Honoring Faculty Promoted to the Highest Rank, Spring 2025

Wenting Sun works in the Zinn Combustion Lab.
Kinsey Herrin is shown with fellow researchers in a lab testing a limb prosthesis.
Yu-Hsuan Liu, Marta Hatzell, Andrew Medford, and Ben Comer

Academic Faculty

Faculty members newly awarded tenure are indicated with an asterisk (*).

Promoted to Professor
  • Paul T. Alonso – School of Modern Languages, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
  • Aditi Das – School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences
  • Munmun De Choudhury – School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing*
  • Jennifer Blanchard Glass – School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Sciences
  • Marta Hatzell – George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • James H. Hays – School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing*
  • Margaret Kosal - School of International Affairs, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
  • Gabriel A. Kwong – School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Henry Storms La Pierre - School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences
  • Alexander Gerd Lerch – School of Music, College of Design
  • Mark D. Losego – School of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Matthew Todd McDowell – George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Martin P. Mourigal – School of Physics, College of Sciences
  • Pardis Pishdad – School of Building Construction, College of Design
  • Aditya B. Prakash – School of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Computing
  • Amit Prasad – School of History and Sociology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
  • A. Fatih Sarioglu – School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Joseph K. Scott – School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Engineering
  • John Matthew Smith – School of History and Sociology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
  • Jake D. Soper – School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences
  • Simon N. Sponberg – School of Physics, College of Sciences
  • Lauren Krista Stewart – School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Wenting Sun – School of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Molei Tao – School of Mathematics, College of Sciences
  • W. Hong Yeo – George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Promoted to Principal Lecturer
  • Jacqueline Louise Garner – Scheller College of Business
Promoted to Principal Extension Professional
  • Donna M. Ennis – Enterprise Innovation Institute
  • Juli Golemi – Enterprise Innovation Institute
  • Damon C. Nix – Enterprise Innovation Institute
  • Wendy White – Enterprise Innovation Institute
Promoted to Principal Academic Professional
  • Brandy Ball Blake – H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Christy Michelle O'Mahony – School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences
  • Balakrishna S. Pai – Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Christopher M. Stanzione – School of Psychology, College of Sciences
  • Jana Stone – Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
Promoted to Librarian/Archivist IV
  • Alison E. Valk – Georgia Tech Library

Research Faculty

Promoted to Principal Research Scientist
  • Curtis Free – CIPHR, ICSD (GTRI)
  • Kishor Kumar Gupta – School of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Anthony J. Giarrusso – Geoinformation Systems, Architecture Centers, GTRI
  • Kinsey R. Herrin – George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Creston D. Herold – CIPHR, ICSD (GTRI)
  • Akihiro Hayashi – School of Computer Science, College of Computing
  • Trevor Mackenzie Lewis – CIPHR, ICSD (GTRI)
  • John Taylor Matthews – ICL, ICSD (GTRI)
  • William Stuart Michelson – ATASL, ESL (GTRI)
  • Anton S. Petrov – School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences
  • Jun Shirako – School of Computer Science, College of Computing
  • Hongyi Zhou – School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences
Promoted to Principal Research Engineer
  • Shaun David Anderson – ATASL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Paula Gomez – CIPHR, ICSD (GTRI)
  • François Guillot – George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Theodore Grosch – SEAL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Chad Kerr – ESL, ESD (GTRI)
  • Joshua Kovitz – ACL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Nelson E. Lourenco – SEAL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Álvaro L. Marenco – SEAL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Scott Leon McLennan – CIPHR, ICSD (GTRI)
  • Michael Zachary Miller – ACL, SISD (GTRI)
  • David John Oostdyk – SEAL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Jeffrey David Pitcher – ICL, ICSD (GTRI)
  • Andrew J. Stark – EOSL, ESD (GTRI)
  • Xiaojuan Song – ATASL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Francisco Valdés – CIPHR, ICSD (GTRI)
  • Raymond Warner – ATASL, SISD (GTRI)
  • Samantha Ann Zaydman – ESL, ESD (GTRI)
Promoted to Principal Research Associate
  • Phu Chieu Le – Research Support, Operations Division (GTRI)
  • Dusty Meaders – CIPHR, ICSD (GTRI)