Staff Structure

Staff Listing and Responsibilities

Jackie Trang, Chief Administrative Officer (56-125A Engr. IV, x5-9094, Email)

1. Office of Accounting and Budget

Shirley Yee, Director (56-125L Engr. IV, x4-9309, Email)
Account management, department budget, proposal budgets, proposal submissions.

Laura Metz, Accounting and Grant Officer (56-125K Engr. IV, x6-5385, Email)
Proposal budgets, proposal submissions, account management, express travel approver, gift processing, campus online directory, telephone account updates.

Marty Revilla, Purchasing Officer (56-125M Engr. IV, x5-7884, Email)
Purchasing, reimbursements, receiving, repairs, moving new faculty.

2. Office of Facilities and Faculty Support

Jackie Trang, Chief Administrative Officer (56-125A Engr. IV, x5-9094, Email)
Course scheduling, department management, department budget.

Facilities

Gershwin Mason II, Facilities Manager (56-125G Engr. IV, x5-4447, Email)
Facilities, lab safety, computer installations, space moves and renovations, graduate student space & cubicles, seminar rooms, xerox machines, A/V support, keys.

Jose Cano, Facilities Assistant (56-125FF Engr. IV, x5-4474, Email)
Mail room maintenance and organization, incoming mail distribution, office supply replenishment, catering pickup.

Chair's Office

Carmen Chiuco, Assistant to the Chair (58-121 Engr. IV, x5-2647, Email)
Assistance to the Chair, faculty meetings, faculty retreats, faculty lounge, department visitors, event and room scheduling, newsletter, lecturers & emeriti support.

Carolyn Albright, Academic Personnel Assistant (56-125C Engr. IV, x5-0279, Email)
Assistance to the Chair's assistant, incoming calls and messages.

Jose Cano, Facilities Assistant (56-125FF Engr. IV, x5-4447, Email)
Mail room maintenance and organization, incoming mail distribution, office supply replenishment, catering pickup, purchasing, reimbursements.

Faculty Support

Daphna Shechter, Faculty Assistant (56-125AA Engr. IV, x7-1954, Email)
Faculty recruiting, faculty support, expense reports, reimbursements, purchasing.

Sandra Bryant, Faculty Assistant (6731 Boelter Hall, x5-2214, Email)
Seminar series, faculty support, purchasing, reimbursements, expense reports.

Mildri Lopez-Duarte,Faculty Assistant (66-127DD Engr. IV, x6-4304, Email)
Faculty and Lecturer support, purchasing, reimbursements, expense reports.

3. Office of Human Resources

Ilhee Choi, Director (56-125D Engr. IV, x5-9095, Email)
Faculty appointments, faculty promotions and merit increases, faculty joint appointments, faculty summer employment, faculty awards process, faculty recruitment, faculty personnel cases, faculty benefits & visa applications, conflict resolution, staff appointments, promotions, & merit/equity increase, staff counseling.

Rachelle Reamkitkarn, Staff Personnel Officer (56-125J Engr. IV, x4-4166, Email)
Staff appointments, Post-Doc appointments, Research Engineer appointments, Visiting Scholar/Specialist appointments, Visiting Researcher appointments, benefits and visa applications, staff payroll, Department parking coordinator, maintain up-to-date email aliases for staff and post-docs.

Lori Miller, Academic Personnel Officer (56-125E Engr. IV, x5-9096, Email)
Faculty merit increases, Faculty Joint appointment renewals, Lecturer appointments, Emeriti/Recall appointments, Faculty retirement process,  Adjunct Professor appointments, Visiting Professor appointments, Project Scientist appointments, update faculty teaching records, maintain up-to-date email aliases for Lecturers and professors.

Daphna Shechter, Recruitment Coordinator (56-125AA Engr. IV, x7-1954, Email)
Faculty recruitment, housing assistance for incoming faculty, recruitment literature.

Kim Hernandez, Student Personnel Officer (56-125H Engr. IV, x5-8555, Email) GSR appointments, TA appointments, Work-Study student appointments, Undergraduate student appointments, Visiting Graduate Student (VGR) appointments, student payroll, student counseling, Student visa administration, internal student job announcements, Student Parking Coordinator, maintain up-to-date email aliases for GSRs & TAs.

Carolyn Albright, Academic Personnel Assistant (56-125C Engr. IV, x5-0279, Email)
Sabbaticals, leaves of absence, active service-modified duties, personnel cases, Reader appointments, Special Reader appointments, Remedial Tutor appointment.

4. Office of Industry and Outreach Relations

Carmen Chiuco, Industrial Affiliate Assistant (58-121 Engr. IV, x5-2647, Email)
Industry Affiliates Program, industry database, alumni database, graduate student resume database, exit surveys, graduate student job fair, department research reviews, school technical forum, press releases, public relations material, newsletter.

(56-125A Engr. IV, x5-9094, Email)

5. Office of Information Technology

Benmin Sun, Director (56-138C Engr. IV, x4-9886, Email)
Webmaster, development and maintenance of online interfaces and tools, electronic reports, automated department statistics, automated student progress reports.

Jackie Trang, Electronic Media Editor (56-125A Engr. IV, x5-9094, Email)
Annual reports, department website maintenance.

6. Office of Student Affairs

Deeona Columbia, Director (57-127 Engr. IV, x5-7574, Email)
Graduate student counseling, graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships, TA assignments, graduate student orientation, open house, and workshops, course proposals, graduate program requirements, undergraduate curriculum changes, and verification letters.

Mandy Smith, Graduate Admissions Coordinator (57-127 Engr. IV, x5-9383, Email)
Graduate student admissions, graduate student housing, admission statistics, textbooks, event surveys, organize workshops, open house, and orientations, probation and verification letters.

Michelle Welch, Student Affairs Assistant (57-127 Engr. IV, x5-8592, Email)
PhD defenses, PhD oral qualifying exams, MS theses and projects, PhD preliminary examinations, form processing, dossier verification, TA applications, letters, and workshop, commencement, degree statistics, maintain student databases, verification letters.

7. Instructional Laboratories

Minji Zhu, Associate Development Engineer (64-124 Engr. IV, x5-4940, Email)
The Center for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE): The center is available primarily to faculty, researchers and industrial affiliates for research that requires state-of-the-art computer aided design, fabrication and testing of RF/microwave/millimeter wave device. Semiconductor back-end services including: Dicing, Wire Bonding, Assembling and Testing.

Circuits instructional Laboratories: Management and maintenance of the circuit measurements class laboratory, analog electronics class laboratory, and the hybrid processing laboratory.