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Voices of Baskin Engineering

  • Justin Grant: Graduate Student

    Justin Grant: Graduate Student

    Degree Program: Human Computer Interaction, M.S.
    Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, Philosophy, B.A.
    Department: Computational Media

    “My goal is to build on my undergraduate philosophy degree to develop technology that is useful and accessible to everyone.”

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  • Vince Dinh: Undergraduate Student

    Vince Dinh: Undergraduate Student

    Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.; Business Management Economics, B.A.
    Department: Computer Science and Engineering; Economics

    “The [UCSC] campus and culture really appealed to me, and I can confidently say I’m happy with my decision.”

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  • Harika Dechiraju: Ph.D. Candidate

    Harika Dechiraju: Ph.D. Candidate

    Degree Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
    Undergraduate Institution: National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (India), Instrumentation and Control Engineering, B.S.
    Advisor: Marco Rolandi
    Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

    “I’ve been working on developing bioelectronic devices for wound healing applications and tissue regeneration.”

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  • Rishita Wairagade: Undergraduate Student

    Rishita Wairagade: Undergraduate Student

    Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
    Department: Computer Science and Engineering

    “Baskin Engineering does a great job of providing research opportunities for all of its engineering students.”

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  • Adeel Akhtar: Postdoctoral Scholar

    Adeel Akhtar: Postdoctoral Scholar

    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.”

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  • Kunal Garg: Postdoctoral Scholar

    Kunal Garg: Postdoctoral Scholar

    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.”

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  • Gerrald Lodewijk: Postdoctoral Scholar

    Gerrald Lodewijk: Postdoctoral Scholar

    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.”

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  • Andi Peeters: Staff

    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

    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

    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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  • Marcella Gomez: Faculty

    Marcella Gomez: Faculty

    Graduate Institution: California Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D
    Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, B.S.
    Department: Applied Mathematics
    Hometown: Riverside, CA

    “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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  • Brenda Betancourt: Alumna

    Brenda Betancourt: Alumna

    Degree Program: Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Statistics
    Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
    Undergraduate Institution: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Department: Applied Mathematics, Statistics
    Hometown: Bogotá, Colombia

    “From learning English to receiving an outstanding formation in Bayesian Statistics, my time at the Baskin School of Engineering was a life-changing experience for me.”

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  • Zehang “Richard” Li: Faculty

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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