Ph.D. Student

Sabina Tomkins: Graduate Student

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Sabina Tomkins: Graduate Student

Degree Program: Ph.D., Technology and Information Management
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: NYU
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Seattle

“I’m working on this human trafficking project. The broad question was whether environmental events affect human traffickers. We found an increase in mentions of certain ethnicities after hurricanes in these ads, especially ethnicities from Caribbean countries.”

Akhil Dixit: Graduate Student

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Akhil Dixit: Graduate Student

Degree Program: Computer Science, Ph.D.
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: University of Pune, India
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Pune, India

“One highlight from the research I’ve done in my Ph.D. program is winning the ACM SIGMOD Student Research Competition in Amsterdam in 2019. It was a very exciting moment for me.”

Manping Jia: Graduate Student

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Manping Jia: Graduate Student

Degree Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz, University of Science and Technology, Beijing (M.S., Materials Science)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Science and Technology, Beijing
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hometown: Datong, China

“My dream job would be one where I could develop wearable bioelectronic devices for health monitoring.”

Fatemeh Mirzaei: Graduate Student

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Fatemeh Mirzaei: Graduate Student

Degree Program: Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: Azad University
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Tehran, Iran

“We want to provide greater context around online content for consumers, and reduce the amount of time people have to devote to sorting through information.”

John Felts: Alumnus

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John Felts: Alumnus

Degree Program: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hometown: Fresno, California

“I think for any entrepreneur you just have to be ready that it’s going to be tougher than you think, but at the end of the day, even if you fail, you’re going to learn so much…. it’s going to be so hard, so be ready for that, but it’s, it’s worth the ride.”

Jared Duval: Graduate Student

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Degree Program: Ph.D., Computational Media
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: Western New England University
Department: Computational Media
Hometown: Dudley, Massachusetts

“SpokeIt is a big team project I’m working on. It’s a game with this overarching narrative and within that game there are a bunch of therapeutic mini games that focus on different kinds of speech therapy.”