Email: president@wpi.edu
Grace Wang, PhD, began as WPI’s 17th president on April 3, 2023. She is also a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WPI. Elected by the WPI Board of Trustees after an extensive national search, Wang comes to WPI from The Ohio State University (OSU) where she served as executive vice president for research, innovation, and knowledge, and as a professor in Materials Science and Engineering. At OSU, Wang’s efforts helped expand the university’s research and innovation ecosystem, achieving $1.38 billion in annual R&D expenditures during her tenure. ...
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Email: elbeattie@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8316231
Email: pclay@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315507
Philip Clay serves as WPI’s Senior Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management. A seasoned higher education professional, Philip Clay has worked in student affairs for 36 years. Vice President Clay oversees an array of student services and programs designed to support WPI’s 6,900 full and part time undergraduate and graduate students. He is responsible for the leadership of the Student Affairs Division which includes Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics, Rubin Campus Center and Student Activities, Residential and Dining Services, Health Services, Student Development ...
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Email: bhoffman@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8316605
Bryce Hoffman leads WPI's team of marketing and communications experts, who work with the university community to build and amplify the WPI brand. Bryce came to WPI from the University of New Hampshire, where he was Assistant Vice President for Integrated Marketing. There, he led the largest market research project in the university's history and established new brand positioning while overseeing marketing strategy, analytics, agency relationships and brand advertising. He previously served in senior leadership roles at UMass Lowell and SUNY Plattsburgh, and as a writer and strategist at ...
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Email: mhoran@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315288
Email: vmenta@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8316075
Vijay Menta is WPI’s Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. He oversees Network Operations, Systems Services, Application Administration, Data Architecture, Enterprise Resource Planning, Support Services, Project Management, Academic Technologies, Research Computing, and IT Security for WPI community and plays a major role in the strategic initiatives of the university. Vijay joined WPI from Middlebury College where he was the Vice President & CIO. While there, he directed the completion of the Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project for the ...
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Email: andrew.sears@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8316929
Email: krsiegel@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8316655
Email: dstock@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6073
Email: lturner@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8316466
Since January 2022, Lauren Turner has served as senior vice president of talent and inclusion and chief diversity officer at WPI. Reporting directly to the President, she oversees all aspects of WPI’s human resources and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) functions, including compensation, benefits, talent acquisition, performance management, learning and development, organizational development, employee engagement, labor relations, and employee relations, HR information systems, data and analytics, DEI, and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME). WPI ...
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Email: vernescu@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8316411
Bogdan Vernescu is currently Professor of mathematical sciences and the Vice Provost for Research. His research is in applied mathematics for multiscale materials sciences, focusing on the characterization of material properties of composites, porous media, suspensions, emulsions and electrorheological/magnetorheological materials. He has published over 60 research papers, a monograph and a proceedings volume. He has held visiting positions at MIT, the University of Metz, University of Nancy, University of Savoie, University of Rouen, University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, University of Rome La ...
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