2023-2024 Executive Committee (EC)

Members of the CPI Executive Committee (EC) are selected each year by the CPI Chair and ratified by the full Council. The EC meets for a coordination meeting the first Wednesday of every month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and invites research administrative representatives from Texas A&M, HSC, TEES, TTI, and AgriLife Research to attend.

The CPI EC also meets regularly with the Texas A&M President, Provost and Vice President for Research; Distinguished Professor’s Executive Committee; The Texas A&M University System Chancellor and other representatives or administrators upon request.

The CPI-EC can be contacted by sending an email to cpi-ec@listserv.tamu.edu.

2023-2024 CPI Officers (officers are standing members of the Executive Committee)

Jessica Bernard, Chair
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
jessica.bernard@tamu.edu
979.845.2581
CPI Membership Term: 2020-2025
External Committees: 

Robin Page, Vice Chair
College of Nursing
rpage@tamu.edu
979.436.1047
CPI Membership Term: 2021-2026
External Committees: URC

Debjyoti Banerjee, Past Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
dbanerjee@tamu.edu
979.845.4500
CPI Membership Term: 2019 – 2024 
External Committees: 

2023-2024 Executive Committee (terms extend from September 1st through August 31st)

Helene Andrews-Polymenis
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology
College of Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center
handrews@tamu.edu
979.436.0340
CPI Membership Term 2022-2025 (2nd Term)
External Committees: n/a

Rebecca Brooker
Department of Psychological and Brian Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
rebecca.brooker@tamu.edu
979.845.4409
CPI Membership Term: 2022-2025
External Committees: 

Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
cbrinkmeyer@cvm.tamu.edu
979.845.6780
CPI Membership Term: 2021-2024 (2nd Term)
External Committees: 

Jessica Fitzsimmons
Department of Oceanography
College of Arts and Sciences
jessfitz@tamu.edu
979.845.5137
CPI Membership Term: 2022-2025 (2nd Term)
External Committees:

Carl Gregory
Department of Molecular & Cellular Medicine
School of Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center
cgregory@tamu.edu
979.436.9643
CPI Membership Term 2021-2024 (2nd Term)
External Committees: 

Daniel Jiménez
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
djimenez@cse.tamu.edu
979.845.2434
CPI Membership Term 2023-2026 (2nd Term)
External Committees: 

Katie Lewis
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences – Lubbock Center
Texas A&M AgriLife Research
katie.lewis@ag.tamu.edu
806.746.6101
CPI Membership Term: 2023-2026
External Committees: 

Aaron Tarone
Department of Entomology
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
tamlucilia@tamu.edu
979.862-1311
CPI Membership Term: 2021-2024 (2nd Term)
External Committees: n/a

Guoyao Wu
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
guoyao.wu@ag.tamu.edu
979.845.1817
CPI Membership Term: 2023-2026
External Committees: n/a