Baskin Engineering Communications
Shellye Archambeau
Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms
Michael Matkin: Staff
Graduate Institution: Indiana University Bloomington, Writing, MFA
Department: UC Santa Cruz CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
“The thing that I love the most about being a part of this community is getting to work with such an incredibly diverse range of topics and researchers.”
Abigail Kaun: Staff
Department: Baskin Engineering Dean’s Office
Graduate Institution: UCLA, Linguistics, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: UCSB, Linguistics, B.A.
“I’ve worked with students my whole career, in all sorts of settings and with all sorts of objectives in life, but I have never worked with students who were more creative, collaborative, and dedicated than the engineering students at UC Santa Cruz.”
Ph.D. opportunities in computational media
Computational Media faculty are recruiting Ph.D. students for fall 2023.
Ashwin Chakraborty: Undergraduate Student
Degree Program: Robotics Engineering, B.S.
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hometown: Palm Desert, CA
“Being given a problem and being able to approach it in any way that I see fit is incredibly freeing and fun.”
Sam Trujillo: Undergraduate Student
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Menlo Park, CA
“Having a community of other students striving for the same goal as yourself gives you that foundation for success.”
Sammy Tesfai: Undergraduate Student
Degree Program: Computer Engineering, B.S.
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA
“What I like best about being an engineering major would be the amount of flexibility we are given to express our creativity into creating solutions to problems individuals can use in the real world.”
Rakshya Sharma: Undergraduate Student
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S., Bioinformatics minor
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Bhaktapur, Nepal (immigrated to USA in 2015)
“The best part of being an engineering major is always having the opportunity to be creative.”
Baskin Engineering’s Diverse Voices speaker series returns for its fifth season
The 2022–23 season kicks off this fall with two industry professional speakers who will speak to students and the UC Santa Cruz community about their experiences in academia and industry.