DEAN'S OFFICE
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Alan Balfour, Dean and Professor - Alan Balfour was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture in 2008. Most recently dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, Balfour was previously the director of the Architecture Program at Georgia Tech from 1977 to 1987. He received his education at the Edinburgh College of Art and Princeton University. View full profile. |
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Steven P. French, PhD, FAICP, Professor and Associate Dean for Research - Professor French joined Georgia Tech in 1992 as the Director of the City Planning Program and served in that position through 1999. He is the David M. McKenney Professor of Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, and director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1980. View full profile. |
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Eric Trevena - Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance. Eric Trevena oversees all administrative and financial affairs for the college. He has been at Georgia Tech since 1987 and has served in a variety of roles, including, most recently, the Director of Administration and Finance for the Office of the Provost. Eric holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgia State University. View full profile. |
SCHOOL CHAIRS
| Jim Budd, Professor and Chair of the School of Industrial Design |
| Jim Budd brings 15 years of academic and research leadership in human-centered, interactive product design, as well as two decades of corporate design experience to the School of Industrial Design. Most recently, he was associate professor of industrial and interaction design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he headed the Wearables and Interactive Products Lab. View full profile. |
| Daniel Castro,PhD, Associate Professor and Chair of the School of Building Construction |
| Daniel Castro joined Georgia Tech in 2006. He earned his PhD in Civil Engineering, specializing in Construction Engineering and Management, from Purdue University. View full profile. |
| Frank Clark,PhD, Professor and Chair of the School of Music |
| Frank Clark joined the Music Department as Professor and Director in 2002. He received his PhD in 1990 from the University of Arizona. View full profile. |
| George B. Johnston, PhD, Professor and Chair of the School of Architecture |
| George Johnston joined the Architecture Program in 1984. Johnston previously held positions of associate director and interim director of the Architecture Program, and currently teaches courses in architectural design and in the history and theory of architectural practice. He received his PhD degree from Emory University in 2006 in the area of American Cultural History. View full profile. |
| Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, PhD, Professor and Chair of the School of City & Regional Planning |
| Bruce Stiftel joined the City & Regional Planning Program as director in 2008. He is a member of the Planning Accreditation Board, and review editor of the journal Planning Theory. He earned his PhD from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 and taught previously at Florida State University. View full profile. |
RESEARCH CENTER DIRECTORS
| Chuck Eastman, Professor and Director of the Digital Building Lab |
| Professor Eastman's teaching and research is in the areas of Building Information Modeling, solids and parametric modeling, engineering databases, and product models and interoperability. View full profile. |
| Subhro Guhathakurta, PhD, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems |
| Subhro Guhathakurta joined GeorgiaTech in 2011. He was previously Associate Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University (ASU) and among the founding faculty members of ASU’s School of Sustainability. He recieved his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California - Berkeley. View full profile. |
| Catherine L. Ross, Director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) and Harry West Professor |
| Catherine Ross joined the City and Regional Planning Program in 1977. She earned her Master of Regional Planning Degree and the PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in 1979. She completed post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley and was appointed full Professor in 1990. Prior to her current position, she organized and served as the first Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA). View full profile. |
| Jon Sanford, Director of the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) |
| Jon Sanford first joined the College in 1981 as a research scientist and served in that capacity until 1988. He returned to CATEA in November 2002 as a senior research scientist and was appointed the Director of the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access in 2008. View full profile. |
| Gil Weinberg, Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology |
| Gil Weinberg holds professorship positions in the School of Music and the College of Computing. Weinberg received his M.S. and PhD degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, after co-founding and holding positions in music and media software industry in his home country of Israel. View full profile. |
