Staff
The staff members of CSE are dedicated to supporting the faculty and students of the department in their teaching and research efforts. Click on an individual's name below to visit his or her home page, which includes contact info and a brief description of their duties.
Administrative and Technical Staff
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David BarenoContract and Grant Administrator Phone: 43569 |
Independent analytical and administrative responsibility for pre- and post-award activities associated with extramural accounts for approximately 25 PIs. Prepares, processes and submits contract and grant proposals. Manages accounts to insure compliance with University and government rules, regulations and policies. Responsible for coordinating, training, approving, and auditing of online IFIS journals (allocations and expenditures), online purchasing, check requests and travel. Assists faculty and related academic personnel in the acquisition and administration of research funding. Acts as liaison with OCGA, OPAFS, General Accounting, OGSR and other central campus departments. Provides fiscal advice, assistance and guidance to faculty and departmental support staff. Assists fiscal manager in development and implementation of departmental computer databases to automate accounting, contracts and grants and reporting processes. |
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Jocelyn BernardoExecutive Assistant to the Dept. Chair Phone: 25198 |
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Peter BlajevSystems Administrator Phone: 42532 |
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Julie ConnerGraduate Affairs Coordinator Phone: 43622 |
Responsible for coordination of the department's graduate student affairs program. Duties include: curriculum development and management; monitoring and advising on academic progress of graduate students; analyzing policy changes impacting CSE programs; and completion of student academic files, ensuring compliance w/ OGSR rules and regulations. Works closely with faculty and administration to resolve program deviations and in the design and development of new graduate activities and initiatives; maintains graduate student database; designs, authors and maintains graduate web pages; assists with financial analysis and planning for the graduate program; coordinates programs for the development of CSE graduate student life. |
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Ferdinand EscuderoSystems Administrator Phone: 26561 |
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Kim GravesFinancial Affairs & HR Assistant Phone: 26727 |
Under supervision of the Financial Affairs Manager, responsible for financial assistance to faculty, staff, students and visitors (approximately 75 academic personnel, 50 career/casual staff, 352 graduate students, UG students as required and 10-20 visitors annually) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). Prepares proposals, monitors expenses, and prepares monthly financial statements. Advises Faculty on the fiscal status of accounts and makes recommendations to resolve fiscal issues. CSE administers over 250 separately budgeted federal, state and private accounts totaling over $22,000,000 and employs 360 academic, staff and student personnel. Incumbent directly supports 35-40 academic personnel. Administers purchasing activities, responsible for the placing, tracking and reconciliation of purchase orders and independently resolving problems with vendors and purchasing. Serves as primary contact for financial transactions, including travel advances and vouchers, disbursements and other transactions. Work with Administrative Specialist to provide extramural fund administration to department PIs. Acts as liaison with OCGA, OPAFS, General Accounting, OGSR and other central campus departments. Assists Financial Manager with the administration of the department's intramural and revenue funds. Orients new employees and provide advice to faculty and staff on policies and procedures as they relate to purchasing and financial/accounting administration. Also responsible for assisting department Human Resources office with personnel and payroll functions for entire department, including recruitment, on-line PPS entry and on-line timekeeping/payroll. Reviews financial and payroll documents for accuracy and conformance with University and department regulations. Maintains Technical Recharge System database, submit monthly report on the Technical Recharge Online Billing System. Monitors the permanent departmental and extramural funds allocated to provide computing support to the department faculty, researchers and staff. |
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Jessica GrossGraduate Student Assistant Phone: (858)822-4680 |
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Cheryl HileContracts and Grants Administrator Phone: 45288 |
Independent analytical and administrative responsibility for pre- and post-award activities associated with extramural accounts for approximately 25 PIs. Prepares, processes and submits contract and grant proposals. Manages accounts to insure compliance with University and government rules, regulations and policies. Responsible for coordinating, training, approving, and auditing of online IFIS journals (allocations and expenditures), online purchasing, check requests and travel. Assists faculty and related academic personnel in the acquisition and administration of research funding. Acts as liaison with OCGA, OPAFS, General Accounting, OGSR and other central campus departments. Provides fiscal advice, assistance and guidance to faculty and departmental support staff. Assists fiscal manager in development and implementation of departmental computer databases to automate accounting, contracts and grants and reporting processes. |
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Steve HopperSystems Administrator Phone: 41335 |
Works as part of the department's computing support team to support instructional, research and administrative computing. Provides a secure computing environment, performing routine maintenance, software and hardware upgrades. Responsible for oversight of the departmental servers. Installs, configures and maintains hardware for various computing systems and their network connection environments. Provides technical information to faculty, administrative and research staff and students on computer systems, software and data available in the department. |
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Kathy JohnsHuman Resources Coordinator Phone: 46116 |
Responsible for staff and student human resources. Provides guidance, direction and supervision of activities for career and casual staff and student employees. Develops, maintains and implements departmental policies and procedures for staff and student personnel functions, ensuring compliance with all campus, University, state and Federal guidelines. Activities include responsibility for the areas of personnel administration; recruitment; compensation and classification; payroll; benefits; grievance and disciplinary actions; and formation and/or submission of policy exceptions. Processes on-line personnel transactions for academic, staff and student personnel. |
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Viera KairUndergraduate Advisor and Curriculum Coordinator Phone: 21535 |
Responsible for coordination of the department's undergraduate student affairs program. Duties include: undergraduate advising and admissions, curriculum management, coordination of programmatic activities, and serving as an advisor to the undergraduate affairs committee, recommending and implementing policies, regulations and procedures affecting the undergraduate program. Coordinates the Bioinformatics Interdisciplinary Program, the Center for Information Technology Education (CITE) and internship and employment opportunities for department undergraduates. Evaluates final degree checks, petitions, EAP forms, etc. Acts as departmental liaison to on-campus committees and external agencies in matters related to the undergraduate program. |
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Samira KhazaiDirector, Student Affairs Phone: 46005 |
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Choon KimSr. Dev Engineer Phone: 60320 |
Choon Kim, Ph.D., has 20+ years experience in digital ASIC design in wireless communications. He worked at companies including Qualcomm, General Instrument, PCSI and Intergraph Corporations. Currently he is working as a Senior Development Engineer at the CSE Dept. of UCSD developing an Advanced Embedded System Laboratory for research and education. He also has been teaching a LAB-based practical embedded system design course in the UCSD extension program for local engineers. |
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Robin KnoxFinancial Affairs Assistant Phone: 21585 |
Responsible for financial assistance to faculty, staff, students and visitors. Administers purchasing activities, responsible for placing, tracking and reconciliation of purchase orders and independently resolving problems with vendors and purchasing. Serves as primary contact for financial transactions, including travel advances and vouchers, disbursements and other transactions. Works with Contract/Grant Officer to provide extramural fund administration to department PIs. Orients new employees and provides advice to faculty and staff on policies and procedures as they relate to purchasing and financial/accounting administration. Also assists department Human Resources office with personnel and payroll functions, including recruitment, on-line PPS entry and on-line timekeeping/payroll. Reviews financial and payroll documents for accuracy and conformance with University and department regulations. | |
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Kathryn KraneMSO,CNS Phone: 25964 |
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Glenn LittleSystems Administrator Phone: 44595 |
Works as part of the department's computing support team to support instructional, research and administrative computing. Provides a secure computing environment, performing routine maintenance, software and hardware upgrades. Responsible for oversight of the departmental servers. Installs, configures and maintains hardware for various computing systems and their network connection environments. Provides technical information to faculty, administrative and research staff and students on computer systems, software and data available in the department. |
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Sheila ManaloFaculty Assistant Phone: 48873 |
Provides administrative support to the following faculty: Scott Baden, Mihir Bellare, Serge Belongie, Francine Berman, Walter Burkhard, Brad Calder, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Alin Deutsch, Charles Elkan, Eleazar Eskin, Jeanne Ferrante, Yoav Freund, Joseph Goguen, William Griswold, Bill Howden, Te C. Hu, Ranjit Jhala, Sorin Lerner, Alex Orailoglu, Jose Pasquale, Pavel Pevzner, Tajana Simunic-Rosing, Larry Smarr, Michael Taylor, Dean Tullsen, George Varghese, Victor Vianu and Gill Williamson. Organizes meetings, conferences and seminars. Prepares and transmits correspondence to professional societies and journals. Supports the instructional program by preparing course materials, copying, maintaining files, distributing exams per confidentiality policy, ordering AV equipment and interacting with faculty and students. Initiates on-line travel expense vouchers, purchase orders, campus service work orders, payment authorizations and petty cash requests. Makes arrangement for visitors, prepares academic review biographies/bibliographies.
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Virginia McIlwainFaculty Assistant Phone: 43047 |
Provides administrative and secretarial support to a group of faculty and researchers in the Computer Vision/Graphics, VLSI/CAD and Embedded Systems research groups. Organizes meetings, conferences and seminars, prepares and transmits correspondence to professional societies and journals. Supports the instructional program by preparing course materials, copying, maintaining files, distributing exams per confidentiality policy, ordering AV equipment and interacting with faculty and students. Initiates on-line travel expense vouchers, purchase orders, campus service work orders, payment authorizations and petty cash requests. Makes arrangement for visitors, prepares academic review biographies/bibliographies. |
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Yuka NakanishContract and Grant Administrator Phone: 22337 |
Independent analytical and administrative responsibility for pre- and post-award activities associated with extramural accounts for approximately 25 PIs. Prepares, processes and submits contract and grant proposals. Manages accounts to insure compliance with University and government rules, regulations and policies. Responsible for coordinating, training, approving, and auditing of online IFIS journals (allocations and expenditures), online purchasing, check requests and travel. Assists faculty and related academic personnel in the acquisition and administration of research funding. Acts as liaison with OCGA, OPAFS, General Accounting, OGSR and other central campus departments. Provides fiscal advice, assistance and guidance to faculty and departmental support staff. Assists fiscal manager in development and implementation of departmental computer databases to automate accounting, contracts and grants and reporting processes. |
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Nadyne NawarAdmissions Coordinator and Masters Student Advisor Phone: 25978 |
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Don Peters-CovilleMSO Phone: 43712 |
Serves as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and principal advisor to the Chair. Responsible for the management, strategic planning and leadership of all administrative activities in the department including: fiscal management of the departmental budgets, contracts, grants, and gifts from a variety of extramural sources; academic, staff and student human resources; payroll; graduate and undergraduate student affairs; external affairs, internal controls and risk management; and administrative computing. Oversees the management of laboratories, shops, and recharge facilities and the inventories of all departmental space and facilities, as well as their assignment, utilization, and safety procedures. Supervises managers in the department's Computing, Fiscal, Academic and Student Affairs, and External Affairs and Faculty Support units. |
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Patricia RaczkaUndergraduate Affairs Coordinator Phone: 43621 |
Responsible for coordination of the department's undergraduate student affairs program. Duties include: undergraduate advising and admissions, curriculum management, coordination of programmatic activities and serving as an advisor to the undergraduate affairs committee, recommending and implementing policies, regulations and procedures affecting the undergraduate program. Coordinates the 5-year Bachelor's/Masters Program. Evaluates final degree checks, petitions, EAP forms, etc. Acts as departmental liaison to on-campus committees and external agencies in matters related to the undergraduate program. Also responsible for course administration and scheduling and registration. |
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Katheryn RittenAcademic Personnel Specialist Phone: 41061 |
Analysis and administration for academic affairs and personnel for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Department includes approximately 80 academic personnel (faculty, lecturers and researchers). Activities include independent responsibility for: management of academic personnel; new appointments, hiring, merit and promotion files of all academic employees; grievance/disciplinary actions; formation and/or submission of policy exceptions; responsible for PPS data entry for all academic appointees. Coordinate the appointment, enrollment, reappointment and advancement of postgraduates, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars. |
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Roma RuparelStudent Worker Phone: 21516 |
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Natridee SaethiaCSE Student Worker |
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Tim TruittFiscal Affairs Manager Phone: 22550 |
Responsible for administration of the department's fiscal and human resources units. Oversees funding for federal, state and private accounts and appointments of academic, staff and student personnel. Supervises fiscal affairs and human resources staff. Provides support to faculty and other academic personnel in the acquisition and administration of research funding. Assist programmer analysts in the development and implementation of department programs to computerize fiscal and human resources processes. Develops standards that will meet audit requirements and proper business practices and ethics. Duties also include administration of departmental operating budget including position and FTE control, assignment of expenditures, long-range financial record keeping and planning, in addition to financial consultation with department management and campus officials. Perform analytic studies and prepare financial expenditure reports.
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David WargoFacilities, Lab and Equipment Technician Phone: 41026 |
Responsible for hardware management of computing resources. Manages the department electronics shop with responsibility for purchasing and vendor selection of computer and electronic hardware. Advises on feasibility of electronic solutions and provides alternate viable solutions. Supervises lab assistants in instructional computing and research labs. Schedules and performs lab hardware upgrades and maintenance. Responsible for analyzing problems and determining corrective solutions involving complex electronic computing systems and networking equipment, completing repairs and/or modifications of existing equipment. Also responsible for high-level facilities planning as it relates to the department computing and electronic resources (in instructional and computer labs, academic and administrative offices), ensuring laboratory security and overall departmental safety. |
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Kimberly Wilson |
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Bill YoungChief Technology Officer Phone: 23286 |
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