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Kenneth Caluya: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Ph.D., Applied MathematicsGraduate Institution: UC Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: UC RiversideDepartment: Applied MathematicsHometown: 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…
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Sabina Tomkins: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Ph.D., Technology and Information ManagementGraduate Institution: UC Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: NYUDepartment: Computer Science and EngineeringHometown: 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
Degree Program: Natural Language Processing M.S.Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Natural Language ProcessingHometown: 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…
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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
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
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
Degree Program: Computer Science, Ph.D.Graduate Institution: UC Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: University of Pune, IndiaDepartment: Computer Science and EngineeringHometown: 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
Degree Program: Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics, B.S. Graduate Institution: University of Washington, working towards a Ph.D. in Molecular EngineeringUndergraduate 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
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, BeijingDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringHometown: 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
Degree Program: Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics, B.S. Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz Department: Biomolecular EngineeringHometown: 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
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Computer Science”Change is coming, and I’m excited for it.”
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Evan West: Alumnus
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.Graduate Institution: Stony Brook UniversityUndergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Computer Science”I’ve had people come up to me and say, “your class is the reason I got an internship or a job offer,” and that is wonderful. It’s definitely one of my prouder moments.”
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Fatemeh Mirzaei: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: Azad UniversityDepartment: Computer Science and EngineeringHometown: Tehran, Iran “We want to provide greater context around online content for consumers, and reduce the amount of time people have to devote to sorting through information.”
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Carmen Robinson: Staff
Graduate Institution: University of Arkansas at Little RockUndergraduate Institution: University of Central ArkansasDepartment: Undergraduate Affairs and MEPHometown: Little Rock, Arkansas “It is important to have a community, especially for students of color because it’s easy to feel like you’re erased, that you don’t belong somewhere because historically you’re not a part of that group, but things have to…
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John Felts: Alumnus
Degree Program: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer EngineeringGraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: UC Santa BarbaraDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringHometown: Fresno, California “I think for any entrepreneur you just have to be ready that it’s going to be tougher than you think, but at the end of the day, even if you fail, you’re…
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Ryan Modlin: Alumnus and Graduate Student
Degree Program: B.S., Bioengineering, M.S., Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz Department: Biomolecular EngineeringHometown: Huntington Beach, CA “Currently, my project is engineering zymomonas mobilis, a unique organism that has a specific metabolic pathway that helps increase the production of biofuels, specifically ethanol and butanol… Fossil fuels are…
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Jared Duval: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Ph.D., Computational MediaGraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz Undergraduate Institution: Western New England University Department: Computational Media Hometown: Dudley, Massachusetts”SpokeIt is a big team project I’m working on. It’s a game with this overarching narrative and within that game there are a bunch of therapeutic mini games that focus on different kinds of speech…
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