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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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Francisco Beltran: Alumnus
Degree Program: P.h.D., StatisticsGraduate Institution: UC Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: Cal-State BakersfieldDepartment: 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…
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Angela Ramirez: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Natural Language Processing M.S.Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Natural Language ProcessingHometown: 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
Degree Program: Assistant Professor, Technology ManagementGraduate Institution: Stanford UniversityUndergraduate Institution: California Institute of TechnologyDepartment: 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
Graduate Institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillUndergraduate Institution: Auburn UniversityDepartment: 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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