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Kunal Garg: Postdoctoral Scholar
Degree Program: Electrical and Computer EngineeringGraduate 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…
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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 ShariatiDepartment: 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…
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Andi Peeters: Staff
Graduate Institution: Loyola Marymount University, M.A. Counseling & Capella University, Ph.D. EducationUndergraduate Institution: Washington State UniversityDepartment: 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…
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Meghna Banerjee: Alumna
Degree Program: Computer Science B.S. Graduate Institution: Attending Harvard fall 2021, M.E. Computational Science and EngineeringUndergraduate 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
Graduate Institution: California Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.DUndergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, B.S.Department: Applied MathematicsHometown: 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
Degree Program: Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Statistics Graduate Institution: UC Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: Universidad Nacional de ColombiaDepartment: Applied Mathematics, StatisticsHometown: 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
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 BarbaraUndergraduate 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…
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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…
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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…
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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 EngineeringHometown: 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,…
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George Leece: Alumnus
Degree Program: Electrical Engineering, B.S.Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa CruzDepartment: Electrical EngineeringHometown: 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…
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Mark McDonald: Alumnus
Degree Program: Ph.D., Electrical EngineeringGraduate Institution: UC Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: BSE Duke University, MSEE North Carolina State UniversityDepartment: 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…
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