Graduate Liaisons

About the Graduate Liaisons Program

CTE Graduate Liaisoons facilitate communication between the CTE and graduate students, attend CTE events, represent CTE at departmental events, and provide feedback on the CTE's programming.

We encourage you to reach out to your liaison for a graduate student perspective on CTE's programming and courses.

If your deparment is not listed below, please contact the CTE directly to be connected to a liaison. To learn more about becoming a liaison, please contact us at cte@rice.edu.

2025-2026 Graduate Liaisons

Accounting: Please contact the CTE.

Anthropology: Currently vacant.

Applied Physics: Currently vacant.

Art History: Allison Springer, aes12@rice.edu

Bioengineering: Ehsan Aalaei, ea53@rice.edu; Josefina Brau, jb253@rice.edu

BioSciences: Maggie Baker, mb203@rice.edu

Business: Please contact the CTE.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Ahad Hussein Javed, aj111@rice.edu

Chemistry: Currently vacant.

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Sarah Glass, skg7@rice.edu

Computational and Applied Mathematics: Raven Shane Johnson, rsj5@rice.edu; Arshia Singhal, as327@rice.edu

Computer Science: Please contact the CTE.

CTE Alumni: Lucy Hu, lh63@rice.edu

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences: Morgan Underwood, mu16@rice.edu

Economics: Masoud Jabbari, mj43@rice.edu

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Currently vacant.

English: Christopher Nicholson, chn5@rice.edu

Global Affairs: Please contact the CTE.

History: Logan buffa, ltb3@rice.edu

Materials Science and Nanoengineering: Please contact the CTE.

Mathematics: Sarah Ruth Nicholls, sn72@rice.edu

Mechanical Engineering: Daziyah Sullivan, dhs4@rice.edu

Music: Currently vacant.

Philosophy: Currently vacant.

Physics and Astronomy: A.J. Yates, joy2@rice.edu

Political Science: Currently vacant.

Psychological Sciences: Vincent Lai, vdl1@rice.edu

Religion: Greg Han, gch1@rice.edu

Sociology: Simon Fern, sef6@rice.edu

Statistics: Arya Muralidharan, am302@rice.edu

Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology: Daniel Haller, djh18@rice.edu