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Committee membership
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# Committee membership

**Source**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/about/administrative-structure/committee-membership
**Parent**: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/administrative-structure/school-committees

## Awards Committee

- **[Tamer Özsu](mailto:%20tamer.ozsu@uwaterloo.ca), Chair**
- Raouf Boutaba (*ex officio*)
- Shai Ben-David
- Trevor Brown
- Robin Cohen
- Ian Goldberg

- Gautam Kamath
- Florian Kerschbaum
- Stephen Watt
- Graduate student representative: Nanda Kishore Sreenivas
- Staff support: Joe Petrik

## Commons Committee

- **[Nomair Naeem](mailto:nomair.naeem@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- Martin Karsten (*ex officio*)
- Therese Biedl
- Dan Holtby
- Stephen Mann
- Ali Mashtizadeh

- Adrian Reetz
- Collin Roberts
- Luke Schaeffer
- Graduate student representative: Anthony Maocheia-Ricci
- Staff support: Izabela Rutkowski

## Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee

- **[Mei Nagappan](mailto:mei.nagappan@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- Edith Law (*ex officio*)
- Yuri Boykov
- Elena Grigorescu
- Xi He
- Renée Miller
- Naomi Nishimura

- Rafael Oliveira
- Stacey Watson
- Outreach Program Coordinator: TBD
- Staff representative: Gwendoline Nubila
- Undergraduate student representative: Erin Guo
- Graduate student representative: Yimu Wang

## Future of Computer Science Education Ad hoc Committee

- **[Armin Jamshidpey](mailto:armin.jamshidpey@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- Carmen Bruni
- Craig Kaplan
- Kevin Lanctot
- Kate Larson

- Jimmy Lin
- Ali Mashtizadeh
- Mei Nagappan
- Stacey Watson

## Future of EDI & WiCS Ad hoc Committee

- [**Tamer Özsu**](mailto:tamer.ozsu@uwaterloo.ca), **Chair​**
- Jo Atlee
- Mei Nagappan

- Naomi Nishimura
- Prabhakar Ragde

## Graduate Committee

- **[Jesse Hoey](mailto:jesse.hoey@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- Sepehr Assadi (*ex officio*)
- Dan Berry
- Eric Blais
- Richard Cleve
- Yuntian Deng
- Kimon Fountoulakis
- Sihang Liu
- Semih Salihoglu

- Éric Schost
- David Toman
- Grant Weddell
- Yaoliang Yu
- Hong Zhang
- Hongyang Zhang
- Staff support: Graduate Office

## Graduate Admissions Committee

- **[Sepehr Assadi](mailto:sassadi@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- Christopher Batty
- Robin Cohen
- Ian Goldberg
- Urs Hengartner
- Lap Chi Lau
- Stephen Mann

- Marina Meila
- Semih Salihoglu
- Éric Schost
- Freda Shi
- Chengnian Sun
- Richard Trefler
- Meng Xu

## Graduate Recruiting Committee

- **[Toshiya Hachisuka](mailto:toshiya.hachisuka@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- Sepehr Assadi (*ex officio*)
- Gladimir Baranoski
- Dan Berry
- Matthew Brehmer
- Wenhu Chen
- Mohammad Hajiabadi
- Xiao Hu

- Marina Meila
- Pengyu Nie
- Santoshini Velusamy
- Yizhou Zhang
- Victor Zhong
- Graduate student representative: Ashu Adhikari
- Staff support: Recruitment, Outreach and Programs Manager

## School Advisory Committee on Appointments

- **[Olga Veksler](mailto:oveksler@uwaterloo.ca), Chair**
- Raouf Boutaba (*ex officio*)
- Shai Ben-David
- Trevor Brown
- Elena Grigorescu
- Florian Kerschbaum
- Bin Ma

- Pascal Poupart
- Grant Weddell
- WiCS liaison, non-voting: TBD
- EDI liaison, non-voting: TBD
- Graduate student representative: Seemal Tausif
- Staff support: Kimberley Beckman

## School Advisory Committee on Teaching Appointments

- **[Martin Karsten](mailto:mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- Staff Support: Kimberley Beckman

## School Tenure, Permanence and Promotion Committee

- **[Raouf Boutaba](mailto:cs-director@uwaterloo.ca), Chair​**
- N. Asokan
- Elena Grigorescu

- Florian Kerschbaum
- Brad Lushman
- Staff support: Tracy Dietrich

## Undergraduate Academic Plans Committee

- **[Michael Godfrey](mailto:migod@uwaterloo.ca), Chair**
- Martin Karsten (*ex officio*)
- Dave Tompkins (*ex officio*)
- Byron Weber Becker
- Shalev Ben-David
- Peter Buhr
- Nancy Day
- Kate Larson
- Ondřej Lhoták

- Brad Lushman
- Shlomi Steinberg
- Dan Vogel
- Stacey Watson
- ISG representative: Patrick Roh
- Undergraduate student representative: Avish Kathpal
- Graduate student representative: Tom Iagovet
- Staff support: Undergraduate Office

## Undergraduate Recruiting Committee

- **[Carmen Bruni](mailto:cbruni@uwaterloo.ca), Chair**
- Jeff Avery (*ex officio*)
- Martin Karsten (*ex officio*)
- Dave Tompkins (*ex officio*)
- Christopher Batty
- Curtis Bright
- Peter Buhr

- Armin Jamshidpey
- Mark Petrick
- Adrian Reetz
- Yaoliang Yu
- Jian Zhao
- Staff support: Recruitment, Outreach and Programs Manager

## Women in Computer Science Committee

- **[Jo Atlee](mailto:jmatlee@uwaterloo.ca), Co-chair​**
- **[Edith Law](mailto:edith.law@uwaterloo.ca), Co-chair**
- Raouf Boutaba (*ex officio*)
- Sepehr Assadi
- Anamaria Crisan
- Lori Case
- Zille Huma Kamal
- Craig Kaplan
- Sujaya Maiyya

- Prabhakar Ragde
- Leile Rafiee Sevyeri
- Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo
- Outreach Program Coordinator: Samantha Jewett
- Undergraduate student representative(s): Yiyan Huang, Yuyeon Kim
- Graduate student representative(s): Rozhan Akhound-Sadegh, Carolyn Wang
- Staff support: Tammy Vucicevich