Officers

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CSGSA Executive Board

CSGSA Chair

Erika Hunhoff

Erika Hunhoff

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Bio: Erika is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the Systems and Networking Lab. Erika is passionate about creating computing environments that are friendly to newcomers. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her spouse, two dogs, and cat; she also enjoys reading, running, and drawing.

The chair’s responsibilities are to:

  1. Manage all open projects
  2. Run meetings of the CSGSA
  3. Arrange meetings and develop agenda
  4. Represent graduate students to Department and University where appropriate
  5. Assign responsibilities to members as appropriate

CSGSA Vice Chair

Kevin Lane

Kevin Lane

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Bio: Kevin is a first year research-based M.S. student interested in studying geospatial machine learning. Prior to coming to CU Boulder, he worked in Boston as a software engineer on large scale data pipelines. Before that, his working background largely was centered around outdoor education, where he’s worked as a swim instructor, raft guide, and sailing instructor. In his spare time, Kevin is an avid musician, runner/hiker, snowboarder, boardgame enthusiast, and baseball fan.

The vice chair’s responsibilities are to:

  1. Run CSGSA meetings in the chair’s absence
  2. Manage and maintain organizational documents
  3. Manage regular email communication with members and student body
  4. Be responsible for minutes of meetings
  5. Assist the Chair where necessary

CSGSA Treasurer

Nour Rahal-Arabi

Nour Rahal-Arabi

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Bio: Nour is an MS student interested in machine learning and mathematical approaches for modeling infectious disease dynamics. He enjoys skiing, rock climbing, cooking, and reading in his spare time.

The treasurer’s responsibilities are to:

  1. Handle any and all financial matters
  2. Apply for funding each year from multiple sources
  3. Submit reimbursement forms when needed
  4. Assist the Chair where necessary
  5. Report regularly on financial status of the organization

CSGSA Anti-racism and Inclusion Chair

Shipra Singh

Shipra Singh

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Bio: Shipra Singh is a first year MS-CSEN student interested in pursuing research in Quantum Computing. She loves Greek and Roman classics, poetry, and music. She can often be found stargazing on a cloudless night, wondering about the existence of the universe.

The Anti-racism and Inclusion Chairs’s responsibilities are to:

  1. Facilitate student-led discussions on making CU Boulder CS more inclusive and proactively anti-racist (in continuity)
  2. Hold CSGSA accountable for actions we plan to take on community inclusivity
  3. Serve as a peer reporter for microaggressions by monitoring the student reporting form
  4. Work with the Associate Chair of Inclusive Excellence and our undergraduate leadership to ensure CSGSA efforts are in conjunction with the department efforts on antiracism
  5. These tasks may be delegated to other members by the responsible executive.

Department Graduate Committee Student Representatives

The Graduate Committee is charged with a broad range of graduate student affairs, both for Masters and PhD students. This committee reviews all applications for admission to the Masters and Doctoral programs in Computer Science. All problems regarding any proposed changes to both the Master’s program and the Ph.D. program are handled by this Graduate Committee. It is also responsible for defining course content, considering new course offerings, and other issues for the graduate degree programs. There are three student representatives on the Graduate Committee, two PhD students and one Masters student.

Sourav Chakraborty

Sourav Chakraborty

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Bio: Sourav Chakraborty is a second year PhD student in computer science working in the field of reinforcement learning. When not thinking about work, he treats himself to the world of films, books and music.

Pawin Taechoyotin

Pawin Taechoyotin

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Bio: Pawin Taechoyotin is a second year MS-CSEN student in the research track. His interests include High performance computing, Computer Vision and NLP. His currently doing research in Representation Learning. His hobbies are Coding and reading technology articles.

Department Executive Committee Student Representative

Julia Romero

Julia Romero

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Bio: Julia is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Computer Science with a background in Biomedical Engineering. Her research focus is developing sensing, signal processing, and machine and deep learning algorithms for sensor data collected by mobile/wearable/ubiquitous computing devices, including multi-sensor and multi-modal systems. Julia loves coding, music, skiing, and running, and she is especially passionate about racing ultramarathons in the mountains.

The student member of this committee is considered to be the senior student representative. This committee usually meets once a week and is concerned with all Department issues: budget, space, promotions, etc. The Executive Committee also reviews applications from prospective new faculty members. The student representative sits on both the Executive Committee and the Search Committee with one full vote. This position provides an excellent opportunity to see how an academic Department is really run. Sometimes the representative is required to poll graduate student opinion and is usually in charge of taking prospective new faculty members out to lunch with a group of graduate students.

Student Representative for the DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) Committee

Shipra Singh

Shipra Singh

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Bio: Shipra Singh is a first year MS-CSEN student interested in pursuing research in Quantum Computing. She loves Greek and Roman classics, poetry, and music. She can often be found stargazing on a cloudless night, wondering about the existence of the universe.

Josh Myers-Dean

Josh Myers-Dean

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Bio: Josh Myers-Dean is a 3rd year PhD Student in Computer Science, primarily interested in accessibility and image segmentation. Josh is also passionate about engaging youth in computational tinkering activities and has been co-designing curricula with the ITLP here at CU. Outside of work, he enjoys running, climbing, biking, cooking, and knitting.

GPSG Student Representatives

The Graduate and Professional Student Government is the primary advocacy group for graduate and professional students on the CU Boulder campus. They are committed to enhancing the graduate student experience by interacting with CU administration and the University of Colorado Student Government (CUSG) concerning issues such as financial aid, graduate stipends, healthcare, tuition and fees and graduate student well-being. Graduate students from each department and program are solicited to serve on the GPSG Assembly, ensuring diverse representation of the graduate student body. We have an official voting GPSG representative, but any student can attend GPSG meetings. Meetings are held weekly on Wednesdays, from 4 - 5 PM.

Chiranthan Sridhar

Chiranthan Sridhar

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Bio: Chiranthan is a second year MSCS student researching in field of Natural Language Processing, currently on evaluation of Dialogue Systems. He likes to swim, listen to music and play piano.

Arnib Alam

Arnib Alam

Pronouns: She/Hers/Her

Bio: Arnib is a first-year MS-CSEN student in the research track. Her interests include High performance computing, Distributed systems and ML with the focus to develop innovative solutions to improve system design. She holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and has worked in Taiwan for four years. During this period, she extensively traveled and actively participated in language/cultural group exchanges. Her hobbies include exploring places, baking, dancing and rapping.

Web Guru

Chiranthan Sridhar

Chiranthan Sridhar

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Bio: Chiranthan is a second year MSCS student researching in field of Natural Language Processing, currently on evaluation of Dialogue Systems. He likes to swim, listen to music and play piano.

Web Guru is responsible for maintaining CSGSA website (this website :P). This involves creating new pages, existing content updation and working of the website. Additionally, Web Guru has to collaborate with members of CSGSA to ensure all the work done is updated on the website.

Alumni

We’re sad to see you go! Thanks for all your help.

Chair

  • Fall 2023 » Corey Lynn Murphey

  • Spring 2023 » Jay Luther

  • Spring 2022 - Fall 2022 » Maggie Perkoff

  • Spring 2020 - Fall 2021 » Emily Jensen

  • Spring 2019 - Fall 2020 » Jessie Finocchiaro

  • Spring 2018 - Fall 2019 » Stephen Hutt

Vice Chair

  • Fall 2023 » Spencer Wilson

  • Spring 2023 » Dreycey Albin

  • Spring 2022 - Fall 2022 » Aishwarya Satwani

Treasurer

  • Fall 2023 » Ruchi Dhamnani

  • Spring 2022 - Fall 2022 » Neerab Kumar Pathipaka

  • Spring 2020 - Fall 2021 » Caleb Escobedo

  • Spring 2019 - Fall 2020 » Dylan Fox

  • Spring - Fall 2019 » Yash Sapra

  • Fall 2018 » Prasanth Prahladan

CSGSA Anti-racism and Inclusion Chair

  • Fall 2023 » Prasanth Prahladan

  • Spring 2022 - Fall 2022 » Evariste Some

  • Spring 2020 - Fall 2021 » Christine Chang

Graduate Committee

  • Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 » Spencer Wilson

  • Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 » Corey Lynn Murphey

  • Fall 2021 - Summer 2022 » Vinitha Gadiraju

  • Fall 2021 - Summer 2022 » Owen Martin

  • Fall 2021 - Summer 2022 » Nikith Sannidhi

  • Fall 2021 - Summer 2022 » Max Donavan

  • 2020 - Spring 2021 » Amit Rege

  • 2020 - Spring 2021 » Varsha Koushik

  • 2020 - Spring 2021 » Evariste Some

  • 2019 - Spring 2021 » Arjun Rao

  • 2019-2020 » Emily Jensen

  • 2018-2019 » Prashil Bhimani

  • 2017-2019 » John Stechschulte

  • 2017-2019 » Stephen Hutt

Executive Committee

  • Fall 2023 » Hemanth Rao

  • Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 » Rohan Das

  • 2021-2022 » Namratha Mysore Keshavaprakash

  • 2019-2021 » Layne Hubbard

  • 2017-2019 » Cecilia Mauceri

GPSG Student Representative

  • Spring 2023 » Paresha Farastu

  • Fall 2022 » Nikhil Hulle

  • Spring 2022 » Naga Sai Meenakshi Sistla

  • Fall 2021 » Megan Caruso

  • Fall 2020 - Spring 2021 » Jay Luther

Web Guru

  • Fall 2021 - Fall 2022 » Abhishek Purushothama

  • Spring 2018 » Gerard Casas