{"id":141898,"date":"2025-09-08T15:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141898\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:11:06","slug":"committee-selected-for-the-inaugural-executive-director-of-the-institute-for-advanced-computing-virginia-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141898\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee selected for the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Advanced Computing | Virginia Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Tech has named the committee tasked with overseeing a national search for the inaugural executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/iac.vt.edu\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Advanced Computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Alexandria, the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2025\/05\/provost-dc-institute-for-advanced-computing.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">institute<\/a> unites top innovators in computing technologies to integrate faculty and students into the technology ecosystem of the nation\u2019s capital and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The executive director will serve as the visionary and strategic leader responsible for launching, shaping, and growing the institute. Working collaboratively with senior university leadership and reporting to the vice president of the greater Washington, D.C., area, the executive director will lead the institute in becoming a national leader in advanced computing research and education.<\/p>\n<p>The search committee members are:<\/p>\n<p>Mike Friedlander, search committee chair, vice president for health sciences and technology and executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC<br \/>\nRandy Heflin, senior associate vice president, Office of Research and Innovation<br \/>\nBarbara Hoopes, associate professor, business information technology<br \/>\nSara Hooshangi, collegiate associate professor, computer science<br \/>\nRose Hu, professor and department head, electrical and computer engineering<br \/>\nChristine Julien, professor and department head, computer science<br \/>\nLingjia Liu, professor, electrical and computer engineering<br \/>\nLetitia Long, alumna and former rector of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors<br \/>\nHoracio Valeiras, alumnus and former rector of the Board of Visitors<br \/>\nKurt Luther, associate professor, computer science<br \/>\nNaren Ramakrishnan, professor, computer science<br \/>\nSaonee Sarker, dean, Pamplin College of Business<br \/>\nAngelos Stavrou, professor, electrical and computer engineering<br \/>\nMonecia Taylor, vice president, Advancement<br \/>\nTom Martin, co-interim executive director, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology<br \/>\nAndy Woodall,- assistant vice provost, Enrollment Management<br \/>\nChris Yianilos, vice president, Government and Community Relations<\/p>\n<p>The search committee will be supported by a staff that includes Ron Fricker, vice provost for faculty affairs; Rachel Gabriele, associate vice provost for faculty affairs; and Peggy Vilardo administrative assistant for faculty affairs. Virginia Tech is partnering with Isaacson, Miller to assist with the search process and manage nominations and applications for the position.<\/p>\n<p>The position description and application\/nomination process will be posted shortly on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.provost.vt.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost website<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech has named the committee tasked with overseeing a national search for the inaugural executive director of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,88552,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-141898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-senior-leadershipdc-areainstitute-for-advanced-computingexecutive-vice-president-and-provostoffice-of-the-presidentacademics","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}