GRACS | Graduate Representative Association of Computer Sciences

Executive Committee

Spring 2023 Committee

Samuel Thomas

Gauri Kambhatla

Rojin Rezvan

Maxine Xin

Celeste Barnaby

Molly O'Neil

Manya Wadhwa

Fall 2022 Committee

Spring 2021 Committee: The Comeback

Fall 2017 Committee

Fall 2016 Committee

Surbhi Goel

Jessica Hoffmann

Arthur Peters

Kevin Song

John Thywissen

Fall 2015 & Spring 2016 Committee

Gurbinder Gill

Pulkit Gupta

Soumyajit Gupta

Arthur Peters

John Thywissen

Spring 2014 Committee

Deepti Ghadiyaram

Gurbinder Gill

Akanksha Bansal

Ashay Rane

Fall 2011 Committee

Michael Lee

Sarah Abraham

Sharad Banka

Elie Feasley

Fall 2011 Committee

Nathan Clement

Reza Mahjourian

Michael Lee

Sarah Abraham

The Fall 2011 GRACS committee will focus on the following items:

1. Increasing GRACS visibility among the department and CS grad students, specifically by:
   • Improving Department Orientation for incoming grad students
   • Improving implementation of activities (food, organization, etc)
   • Increasing common knowledge about appropriate classes, workload, etc., especially for incoming grad students
2. Substantiating GRACS bank account

Spring 2011 Committee

Nathan Clement

Christopher Johnson

Reza Mahjourian

Amin Shali

Fall 2010 Committee

Katie Long Genter

Christopher Johnson

Na Meng

Amin Shali

John Thywissen

Spring 2010 Committee

Katie Long Genter

Patrick MacAlpine

Na Meng

Aditya Rawal

John Thywissen

Fall 2009 Committee

Katie Long Genter

Patrick MacAlpine

Aditya Rawal

John Thywissen

Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Committee

Alexander Benn

Kevin Bush

Sara Krehbiel

Joshua Leners

Donald Nguyen

Accomplishments

• Expanded GRACS budget
• Opened new opportunities for future GRACS events
• Hosted a number of new social events, such as Trivia Night and Board Game Night
• Mediated graduate student input on the department chair candidates
• Welcomed new department chair, Prof. Bruce Porter

Spring 2008 Committee

Mandakini Saroop

Sudipta Chatterjee

Thomas Finsterbusch

Joel Hestness

Christian Miller

Donald Nguyen

Fall 2007 Committee

Erkin Bahçeci

Thomas Finsterbusch

Jon Gibson

Joel Hestness

Christian Miller

Donald Nguyen

Accomplishments

• Organized fundraiser for brand new Tornado foosball table
• Hosted Professional Development talk on presentations with Toastmasters
• Organized VC + entrepreneur panel in collaboration with Entrepreneur Society at McCombs Business School
• Welcomed Prof. J Moore, Prof. Doug Burger, and Patti Spencer at tea time to give an update on the building situation
• Started flame war about paper disappearing from printers

Spring 2007 Committee

Erkin Bahçeci

David Chen

Jon Gibson

Mario Guajardo

Todd Hester

Brad Knox

Accomplishments

• Karaoke Night
• Board Game Nights
• Foosball Tournament
• Back to School Gala
• Professional Development Seminar on Startups with Dr. Lavender
• Barbecue and Kickball Game
• Moved TGIF to Hole In The Wall
• Put a grad student on the new building committee
• Helped organize GradFest
• Held the first movie night

Fall 2006 Committee

David Chen

Mario Guajardo

Todd Hester

Brad Knox

Don Porter

Accomplishments

• New Foosball Table for Grad Lounge!!!
• Bowling Night
• Wintry gathering
• Halloween Party
• Two "Bull Sessions" for new students
• Professional Development Seminar on Writing with Dr. Cook
• Addition of Samosas to Tea Time menu
• Brought-back coffee to GRACS lounge
• The Wiki Committee created the new Graduate Wiki

Spring 2006 Committee

David Kitchin

Bert Maher

Don Porter

Eric Rozner

Manish Saggar

Accomplishments

• Helping with GradFest
• Helping with New Student Orientation
• Started GRACS Wiki
• Organized New Student Bull Session

Fall 2005 Committee

Allen G. Clement

David Kitchin

Bert Maher

Eric Rozner

Maria Zolotova

Spring 2005 Committee

Allen G. Clement

Jennifer M Lee

Matthew E. Taylor

Benjamin A. Wiedermann

Maria Zolotova

Accomplishments

• Spring CSG meeting
• Gathering feedback for proposed changes to PhD program
• Helping with GradFest
• New student counseling
• New photobook
• Karaoke night
• New microwave in lounge
• Copy code for general grad student use
• Increasing grad student presence on department committees

Fall 2004 Committee

Justin Lee Brickell

Geoffrey J. King

Jennifer M Lee

Matthew E. Taylor

Benjamin A. Wiedermann

Accomplishments

• Industry vs. Academia panel talk
• Bowling Night
• Night out on Sixth Street
• New Website design
• Helping plan the CSG meeting
• Updating the primer
• Working to make announcements (e.g., about talks, events, etc.) more informative and useful
• Exploring options for making sure all TA's tuition gets covered
• Improving communication between the department and the students
• Working to get grad student representation on various department committees

2003-2004 Committee

Judah B. De Paula

Selim T. Erdogan

Jennifer B. Sartor

Dan G. Tecuci

Jiandan Zheng

Accomplishments

• Hosted "Commercialization of Technology" Workshop.
  (This event was co-hosted with the Graduate Engineering Council(GEC).)
• Movie nights
• Bowling/pool night at the Texas Union
• Designed UTCS t-shirts

2002-2003 Committee

Selim T. Erdogan

Xianglong Huang

Subramanyam Mallela

Dan G. Tecuci

Serita Van Groningen

Accomplishments

• Grad Survey
• External Review of Department
• Grad Lounge space
• Unified "Graduation Requirements" document
• Bowling, Pool and movie nights
• GSA representation
• Space and Awards committee participation
• Internship Panel
• csgrad mailing list
• Weekly sports activities
• E-mail buddies

Pre-2002 Committee Members

• Emery Berger
• Ajit George
• Samuel Z. Guyer
• John Havlicek
• Ajita John
• Scott Kaplan
• Pete Manolios
• Marshall Mayberry
• Jefferson Provost
• Adam Seligman
• Phoebe Weidmann

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