ECE Administration & Staff

Rose Hu, Department Head | rosehu@vt.edu | 445 Whittemore

Virgilio Centeno, Assistant Department Head, Undergraduate Education | (540) 231-2045 | virgilio@vt.edu | 427 Whittemore

Paul Plassmann, Graduate Program Director | (540) 231-2160 | plassmann@vt.edu | 302-C Whittemore

Creed F. Jones, Assistant Director for Graduate Programs | (540) 231-9850 | crjones4@vt.edu | 462 Whittemore

Scott Dunning, Associate Department Head and Chief of Operations | (540) 231-2133 | scottd65@vt.edu | 464 Whittemore

Tim Talty, Assistant Director for Graduate Programs | (540) 231-7778 | ttalty@vt.edu | 460 Whittemore

Minerva Sanabria-Padilla, Undergraduate/Graduate Enrollment Manager | (540) 231-3305 | minervas@vt.edu | 302-B Whittemore
Business Operations
Christine Absher, Director of Finance and Administration | (540) 231-9007 | absher@vt.edu | 443 Whittemore
Dikshita Bansal, Executive Assistant | dikshita@vt.edu | 459 Whittemore

Hope House, Fiscal and Administrative Coordinator | hopeh5@vt.edu | 449 Whittemore

Melanie Gilmore, Travel Accountant | (540) 231-7008 | mgilmore1@vt.edu | 443 Whittemore

Rick Johnston, Facilities Coordinator | (540) 231-1623 | rickj@vt.edu | 463 Whittemore

Kim Medley, Accountant | (540) 231-6054 | kkmedley@vt.edu | 347 Whittemore

Rowan Al-ghafafi, Administrative Assistant | (540) 231-3129 | rowana@vt.edu | Virginia Tech Research Center (Arlington)

Cole Tankersley, Human Resource and Payroll Generalist | cpt19@vt.edu
Sharon Lawson, Sponsored Programs Administrator | (540) 231-3313 | sharonl@vt.edu
Undergraduate Student Services

Alicia Sutherland, ECE Student Services Coordinator | (540) 231-2163 | alicias@vt.edu | 302-E Whittemore

Mary Brewer, Undergraduate Academic & Career Advisor (A – D) | (540) 231-4539 | taylorm@vt.edu

Nicole Gholston, Undergraduate Academic & Career Advisor (E – K, R) | (540) 231-3106 | nicole7@vt.edu

Kimberly Johnston, Undergraduate Academic & Career Advisor (L – Q) | (540) 231-8393 | kim4vt@vt.edu

Susan Broniak, Undergraduate Academic & Career Advisor (S – Z) | (540) 231-8219 | sbroniak@vt.edu
Graduate Student Services

Laura Villada, Graduate Student Services Manager - MS Thesis, Direct PhD & PhD (Last name/Family Name A-M) | vlaura@vt.edu

Lisa K. Burns, Graduate Student Services Academic and Career Advisor - MS Thesis, Direct-PhD & PhD (Last name/Family Name N-Z) | lkburns@vt.edu

Nicole S. Sutphin, Graduate Student Services Academic and Career Advisor - MS Non-Thesis | nsutphin@vt.edu

Rebecca Stevenson, Graduate Academic Advisor- MEng | rss03@vt.edu

Mariana Sanabria-Padilla, Graduate Student Services Assistant | marianas@vt.edu
Advancement

Kathleen Enos, Alumni Relations Manager | (571) 858-3114 | kenos@vt.edu | 4-042 Virginia Tech Research Center (Arlington)

Niki Hazuda, Communications Manager | nhazuda@vt.edu | 322 Whittemore

Ben Murphy, Digital Content Projects Coordinator | benm45@vt.edu | 324 Whittemore
Instructional Laboratories
Information Technology & Computing

Bruce Buskill, Director of Information Technology | (540) 232-2050 | bbuskill@vt.edu | 361 Durham

Brandon Russell, Computer Systems Administrator | rbrand7@vt.edu | 350 Whittemore

Charles Howe, Web Developer and Programmer | cehowe4@vt.edu | 332 Whittemore
For IT and Computing requests, contact support@ece.vt.edu
For research staff members, please see the appropriate research groups.