ajay Bansal
Graduate Student Internship Coordinator
Ajay Bansal
Barrett Honors Faculty Advisor
Robert Heinrichs
Campus Outreach/Events
Alexandra Mehlhase
Additional Information
To learn more about the Fulton Schools committees and find other governance information, visit the engineering faculty hub site.
In addition to Fulton Schools committees, there are ASU committees which serve the university in an advisory, policy-making, or hearing role for the continued advancement of the institution. To learn more, see the full list of ASU committees on the Provost’s website.