The graduate officer is the faculty member or senior academic staff member who oversees graduate affairs on behalf of a department or degree-granting program. Graduate officers advocate for graduate students, provide guidance, manage conflicts, enforce departmental policies, develop strategic programming and curricula, and approve final degree lists. Most importantly, graduate officers work to ensure that a graduate program works in the best interest of its students.
The full scope of the role is determined by the practice and culture of the department or program. Additional responsibilities may include recruitment and admissions, student orientation, and advising student groups. Various Institute offices collaborate with the graduate officers as a group to catalyze positive change for MIT’s graduate student community.
| DEPARTMENT | NAME | ROOM | PHONE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 – Civil and Environmental Engineering | Colette Heald | heald@mit.edu | 48-335 | 324-5666 |
| 2 – Mechanical Engineering | Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou | ngh@mit.edu | 3-364 | 452-2280 |
| 3 – Materials Science and Engineering | Rob Macfarlane | rmacfarl@mit.edu | 13-5046 | 715-2828 |
| 4 – Architecture | Leslie Norford | lnorford@mit.edu | 5-418D | 253-8797 |
| 5 – Chemistry | Adam Willard | awillard@mit.edu | 6-231 | 253-1480 |
| 6 – Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Katrina LaCurts (MEng) | lacurts@mit.edu | 38-587 | 253-5994 |
| Leslie Kolodziejski (SM & PhD) | leskolo@mit.edu | 38-450 | 253-7327 | |
| 7 – Biology | Mary Gehring | mgehring@wi.mit.edu | WI-401B | 324-0343 |
| 8 – Physics | Lindley Winslow Will Detmold | lwinslow@mit.edu wdetmold@mit.edu | 26-569 6-303 | 253-2332 324-6181 |
| 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Mark Harnett | harnett@mit.edu | 46-4019 | 324-6988 |
| 10 – Chemical Engineering | Patrick Doyle | pdoyle@mit.edu | E17-504 | 253-4594 |
| 11 – Urban Studies and Planning | Ceasar McDowell | ceasar@mit.edu | 9-422 | 253-7587 |
| 12 – Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | Taylor Perron | perron@mit.edu | 54-1022 | 253-5735 |
| 14 – Economics | Abhijit Banerjee | banerjee@mit.edu | E52-540 | 253-8855 |
| 15 – Sloan School of Management | Jacob Cohen (Masters Programs) | jcohen28@mit.edu | E60-366 | 324-8107 |
| 15 – Sloan School of Management PhD | Eric So | eso@mit.edu | E62-677 | 253-6470 |
| 16 – Aeronautics and Astronautics | Jonathan How | jhow@mit.edu | 31-317 | 253-3267 |
| 17 – Political Science | Fotini Christia | cfotini@mit.edu | E53-417 | 324-5595 |
| 18 – Mathematics | Davesh Maulik (Pure Math) | maulik@mit.edu | 2-346 | 253-1796 |
| Jonathan Kelner | kelner@mit.edu | 2-344 | 253-4344 | |
| Wei Zhang (Pure Math) | weizhang@mit.edu | 2-476 | 253-1918 | |
| 20 – Biological Engineering | Alan Jasanoff | jasanoff@mit.edu | 16-267 | 452-2538 |
| 21W – Science Writing | Seth Mnookin | smnookin@mit.edu | 14N-420 | 324-1868 |
| 22 – Nuclear Science and Engineering | Ju Li | liju@mit.edu | 24-202 | 253-0166 |
| 24 – Linguistics and Philosophy | Brad Skow (Philosophy) | bskow@mit.edu | 32-D930 | 253-4147 |
| Kai von Fintel (Linguistics) | fintel@mit.edu | 32-D882 | 253-2640 | |
| ACT – Art, Culture, & Technology | Leslie Norford | lnorford@mit.edu | E15-211 | 253-8797 |
| CMS – Comparative Media Studies | Heather Hendershot | hshot@mit.edu | 14E-435 | 253-3599 |
| CRE – Center for Real Estate | Kairos Shen | kaiross@mit.edu | 9-343 | 253-4373 |
| CSB – Computational and Systems Biology | Chris Burge | cburge@mit.edu | 68-271A | 258-5997 |
| CSE – Computational Science and Engineering (SM & PhD) | Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou | ngh@mit.edu | 3-364 | 452-2280 |
| Youseff Marzouk | ymarz@mit.edu | 37-451 | 253-1337 | |
| HST – Health Sciences and Technology | Julie Greenberg | jgreenbe@mit.edu | E25-518 | 258-6086 |
| IDSS – Institute for Data, Systems & Society | Fotini Christia (SES) | cfotini@mit.edu | E53-417 | 324-5595 |
| Frank Field (TPP) | furd@mit.edu | E17-379 | 253-2146 | |
| Noelle Selin | selin@mit.edu | E17-381 | 324-2592 | |
| LGO | Thomas Roemer | troemer@mit.edu | E40-319 | 324-6209 |
| MAS – Media Arts and Sciences | Joseph Paradiso | joep@media.mit.edu | E14-548P | 253-8988 |
| MICRO – Interdepartmental Microbiology | Jacquin Niles | jcniles@mit.edu | 56-341B | 324-5698 |
| Otto Cordero | ottox@mit.edu | 48-429 | 230-4153 | |
| ORC – Operations Research Center | Patrick Jaillet | jaillet@mit.edu | E62-579 | 452-3379 |
| SCM – Supply Chain Management | Maria Jesus Saenz | mjsaenz@mit.edu | E40-379 | 258-8235 |
| SDM – Systems Design & Management | Warren Seering | seering@mit.edu | 3-433 | 253-8253 |
| STS – History, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society | Eden Medina | eden@mit.edu | E53-335P | 253-1943 |
| Joint Program with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Mick Follows | mick@mit.edu | Academic Programs Office, Woods Hole MA | 253-5939 |
