Emerging Leaders Program Cohort Selected for 2024-25

The ninth cohort of Georgia Tech’s Emerging Leaders Program has been selected for the 2024-25 academic year. Starting in Fall 2024 and continuing through Spring 2025, participants will take part in leadership development activities that include a kick-off retreat, regular workshops, small group work, and leadership coaching. This is the second year the program has been open to senior and principal non-tenure track faculty and research faculty. 

“On behalf of Institute leadership, we are proud to welcome the next cohort of the Emerging Leaders Program,” said Steven W. McLaughlin, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. “Opening the program to a broader pool of individuals, including our talented research faculty, has been an important programmatic expansion as we seek to foster the leadership aspirations of faculty of all paths. This intensive program is an excellent professional investment, and we applaud the new cohort’s commitment to their careers and to the Institute.”  

The 2024-25 cohort includes the following members: 

College of Business 

• Andre Calmon, Associate Professor, Scheller College of Business 

• Morvarid Rahmani, Associate Professor, Scheller College of Business 

College of Computing 

• Thomas Ploetz, Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing 

• Saman Zonouz, Associate Professor, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy 

College of Design 

• Clio Andris, Associate Professor, School of City & Regional Planning and School of Interactive Computing (College of Computing) 

College of Engineering 

• Julie Champion, Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

• Claudio Di Leo, Associate Professor, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering 

• Asif Khan, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

• Matthew McDowell, Associate Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering

College of Sciences 

• Mary K. Holder, Neuroscience Undergraduate Program Associate Director, School of Psychology   

• Amit Reddi, Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry 

• Christie Stewart, Co-Coordinator of Wellness Requirement, School of Biological Sciences 

Division of Lifetime Learning 

• Meltem Alemdar, Associate Director for Educational Research and Evaluation, Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing   

Georgia Tech Research Institute 

• Kristin Bing, ISRD Division Chief Scientist, SEAL-ISRD 

• Francisco Valdes, Senior Research Engineer, CIPHER 

Office of Undergraduate Education 

• Joyelle ‘Joy’ Harris, Director of Undergraduate Transformative Learning Initiatives; Director of Women in Engineering for the College of Engineering 

The Emerging Leaders Program started in 2016 and is a collaboration between the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty.