Regents' Professor

Academic Faculty Nomination to Regents’ Professor

How the Regents’ Professor Nomination process works

Regents’ Professor Nominations are handled separately from the RPT process.

Regent’s Professorships are granted by the Board of Regents to outstanding tenured, full professors, based on excellence in research and contributions to their profession and to Georgia Tech. School chairs are asked to nominate a full, tenured professor. For more information, visit the Board of Regents' Policy Manual.

A college committee consisting of Regents’ or other chaired professors, as recommended by the school chairs, will review the candidates’ packages and make recommendations to the dean, who will then review the documentation, select two candidates ( the number allowed for COE), and forward his/her recommendations to the Provost. 

Process and Package Contents for Regents' Professor

  1. Nominee’s current CV. GT format for CV recommended but not required. (provided by nominee to school chair - about October)
  2. Optional one page summary of accomplishments. (provided by nominee to school chair - about October)
  3. Nomination letter from the school chair to the dean   (provided by school chair – about December)
  4. Letter of recommendation from the College Regents' Committee to the dean (about January)
  5. Dean’s letter of recommendation to the Provost (about February)
  6. The Institute Regents’ Professor Nomination Committee, comprised of Regents' Professors or other chaired professors as recommended by the college deans, meets to review the nominations and will forward their recommendations to the President.  The President sends the packages of the selected nominees to the Board of Regents.  The nominee must receive a unanimous recommendation from the Institute Regents' Committee and the President before the nomination will be transmitted to the Board of Regents.

Decisions for Regents’ Professor Nominations

The decision of the Board of Regents is sent to Office of the Provost (Faculty Affairs).  Faculty Affairs then informs the dean of the outcome (about April). The dean will notify the school chair and the selected candidate.

Current faculty holding COE Regents’ Professorships

Krishan Ahuja (AE)
Mark G. Allen, (ECE)
Mark Borodovsky (BME)
Thomas K. Gaylord (ECE)
Ronald Harley (ECE)
Paul A. Kohl (ChBE)
David N. Ku (ME)
Meilin Liu (MSE)
David L. McDowell (ME)
Russell M. Mersereau (ECE)
Donald Ratliff (ISyE)
George Rodrigue (ECE)
Ajeet Rohatgi (ECE)
Thomas H.B. Sanders (MSE)
Lakshmi Sankar (AE)
Glenn S. Smith (ECE)
Weston M. Stacey, Jr. (ME)
Amyn S. Teja (ChBE)
Z.L. Wang (MSE)
Ward O. Winer (ME)
C. P. Wong (MSE)
Ajit P. Yoganathan (BME)
Cheng Zhu (BME)
Ben T. Zinn (AE)