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Evan Pepper: Alumnus
Degree Program: Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics, B.S.
Graduate Institution: University of Washington, working towards a Ph.D. in Molecular Engineering
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Biomolecular Engineering“The ACE program is what motivated me to continue my involvement in academia and what encouraged me to pursue a career in education to hopefully become a professor one day.”
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Andi Peeters: Staff
Graduate Institution: Loyola Marymount University, M.A. Counseling & Capella University, Ph.D. Education
Undergraduate Institution: Washington State University
Department: Undergraduate Advising“My two favorite days of the year are the first day of the academic year and commencement. To see students walk across the stage with the world at their fingertips is just rad!”
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Zia Isola: Staff
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Barbara, English Literature and Writing, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley, English Language and Literature, B.A.“So many of our students have the challenge of being the first in their family to go to college, the first to consider graduate school, or of being the first to be in a STEM field. It’s intimidating to leave what is familiar and step into new territory. They embrace that challenge with such heart, commitment, determination, and passion. It’s completely inspiring.”
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Meghna Banerjee: Alumna
Degree Program: Computer Science B.S.
Graduate Institution: Attending Harvard fall 2021, M.E. Computational Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: San Jose, CA“I’m really grateful for all the resources I had at Baskin Engineering and the faculty who helped me along the way.”
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Zehang “Richard” Li: Faculty
Graduate Institution: University of Washington
Undergraduate Institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department: Statistics
Hometown: Xuzhou, China“A big part of my research deals with how I can use statistics to solve global and public health problems.”
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Jessica Xie: Alumna
Degree Program: Technology and Information Management (TIM), B.S.
Graduate Institution: University of Edinburgh Business School, Scotland
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Rosemead, CA“The TIM degree program encompassed everything that I was interested in because you get to learn about computer engineering, computer science, and business and information systems.”
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Riadul Islam: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Engineering
Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh“If you look at the power consumption of the microprocessor or the CPU, a big chunk of power comes in by the clock network, so I proposed a new paradigm of clocking that utilizes current rather than voltage.”
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Michael Dove: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science (1985)“The universal thing that students need to know going into industry is how companies really operate.”
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Sabrina Tsui: Alumna
Degree Program: Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Cupertino, CA“I sat in on some of the seminars in Professor Derrell Long’s group in the Storage Systems Research Center. They have a seminar every week, and I came and listened to all the grad students talk about how they were progressing on their research projects, and that made me want to pursue graduate school.”
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Gunjan Sinha: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Engineering, M.S.
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: ITT – New Delhi
Department: Computer Engineering (1991)
Hometown: Ranchi, India“I see myself as a problem solver, and this I owe to my engineering background, because I’m constantly defining a problem, then breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces until I can solve it with technology.”
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David Patmore: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
Graduate Institution: San Jose State and UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: UCLA
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Los Altos, CA“The Ph.D. experience allowed me to mature as a person. I learned to function in an environment where I had to figure out the parameters myself. I came out of UCSC with self confidence and the ability to figure out a solution and explain it to an audience.”
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Phillip Yee: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Salinas, CA“If you really understand something, that’s better than a grade. Concentrate on learning the foundations.”
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Lehua Sparrow: Alumna
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Makawao, Hawaii“I was always good at math and science growing up. I found comfort knowing that there is a solution in numbers, formulas, or algorithms.”
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Evan Peterson: Alumnus
Degree Program: Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (2016)
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Electrical Engineering
Hometown: Sebastopol, California“If you had talked to me three years ago, I doubt I would’ve expected I’d end up where I am, but I’d wager most people would say the same about where their career takes them.”
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Kateryna Voitiuk: Alumna and Graduate Student
Degree Program: Network and Digital Technology B.A.
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science and Engineering“Being a computer engineer you can have a lot of choices, whether it’s directly related to computers and making them better and programming applications that do necessary things or whether it’s doing biology, chemistry, physics.”
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George Leece: Alumnus
Degree Program: Electrical Engineering, B.S.
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Electrical Engineering
Hometown: Chico, CA“[Being in the Army] definitely was an experience that opened my eyes to a lot of different opportunities and experiences that you can’t find anywhere else, I would say. In addition to that, finishing my time there, I was able to go back to UC Santa Cruz, to finish something that I had wanted to do.”
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Mark McDonald: Alumnus
Degree Program: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: BSE Duke University, MSEE North Carolina State University
Department: Electrical Engineering“The most important thing a student needs to learn in their education is not to memorize this or that formula, or do certain calculations at this speed, but really to develop an intuitive understanding and knowledge of what they are learning about.”
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Francisco Beltran: Alumnus
Degree Program: P.h.D., Statistics
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: Cal-State Bakersfield
Department: Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2014)
Hometown: Buttonwillow, California“The skills and lessons I learned at UC Santa Cruz have largely influenced the manner in which I approach my current research on a daily basis. The high standards for rigorous statistical analysis have carried forth into all aspects of my work.”
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Marcella Gomez: Faculty
Graduate Institution: Stanford University
Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology
Department: Applied Mathematics
Hometown: East Los Angeles“I think being at the edge of human knowledge is exciting for me. I just like pushing that boundary; I’m interested in all kinds of fields and I’m just interested in learning.”
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Angela Ramirez: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Natural Language Processing M.S.
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Department: Natural Language Processing
Hometown: Atwater, California“We’re getting real experts who work in the industry to show us how they use the technology and what they do with it. Getting that perspective is really cool.”
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