Double UC Santa Cruz alumna and Baskin Engineering postdoctoral fellow Emily Lovell, was awarded the 2024 GitHub Empowering Educator Award for her efforts to support computer science students and foster an inclusive computing community at UCSC.
Double UC Santa Cruz alumna Emily Lovell joined Baskin Engineering’s Computer Science and Engineering Department in 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow. Lovell focuses on open source software contribution and teaching open source as a way to support broader participation in computing.
Department: Applied Mathematics
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University, Physics and Mathematics, A.B.
Graduate Institution: University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Ph.D.
“Something my dad always says is ‘Give yourself permission to fail.’ In other words, doing an experiment, you might mess up or go down a rabbit hole, but you should cross that bridge when you come to it, so don’t be afraid to try something new out.”
Schneider has been a mentor for the Clinton Global Initiative University in the area of infectious diseases since 2018, helping students take their ideas for making a positive impact on the world from conception to reality. Each year, he receives a cohort that ranges in size from 15 to 30 students, who come to him virtually from all over the world.
Graduate Institution: Jawaharlal Nehru University, Cinema Studies, M.Phil., Arts & Aesthetics, M.A.; UC Irvine, Informatics, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: Christ University, (3 majors) Media Studies, English Literature, and Psychology, B.A.
Advisor: Norman Su
Department: Computational Media
“It’s important to learn by doing, take chances, and grow from those individual experiences.”
Graduate Institution: University of Waterloo, Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S. & Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Mechatronics, B.S.
Advisor: Ricardo Sanfelice
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
“I am not thinking too far ahead, but instead trying to live in the present. I am more concerned about making meaningful contributions and learning as many things as possible in my postdoc appointment at UC Santa Cruz.”
Degree Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Institution: University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Aerospace Engineering, B.S.
Advisor: Alvaro Cardenas and Ricardo Sanfelice
“One of the things that attracted me to Baskin Engineering was the opportunity to do an interdisciplinary project that blends the topics of security of cyber physical systems and control theory.”
Graduate Institution: Utrecht University, Neuroscience and Cognition, M.S., and University of Amsterdam, Molecular Neuroscience, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: Utrecht University, Biomedical Sciences, B.S.
Advisor: Ali Shariati
Department: Biomolecular Engineering
“It’s been nice to establish a research network at UCSC and outside of the UCSC research community, which has allowed me to secure new project collaborations and expand my research scope.”