A newly formed interdisciplinary committee, the CART Academic Advisory Committee provides input and advice to the Vice President for Research in order to make CART a useful and more effective tool for a broader base of faculty.
| Ruthanne Thomas | Committee Chair, Associate Vice President for Research (ex-officio) |
| Raj Banerjee | Acting Director of CART (ex-officio) |
| Tom Scharf | Acting Assistant Director of CART (ex-officio) |
| Bill Buckles | Associate Dean, College of Engineering (ex-officio) |
| Tae-Youl Choi | Mechanical and Energy Engineering |
| Rebecca Dickstein | Biological Sciences |
| Zygmunt "Karol" Gryczynski | Health Science Center |
| Jeffry Kelber | Chemistry |
| Arup Neogi | Physics |
| Rick Reidy | Chair, Materials Science and Engineering (ex-officio) |
| Del McDaniel | Senior Research Facilitator, College of Arts and Sciences (ex-officio) |