The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) started in 2016 and is a collaboration between the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty. Over the course of eight months, participants take part in several activities —  workshops, small-group work, and coaching — to contribute to leadership development.

The ninth cohort of Georgia Tech’s Emerging Leaders Program has been selected. Starting in September 2024 and continuing through Spring 2025, participants will take part in several leadership development activities, including a kick-off retreat at the Carter Center, regular workshops and small group work during the Spring, and leadership coaching. This is the first year the program has been open to senior and principal non-tenure track faculty and research faculty.

The ninth cohort includes the following members:

College of Business 

• Andre Calmon, Associate Professor, Scheller College of Business 
• Morvarid Rahmani, Associate Professor, Scheller College of Business 

College of Computing 

• Thomas Ploetz,  Professor, School of Interactive Computing 
• Saman Zonouz, Associate Professor, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy 

College of Design 

• Clio Andris, Associate Professor, School of City & Regional Planning and School of Interactive Computing (College of Computing) 

College of Engineering 

• Julie Champion, Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
• Claudio  Di Leo, Associate Professor, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering 
• Asif Khan, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
• Matthew McDowell, Associate Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering 

College of Sciences 

• Mary Holder, Neuroscience Undergraduate Program Associate Director, School of Psychology   
• Amit Reddi, Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry 
• Christie Stewart, Co-Coordinator of Wellness Requirement, School of Biological Sciences 

Division of Lifetime Learning 

• Meltem Alemdar, Associate Director for Educational Research & Evaluation and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing   

Georgia Tech Research Institute 

• Kristin Bing, ISRD Division Chief Scientist, SEAL-ISRD 
• Francisco Valdes, Senior Research Engineer, CIPHER 

Office of Undergraduate Education 

• Joyelle ‘Joy’ Harris, Director of Undergraduate Transformative Learning Initiatives; Director of Women in Engineering for the College of Engineering