P RINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Graduate School
Hooding
Ceremony
Friday, the Twenty-Ninth of May
Two Thousand Twenty
4 p.m.
About the Hooding Ceremony The colorful gowns and hoods worn as part of the traditional regalia at American academic ceremonies had less glamorous origins — a heavy woolen gown and hood being necessities in the cold halls of medieval European universities. But at least by the time of the Renaissance, academic gowns and hoods began to distinguish scholars by rank and degree, and to bear colorful marks of institutional affiliations. In the New World, distinctive formal academic garb began with the founding of Harvard College in 1636. American scholars had close ties to the great German universities in the late 19th century, and the brilliant display of academic regalia at the 500th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg in 1886 — as well as at Harvard’s 250th in the same year and Princeton’s own Sesquicentennial in 1896 — encouraged a growing interest in academic ceremony and costume. In 1893, Princeton took the lead in establishing a code for U.S. academic attire; Princeton Trustee Colonel John James McCook’s 1894 intercollegiate statutes continue in force today almost without alteration. Hoods embody the most important symbolism, and distinguish the wearer by both rank and academic discipline. Masters’ hoods are generally shorter by one foot than doctors’. Each is bordered by a velvet band in the color assigned to the discipline in which the degree is granted. The colors you see this evening are blue for philosophy (as in doctor of philosophy, or “Ph.D.”), peacock blue for public affairs, orange or yellow for engineering, white for arts and letters, brown for architecture, and light brown for finance. The lining of each hood bears the degree-granting university’s own colors — at Princeton, orange with a black chevron, colors adopted by the undergraduate Class of 1869 since William III of the House of Nassau, in whose honor the University’s first building was named, was also Prince of Orange. While Princeton’s Graduate School was formally established in 1900, graduate education at the University dates back to the institution’s earliest days, and doctoral degrees were awarded beginning in the late 19th century. This is the 27th year of the Hooding ceremony honoring advanced degree recipients.
Candidates for Advanced Degrees Doctor of Philosophy Master of Architecture Master of Science in Engineering Master of Engineering Master in Finance Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies Master in Public Affairs Master in Public Policy
Welcome
Sarah-Jane Leslie *07 Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the Graduate School
President̓s Address
Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values, President of the University
Presentation of Graduate Mentoring Awards Sarah-Jane Leslie
Presentation of Candidates for Master’s Degrees Cole M. Crittenden *05 Deputy Dean of the Graduate School
Presentation of Candidates for the Doctor of Philosophy Cole M. Crittenden
Closing
Sarah-Jane Leslie
With Graditude Presentation
Graduate Mentoring Awards The Graduate School and the Harold W. McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning annually recognize faculty members for their exceptional work as mentors to graduate students at Princeton. Current and former students nominate faculty for these awards, and recipients are chosen by a committee of faculty and graduate students. This year we recognize four outstanding faculty members from the major academic divisions of the University. HUMANITIES
Judith Weisenfeld Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Chair of the Department of Religion SOCIAL SCIENCES
Brandon M. Stewart Assistant Professor of Sociology, Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptor N AT U R A L S C I E N C E S
Ileana M. Cristea Professor of Molecular Biology ENGINEERING
Yuxin Chen Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Advanced Degrees Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies D E G R E E AWA R D E D 23 NOVEMBER 2019
Tim Louthan, Near Eastern Studies D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Anna Bailey, Near Eastern Studies
Master in Finance, Bendheim Center for Finance D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Gi Hong Ann Robert Anthony Axelsen John Jin Wen Cai Elisabetta Cavallo Jeremy Ryan Fague Veronica Fegatilli Lorenzo Filippi Zhiyuan He Ziyao Hu Jie Jiang Chang Li Zijia Liu Christy Jeanne Matthews Aghiles Meddour Emre Oezkan Utsav Ashish Popat Zhang Qin Jean Rimailho Yubo Shu Srishti Singla Sachin Lees Smart Chris Sun Tatiana Leonidovna Taranenko Alejandra Vazquez Plata Xin Wan Kuishuai Yi Kaiyue Zhang
Master of Architecture, School of Architecture D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Adam Neely Ainslie Sharif Maher Anous Maura Chen Shin Hang Chiu Andrew Cornelis Angelique Firmalino Will Cong Fu
Ryan George Gagnebin Jiawei He Ryan James Hughes James Charles Lipson Joon Hyuk Ma Mahsa Malek Steve Martinez Daniel Charles Maslan Domenica Wayde Massamby Shu Meng Anna Louise Renken Carly Richman Mariah Shell Smith Post-Professional Program Catherine Sewon Ahn Esra Durukan Sarah Sheereen Etaat Kyle Brandon Weeks Olga Zakharova
Master in Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Spogmay Ahmed Emily Reiss Apple Toshiro Jeffrey Baum Aditi Bhowmick Peter Elliot Birke Benjamin Brenner Brendan Patrick Burns Jordan Burns Anthony Nathan Chase David Jose Corcino Paulino Caroline Elizabeth Corcoran Maria de Lourdes Corona Maia Cotelo Matthew David Cournoyer Luciana Debenedetti Joseph Victor DeLaTorre Tyler DeRubio Francisco Andrés Díez Stephanie Dimos Alli Corrine Divine Nathan Lang Eckstein Alex Michael Entz Patrick William Farrell Curtis Clint Goos Gokul Gopalan Ramachandran Yashna Gungadurdoss Jasmine Jones Haddaway Artin S. Haghshenas Thomas Huelskoetter Danielle Betty Hull
Hope McKenzie Jackson Mark Ryan Jahnke Jennifer Kevetter Johnson Lorraine Charity Keeler James Hyeongjin Kim Natalie Hi’ilani Kotkin Anne Kuhnen Michael Stephen Lachanski Erika Diane Soto Larsen Rebecca Suejin Lim Eric Justin McCrery Claire Ann McGuinness Katrina McLaughlin Jenna Mellor Djeniffer Melo Owen Wister Minott Jr. Michelle Pauline Nedashkovskaya Alexander Pachman Eric Parolin Rocio Rodarte Emily Montgomery Romano Sagatom Saha Maira Dyer Seeley Fionnuala Riana Seiferth Manna Selassie Ashley Semanskee Narayan S. Subramanian Solomon Gezahgne Tesfaye Alisa Tiwari Anh Bao Ton Ryan VanZuylen Alexander John Hoff Villec Brody Brett Jordan Viney John Stanley Vrolyk Ashwin Krishna Warrior Alexandra Jean Wheatley Amy Williams Navarro Theodore Oswald Wilson Lindsay Theresa Wylie Gur Yalon Yujing Yang
Master in Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Margaret Pamela Anderson-Davis Richard Maxime André Emily Marie Andrews Mary Ellen Batterman Paolo Luigi Cernuschi Aaron Charlop-Powers Raul DeLaRosa Jr. Abu Mathen George
Thomas James Huntley Lauren Jessica Knight Nicholas John Lopez Matthew Keith Mills Anita Hsu-Yuan Pan Joshua Michael Mitchell Portzer Henrietta Cecily Smith Dylan Sullivan Emily Godfrey Sullivan Nathaniel Tek Gelila Terrefe Arturo Trejo Jeffrey Angelo Valdez
Master of Science in Engineering D E G R E E AWA R D E D 28 SEPTEMBER 2019
Justice Joseph Mason, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Tingting Cai, Computer Science Joseph Oliver Eichenhofer, Computer Science Guanghong Fu, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Alex Gomez, Civil and Environmental Engineering Joseph Harold Goodglass, Civil and Environmental Engineering Suriya Kodeswaran, Computer Science Anastasiya Yaroslavovna KravchukKirilyuk, Computer Science Jennifer Lam, Computer Science Haochen Li, Computer Science Daniela Lugo Romero, Civil and Environmental Engineering Vanessa Maria Notario Perez, Civil and Environmental Engineering Mengying Pan, Computer Science Zeyu Xiong, Civil and Environmental Engineering Fang Zhang, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Master of Engineering D E G R E E AWA R D E D 4 APRIL 2020
James William Macarthur Heppenstall, Computer Science
D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Soha Aslam, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Xi Chen, Computer Science Zhongqiao Gao, Computer Science Lisa Jian, Computer Science Priscilla Ann Lee, Computer Science Yinji Lu, Computer Science Sonali Mahendran, Computer Science Alberto Mizrahi Benmaman, Computer Science Carlo Rosati, Computer Science Xin Sun, Computer Science Jiashuo Zhang, Computer Science
Doctor of Philosophy D E G R E E AWA R D E D 28 SEPTEMBER 2019
Yasmina Aidi, Spanish and Portuguese Mihnea Dan Berbecel, Politics Daniel Glenn Berntson, Philosophy Shira Nomi Billet, Religion Etienne Breton, Demography (Population Studies) Peter Thomas Brown, Physics Gabriel Buchbinder, Economics Brian Anderson Bullins, Computer Science Ksenia Bulycheva, Physics Salvatore Calabrese, Civil and Environmental Engineering Ian James Campbell, Philosophy Yecheng Kent Cao, Art and Archaeology Sabrina L. Carletti, Art and Archaeology Mark Cerenzia, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Ying-kit Chan, East Asian Studies Chiung-Yin Chang, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Chandrakanth Reddy Chappidi, Electrical Engineering Ching-Yu Chen, Electrical Engineering Mingyu Chen, Economics Alisha Chitrakar, Molecular Biology Xin Rong Chua, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Spencer Koncius Clark, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Emma Laraine Curran, Classics Xiaoliang Dai, Electrical Engineering Brandon de la Cuesta, Politics Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Benson Dale Deverett, Molecular Biology and Neuroscience Liyu Dou, Economics Sarah Elizabeth Drohan, Applied and Computational Mathematics
Kay Jane Duffy, East Asian Studies Tomer Moshe Faraggi, Chemistry Kyle Gerard Felker, Applied and Computational Mathematics Erik Fredericksen, Classics Jessica Jane Frick, Chemistry and Materials Science Maria-Magdalena Fuchs, Religion Jenna Marie Gaska, Molecular Biology Eva J. Ge, Chemistry Carly Lay Alfonso Geronimo, Molecular Biology Jonathan Michael Ghergurovich, Molecular Biology Christopher-Marcus Gibson, Philosophy Levi Matthew Golston, Civil and Environmental Engineering Rebecca Alice Louise Gray, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Martha Johanna Groppo, History Luis Francisco Guerra, Chemistry Abdullah Guler, Electrical Engineering Dzmitry Halavach, History Maciej Stanislaw Halber, Computer Science Han Hao, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Tyler Matthew Heist, Quantitative and Computational Biology Borislav Hrisimirov Hristov, Computer Science Hao Huang, Molecular Biology Hannah Elizabeth Hunter-Parker, Germanic Languages and Literatures Matteo Ippoliti, Physics WeiLiang Jin, Electrical Engineering Christina Eleni Karas, Molecular Biology Andrew Kim, Electrical Engineering Kimberly Kracman, Sociology Hsin-Ya Kuo, Chemistry John Carey Lansdowne, Art and Archaeology Dana Elizabeth Lee, Near Eastern Studies Kyung Min Lee, Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Tia Saelyun Lee, Chemistry Diana April Liao, Neuroscience Jingyu Luo, Physics Yiyi Luo, East Asian Studies Mathis Maehlum, Economics Miranda Claire Marraccini, English James K. Martin II, Molecular Biology Sarah Copenhaver Matherly, History Marcela Sofia Melara, Computer Science Erin Lynn Miller, Politics Stephen Monroe, Politics Rita Isabela Morales, History Anahita Zohreh Mostafavi, Molecular Biology Ching Ho Justin Ng, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Emma Mary O’Halloran, Music (Composition) Renato Pagliara Vasquez, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Giuliana Pardelli, Politics and Social Policy Kristofer M. Pardo, Astrophysical Sciences Nathan Francis Parker, Neuroscience Tommaso Pavone, Politics Liqing Peng, Civil and Environmental Engineering Christopher John Peters, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Andrew Thomas Proctor, Politics Martin Paul Rauch, Chemistry Tanika Raychaudhuri, Politics Aric Carlin Rousso, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ezelle Sanford III, History (History of Science) Emilce Santana, Sociology Sepehr Shahshahani, Politics Benjamin Joseph Shields, Chemistry Elena Sizikova, Computer Science Alexander Song, Physics and Neuroscience Denis Andre St-Onge, Astrophysical Sciences (Plasma Physics) Elizabeth Hannah Stern, Slavic Languages and Literatures He Sun, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Elliot Taffet, Chemistry Zi Siang Desmond Toa, Chemistry Kaia Juulia Tombak, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Sophie Miriam Blackman Travis, Molecular Biology Jack Twilton, Chemistry David Vartanyan, Astrophysical Sciences Joshua John Wallace, Astrophysical Sciences Long Wang, Chemistry Wudi Wang, Physics Benjamin Yana Winer, Molecular Biology William Charles Witt, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Audrye Yunqi Wong, Public and International Affairs Anqi Wu, Neuroscience Zhenbin Yang, Physics Eyan Yeung, Molecular Biology Ran Zhang, Molecular Biology Hao Zhao, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Yiqiao Zhong, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Qilei Zhu, Chemistry
D E G R E E AWA R D E D 23 NOVEMBER 2019
Meir Alkon, Politics and Social Policy Chantal Elizabeth Raff Berman, Politics Francine Rosa Camacho, Quantitative and Computational Biology Sarah Aurelia Carson, History Sria Chatterjee, Art and Archaeology Wai Ling Cheung-Lee, Chemical Engineering Keita Federico DeCarlo, Civil and Environmental Engineering Rajkrishna Dutta, Geosciences Alicia Madeleine Ejsmond-Frey, Classics Nyssa T. Emerson, Chemistry Vanessa Jessica Feng, Chemistry Jorge Gaupp Berghausen Pérez, Spanish and Portuguese Clair Han, Quantitative and Computational Biology David Kent Lennington, English Krystal Karyan Lum, Molecular Biology Scott Angus Maclennan, Geosciences Margaret Celeste Marin, Demography (Population Studies) Akshay Karankumar Mehra, Geosciences Mitchell Aaron Nahmias, Electrical Engineering Danielle Priscilla Santiago Ramos, Geosciences Olivier Savary Bélanger, Computer Science Devika Shankar, History Caroline June Trippel, Computer Science Isaac Kazuo Uyehara, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yonglong Xie, Physics Yuzhen Yan, Geosciences Andy Zeng, Computer Science D E G R E E AWA R D E D 1 8 JA N UA RY 2 0 2 0
Raymundo Alfaro-Aco, Molecular Biology Katherine Elizabeth Ann Baisley, Politics Amanda Stevie Bergman, Physics Gecia Bravo Hermsdorff, Neuroscience Anton Johann Bunia, Germanic Languages and Literatures Irineo Charles Cabreros III, Applied and Computational Mathematics Amitesh Datta, Mathematics Charles Ydelfonso de la Cruz, Politics Sonia Angela de Laforcade, Art and Archaeology Robert William Decker, French and Italian Languages and Cultures Cassandra Victoria Emmons, Politics Teddy Jonathan Fassberg, Classics Jordan Samuel Fix, Computer Science
Kai Gong, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science Yixin Guo, Public and International Affairs Kathleen Hu, Economics Matthew Benjamin Incantalupo, Politics and Social Policy Jason Iuliano, Politics Michael Louis Jemison Jr., Mathematics Zongxi Li, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Yuan Liu, Applied and Computational Mathematics Lauren Mattioli, Politics Michael Patrick McKeown, Electrical Engineering David Bragg McNamee, Politics Elisa Sophie Prosperetti, History Sondre Ulvund Solstad, Politics Yixin Sun, Computer Science Mélanie Terrasse, Sociology and Social Policy Carolyn Hartle Tobin, Classics Hossein Valavi, Electrical Engineering Han Zhang, Sociology D E G R E E AWA R D E D 4 APRIL 2020
Juan Cristóbal Amunátegui, Architecture Diego Baena, Spanish and Portuguese Clark Bernier, Sociology Santiago Cuellar, Computer Science Joseph Lawrence Durante, Electrical Engineering Naoki Egami, Politics Cenk Ergün, Music (Composition) Jonathan D. Fine, Art and Archaeology Kay Gabriel, Classics and Interdisciplinary Humanities Daniela Gandorfer, Comparative Literature Jennifer Gossels, Computer Science Christy Vaughn Graves, Applied and Computational Mathematics Nathan Elias Grube, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Jonathan Klein Henry, Religion Korhan Koçak, Politics Leah Langer, Geosciences Sihang Liang, Physics Ying Liu, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Xinyi Minnie Liu, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Jackson V. H. Matteucci, Astrophysical Sciences (Plasma Physics) Rachael Sarah McLellan, Politics David Michta, Astrophysical Sciences (Plasma Physics) Jascha Wallace Narveson, Music Qi Nie, Electrical Engineering
Lev A. Nikulin, Slavic Languages and Literatures Ila Nimgaonkar, Molecular Biology Cecilia Palombo, Near Eastern Studies Emma Catherine Patten, Anthropology Anna Pidgorna, Music (Composition) Leonid Pogorelyuk, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Thomas Patrick Pumir, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Jelena Radovanovic, Near Eastern Studies Patrick Francois Reilly, Quantitative and Computational Biology Matthew Paul Ritger, English Travis Keith Sharp, Public and International Affairs Andrew Michael Taverner, Quantitative and Computational Biology Grace Ning Tien, Sociology Cameron Alexander VanSant, English Hao Zhang, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Hejia Zhang, Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience D E G R E E AWA R D E D 2 JUNE 2020
Ayten Ozge Akmandor, Electrical Engineering John Norman Alekna, History Kessie Alexandre, Anthropology Jaan Altosaar, Physics Quincy J. Amoah, Anthropology Theresa Fruzsina Andrasfay, Demography (Population Studies) Alişya Ayşe Anla, Chemical Engineering Noah Joseph Apthorpe, Computer Science David Hall Arnold, Economics Dorit Aviv, Architecture Lev Barinov, Molecular Biology Alexander Baron-Raiffe, French and Italian Languages and Cultures Paul Jeffrey Baumgardner, Politics and Interdisciplinary Humanities James Francis Byrne Casey, History Yichen Chen, Computer Science Daniel Brendan Cooney, Applied and Computational Mathematics Simon Joynson Cooper, Chemistry Ruth Dannenfelser, Computer Science David Edward Dunning, History (History of Science) Lindsey Brooke Eikenburg, Psychology Megan Ayana Emmanuel, Chemistry Yale Wang Fan, Physics Alireza Fatollahi, Philosophy Joshua Nathaniel Garrett-Davis, History
Pierre Yves Gaudreau Lamarre, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Michael Ross Glass, History Robin Gomila, Psychology and Social Policy Wenyan Gong, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Sarah Katherine Hammer, Chemical Engineering Rachel Lee Harris, Geosciences Samantha Rae Hartzell, Civil and Environmental Engineering Adeline Anastasia Heck, French and Italian Languages and Cultures Michael Andrew Hepler, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Thomas Hodson, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Heather Ann Hunter, Civil and Environmental Engineering Christian Baadsgaard Jepsen, Physics Zhaorong Jin, Mathematics Rebecca Ann Johnson, Sociology and Social Policy Jennifer Jean Kasbohm, Geosciences Charalampos Katsiardis, Economics Hannah Michelle Korevaar, Demography and Social Policy Svetlana Kosterina, Politics Tzvi Lamm, Religion Jeffrey Benjamin Lestz, Astrophysical Sciences (Plasma Physics) Mark Letteney, Religion Mauricio Alejandro Loyola Vergara, Architecture Chao Ma, Applied and Computational Mathematics Cong Ma, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Yechi Ma, Electrical Engineering Asya Magazinnik, Politics Cate Louise Mahoney, English James S L Mao, Politics Chester Edward Markwalter, Chemical Engineering Emily Laura Master, Classics Anne Caitlin Mennen, Neuroscience Maggie Hall Miller, Mathematics Connor Martin Mills, History Isabel Mae Morris, Civil and Environmental Engineering Rebecca Kristine Napolitano, Civil and Environmental Engineering Mai Lin Nguyen, Psychology Gandalf Nicolas, Psychology Zipei Nie, Mathematics Alex Gregory Novoselov, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Sunil Pandey, Electrical Engineering
Federico Pasqualotto, Mathematics Andrea Placidi, Comparative Literature Liana Pshevorska, French and Italian Languages and Cultures Congling Qiu, Mathematics Federica Querin, Demography and Social Policy Angela Rădulescu, Psychology and Neuroscience Orlando Reade, English Tracy Ellen Reuter, Psychology Nina Rouhani, Psychology and Neuroscience Hannah Florence Rubinton, Economics Danielle Rebecca Schlesinger, Geosciences David Philip Berrigan Schroeren, Philosophy Ariel Schvartzman Cohenca, Computer Science Yair Shenfeld, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Denis Shishkin, Economics Justin Ezekiel Silpe, Molecular Biology Scott Howard Silver, Electrical Engineering Joel David Simon, Geosciences Russell Tyler Smith, Chemistry Annika Kale Socolofsky, Music (Composition) Emily L. Spratt, Art and Archaeology Shreya Parvathi Subramani, Anthropology Weiqi Sun, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Eric Isaac Teitelbaum, Architecture and Materials Science Henry Robert Thackeray, Mathematics Steven Ellington Tignor, Chemistry Sean William Toland, Germanic Languages and Literatures Prashanth Sanjeev Venkataram, Electrical Engineering Sameer Narahari Wagh, Electrical Engineering David Austin Walsh, History Kaizheng Wang, Operations Research and Financial Engineering Eric William Webb, Chemistry Christian Klaus Wolf, Economics Hongxu Yin, Electrical Engineering Jeffrey Michael Young, Chemical Engineering Yingxian Estella Yu, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Linfeng Zhang, Applied and Computational Mathematics Songtian Sonia Zhang, Physics Xiaoxi Zhang, Classics Yue Zhang, Psychology Yunqin Zheng, Physics
Alma Mater Old Nassau
Tune ev’ry heart and ev’ry voice,
Bid ev’ry care withdraw;
Let all with one accord rejoice,
In praise of Old Nassau.
In praise of Old Nassau, we sing,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Our hearts will give
while we shall live, Three cheers for Old Nassau.
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