2009-2010 Faculty Committees

• Stuart J. Russell, EECS Chair
• Costas J. Spanos, EECS Associate Chair
• Edward A. Lee, Vice Chair, CNIL
• Ras Bodik, Vice Chair, Grad Matters
• Borivoje Nikolic, Vice Chair, Grad Matters
• Kurt Keutzer, Vice Chair, Industrial Relations
• David A. Patterson, Vice Chair, Industrial Relations
• David Wagner, Vice Chair, Undergrad Matters

The 5-Year Program Admissions/Advising Committee Chairs will oversee the newly formed 5th Year Program. EECS will offer the 5 Year Program with B.S. or B.A. in 4 years (or less) and M.S. in one extra year for qualified students. It is limited to Berkeley Undergraduates with a cumulative GPA of no less than 3.5 and a sincere desire to better prepare themselves for career leadership by gaining interdisciplinary training at the graduate level.

• Michael Gastpar, co-chair
• Koushik Sen, co-chair
• La Shana Porlaris

This committee will arrange the EECS Colloquium seminars for the current year, filling any gaps, as well as planning & implementation for the following academic year. This involves soliciting nominations from faculty, providing a list for Chair approval, contacting speakers and arranging hosts for visits. In addition, developing a budget/process for this annual series which can allow for lean & fat years, perhaps posters/mailers, and involve the grad student social hours (Ideally a joint social hour in the Wozniak Lounge just before or just after would be preferred). The EECS Colloquium is currently held as CS 298-03, Wednesdays at 4 pm, with the goal to attract the top speakers for a joint EECS faculty/grad audience.

• Venkat Anantharam, co-chair
• George Necula, co-chair

This committee is charged with overseeing the computing, networking and laboratory infrastructure of the department, for both instructional and research purposes. The committee provides strategic leadership and planning to evolve existing infrastructure and formulate strategies for funding that evolution. It coordinates equipment donations and requests for equipment upgrades, as well as space and facilities issues associated with the equipment and laboratories. It also adjudicates the demand for resources among different communities within the department, such as instructional, administration, and research. It meets periodically on an as needed basis, when so desired by the chair of the committee, and reports to the faculty on an as needed basis.

• Edward A. Lee, chair
• Anthony D. Joseph, co-chair
• Christopher Brooks
• David E. Culler (ex officio)
• Eric Fraser
• Dan Garcia
• John D. Kubiatowicz
• Clark Nguyen
• James O'Brien
• Jan Pardoe
• Vern Paxson
• Vivek Subramanian
• Doug Tygar

This committee is charged with providing a sounding board and direct feedback to the Department Chair and Associate Chair on proposed initiatives and other departmental issues of a global nature. It consists of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering subcommittees that meet separately as well as a joint committee. Generally, the subcommittees and the joint committee should meet once/semester.

• Stuart J. Russell, chair (ex officio)
• Costas J. Spanos, co-chair (ex officio)
• Jeffrey Bokor
• David E. Culler
• James Demmel
• David A. Hodges
• Chenming Hu
• Michael Jordan
• Kurt Keutzer
• Tsu-Jae King Liu
• Edward A. Lee
• Clark Nguyen
• Christos Papadimitriou (F)
• David A. Patterson
• Jan M. Rabaey
• Kate Riley
• Carlo H. Séquin
• Scott Shenker
• Pravin Varaiya
• Ming C. Wu
• Eli Yablonovitch

The Faculty Affirmative Action Officers are responsible for the promotion of diversity in EECS faculty hiring. They identify potential diversity candidates in target areas prior to application deadlines, work to ensure that hiring committees keep diversity values in focus throughout the recruiting process, and foster equal access to employment opportunities for all prospective faculty members.

• Ruzena Bajcsy, co-chair
• Claire Tomlin, co-chair

This committee is charged with the mission of identifying faculty candidates for local, national, and international awards, and organizing the nomination of these faculty members. It meets on an as needed basis, based on the relevant award deadlines. The Department Chair and Associate Chair are ex officio members of this committee.

• Andrew R. Neureuther, co-chair
• David A. Patterson, co-chair
• Ruzena Bajcsy
• David A. Hodges
• Richard M. Karp
• Heather Levien
• William G. Oldham
• Stuart J. Russell (ex officio)
• Costas J. Spanos (ex officio)
• Pravin Varaiya

The Graduate Advising Committee consists of those faculty members assigned to advising first year graduate students on their courses of study. Once a graduate student obtains a research advisor, usually by the end of the first year, the student's research advisor assumes this role. The committee meets at the beginning of the year to review the latest rules and procedures as they apply to graduate students. It is overseen by the Department's Head Advisor/Advisor for GSI Affairs (i.e., the Vice Chair for Graduate Matters).

The Graduate Admissions Committee is responsible for reviewing applications and selecting candidates for admission to the department's graduate programs. The major work of the committee is concentrated in the early part of the Spring semester. The committee is made up of representatives of each of the research areas. It is overseen by the Vice Chair for Graduate Matters, assisted by the committee co-chair from the complementary division.

• Borivoje Nikolic, chair
• Ras Bodik, co-chair
• Pieter Abbeel
• Maneesh Agrawala
• Elad Alon
• Murat Arcak
• Krste Asanović
• Ruzena Bajcsy
• Jose M. Carmena
• Björn Hartmann
• Sheila Humphreys
• Ali Javey
• Daniel Klein
• Michael Lustig
• Michel Maharbiz
• Rebecca Miller
• Ali Niknejad
• Lior Pachter
• Vern Paxson
• Ravi Ramamoorthi
• Satish Rao
• Jaijeet Roychowdhury
• Anant Sahai
• Sayeef Salahuddin
• Seth R. Sanders
• Koushik Sen
• Sanjit A. Seshia
• Alistair Sinclair
• Dawn Song
• Yun S. Song
• Jean Walrand
• Eli Yablonovitch

The Graduate Study/Prelim Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving changes to the graduate curricula. In addition, the committee assigns faculty to serve as examiners on the departmental prelim exams, oversees the execution of those exams, and handles all appeals. It meets periodically as business dictates. The Grad Vice Chair and Grad Admissions Co-Chair are ex-officio members of this committee. Two students, representing CS & EE graduate students, will be involved in the Grad Study portion of this committee.

• Nathan W. Cheung, co-chair
• John D. Kubiatowicz, co-chair
• Ras Bodik
• John F. Canny
• Jose M. Carmena
• Clark Nguyen
• Borivoje Nikolic (ex officio)

The Graduate Affirmative Action Adviser serves as your unit's liaison in all matters related to affirmative action recruitment and the promotion of diversity in graduate programs. The Graduate Affirmative Action Adviser is responsible for (a) maintaining programs and procedures involving student retention, and funding targeted toward students from diverse social, educational and economic backgrounds; (b) developing and maintaining recruitment efforts designed to increase the enrollment of students from groups that have been historically underrepresented in graduate programs; and (c) ensuring that the unit values diversity and maintains an environment that promotes equal educational opportunity for all students.

The Graduate Council requires that the Graduate Affirmative Action Adviser be a member of the graduate admissions committee.

• Murat Arcak, co-chair
• Ruzena Bajcsy, co-chair

To actively make yourself known to GSIs and faculty teaching in your department, both in writing and otherwise.

Assign teaching assistants for all courses requiring a GSI. To coordinate and promote departmental efforts to prepare, supervise, and evaluate your GSIs. Where appropriate, to work in conjunction with any professional developers employed by the department to prepare or supervise GSIs. Consultation and grants for development or enhancement of departmental GSI programs that prepare GSIs for teaching are available through the GSI Teaching and Resource Center.

To be actively aware of all policies and regulations concerning GSIs, whether they originate in the University, the campus, or in the department, and to communicate these policies and regulations to departmental faculty and GSIs. Such policies and regulations include eligibility requirements, maximum and minimum terms of service, promotion procedures, appointment procedures and criteria, evaluation procedures, departmental or university requirements regarding the pedagogical preparation and mentorship of GSIs for teaching, and any other policies pertaining to GSIs.

To inform GSIs and departmental faculty of the programs and services offered by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center and other resources on campus that can assist GSIs in their teaching. For a complete list of resources, please see http://gsi.berkeley.edu.

To be available to GSIs teaching in the department for consultation and advice on matters of policy and regulations, on pedagogical matters, and in cases of conflict with supervising faculty members.

To attend both the fall and spring meetings for Faculty Advisers for GSI Affairs and Professional Developers of GSIs and to bring information from that meeting back to your department.

To familiarize the newly appointed Faculty Adviser for GSI Affairs with the body of knowledge available to you and to pass along to your successor materials you have received in this position.

• Babak Ayazifar, co-chair
• Brian K. Harvey, co-chair

The Industrial Relations Committee oversees the operations of the Industrial and Public Relations Office (IPRO), and considers ways of improving the relations between the department and industry.

• Kurt Keutzer, co-chair
• David A. Patterson, co-chair
• Krste Asanović
• Ahmad Bahai
• Chenming Hu
• Randy H. Katz
• Tsu-Jae King Liu
• Nelson Morgan
• Kameshwar Poolla
• Jan M. Rabaey
• Stuart J. Russell
• Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
• Costas J. Spanos
• Ming C. Wu

The L&S Steering committee manages the L&S CS major. The committee sets, implements and enforces policy for admission of students to the major and courses required to complete the major. The committee reviews petitions to waive rules involving such matters as required courses, graduating, graduating with honors and GPA required for graduation. The committee oversees advising of majors and potential majors, including transfer students. The committee interacts with the College of Letters and Science to ensure that college policy on matters affecting the CS major is informed by the CS division's needs and interests. These matters include but are not limited to policies on when a major should be declared, whether a major is capped and at what level and whether transfer students should be admitted directly to a major.

• Paul N. Hilfinger, chair
• Brian K. Harvey
• Barbara Hightower

Define course content for CS lower-division service courses, and coordinating evolution of the lower-division courses for CS majors. Manage and develop course material for self-paced programming courses. Represent the Computer Science Division in University matters that relate to lower-division computer science instruction

• Dan Garcia, chair

The Scheduling Committee consists of the Department's Scheduling Officers and the staff scheduling assistants. It meets periodically to formulate and coordinate the scheduling of course offerings. Key responsibilities are to balance faculty workloads during the year and from year to year.

• Michael Franklin, co-chair
• Ali Niknejad, co-chair

The Student Awards and Competitions Committee meets periodically to evaluate undergraduate and graduate students who have been nominated for departmental awards, national awards, scholarships and fellowships. It meets periodically on the call of the committee chair as the committee has work to perform.

• Kannan Ramchandran, co-chair
• Alan J. Smith, co-chair
• Krste Asanović
• Peter Bartlett
• Laurent El Ghaoui
• Rebecca Miller
• Borivoje Nikolic
• Anant Sahai
• Luca Trevisan
• David Tse

The Student Grievance committee's purpose is to provide a neutral third party who can address student issues that cannot be resolved through the usual professor-student relationship. It observes strict confidentiality outside the involved parties. It meets as it needs to, to address business.

• Venkat Anantharam, co-chair
• Christos Papadimitriou, co-chair

The Tenure & Promotion committee is charged with the mission of identifying faculty members for tenure, promotion and advising the Department Chairs about personnel actions. It meets on an as needed basis, based on the relevant submission deadlines. The Chair and Associate Chair are ex officio members of the committee.

• Richard M. Karp, co-chair
• Edward A. Lee, co-chair
• James Demmel
• David A. Hodges
• Andrew R. Neureuther
• Stuart J. Russell (ex officio)
• Costas J. Spanos (ex officio)

The Undergrad Study Committee combines the former Undergrad Curriculum and Undergrad Admissions Committees. The Undergraduate Study Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving changes to the undergraduate curricula and for executing the undergraduate admissions process of reviewing applications and selecting candidates for admission to the department's undergraduate engineering programs. It meets periodically as business dictates. The Committee works closely with the Vice Chair of Undergrad Matters. Two students, representing undergraduate EE and CS Division students, will also be involved in this committee. A member of this committee normally also serves on the College Undergraduate Admissions Committee.

• David Wagner, chair
• Babak Ayazifar
• Edward Bang
• Chris Berner
• Bernhard Boser
• John F. Canny
• Ronald S. Fearing
• Brian K. Harvey
• Paul N. Hilfinger
• Yashraj Khaitan
• Rebecca Miller
• Ali Niknejad
• Paul Pearce
• Alistair Sinclair
• Martin Wainwright
• Jean Walrand