eDream is guided by the generous contributions of campus faculty and community consultants who serve on its committees. These include the Institute's steering committee, visiting creatives committee, doctoral program committee, and Biennial Scholarly Symposium and Festival committee.
Advisory Committee
Donna Cox
Chair, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) and eDream; Michael Aiken Endowed Chair and Professor, School of Art + Design
Gabrielle Allen
Associate Dean for Research and Research Education, and Director of the Bureau of Educational Research
Associate Director of NCSA
Professor of Astronomy
Antoinette M Burton
Professor of History
Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
Center for African Studies
Center for Global Studies
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Anita Chan
Assistant Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Assistant Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Ed Feser
Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost
Sahil Kumar
Student Advisor, Design for America
Mike Ross
Director, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (KCPA) and Associate Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts
Ed Seidel
Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
John M Toenjes
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Department of Dance
Michael Bernard Twidale
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Department Affiliate, Computer Science Research
Associate Professor, Information Trust Institute
Fellow, Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership
Faculty Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
David Weightman
Senior Faculty member, Industrial Design, School of Art and Design (A+D)
Former Members
Thom Dunning
Former Director, NCSA and the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technology (IACAT)
External Advisory Committee
Jerry Fiddler
Co-Founder of Wind River
Chairman of Solazyme
Principal of Zygote Ventures
Robert Graves
Former Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts (FAA)
Marc Snir
Michael Faiman and Subaro Muroga Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
College of Engineering; Co-Director,
Universal Center for Parallel Computing Research
John M. Unsworth
Vice Provost, Chief Information Officer, University Librarian,
Professor of English – Brandeis University
Jan Slater
Dean, College of Media (LAS)
