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  • Lehua Sparrow: Alumna

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Angela Ramirez: Graduate Student

    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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  • David Lee: Faculty

    David Lee: Faculty

    Degree Program: Assistant Professor, Technology Management
    Graduate Institution: Stanford University
    Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology
    Department: Computational Media

    “I wanted to find a way to organize large numbers of people to support nonprofits. I knew that my research in crowd-sourcing, and in bringing people together to accomplish tasks, could help.”

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  • Robert Lund: Faculty

    Robert Lund: Faculty

    Graduate Institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Undergraduate Institution: Auburn University
    Department: Professor and Department Chair, Statistics

    “What I do as a statistician is crunch the numbers. We take data, compare it to what a climatologist’s model predicts, and give them our conclusions and how sure we are of those conclusions.”

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  • Kenneth Caluya: Graduate Student

    Kenneth Caluya: Graduate Student

    Degree Program: Ph.D., Applied Mathematics
    Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
    Undergraduate Institution: UC Riverside
    Department: Applied Mathematics
    Hometown: Phillipines

    “I’m mentoring an undergrad right now and what I realized over the course of working with him is the importance of giving students support. My professors and older grad students always gave me that support so it feels good for me to pay that forward.”

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  • Sabina Tomkins: Graduate Student

    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.”

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  • Austin King: Graduate Student

    Austin King: Graduate Student

    Degree Program: Natural Language Processing M.S.
    Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
    Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
    Department: Natural Language Processing
    Hometown: Sunnyvale, CA

    “It’s amazing hearing from people who are working on NLP now — for example the professor teaching my five o’clock class is teaching at five because he’s working with the technology during the rest of the day. I feel lucky to have these people teaching us.”

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  • Preet Kaur: Alumna

    Preet Kaur: Alumna

    Degree Program: Biomolecular Engineering, B.S. and Bioinformatics, B.S.
    Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
    Department: Biomolecular Engineering

    “Some of my closest friends are from bioengineering and bioinformatics. Seeing my friends succeed and being a part of that success is something I’m really proud of.”

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  • Keerthi Krishnan: Alumnus

    Keerthi Krishnan: Alumnus

    Degree Program: B.S., Computer Science, minor in Applied Mathematics
    Graduate Institution: Chapman University
    Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
    Department: Computer Science and Engineering

    “Baskin [Engineering] gave me that forefront of knowledge that allowed me to excel in my graduate career.”

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  • Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba: New Faculty

    Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba: New Faculty

    Graduate Institution: Iowa State University, M.S., North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
    Undergraduate Institution: Universidad de Costa Rica
    Department: Statistics

    “It’s exciting to introduce the topic of statistics to people that have no prior knowledge or experience with the field. My goal is to motivate students to keep learning about the field of statistics.”

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  • Akhil Dixit: Graduate Student

    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.”

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  • Evan Pepper: Alumnus

    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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  • Manping Jia: Graduate Student

    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.”

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  • Ikenna Anigbogu: Alumnus

    Ikenna Anigbogu: Alumnus

    Degree Program: Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics, B.S.
    Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
    Department: Biomolecular Engineering
    Hometown: El Cerrito, CA

    “Bioengineering really exposed me to the humanitarian side of science, which is something I have always wanted to be involved in.”

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  • Sidney Robinson: Undergraduate

    Sidney Robinson: Undergraduate

    Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
    Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
    Department: Computer Science

    “Change is coming, and I’m excited for it.”

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