Albert A. Liddicoat

​​Dr. Albert A. Liddicoat was appointed in July 2024 to serve as the Interim Vice Chancellor for Human Resources at the California State University system.

As interim vice chancellor, Liddicoat is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction for the CSU’s comprehensive human resources department. He oversees collective bargaining; benefits and compensation; data research and analysis; policy development; learning and development; Title IX; issues of discrimination, harassment and retaliation; equal opportunity and whistleblower issues; and other programming and services.

Liddicoat previously served as vice president for University Personnel and chief human resources officer at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he oversaw the departments of Human Resources and Academic Personnel and the Civil Rights and Compliance Office. Prior to that he served as vice provost for Academic Affairs and Personnel and interim dean of the Orfalea College of Business and director for the Computer Engineering Program. He began his administrative career in 2006 as the assistant vice president for Academic Personnel.

Liddicoat has held various leadership assignments at Cal Poly overseeing academic personnel; the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology; academic affairs technology services and institutional research. At the systemwide level, he chaired the CSU steering committee for a common human resource system and was a member of the CSU Civil Rights Implementation Oversight Committee. A faculty member at Cal Poly since 2002, he holds tenured status as the Forbes Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering.

Liddicoat holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in industrial engineering and engineering management, all from Stanford University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Cal Poly.