Graduate Group Chairs

The Graduate Group Chair is responsible for supervising graduate study in his/her Graduate Group, including planning and carrying out graduate student recruitment, ensuring that each graduate student is assigned an individual Faculty Advisor and mentor, ensuring the progress of graduate students through the program, determining resource needs and administration of the group’s budget, determining both graduate course offerings each semester and curriculum changes. 

AY 2026-27 Graduate Group Chairs 

• Applied Mathematics: Chrysoula Tsogka

• Bioengineering: Arvind Gopinath

• Chemistry and Biochemistry: Christine Isborn 

• Cognitive & Information Sciences: Colin Holbrook

• Economics: Zack Grossman

• Electrical Engineering & Computer Science: Ming-Hsuan Yang

• Environmental Systems: Michael Beman

• Interdisciplinary Humanities: Ma Vang

• Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering: Elizabeth Nowadnick

• Management of Innovation, Sustainability & Technology, Management of Complex Systems: Alexander Petersen

• Mechanical Engineering: Abel Chuang

• Physics: Dustin Kleckner

• Political Science: Christopher Ojeda

• Psychological Sciences: Eric Walle

• Public Health: Maria-Elena Young

• Quantitative & Systems Biology: Ruben Ceballos

• Sociology: Charlie Eaton

Fall 2026 Meeting Schedule

Graduate Division All Chairs' Retreat

SSHA Graduate Group Chairs' Meetings

SNS/SOE Graduate Group Chairs' Meetings

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