Program Leadership The MolE Ph.D. program is run by our Director of Education, Cole Deforest, and Graduate Program Advisor, Doug Ballard, and overseen by an interdisciplinary committee known as the Graduate School Interdisciplinary Committee (GSIC). This committee is comprised of faculty from a variety of departments across the College of Engineering and College of Arts & Sciences and is responsible for guiding the MolE Ph.D. program and making admissions decisions. Department GSIC Member Bioengineering Ying Zheng Chemical Engineering / Bioengineering Cole DeForest Chemistry Jesse Zalatan Civil & Environmental Engineering Jessica Ray Electrical Engineering / CS Georg Seelig Mechanical Engineering Ayokunle Olanrewaju Mechanical Engineering Igor Novosselov