CLASS OF 2023 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY • MAY 18, 2023 • NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING // 1 CLASS OF 2023 168TH COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
THE NYU ALMA MATER
The Palisades
O grim, grey Palisades, thy shadow Upon the rippling Hudson falls, And mellow mingled tints of sunset Illumine now our classic halls; While students gather ‘round thy altars With tributes of devotion true, And mingle merry hearts and voices In praise of NYU.
But college friendship all must sever, And fade as does the dying day, And closest kinships all be broken As out in life we wend our way; And yet, whatever be life’s fortune, Through mem’ry fails and friends be few We’ll love thee still, our Alma Mater Our dear old NYU.
Words and Music by
Duncan M. Genns (Class of 1900)
Order of Exercise
STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Nawal Panjwani
B.S. in Biomolecular Science
Andrew Hamilton
President, New York University
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
Joshua Lee
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering/ Mathematics
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
President Emeritus of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
PRESENTATION OF GRADUATES
DEAN’S REMARKS
Jelena Kovačević
Dean
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to be a world-class engineering school that puts students first and is home to lifelong learning. We will be the place that makes the American dream possible; the home of engaged critical thinkers and makers of the future. Our culture of diversity, inclusion, equality, and respect will make us the place where every smart young engineer wants to be. Our students and faculty will tackle strategic societal challenges using a global vision and network, ensuring our cutting-edge innovations are thoughtfully and successfully introduced into society. We will be the engine of innovation for Brooklyn and New York City.
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Dear Class of 2023, You made it!
You’re probably feeling an indescribable mixture of thrilled, excited, jubilant, and, let’s face it, relieved. Hold on to that feeling! You’re experiencing a moment like no other, and you’ll want to remember it forever.
I hope your time at NYU Tandon has been filled with many more moments to remember too. Think back to those times in your classes that you could sense your intellectual horizons expanding in new ways. Those times spent exploring Brooklyn, eating pizza, going to concerts, and simply hanging out with your friends. Those times you worked on a group project, looked around at your teammates, and realized you had found people who’d remain important to you for your entire life.
I’m sure that you sometimes had semesters that seemed
as though they’d last an eternity. We’ve all felt that way on occasion. But I can tell you from experience that when you look back, it will seem as though time passed in a flash. So live in the moment, and be aware of just how important each passing one is. After all, you’ll never live that exact moment again, but string them together, and you’ve built a life.
As commencement approached, I found myself thinking a lot about the lives you are building. As dean, I feel a sense of personal and professional pride when I consider your accomplishments. Even more than that, however, I feel optimistic. One of the joys of overseeing a school like Tandon is being surrounded by problem-solvers by nature. You’re part of a community doing transformational work to address the issues plaguing society, and you have the knowledge and tools to take real steps toward improving the world. I’ve had a front-row seat as members of your class found ways to make solar panels more efficient, helped design innovative new surgical tools, made the Internet more accessible to people with disabilities, and so much more.
Because of the work being done here, the world is growing more resilient and sustainable, better connected, healthier, and more equitable. I can’t think of better reasons to have hope for the future, and when I consider all you’re capable of, it’s impossible to be anything but optimistic. I hope you’re feeling as optimistic about your potential as I am.
I am also realistic: I know you’re graduating into a world that seems uncertain at times. But you’ve had the enormous benefit of a good education that has provided you with solid foundational knowledge in your field, taught you the importance of collaboration and outside-the-box-thinking, and positioned you to use technology wisely, responsibly, and in service to society. You’ve got this!
I love a quote from Sir Isaac Newton, who once said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Today, at commencement, you might be sitting on folding chairs at the Barclays Center, but you’re standing on the shoulders of your professors and mentors. You’re being held aloft with the help of your family and friends. Savor this moment – and then take a moment to thank everyone who contributed to making it possible.
With admiration for all your hard work (and boundless optimism for what your future holds),
Jelena Kovačević
Dean, William R. Berkley Professor
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Dear Class of 2023,
Congratulations on your graduation from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering! Your commitment, focus and persistence have culminated in this outstanding achievement. It is with great pleasure that I join your family, friends, and the entire NYU community in celebrating your accomplishments!
I’ve been told the Class of 2023 numbers well over 2,000, and I’m honored to welcome all of you as the newest members of NYU Tandon’s Polytechnic Alumni Association (PAA). As you embark on the next stage of your lives, please stay in touch. Our Office of Alumni Relations hosts dozens of interesting and engaging events every year that will enable you to network with 65,000 members around the world and to remain connected to your alma mater. We look forward to having you and encourage you to explore the Violet Network, NYU’s official online community. Now, speaking of that next stage of life: you are entering a dynamic world that urgently needs you. May you find purpose and lifelong satisfaction in delivering technology in service to humanity. Incorporate compassion for the world and careful stewardship of its resources in all that you do, and carefully consider the impacts of your work, as I know your professors have encouraged you. I realize that the social implications of ChatGPT and other AI platforms have been much in the news lately, but whatever your field or area of specialty, do your work with an eye towards transparency, equity, accessibility, and ethics. Your dean, professors, and mentors expect no less of you.
You have had the benefit of learning from some of the world’s most respected scholars and researchers during your time at Tandon; today you’re lucky enough to have Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, as your commencement speaker. I can think of no one better to address you than a person who has changed the very face of engineering education in our country.
So, heed his words, follow the example set by your brilliant and dedicated professors, and go out and make your mark on the world. I predict great successes ahead!
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Robert V. Jones, CISSP President, Polytechnic Alumni Association
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President Emeritus of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County), served as president from 1992 to 2022. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He chaired the National Academies’ committee that produced the 2011 report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads. He was named in 2012 by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. His 2013 TED talk highlights the “Four Pillars of College Success in Science.” In 2022, Dr. Hrabowski was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and he was also named the inaugural ACE Centennial Fellow, to be served upon his retirement from UMBC. In addition, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) also launched the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program ($1.5 billion) to help build a scientific workforce that more fully reflects our increasingly diverse country. In October 2022, he was named the inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Speaker by Harvard. In April 2023, The National Academy of Sciences awarded him the Public Welfare Medal, the Academy’s most prestigious award, and inducted him as a member of the academy, for his extraordinary use of science for the public good.
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III President Emeritus of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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PRIZES & AWARDS
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING GRADUATE
Professor Turner Alfrey Prize
Håvard Mølnås
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE
Albert E. Sobel Award
Yingxin Xiao
Biomolecular Science
American Institute of Chemists Award
David Deslandes
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
CBE Achievement Award
Rafaella Saa Rodriguez
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Herman F. Mark Memorial Award
Abhi Deverakonda
Biomolecular Science
Inclusive Excellence Award
Kaz Burns
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Tandon & Chemistry
Julian R. Reasenberg Memorial Prize
Victoria Hempstead Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Isha Krishna Biomolecular Science
NY ACS Excellence in Chemical Sciences (Biochemistry-related major)
Anjolaoluwa Ajai
Biomolecular Science
NY ACS Excellence in Chemical Sciences (Chemistry-related major)
Kyle Herman
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Omega Chi Epsilon Award
Palak Jauhari
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Othmer Memorial Award
Kaitlin So
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Raymond E. Kirk Award
Malinda Qian Biomolecular Science
Roland Ward Award
Samantha Hwang Biomolecular Science
Nawal Panjwani Biomolecular Science
Lina Seojin Park Biomolecular Science
Sidney A. Savitt Award
Nat Ku Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Simeon Gang Award
Ted Keunsil Kang Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Frances Lee Biomolecular Science
CIVIL AND URBAN ENGINEERING GRADUATE
Inclusive Excellence Award
Jay Chetan Trivedi Construction Management
CIVIL AND URBAN ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE
Bertha Pagenstecher Memorial Award
Michelle Ren Civil Engineering
Charles J. Berkel Memorial Scholarship Fund
Shenoah Williams Civil Engineering
LANGAN/Donald J. Murphy Memorial Scholarship
Meg Fernandez Civil Engineering
Elliot Molina
Civil Engineering
Robert Ridgway Student Chapter Prize
Anton Miguel Santos Cano Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersCol. B. Edward Lavender Scholarship
Hannah Becker Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersEdward J. Quirin Scholarship
Mohammed Hoque
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military Engineers - Eugene Fasullo And Maxine Hyrkas Scholarship
Stephen Manaridis
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military Engineers - Eugene Fasullo And Maxine Hyrkas Scholarship Ii
Jie Jin
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military Engineers - Fletcher H. “Bud”
Griffis Memorial Scholarship
Nicholas Hudanich
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersJoe Markle Adinner Memorial
Michelle Ren
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersJohn J. Kassner Scholarship
Quinn Gangadharan
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military Engineers - Morris And Sadie
Weisstuch Memorial Scholarship
Janice Su
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersNew York Building Congress Scholarship
Saimul Hossain
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersNew York Building Foundation Scholarship
Cheyenne Goddard
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersParsons Brinckerhoff Memorial Scholarship
Levi Khaimov
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersR.M. Monti Scholarship
Richard Liu
Civil Engineering
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PRIZES & AWARDS (continued)
Society of American Military EngineersRear Admiral Alexander C. Husband Scholarship
Joseph Isakov
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military Engineers - Seymour S. Greenfield, Pe Memorial Scholarship
Sebrina Ferid
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersSusan Miszkowicz Memorial Scholarship
Natalie Bunce
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersSverdrup Corporation Scholarship
Adiba Mizai
Civil Engineering
Society of American Military EngineersTurner Construction Scholarship
Shenoah Williams
Civil Engineering
The Moles Student Award
Maya Yasmin Edward
Civil Engineering
Jesse Lin
Civil Engineering
Theodore Clinton Towl Award
Richard Liu
Civil Engineering
Young Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers Award
Natalie Bunce
Civil Engineering
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING GRADUATE
Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award
Budmonde Duinkharjav
Computer Science
Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award
Antonio Mallia
Computer Science
Peter Xenopoulos Computer Science
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE
CSE Junior Academic Achievement Award
Owen Alicandro Math & Computer Science
Calvin Chen
Math & Computer Science
CSE Leadership Award
Andre Bryan Hu
Computer Science
Fengkai Qiu
Computer Science
Triet Vo Computer Science
CSE Senior Academic Achievement Award
Mohammed Uddin Computer Science
Zijun Wang Math & Computer Science
CSE Sophomore Academic Achievement Award
Ruitian Ding Computer Science
Thomas Nisterenko Computer Science
Pearl Brownstein Junior Award
Runjia Yang
Math & Computer Science
Pearl Brownstein Senior Award
Joshua Lee
Math & Computer Science
Chengyang Song
Computer Science
The Myron M. Rosenthal Computer Science Award
Shinkyum (Kevin) Rho Computer Science
Zihan (Dorothy) Zhang Computer Engineering
CUSP GRADUATE
Community Building and Leadership Award
Anna Kramer
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Yang Liu
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Vickram Peter
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Ananya Rajesh
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Analaura Tostado
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Punit Vats
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Inclusive Excellence Award
Elizabeth Johnson
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Professional Student Award
Danielle Bayer
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Matthew Coughlin
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
William Maney
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Rahnuma Tarannum
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Promising Researcher Award
Hongzi Chen
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Seung Hwa Lee
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Jiashun Lian Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Vickram Peter Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Akshay Shetty
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Junru Song Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Scholastic Award
Danielle Bayer
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Matthew Coughlin
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Jingjing Ge
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Yichen Guo
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Ajayrangan Kasturirangan
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
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Anna Kramer
Applied Urban Science & Informaticsc
Akshay Shetty
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
Zhiwen Zhao
Applied Urban Science & Informatics
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING GRADUATE
Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical Engineering
Linan Huang
Electrical Engineering
David C. and Cecilia M. Chang Education Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shashank Chaturvedi
Electrical Engineering
David Goodman Leadership and Academic Excellence Award
Qin Hu
Electrical Engineering
Li Publication Award
Minsu (Daniel) Cho
Electrical Engineering
Leilei Cui
Electrical Engineering
David A. Giglio
Electrical Engineering
Zhujun Huang
Electrical Engineering
Shihao Ju
Electrical Engineering
Ojas Kanhere
Electrical Engineering
Abbas Khalili Olam
Electrical Engineering
Peter Han Sol Paik
Electrical Engineering
Bo Pang
Electrical Engineering
Hitesh Poddar
Electrical Engineering
Alessandro Saviolo
Electrical Engineering
Dipankar Shakya
Electrical Engineering
Virinchi Roy Surabhi
Electrical Engineering
Tongyu Zong
Electrical Engineering
The Dante Youla Award for Graduate Research Excellence in Electrical Engineering
Jeffrey Mao
Electrical Engineering
Rory O’Keeffe
Electrical Engineering
Mustafa F. Ozkoc
Electrical Engineering
Yunian Pan
Electrical Engineering
Minghao Ye
Electrical Engineering
The Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best Master’s Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zichuan Fang
Electrical Engineering
Zihan Lin
Computer Engineering
Md Raz
Electrical Engineering
Naman Sharma
Computer Engineering
The Theodor Tamir Award for the Best Master’s Research in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zhun Yin
Electrical Engineering
Inclusive Excellence Award
Qin Hu
Electrical Engineering
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE
Margaret Goldstone Memorial Fund Award
Ariel C Hsieh
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best Bachrlor’s Academic Achievement in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neha Das
Electrical Engineering
Michael Lippe
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Myron M. Rosenthal Merit Award
Oluwatobi Oluwatikemi Adeyefa
Electrical Engineering
Krzysztof Chciuk
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xinyuan Guo
Electrical Engineering
Sandra Ho
Computer Engineering
Jung Ho Justin Hwang
Electrical Engineering
David Morrin
Electrical Engineering
Xinchen Allison Yang
Computer Engineering
Jihan Zhang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yufei Zhen
Electrical and Computer Engineering
William J. Stolze Award
Ethan Shieh
Computer Engineering
David C. and Cecilia M.
Chang Student Leadership Award
Nana Ama Asamoah-Adjei
Electrical and Computer Engineering
FINANCE AND RISK ENGINEERING GRADUATE
Finance and Risk Engineering Department
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Siyang Huang
Finance Engineering
Mengqi Li
Finance Engineering
Xiangyu Li
Finance Engineering
Baohui Peng
Finance Engineering
Wu-Yen Sun
Finance Engineering
Chenwei Wu
Finance Engineering
Qinkai Yang
Finance Engineering
Yuanbo Zhang
Finance Engineering
Finance and Risk Engineering Department
Superior Leadership and Service to the FRE Community Award
Laksh Kataria
Computer Science
Kunjan Mehta
Finance Engineering
Tejashri Prabhu
Finance Engineering
Utkarsh Vardhan
Finance Engineering
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PRIZES & AWARDS (continued)
MATHEMATICS GRADUATE
Inclusive Excellence Award
Meliha Hodzic
Mathematics
William R. Allen Award
Jiacheng He
Mathematics
MATHEMATICS UNDERGRADUATE
George Bachman Award
Joshua Lee
Mathematics
Zijun Wang
Mathematics
Inclusive Excellence Award
Sofia Poinelli
Mathematics
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING UNDERGRADAUTE
ASTM Noah A. Kahn Memorial Award
Gabrielle Naquila
Mechanical Engineering
Inclusive Excellence Award
Ameya Palav
Mechanical Engineering
Iraj Kalkhoran Memorial AwardBest graduating senior in Aerospace minor
Thomas Cuvillier
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate Excellence
Award Junior with Highest GPA
Courtney Chan
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate Excellence Award Senior with Highest GPA
Alexander Miller
Mechanical Engineering
POLY TUTORING CENTER UNDERGRADUATE
John J. Dropkin Tutor-of-the-Year
Jorge Velasquez
Computer Science
STUDENT LIFE & SERVICES GRADUATE
Tandon Community Excellence Award
Rithika Repakula
Integrated Design and Media
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Joshua Lee
Mathematics
Helen Warren Leadership Award
Kaitlin So
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Kinsella Humanitarian Award
Winnie Zheng
Computer Science
Tandon Community Excellence Award
Nakeya Adams
Computer Science
The Myron M. Rosenthal Student Council Award
Nawal Panjwani Biomolecular Science
TECHNOLOGY
MANAGEMENT
AND INNOVATION GRADUATE
Professor George Schillinger Award
Vikram Sagi
Management of Technology
Student Achievement Award for Industrial Engineering
José Miguel Cordero Molina
Industrial Engineering
Yosra El Boulli Rguibi
Industrial Engineering
Sachin Jayachandran
Industrial Engineering
Haowei Li
Industrial Engineering
Anthony Luu
Industrial Engineering
Student Achievement Award for Master’s, Management of Technology
Camilo Bello Vallejo
Management of Technology
Harichandana Cherukuri
Management of Technology
Sofia De Gaetano
Management of Technology
Manas Abhay Johri
Management of Technology
Patel Shaishav Rameshchandra
Management of Technology
Student Achievement Award for Master’s, Management of Technology - Online
Brian Farkas
Management of Technology
Inclusive Excellence Award
Madeleine Mai
Business and Technology Management
Internship Achievement Award
Shereen Moussa
Management of Technology
Society for Human Resource Management Award
Sansaptak De
Management of Technology
Dailin Ji
Management of Technology
Da Li
Management of Technology
Lujing Pang
Management of Technology
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION
UNDERGRADAUTE
Women in Business and Entrepreneurship Leadership Award
Anika Sumush
Business and Technology Management
Student Achievement Award for Business & Technology Management
Ulas Bozdag
Business and Technology Management
Michael Landa
Business and Technology Management
Tae YoungN Oh
Business and Technology Management
Noa Rosenfeld
Business and Technology Management
Aichu Yang
Business and Technology Management
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Student Achievement Award for Master’s, Management of Technology - Online
Kimberly Gray
Management of Technology
TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY GRADUATE
Best Master’s Thesis in Integrated Design & Media
Michelle Hyunjie Yong
Integrated Design and Media (IDM)
Inclusive Excellence Award
Stefanie Koseff Integrated Design and Media (IDM)
Bernard And Florence Rechtschaffen Humanities Award
Kavitha Anjali Rao
Mechanical Engineering
Lisa Ye Computer Science
Best Senior Project in Integrated Design & Media
Alexis Williams
Integrated Design & Media
Francis David Mulcahy Award in Technology Ethics and Science and Technology Studies
Hailey Lint
Science and Technology Studies
TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY UNDERGRADUATE
Sustainable Urban Environment Achievement Award
Luke Buttenwieser
Sustainable Urban Environments
Gabriela Gutierrez Cadavid
Sustainable Urban Environments
Rebecca Levy
Sustainable Urban Environments
Technology, Culture and Society Department Writing Awards
Sukhleen Bhogal
Computer Science
Michael Lippe
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Eddie Oliver Entrepreneurial Spirit Award
Roger Argueta
Integrated Design & Media
TRIO SCHOLARS PROGRAM UNDERGRADUATE
Raytheon TRIO Scholars Award
Sandra Ho
Computer Engineering
TRIO Scholars Award of Excellence
Hailey Lint Sciene and Technology Studies
TRIO Scholars Golden Apple Award
Anjolaoluwa Ajai Biomolecular Science
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Class of 2023 Favorite Memory at Tandon
The times when I went out for lunch with my classmates during breaks. As a single mom (back then, happily married now) juggling work and studies, it wasn’t always easy to find time to socialize and connect with others. But those lunch outings gave me the opportunity to take a break from the stress and catch up with my peers.
The moments I spent on campus with my friends. We would gather in different rooms and classrooms to study and work on our projects, but we always found ourselves getting caught up in activities like watching movies or playing games together. We even had a playful nickname for ourselves, “hunters and gatherers,” because of our tendency to seek out new experiences and opportunities to have fun together.
Staying up all night during welcome week to walk across the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges with two friends I met that night.
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My GLASS senior trip to NYU Abu Dhabi.
The NASA Competition with RDT
Making friends from all around the world and sharing our experiences growing up. It’s so crazy that we have so many similarities despite growing up miles apart.
Running into an old friend I went to undergrad with back in Las Vegas. Of all places, we both ended up at Tandon a few years later.
Working with the NYU Office for Inclusive Excellence. This included everything from setting up open dialogues with other students to organizing volunteer opportunities. Seeing our peers come together, learn new skills and become more aware of heritage dates and inclusive initiatives was truly inspiring.
The first time I went to Pebble Beach with my friends from Dibner.
I met a lot of people at the NYU grad admissions office and they feel like home away from home.
Sitting on the floor of our “living room” in our dorm with my freshman year roommates during November with fake candles and a fake fireplace from our computer in complete darkness. We had hot tea and chocolate, blankets and were just talking about our lives and funny stories from our past.
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CLASS OF 2023
Many people call themselves citizens of the world, indicating their love of travel and openness to new cultures, but Joshua Lee is, perhaps, more entitled to that description than most. The numbers tell part of the tale: as a teenager, he attended four different high schools in three different countries.
There is, however, much more to his story than an exceedingly peripatetic academy journey. Lee was born in Los Angeles but immigrated to Alberta, Canada, as an infant. His mother, a native of Korea who was fiercely entrepreneurial and drawn to the West by the seemingly limitless possibilities moving presented, opened a gas station there. Lee explains that while a gas station might seem an odd choice of business for a young single mother, she had always been infused with a sense of adventure: among her former jobs was shepherding groups of Korean tourists through Israel–a country where she lived for a time.
Lee credits her for his current success: it was she who insisted he study abroad in an effort to expand his horizons, arranging for him to go from his Canadian high school to a rigorous international program in Shanghai for a year. “Besides the normal culture shock, I experienced academic shock,” he recalls. “I went from reading the Percy Jackson books back in Canada to being expected to understand Socrates in China.”
When his year in Shanghai was over, he traveled to Kentucky–a surprisingly diverse and welcoming place, he says–to attend an exchange program at Villa Madonna, a Catholic school, and from there he settled in Los Angeles, where his mother was then managing a clothing store. “She is a wonderful role model,” Lee says. “She always rolled with the punches, and she sheltered me from any struggles she was going through. When I got accepted to NYU Tandon, she was emphatic that I was going to attend, no matter what.”
Lee had always excelled in mathematics, but during the isolation of the pandemic, when there was little to occupy him except problem sets, he had an epiphany: he enjoyed his courses in C++ and algorithm design more than his pure math classes. “When I studied computer science, I felt almost a childlike sense of excitement,” he says.
That excitement translated into stellar academic performance: Lee was assigned to become the head teaching assistant for Design and Analysis of Algorithms, and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
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Meet some of the members of a class poised to make the world more sustainable, resilient, healthy, secure, equitable, and liveable–in short, a better place.
They’re the reason we can say we’re engineering optimism here at NYU Tandon.
VALEDICTORIAN Joshua Lee
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering/ Mathematics
in C++, and he’s ending his time at NYU Tandon as valedictorian of the Class of 2023.
It has also resulted in a job at tech giant Qualcomm, where he will start after graduation as a software engineer in the San Diego-based machine learning group. “I’ll be working on a mobile platform called Snapdragon, optimizing models for Qualcomm clients” he says, “and I anticipate exploring new areas of computer science.” He’s also anticipating moving back to the West Coast, where his mother now works as a team leader at a major retailer. “I wouldn’t have gotten the benefit of an NYU education without her,” he stresses. “When I address the audience at commencement as valedictorian, I’ll be reminding my classmates how much we owe our professors, family, and friends for helping us get where we are.”
She envisions a career that combines her talent for scientific research, dedication to improving health outcomes, and determination to contribute to the social good in meaningful ways. “I’m grateful that what I’ve learned at Tandon will enable me to be an agent of change,” she says.
Growing up in Kenya, Sheila Atieno–driven by the death of some of her family members– aspired to pursue medical science, with a focus on cancer research. “My purpose is more than just a career,” she says. Given the rare (but thankfully growing) opportunities for women in biotech in her native country, she aims to promote opportunities for other women in STEM in Kenya as well.
Since Atieno arrived in the U.S., opportunities have abounded, and at Tandon, she has worked in both Assistant Professor David Truong’s lab, dedicated to cell programming and genome engineering, and the Molecular Biology for Environmental Metagenomics Lab, overseen by Assistant Professor Elizabeth Henaff. She has thus acquired extensive experience in various fields, including synthetic biology and the microbiomes of urban areas.
If you assume she spends all of her time behind a lab bench, however, you’d be wrong. Atieno serves as president of NYU’s Biomedical Engineering Society–a group with a packed schedule of professional development, networking, and social events–and she has taken part in Girls Who Code at NYU and the Black Student Health Association, aimed at aspiring Black healthcare professionals. If all that wasn’t enough, she is a longtime volunteer with several organizations, including the Red Cross, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the faith-based CRU Bridges International.
Rahnuma Tarannum spent the first 15 years of her life in Bangladesh, learning English from watching Hollywood films with her big brother. “My family is very traditional, but he always advocated for me and insisted that I should be free to break away from conventional gender roles,” she says. “When my father won the visa lottery to come to the U.S. with my mother and me, he stayed behind since he was a doctor, and his services are very much needed in our native country, but he still roots for me and acts as my mentor and role model.”
Settling in New York City, where her father found work driving a taxi, Tarannum enjoyed figuring out how the city and its transportation systems worked. After earning her bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Queens College, she searched for a way to give back to the city she had come to love and hit upon the idea of studying at Tandon’s Center for Urban Science and Progress.
With her brother’s encouragement, Tarannum had begun to spread her wings, interning for New York City Council Member Ben Kallos and working for the Bryant Park Corporation and 34th Street Partnership during her undergraduate years. Now she challenged herself even further, taking on the role of project manager during her capstone (a social justice initiative that involved analyzing Brooklyn’s surveillance technologies for further accountability by law enforcement and government agencies.) and winning an internship as a Data Research Associate for the MTA. “I worked on a project to make the agency’s open-data dashboard more transparent, easier to navigate, and inclusive of more up-to-the-minute information,” she says, “and that proved to be a real boon to journalists and others needing timely, comprehensive information.”
Tarannum apparently impressed not only the users of the dashboard but also her managers at the MTA: directly after graduating, she’ll be starting a full-time position as a data science specialist.
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Sheila Atieno
M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Rahnuma Tarannum
M.S. CUSP
Swarnashri Chandrashekar
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Swarnashri Chandrashekar was not one of those kids who always knew that they wanted to be an engineer or scientist. There were just so many interesting things to explore. “I loved the idea of archaeology,” she says, “but then when my cousin showed me a model skull she had gotten, I started thinking about medicine.”
Her father, who had gone into banking after being advised that it was an exceptionally secure career, had longed during his own youth to become an engineer, however, and when Chandrashekar was in sixth grade, he introduced her to her first computer programming language.
She was hooked.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Chandrashekar embarked on a career as a software engineer at Collins Aerospace (now part of Raytheon), in Hyderabad, where she joined a small group assigned to develop an on-ground simulation system for their Flight Control Systems team. In the process, she discovered a love for computer architecture and became determined to expand her knowledge of accelerators and other digital hardware components.
With most academic programs focused on software, she began the arduous process of researching the researchers and came upon the name of Brandon Reagen, an expert in designing specialized hardware accelerators for applications like deep learning and privacy-preserving computation.
There was just one catch: Reagen was a faculty member at Tandon, in far-off Brooklyn; the most Chandrashekar had seen of the U.S. had been during a brief visit to Iowa, where Collins was headquartered. Despite some trepidation, she headed to New York City, and was happy to discover that the program was exactly what she envisioned. “Professor Reagen challenged me to choose an application and make it smarter, faster, and more cost-effective, and I learned a lot from designing an ASIC for one of the slower genome analysis workloads,” she says.
That experience helped win her an internship at SiFive, a company focused on RISC-V architecture for the semiconductor industry, and after graduation she’ll be headed to Austin, Texas, to work at a company known
as ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) “I may consider a doctoral degree in the future, and I would love to start my own heterogeneous systems enterprise one day,” she says, “but right now I’m excited to embark on this next stage of my career, which would not have been possible without NYU Tandon.”
Minh Tran has devoted her academic research to improving the efficiency of solar cells–a major task if the global energy sector is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
The issue with current silicon solar panels is that they are not the best match for the solar spectrum. Only certain wavelengths can be efficiently used with existing cells. For example, ultraviolet light is not converted to electrical power as well as infrared light, and this means that a great deal of the potential energy that could be captured is wasted.
What if instead of changing the panels, we changed the sun itself, she wondered.
Working in the lab of Professor Eray Aydil, she has developed a film coating that can be applied to solar panels to change the light spectrum, turning ultraviolet light (from the less efficient band of the spectrum) into near-infrared light (the more efficient source for solar cells). The innovation recently took home the top prize at Energy Tech UP, the Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions annual competition, and the next steps include launching a startup to scale and market the product, which not only boosts solar-panel efficiency but reduces degradation and eliminates the dangerous lead that is found in most coatings of its kind.
The winner of the 2022 NYU Professor Turner Alfrey Prize and 2021 Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award, aimed at recognizing and encouraging excellence by women in STEM graduate studies, Tran is on an undeniably sunny entrepreneurial path.
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Minh Tran
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Omer Keles
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Many students would acknowledge that engineering programs are so rigorous that the prospect of adding a second challenging major would seem daunting, to say the least.
Omer Keles is not easily daunted, however, and while earning his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, he double-majored in public policy at NYU Wagner. “I’ve always loved assessing problems analytically and really enjoyed learning technologies like CAD,” he explains. “Yet I also loved English literature; foreign languages; and the social sciences. So I always knew I wanted whatever I did to be interdisciplinary.”
(Outside of his native English and Turkish, he can also speak Spanish and read and write in Arabic.)
That commitment to breaking down silos applies not only to his majors but his outside activities–a small sampling of which includes becoming a National Grid Engineering Pipeline Scholar; assuming the presidency of the NYU student chapter of SAMPE (the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering); taking on a post as a district representative and the CTO of the Mandate Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicating to improving governance with technology; making the semifinals of NYU Stern’s 300K Entrepreneurs Challenge as part of the power bank rental startup CoCharge LLC; and penning a scholarly article published in the peer-reviewed journal Telecommunications Policy on the regulatory problems posed by space debris. In it he explains that the accumulation of orbital space debris poses serious dangers to the long term sustainability of our satellite systems, and that existing policy frameworks surrounding the launch of man-made objects and expeditions into space are inadequate to deal with the long-term consequences.
Keles–who was born in Istanbul but settled in the U.S. as an infant when his parents immigrated in order to earn doctoral degrees at Syracuse University (his mother in political science and his father in cultural anthropology)–says that Tandon allowed him to take paths he didn’t expect. “In my very first general engineering course, we learned about the importance of being able to pivot, and I’m trying to apply that ethos to my studies and career,” he says.
He plans to next earn a master’s degree in public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University, a top-ranked school for public affairs, with the ultimate goal of using his engineering
mindset to inform more efficient policy making. Technical innovations need to consider policy, or dilemmas like those surrounding space debris will inevitably arise, he explains, and it’s equally shortsighted to set policy without a grounded analytic perspective. That old saying that’s popular among engineers and carpenters–”Measure twice, cut once” —has applicability in a lot of sectors, he asserts.
Many undergraduates would consider themselves lucky if they found a steady, low-pressure job in a retail establishment or restaurant; when he wasn’t in classes, Luke Buttenwieser spent his undergraduate years managing the Stamford Department of Transportation, Traffic & Parking’s Vision Zero initiative, aimed at eliminating roadway fatalities; coordinating the Connecticut city’s outdoor dining program; managing roadway improvement projects totaling more than $10 Million and writing more than $50 million in grant proposals; reviewing Zoning Board applications; managing the installation of pavement markings on 315 miles of roadway–and let’s not forget investigating and replying to citizen complaints.
It would be a tall order for even the most seasoned transportation professional, but Buttenwieser, whose first word as a toddler was “bus,” was offered the opportunity to join the department shortly before graduating from Stamford’s King High School in 2019, after officials saw the results of a volunteer project he had undertaken that involved collecting and analyzing data on vehicle speeds and the city’s efforts to calm traffic. Working while taking a full course load had its challenges, he admits, but his classes and labs helped him in his job, and vice-versa, he says.
For his capstone project, he used AutoCAD to design a plan to make St. Mark’s Place, a busy street in downtown New York, safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, and he is now headed to the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service to earn a master’s degree in urban planning.
Wherever the road takes him after that, it will probably be a safer, more efficient, more sustainable road if he has anything to do with it.
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Luke Buttenwieser
B.S. Technology, Culture, and Society
Elaine Li B.S. Applied Physics and Mathematics
Elaine Li discovered back in high school that she was good at physics, and her confidence grew as she racked up solid showings at the Physics Olympiad. She never shrank back even though she was often the only girl in the room: “Physics makes sense of just about everything,” she says, explaining her love of the topic.
She soon became determined to pursue her studies in New York, lured by the thoughts of the academic freedom and diversity she would find there. For a time, COVID-19 derailed those plans, although she was able to commence her studies at NYU, thanks to the “Go Local” initiative that allowed her to begin her classes at the campus in Shanghai. (Go Local at NYU Shanghai was designed for undergraduates from China who were not able to obtain a student visa or travel to New York due to pandemic restrictions.)
During her Go Local year at NYU Shanghai, Li had the chance to explore her interests widely through piano duet, chorale, and music history courses. At the same time, she embarked on research in fluid dynamics, the study of the flow of liquids and gasses. Her most recent project combines simulation and experimentation to investigate the lift and drag of a flying robot; her goal is to discover a low drag condition, which may challenge the traditional understanding of drag and shed new light on the fundamental principles of fluid dynamics.
Working in labs across Shanghai and New York and taking several graduate-level courses, she gained knowledge and research skills that will undoubtedly translate to her upcoming doctoral studies. “I am thankful for the cross-school experiences that enabled me to see things from the perspectives of physicists, engineers and mathematicians,” she says.
Besides her research in physics, Li actively engaged in teaching and community outreach for prospective STEM students. “I understand the struggles and doubts we may encounter in pursuing our goals,” she explains. “However, I hope my experiences can serve as an inspiration to all individuals, regardless of their gender or academic field.”
Outside of the classroom, Li could often be found in the lobby of 5 MetroTech, playing the piano, which she has studied since the age of five. “You might not expect this of engineers and scientists, but many of us also have a marked affinity for music,” she says. “A lot of my professors and fellow students are playing, producing,
and even composing music. I’m not sure what the connection between those right-brain and left-brain activities is–a biomedical engineer could probably explain–but I’m just grateful that I made so many good friends at NYU Tandon through my playing.”
Musically, Madeline Lyons had a lot to live up to: her greatgrandfather was Horace Tapscott, a now-renowned pianist and composer who was a major figure in L.A.’s free jazz scene from the 1960s through the ‘90s. She began studying piano at the age of three and soon added violin and voice. By the time she won admission to Alexander Hamilton High School Academy of Music and Performing Arts, she was of two minds; in addition to her artistic interests, she had developed a deep love of math and a fascination with aerospace engineering (thanks in large part to watching rocket launches with her grandmother, a civilian worker at the Los Angeles Air Force Base).
Coming to NYU helped her “connect the dots,” as she puts it. While earning her degree at Tandon in mechanical engineering and serving as engineering director of the school’s rocketry team, co-president of the student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and treasurer of the Space Exploration Society, she was also able to minor at Steinhardt, studying chamber music under Manuel Laufer.
That’s all in addition to working as a tutor within Tandon’s TRIO Scholars Program, an initiative aimed at helping lowincome and first-generation students succeed, and leading summer engineering classes for third- and fourth-graders under the auspices of the National Society of Black Engineers. It’s especially gratifying, she says, when she can spark interest in the many students who “hate math because of the lack of understanding that goes hand in hand with an absence of engaging resources and incentives.”
In the summer of her junior year, Lyons completed an internship at aerospace giant Boeing, where she worked as a quality engineer. She received a return offer and will be working full-time on satellite systems directly after graduation, in addition to starting an aerospace engineering master’s program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the fall.
“I want to innovate ideas that take us further in space travel and discovery,” she says, “which will ultimately provide better resources and technology that can be used here on Earth.”
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Madeline Lyons
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
While growing up in Estes Park, a remote town in Colorado, Emma Reins was spotted by a modeling agent one day at a swim meet. She was then signed at the age of 10 and began her career as a professional model. She started by appearing mostly in catalog photo shoots and other commercial projects, and by the time she was a senior in high school, her career had grown considerably and she was now accepting international jobs, mainly on high-fashion runways.
Despite her career success, she was not content to count on modeling as her primary career. Her mother had worked as a microbiologist in a healthcare setting, and Reins loved watching her at work. While striding the catwalks of Paris and Milan might be considered the pinnacle of glamour to most people, for Reins, nothing sounded more exciting than studying STEM. She was particularly fascinated by disciplines like chemical and biomolecular engineering, which had broad practical applications in a wide variety of sectors.
While she had a clear idea of what she wanted to study, choosing a college posed something of a dilemma, however; she wanted to continue modeling while still studying for a degree in STEM, which meant that a school in New York City (where her agency was based) would be best for her. Luckily, NYU Tandon had a program tailored for her interests, and she started in the fall of 2019.
Once here she threw herself into campus life, serving as a fitness attendant at the gym and as a public health ambassador, educating members of the community and enforcing safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of her social media savvy and experience with public appearances, she also took on the role of marketing and publicity chair for the student chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE).
She was active in the lab, as well: in one notable project, Reins and her team analyzed the spatiotemporal behavior of individuals exiting medical facilities in order to measure the success levels of public health intervention, explore the extent to which touch data could be operationalized in a 3D environment to inform public and institutional policies, and assess the relevance of open data QGIS layers in predicting behaviors and outbreaks.
The worlds of fashion and chemical engineering collided in some respects when she took a course with Adjunct
Professor Peter Tsolis, who works as the vice president of skincare for the iconic beauty brand Estée Lauder. Tsolis belonged to numerous industry associations, and thanks in large part to his recommendation, Reins won a summer internship at Barnet, where she was involved in developing sunscreen and various other products.
Although she now feels torn between seeking a career in the biomedical field or the cosmetics industry, she will not be making an immediate decision. “I’ve been working since I was 10,” she explains. “I’m going to take some time to catch my breath and then choose what comes next for me.”
Simon Chau impressed his professors almost from the moment he entered NYU Tandon to study in the Department of Finance and Risk Engineering. By that time, he had worked for several years in the financial industry in his native Hong Kong: as a quantitative research analyst at a hedge fund for three years and as part of the Fixed Income Product Risk team at the Hong Kong Exchange for two.
Despite his successful career, he acknowledged that there were areas in which he needed to upskill. “I ran into questions about machine learning and financial modeling, for example,” he says, “and I knew earning a master’s degree could help.” Taking an online Coursera course offered by Tandon convinced him that coming to Brooklyn would be a worthwhile investment, and that instinct was soon proven correct. “Concepts that had confused me for years became clear in Ken Perry’s machine learning class, and I realized I was really ‘getting it’ when I won top honors at the International Association for Quantitative Finance’s annual competition.”
Chau’s prowess extends from the Exchange to the ring: although back in Hong Kong, he had been an aficionado of the extreme sport known as “tricking”—a fusion of martial arts, gymnastics, and dance moves–when he could not find a group devoted to the pursuit in Brooklyn, he turned instead to boxing.
There’s one game he’s already aced: finding a great job commensurate with his new degree and skills. “I love puzzles, so I actually enjoyed using the Green Book, which is how A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews is generally referred to,” he says, “and I’m happy to report that right after graduation I’ll be starting at Deutsche Bank as a quantitative strat.”
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Emma Reins
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Simon Chau
M.S. Finance and Risk Engineering
A portion of Vickram Peter’s academic journey was determined by kismet: it was while accompanying his mother on a business trip to Singapore that he spied a small poster advertising Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He had already fallen in love with computers and engineering back in his native Mumbai, and now he fell equally in love with Singapore–a technologically advanced smart city with a commitment to the digital transformation of health, transportation, government services and business. Attending NTU seemed a natural step.
While earning his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Peter, also a gifted public speaker and drama student, was exposed to literature, public policy, psychology, and other such topics, and he came to believe that it was imperative to examine the human side of technology. “Just because you are able to do something, doesn’t necessarily mean that you should do it,” he says.
It was after completing his studies at NTU, where he was encouraged to examine life through a more anthropological lens, that he recalled an earlier memory. He had read about and become fascinated by a program at the Center for Urban Science and Progress at King’s College, in London. He now felt ready to explore that option further. Research revealed that the Center was connected to one at NYU Tandon: New York, with its theater scene, complex transit system, and tech ecosystem seemed to present another fated stop on his journey.
At Tandon, Peter is working with the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project, which aims to measure noise pollution and analyze how it affects residents, and he has served as the president of CUSP’s student body. Moving forward, he plans to focus on making the cities of the future more accessible. “When many people hear the word accessible, they immediately think of physical accessibility for the differently abled,” he explains. “Of course, that’s important, but I think of accessibility in an even broader sense–in terms of access to resources like public transportation. I love a quote that’s been attributed to a Colombian mayor: ‘An advanced city is not one where the poor can get around by car, but one where even the rich use public transportation.’”
Rafaella Saa Rodriguez is equally adept in the lab and on the tennis court. Before arriving at NYU Tandon, she played tennis competitively for a dozen years and ranked as a junior professional in international tournaments throughout Latin America and Asia.
Saa Rodriguez, a native of Quito, Ecuador, was in the very first cohort of the Global Leaders and Scholars in STEM (GLASS) program, which highlights incoming Tandon undergraduates with the potential to become global leaders in innovation, technology, research, and entrepreneurship.
One of just four students selected as panel moderators at the 2022 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, she met world leaders from across four continents, and soon after graduation, she’ll be headed to Switzerland, where she has been accepted into ETH Zurich’s biotechnology master’s program. Inspired by a close family member’s recent battle with breast cancer, her ultimate goal is for her research to help expand access to screenings and treatments in underserved areas of South America and the world.
“I sometimes miss playing tennis,” she says, “but I think I made the right choice in focusing instead on my classes and lab work.”
Some clubs thrive on being small and exclusive, but Dora Sun would like hers to be as large as possible. She’s an active member of WiCyS (Women in Cybersecurity), a group founded in 2012 with the help of a National Science Foundation grant and dedicated to uniting aspiring and thriving women cybersecurity professionals to collaborate, share their knowledge, network and mentor.
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Rafaella Saa Rodriguez
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Dora Sun
M.S. Computer Science and Engineering
Vickram Peter M.S. CUSP
Sun got her start in the field after earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science and completing a summer Technology Analyst Program at JPMorgan Chase & Co. The financial-services giant extended a return offer for a full-time position in the department of her choice, and she became intrigued by the chance to play a role in safeguarding the data of the firm’s millions of clients.
Soon, however, she wanted to learn even more about the vital, fast-paced world she had joined, and when she read about NYU Tandon’s Cyber Fellows Program, it seemed like a perfect fit. “Cyber Fellows didn’t simply make me a better cybersecurity professional,” she says. “It’s made me a better engineer overall.”
It’s also made her more determined than ever to help get other women involved in the field. “Women make up 39% of the general workforce, but account for just 25% of the jobs in cybersecurity,” she relates. “And with a global shortfall of more than 3 million workers according to most surveys, it’s time we stepped up.”
Once at Tandon, she found role models in her peers, as well as her professors, taking inspiration from hearing about their own professional pathways. The winner of one of the department’s awards for Superior Leadership and Service, she completed internships at Hanover Street Capital (Deutsche Bank’s commercial real estate arm), where she served as part of the Portfolio Management Team, helping identify risk factors in a loan portfolio worth some $20 billion.
“Thinking about my father taking the chance to start his own real estate enterprise and then landing a position in the commercial real estate division of one of the world’s biggest, most respected banks feels like reaching the start of a circular journey,” she says. “It feels like it was meant to be.”
When Kunjan Mehta was selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants to embark on a summer research internship at the University of Tokyo, in Kashiwa, she felt some trepidation about the language barriers she would undoubtedly face and the dietary challenges she, as a vegetarian, might encounter. Then 19, she took the leap and left her home in Mumbai, and the experience helped her develop into a global citizen (as well as forcing her to learn to cook).
A Mechanical Engineering major with a specialization in Energy Engineering, she had a good role model when it came to taking chances: her father is a civil engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit who built his own real estate and construction company from the ground up.
Among the opportunities she seized was the chance to earn an advanced degree in the U.S. Fascinated by the underlying mathematics involved, she chose Finance and Risk Engineering. (She had worked after earning her undergraduate degree as a data scientist at a financialtechnology startup, conducting credit risk modeling for potential borrowers in the Indian and Vietnamese markets.)
After Charlee Cobb earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and got a behind-the-scenes job in news production, she made it her mission to air stories focused on healthcare and issues affecting the elderly. She was motivated by a confluence of factors. Growing up in Southern Ohio, in the western foothills of Appalachia, she had seen firsthand the health problems that plagued financially disadvantaged, rural, Black communities, where conditions like diabetes and hypertension ran rampant–and the disparities in the quality of care available in those communities. On a more personal level, during her college years, her beloved grandmother was in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease–a wrenching process to watch.
While Cobb appreciated the chance to bring public attention to important health-related stories, she became discontented. “As a journalist, your job is to see and report, but not to act,” she explains. Seeking to take a more hands-on role that would allow her to make a practical impact, she began studying biomedical engineering at NYU Tandon, where her focus has been on bioinformatics–an interdisciplinary field that employs computation and analysis to capture and interpret biological data, which can then be used to inform drug discovery, personalized treatment protocols, or even community-level healthcare policy.
Instead of being behind the camera, Cobb will soon be behind a lab bench. Last summer she served as an intern at healthcare giant Pfizer, where she analyzed data to generate actionable insights into atrial fibrillation therapies, and she has accepted a full-time post in the company’s rotational program for early-career tech professionals.
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Kunjan Mehta
M.S. Finance and Risk Engineering
Charlee Cobb
M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Blessing Emole
M.S. Technology, Culture and Society
Blessing Emole’s love for words led her to pursue a career in journalism. Growing up in various countries, including the U.K., U.S., Australia, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Nigeria, she had a diverse cultural background. Her innate curiosity and profound question-asking ability shone through as she earned a bachelor’s degree in Magazine, Newspaper, and Online Journalism from Syracuse University.
However, something was missing. She felt the need to explore a more visually creative path. Deciding to pivot, she took on several internships in the realms of graphic design and marketing design, but it was during her time at the NFL that she discovered her love for User Experience Design.
Her family’s emphasis on education inspired Emole to pursue a master’s degree. When considering graduate programs, Tandon’s Integrated Design & Media (IDM) program immediately caught her eye as the perfect fit for her career interests and goals.
At IDM, Emole delved into everything from coding to AR/VR, but it was accessible design that resonated with her the most. Among her most memorable experiences was leading the UX design initiative for a citizen-science project sponsored by NASA and spearheaded by the Advanced Research in STEAM Accessibility (ARISA) Lab. The Eclipse Soundscapes
Citizen-Science Project (ES: CSP) enabled the Blind/ Low Vision (B/LV) community to collect, listen, interact, and analyse audio recordings from eclipses and analyse the acoustic data to determine how disruptions in light and circadian rhythm may affect ecosystems. The ES: CSP demonstrated that those in the B/LV community can participate in scientific research if interfaces are made accessible.
Emole also completed an internship at Zillow, the online real estate company, and led a VIP team of students in investigating how to make Instagram filters more inclusive and accessible. For her thesis project, Emole centred the voices of Black Women in maternal health and examined their unique experiences with postpartum depression in order to offer up design recommendations for a culturally informed socialsupport application.
Emole worked as IDM’s UX graduate assistant throughout her master’s program. With her passion for accessible design and user experience, she plans to continue her work in the field and might consider teaching one day. Whatever her next experience is, it’s bound to be well-designed.
To a layperson, there might not seem to be an obvious connection between sports and civil engineering, but Anton Cano explains that there is. Growing up in the Philippines, Cano was a big fan of soccer. He loved both playing in casual games with his friends and watching televised matches with the national team, Pambansang koponan ng futbol ng Pilipinas, nicknamed the Azkals (or Street Dogs), in homage to their scrappy reputation and dogged determination. That the team had never qualified for the FIFA World Cup had much to do with the lack of infrastructure in the Philippines to support the sport, Cano realized, and if he studied civil engineering, he might one day be able to help rectify that situation.
As a student at NYU Tandon, Cano had little time to keep up with sports, however: winning an American Society of Civil Engineers award as the highest ranking member of the department’s graduating class, as he did, takes a lot of studying, but that’s not a burden when you’re doing something you love and that’s important to you, Cano says. “Plus, I had professors who mentored me and helped keep me on track,” he explains. “I should give a special shout-out here to Professor Walid Aboumoussa, who never hesitated to nudge me if it seemed like I was resting on my laurels.”
With commencement looming, Cano is finding a little more time to indulge in outside activities; he recently took up rock-climbing, and there are always soccer games streaming online. A loyal fan, he has, on occasion, stayed up to watch the Azkals play at 2 a.m. EST. He dreams of one day seeing them compete in the World Cup.
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Anton Cano
B.S. Civil and Urban Engineering
In the meantime, he’ll have to be content with a different dream come true: a job as a structural engineer focusing on building design. After graduation, he’ll be joining WSP, a forward-thinking design and consulting firm specializing in engineering, community planning, environmental, and construction services.
MakerSpace and striving to complete an ambitious capstone project involving the creation of a new resource hub for the Department of Technology, Management, and Innovation.
When she first explored the idea of earning a master’s degree, Sergiou had predicted: “I foresee being able to aid in the development of innovative new designs and processes — something that’s important in most industries — and leverage everything I’ve learned in the process.” She’ll be doing just that at her newest job as the marketing manager at an exciting tech startup!
It’s an undeniably stirring sight enjoyed by tourist and native New Yorker alike: almost 200 flags gently waving on the poles circling the rink at Rockefeller Center. Each spring since 2020, members of the public have been invited to submit a flag design for what the Center describes as a crowdsourced art project, which remains on display for several weeks. This year, for the first time, one of the chosen designs were curated using artificial intelligence, making it the first piece of art at Rockefeller Center to have been created using AI.
The designer was Florentina Sergiou, who used the generative AI platform Midjourney to create a flag depicting a colorful mezze platter in celebration of her Cypriot heritage; she also had a second submission accepted, which highlighted a croissant from her favorite Brooklyn bakery. (In partnership with City Harvest, Rockefeller Center had chosen the culinary theme to bring attention to the nonprofit’s mission of feeding the City’s hungry through food rescue.)
It was not the first time Sergiou’s work could be seen at the rink, directly across from the iconic sculpture of Prometheus: her designs were also chosen when the year’s themes were sustainability and resilience–areas of special interest to her as a Tandon student.
Sergiou, who in 2021 earned her bachelor’s degree in Integrated Design & Media and remained to earn a master’s degree in Management of Technology, has said, “There is not a strict divide between tech skills and artistic skills—it’s very possible to work at the intersection. Tandon has allowed me to merge artistic inquiry with scientific research and technological practice, and I try to leverage that combination in everything I do.”
Currently, she works as the Programming Manager at Wilder World, a Metaverse firm, while also serving as the leader of the Communications Team at Tandon’s
When Jakub Legocki was growing up in Linden, a town in Northern New Jersey, the drive to karate lessons or the shopping center often wended past the headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Merck. What, he wondered, could be happening in those massive buildings, especially the one with its distinctive smokestack? Now, more than a decade later, he knows firsthand.
In 2022 Legocki completed an internship at the company, and following graduation, he will begin a full-time post as an associate scientist in the Bioprocess Drug Substance Commercialization group, where he will work to improve the purification processes for the substances used in antibody drug therapies.
Merck was not, however, his first exposure to bioengineering. Beginning in his sophomore year, he conducted research in Professor Jin Montclare’s eponymous protein-engineering lab, where his projects included exploring the therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities of protein hydrogels as well as increasing the efficiency of pesticide-detoxifying proteins.
While Tandon encourages students to think of the social and ethical impacts of the technology they develop and work with, Legocki has gone a step further: he minored in philosophy. “It’s made me more mindful of how I treat people in my personal life, and it certainly carries over into my professional life,” he says. “As an engineer, I have an obligation to keep issues like sustainability and accessibility in mind, consider the long-term effects of my work, and strive to effectively address the issues the world is facing.”
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Florentina Sergiou
M.S. Technology Management and Innovation
Jakub Legocki B.S. / M.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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DOCTORAL DEGREE
Qi Liu
Srushti Rath
Daniel Sierra
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Andrea Elizabeth
Angulo Figueira
Minh Tran
Materials Chemistry
Haripriya Kannan
Gyugeun Yoon
Fan Zuo
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science
Amir Pouya Aghasadeghi
Alberto Chierici
Neel Dey
Michael Green
Civil & Urban Engineering
Civil Engineering
Fiona Dunn
Antonio Kodsy
Siyuan Xiang
Transportation Planning and Engineering
Zilin Bian
Zhexi Fu
Paz Grimberg
Hao Huang
Antonio Mallia
Yurii Piadyk
Prashant Hari Narayan Rajput
Ruben Rodriguez Torrado
Che Wang
Janith Weerasinghe
Peter Xenopoulos
Daitao Xing
Jun Yuan
Shuaihang Yuan
Electrical Engineering
Abdullah Al-Shabili
Haneen Alsuradi
Minsu Cho
Edoardo Cuniberto
Zhipeng Fan
David Giglio
Yinan Hu
Yunhan Huang
Muhammad Affan Javed
Ameya Joshi
Shihao Ju
Ojas Kanhere
Abbas Khalili Olam
Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani
Hafiz Anwar Ullah Khan
Athanasios-Panagiotis Koutsaftis
Zakriya Mohammed
Mustafa Furkan Ozkoc
Syed Hashim Ali Shah
Panagiotis Skrimponis
Yunfei Teng
I-Chih Wang
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Apratim Bajpai
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Gary Mac
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William Peng
Venkata Sai Siva Kaushik
Yanamandra
Technology
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Ayanna Seals
MASTER’S DEGREE
Jimmy Chang
Manar Elzaky
Nicole Fraynd
Megan Fricke
Applied Physics
Applied Physics
Christian Balevski
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Kuo Liao
Halle Gibson
Lena Greene
Yangha Han
Nosheib Jadoon
Andrew Jimenez
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Wentao Li
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Meng Xiong
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Chen Liu
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Siyong Liu
Zirui Liu
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Yushan Luo
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Yixuan Ma
Max Magid
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Hao Shi
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Suraj Sunil
Bing Yang Tan
Emma Thomsen
Hanyu Tian
Cui Tong
Hanfie Vandanu
Vinita Milind Wagh
Hui Wang
Junren Wang
Sijian Wang
Yiou Wang
Zenn Wong
Guanyi Wu
Yu Wu
Jingxuan Xiao
Wengan Xiao
Jiazhi Xu
Xinlu Xu
Xinyu Xu
Zuda Yan
Miaojing Yang
Yifan Yao
Hongjiang Ye
Xiangyu Ying
Jingyuan Yu
Weiya Yuan
Dingrui Zhang
Jingrong Zhang
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MASTER’S DEGREE (continued)
Kaiwen Zhang
Tianqi Zhang
Zhongqi Zhang
Ke Zhao
Yinuo Zhao
Yuxin Zhao
Boqian Zhou
Yanzhou Zhu
Samuel Zierler
Nikita Puranik
Vageesha Ranjan
Shana Ravvin
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Hongyu Xu
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
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Harshini Tummala
Yingluo Wang
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Chemical Engineering
Hasib Bin Absar
Adeola Akin
Rafia Alamgir
Azan Brar
Minh Diep
Huanyao Ge
Dylan Hollings
Chiamaka Igbomezie
Baraa Karaghuli
Jakub Legocki
Zheng Li
Kevin Lin
Antonio Lopez Cerrato
Joel Mendoza
Julia Monkovic
Ishani Prachchhak
Aditya Bhavin Radia
Yaxin Shen
Kevin Wolf
Alvern Yu
Yuchen Zhang
Jiaqi Zuo
Blake Brewer
Rajath Reddy Channa Reddy
Atharva Chaudhari
Vaishnavi Rajendra Chavanke
Jinsen Chen
Kai Chen
Dominic Davies Chennakkadan
Abhignya Cheruku
Raj Amish Chheda
Chinmay Chitnis
Arihant Arun Dasharathakar
Rafael De Carvalho
Raj Kamlesh Dhangar
Civil & Urban Engineering
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Prashant Abrol
Najla Alwaqayan
Waqas Bhutta
Ravi Tej Bist
Raqib Caesar
Wilson Chafla
Kristina Crivello
Tamuno Iyalla
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Suraj Kumar
Alex Li
Qisheng Li
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Arfath Khan Mohammed
Anna Qu
Elyce Relleve Pimentel
Yerassyl Sansyzbayev
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Bilal Sher
Guan Wei
Ruiwen Zhang
Construction Management
Mohammad Ibrahim Abasi
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Nitin Prakash Arul Prakasam
Onkar Dattatraya Bande
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Bhavesh Bramhecha
Hanu Sumegha Didyala
Patricia Fuentes
Sai saketh Gangisetty
Somil Garg
Tato Goguadze
Juan Guerrero
Sudeep Hamal
Keval Maganbhai Hapani
Neiv Mahesh Jaising
Vaishnavi Devendrakumar
Jariwala
Shan Jiang
Kedaar Kakade
Aashay Narendra Kamble
Vatsal Kiranbhai Kamdar
Anudeep Kanala
Shrishti Kenjale
Anshul Khandelwal
Bhagyalaxmi Sandeep
Konde Deshmukh
Kishan Kotadia
Siu Ming Lai
Guoquan Li
Zejie Li
Smit Jagjivanbhai Limbani
Hongji Lin
Ravindra Mahara
Eric Mannarino
Nirmal Mody
Mayra Morales
Jose Moreno
Sanket Shivaji Nagare
Yelaman Naizabekov
Abhishek Nandagaon
Zina Pacheco
Pritesh Dhirubhai Paladiya
Pramit Parikh
Tirth Deepak Patel
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Vandan Patel
Vraj Sureshbhai Patel
Adishri Patil
Ajay Patkar
Justice Pesce
Alexios Prekas
Alexis Quinones
Anurag Rajgure
Ritesh Raju
Victoria Ranaudo
Moazamah Rubab
Jash Sardhara
Shrinivas Sawkar
Aadish Shah
Aarjav Amitkumar Shah
Xing Shen
Smit Sheth
Soham Milan Sheth
Rohith Siddappa Swamy
Karpaham Sundar Raj
Vatsal Surani
Jay Chetan Trivedi
Lakshmi Praseeda Vemulapalli
Vishesh Verma
Romil Sureshbhai Vithani
Wei Wang
Yutong Wang
Tun Win
Yansong Wu
Rui Xiao
Lingrui Xu
Yunjie Yang
Pui Yu Doris Yuen
Azamat Zahid
Yiqian Zhang
Environmental Engineering
Mohammed Ibrahim Ali
Marmik Jariwala
Josephine Lam
Shuya Liang
Anjani Mamidala
Elliot Molina
Zhizhuo Ren
Yue Shen
Zhehui Shen
Amoolya Singh
Zhanat Tolenbekova
Chengrun Yi
Yixuan Zhao
Environmental Science
Raquel Carrera Téllez
Emily Gelbart
Wanting Liang
Lun Wang
Yizhe Wang
Transportation Planning and Engineering
Hector Landes
Tao Liang
Nathan Sutton
Yurun Wu
Ruili Yao
Xiaodong Zheng
Yihang Zhu
Urban Systems Engineering and Management
Saakshi Aundhkar
Feng Zhao Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science
Prachika Agarwal
Anshul Agrawal
Irfan Ahmed
Najeer Ahmed
Adnan Ahsan
Pooja Akki
Faris Alotaibi
Hend Alzahrani
Nikhil Amin
Khalid Nizamuddin Ansari
Rutuj Anturkar
Azraf Anwar
Harsh Sanjay Apte
Aye Thanda Aung
Vikram Badhan
Binvant Bajwa
Santhosh Bala Hari Krishnan
Sirus Baladi
Akhilesh Bangalore
Chandrashekar
James Baranello
Ames Bartels
Pranav Bawiskar
Fabrice Benoit
Atharva Bhagwat
Yash Bhalerao
Mayank Bhandari
Parth Bhardwaj
Supritha Bhat
Shamit Bhatia
Sourabh Bhattacharjee
Sindhu Bhoopalam Dinesh
Susmita Bhowmik
Pavan Varma Bhupatiraju
Alexander Biehl
Kieran Bissessar
Sarthak Bohra
Uma Maheshwara
Rao Bondalapati
Aniket Devdas Bote
Regan Bragg
Joy Bugalia
Qilei Cai
Ly Cao
Wenkai Cao
David Caron
Gonzalo Borja
Castiñeira Larrabide
Aditya Ramesh Chavan
Manan Chawda
Harsh Jeetendra Chawla
Kenneth Chen
Peng-Yuan Chen
Qin Ying Chen
Simao Chen
Wei Chen
Yongtai Chen
Yuan Chen
Yuanrui Chen
Yujing Chen
Yumeng Chen
Yuxiong Cheng
Zegang Cheng
Varshitha Chennamsetti
Sundeep Reddy Chenreddy
Reuben Cherian
Yegor Chernyshev
Bharath Sai Reddy Chinthapanti
Ching Lun Chiu
Erica Chou
Garima Choudhary
Diksha Chouhan
Archilkumar Rameshkumar
Chovatiya
Tashrif Chowdhury
Daryl Chung
Kenneth Chung
Scott Cohen
Nicolas Colosso
Ismael Cruz
Xiang Cui
Yinglin Cui
Weicheng Dai
Aadit Damle
Nobel Dang
Kwabena Darko
Rohin Dasari
Sri Sai Abhishake Gopal Dasari
Tejasvi Dasari
Derek Dattero
Ansh Desai
Shreya Mahesh Desai
Akhil Kumar Devada
Shanthi Sree Devaraju
Yashika Dhawan
Rashi Dhir
Daniel DiPietrantonio
Quoc Do
Piyush Doke
Hao Dong
Remston Dsa
Michelle Dsouza
Jindong Du
Abirbhav Dutta
Abhinav Dwarkani
Lillian Engeler
Denys Fenchenko
Jingxuan Feng
Benjamin Feuer
Jacob Fishman
Namratha Upadhya Fnu
Richard Fu
Matthew Gabriele
Sarthak Sunil Gagdani
Neha Galla
Apoorva Ganapati
Akshit Gandhi
Rushabh Gandhi
Nikola Ganev
Priya Ganguly
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MASTER’S DEGREE (continued)
Faiz Andrea Ganz
Yan Gao
Yang Gao
Isha Garg
Sakshi Garg
Aarushi Gautam
Abhijeet Gawade
Fayed Gaya
Chang Ge
Savani Manoj Gokhale
Julianna Goldbas
Shlok Jay Goswami
Deepti Preta Gouthaman
Daniel Gray
Jie Gu
Abhin Gude
Jiacheng Gui
Shubham Gundawar
Xinyu Guo
Zeyu Guo
Divya Gupta
Viha Gupta
Jaya Amit Sai Gurrala
Jake Gus
Subei Han
Xuan Han
Akash Harikrishnan
Sindhu Harish
Harsh Jagdish Harwani
JiangLong He
Junyi He
William Heins
Zonghong hu
Chun Wing Huang
Ming Han Huang
Yaogui Huang
Swarna Swapna Ilamathy
Aditya Inamdar
Chetan Ingle
Taran Iyengar
Dhruv Jain
Himani Jain
Pranjal Jain
Vaibhav Jain
Dianyu Ji
Jaya Madhav Jupalli
Sai Shourie Kakumani
Pradipt Kalamkar
Lakshmi Sanjana Kalidindi
Parag Rajesh Kane
Naman Kapoor
Somya Kapoor
Busi Reddy Karnati
Susmita Surendra Karyakarte
Laksh Kataria
Sharath Katta Sridhar
Sakshat Katyarmal
Jaspreet Kaur
Akshat Kaushik
Eashan Kaushik
Ramin Khan
Nikhil Khaneja
Hrituja Rajiv Khatavkar
Saksham Khetan
Tanmay Khot
Mandar Nitin Kolhatkar
Venkata Chandra
Adithya Kollipara
Lakshana Kolur
Goutham Krishna Kommineni
Purva Jitendra Kondaji
Aaron Kong
Srija Konjarla
Naga Venkata Prudhvi Raj Kota
N V M Krishna Chaitanya Kotcherlakota
Harish Kothandapani
Parthasarathy
Shardha Koul
Yulian Kraynyak
Vijay Krishnaa
Niharika Krishnan
Chinmay Kulkarni
Ujjwal Vikram Kulkarni
Himanshu Kumar
Prateek Kumar
Akshita Lakkad
Noelle Law
Lu Le
Kuan-Lin Lee
Pei-Jung Lee
Danrong Li
Frances Li
Hansheng Li
Hongyi Li
Jiahang Li
Xiuwen Li
Yiming Li
Yixiao Li
Xiao Lian
Yash Limbachiya
Shu-Fan Lin
Houze Liu
Yuchen Liu
Zhifei Liu
Meghana Ramesh Lnu
Ritik Lnu
Brian Long
Zhe Luan
Weichen Luo
Yilin Ma
Aigerim Madakimova
Anthony Mai
Srijan Malhotra
Nikhil Mane
Tamanna Kaushikbhai Manek
Atul Manjunath Bharadwaj
Aatman Mantri
Hasan Masud
Amani Deepthi Matta
Jennifer Mcintosh
Meher Vandana
Priyadarshini Meda
Laiba Mehnaz
Mahima Mehta
Upasana Mehta
Sandeep Mekapotula
Jash Merchant
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Ze Miao
Abhishek Mishra
Anurag Mishra
Shubhankar Mishra
Sambit Mohapatra
Vedang Mondreti
Sayantan Mukhopadhyay
Prateek Mutalik Desai
Viswanath Nagarajan
Shreyas Nagendrarao
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William O’gara
Nakul Pacheriwala
Yanjun Pan
Sagar Pandav
Sudhanshu Pandey
Dennis Pang
Seungha Pang
Pankhuri Pankhuri
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Viren Parmar
Konstantinos Paschalakis
Devarsh Patel
Dipak Patel
Hrushikumar Amitkumar Patel
Kevin Patel
Pooja Patel
Rohan Jesalkumar Patel
Utsav Rohitbhai Patel
Zaid Patel
Divya Manohar Pathai
Malini Pathakota
Pruthviraj Patil
Virend Patil
Jayvardhan Singh Patyal
Shreeraj Pawar
Tianjiao Pei
Xi Peng
Yuting Peng
Anand Pitale
Justin Platz
Vishal Prakash
Swathi Prakash Kumar Jain
Venkata Prathipati
Gayathri Prerepa
Casey Primel
Saketh Reddy Puchala
Madhuri Pujari
Sidharth Purohit
Mohit Shankar Pursnani
Hang Qi
Yixin Qi
Feihong Qian
Yingzhuo Qian
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Lubin Qu
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Rajat Raghuwanshi
Asim Rahim
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Naren Rajendran
Shravani Rakshe
Hithaishi Ramakrishna
Atmaja Raman
Hardi Ramani
Rahul Ramaswamy
Pojaa Rameshkumar Sujatha
Chirag Sanjay Rathi
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Venkata Vyshnavi Ravella
Srividhya Ravichandran
Keerthana Ravikumar
Joseph Re
Syed Mohd Quasim Rizvi
Jianxiong Ruan
Siddharth Sagar
Anshul Saigal
Manish Saini
Aniket Saliya
Anish Samant
Tanmaya Sangwan
Dinesh Kumar Saravanan
Rohan Sardana
Jay Mahesh Sarvaiya
Tejas Sateesh
Royce Schultz
Abhinandan Sen
Roshni Sen
Ethan Shafran Moltz
Akshat Jigneshkumar Shah
Bansi Shah
Neel Shah
Vishal Kirankumar Shah
Vvyom Shah
Ashar Shahid
Mithra Shanmugasundaram
Minghao Shao
Zixuan Shao
Aditya Sharma
Akshat Sharma
Lagan Sharma
Nishith Sharma
Richa Sharma
Shivansh Sharma
Shubhkirti Sharma
Tanya Sharma
Nithya Shathish
Priyanka Shelar
Linyue Shen
Diwei Sheng
Haroon Sherjan
Aakash Shetty
Yinchen Shi
Atsushi Shimizu
Sagar Pradeep Shringarpure
Andy Siamas
Arjun Siddappa
Elise Siino
Aayushi Sikligar
Paul Sannihith Reddy
Singareddy
Jaideep Singh
Pranav Singh
Rishab Singh
Satyen Singh
Shreya Singh
Vaibhav Singh
Maxwell Sirotin
Rahul Vasan Sivakkannan
Ajinkya Sonawane
Matianqi Song
Harsh Sonthalia
Prateek Sridhar Kumar
Aiswarya Sriram
Hao Su
Liangzhou Su
Mei Sun
Tao Sun
Venkata krishna Sunkara
Ashwin Suresh Babu
Aditi Dattatray Survase
Zhendong Tan
Yuqi Tang
Shenzhi Tao
Anirudh Tapedia
Syed Ahmad Taqi
Andrew Tavcar
Sri Harsha Tavidisetty Rajendra
Himani Rajeev Thakkar
Arya Vishnu Thotakura
Niteesha Thottempudi
Revati Trivedi
Henry Tse
Karthik Udhayakumar
Rahul Uppuluri
Rigveda Vangipurapu
Shubhankar Vashishta
Vishnu Dut Venkateshwaran
Kewin Venugopal
Priyadarshan Vijay
Mukund Vijayaraghavan
Priyank Viradia
Hanmisha Voddineni
Sri Ram Gowd Vuppala
Daniel Walt
Wan Pete Hen Wan Thiaw Hin
Bojian Wang
Chunxiao Wang
Danni Wang
Fangyi Wang
Haofan Wang
Haoxiang Wang
Tilun Wang
Tongxuan Wang
Xing Wang
Xixuan Wang
Yihan Wang
Yunxuan Wang
Yuzhi Wang
Zehao Wang
Jacob Wei
Su Lei Win
Biting Wu
Yue Wu
Srihari Wuntakal
Ziren Xia
Wang XiaoZhe
Yichen Xie
Han Xu
Haonan Xu
Sichao Xu
Wenxi Xu
Yanjie Xu
Ye Xu
Yuesheng Xu
Duoduo Xue
Jinyang Xue
Bhavish Yalamanchi
Ho Shing Yam
Jonathan Yang
Liu Yang
Mufeng Yang
Ruichen Yang
Steve Yang
Guanliang Yao
Zhongmin Yao
Joshua Young
Guangjie Yu
Jinzhong Yu
Yue Yu
Michael Zachor
Abdulqadir Zakir
Amino Zawawi
Jia Zeng
Adelaide Zhang
Chaosen Zhang
Hanqing Zhang
Hengning Zhang
Huimin Zhang
Kaibo Zhang
Licheng Zhang
Shiran Zhang
Wenyuan Zhang
Xinrong Zhang
Xinyu Zhang
Xuanhua Zhang
Yuhao Zhang
Zecheng Zhang
Meng Zhou
Yangfan Zhou
Luke Zhu
Mingcheng Zhu
Yunyi Zhu
Cybersecurity
Umer Abbasi
Krishellee Acevedo
Shubham Agarwal
Thangam Alagappan
Mengyuan Alldredge
Saba Ambreen
Jay Amin
Komal Amte
Nilita Anil Kumar
Hasan Asadi
Christopher Avalos
Yama Azimi
Angel Baez
Gurpreet Bajwa
Jefferson Baracaldo
Francois Barnard
Omar Barrero
Leonard Belfiore
Craig Beyer
Nikita Bhargava
Sharad Bhargava
Pramod Bhat
Geetanjali Bhatia
Vinod Bhatt
Sergei Bleikhman
David Brosnan
Ryan Cabrita
Alex Camargo Mosheyoff
John Carbo
Quintin Andrew Castillo
David Chan
Grace Chan
Wai Ming Chan
Mahalakshmi Chandrashekar
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MASTER’S DEGREE (continued)
Priya Chandru
Israel Chang Checa
Jackson Chanthapannha
Daniel Charles
Gaurav Chauhan
Jayush Chawla
Singwa Cheng
Robert Cimarelli
Ryan Clark
Crystal Cleaveland
Frances Clifton
Sean Conway
Alvin Crighton
Brandon Cypel
Andrew Davidsburg
Harin Desai
Kristiana Dhima
Huy Dinh
Caitlin Dolan
Daniel Evans
Gregory Farn
Matthew Fauerbach
Matthew Filbert
Taylor Forry
Arthur Freer
Robert Frost
Roman Garber
Isaiah Genis
Rachel Giacobozzi
Prashansa Goel
Sumeet Goil
Nicolas Gomez
Vicente Gomez
Zvi Greenspan
John Guevara
Omnarayan Gupta
Chelsea Guzman
Mitchell Haszard
Luke Henry
Robert Hintze
Baichuan Hou
Ankhi Afroz Howlader
Yu Xuan Huang
Creed Huddleston
Sungwoo Hur
Alton Idowu
Ime Iyonsi
Ariel Jablonow
Yurika Jachmann
Om Parag Jadhav
Rishabh Jain
Aditya Jaiswal
Lukasz Jasionek
Akash Jauhar
Maurice Jenkins
Alaa Jumhour
Shahin Kamruzzaman
Ryan Kantor
Anuj Kapoor
Ruslan Karimov
Edden Kashi
Puneeth Kasukurthi
Andrew Kazewych
Shaun Kenney
Salman Khan
Tiago Kiill
Harry Kim
Savas Konstadinidis
Elnaz Koopahi
Aashay Korani
Victoria Kraftsow
Selah LaBarbera
Hanah Lavian
Wen Jun Lee
Elina Leshchenko
Adam Lesperance
Kwok Leung
Casey Li
Zexing Li
Zhuo Li
Christopher Liang
Cynthia Liu
Soumaya Lokesh Ganpati Joshi
Devon Long
Alexander Lotero
Shahida Lucky
Michael Lum
Minh Ly
Jeffery Mack
Al Mamun
Jonathan Mann
Larissa Marcich
Michael Marron
Juan Martinez Moreno
Jobin Mathew
Douglas McBride
Jeffrey McDonald
John McIntyre
Xiang Mei
Sanket Mendapara
Shannon Merchant
Frank Migliorino
Fabian Moreno
Mathew Mullen-Mechtly
Michael Munzing
Joshua Murchie
Jake Nemiroff
Soren Netka
Cheuk Yin Ng
Kiet Nguyen
Xinyi Ning
Edris Noori
Charity Oliver
Stephen Omorogbe
Koray Oncel
Gregory Orleans
Andrew Orr
Patrick Palafox
Nischitha Palukuru
Rudra Panda
Hemant Pandey
Vikas Parmar
Akshat Patel
Devansh Patel
Harsh Patel
Adwait Pathak
Udit Krishna Pendem
Scott Pender
Michael Pighet
Joseph Pisano
Mason Pollack
William Powell
Roman Pyzh
Andrew Quijano
Sonia Rahman
Aarti Rajinder Krishan
Vishnuram Rajkumar
Tiffany Ramadar
Atul Ramayani
Tarun Aravind Ramesh Kumar
Israel Ramirez
Khrys Ramirez
Arpit Raorane
Ghazal Rezaei
Tina Ridley
Taia Rossi
Irene Saito
Kumar Saswat
Michael Scalia
Staford Titus Selvaraj
Dhyey Shah
Priyaj Shah
Yiyun Shao
Khushboo Sharma
Mikhail Shmulenson
Samaksh Singhal
Nicholas Springer
Dora Sun
Adithya Kalyan Sundaragiri
Natalie Tack
Salma Taher
Johnathan Tai
Keiko Tamura
Nishi Taneja
Xinpeng Tang
Ruiqi Tao
Cindy Thi
Kyle Timmermans
David Torres
Anzhela Tsomyk
Robert Unnold
Aalap Deepak Valia
Samuel Van Winkle
Chanelle Vasquez
Vismaiy Vats
Wolfgang Von Stuermer
Chuntian Wang
Jonathan Wang
Ran Wang
Yuqi Wang
Caitlin Weaver
Jennifer Weismantle
Howard Westhoff
Corey Williams
Sean Williams
John Wilson
Jie Wu
Wai Wu
Ge Xu
Jingyu Yang
Albert Yen
Kevin Zhao
Yuheng Zhong
Wenyi Zhu
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Rachel Abreu
Aditya Adya
Dhruv Agarwal
Junda Ai
Mahesh Aithal
Sumish Pal Singh Ajmani
Satya Akurati
Aradhya Alamuru
Ariuntuya Altanzaya
Gaurav Amin
Shumin An
D’Arcy Anderson
Sai Suman Angara
Neil Araujo
Prajwala Ashok
Utkarsh Atri
Sayan Banerjee
Xingda Bao
Jasmine Batra
Vara Lakshmi Bayanagari
Mohammed Minhaas
Belagur Samiulla
Giri Prasad Bellam
Vrinda Nikul Bhatt
Yudhajit Bhattacharjee
Stuti Biyani
Mateo Bonilla
Steven Bueno
Mengqiao Cai
Peixuan Cai
Eduardo Calzadilla-Kolodziej
Wenhao Cao
Yunsheng Chai
Vijay Kumar Chandrasekaran
Swarnashri Chandrashekar
Rahul Chandrashekhar
Keng-Ming Chang
Xiwen Chang
Shashank Chaturvedi
Vaidehi Chaudhari
Harish Chauhan
Aditya Chawla
Bingbing Chen
Hao Chen
Jianing Chen
Jianing Chen
Jingming Chen
Liyang Chen
Peiqi Chen
Po-Hung Chen
Qian Chen
Qiuyu Chen
Shuo Chen
Sichong Chen
Tianrui Chen
Weiqi Chen
Xinlei Chen
Xinrui Chen
Xuanzhou Chen
Yingcan Chen
Yuhao Chen
Zhihao Chen
Xinhe Cheng
Pooja Choudhary
Cassandra Chow
Yi-Yi Chu
Michael Chung
Shao-Chun Chung
Yilin Cui
Prateek Dagariya
Yue Dai
Xinyu Deng
Yinrui Deng
Naren Dhyani
Hangli Ding
Ruoya Ding
Xiao Ding
Xiaoxuan Dong
Julius Dsouza
Kaixuan Du
Zhenxing Fan
Minqi Fang
Tianzhe Fang
Yiwu Fang
Zichuan Fang
Hao Feng
QiKui Feng
Xiaochen Feng
Zhengyang Fu
Zheping Fu
Neelanchal Gahalot
Rituraj Gahlot
Runfeng Gai
Mira Ganesh
Srujana Ganji
Mingyang Gao
Ruipu Gao
Yiwen Gao
Yu Gao
Jayesh Gaur
Piyush Gautam
Congkai Geng
Rui Geng
Anirudh Ghildiyal
Aadrit Ghimire
Monisha Gnanaprakasam
Himanshu Goel
Vijayrajsinh Gohil
Shreyash Gondane
Digvijay Gorle
Dakshi Goyal
Guochen Gu
Zhengyu Guan
Rishabh Guha
Anvay Gumaste
Ravikanth Gundala
Raviteja Gundala
Siya Guo
Aman Gupta
Garima Gupta
Nikunj Gupta
Srishti Gupta
Aditya Gurjar
Boyu Han
Lin Han
Mingqi Han
Qing Han
Zhenxian Han
Vinay Kumar Hanumanthappa
Haitian Hao
Tingting Hao
Yingkai Hao
Vishnuram Hariharan
Haoze He
Qianmo He
Shuhao He
Xueying He
Yulan He
Yulin He
Zi Yow Hong
Lanxin Hu
Qinhan Hu
Tianwei Hu
Xuchen Hu
Yunxuan Hu
Zechen Hu
Zonghui Hu
Chen Huang
Hongjie Huang
Siyuan Huang
Tzu-Yi Huang
Wanlin Huang
Xianyang Huang
Yijie Huang
Zhongbin Huang
Dhruva Hunusekatte
Ahmad Ishraq
Siddhanth Iyer
Anshika Jain
Shrey Jain
Swapan Jain
Navya Sravani Jammalamadaka
Kewal Deepak Jani
Sayali Jathar
Yuewei Jian
Haoduan Jiang
Lichu Jiang
Shenzheng Jiang
Zhangnan Jiang
QiaoZhi Jin
Wangzhen Jin
Eesha Jindal
Xiaochuan Jing
Jahnavi Jonnalagadda
Shreyas Joshi
Tanaya Joshi
Simon Kahn
Sairam Kakarla
Yu Kang
Yuhao Kang
Sachin Karthik Kumar
Kunal Kashyap
Kartikay Kaushik
Mohit Kewlani
Fabiha Khalid
Hamzah Khan
Viththal Khandelwal
Chingun Khasar
Vivek Lalitkumar Khithani
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Melissa Kim
John Varun Paul Konaiahgari
Jayeon Koo
Fenilkumar Korat
Yuchen Kou
Mrunal Kshirsagar
Prajwal Kumar
Shantanu Kumar
Yan-Teng Kuo
Akshit Shahbuddinbhai Kurani
Disha Lamba
Yu Chieh Lan
Wei Le
Evan Lehrer
Bo Li
Bowen Li
Chengfeng Li
Chenning Li
Hanzhe Li
Haotian Li
Hengyang Li
Jianhao Li
Jiaqi Li
Jincheng Li
Minrui Li
Renyun Li
Tiantian Li
Weijie Li
Yangjia Li
Yanjun Li
Yifan Li
Yunlu Li
Yunyao Li
Zhemian Li
Zhida Li
Yiwen Liang
Chen Liao
Wei-Chu Liao
Yunyi Liao
Chih Fan Lin
Guan-Yu Lin
Jiahan Lin
Xiaoyuan Lin
Yangkai Lin
Yichen Lin
Yihao Lin
Zihan Lin
Jiaying Liu
Liwei Liu
Qiaozheng Liu
Rui Liu
Ruijia Liu
Ruiquan Liu
Sitong Liu
Tianhao Liu
Xiaoyuan Liu
Yihan Liu
Yilong Liu
Yimo Liu
Yiyun Liu
Yuanzi Liu
Yuyang Liu
Zehong Liu
Zijie Liu
Rakshit Lodha
FangJun Lu
Xiangyu Lu
Youming Lu
Yu Lu
Chengtao Luo
Jieming Ma
Liang Ma
Pengrui Ma
Qianyu Ma
Zhaorui Ma
Zhenyu Ma
Mahati Madhira VSK
Navneeth Krishna Madhuranath
Tanisha Madhusudhan
Mukta Maheshwari
Shrey Malhotra
Naveen Kumar Mallemala
Anurag Mandal
Divya Prakash Manivannan
Yuqi Mao
Vaibhav Mathur
Daniel McGarrity
Malik McLaurine
Jinisha Mehta
Zhe Meng
Akash Mishra
Anuroop Mishra
Arpita Mishra
Xingye Mo
Anjali Moharir
Ge Mou
Yansong Mu
Ghulam Mujtaba
Ronith Murthy
Sreelakshmi Mysore
Pradeep Kumar
Anurag Nagdeve
Prajwal Suresh Naidu
Prithvi Naidu
Parishi Naik
Saikiran Nakka
Andre Nakkab
Neeraja Narayanswamy
Pratap Narra
Neha Reddy Nelly
Xiaoyao Ni
Xiaoyu Nie
Xidan Nie
Pengtao Ning
Cavin Nunes
Dingchong Ou
Zijie Ou
Shubham Oza
Xingyu Pan
Yizhu Pan
Karnik Anant Panchal
Saumya Pandey
Manasi Paradkar
Vinita Parasrampuria
Swapnil Parekh
Karan Parikh
Rishabh Parikh
Krish Patel
Sharanya Patnaik
Kaiyu Pei
Chen Peng
Katsamapol Petchpol
Mayank Poddar
Pavan Nath Posani
Luocheng Qi
Zichen Qi
Wenrui Qiao
Guoxuan Qin
Hanbin Qin
Mo Qin
Tian Qin
Yichao Qin
Yinhong Qin
Ruike Qiu
Ziyan Qiu
Mengdie Qu
Mujahid Quidwai
Mohammed Raheem
Karnan Rajendran
Vaishnavi Rajput
Jingyan Ran
Mugdha Rane
Rahul Rathod
Rudrasinh Ravalji
Abirami Ravishankar
Samyak Rawlekar
Allan Luke Rebello
Xiaokai Rong
Sudhir Saharan
Amanpreet Singh Saimbhi
Aman Saluja
Sowmith Saridena
Varun Satheesh Kumar
Kartik Saxena
Mudit Saxena
Kathiravan Sekar
Devansh Shah
Mohammad Shamoon
Shubham Shandilya
Yuhan Shang
Naman Sharma
Prakriti Sharma
Utkarsh Shekhar
Dawang Shen
Maohua Shen
Xiao Shen
Xiaohu Shen
Ye Shen
Yueyang Shentu
Karan Ajay Sheth
Fengzhe Shi
Jiazhao Shi
Lan Shi
Artem Shlepchenko
Zhanpeng Shu
Sidharth Shyamsukha
Varadraj Sinai Kakodkar
Anant Singh
Ankush Pratap Singh
Drishti Singh
Harshada Sinha
Chengzuo Song
Pengfei Song
Qingqing Song
Raghav Srivastava
Chenyang Su
Dengzhao Su
Jipeng Su
Xing Su
Angran Sun
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Wenxin Sun
Xuefeng Sun
Yao Sun
Yumeng Sun
Chuyun Tan
Chenyu Tang
Shuanghong Tang
Chenhao Tao
Lu Tao
Chanakya Kedar Tendulkar
Aditya Thakur
Shubham Thakur
Abdul Khader Thalakkattu Moosa
Atharva Thipsay
Jincheng Tian
Yuan Tian
Sarthak Tickoo
Vishakha Tomar
Jash Unadkat
Dhairya Upadhyay
Mihir Chandrashekhar Upasani
Sai kiran Uriti
Shikhar Vaish
Madhu Vemana
Kaushik Pobbi Setty Venkatesh
Sumanth Ganesh Vinchu
Rheya Vithalani
Han Wang
Hankun Wang
Hao Wang
Haoran Wang
Haoxu Wang
Jiahao Wang
Jiaxin Wang
Jingyu Wang
Luqi Wang
Shen Wang
Shihao Wang
Shikai Wang
Shouren Wang
Siyuan Wang
Songyi Wang
Tianyi Wang
Wei Wang
Yang Wang
Yuchen Wang
Yue Wang
Yuecen Wang
Yundi Wang
Yunze Wang
Yuxiang Wang
Zhen Wang
Zhengyang Wang
Zizhao Wang
Deeshan Wassan
Jiting Wei
Ke Wei
Di Wu
Hengjun Wu
Junda Wu
Meng Tse Wu
Weixi Wu
Wenjie Wu
Bohui Xia
Zikang Xia
Jun Xiang
Ziyu Xiang
Kun Xiao
Senlin Xiao
Xinxin Xiao
Yulin Xiao
Jiayi Xie
Nairong Xie
Tianchu Xie
Wei Xie
Xiao Xie
Tianyue Xing
Chuanfeng Xiong
Hongyan Xu
Huan Xu
Lijing Xu
Qishun Xu
Ruiqi Xu
Zhihao Xu
Zhuo Xu
Yi Xue
Kawarjeet Yadav
Ruixiong Yan
Yizhou Yan
Li-Yeh Yang
Moxuan Yang
Po-Chung Yang
Shu Yang
Sikang Yang
Yuhao Yang
Zichen Yang
Zhexuan Yao
An Ye
Zhijing Ye
Zijian Ye
Kaustubh Dilip Yeole
Qie Yin
Xuyao You
Bosong Yu
Dingyi Yu
Dingze Yu
Guangyue Yu
Huihao Yu
Jiahao Yu
Jingchao Yu
Juquan Yu
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Yue Yu
Yujie Yu
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Lin Yuan
Yixiong Yuan
Feng Yun
Yixuan Zeng
Yuanhui Zeng
Zhuoqi Zeng
Zihan Zeng
Xiaosi Zhai
Ce Zhang
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Fangzhuo Zhang
Haopeng Zhang
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Haoyue Zhang
Jinchang Zhang
Jingyi Zhang
Junqi Zhang
Junze Zhang
Kai Zhang
Luanxiang Zhang
Mengqi Zhang
Pengyu Zhang
Qian Zhang
Qifan Zhang
Ruixi Zhang
Ruizheng Zhang
Run Zhang
Shuai Zhang
Shuhan Zhang
Tianyi Zhang
Weixi Zhang
Xi Zhang
Xiaoang Zhang
Xiaofei Zhang
Xiaoxuan Zhang
Xinyu Zhang
Yichi Zhang
Yingfei Zhang
Youming Zhang
Yuhang Zhang
Yun Zhang
Ze Zhang
Zeyu Zhang
Zhangluo Zhang
Zhenyu Zhang
Zhuolun Zhang
Chenyue Zhao
Dawei Zhao
Jieyu Zhao
Puda Zhao
Shirui Zhao
Xiao Yu Zhao
Zehan Zhao
Haotian Zheng
Jiajun Zheng
Liuyang Zheng
Shiyang Zheng
Tianyi Zheng
Yawen Zheng
Yisong Zheng
Yusheng Zheng
Zhixin Zheng
Baishan Zhou
Cailin Zhou
Ke Zhou
Kexin Zhou
Lingchang Zhou
Yizeng Zhou
Yonghang Zhou
Yuqi Zhou
Zijun Zhou
Jiayi Zhu
Shunyi Zhu
Tianqi Zhu
Wentao Zhu
Chucheng Zhuang
Mengqi Zhuang
Mingyuan Zhuang
Xiaotong Zi
Shilong Zong
Yubin Zou
Electrical Engineering
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Mohammad Hamas
Rahman Abbasi
George Almekha
Vidush Navkesh Batra
Mudit Bhargava
Chunan Chen
Zhongxi Chen
Chan-Yu Cheng
Shidian Cheng
Viswanathan Babu
Chidambaram Ayyappan
Justin Collett
Junhai Cui
Ricky DeMello
Umesh Deshmukh
Yizhan Dong
Chenghao Du
Kuan-Yu Dung
Mohamed Eladl
Abrar Fahim
Kishore Ganapathi
Mingyang Gao
Sharvari Gote
Utkarsh Grover
Haoze Guan
Yihan Guo
Yufan Guo
Seyda Nur Guzelhan
Shengxiang Han
MD. Jaber Hossain
Xiaoqian Hou
Tianqi Hu
Zihao Hu
Mingxiao Huang
Yerbol Issakov
Siddhartha Jalagam
Kelin Ji
Ye Ji
Zehua Jiang
Priyanka Johri
Amangali Kadirgaliyev
Siddharth Kandpal
Aditya Kaushal
Vincent Lee
Yueqing Li
Haohui Lin
Qi Lin
Sikai Lu
Zhouzheng Lu
Ziyu Lu
Yuxin Luo
Junjie Lyu
Prassanna Madhavan
Yash Madkaiker
Bhargav Makwana
Miguel Manzo Perez
Zayaan Muthair
Arunkumar Nachimuthu
Palanichamy
Alice Nuz
Dengyi Pan
Bhavana Prakash
Zerui Qin
Syed Salman Rahman
Dhruval Ravindrasinh Raj
MohanaKrishnan Ramakrishnan
Pratyaksh Prabhav Rao
Md Raz
Almurad Shahmuradov
Jiayi Shang
Chengjin Shi
Jianan Shi
Amritpal Singh
Ankit Singh
Divyashree Srinivasan
Ashutosh Srivastava
M Athish Subramanian
Mingkang Sun
Ruomeng Sun
Virinchi Roy Surabhi
Yangle Tan
Yufan Tan
Peiyu Tian
Chinmay Tompe
YvetteMarie Uwuseba
Malavika Venkatanarayanan
Shoban Venugopal Palani
Aditya Wagh
Jiaying Wang
Jingqiao Wang
Junlang Wang
Linghang Wang
Sicheng Wang
Yimu Wang
Zhanghan Wang
Zhe Wang
Zhengye Wang
Ziyang Wang
Chenyang Wen
Xiaxin Wen
Benjamin Wolf
Chuheng Wu
Tingjun Xie
Baizun Xu
Jinghao Xu
Xicheng Xu
Anping Yang
Jianqiao Yang
Qingyue Yao
Ruochen Yao
Hanle Yu
Taiyan Yu
Yang Yu
Bowen Zhang
Chenliang Zhang
Hanxia Zhang
Haozhe Zhang
Qingchun Zhang
Lingtao Zhou
Luyun Zhou
Yihui Zhu
Xueyuan Du
Ruolian Duan
Dipro Dutta
Bhumika Ekbote
Deyang Fan
Xiyao Fan
Yuhang Fan
Yuying Fan
Wenqing Gao
Qilu Ge
Hanji Gu
Zeyu Guo
Vibhor Gupta
Yiwen Han
Bohang Hu
Boyu Hu
Jieyun Hu
Siyang Huang
Wenyi Huang
Mohan Jiang
Vinanti Kamath
Arjun Kanagasabapathy
Malarmathi
Kaiyun Kang
Abhishek Kulkarni
Finance & Risk Engineering
Financial Engineering
Akshay Rao
Yulu An
Abhi Arun
Jianing Bai
Nitin Basil
Xixi Cai
Tianjing Cao
Ritobrata Chakraborty
Yu-Hsing Chang
Chi Wang Chau
Shubham Chavan
Guojun Chen
Xinyang Chen
Yating Chen
Yu-Sheng Chen
Chong Cheng
Xingyuan Ding
Boen Du
Zhaoxuan Lai
Guo-You Lan
Cheng Li
Feifan Li
Hongzheng Li
Jiarui Li
Mengqi Li
Shuhan Li
Wenxin Li
Xiangyu Li
Xiaolai Li
Yiwei Li
Yiyao Li
Zixiao Li
Jiaqi Liang
Yuqing Lin
Erica Lisses
Chang Liu
Ke Liu
Peishan Liu
Ruiqi Liu
Shijing Liu
Xiao Lou
Hanqi Ma
Zhuoran Ma
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Kunjan Mehta
Nikhith Krishna Reddy Mudhasani
Zhewen Ni
Shuman Pan
Baohui Peng
Junhui Peng
Qianyi Peng
Tejashri Prabhu
Haotian Qi
Rong Qi
Zeyu Ren
Aigerim Sansyzbay
Lavaneesh Sharma
Weijie Shen
Donguk Shin
Yung-Chen Shu
Utkarsh Singh
Utkarsh Sinha
Feng Su
Qinshuai Sun
Wu-Yen Sun
Haozhe Tan
Zhuotian Tang
Zihan Tang
Wen Teng
Khoa Tran
Cheng-Yun Tsai
Utkarsh Vardhan
Priyanka Vaswani
Rohan Wadhwa
Guangyu Wang
Lulin Wang
Muyi Wang
Siyun Wang
Wanlu Wang
Yuxuan Wang
Zelun Wei
ChenWei Wu
Zhaohui Wu
Hanlu Xia
Yuxin Xie
Xinyi Xu
Zhenhui Xu
Jialin Xuan
Preeti Yadav
Xiaolan Yan
Zhengxuan Yan
Junming Yang
Ke Yang
Qinkai Yang
Shiya Yang
Yalin Yang
Sitong Yao
Yiren Yao
Xiangyang Yin
Jie Yu
Danni Yun
Navil Zaman
Xinying Zeng
Lun Zha
Juntao Zhang
Yuanbo Zhang
Xiangyu Zhao
Yunhao Zhao
Yuyang Zhao
Yuhao Zheng
Hanyue Zhou
Jie Zhou
Zhijian Zhou
Hongyue Zhu
Zhengyi Lyu
Xiaohan Mao
Letian Meng
Xin Meng
Chase Robinson
Aleena Shabbir
Fei Sun
Xinhao Sun
Shreya Thirumalai
Zhen Tong
Dichao Wang
Weiyi Wang
Xingyu Wang
Yin Wang
Wei Wei
Yue Yin
Qiulei Zhang
Weixuan Zhang
Xinyu Zhang
Mathematics
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Justin Hadix
Chang Han
Urmish Haribhakti Parikh
Chuxiao Hou
Saipradeep Illuri
Qi Jiang
Graham Jordan
Sumanth Ratna Kandavalli
Yingqing Kang
Bum Jun Kwon
Sean Lewis
Mengtao Li
Leon Loi
Ramachandra Praneeth
Madugula
Nicola Michielon
Mahad Noor
Royson Ollivierre
Dhruvi Patel
Steven Pena
Nicholas Pilacinski
Aswin Prasad
Vishwajeetsinh
Dhirenkumar Rahevar
Aadarsh Rao
Ligao Ruan
Dingchen Shen
Sining Shen
Aditya Shukla
Federico Stancati
Jeffrey Sun
Naoya Tamura
Mathematics
Hongyang Cai
Yanwen Chen
Yunrui Gong
Zhaoqi Guo
Jiacheng He
Xingzi He
Evelyn Herrera
Meliha Hodzic
Zeren Huang
Cassidy Huftalen
Meng Ling Jiang
Dennis Kim
Alexandra Lefevre
Bin Li
Jiafan Li
Xinyi Li
Meihe Liu
Zepeng Liu
Islam Abdellah
Nasif Hassan Khan Abir
Kayode Abosede
Shobitha Balamurugan
Emmanuel Bamido
Chana Berg
Jordan Caraballo
Guanbo Chen
Guowei Chen
Martin Cheriyan
Heston Darlington
Prayag Desai
Feihao Ding
Jiawei Dou
Murtaza Akil Fatepurwala
Ninad Gaikwad
Stephanie Gbadegesin
Jun Guan
Benjamin Guirakhoo
Reese Ukbamichael
Aakash Unnikrishnan
Jose Valdez
Sourabh Verma
Kashyap Vuriti
Ming Wei
Zijing Wu
Bohan Yu
Enzheng Yu
Jiarong Yu
Zhanhao Zhang
Jintao Zheng
Muye Zhou
Mechatronics and Robotics
Mahmoud Abutaqiya
Anirudh Addagada
Fady Algyar
Sudharsan Ananth
Amogh Anantha Murthy
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Srivathsa Arun Kumar
Jon Baumann
Konishjit Bedi
Sai Suraj Reddy Beeram
Ahmed Benkraouda
Mustafa Bhadsorawala
Samuel Bodmer
Navoday Borkar
Erin Butler
Chia-Yun Chang
Pavan Chowdary Cherukuri
Kota Naveen Chinta
Martina Civitella
Akanksha Dhaygude
Rohan Gangakhedkar
Alexander Garcia
Prithvinath Reddy Garigapuram
Silvio Giandola
Sidhaant Gupta
Jagennath Hari
Arthur Ibanda
Sriharsha Reddy Indupuru
Talha Javed
Xinzhou Jiang
Pankaj Anant Kalve
Srushti Katore
Rishi Kirtesh Kavi
Miles Kilcourse
Prithvi Dev Kottimukkaloor
Venkatraman
Naveen Kumar
Yaxuan Li
Sruti Madhusudhan
Vikas Ramesh Mali
Ruban Maria Arulraj
Nicholas Milton
Nithya Muralidaran
Aquib Nadaf
Gordon Oboh
Venkata Amith Palacherla
Taiyi Pan
Bhavik Panchal
Yash Kanaiyalal Patel
Tanmayee Pinapati
Almas Purisic
Vivek Radhakrishnan
Kishan Reddy Raghunath
Arjun Raja
Thivish Rajaganesh
Penmetsa Tejaswi Raju
Sarvesh Suresh Rathi
Arunagiri Adhithian Ravichandran
Aishwarya Ravindran
Joshua Reimonenq
Anais Roche
Sanket Salunkhe
Diar Sanakov
Omkar Sawant
Stephen Scott
Rushi Bhavesh Shah
Mohammed Nauman Shariff
Swaroopa Shigli
Pushkar Shinde
Ajaykumaar Sivacoumare
Bryan So
Rose Solow
Prajwal Prakshep Somawanshi
Akshay Singaram Tamizhselvam
Roshan Balu Thalaivirithan
Margabandu Bala
Avirat Varma
Aravindan Vasudevan
Rishi Eswar Varma Vegesna
Adam Vinner
Zaid Waghoo
Chin-Hong Weng
Shangdong Yang
Ziqin Yuan
Zhuoqun Zhao
Tian Zi Feng
Rushil Gandhi
Mehul Gohil
Mingliang Gong
Hithesh Nagaraja Gowda
Rachit Gupta
Kerem Gurpinar
Tianqi Hu
Xindi Huang
Zeju Huang
Vishwarajsinh Jadeja
Dhruv Jyotindrabhai Jani
Sachin Jayachandran
Lingkai Jin
David Kachoui
Muneeb Khan
Zhenhao Lan
Haowei Li
Yuqing Lin
Jiaming Liu
Jingshu Liu
Anthony Luu
Zuyang Ma
Aadithya Madava Krishnan
Siddharth Manoharan
Poorna Kumar Mathialagan
Yashita Mehta
Devansh Nileshkumar Modi
Melvin Muttath Robert
Mohit Samir Naik
Matthew Nebesny
Yuanyi Pan
Technology Management & Innovation
Industrial Engineering
Abdulmgid Alsobhi
Sricharan Arumugam
Ani Azadkhanian
Sasank Bodapati
Gargi Dahyabhai Chauhan
Qing Chen
Jose Cordero
Mukta Vithal Deshmukh
Gopal Dhanrajani
Yosra El Boulli Rguibi
Hao Feng
Niyati Patel
Mohammad Saahil
Shivam Rajkumar Saini
Lyazzat Saur
Shyngys Seidigazimov
Parthav Jignesh Shah
Purva Rakeshkumar Shah
Palasha Sharma
Trishita Singh
Purva Talwande
Yuting Tian
Viraj Tiwari
Caleb Triche
Neethu Susan Varghese
Jingxuan Wang
Jonathan Wang
Ziyang Wang
Matthew Wittlinger
Elizabeth Woo
Chuwei Xu
Haosen Xu
Liying Xu
Tianzhi Xu
Yue Zhang
Zicheng Zhang
Shanshan Zhao
Wei Zhao
Rongwei Zhu
Yu Zhu
Management of Technology
Sunny Sunil Advani
Arif Afandy
Sagar Agarwal
Agrim Agrawal
Shreya Ahuja
Kevin Richard Alex Peter
Akhil Aluri
Ishwari Alve
Akshay Ambre
Hitansha Amruthur Vasu
Meghana Anaparthy
Carlos Arellano
Preethi Bachu
Ziyi Bai
Camilo Bello Vallejo
Alice Berardi
Swaraj Raosaheb Bhagade
Akhil Bhardwaj
Akshay Bhatnagar
Sneha Bhattacharya
Palak Maheshchandra Bhutra
Snehal Suresh Bondre
Armin Cekic
Atharva Champanerkar
Yen-Hong Chang
Tai Yiu Chau
Brindrajsinh Ranvirsinh Chauhan
Bowen Chen
Colleen Chen
Xin Chen
Xinyue Chen
Yijin Chen
Zilin Chen
Dingli Cheng
Han Cheng
Jiaxuan Cheng
Kai Cheng
Tongxin Cheng
Harichandana Cherukuri
Utkarsha Chourasia
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Fuk Shing Bobby Chow
Sarah Chung
Jiabao Cui
Pratik Daga
Khanh Vi Dang
Kirun Dar
Sansaptak De
Sofia De Gaetano
Liza De la Garza Garza
William Dickerson
Boning Ding
Guangye Ding
Ning Ding
Shiguang Ding
Nikhil Donthineni
Guangyu Du
Jingtong Du
Qianzi Du
MohammadAli Durrani
Prajwal Dutta
Seun Elemo
Tianyingjun Fan
Qihan Fang
Brian Farkas
Nupur Gadhe
Dishank Gaglani
Drishti Gandhi
Hasmitha Ganesh Babu
Yuang Gao
Yuqing Gao
Zixuan Gao
Bolaram Koushik Ratan
Garikipati
Kimberly Garrick
Sara Garrido
Rishikesh Gawde
Vidhumitha Goutham Prageeth
Anil Kumar Govinda Raja
Radhika Goyanka
Kimberly Gray
Surbhi Gupta
Jiachen Han
Yutong Han
Mengyuan Hao
Yufei Hao
Chuheng He
Shuolin He
Wenjie He
Anqing HU
Xilun Hu
Zhiyuan Hu
Shuo Hua
Huizhong Huang
Jiaming Huang
Keyi Huang
Xixuan Huang
Christopher Jadotte
Tanmay Jayaswal
Dailin Ji
Kaiyuan Ji
Kun Ji
Qizhao Jiang
Wenyao Jiang
Xinyang Jiang
Yuanchen Jiang
Enrui Jin
Liyu Jin
Manas Johri
Janhavi Joshi
Weida Ju
Nurdaulet Kaldanov
Rohit Sai Kasukurthi
Harleen Kaur
Jun Ke
Ankita Keshava
Chao Kong
Marianna Kouka
Sushanth Kumar
Junchen Lai
Li Lai
Chun-Ting Lee
Zachary Lee
Shelly Lenczner
Tsz Hin Leung
Chenxin Li
Da Li
Fengrui Li
Guanshen Li
Hanli Li
Jiaxuan Li
Junyan Li
Li Li
Peiyang Li
Shanglin Li
Shuangyue Li
Siying Li
Suran Li
Xingying Li
Yu-Ping Li
Yunya Li
Zhiqing Li
Zhuoqun Li
Zongpeng Li
Zhaoyi Lin
Haolin Liu
Jinxu Liu
Qinxin Liu
Qinyu Liu
Shiqi Liu
Haohui Luo
Jiaqi Luo
Jia Lyu
Mengfan Lyu
Ruiming Ma
Yunqi Ma
Panagiotis Magoulas
Nayan Mahajan
Athanasia Maimos
Riya Maniar
Runfei Mao
Jonathan Maravilla
Katie McBride
Yagnik Mehta
Tianyu Meng
Ziqian Meng
Marvin Meyers-Barrington
Kachina Miller
Nehal Mishra
Junyuan Mo
Lakshmi Priya Molakalapalli
Shereen Moussa
Prachi Prakash Nagane
Mengtong Ni
Qingxuan Ni
Yanshan Ni
Vitalis Nwosu
Susan Olapade
Xinyu Ou
Rebecca Padilla
Sanjana Palkhiwala
Chuanlong Pan
Bhawna Pandey
Lujing Pang
Kedar Patel
Shaishav Patel
Chandni Patodia
Renee Pawaroo
Jasmine Phelps
Clemens Pochtler
Mahfuz Kabir Pulak
Yongjie Qi
Xuhui Qiao
Daiyang Qin
Guofu Qin
Lizhen Qiu
Chuxuan Quan
Zehao Quan
Louise Andrew Quicho
Karishma Rajagopal
Rahul Ramanathan
Marcus Rapacioli
Simran Rasane
Likhith Ravilla
Jiaxu Ren
Xiaotong Ren
Gloria Rivas
Leicester Rodriguez
Amna Saeed
Venkata Vikram Verma Sagi
Jinfeng Sai
Florentina Sergiou
Yifan Sha
Achal Shah
Agam Hitesh Shah
Akshat Shah
Vivek Shah
Saifuddin Ahmed
Shaik Mohammed
Faisal Rafik Shaikh
Yian Shen
Sahil Lakshmesh Shetty
Donghong Shi
Qiyang Shi
Xinyu Shi
Zhuxin Shi
Anushka Singhal
Sanya Shailesh Sinha
Haoming Song
Kaiweng Sou
Abhinav Sridhar
Sai Sreeja Sriramaneni
Shuang Su
Chaitanya Sumbe
Ao Sun
Beiling Sun
Guanhui Sun
Qiyang Sun
Yizhi Sun
Yuexiang Sun
Yumo Sun
Andrew Sutandar
Vamsi Tadakamalla
Luyao Tang
Xianyan Tang
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Sai Indraneil Teegala
Avantika Thakur
Jobin Thomas
Impana Thulasiram
Wanlu Tian
Ye Tian
Audrey Tjahjono
Wenhao Tong
Jimmy Tran
Jentzel Utrera
Santiago Valencia
Fengyun Wan
Chengcen Wang
Guangya Wang
Haowei Wang
Jiaxin Wang
Kuanzhi Wang
Lidong Wang
Longhao Wang
Luping Wang
Qiaoyi Wang
Qingyi Wang
Rongyi Wang
Tongyao Wang
Xianghan Wang
Xingran Wang
Yi Wang
Yuemin Wang
Zhe Wang
Zhenghan Wang
Zhilin Wang
Ziyao Wang
Sadiya Warsi
Sarvjeet Wazir
Yiding Wei
Yuxi Wei
Nannan Wen
Sarah Wood
Bohao Wu
Jialu Wu
You Wu
Yuchen Wu
Zhen Wu
Meng Xia
Ting Xie
Yuan Xie
Xingchen Xin
Tianyi Xing
Yifan Xing
Yubin Xiong
Fangning Xu
Jiaxuan Xu
Junlu Xu
Weijun Xu
Weini Xu
Xiaochen Xu
Jingyi Xue
Yuan Xue
Ning Yang
Qisi Yang
Zhe Yang
Zhuoming Yang
Manlin Yao
Anoosai Yaramati
Ruiheng Ye
Yaqing Yong
Kewei Yu
Zijie Yu
Jiawen Yuan
Yujie Yuan
Xueye Zang
Lingkang Zeng
Ben Zhang
Bohao Zhang
Chen Zhang
Chuxin Zhang
Fengsheng Zhang
Heyu Zhang
Jiahao Zhang
Jiarui Zhang
Jingqi Zhang
Junhui Zhang
Lisui Zhang
Qian Zhang
Shurui Zhang
Shutong Zhang
Tao Zhang
Tianxiang Zhang
Xiaoxuan Zhang
Yufeng Zhang
Yuyang Zhang
Zixuan Zhang
Jing Zhao
Junting Zhao
Quansen Zhao
Yizhuo Zhao
Hengchuan Zheng
Lixin Zheng
Jialang Zhou
Tong Zhou
Shihang Zhu
Wenqi Zhu
Yuan Zhu
Zhizhen Zou
Technology, Culture, & Society
Integrated Design & Media
Arwa Alsaati
Qiyan Ba
Olusola Babatunde
Kendra Barber
Meera Bhandare
Hima Bijulal
Natalya Brill
Ashley Brown
Derek Chan
Kanam Chan
Ao Chen
KeQiao Chen
Minyi Chen
YenAn Chen
Yu Chen
Aman Chopra
Aaron Chu
Lauren Ciarrocchi
Ma. Keziah Clarissa Cruz
Ruiyang Dai
Eric Ding
Uchechukwu Emole
Anastasia Green
Angelica Honrade
Athena Hosek
Shuai Hu
Shiqi Huang
Wen Ju Huang
Yen-Yi Huang
Ajinkya Hukerikar
Mingjing Jiang
Yonghun Jung
Ainur Kalimoldayeva
Matthew Kane
Jooyoung Kim
Stefanie Koseff
Vasudev Kuram
Nam E Kwon
Chaeeun Lee
Cheng-Chi Lee
Michelle Lee
Chenwei Li
Yanlin Li
Yixun Li
Anran Lin
Sigrid Lohre
Ting Wei Lu
Aakruti Lunia
Lameesa Mallic
Zuhao Mei
Theresa Merchant
Lauren Mitchell
Bhavya Mulukuri
Erika Noma
Jennifer Novicki
Mariam Oke
Branden Potter
Arthi Puri
Danni Qu
Yulan Ren
Rithika Repakula Sathish
Marina Roos Guthmann
Janelle Roswell
Jackeline Sabillon
Miguel Sanabria
Spandita Sarmah
Tanvi Sharma
Ziyi Shi
Christopher Strawley
Sarah Tahir
Chereen Tam
Ni Than
Eden Tokatly
Maria Tomilenko
Diana Tosca
Carmen Vargas
Falguni Vyas
Renfei Wang
Ruoxi Wang
Andrew Win
Jingxiao Wu
Zhe Wu
Yanxin Xiao
Yezi Xu
Hsuan Yang
Jiyun Yao
Meng Ye
Michelle Yong
Xu Zhang
Yuanning Zhang
Tao Zheng
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MASTER’S DEGREE (continued)
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
Anna Sosa
Abanob Tanous
Aarushi Varshney
Esther Wang
Applied Physics
Applied Physics
Matthew Sclafani
Zhuoran Wang
Jason Wang
Yingxin Xiao
Mingye Xie
Shadin Zayyad
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Eunice Adegelu
Rose Ahn
Maram Assi
Sara Benedict
Sofia Betanzos
Youssef Boutros-Ghali
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Biomolecular Science
Anjolaoluwa Ajai
Nia Asemota
Angelina Bajger
Ashley Benson
Fatema Biswas
Lillie Connors
Ashley Davis
Abhi Deverakonda
Hanna Gebremichael
Maria Gil Zanetti
Alexis Grayon
Samantha Hwang
Maria Kulapurathazhe
Lina Lee
Vi Lee
Cheng Liang Liu
Nahid Manzur
Tyler McAndrews
Akash Nagapurkar
Sunny Nath
Kaity Pacsai
Liliana Pamasa
Nawal Panjwani
Seojin Park
Riya-Aisha Patel
Marie Burns
Emma Cruite
Alyzza De Las Alas
David Deslandes
Rachael Eichenberger
Emily Fung
Jiye Han
Kyle Herman
Palak Jauhari
Jennifer Kang
Keunsil Kang
Yaeil Kim
Natalie Ku
Edward Lei
Xin Ning Leong
Jason Li
Zhiru Li
Edward Lim
James Liu
Stonny Liu
Janice Lok
ZiWei Luo
Yuanjin Lyu
Katarina Nowack
Vanessa Petkova
Ana Poli
Farha Pria
Martha Rajewski
Emma Reins
Karleigh Risha
Rafaella Saa Rodriguez
Kajini Sandrakumar
Ju Hee Shin
Kaitlin So
Lauren Suazo
Yudiandian Xia
Perzya Zephyrin
Alice Zhang
John Zhu
Zhixi Lin
Richard Liu
Ignacio Lopez
Jonathan Lopez
Hannah Mahabir
Stephen Manaridis
Anthony Marchese
Adiba Miazi
Joanna Mira-Villa
Margaret Miranda
Civil & Urban Engineering
Civil Engineering
Athar Abdullah
Hillary Abordo
Charlotte Adelson
Zaid Al’Fayez
Muhammad Aman
Shakya Amaratunga
Rubiel Aquino
Ayesha Bhutta
Natalie Bunce
Anton Miguel Cano
Michelle Cardona
Amanda Chen
Maya Edward
Darwin Fermin
Nicole Gac
Spyros Giolmas
Cheyenne Goddard
Saimul Hossain
Winston Huang
Nicholas Hudanich
Joseph Isakov
Yuki Ishii
Yanely Jean Louis
Jie Jin
Levi Khaimov
Noshin Khan
Leann Kim
Sean Kim
Jimmy Lee
Zelin Li
Andree Lin
Jesse Lin
Sofia Monfiglio
Niharika Narendra
Vi Nguyen
Meyca Nicolas
Michael Osorio
Sooho Park
Sabiyah Rahman
Daniella Ramirez-Cedeno
Eugenio Rana
Michelle Ren
Albert Sadiku
Brianna Serna
Ya Xin Su
Eduardo Torres
Emily Tran
Inez Warshaw
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Engineering
Fahim Ahmed
Alan Cao
Anjali James
Andrew Mayer cum laude
Vannpynaro Prak
Tahmidur Rabb
Serita Sargent
Masuma Somji
Shuting Wang
Qian Xiang
Juwen Yan
Yingzhuo Yang
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Computer Engineering
Nakeya Adams
Aleksandar Agapiev
cum laude
Ayman Ahmed
Mohammed Ajao
Iskender Akhmedov
Dorothy Akpovwa
Dayana Alejandro
Taaseen Ali
Rosio Angeles
Alex Arora
Ty Arpornsuksant
Chloe Atchabahian
Courtney Battieste
Dimitri Belessakos
Alisha Bhatia
Joshua Blecherman
Nicholas Broome
Lin Cai
Steven Cantu
Zhenghua Cao
Zhiquan Cao
Olivia Carr
Darren Chan
Justin Chan
Tiffany Chan
Jiayang Chen
Yin Tian Chen
Ricky Chu
Isha Dave
Aditya Dheer
Zixuan Ding
Yuehan Dong
Hellen Ekpo
Afrida Faiza
Patrick Feng
Sanyu Feng
Adelle Fernando
Nicolas Flores
Ellawyn Fong
Sundeep Gaba
Mateo Garcia Uribe
Randy Genere
Nirav Golyalla
Bowen Gong
Dahriel Gonzalez
Nishanth Gottipati
Baelul Haile
Dongrun Han
Aadiba Haque
Aaron Hsieh
Andre Hu
Rong Huang
Ziyi Huang
Isabel Huey
Kora Hughes
Abraham Hung
William Iadarola
Sachin Iyer
Shanaya Jain
Jeremy Jang
Artur Janik
Dustin Jasmin
Saimanasa Juluru
Vijaychander Reddy Kallem
Euvin Kang
Apoorva Kaushik
Ahnaf Kazi
Malak Khalifa
Cory Khalilollahi
Nidhi Khettry
Nohad Khodr
DongJe Kim
Hogyeong Kim
Hye Rang Kim
Jun Hyung Kim
Paul Kim
Preethi Konduri
Thomas Kong
Mustafa Krahn
Kayla Krieger
Brandon Lee
Emily Lee
Joshua Lee
Kevin Lee
Johnson Li
Sabrina Li
Thinzar Lin
Xiaojun Lin
Chang Liu
cum laude
Gabriel Lora
Alan Lu
Matthew Macario
Bianca Macias
Elijah Maldonado
Farhan Mashud
Evin Mattupurath
Thomas Molina
Hengtian Mu
Savitha Nair
Yashar Nasir
Chinedu Nnorom
Adrian Nunez
Theodor Nys
Isfar Oshir
Kang In Park
Monserat Pavia-Bravo
Kyle Payen
Mark Peshkov
Long Phi
Sydney Presnell
Junming Qiu
Joshua Quatela
Lenny Remache
Shinkyum Rho
Harry Rios
Ethan Rosen
Abimael Sanon
Bethany Saunders
Gavin Senger
Shashanka Sharma
Ali Shehbaz
Alston Shi
Lixin Shi
Madison Shimbo
Isaac Singer
Baslel Somborac
David Son
Chengyang Song
Jun Yong Song
Juliana Soranno
Kyle Spinelli
Naren Srinivasan
Moses Stewart
Victor Su
James Sun
Elton Toh
Gerardo David
Torres Castro
Clara Tschoepe
Jeffery Tse
Mohammed Uddin
Mohammed Uddin
Alexandra Valdes
Jorge Velasquez
Philip Vetsas
Triet Vo
Cameron Vong
Alexander Vorobyev
Zhuo Wang
Zhuoran Wang
Julia Westphal
Joshua Wirth
Taylor Wong
Regina Wu
Shi Xin Wu
Windy Wu
Shangyu Xie
Fei Xiong
Jiali Xu
Jonathan Xu
Tian Yang
Winston Yang
Lisa Ye
Brad Yuan
Daniel Zeng
Barry Zhang
Jiuqi Zhang
Xinyu Zhang
Yushan Zhang
Pinhan Zhao
Kevin Zheng
Winnie Zheng
Yifei Zhu
Zhaoyan Zhu
Zixi Zou
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Eren Akbas
Jerry Aska
Andrew Asseily
Tazwar Belal
Andres Bravo
Arin Budhram
Juan Jose Castano Moreno
Patrick Cheng
Dipu Chowdhury
Tahmeed Chowdhury
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BACHELOR’S DEGREE (continued)
Sharlene Anne Escaro
John Gonzalez
Alan Hentrich
Sandra Ho
Rebecah Huang
Basma Jamal
Brandon Konoiko
Sukjin Lee
Kent Li
Linda Li
Eric Lin
Melica Livai
Yujun Lu
Christopher Olmedo
Fernando Parada Orellana
Jiannuo Pei
Amolak Plaha
Tommy Qiu
Alexander Rakov
Michael Ruiz
Pratik Saha
Mei Schuerch
Bismah Shahid
Yaaqov Shkifati
Ahnaf Tazwar
Haelyne Uhm
Max Viduszynski
Steven Villagran
Xinchen Yang
Asam Zaman
Thomas Zheng
Matthew Zhu
Jiakai Zou
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nana Ama Asamoah-Adjei
Krzysztof Chciuk
Ryan Farrior
Ariel Hsieh
Soohwan Kim
Zihan Li
Patryk Markowski
Jay Patel
Ketan Vanjani
Sicheng Xie
Siqi Yuan
Electrical Engineering
Aimalohi Alakhume
Anik Barua
Jessica CarrerAnaleah Collazo
Efrain Escamilla
Jeremy Fermin
Michael Gardell
Xinyuan Guo
Jung Ho Hwang
Taewook Hwang
Junghwan Lee
Qihao Luo
Ha Nguyen
Mary Fiona Selep
Musa Shams
Jihan Shende
Anika Tabassum
Siyeong Yu
Shutong Zhang
Yuxuan Zhang
Xinyu Gao
Yuliya Gumenyuk
Yicheng Hao
Jiaming Hu
Yiyang Hu
Bai Huang
Jiahao Hui
Jiayi Jiang
Sitong Jin
Anyang Li
Tiancheng Li
Xuanlong Li
Yihan Li
Yuqi Liu
Runqi Lu
Andy Luo
Yibing Pan
Alexander Pham
Sofia Poinelli
Sadhvi Surendhran
Alvaro Velasquez Kleinert
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mengyuan Ai
Nathan Atherley
Saif Azim
Mansur Babar
Jiamu Bai
David Basin
Seshasri Bhaskar
Sydney Blum
Irvin Chadraa
Matthew Chan
Lianghong Chen
ShiLei Cheng
Francesco
Cuscuna
Youhan Ding
Jiaxin Du
Giancarlo Enriquez
Zhenyang Fu
Sophia Gan
Yishi Wang
Yufei Wang
Zhanliang Wang
Zijun Wang
Zining Wang
Manman Wei
Heng Wu
MeiNa Xie
Mengyu Xu
Elena Yan
Yadi Yang
Yuqi Yang
Jinglei Ye
Darren Yen
Zhen Wei Yeon
Niu Zeng
Junzhe Zhang
Xinyu Zhang
Jin Zhou
Mathematics and Physics
Hengbin Cao
Charles Jacobson
Alexander Kucher
Yilin Li
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Michael Abdelnour
Maria Acuna
Nadim Afiouni
Senthia Ahmed
Eva Ahmetaj
Sufia Ainechi
Cláudio Alves Neves Costa
Braga
Christian Bacelic
Samuel Barrios
Hanif Bhatti
Ahmet Mithat Bilgi
Arkara Boonthong
N’kira Brooks
Daniel Browarny
Kevin Cabrera
Carlos Campos
Luis Cedeno Vera
Nick Chan
Jennifer Chinchilla
Yejun Choi
Tanzim Choyon
Juan Pablo Cortina
Raquel Costa
Thomas Cuvillier
Maureen Daoud
Ismael Fahmy
Daniel Flores
Melissa Garcia Ospina
Ivan Gil
Christopher Glenn
Nicole Goldstein
Jean Guerrero
Allan Guillen Mares
Maxwell Guo
Erik Hakobyan
Dakari Hamlin
Nuri Han
Emily Hsieh
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Yusuf Husain
Talal Ishrak
Kai Wei Jiang
Bharti Kakkar
Nassima Kaojkaji
Omer Faruk Keles
Do-gon Kim
Stanley Kim
Sarvagnya Kompella
Andong Kong
Sai Sravya Kuraparthi
Anson Le
Telmo Lee-Ciganda
Michael Lee-Epstein
Kenneth Liu
Edward Lopez
Michael Lucero
Elaine Ly
Madeline Lyons
Ethan Marot
Angel Martinez
Alexander Miller
Haden Misra
Caitlin Mixer
Rana Mohamed
Aztria Montoya
Abdulaziz Murad
Gabrielle Naquila
Rachael Nester
Tyler Offman
Ameya Palav
Jeffrey Pauta
Surya Purohit
Barton Qian
Tianhao Qin
Kavitha Rao
Brian Rivera
Cristina Rivero
Jasper Robertson
Curtis Rodriguez Quamina
Zoe Sat
Cecilia Emma Schultz
Matthew Serafin
Safir Shafayet
Ayman Siam
Shu’ayb Siddique
Jaskaran Singh
James Sowell
David Stickles
Raihana Sultana
Daniel Tang
Bhavin Tanna
Christopher Tian
Duc Truong
Sanjna Vohra
Yilin Wang
Xitong Wei
Jay Yao
Angela Yi
Mubeen Zainul
Sara Zeidan
Yunliang Zhao
Andrew Zheng
William Zhou
Maxime Garzouzi
Nadira Ghassani
Shruthi Gopinath
Syed Haque
Nuoxing He
cum laude
Ruijie He
Leong Tak Ho
cum laude
Haoyang Huang
Jong Bae Jeon
Ghaniya Kartasasmita
Youngjoon Kim
Ashley Lagares Caceres
Michael Landa
Jingyu Li
Ruisi Li
Ferennie Liu
Han Liu
Jingyun Liu
Technology Management & Innovation
Business and Technology Management
Hassan Adolphus
Andrea Anghel
Kenneth Ascona
Mirnalini Boopalam
Ulas Bozdag
Trisha Bui
Debora Carhuapoma
Leon Caridi
Angie Chen
Chia-Yu Chen
Ruibin Jacky Chen
Cameron Clarke
Kaitlin Cohen
Vincent Crupi
Akash Datta
Liuting Deng
Jasmine Diantoro
Andre Eason
Ethan Enders
Regina Fumero Baharet
Jiajun Luo
Zhaoyuan Luo
Zirui Lyu
Madeleine Mai
Taylor Merine
Preethi Narayan
Jai Oberoi
Tae Young Oh
Eshika Patel
Nishant Patel
Fardin Rayan
Noa Aurelia Rosenfeld
Rifat Roufe
Mirjana Sands
Murat Sankaya
Yue Su
Hanna Suh
Anika Sumush
Santino Uy
Anna Vandehey
Hamza Wahba
Ziling Wang
Tong Wu
Zhanqi Xu
Aichu Yang
Austin Yang
XinYu Melody Yap
Ziyu Ying cum laude
Ki Chan Yoon magna cum laude
Sanzhar Zakir
Baining Zhang
Vicky Zhao
Weihao Zhou cum laude Technology,
Culture, & Society
Integrated Design & Media
Ama Achampong
Roger Argueta
Vidur Bahl
Alejandra Baptista Aguilar
Simon Bayona
Jessica Belov
Marcello Bevilacqua
Matthew Bloom
Pamela Buscema
Ashli Byfield
Giovanni Carucci
Jordan Chan
Sui Li Chan
Semaab Chaudhry
Kaiwen Chen
Caroline Cheung
Caroline Cho
Sean Choi
Ozioma Chukwukeme
Bridget Daugherty
Annie Dedas
Alexander Duan
Jeremy Eng
Sally Estevez
Caiyi Feng
Lara Ferreri
Vicky Gao
Kaitlyn Heard
Connor Hester
Cayden Horne
Joan Huang
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* This program is not an official graduation list. It should not be used to determine a student’s academic or degree status. NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s official registry for conferral of degrees is the student’s permanent record, kept by the Office of the Registrar.
BACHELOR’S DEGREE (continued)
Carol Jin
Enoch Jo
Rachel Josepho
Guanyu Ke
Khin Khin
Edward Kim
Julia Kim
Kristin Kweon
Irene Lao
Jei Lee
Josephine Lee
Katrina Lee
Samuel Levin
Congxin Li
Qimu Liang
Raymond Lin
Kimberly Lopez
Elizabeth Mendoza
Frank Mieles
Ji Moon
Katrina Morgan
Yunru Pan
Dylan Pangilinan
Leonardo Ramirez
Mikayla Rogers
Victor Sanz
Laiba Sarwar
Huaze Shao
Xinran Shen
Paloma St. Clair
Kyle Su
magna cum laude
Rhiannon Super
Emmeline Tantry
Yimin Wang
James Watson
Ty Wenrick
Jelani White
Alexis Williams
Jingxiao Wu
Qingyang Wu
Sophie Xu
Alexander Yang
Jeongin Yoon
Angela Zhang
Tao Zheng
Mingcheng Zhu
Science and Technology Studies
Sofia Burton
Jade Duval
Emily Hoang
Hailey Lint
Claryssa Santana
Hofai Tang
Sustainable Urban Environments
Lorraine Awori
Luke Buttenwieser
Gabriela Gutierrez
Cadavid
Amiya Induneve
Rebecca Levy
Andrea Madrid
John Morello
Steven Patten
Kiera Quishenberry
Melanie Sanchez
Jamie Walker
Sophie Weiss
Lu Yii Wong
Kaylynn Yamanashi
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GOLDEN JUBILEE CLASS OF 1973
Olav R. Aavik
Mircea Abramovici
Felix Abrams
Anthony S. Acampora, Ph.D.
Brian J. Adamo
John N. Adinolfi
Richard A. Adrian
James N. Aevaliotis
Yogendra K. Agarwalla
Anthony M. Agnone
Ashfaq Ahmad
Ejaz Ahmad
Rogelio N. Alama
Neil F. Albert
Richard F. Alioth
James P.A. Allan
James A. Allan, Ph.D.
Louis Alleluia
Stephen J. Alter, Ph.D.
Kenneth J. Altpeter
Barry N. Altschuler
William J. Amadio, Ph.D.
Sham S. Ambardar
Frank A. Amodeo
Fred J. Amoroso
Brij B. Anand
Albert C. Anderson
Bruce J. Anderson
Marsha Dale Anderson Bomar
Richard J. Andreano
Anthony J. Antennucci
Joseph C. Antonaccio
Jim Apostolides
Mark J. Appelstein
Hani A. Arafat, P.E.
Aldo P. Ardito
David Aronchick
Richard M. Aronson
Russell M. Artzt
Richard C. Augeri, Ph.D.
Pramesh H. Aurora
Charles L. Austin
Peter L. Avar
Gabriel Avgerinos
Eugene Babij
B. A. Kumar Babu
Nadia Sardi Bahri
Stephen R. Baliozian
Ralph Ballart
Ralph L. Barlow
Jack R. Barocas
Albert F. Barrientos
James J. Barry
Dominick P. Bartenope
Kenneth S. Barto
Apurba K. Basak
P. Basista, M.D.
Ronald S. Baslaw
Satyakam Basu
Tom E. Batik
Neville S. Batliwalla
Himat Singh Batra, Ph.D.
Carl E. Battles
Robert I. Baumgartner
Nizamettin Baykara
Henry J. Becker
Edward Becker
Gerald S. Beckerman
Philip J. Belkin
Benjamin A. Belkind, Ph.D.
Nicholas M. Bellizzi
Robert V. Benazzi
General Dennis L. Benchoff, USA
William J. Bendick, P.E.
John J. Benson
Joshua Berenbom, Ph.D.
Simo Thomas Bergado
John P. Bergamini
Murray R. Berkowitz
Martin A. Bermish
Philip E. Bernstein
Rene B. Bersamin
James M. Best, Jr.
Ashvin V. Bhagat
Jatinder S. Bhatia
Amit K. Bhattacharyya
Richard J. Bianco
Peter R. Biberacher
Erich Bichler
Alvin A. Bicker
Charles P. Bienenstein
Joseph A. Bilotta
Gerald H Birnbaum
Amitabha Biswas
Arthur E. Bittner
Marvin W. Blachman
Isidore Blaustein
Jerome B. Blechman
Benjamin J. Bloch, Ph.D.
Howard S. Blum, Ph.D.
Steven W. Bluth
Norman K. Bodenstein
Satyanarayana Bodla
Gerald T. Bodner
William F. Boehler
Robert A. Boeller
Csaba M. Boer
Nestor A. Bojarczuk, Jr.
Anthony L. Borelli
John Bosco
Chinmoy B. Bose, Ph.D.
Sam C. Bose
Charles G. Bosley
Zarif S. Botros
Sebastian W. Botta
William J. Bottari
William Bowie
Peter A. Boxer
Russell J. Boyle
Abraham M. Brauner
Abe M. Brauner
Barnett S. Brickner
John M. Bridgewater
Charles John Brigandi, Jr.
Lance M. Brofman, Ph.D
Lawrence E. Brower
Keith P. Brown
Vera K Brozski
Sergei Stanley Brozski, P.E.
Edward D. Brunner
Robert L. Bruno
Michael J. Bryan
Robert J. Budica
Fred M. Burg
Martin Burger
Loretta C. Burke
Robert F. Burns
William J. Burns
Neal Burstein
Philip M. Burton
Charles M. Butt
Simon C. Butterworth
Dennis K. Buzzelli
Richard J. Byrne
John H. Byrne, Ph.D.
Frank J. Calascione, P.E.
John P. Caloger
Frank M. Campirides
John J. Campo
Alan R. Candusso
Cesar D. Capio
Thomas S. Cardile
Robert E. Cardwell, Ph.D.
John B. Carley
James P. Carmody
Jerome P. Carney
Joseph S. Carra
Anthony N. Carrelli
Richard T. Carter
Matthew Caruso
Daniel Casaburi
Moises Cases
Yosbaldo Hv Castille
Victor J. Catalano
Robert J. Cavagnet
Richard A. Cavello
Mario G. Cavuoto
Edward A. Ceglia
Anthony Celentano, Ph.D.
Richard P. Cellamare
Salvatore A. Celona
Manuel Cerqueira
Michael Tung-Pui Chan
Siddhartha P. Chand
Michael Chandler
Richard T. Chandler
Tien Min Chang
Tsun-Yung Chang, Ph.D.
Ray F. Chang
Dominic Kuang-Chen Chang
Jonathan S. Chang
Steven W. Charatz
Ricardo Chau Yen
Ramesh N. Chaubey, P.E.
Shafqat Ali Chaudhary
Iqbal M. Chaudhry, P.E.
Ricardo Chau-Yen
Tse Chuan Chen
Hong-Tsang Chen
Shaw H. Chen
Shiaw J. Chen
Thomas L. Chernesky
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GOLDEN JUBILEE CLASS OF 1973 (continued)
Tai Wey Cheung
Henry Chew
Hon Yee Chew
James Chi
Pei-Ning Chiang
Frank J. Chin
Sam Ngan Chin
Edward S. Chin
Edwin K. Chin
William W. Chin
Suhas T. Chitnis
Ratnam Venkata Chitturi
Anthony C. Chiulli
James Ru Cho, Ph.D.
Stephen Jin-Yee Choi
Peter Choma
Nestor H. Chopin
Wah Yung Chu, Ph.D.
Duksoo Chun
Moon Hyoun Chung
John K. Cipolaro
Allen J. Cizner
Robert F. Clancy, P.E.
Anthony M. Clark
John J. Clark
Robert J. Coccaro
Mary A. Cohen
Fred F. Cohen
Rafael O. Collado
Robert W. Colley
John J. Collins
Michael Stephen Collins
Thomas F. Collins
Hiram Colon, Jr.
Donald J. Colquhoun
LeRoy J. Conk, Jr., P.E.
Thomas L. Connelly
Michael Consi
Vikram R. Contractor
Kenneth S. Cooper
Norman J. Cooperman, P.E.
Frederick M. Coppersmith
Robert N. Coppolino, Ph.D.
Steven A. Corbin
Richard F. Cortellino
Ralph J Costantini
Carol A. Costas
Anthony Santo Cotroneo
Leonard Cotugno
George W. Cowan
Sylvester C. Cox
Michael J. Cozzolino
Michael Crane, Ph.D.
John Crescenti
Harlan P. Crowder
Jose M. Cruz
Richard J. Damiani
Dennis D. D’Amore
Frank J. D’Angelo
Gerald Dantone
Pradip K. Das
Richard J. Davidian
Fredric Davidson
Richard M. Davis
Steven G. De Cicco
William J. De Graaff
Paul A. De Long
Joseph J. De Masi
Robert De Moyer, Ph.D.
Egidio De Prisco
Gerald G. De Siano, P.E.
John M. DeBruin
Eugene F. Declue
Linda Deer
Ralph A. DeFeo
Joseph P. Degregoria, Jr.
Vincent D. Del Bagno
Elio Del Peschio
Neil T. Della Cava
Peter J Demmer
Dennis J. Dempsey
William H. Depouli, Jr.
Arvindkumar C. Desai
Dinkar V. Desai
Robert Charles Detrano, M.D.
Amiya K. Dey
James A. Di Carlo
Peter Di Girolamo
Anthony M. Di Marco
Gene R. Di Resta
Joseph Di Sorbo
Harry Diament
Richard Diamond
The Mihn Diep
The M. Diep
Joseph A. Digiacomo
John S. Dilsizian
Joseph J. Di-Muro
Alan Israel Diner
Bob M. Dobbins
Arman J. Dodakian
Richard G. Doescher
Martin P. Doherty
Terry J. Donofrio, Ph.D.
Austin L. Dooley
Michael Doomchin
Philip J. Dorfman
Gary L. Drew
Frederick D. Dreyfus
Paul Dublanyk
Robert O. Dulin, Jr.
Ricardo D. Dumapit
Teh Chen Dung
Michael G. Dunican
John Dunn
M. Lavelle Dwyer-Shields
John E. Dydland
Carl J. Dzierzawiec
Marvin G. Edelstein
Marcus Edelstein, Ph.D.
Dick Eden
Michael P. Edison
Howard R. Ehrenshaft
Kenneth L. Eisenberger
Mohamed Z T Elsayed
Jerome S. Eltman
Leslie S. Emhof
Richard M. Eng
Wayne Wing-Dot Eng
Kurt E. Engemann
Russell J. Englot
Mohammad H. Erfani
Jeffrey H. Erickson
and Mrs. Robert J. Esnes
Glenn H. Estes, Jr.
James E. Evensen
Adel M. Faddah
George L. Fagan, Ph.D.
John J. Fahner
Paul Joseph Fahr
Magdi A. Farag
Albert Farhi
Stephen C Farrell
David Federman
Roy C. Fedotoff
David Feinblum
Howard M. Feintuch, Ph.D.
George Feygas
Richard W. Fietz
Louis G. Filosa
Richard Finkelstein
Marsha J. Finkelstein
Rudolf E. Fischer
Arthur L. Fishfeld
Abraham M. Flaumenhaft
Robert M. Fleming, Ph.D.
Jorge A. Flores
Roberto E. Flores Becerril
George Foo
Diane J. Forastiero, Ph.D.
Robert Foresta
Paulino Forte
William M. Fournier
Barry M. Fox
John R. Franco, Jr.
Stephen J. Frey
Joel R. Friedman
Glenn H. Frommer
Howard M. Gabey
Howard Gage
Constantine Gaitanos
Gondolfo F. Gallegro
Edward J. Galto
Anthony Gambilonghi
Bharat B. Gandhi
Garo B. Garabedian
Franklin T. Garabo
William V. Gargiulo
Stephen Garone
John T. Gavaris
Wayne Brian Gelfand
Frank Gerlando
Manfred E. Germann
Klaus H. Gersdorf
Ezzat S. Ghaly
Adib Z. Ghattas
Frank A. Giannantonio
Joseph M. Giannone
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Paul A. Giardina
Robert P. Giguere
Abraham I. Gil
John A. Gilbert
Drew E. Gilstad
Despina P. Gimbel
Morton W. Glassberg
W. Morton Glassberg
Madan L Goel
Helmut K. Goersch
Leonard J. Goldberg
Reuben B. Goldblatt
Henry R. Goldenberg
Edwin B. Goldin, Ph.D.
Norman M. Goldman
Samuel J. Goldstein
Lawrence S. Golfin
Luis Carlos Gonzalez
Ted W. Gray
Jack R. Greco
David A. Green
Philip J. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Charles S. Greenberg
Daniel C. Greenberg
Jeffrey Greenblatt
Ira B. Greenhut
Harry Greenwald
Gary J. Grieco
John T. Grillo
Fred Grossman, Ph.D.
Henry Grynberg
Jerry Guarracino
Nicholas P. Guarriello
Guillermo E. Guerrero
Thomas J. Guglielmo
Angelo M. Guglielmo
Henry P. Guidali
Fayek A. Guirguis
Didi Gunawan
Gregory M. Gurican, RN
Mayer Gusik
Stanley Habib, Ph.D.
Philip A. Haderer
Paul-Isaac L. Hagouel, Ph.D.
James M. Hall
Samuel W. Halpern
Joseph P. Hammond
Francis C. P. Han
Kazunori Handa
Norman M. Hanniger
Jacques E. Hara, Ph.D.
Gope D. Hariani
Marc L. Hart
Elspeth B. Hart
Harry G. Hartjen
Fernando Hartswell
Charles D. Hassell, Esq.
Wayne Satoshi Hatayama
R. Haig Hatchdoorian
Peter J. Hatzi
Nickolaus Hauser
David Hay
Steven Z. Hayden
John G. Hayes, Ph.D.
Michael E. Hayes
Donald E. Hayes
Markus Hechler
George S. Hechtman
Steven Z. Heckler
Earl Heier
Kenneth O. Helland
Mitchell H. Heller
Patrice M. Henderson
J. A. Henderson, III
Earl E. Henry, P.E.
James Heom
Douglas V. Heppa
Jerry Y. Hepsen
Stephen A. Herman
William J. Herrmann
Barry I. Hertz
Israel M. Herzberg
Richard B. Hibbs
Barry Hill
Richard G. Hinderliter, Ph.D.
Gregory R. Hirshan
Max Hirshkowitz
William A. Hnat
Sheldon I. Hoffman
Robert J. Hofinger
Gary H. Hohenstein
Howard R. Hollander
Irwin J. Hollander
David L. Holtmann
Ming Hom
Richard F. Honigsbaum, Ph.D.
Mary K. Horan
Alexander L. Horvath, Ph.D.
James R. Housten, Jr.
Edwin Hovanesian
Thomas K T Hsieh, Ph.D.
John J. Hsu
Christopher A. Hughes, Esq.
Edward F. Hughes, Jr.
Brian W. Hulse
Irshad Sayed M. Hussain
Hon-Ming Hwa
Jia W. Hwang
Mohammad Hussain Imam
Daniel L. Irizarry
Steven J. Isaacs, P.E.
Marcelo Isaak
Hagop J. Isnar
Rudolph F. Israel
Michael V. Itteilag
Barry A. Jablonski
Rory D. Jackson
Alan M. Jacobs
Paul A. Jacobs
Wing F. Jae
Paul William Jagodzinski
Paul C. Jakob
Max Jarolem
Steven W. Jaroski
Lester Jee
Edward C. Jensen
Richard O. Johnson
Edward W. Johnson
George A E Johnson-Orban
Mitchell I. Jolles
John E. Jost
Howard L. Jow
Richard F. Kaczmarek
John S. Kaczor
MacHandranath S. Kakade
George J. Kalb
Bruce L. Kaplan
Kenneth R. Karlin
Howard M. Kasow
Robert J. Katz
Moses Katz
Andrew N. Katz
Jane Kaufman, Ph.D.
Aktan Kavovntzis
Nerses N Kazanjian, Ph.D.
Thomas F. Kelleher
Robert B. Keller, Ph.D.
John T. Kelly, Ph.D.
Gunther Kempin, Jr.
William J. Kenneally
Larry D. Kenworthy
Thomas H. Keppler, D.D.S.
Theodore Kettler
Kaleem U. Khwaja
David R. Kilanowski, Ph.D.
Young W. Kim
William J. Kinneary
Frederick Kiremidjian
Lawrence A. Klein, Ph.D.
Alfred Klein
Jeffrey N. Klein
Kenneth Robert Klimas
Siegfried Kodila
A. Thomas Koevary
Sheldon Howard Kohn
Ralph Korenstein
Stathis Christos Kormentzas
James Koutsavlis
John J. Krausz
Andrew B. Kregar
Arthur A. Kressner
Barry Krieger
Venkateswaran Krishnan
Rajagopal Krishna-Raj
Richard Kristal, Ph.D.
Louis C. Kubat
Kathryn F. Kuiken, Ph.D.
Aaron Kupfer
Lawrence F. Kushner
Uma K. Kutwal
James A. Kuzloski
John M. Labozza, P.E.
Tulsi M. Lakhani
Adrian Lalicata
Ernest Lambeth
Naftali Landerer
Albert Landi
Howard I. Last, P.E.
CLASS OF 2023 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY • MAY 18, 2023 • NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING // 49
GOLDEN JUBILEE CLASS OF 1973 (continued)
Roy Kwok-Po Lau
Thomas Laufer
Jeffrey M. Lauria, Ph.D.
Thomas Laursen
Dominick W. Lavelle
Kenneth P. Lebeck
Roman A. Lechicky
Lo-Shan Lee
Jason C.P. Lee
Robert Bumjung Lee, Ph.D.
David M. Lee
Mary K. Lee
Lo Shan Lee
Susie S. Lee
Sigurd Lee, P.E.
David P. Lee
Tai Yau Lee
William G. Leeman
Larry D. Leiby, Ph.D.
Robert Leifer, Ph.D.
Cynthia A. Lemon
Ronald A. Lemp
John Lemp, Jr.
Edmond Leo
Ilan Leskly
Richard Leung
Donald Leung
Glenn B. Levine
Allan S. Levine
David M. Levine
Meir Levy
Roges H. Levy
Allen C Lew
Sviatoslav Liapunov, Ph.D.
James K. Ligh
Peter T. Lin
Thomas J. Linton
Wan-Thye Liok
Ronald I. Lipskin
Philip Lipsky, Ph.D.
David J. Lischner, Ph.D.
William C. Liu, Ph.D.
Kou C. Liu, Ph.D.
Manuel Lizarzhburu
Allen K. Lo
Robert V. Locantore
Jasper F Lofaso
Frank J. Logrippo
Andrew M. Loncarevic
Alfonso R. Lopez
Louis J. Lopreato
Michael K. Lorelli
David Louie
Stephen Luba
Jack Lubowsky, Ph.D.
Gunars V. Lucans
Sau-Cho Lum
Sal Cho Lum
William D. Luty
C. T. Lyons
Garrett G. Lysiak
Kathy H. Ma
Jerry D MacHtinger
Katherine Mah
Dhema T. Mahajan
Frederic J. Mahler
John C. Maikisch
Eliot R. Malamud
Asif K. Malik, P.E.
Spyros A. Malitzis
Stephen Maloney
Dimitrios G. Maltezos
Spyros A. Maltizis
Louise R. Mandelman
Nitin Maniar
John P. Manning
Richard J. Manzo
Edward Marcinek
Howard Marcus
Angelo J. Mariani
Steven Markman, Ph.D.
James H. Marks
Joseph J. Marra
Patrick J. Marvello
Nicholas J. Marzella
Randolph M. Mastromonaco
Albin M. Matukonis
Thomas S. Maurici
Frank M. Mauro
Richard A. Maynard
Joseph M. Mayone
Clifford C. Mc Artey
Richard P. Mc Ginnis
Michael J. Mc Mahon
George G. McCann
Thomas F. McCarthy
Joseph Patrick McCaul
William J. McCauley
Clarence C. McCollum, Jr.
Thomas A. McEachin
James McElligott
Michael P. McNey
James J. McTigue
Peter J. McVeigh
John V. Medea
Donald S. Medrick
Paul J. Menaker, Ph.D.
Silvia H. Menasce
Ronald A. Meschino
Robert A. Messina
Mike J. Metaxas, P.E.
Bennett A. Meyer
Girish P Mhatre
Joseph M. Michaels
Demetrios A. Michalopoulos
Paul E. Michelich
Frank L. Michell
George Michos
Charles J. Mikulka
Timothy A. Miller
Edward Miluk
Eugene E. Miluk
Edward B. Mines
Howard Mintz
Nazir A. Mir
Moises Mitrani
Edward Mittelman
Barnett R. Mittelmann
Paul J. Mock, Jr.
Kurt F.W. Moeller
Vishvas K. Moghe
Manohar P. Moholkar
Robert A. Molan
Donald J. Mordas
Joseph Mordente
Paul F. Moreno
John A. Moretto
George M. Morris
Kirsten S. Moy
Yick Ping Peter Moy
Frank W. Mueller
William M. Mueller
Subir K. Mukherjee
Richard A. Mullen
Bernard F. Muller
Thomas Frank Murawski
Michael J. Murno
Paul A. Muscianesi
Marianne A. Musella
Ramasamy Muthusamy
Dr. Michael I. Nabel
Solomon J. Nachfolger
Arje Nachman
Lawrence D. Nadel, Ph.D.
Jayant N. Nadkarni
Madan N. Naik, P.E.
David Naim
Rolf D. Naku
Douglas Nash
Shrinath K. Nayak
Peter Nee
William G. Nelson, Jr.
Matthew Neuwirth
Warren Newman, P.E.
Edward M. Newman
Harold J.Y. Ng
Eric Kee Ngon Ng
Robert P. Nicastro
Jacques Nioche
Natuarlal C. Nishawala
Erwin R. Noble
Charles H. Nye
Gary Edward Nye
Lewis B. Oberlander, Ph.D.
James Vincent O’Connor
Terrence M. O’Grady
Edward O’Hare
Stephen R. Olsen
Max S. Ong
Chiong B. Ong
Rosa Blitzer Oppenheim, Ph.D.
Roger F. Opstbaum
Joseph J. Orlando, Esq.
Douglas W. Ormond, Ph.D.
Patricia Ornstein
Eugene Ornstein, Ph.D.
James Otalora-Sugaste
Christian W. Otterstedt
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Ronald T. Owens
Cary M. Padell
Alan V. Paderewski
Henry William Palermo
Alan B. Palmer
Arlynn B. Palmer
Suzanne Palocz
Damodar R. Pandit
Nayankishor P. Pandya
Louis V. Pannone
Paul Pantelis
Andreas T. Papadopoulos
Frank J. Papson
Jeffrey E. Pardo
Apurva J. Parekh
Edward Parga
Jodh S. Parhar
Andrew D. Park
Norman C. Parker
Gino L. Parlanti, P.E.
Frank J. Parra
Karur S. Parthasarathy, P.E.
Jay W. Parton
Vincent J. Passione
Walter Pastuszczyn
Chimanbhai M. Patel
Shashikant N. Patel
Avanish S. Patel
William J. Patrie
William J. Paulmeno
Djordje S. Paunovic
Robert Joseph Pearce
Marc B. Pearl
Predrag M. Pejcic
Andrew R Pelick
Joseph C. Pellegrino
Raymond J. Pennotti, Ph.D.
Ricardo L. Perez
Barry S. Perlman, Ph.D.
Ernst Perpignand
Andrew Petallides
Robert Petito
Anthony D. Piazza
Maurice G. Picquet
Nathan J. Pike
Edward L. Pinnes, Ph.D.
Anthony J. Pisani
Anthony Joseph Pistilli
Martin J. Platt
Fredric J. Pocci
Mark T. Podob
Shahar V. Podoly
Ronald J. Polard
Arthur Politano
Martin L. Pollack, Ph.D.
Berthold Pollick
Jayachandra R. Polur
Dragos Popescu
Paul R. Popick
Ferruccio Pradella
Ganesh H.S. Prasad
John M. Prendergast
Vincent T. Prestianni
Thomas G. Provenzano
Stanley R. Prushik
Richard J. Ptakowski
John T. Puglis
Paul E. Pugsley
Thomas A. Pukenis
Edilberto Pulido
Walter Pylyp
Guillermo Quintana
Gilbert J. Quinton
S. Vijay Raghavan
Khosrow Rahmanan
Dinakar Ramakrishnan
Mohammad S. Rana
Satyabrata Ray
John M. Raymont, Jr.
Fred J. Redavid
Erwin Reich
Patrick J. Reilly
Richard L. Reinert
William Frederick Reinhold
Jeffrey S. Reininger
Adam Reisner
Nathan M. Reiss
John L. Remo, Ph.D.
Robert J. Renahan
Nello Riccioli
Rowan Hay Rifkin, Ph.D.
Charles N. Rigal
Michael F. Riggo
Richard S. Riggs
Peter L. Rinaldi
Warren H. Rivetz
Ralph A. Rizzo
James T. Roberson, Jr.
Arnold M. Roberts
Peter E. Robinson
Rudolph R. Robinson, Jr.
Richard M. Rodgers
Andrew J. Rodolico
Gary Michael Rodolitz
Jean M. Rodriguez
Mark H. Rodriguez, Jr.
Charles W. Rodriguez
Abraham Rodriguez-Ramirez
Eric E. Rogner
Adrian E. Rojas
Douglas B. Rom, Ph.D.
John A. Romano
Ram Shaul Ronen, Ph.D.
Orestes G. Rosabal
Johnny A J Rosenbach
David N. Rosenblum
Paul Rosenzweig
Ira D. Ross
Kenneth J. Ross
Raymond C. Rossi
Paul M. Roth
Elliott D. Rothfeld
Howard V. Rothman
Lance Rothstein
Gabriel P. Rottas, P.E.
Antonio F. Roxo
David B. Rubin
Michael B. Rubin
Thomas Rucci
Herbert Vincent Rusk
John J. Russell
Jean E. Ryniker
Robert M. Sackel
Amulya Kumar Saikia
Yoshikazu Saito, Ph.D.
Maurice Salama
Reynaldo A. Salcedo
Robert E. Salfi
George E. Salser
Edward P. Salzano
Steven M. Sambol
Edgar Samuelsen
Frank A. San Filippo, Ph.D.
Joseph J. Sanchez
Mark Neil Sandler
Laureano Sanjurjo, III, D.D.S.
James F. Santagata
Dennis Santella
Marilyn S. Hirschhorn Sapir, Ph.D.
Thomas L. Savarino
Joseph M. Savino
Joseph G. Scariza
Anthony J. Scarola
Donald M. Scelzo
August W. Schaefer, Jr.
Norman D. Schafer
Robert W. Scharrer
Charles T. Schauss
Alan N. Schenberg
Herb Schiller
Felix Schirripa
Fred J. Schlagenweith
Mark H. Schlam
Walter F. Schneider
Frederick E. Schoenfeld
Richard A. Schoenfeld, Ph.D.
Paul Schonfeld
William Schuster
Charles E. Schwartz
Nathan N. Schwartz
Morris Schwartz
Barry J. Schwartz
Gene E. Schwartz
Sheldon Schwartz
Peter J. Scranton
Thomas E. Sedlack
Bruno Segal
Gary Mark Selsky
Daniel I. Shabat
Michael Shafir
Atul S. Shah
Indrajit M. Shah
Daniel J. Shanahan
Emanuel Shapiro
Igal P Sharret
Gerard J. Shaw
Ronald Shaya
Daud A. Sheikh
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GOLDEN JUBILEE CLASS OF 1973 (continued)
Charles M. Shenitz
Sang Yung Shin, Ph.D.
Alan B. Shineman
Michael Shone, Ph.D.
James M. Sichenzia
Robert Sileno
Steven M. Silverstein
M. Walter Sim
John M. Simpson, Ph.D.
Richard A. Sinanian
Bikram Jit Singh, Ph.D.
Melissa Singlevich
Mandel Skovronsky
Edward R. Smith
Robert E. Smith
Frank M. Soccoli
Alan A. Socha
John V. Soderberg
Otto J. Sodoma, Jr.
Nassef N. Soliman
George J. Solter
Oredola A. Soluade, Ph.D.
Bhupendra S. Soneji
Joseph P. Soohoo
Joseph M. Sorrentino
Ferdinad A. Spencer
Daniel M. Speyer, Ph.D.
Vladimir Spina
Robert A. Stacy
Peter H. Staley
Rudy P. Stalzer
Frank M. Stalzer
James T. Stanco, Jr.
Mircea-Stefan E. Stanescu
Alvin M. Star
Jeffrey K. Stark
Peter M. Stark
Edward L. Starobin, P.E.
Gerasimos Stathtos
Peter Stavroulakis, Ph.D.
George Stein
Abraham A. Stein
Joseph N. Stennett
Melvin I. Stern
William P Stoddard
Jay S. Stollak
Gerald S. Stoller, Ph.D.
George Stranovsky, P.E.
Jeffrey N. Strauss
Claire Kwicklis Stumpf
Mark Su
Khac-Suon Su
Harry K. Sugar
Raymond F. Suhocki
Steven Edward Summer
Lu Sun
Douglas A. Sussman
Wayne K. Swanson
Christian David Sweeny
Alan J. Sykoff
William A. Sylvester
Frank P. Szaraz
Andrzej Szechter
Anthony Tadross
Robert M. Taikina
James M. Tait
Moty N. Tal
Robert M. Talan
Colin Shiutung Tam
Eugene C. Tappis
Glenn F. Taylor, Jr.
Jorge J. Tena
Marcel J. Tesse
James L. Tevis, Jr.
Allen R. Thabit
Socrates T Thanasas
Terry P. Theret
Edward Thompsen
Horace H. Thompson
Edward A. Thorpe
Thomas W. Thurkettle
Ira A. Tiffen
Gary L. Tinkel
Takeshi Toga
Stephen Tolep
Robert L. Topol
Anthony J. Tornabe
Barry R. Tornick
Robert Torrani
Sandor Toth
William V. Tranavitch, Jr.
Richard T. Treacy
Peter J. Trentacoste
Angelo R. Trotto
Nicholas T. Truncellito
Chung K. Tsang
Russell K. TumSuden
Douglas R. Turner
Ronald Tutundji
Terry E. Tvrdik
Vladimir Uherek
Damon W. Urso
James P. Valinoti
Paul P. Vallon
David P. Van Buskirk
Richard Van Etten
John A. Van Rossem
Elliott H. Vanacour
Arnold Vanderhorst
Thomas E. Vandewart
Tony J. Varrichio
Lancy D. Vaz, P.E.
Robert W. Verde
Marcel F. Villaflor
Arun M. Virginkar
Karl von Falkenhausen
Arnold von Kaenel, Jr.
Edward L. Von Stein
Maruti V. Wagle
Steven J. Waisala
Emile M. Waite
Erica G. Wald
Gerald Waldbaum, Ph.D.
Robert A. Waldman, Ph.D.
Israel Waldman
Michael S. Wall
William J. Wallace
Margaret M. Wallace
Arthur J. Wanderlingh
John J. Wanderman, Esq.
Paul K. Weberg
Bernard Weinberger
Irwin Weingarten
Jake Weiselfish
Neil D. Weiser
Danny M. Weiss
Richard S. Weiss
Elizabeth J. Weitzman
Thomas H. Welby
Hans G. Wenze
Thomas C. Wenzler
Rainer Weschke, P.E.
Richard Lyon Whitman
William N. Wiener
William C. Williams
Kalmar Wilner
John Wilson
Edward W. Winters
Neville I. Wintz
Abraham Abe Witteles, Ph.D.
Hans-Joachim Wolf
Steven Charles Wolfe
Robert A. Wolfson
Peter A. Wolpensinger
Judith A. Wright
Thomas W. Wylonis, Ph.D.
Richard Wysocki
Yahuda Yadegaran
Atsuhiko Yamanoi
Constantine Yapijakis, Ph.D.
David A. Yarom
George A. Yarr
Yechiel Yassif
Robert Yauch
Albert Yedidsion
Tony Ta-Cheng Yen
Robert Yenk
John H. Yoepp
Yin-Bute Yu, Ph.D.
D. Gerald Zachmann
Eleonore F. Zak
Richard S. Zambratto
Jaime A. Zapata, Jr.
Allan M. Zarembski
Samad Zendehrouh-Kermani
Nicholas G. Zervos
Stanley F. Zielinski
Robert G. Zion
Kenneth J. Zuar
Jordan B. Zundell
Frank P. Zurica
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SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
SENIOR LEADERSHIP
JELENA KOVAČEVIĆ
William R. Berkley Professor Dean, NYU Tandon
ROSEMARY E. AMPUERO
Associate Dean, Student Life and Services & Chief Inclusivity Officer
KURT BECKER
Vice Dean, Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
VICTORIA BILL
Managing Director, MakerSpace Lab & Experiential Learning Center
PAT BOWERS Vice Dean, Finance and Administration
CHAIRS
JOHN DI BARTOLO Applied Physics
ANDREAS HIELSCHER Biomedical Engineering
MAURIZIO PORFIRI Center for Urban Science and Progress
JACK BRINGARDNER
Assistant Dean, Academic and Curricular Affairs
SEAN BURNS
Associate Dean, Development
VALERIE CABRAL Director, Alumni Relations
SHIVANI DHIR
Assistant Dean, Digital Learning
ELIZABETH ENSWEILER Assistant Dean, Admissions
NICOLE JOHNSON
Assistant Dean, Opportunity Intiatives and Programs & Chief Inclusivity Officer
VIKRAM KAPILA
Director, Ph.D. Student Development
SAYAR LONIAL
Associate Dean, Communications and Public Affairs
NASIR MEMON
Vice Dean, Student and Academic Affairs, Tandon Online
MELINDA PARHAM
Assistant Dean, First-year Students and Academic Initiatives & Chief Inclusivity Officer
MAURIZIO PORFIRI Speaker of the Faculty
LAUREN PTAK
Chief Marketing Officer
ELISA RIEDO
Director, Faculty Development
ALLISON TAYLOR
Vice Dean, Strategic Initiatives & Chief of Staff
PETER VOLTZ
Associate Dean, Undergraduate and Graduate Academics
YAO WANG
Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs
JOLIE WOODSON
Assistant Dean, Student Life & Services
ERAY AYDIL Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
MAGUED ISKANDER
Civil and Urban Engineering
LISA HELLERSTEIN Computer Science and Engineering
NYU TANDON BOARD
CHAIR
CHANDRIKA TANDON, Founder & Chair, Tandon Capital Associates
STEVEN M. COHEN NYU Trustee
GARY D. COHN
Former Director, United States National Economic Council; Trustee, NYU Langone Health
(TANDON ‘82 )
ANTHONY CONCOLINO Cloud Technology, Risk & Cybersecurity Executive; Immediate Past President, Polytechnic Alumni Association
(TANDON PARENT ‘19)
JOHN FRANKEL
Founding Partner, ff Venture Capital
EX OFFICIO STACIE GROSSMAN BLOOM Vice Provost For Research and Chief Research Officer
JAMES HAHN
Chief Operating Officer, SH Fund VC
CHARLES HINKATY
Retired President & CEO, Del Laboratories, Inc.
EX OFFICIO
ROBERT V. JONES
President & CEO, PReSafe Technologies, President of Polytechnic Alumni Association
TAL KERRET
President, Silverstein Properties, Inc.
EX OFFICIO
JELENA KOVAČEVIĆ
William R. Berkley Professor Dean, NYU Tandon
IVAN SELESNICK Electrical and Computer Engineering
DAVID SHIMKO (Fall) & AGNES TOURIN (Spring) Finance and Risk Engineering
KURT BECKER
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
ODED NOV
Technology Management and Innovation
R. LUKE DUBOIS
Technology, Culture, and Society
JEAN GALLAGHER
Technology, Culture, and Society
MARK LESLIE Managing Director, Leslie Ventures
(TANDON ‘72 )
ALEXANDER LURYE
Partner & Chief Risk Officer, Balyasny Asset Management, LP
C. DANIEL MOTE, JR.
Regents Professor & Former President, University of Maryland Mechanical Engineering, President Emeritus NAE
STAN POLOVETS
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, The Genesis Prize Foundation
DASHA RETTEW President and Senior Executive Advisor, Reservoir Advisors, Inc.
(TANDON ‘84)
RAVINDER SAJWAN CEO, Renew Group Private Limited
RAMESH SRINIVASAN Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
JOSEPH S. STEINBERG Chairman, Jefferies Financial Group, Inc.
EX OFFICIO RANJAN TANDON
Founder & Managing Member, Libra Advisors and Tandon Family Office
DANIEL R. TISCH
Managing Member, Towerview LLC
(TANDON ‘66)
PHIL VENABLES
Vice President/Chief Information Security Officer, Google
FRED WILSON Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
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ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
THE NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering dates to 1854, the founding date for both the New York University School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. A January 2014 merger created a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences as part of a global university, with close connections to engineering programs at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai. NYU Tandon is rooted in a vibrant tradition of entrepreneurship, intellectual curiosity, and innovative solutions to humanity’s most pressing global challenges.
We believe diversity is integral to excellence, and are creating a vibrant, inclusive, and equitable environment for all of our students, faculty and staff.
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The Processional Banner features the New York University torch, along with both the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, symbolizing the connection of two strong boroughs and highlighting the importance of engineering as a bridge between disciplines.
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