Graduate Committees
Graduate Liaison
This individual acts as the liaison between graduate students and the Department administration in communicating student needs and concerns. A major responsibility of the Graduate Liaison is to convene student meetings each semester to elicit information about student concerns and issues that they wish to have presented to administration and faculty for review and resolution. In addition, this person helps organize social activities for the students and works closely with the Graduate Program Coordinator to communicate both university-wide and departmental issues of relevance to the graduate students.
Graduate Liaisons: Pablo Gainza, Jun Pang
GPSC Representative
The Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) acts as a liaison between Arts Sciences administration and the students. Each department is entitled to one representative. GPSC holds biweekly meetings, typically lasting one hour. Two persons may share representing the department, alternating attendance at meetings.
CS Representatives: Xi He, Janardhan Kulkarni
Graduate Recruitment Committee
Graduate students play a vital role in the recruitment of future graduate students -- from the point of being a prospective applicant through to newly matriculated student. This committee works closely with the Graduate Program Coordinator and Recruitment Chair in identifying prospective applicants, participating in various campus visits by prospectives, promoting the graduate program when attending conferences, and coordinating activities for admits attending a special recruitment weekend in early April. This committee works in close collaboration with the departmental Graduate Program Committee, which has a student representative as well.
Graduate Student Representatives: Yezhou Huang, Alexandros Iliopoulos
Graduate Program Committee (Rep)
This person represents graduate students concerning curricular issues and recruiting activities, and is also an ex officio member of the Graduate Recruitment Committee.
Student Representative: Alexandros Iliopoulos
Graduate Student Mentors
Members of this committee assist new graduate students in acclimating to Duke and the CS Department. Mentors communicate with new students through e-mail prior to their arrival and greet and assist them upon arrival. They serve as a constant resource that the new student can come to with concerns or questions, providing a special one-on-one relationship. If interested in serving as a new student mentor please contact the DGS office.
Student Leaders: Jiangwei Pan, Wuzhou Zhang
Departmental Infrastructure Committee (Rep)
This person represents graduate student issues regarding the computing environment and research needs at meetings of the CS lab staff.
Student Representative: Valentin Pistol
Graduate Office Lottery
Administrator: Alan Davidson
Social Activities & Recreation Committee
This committee coordinates the social activities for graduate students within the Department. Typically such events are scheduled for Friday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:00. Members are encouraged to solicit other students to assist with setup/cleanup for special theme TGIF's such as holiday theme parties, movie nights, and international food tastings.The Department financial office provides guidelines for purchasing refreshments for these events
Organizers: Hieu Bui, Sudhanshu Garg, Jun Hu
Communications Committee (Rep)
This person serves as student representative in discussions regarding various media utilized to promote the Department and the graduate program.
Student Representative: Dmytro Korzhyk