Ximena Pizarro-Bore

Ximena is a 3rd year Joint Ph.D. in the School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on innovative development for human resource management in public administration. Particularly focused on telework and its effects on job attitudes. Her interest as an ITA Liaison is to help firm up the program for the future, identifying new key alliances to make this program a success.   

Email: xpizarrobore@gatech.edu 

School: Public Policy 

Genaro Soto Valle

Genaro is from Mexico and is a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on printed electronics for applications in energy harvesting, sensing, and wireless communications. He has served as a TA before, and his goal as an ITA Liason is to help make the transition process for new ITAs as easy as possible.

Email: genarosva@gatech.edu 

School: ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Tinomutenda Chikate

Tino is a Zimbabwean-born/Botswana resident M.S student in Cybersecurity. With a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, one of her many goals is to provide better platforms and substantial support for girls (and underprivileged children) at the K-12 level who want to get into S.T.E.M fields. Her belief is teachers lay the foundation for how the world is technologically developed. As a result, every child must be encouraged to achieve their aspirations, regardless of societal norms on gender roles.  

She has served as a TA before and is currently the Head TA for a Computing ethics undergraduate class. Her objective as an ITA Liaison is to help make the program a comfortable, safe environment for ITAs to learn from one another and to feel confident in sharing their knowledge with their new community. 

Email: tchikate3@gatech.edu 

School: School of Public Policy/School of Cybersecurity and Policy (SCP) 

Fan Jiang

Fan is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Ph.D. program. His research focuses on efficient inference on continuous and discrete problems modeled as factor graphs. He has served as a TA for the undergraduate version of Introduction to Robotics and a graduate seminar course. He is aiming to use audiovisual materials to help other students with different cultural backgrounds to better their teaching experience.

Email: fan.jiang@gatech.edu 

School: ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ellen S Liu

Ellen is a Ph.D. student in the Quantitative Biosciences Program. Her research focuses on animal locomotion systems and robophysical models. Her interest in being an ITA liaison comes from wanting to make more accessible resources to help ITAs with the many challenges they could face. 

Email: eliu82@gatech.edu 

School: Physics 

Yujin Kim

Yujin is a Ph.D. student in the school of building construction. Her research lies in human-centered workplace and corporate real estate. Using multiple methodologies including surveys, experiments, observations, and interviews, she explores how the built environment can become healthier and more sustainable, accommodating different human needs. She has served as a TA for various undergraduate and graduate courses in 8 semesters and taught a course, selected as the outstanding graduate instructor of the year in 2019 by the School of Building Construction at Georgia Tech. In 2020, she completed Tech to Teaching certificate, provided by CTL. 

Email: yujin.kim@gatech.edu / School: Building Construction 

Sourabh K Choudhary

Sourabh is a Ph.D. at the Industrial and Systems Engineering department majoring in Operations Research. His research interests lies in using global optimization techniques for solving non-linear and non-convex optimization problems. Currently, he is working on a problem on packing equal circles in a square. In Spring 2022, he is a TA of  ISyE 3013 Supply Chain and Logistics.  

Email: schoudhary66@gatech.edu 

School:  Industrial and Systems Engineering 

Mohammad Nikbakht

Mohammad is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the school of ECE. His research is on biomedical sensing applications. Focusing on developing ML algorithms for non-invasive cardiovascular signal processing. As an ITA Liaison, his dream is to take a step towards enhancing the teaching and learning experience for both ITAs and students. On the side, he enjoys playing basketball and baking pizza :) 

Email: mohnikbakht@gatech.edu

School: ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yiming Chen

Yiming is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. His research interests focus on control and optimization of electrical power system. He served as a GTA during his first semester at Tech. As an ITA Liaison, he aims to address common pain points that international TAs could face and help solve them. 

Email: ymchen@gatech.edu 

School: Electrical and Computer Engineering