Dean Announces Faculty Promotions and Tenure Appointments

College of Computing faculty and staff typically don’t hear from interim Dean Alex Orso during the weekend. This past Sunday, however, was an exception.

Orso shared that the college’s nine faculty promotion and tenure cases presented to the Institute for this year were successful. 

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“I normally make a point not to send emails during the weekend, but this cannot wait,” Orso said in an email to faculty and staff.

The promotions list includes four faculty members who were promoted to Professor. Five faculty earned tenure. Three of them were promoted to Associate Professor. The promotions and tenure appointments are effective next academic year.

College faculty promoted to full Professor are:

• Polo Chau, School of Computational Science & Engineering
• Betsy DiSalvo, School of Interactive Computing
• Ada Gavrilovska, School of Computer Science
• Thomas Ploetz, School of Interactive Computing

Promoted to Associate Professor and earning tenure are:

• Joy Arulraj, School of Computer Science
• Matthew Gombolay, School of Interactive Computing
• Zsolt Kira, School of Interactive Computing

Earning tenure are:

• Celine Lin, School of Computer Science
• Josiah Hester, School of Interactive Computing

“These career advancements reflect years of hard work, great scholarship, and deep contributions to the academic community and beyond,” said Orso.

“It was my absolute pleasure to write letters for and present these cases at the Institute RPT Committee Meeting, which allowed me to brag about all the amazing work of these great colleagues.”