{"id":248206,"date":"2026-07-06T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=248206"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:45:34","slug":"haleh-ghaemolsabahi-appointed-interim-chief-information-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/07\/haleh-ghaemolsabahi-appointed-interim-chief-information-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Haleh Ghaemolsabahi appointed interim Chief Information Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>I write to share with you that I have appointed Haleh Ghaemolsabahi interim Chief Information Officer.<\/p>\n<p>Haleh has more than three decades of experience in Information Technology Services at UConn. She began her career here in 1994, first as a technician and later as IT team lead, IT relationship manager, Director of Campus Technology Services, Deputy Chief Information Officer, and has previously served as interim and acting CIO.<\/p>\n<p>Underscoring the length of her tenure and the contributions she has made to our university over many years in an ever-evolving field is the fact that Haleh created and implemented UConn\u2019s first institutional website. Many members of our community cannot remember a time before UConn had a website.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she led the strategy, implementation, integration, and evolution of the University&#8217;s enterprise Learning Management System; developed and institutionalized the Classroom Technology Lifecycle Program, creating a sustainable framework for technology refresh and modernization across instructional spaces; led the development of a globally accessible scientific research database, Global Cestode Database, for a fully funded National Science Foundation project; and led the implementation of the University&#8217;s emergency communications platform and innovative integration with university web services.<\/p>\n<p>She is well-known for building strong partnerships across academic and administrative units to advance technology-enabled outcomes and in identifying opportunities for collaboration, efficiency, and risk reduction through centralization of IT services for distributed units and regional campuses.<\/p>\n<p>She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from Universit\u00e9 Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, and her master\u2019s in applied mathematics from UConn.<\/p>\n<p>Please join me in thanking Haleh for her willingness to take on this interim role.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Radenka Maric<br \/>\n<strong>President<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime IT leader has more than three decades of experience at UConn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":173063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2162],"class_list":["post-248206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 16:53:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248207,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248206\/revisions\/248207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/173063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248206"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=248206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=248206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}