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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESTHE HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
AND APPLIED SCIENCE
56TH COMMENCEMENTJUNE 13, 2020
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About UCLC Samueli ............................................. 2
Program ................................................................ 3
Congratulations ................................................... 4
Distinguished Speaker .......................................... 5
Student Speaker .................................................. 6
National Anthem Vocalist .................................... 6
Doctor of Philosophy ............................................ 8
Master of Science .............................................. 20
Bachelor of Science ............................................ 32
Awards and Honors ........................................... 46
Student Leaders .................................................. 50
Leadership .......................................................... 52
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Lighting the Way for 100 Years
The seeds of today’s UCLA were planted in the 1881 creation of the
downtown Los Angeles State Normal School, which later moved to
Vermont Avenue. In 1919, the University of California Southern Branch
opened on the Vermont Avenue campus. The University of California
at Los Angeles name was officially adopted in 1927, and in 1929,
instruction began on the present-day Westwood campus.
From those beginnings, UCLA has, in just a century, become consistently
ranked as one of the top public universities in the world,
and the nation’s most applied-to university. UCLA faculty and researchers
are routinely recognized for their leadership and breakthroughs
in a stunning array of fields, ranging from health and technology
to social sciences and the arts.
What began as a teachers college in downtown Los Angeles grew into
one of the world’s greatest universities. An engine of social mobility.
A catalyst for progress and profound insights once beyond our reach.
For 100 years, leading the way toward a better tomorrow.
The classes of 2019 and 2020 hold the honor of being the
centennial graduating classes at UCLA.
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As a land grant institution, UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, Southern Channel Islands).
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About UCLA Samueli
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
includes more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 190
full-time faculty members. Established in 1945, UCLA Samueli is known as the
birthplace of the internet, and where countless other fields took some of
their first steps — from artificial intelligence to reverse osmosis, from mobile
communications to human prosthetics.
The school academic departments include Bioengineering, Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer
Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and
Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, as well as the
recently added Department of Computational Medicine, which is affiliated
with both the David Geffen School of Medicine and Samueli. In addition,
UCLA Samueli offers the Master of Science in Engineering Online program.
In 2000, the engineering school was re-named in honor of alumnus Henry
Samueli, following a $30 million gift that supported capital improvements
as well as fellowships for graduate students and early career faculty. In 2019,
Samueli and his wife Susan gave another gift of $100 million to support the
school’s expansion well into the next decade.
Today, UCLA Samueli is in the midst of its largest growth since the school
was founded, with plans to enroll up to 7,000 total students and add
additional professors for a roster of nearly 250 by 2028. New faculty will
bring expertise in emerging research areas, such as engineering in medicine,
quantum technologies, and sustainable and resilient urban systems.
The school’s facilities include four major buildings — Boelter Hall,
Engineering-IV, Engineering-V and Engineering-VI. Recent renovations
have added the Student Creativity Center — home to many of its student
organizations, and the Innovation Laboratory — a makerspace for hands-on
learning and creativity.
UCLA Samueli is consistently ranked in the Top 10 among U.S. public
engineering schools and its online program is ranked No. 1 by U.S. News &
World Report.
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PROGRAM
GABRIELINO/TONGVA LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT Jared Rivera
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Physics
Bachelor of Science, Spring 2020
INTRODUCTIONProfessor Tsu-Chin Tsao
Faculty Marshal, Presiding
THE NATIONAL ANTHEMKarin Olga Sinavsky ’01, MS ’03
SCHOOL WELCOMEJayathi Y. Murthy
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSJason Droege
Distinguished Speaker
STUDENT SPEAKER’S MESSAGEImani Chantal Elston
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bachelor of Science, Spring 2020
PRESENATION of the CANDIDATES for Bachelor of Science, Master of Science
and Doctor of Philosophy
CONFERRAL of ALL DEGREES
CLOSING REMARKSJayathi Y. Murthy
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean
MESSAGES of CONGRATULATIONS
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CONGRATULATIONSfrom
President Janet Napolitano
Congratulations, UCLA Class of 2020! Today we join your family, friends, and the entire University of California community in celebrating you and your wonderful accomplishment. You have worked hard, sometimes overcoming great obstacles, in pursuit of your UC education.
I hope you will always take great pride in what you have accomplished at the University of California, and in being a part of the UC family for life. I wish you the best of luck in whatever comes next.
Your time at UCLA has given you the knowledge, skills, and confidence you need to go out into the world and change it for the better. UCLA alumnus and tennis great Arthur Ashe once gave some simple but elegant advice: “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
Your graduation this year will be memorable for many reasons, but I see it as a moment of great hope and a promise for the future. At this point in time when the world is facing unprecedented dilemmas, you are the future leaders who will seek out the answers. Nationally and globally, we see challenges ahead. But as a UCLA graduate, you are well prepared to do your part to respond to these challenges, and help your local community, the nation, and the world. As you embark on this journey, you are equipped with the tools you need to gather information, think critically, and continually adjust your understanding of the world around you.
Go forth, Bruins, and make the world a better, brighter place. Fiat lux — let there be light!
Janet Napolitano President
CONGRATULATIONSfrom
Chancellor Gene D. Block
Congratulations, class of 2020! Today is the culmination of years of dreaming and sacrifice, tenacity and creativity, deep thought and hard work. I hope you are proud of all you have accomplished!
Despite the different nature of the celebration, I hope you will still take the time to rejoice at how your UCLA education has broadened your horizons, deepened your relationships, strengthened your skills and expanded your opportunities. Those accomplishments will remain with you wherever you may be today and in the future.
You are graduating into a time that needs you like no other time in our memory. This pandemic is teaching important lessons about vulnerability and inequality, but also about science and service, empathy and community. We will all need to shape a recovery that makes our society more prepared, more resilient and more whole. That will require imagination and vision. Your imagination and vision.
While we may face unexpected challenges, hopefully your time at UCLA will have prepared you in unforeseen ways. At UCLA, we stress the values of compassion and inclusion, careful research and thoughtful analysis, innovation and collaboration. Those are the very virtues that will serve you as you make your way through this crisis and beyond.
This UCLA community you have been a part of, the UCLA community you helped create, and the broader UCLA alumni community you are now joining will be with you always. May they always give you strength and inspiration, hope and guidance.
Congratulations again and stay heathy.
Gene D. Block Chancellor
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CONGRATULATIONSfrom
Dean Jayathi Y. Murthy
To the Class of 2020,
On behalf of the faculty and staff of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, I want to offer our warmest congratulations to you on reaching this major milestone in life. Through hard work, perseverance and creativity, you have earned your degree from one of the best engineering schools in the world.
I recognize these last few months have been extremely difficult. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended all our lives, but especially those of our students. You’ve had to overcome so much. You’ve had to adapt nearly overnight to a new educational paradigm in the middle of a public health crisis — and far away from your UCLA friends and campus community. And you’ve managed to rise above it all. At times, I know it must feel disheartening and demoralizing, but make no mistake: The coronavirus will not define who you are, or diminish your many accomplishments.
UCLA engineers share a joint mission and commitment to improve society and address its critical problems through ingenuity, empathy and thoughtfulness. Today, as you graduate from UCLA, you and your fellow classmates will join the illustrious ranks of the UCLA Samueli engineers who came before you. I am confident that you will achieve even greater things and will make all of us proud.
As we celebrate and honor this chapter of your lives, may the many fond memories of your experiences at Samueli and the friendships you’ve made at UCLA long outlast any challenges along the way. Together, we will engineer change that impacts the lives of many generations to come.
Congratulations!
Jayathi Murthy Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER Jason Droege
As Vice President at Uber leading the global Uber Eats business, Jason Droege focused on leveraging Uber’s extensive logistics network to launch new business ventures for the past six years. The Uber Eats team scaled Uber’s food delivery business to more than 550 markets across 50 countries. Jason’s expertise as a successful founder and business leader across e-commerce, enterprise software and internet services helped him lead the team that created Uber’s first app outside of its core ride-hailing service and has built one of the largest food-delivery businesses globally.
Prior to Uber, Jason started the camera and cloud software division of Axon (AAXN), which now equips more than 300,000 officers with on-officer cameras and powers evidence management and workflow solutions for thousands of public safety agencies in the U.S. and around the world.
Jason left his role leading Uber Eats in early 2020 to enjoy some time with family and focus on early-stage investing. Jason attended UCLA where he founded his first business in the dorms with five other computer science students. He currently resides in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.
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STUDENT SPEAKER
Imani Chantal ElstonCivil and Environmental Engineering Bachelor of Science, Spring 2020
Imani Chantal Elston is a Spring 2020 Bachelor of Science degree candidate in Civil Engineering.
During her undergraduate studies, Imani conducted research examining the lead concentration levels in the soil of Los Angeles’ parks under Dr. Jennifer Jay. Imani was a former leader of the National Society of Black Engineers and a founding project member for the Engineers Without Borders — Navajo project. As a member of the Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity and the Women in Engineering program, she enjoys volunteering with pre-collegiate students and inspiring underrepresented youth to pursue STEM.
Imani has held multiple internships with the City of Los Angeles as a student engineer and hopes to work for a local municipality in the future to improve the climate resilience of Southern California. Upon graduation, Imani plans to pursue a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA.
NATIONAL ANTHEM VOCALIST
Karin Olga SinavskyBachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Spring 2001 Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Fall 2003
Dr. Karin Sinavsky earned her B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.S. in biomedical engineering at UCLA. During her time at UCLA, she was honored to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a number of graduations for the Samueli School of Engineering. She then went on to earn her M.D. at UC Irvine and completed residency training at UC San Francisco. Currently, Karin works as an anesthesiologist and chronic pain physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and is an assistant clinical professor in UC San Francisco’s Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care.
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C A N D I DAT E S
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Rory GeogheganMonitoring Focal Laser Ablation of Prostate Cancer
with Interstitial Thermal and Optical Probes
Dian HuangLive Cell Interferometry: A Novel Quantitative Phase Imaging
Technique for Rapid Characterizations of Tumor Heterogeneity, Drug Resistance, Cell Fates and Biophysical Properties
Jessica Aurora Martinez MartinezMitigation of Radio-Frequency Induced Active Implantable
Medical Device Heating During MRI Exams
Bau Ngoc Pham Jr.A Novel Multi-Faceted Strategy to Identify the
in Vivo Dynamics of Spinal Locomotor Networks
Xiaoyong WangHigh Throughput Image Labeling and Lung/Lobar Segmentation on Chest CT Using Deep Learning
Conferred Fall 2019
Stanislav CulacliiDesign of a System for Cancelling Stimulus Artifact
in Multi-Channel Neural Interfaces
Arshia A. EhsanipourInjectable Macroporous Scaffolds for Improved
Gene Delivery and Spinal Cord Tissue Regeneration
Po-Yu LinThe Study of Intestinal Epithelial Monolayer Development and
Its Interaction with Intestinal Subepithelial Myofibroblastadvisor: James C. Y. Dunn
Sam Carsten-Puisis NorrisDevelopment of Photodegradable Polymer Networks:
Cellular Applications and Mathematical Models
Elaine Anne QianAtomically Precise, Multivalent Organomimetic Cluster Nanomolecules
Nova Fujuan SmedleyLearning Radiogenomic and Longitudinal Patterns
to Characterize Disease Trajectoryadvisor: William Hsu
Po-Min WangTowards Closed-Loop Neuromodulation with
Wireless Biomimetic Circuits and Systems
Candidates, Spring 2020
Calvin Kai-man LeeBacteria Sensing, Signaling, Memory, and
Appendages During Biofilm Formationadvisor: Gerard C. L. Wong
LeeAnn LiCell Engineering for Neuromuscular Regeneration
& Neural Reprogrammingadvisor: Song Li
Fatemeh Sadat Majediadvisor: S. Li
Hector Enrique MuñozPhysical Phenotyping of Neutrophil NETosis Using Fluorescence-Imaging Deformability Cytometry
advisor: Dino Di Carlo
Peter PellioniszClinical Translation of Dynamic Optical Contrast Imaging for
Label-Free Tissue Identification and Surgical Navigation in Head and Neck Oncology
advisors: Maie A. St. John, Michael A. Teitell
Aysan RangchianStructural Changes of Vitreous Humor Under Enzymatic Activity:
An in Situ Rheological Study
Kanav SarafFully Automated Heart Disease Diagnosis and Evaluation
Using a Phonocardiogram-Based Systemadvisors: William J. Kaiser, Jacob J. Schmidt
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Candidates, Summer 2020
Joseph de RutteProbing the Ultimate Limits of Biology, Microparticle Platforms
for High-Throughput Single-Cell and Single Molecule Assaysadvisor: D. Dicarlo
Sen MaSimultaneous Quantitative Multiparametric MRI for Non-Contrast
In Vivo Tissue Characterization Using Magnetic Resonance Multitasking: Methodology and Clinical Experience
advisor: Debiao Li
Yiwen MengAdvancing Temporal Modeling and Heterogeneous
Data Analysis for Digital Healthadvisors: Corey W. Arnold, William Speier
Nan WangMulti-Dimensional, Motion-Resolved Dynamic Contrast
Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Multitasking: Technique Development and Applications
advisor: Debiao Li
DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Jeremy Alexander ConnerLinear and Non-Linear Programming Techniques for
System Identification and Green Engineering Applicationsadvisor: V. Manousiouthakis
Elias SiderisManipulating Hydrogel Microstructure for the
Purpose of Brain Repair After Stroke
Conferred Fall 2019
Xianyang LiRational Design of Lithium/Sodium Ion Battery Anode for High Performance Energy Storage
Angus Morgan SidoreMultiplexed Gene Synthesis in Emulsions
Duo XuProtein Nanocapsules for Therapeutic Applications
Conferred Winter 2020
Soo Min KimReverse Osmosis and Ultrafiltration Membrane Surface
Nano-Structuring with Tethered Hydrophilic Polymer Layers for Seawater Desalination
advisor: Yoram Cohen
Nicholas LiuTargeted Genome Mining for the Discovery and Study
of Sterol Pathway Fungal Natural Product Drugsadvisor: Yi Tang
Candidates, Spring 2020
Abdulaziz AlturkiIntegration of Sorption Enhanced Operations into
Sustainable Processesadvisor: Dante Simonetti
Sara AzzamFundamentals of Hydrogen Sulfide Removal from
Gaseous Streams via Reactive Sorption with Copper Oxideadvisor: Dante Simonetti
Jesse BaucomLow-Cost and Scalable Material Designs and Processes
for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Battery Anodesadvisor: Yunfeng Lu
Ernest ChenChemically Selective Etching of GeSbTe
advisor: Jane Chang
Shih-Wei ChuangExploring the Physiological Role of Phosphoketolase
and Its Application in Photosynthetic Organismsadvisor: James Liao
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering (continued)
Mackenzie ClaySimulations of Electroenzymatic Biosensors for Neurotransmitters
in Calibrations and in Extracellular Space of the Brainadvisor: Harold Monbouquette
Yiu-Sun HungGenome Mining on Fungal Polyketide Natural Products
for Discovery of Novel Enzymologyadvisor: Yi Tang
Alec Jaegeradvisor: James Liao
Dejia KongCVD-Assisted Silicate Anode Materials on
Lithium/Sodium-Ion Batteriesadvisor: Yunfeng Lu
Fan LiHigh-Quality Carbon-Based Composite Materials for
High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteriesadvisor: Yunfeng Lu
Shengxiang MaA Class of Solid-Like Electrolytes for Rechargeable Batteries Based on Metal-Organic Frameworks Infiltrated with Liquid Electrolytes
advisor: Yunfeng Lu
Luke MinardiNanofibrous Materials for Improved Sorbent Performance in the Sorption-Enhanced Steam Methane Reforming System
advisor: Dante Simonetti
Ryan SheilAtomic Layer Deposition of Thin Film Solid Electrolytes and
Active Materials for 3D Lithium-Ion Microbattery Applicationsadvisor: Jane Chang
Wenyue ShiElectrode and Electrolyte Materials Design for
High Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteriesadvisor: Yunfeng Lu
Ehsan Shirzaei SaniHydrogel-Based Bioadhesives for Tissue Engineering
and Surgical Applicationsadvisor: Nasim Annabi
Brian WalkerEngineering Electroconductive and Adhesive
Hydrogels for Biomedical Applicationsadvisor: Nasim Annabi
Zhe Wu
Zhang Hao ZhangProcess Operational Safety via Integrated Design of
Control and Safety Systems
Candidates, Summer 2020
Yu-Hsiao ChenEngineering Escherichia coli to Grow on
Methanol as the Sole Carbon Sourceadvisor: James Liao
Masih JoratSustainability over Sets (SOS)
advisor: Vasilios Manousiouthakis
Xinru LiMaterials Design of Lithium Metal Batteries
advisor: Yunfeng Lu
Xing LuDesign Strategies and Engineering Towards
All-Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteriesadvisor: Yunfeng Lu
Pengcheng XuLi-Ion Battery Capacity Simulation and Life Prediction
advisor: Yunfeng Lu
Zhihao ZhangBiodegradable Microneedle Patch for Transdermal Delivery
of Water Insoluble Drugsadvisor: Panagiotis Christofides
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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Saman Ali AbdullahReinforced Concrete Structural Walls: Test Database
and Modeling Parametersadvisor: J. Wallace
Haiwen GaoComputational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of
Secondary Settling Tank
Yi-Hsuan HsiaoStudies on Irradiation and Electric Potential Effects Toward
Mineral Atomic Structure and Chemical Reactivity
Yu MiaoMicrobial Ecology and Bioremediation of 1,4-Dioxane and Chlorinated Solvents Contaminated Groundwater and Soil
Tandre OeyControlling the Reactivity of Silicate and Aluminate
Glasses in Aqueous Alkaline Environments
Zachary StankoNonlinear Model Reduction for Groundwater Flow and
Solute Transport
Wenyang ZhangA Quantitative Seismic Behavior Assessment of Buried Structures
Xiaobo ZhuTuning Separation Processes Using Electroactive Membranes
for Oil Fouling Prevention and Salt Rejection Optimization
Conferred Fall 2019
Yinghui ZhuThe Interface Energy and Particle Size Effects on Nanocomposites
advisors: Jiann-Wen, Woody, Ju
Conferred Winter 2020
Barbaros CetinerImage-Based Modeling of Bridges and Its Applications to
Evaluating Resiliency of Transportation Networksadvisor: E. Taciroglu
Candidates, Spring 2020
Jason BuenkerSoil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Effects on
the Cyclic Failure Potential of Silts and Claysadvisor: Brandenberg
Farzaneh Shabani Samgh AbadiFate of Radionuclides in Water Reclamation Plants
advisor: Stenstrom
Candidates, Summer 2020
Bongyeon JungOptimization and Improvement of Membrane Filtration
Performance for Desalinated Water Productionadvisor: Jassby
Unnati RaoExploiting Hydrophobic and Electrostatic Interactions for
the Effective Removal of Aqueous Contaminantsadvisor: Jassby
Agam TomarSeismic Risk and Resilience Modeling of Water Distribution System
advisor: Burton
Pengfei WangAnalysis of Non-Ergodic Site Response and Its Prediction
advisor: Stewart
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEDoctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
Conferred Summer 2019
Moustafa Farid Taha Moha AlzantotSecure and Private Machine Learning for Smart Devices
Saikrishna BadrinarayananTowards Optimality in Secure Computation
John Matthew BenderProve Once, Run Efficiently Anywhere:
Tools for Lock-Free Concurrent Algorithms
Anahita HosseiniPediatric Asthma Management: System and Algorithms
Behnam ShahbaziStoryMiner: An Automated and Scalable Framework for
Story Analysis and Detection from Social Media
Peipei ZhouModeling and Optimization for Customized Computing:
Performance, Energy and Cost Perspective
Tao ZhouCore Training: Learning Deep Neuromuscular Control
of the Torso for Anthropomimetic Animation
Conferred Fall 2019
Young-Kyu ChoiPerformance Debugging Frameworks for
FPGA High-Level Synthesis
Ariyam DasDeclarative Frameworks and Optimization Techniques for
Developing Scalable Advanced Analytics over Databases and Data Streams
advisor: Carlo Zaniolo
Xiaohan FeiInertial-Aided Visual Perception of Geometry and Semantics
Jui-Ting JuComputational Methods for the Analysis of
Genomic and Proteomic Sequences
Ruirui LiLearning from Sparse and Deficient Data and Its Applications
Alex King Lap WongExploiting Regularities to Recover 3D Scene Geometry
Conferred Winter 2020
Nazanin FarahpourModeling and Optimization of Accelerator-Rich Architectures
for Near Data Processing
Candidates, Spring 2020
Dat Duong
Muhammad Ali GulzarAutomated Testing and Debugging for Big Data Analytics
advisor: Miryung Kim
Ali HatamizadehRobust Visual Representation Learning and Modeling
advisor: Demetri Teropolous
Abdullah-Al-Zubaer ImranFully-Supervised, Single-Task to Scarcely-Supervised, Multi-Task Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
advisor: Demetri Terzopoulos
Christian Gram KalhaugeReporting Real Bugs in Metaprograms
advisor: Jens Palsberg
Mingda LiEfficient Latent Semantic Extraction from
Cross Domain Data with Declarative Language
Elior RahmaniCapturing Hidden Signals from High-Dimensional
Data and Applications to Genomicsadvisor: Eran Halperin
Yujia ShenModeling and Reasoning with Structured Bayesian Network
advisor: Adnan Darwiche
Jin WangPower, Performance and Scalability for Big Data Query
Languages: the Machine Learning Challengeadvisor: Carlo Zaniolo
Candidates, Summer 2020
Babak MoatamedA New Spiking Neuron Model for Time Series
Modeling and Forecastingadvisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh
Feng ShiVersatile Hardware Architecture for Machine Learning Algorithms
advisor: Song-Chun Zhu
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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Christopher CurwenDevelopment of Terahertz Quantum-Cascade VECSELs
advisor: Benjamin Williams
Conferred Fall 2019
Jieqiong DuDesign of Energy-Efficient Single-Ended Frequency-Division
Multiplexing Wireline Transceiversadvisor: M.C. Frank Chang
Shiao-Po TsaiMagnetic Proximity Coupling to Transition Metal Dichalcogenide
advisor: Kang Wang
Candidates, Spring 2020
AtharavNew Low-Power Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Receivers
advisor: Behzad Razavi
Xiaoyu CheSpin-Orbit Torque and Field-Free Magnetization Switching
by Topological Insulatorsadvisor: Kang Wang
Xiao ShiStochastic Yield Analysis of Rare Failure Events in
High-Dimensional Variation Spaceadvisor: Lei He
Yan ZhangBaseband and LO Techniques Based on CMOS Integration
for Wideband Millimeter-Wave Sensingadvisor: M.C. Frank Chang
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Kartik AhujaOptimization Methods for Resource Allocation
and Machine Learning Applicationsadvisor: Gregory Pottie
Ahmed Fahad A AlzuhairTheta Phase-Specific Closed-Loop Stimulation in
Implantable Neuromodulation Devicesadvisor: Dejan Markovic
Seyed Mehrdad BabamirA Digital RF Transmitter with Background
Nonlinearity Correctionadvisor: Behzad Razavi
Mathew Michael BiedkaUltra-Wide Band On-Chip Circulators with Sequentially-Switched Delay Lines (SSDL)
advisor: Yuanxun Ethan Wang
Max HoMagnetic 3D Printing of Hexaferrite Material
advisor: Robert Candler
Mohammed Hassan KarmooseApplication-Tailored Security: Lessons from Theory to Practice
advisor: Christina Fragouli
Stefan VlaskiDistributed Stochastic Optimization in Non-Differentiable
and Non-Convex Environmentsadvisor: Ali Sayed
Kun YuanExact Diffusion Learning over Networks
advisor: Ali Sayed
Heng ZhaoAddressing Practical Challenges in High-Capacity
Multi-Antenna Communication Systemsadvisors: Babak Daneshrad, Gregory Pottie
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (continued)
Conferred Fall 2019
Zachary Scott BallardComputational Sensing in Biophotonics and Diagnostics
advisors: Aydogan Ozcan, Asad Madni
Wei GuFerromagnetic Resonance Enhanced Electrically Small Antennas
advisor: Yuanxun Ethan Wang
Ahmed Mohamed Alaa H H IbrahimDiscovering Data-Driven Actionable Intelligence
for Clinical Decision Supportadvisor: Mihaela van der Schaar
Weicong LiSiGe-Pocket Tunnel FETs for Low Power Logic Applications
advisor: Jason Woo
Qianteng WuMonolithically Integrated Time-Varying
Transmission Line (TVTL) for Signal Processingadvisor: Yuanxun Ethan Wang
Yichen WuDeep Learning-Enabled Computational Imaging in
Optical Microscopy and Air Quality Monitoringadvisor: Aydogan Ozcan
Conferred Winter 2020
Sulaiman A S A E AlghunaimOn the Performance and Linear Convergence of
Decentralized Primal-Dual Methodsadvisor: Ali Sayed
Faraz KhanCharge Trap Transistors (CTT): Turning Logic Transistors
into Embedded Non-Volatile Memory for Advanced High-k/Metal Gate CMOS Technologiesadvisors: Subramanian Iyer, Jason Woo
Srinivas Prasad Mysore NagarajaDirectly Modulated Magnetic Pendulum Arrays for
Efficient Ultra Low Frequency Transmissionadvisor: Yuanxun Wang
Zhe WanScalable and Analog Neuromorphic Computing Systems
advisor: Subramanian Iyer
Candidates, Spring 2020
Ablaikhan AkhazhanovMachine Learning-Enabled Single-Cell
Electrical Impedance Tomographyadvisor: Chi On Chui
Siva Chandra JangamHeterogeneous Integration on Silicon-Interconnect
Fabric Using Fine Pitch Interconnects (≤10 µm)advisor: Subramanian Iyer
Peng LuDoping Profile Engineering for Advanced Transistors
advisor: Jason Woo
Vignesh ManoharNovel High Gain Antennas for Emerging CubeSats:
Characterization of Deployable Mesh Reflectors and Low-Profile, Metal-Only Stepped Reflectors
advisor: Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Seyed Armin RazaviDeterministic Field-Free Spin-Orbit Torque Switching
of Magnetizationadvisor: Kang Wang
Hemant SaggarOn Enabling Concurrent Communications in Wireless Networks
advisors: Gregory Pottie, Babak Daneshrad
Lingnan SongReconfigurable and Conformal Antennas Based on the
Emerging Liquid Metal and Electro-Textile Materialsadvisor: Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Yulia SunyotoCommunications Networking for Autonomous
Vehicular Highway Systemsadvisor: Izhak Rubin
Sidhant TiwariDynamics of Multiferroic Coupling
advisor: Robert Candler
Jimmy Chen-Yen WuCompact Magnetic Shielding Using Thick-Film
Electroplated Permalloyadvisor: Robert Candler
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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (continued)
Han YanArray Architectures and Physical Layer Design for
Millimeter-Wave Communications Beyond 5Gadvisor: Danijela Cabric
Jinsung YoonEnd-to-End Machine Learning Frameworks for Medicine:
Data Imputation, Model Interpretation, and Synthetic Data Generation
advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar
Candidates, Summer 2020
Lucas Cesar Eduardo CassanoTeamwork and Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
advisor: Ali Sayed
Mahmoud Mohamed Rashad Ibrahim ElhebearySchottky-Diode-Based Wake-Up Receiver and
Power Management Systems for IoT Applicationsadvisor: Chih-Kong Ken Yang
Yahya Husain Ezzeldin M A EssaScheduling and Optimization in Next-Generation Relay Networks
advisor: Christina Fragouli
Chen-Kang HuangDynamics of Optical-Field Ionized Helium Plasmas
advisor: Chand Joshi
Weiyu LengDSP-Assisted Envelope-Tracking Supply Modulator
advisor: Asad Abidi
Wenyuan LiImproving Data Efficiency on Histopathological
Image Analysis Using Deep Learningadvisors: Gregory Pottie, Corey Arnold
Zahra Mahmoodzadeh PoornakiTrustable Deep Reinforcement Learning with
Efficient Data Utilizationadvisor: Ali Mosleh
Cheng TaoScattering Properties of Non-Periodic Metasurfaces
advisor: Tatsuo Itoh
Haozhan TianApplication of Coupled Modes in Compact Antennas
advisor: Tatsuo Itoh
Muhammed VeliMachine Learning Enabled Computational
Sensing and Optical Component Designadvisor: Aydogan Ozcan
Abhinav Kumar VinodStabilization and Control of Chip-Scale Frequency Combs
advisor: Chee Wei Wong
Cheng ZhengDeep Representation Learning on Complex Graphs
advisor: Wei Wang, Jonathan Kao
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DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Pedro AriasVariable-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of
Growth and Characterization of Hexagonal Boron Nitride and Graphene Layers
advisor: Suneel Kodambaka
Michelle Margarita Flores EspinosaDesign of Noble Metal Nanostructures for
Heterogeneous Catalytic Applicationsadvisor: Yu Huang
Xinke YuAlzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Using SERS and
Advanced Data Analysisadvisor: Ya-Hong Xie
Conferred Fall 2019
Kelsey Anne FolgnerTowards Understanding the Environmental Durability
and Corrosion Behavior of Protected Silver Mirrorsadvisor: Jenn-Ming Yang
Sungjoon LeeCoupling Two-Dimensional Materials with Solid-State
Ionics for Programmable Electronicsadvisor: Yu Huang
Roxanne RadpourAdvanced Imaging Spectroscopy for Surface and Sub-Surface
Characterization of Archaeological Materialsadvisor: Ioanna Kakoulli
Nathan Oulton WeissSynthesis, Fabrication, and Strain Engineering of Flexible
Nanoelectronics Using Graphene and Other 2D Layered Materialsadvisor: Yu Huang
Ziyang ZhangImproved PVDF Terpolymers for Solid State Cooling and Beyond
advisor: Qibing Pei
Conferred Winter 2020
Tingyu BaiDiamond Integration for Thermal Management Applications:
Transport, Boundaries, and Interfacial Morphologyadvisor: Mark Goorsky
Daniel Ross EthPoor Outlook for 4d and 5d Kitaev Candidate Materials:
Density Functional Theory Calculations Point to Small Kitaev Termsadvisor: Dwight Streit
Shin-Hung TsaiVertical Electron Transport Across and Into
a Two-Dimensional Material Using Vertical Tunnel Structures and Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy
advisor: Kang Wang
Rui WangDefect Passivation Towards Highly Efficient and
Stable Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cellsadvisor: Yang Yang
Peiyi YePlasmon-Enhanced Monolayer MoS2 for Efficient and
Sustainable Photocatalytic Water Splitting Platformadvisor: Ya-Hong Xie
Hongxiang ZhaoOrganic Scintillators Containing High-Z Nanoparticles
advisor: Qibing Pei
Candidates, Spring 2020
Douglas ChenDevelopment of Chemical Processes for the Recycling of
Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Compositesadvisor: Jenn-Ming Yang
Nicholas JulianEnabling Improvement in Constructing Amorphous Configurations
by Multislice Fluctuation TEMadvisor: Jaime Marian
Ariella MachnessEngineering Porous Silicon for a Top-Down Approach to
Controlled Drug Deliveryadvisor: Mark Goorsky
Koichi TanakaMicrostructural and Compositional Tunability in
Sputter-Deposited Transition-Metal Carbide Thin Films Using Ultra-Low Reactive Gas Pressures and 2D Layers
advisor: Suneel Kodambaka
Ruining WangMultifunctional Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for
Drug and Large Molecule Deliveryadvisor: Bruce Dunn
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DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering (continued)
Zhengxu WangHigh Performance Metal Oxide Thin Film Transistors
via Cluster Control and Interface Engineeringadvisor: Yang Yang
Keo-Yuan WuReliability-Based Integrity Management of Natural Gas Pipelines
Subject to Spatio-Temporal Corrosive Environmentadvisor: Ali Mosleh
Candidates, Summer 2020
Erin AskounisSynthesis and Fabrication of New and Improved
Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Materialsadvisor: Qibing Pei
Chungsuk ChoiDesigning Novel Catalysts to Convert Green House Gas to
Value-Added Fuels and Feedstocksadvisor: Yu Huang
Ryan DeBlockPseudosolid Electrolytes and their Application in
Next-Generation Sodium-ion Storage Devicesadvisor: Bruce Dunn
Shiqi DongMicrostructural Control and Acoustic Effect on Steel and Mineral Dissolution Revealed by Topographical Analysis
advisor: Gaurav Sant
Owen LiangExploring the Challenges of Advancing SERS-Based Biosensing from
Research Laboratory to Clinicsadvisor: Ya-Hong Xie
Tait MclouthMicrostructural Control and Mechanical Properties of Inconel 718 Manufactured by Selective Laser Melting
advisor: Jenn-Ming Yang
Yue-Sun SuNMR Investigation of Crystalline Polarized Rotors, and Sr2RuO4
advisor: Bruce Dunn
Jingjing XueThe Role of Surface in Photovoltaic Perovskites:
From Quantum Dots to Bulk Thin Filmsadvisor: Yang Yang
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Bonan ZhouFractional Optimal Control via Spectral Factorization
Conferred Fall 2019
Cesar Eduardo HuertaDC Plasma Interactions with Structured Surfaces
Candidates, Spring 2020
Nhattrieu Chan DuongEstimation for Linear Systems with Additive Laplace Noise
advisor: Jason Speyer
Gary LiPlasma Sputtering of Structured Materials
advisor: Richard Wirz
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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Daniel CanutoMultiscale and Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Modeling
George William DeMoulinAeroelasticity in Axial Flow: Balakrishnan Continuum
Theory and a Semi-Continuum Approach
Behnam KhakiOptimal Integration of Battery Energy Storage and Transportation Electrification in Distribution Grids
Obaidallah Mohammad MunteshariIn Operando Calorimetric Measurements
for Electrochemical Capacitors
Tyler James RhodesNumerical Study of 3D Magnetohydrodynamic Flows
Towards Liquid Metal Blankets, Including Complex Geometry and Buoyancy Effects
Conferred Fall 2019
Mohammad AlabdullahPhysics-Based Damage Modeling of Ceramic Matrix
Composites for Extreme Heat Environments
Anthony BarraMagnetic Memory with Antiferromagnets and Multilayers
Matthew GerberOptical Coherence Tomography-Guided Robotic System
for Automated Retinal Microsurgeryadvisor: T. Tsao
Joshua Rosenberg HooksReal-Time Optimization for Control of a Multi-Modal
Legged Robotic System
Kaiyuan JinThermofluidics of Sulfur-Based Thermal Energy Storage
advisor: R. Wirz
Joonsang KangPhonon Transport in Ultrahigh and Ultralow
Thermal Conductivity Materials
Yu-Hsiu LeeAdaptive and Iterative Learning Control for Robot Trajectory Tracking
advisor: T. Tsao
Jordan Kazuo PriceNonlinear Mechanics of the Bacterial Cell Wall
advisor: W. Klug
Yide WangSystem Performance and Cost Analyses of
Sulfur-Based Thermal Energy Storage
Xiaoguang ZhangApplication of Proprioception Quasi-Direct
Drive Actuators on Dynamic Robotic Systems
Xiongfeng ZhuHeterogeneously Integrated Optofluidic Platforms
for Cell Patterning, Sorting and Sensing
Conferred Winter 2020
Jinzhao HuHigh Frequency Multiferroic Devices
Abolfazl SadeghpourCharacteristics and Applications of Thin Liquid Films
Flowing Down High-Curvature Surfaces
Kuan-Wen TungField-Programmable Acoustic Platform for Deep,
Subwavelength-Resolution Patterning of Micro-Objects into Complex and Non-Periodic Shapes
Jeffrey Chen YuControl Implementation of Dynamic Locomotion on
Compliant, Underactuated, Force-Controlled Legged Robots with Non-Anthropomorphic Design
Candidates, Spring 2020
Yi-Jui ChangA Particle Method for Multiphase Mechanics Simulation
advisor: Jeff D. Eldredge
Yu-Wei ChungElectric Vehicle - Smart Grid Integration:
Load Modeling, Scheduling, and Cyber Securityadvisor: Rajit Gadh
Sepehr GhassemiMechanism Design for Novel Practical Robots
advisor: Dennis Hong
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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGDoctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (continued)
Ling LiImproving Precision of Material Extrusion 3D Printing by In-Situ Monitoring and Predicting 3D Geometric Deviation Using Conditional Adversarial Networks
advisors: Robert N. Candler, Pirouz Kavehpour
Tianxing ManPhotothermal Intracellular Delivery Platforms
advisor: Pei-Yu Chiou
Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan MeenaNetwork Community-Based Analysis of Complex
Vortical Flows: Laminar and Turbulent Flowsadvisor: Kunihiko Taira
Marco RivaPredictive Methods and Analysis of Time Dependent Tritium Flow Rates and Inventories in Fusion Systems
Chuyu WeiTomographic Laser Absorption Imaging of
Combustion Gases in the Mid-Wave Infraredadvisor: R. Mitchell Spearrin
Ruizhi YangMonolithic Methods and Versatile Applications for
Numerical Fluid-Structure Interaction Studiesadvisor: Jeff D. Eldredge
Candidates, Summer 2020
Daniel Dohyun LeeLaser Absorption Spectroscopy Techniques for Determining
Gas Properties in High Pressure Rocket Combustors advisor: R. Mitchell Spearrin
Ampol LikitchatchawankunHeat Generation and Degradation in Batteries and
Electrochemical Capacitorsadvisor: Laurent Pilon
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MASTER OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Bioengineering
Conferred Summer 2019
James Lewis Go
Conferred Fall 2019
Kuan-Ting Chen
Jake William Pensa
Zhaoqiang Wang
Conferred Winter 2020
Shivam Agarwal
Solah Lee
Candidates, Spring 2020
Petar Antovski
Milad Azimi
Kaitlyn Alexis Cook
Marc Creixell
Michael Chen
Kirsten Fetah
Buwei Hu
Sevgi Kajali-Tekat
Jonathan Kuo
Farnaz Mohammadi
Giancarlo Santos
Einollah Sarikhani
Vishwesh Shah
Jesse Soliman
Jenny Tang
Trinny Tat
Joseph Tsung
Shreya Udani
Xuan Xu
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Chemical Engineering
Candidates, Spring 2020
Anas Al Aqeeli
Sevana Baghdasarian
Yeunha Kim
Michael Park
Gokberk Unal
Yantao Xia
Jimmy Xu
Xingwu Zhou
Candidate, Summer 2020
Bowen An
Departmental Scholar – B.S. and M.S. degrees awarded simultaneously
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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Civil Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Minna Ho
Elise Anne Marie Michele Yvonnet
Conferred Fall 2019
Huong Truong Diem Le
Peiyuan Li
Yiwen Li
Bingchan Liu
Elizabeth Mazmanian
Tasnim Pasha
Guiheng Yao
Conferred Winter 2020
Catherine Clark
Mohamed Omer Hassan Ome Elhadari
Joseph Thomas-Daniel Lucey
Xinrui Zhang
Candidates, Spring 2020
Eusef Abdelmalek-Lee
Sultan Aldakhil
Abdulaziz Alsaadoun
Gwendolyn Arreguin Diaz
Samatha Arun
Glynn Baca
Johnny Baradii
Alexandre Binet
Qian Cao
Yi Chen
Yu Chen
Nuo Cheng
Hayley Chittoo
Laxman Dahal
Arthur Dallemagne
Marie-Pierre Delisle
Esther Dessevre
Soumaya El Moumni
Achraf El Rhazi
Brandon Enbody
Oliver Espinosa
Roshanak Farshidpour
Marion Francois
Tatiana Gospe
Wenyi Guan
Lucas Huang
Kenneth Hudson
Lindsey Jacobs
Tait Jacobsen
Siddhant Jain
Peter Johann
Kevin Kawabata
Patrick Kimball
Negin Koushkebaghi
Lenn Kushigemachi
Sung Kui Leung
Haoke Lian
Xiaoyu Ma
Elisa Mackowiak
Xiaoyan Man
Vishal Mandalia
Darren Marasigan
Siyu Meng
Alizee Morcillo
Francisco Ojeda
Baturalp Ozturk
Zhilu Pan
Thomas Penna
Elizabeth Roswell
Ryoya Sano
Kiana Sarad
Sienna Saucedo
Arash Seif Askari
Haorui Sun
Flavien Vidal
Jonathan Wang
Yihan Wang
Yutong Wang
Minhao Wu
Fan Yang
Kai Yang
Shihui Yang
Candidate, Summer 2020
Sergio Cedano
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Conferred Summer 2019
Joshua P. Kimmel
Jason Mao
Haoran Wang
Conferred Fall 2019
Cheng Cai
Thomas Chang
Parth Atul Doshi
Zeel Rakesh Doshi
Xin Dou
Kehkashan Sadiq Fazal
Shantanu Gajanan Gawde
Ran Gong
John Erle Goodlad
Nishant Gupta
Fabrice Yohann Harel-Canada
Peter Jourgensen
Nikhil Kansal
Vishwa Jayesh Karia
Kanishk Kaul
Yitao Liang
Asavari Limaye
Rupa Mahadevan
Vidhu Malik
Aditya Vijay Maniar
Arghya Mukherjee
Pratik Nichat
Allen Michael Nikka
Vaishnavi Dilip Pendse
Calvin Tuyen Pham
Rucha Hemant Rangnekar
Vaishnavi Ravindran
Jeremy Nathan Rotman
Raja Mathanky Sankaranarayanan
Swati Sharma
Zhoutian Yuan
Dongyun Zhang
Cole Matthew Zimmerman
Conferred Winter 2020
Ankita Anand
Jaspreet Singh Arora
Yiming Bai
Ashutosh Chandra
Chun Chen
Tanmay Chinchore
Davis Cho
Sajad Darabi
Rishab Ketan Doshi
Shayan Fazeli
Victor Renjie Fu
Lisa Gai
Sahil Manoj Gandhi
Arnav Garg
Chenwei Gong
Anchal Omprakash Goyanka
Migyeong Gwak
Yugo Hamada Watanabe
Ali Hatamizadeh
Pooja Janagal Nagaraja
Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla
Kristie Yuri Kwak
Cynthia Lai
Lionel Levine
Tianyi Ma
Srishti Majumdar
Prateek Malhotra
Pratik Prasad Mangalore
Jonathan Craig Mitchell
Chia-Hung Ni
Anurag Pant
Nandan Atul Parikh
Trevor Kessler Rollins
Vignesh Sairaj
Tanmay Sardesai
David Shan
Shruti Sharan
Aashika Vasudeva Shetty
Simranjit Singh
Nikita Sivakumar
Shwetha Srinath
Amrutha Srinivasan
Arjun Srinivasan
Michael Sun
Gopikrishnan Aditya Suresh
Vishwas Suryanarayanan
Soundarya Tekkalakota
Siddharth Verma
Yingbo Wang
Christian Eric Warloe
Megan Amanda Williams
MASTER OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEMaster of Science in Computer Science
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEMaster of Science in Computer Science (continued)
Haiqi Xiao
Sijie Xiong
William Yang
Xiang Yin
Chengyao Zhang
Hanwen Zhang
Yujun Zhao
Jiachen Zhong
Candidates, Spring 2020
Zhuyan Chen
Nandini Chitale
Romain Compagnie
Aalisha Dalal
Shivam Dalmia
Eric Dang
Jersey Deng
Kedar Narayan Deshpande
Eric Mercado Fischer
Xi Gao
Auguste Hirth
Zhaoning Kong
Alexis Lei Wan Korb
Qi Li
Qiwen Lyu
Zeina Mohamed Magdy Abdelmigeed Mahmoud
Rahul Malavalli
Mihir Mathur
Simeng Pang
Angelina Poole
Purit Punyawiwat
Shuwen Qiu
Karen Quadros
Carlos Andres Santillana
Avijit Verma
Alex Wang
Jianxiong Wang
Shiqi Wang
Xufan Wang
Yanzhao Wang
Yuqing Wang
Yijun Wu
Yinxue Xiao
Chengyao Zhang
Enbang Zhang
Shaochong Zhang
Hanlin Zhu
Candidates, Summer 2020
Robert William Griffith
Kevin Andy Hsieh
Aditya Vaibhav Joglekar
Sepideh Parhami
Rahul Salvi
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MASTER OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Electrical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Seungwon Cho
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Bakari Hassan
Xu Zhang
Conferred Fall 2019
Jonathan Michael Bunton
Yubin Cai
Michael Shao Cao
Zhiyan Cui
William Wang Luangkhot Fong
Yan Han
Osama Nabil Mohamed Abdelfattah Hassan
Zheang Huai
Yiyin Jin
Dhaivat Janmejay Joshi
Premsagar Kittur
Sethu Lakshmanan
Ray Tzue Yuan Lin
Keerthana Sankar
Yue Shen
Weinan Song
Yutong Sun
Dennis Mingyi Wang
Yuanyuan Xiang
Patrick Wentao Xu
Arseni Valerievich Yalouskikh
Guanqun Yang
Conferred Winter 2020
Rohit Banerjee
Donna Vered Branchevsky
Peng Cheng
Eugene Chin-Te Chu
Arpan Das Gupta
Weixi Feng
Seraphine Goh
Joshua Gabriel Hannan
James Zachariah Harris
Tzu-Heng Hung
Yi-Hsuan Hung
Hamza Ahmed Khan
Chun-Ning Lai
Chunyang Liu
Ximeng Liu
Xuewei Liu
Drew Mendinueto
Amruth Varshinee Mohan
Sebastian Wylie Petrauskas Olsen
Juan Carlo Rebanal
Eric Takeshi Sato
Prachi Shahi
Dennis Joonbo Shim
Yifan Shu
Akash Deep Singh
Yi Song
Morgan Tinkler
Agam Tomar
Anthony Yihbor Wang
Tiantong Wang
Yiru Wang
Roy Wu
Danlin Xie
Xuchen Xue
Zhijie Yao
Chengshun Zhang
Yijie Zhang
Yuqi Zhou
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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (continued)
Candidates, Spring 2020
Ivan Senen Aguilar
Pranav Ambhore
Bijie Bai
Miaoqing Chen
Hao-Jen Chien
Sarat Bhargava Chinni
Louis J.E. Delhez
Mahmoud Essalat
Daniel George Fong
Artem Goncharov
Eden Nichole Haney
Haoran He
Hanshen Huang
Yu-Chun Hung
Vivek Jain
Xianxing Jiang
Anthony Kim
Trung Le
Johannes Yu-Xi Lee
Jingxi Li
Zhichun Li
Han Liu
Michael Kevin Lo
Yilin Luo
Zhaohao Mai
Andrew Daixum Matthews
Steve Mendoza
Debarnab Mitra
Parastou Mortazavian
Radhika Nayar
Pengrui Quan
Shannon L. Sabino
Alexander Mikhailovich Safonov
Gaofang Sun
Lixuan Tai
Lev Tauz
Vikas Vepachedu
Zhaoqing Wang
Ziqi Wang
Ruiyi Wu
Yu Wu
Yao Xie
Zijie Yan
Cory Ye
Hailin Yu
Shupeng Yu
Qiuyang Yue
Yifan Zhang
Yiming Zhou
Candidates, Summer 2020
Javier Carmona
Thomas Joseph Garcia
Yash Sanjay Mehta
Masoud Monajatipoor
Eilam Morag
Adam Parower
Yuting Tang
Tiandong Zhao
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MASTER OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Katherine Jiang
Sichen Liu
Christian Vold Reichenberger
Jason Tyler Timmons
Conferred Fall 2019
Federico Bea
Yucheng Zhang
Conferred Winter 2020
Xingzhi Chen
Mariah Fossella
Hardik Hingorani
Yushu Hu
Yu-Chun Huang
Yihong Ji
Liyu Liu
Frank Xuefeng Pan
Ju-Ming Tsai
Candidates, Spring 2020
Ethan Banton
Yihang Chen
Shihan Gao
Omar Garcia
Sean William Hensarling
Viraat Singh Hooda
Chien-Fu Huang
Glenn Lee
James Penney
Po Chang Shih
Kelly Tovalin
Siyuyang Zhang
Zhiyu Zhao
Bohao Zheng
Candidates, Summer 2020
Ruoxia Chen
Joonho Gha
Ko-Ching Hou
Manoj Aravind Sankar
Shaoyou Su
Victor Tran
Chun-Ju Wei
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Michael Anthony Hernandez
Conferred Fall 2019
Luis Gonzalo Andrade
Edward L. Chu
Daniel Bumsoo Renouf
Conferred Winter 2020
Peter Lloyd Wright
Candidates, Spring 2020
Colin Henry Aleshire
Zachary James Allen
Andrea Arce
Arturo Brambila
Jacob Richard Buckley
Jenson Junjia Hu
Robert Nicholas Kellogg
Masato Koizumi
Joseph Alexander Meurer
David Scott Morrow
Colin Thomas Rice
Ziqiang Yan
Quincy Jay Philip Allen Zlotnick
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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGMaster of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Yufan Jia
Nan Xu
Conferred Fall 2019
Sun Woong Baek
Rodolfo Isaac Barranco
John Franklin Bethea
Spencer Thomas Burakowski
Jingyu Chen
Samuel Johnson Chen
Navid Dehdari Ebrahimi
Victor Manuel Estrada
Gabriel Ikaika Fernandez
Zachary York Gateley
Thomas Gregory Heflinger
Jack Hoeniges
Barathan Jeevaretanam
Fumika Kotobuki
Zhaohui Li
Zhi Li
Sangmin Lim
Chunxiao Liu
Cunyang Liu
Donghun Noh
Rohan Jayeshbhai Shah
Yuki Shirai
Nolan Michael Uchizono
Xuan Yang
Conferred Winter 2020
Padma Ooha Naga Venkata Dhulipala
Muhan Hou
Yuchen Jiang
Akshay Bharadwaj Krishna
Kilian Marius Lerch
Jiezuo Li
Jingke Liu
Fnu Mervin Mathew
Candidates, Spring 2020
Nadia Jacqueline Alvarez-Hernandez
Fadhel Alsaffar
Rene Orlando Arevalo
Ridge Michael Bertuccio
Ashtin Kendall Cheng
Omar Zahir Curiel
Matthew Paul Demele
Hemalatha Pandurang Desai
Joslyn Elena Garcia
Frederick Scott Golineaux
Yiwei He
Greg Huh
Enrique Jimenez
Edwin Ho-Won Lai
Chien Liu
David Ong Xi Liu
Tianlun Liu
Katharine Margaret Margevicius
Anil Pradeep Nair
Angelica Ottaviano
Tristan Charles Perry
John-Pierre George Sawma
Kevin Keegan Schwarm
Richard Chien Sun
Jacob Gordon Swing
Jingjie Wu
Tong Wu
Rui Xu
Ruoda Zheng
Yucheng Zhou
Candidate, Summer 2020
Andrew Chang
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MASTER OF SCIENCE (continued)
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Vinicius Garcia De Paula
Cheng Gao
Ingrid Yohana Gudiel
Justin Allen Souza
Amanda Vu
Conferred Fall 2019
Juan Homero Arredondo Velazquez
Lyndsey Ann Bankers
Ralph Gene Brooks
Christopher Dean Eggleston
Adam Holt
Dane Hustrulid
Emily Gaimari Johnston
Perry Kevin Liu
Patricia Lueck
Khoi Nguyen
Nahid Nikoo
Kenny Jong Myung Park
Khoa Phu Pham
Matthew Thomas Prout
Johnson Ton
Steven Phillip Viska
Pauline Yang
Conferred Winter 2020
Banak Benitez
Michael Alexander Carmean
Robert Eugene Correll
Jing Gong
Scott Anthony Jones
Madhu Kolli
Jerry Qu
Anupam Sharma
Melissa Michelle Tojo
Duane Hyun Yoo
Candidates, Spring 2020
Sam Al-Mohamadi
Marko Barac
Cameron Scott Braun
Kimberly Ann Cassacia
Michael Alex Fuentes-Valenzuela
Brian Kao
Abdinasir Ismail Nur
Arthur Rubio Jr
Alicia Solis
Candidates, Summer 2020
Dennis Yuntae Cha
Kenny Joe Espinoza
Rami Husseini
Katy Monica Kolasinski
Kevin James Lemen
Khang Tai Lu
Christopher Joseph Shaffer
Jonathan Da Chuan Tan
Allen Van Tran
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SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Aerospace
Conferred Summer 2019
Teague Florio
Nathan Eugene Misenheimer
Constantine John Samios
Conferred Fall 2019
Gregory Day
Ferris Blake Harvey
Gabriela Michelle Hernandez
Matthew Leo Wollenberg
Conferred Winter 2020
Mathew Robert Reams
Candidates, Spring 2020
Mario F. Mimbella
Theodore Jewell Sharp
Eric Christopher Terry
Candidates, Summer 2020
Brandon Hunter Bell
Alejandro Castillo
Murat Piker
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Computer Networking
Conferred Summer 2019
John Daniel Jimenez
Conferred Winter 2020
Sean Li
Prasanna Padmanaban Mohanasundaram
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Electrical
Conferred Summer 2019
Christopher McEachin
Shideh Naderi
Conferred Fall 2019
Miles Russell Abel
Giancarlo Champin
Nathan Joshua Duescher
Taishi Kato
Kevin Kuo
Dustin Ryan Martin
Adam Martin Sahr
Yajie Wang
Ezana Woldegebriel
Hamza Wahdat Zamani
Conferred Winter 2020
Victoria Kiana Gray
Alan K. Reese
Candidate, Spring 2020
Harpreet Singh Wassan
Candidate, Summer 2020
Lini Mestar
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MASTER OF SCIENCE (continued)
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Integrated Circuits
Candidates, Spring 2020
Roberto Francisco Suarez Valle
Sean ChiaShiuan Wang
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Manufacturing and Design
Conferred Fall 2019
Renee Dawn Spahn
Candidate, Spring 2020
Naftali Hirschberg
Candidate, Summer 2020
Andrew Thornton Petty
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Materials Science
Conferred Fall 2019
Hannibelle Entereso Ortega
Robert John Pope
Sagar Vaidyanathan
Candidate, Summer 2020
Nicole Carpentier
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Mechanical
Conferred Summer 2019
Jorge Coria
Michael Joseph Defranco
Calvin Edwin Fleming
Daniel Patrick Goodley
Karan Jain
David Arthur Kelly
Jong Hak Lee
Katrina Lustre Lim
Thao Hien Nguyen
Joshua David Parzivand
Christopher John Ripley
Daniel Martin Situ
Jarrell Washington
Michael Wray
Conferred Fall 2019
Chad Corapi
Eric Cushing
Paul Fracolli
Alexander Philip Jozefov
Sarah Marie Lohman
Shalin Mehta
Tyler Moore
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SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Mechanical (continued)
Garrett Ryan Onaga
Shan Sunil Tambat
Zachary Winters
Conferred Winter 2020
Mark C. Bennett
Richard Gee On Chun
Wyatt C. Colby
Kevin Huang
Michael Jason Luong
Sharon Kay Moellering
Daniel Tseng
Brandon Woodworth
Candidates, Spring 2020
Adeel Ashraf
Vincent Joel Becerra
Joseph Chiu
Kurt Christopher Ebert
Salvador Heredia Ibarra
Sean Luke Mergl
Ali Ammar Qureshi
Kevin Michael Te
Candidates, Summer 2020
Krunal Bipin Mistry
Sean Rios
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Signal Processing and Communications
Conferred Summer 2019
Justin George Farah
Shane Dana Fontaine
Janell Liebel
Conferred Fall 2019
Lindsay Lee Light
Conferred Winter 2020
Altaf Ahmed
Candidate, Spring 2020
Yiheng Hu
SCHOOLWIDE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMaster of Science in Engineering-Structural Materials
Conferred Fall 2019
Brian Choragwicki
Candidates, Spring 2020
Daniel M. Lewis
Laura Nicole Ruskowski
Denisa Maria Vlasache
Candidate, Summer 2020
Kimberly Lynn Caruso
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Bioengineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Michael Brandon Guerrero
Ziyaad M. Haider
Eshan Kumar
Angela Nguyen Le
Riley Kiyoshi Matsuda
Kavya Umachandran
Conferred Fall 2019
Jeremy Wong Loung Jong
Chance Liam Kuo
Conferred Winter 2020
Micah Andrew Bryant
Bryan Hao-Tinn Chong
Inga Mei Hwang **Narek Edward Koucherian
Woo Je Lim
Chadi Chukri Nahal ***Bao Dinh Nguyen *
Eleni Jane Malekos Quick
Khuzaima Qaid Rangwalla ***Alison Lan Tran
Candidates, Spring 2020
Peter Ashraf Abdou
Cefi Abuaf Defcioglu
Kelsey Robin Adair
Eunice Alvarado
Christian James Au
Brett Robert Bailey
Kylee Anne Bauer
Cole David Benyshek
Emily S-Young Cai
Marjorie Cunanan Caparas
Mariam Sheyda Carson
Jessica Morgan Chun
Ashley Nicole Dickman
Samuele Daine Esperon
Purnachandra Aditya Gorla
Aaron Han
Claire Elizabeth Hoffman
Toshio Alex Kanazawa
Zoe Sun-Ju Kim
Franklin Kong
Nicole Marie Kuntjoro
Jasmine Kwong
Hui Lan
Amelia Riane Lao
Derek Ray Lee
Kajal Maran
Natalie Rachael Maxwell
Jade McVay
Smiti Narayanan
Sean Alan Padgett
Shrineel Jignesh Patel
Jane Anh Nhi Pham
Joseph Daniel Prusan
Nicole Diana Prusty
Laila M Rad
Neha Rajkumar
Steven Michael Saletta
Izabella Krystyna Samuel
Nilay Mahesh Shah
Shruti Sharma
Savannah Sealy-Anna Shumock
Robert Michael Theisen
Gregory Jonathan Tom
Audrey Quynh Vy Vu
David Tianpei Wang
Emily Tyng-Tyng Yan
Eric Jun Yang
Timothy Ching Yu
Shouzheng Yue
*** summa cum laude
** magna cum laude
* cum laude Recognition of Latin Honors for Spring and Summer 2020 candidates is based on grades through Winter 2020. Official latin honors
is subject to final Spring and Summer 2020 grades. Departmental Scholar – B.S. and M.S. degrees awarded simultaneously
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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Afsaneh Ataei
Cassandra Nicole Bautista
Alexandre Vuong Frei
Nurul Khaleeda Binti Jamaludin
Hyuk Jun Kwon
Li Zhu
Conferred Fall 2019
Moutasem Jad Mansi
Conferred Winter 2020
Stanislav Eilhart
Candidates, Spring 2020
Allyson Erpelo Abad
Elizabeth Diana Abramyan
Caitlyn Roma Anderson
Yuki Asahara
Anna Kathryn Blake
Marcelo Alexis Cannitello
Vito Anthony Canuso, IV
Blanca Carrera
Jared Masaru Castillo
Juliette Bo-Yan Cheah
Mabel Chen
Brandon Chiang
Hsin-Lan Chiang
Varun Choudhary
Ryan David Condensa
Kristen Jhnelle Dakers
Thanh H. Dang
Gabriela Gloria Djuhadi
Steven Benjamin Drooz
Kelly Anne Flint
Victoria Marie Friesen
Kyle T. Fudenna
Brendan Diarmuid Galvin
Madison Taylor Garrison
Richa Ghosh
Niklas Peter Grunder
Brian Malcolm Guan
Yizhen Guan
Pardis Habibi
Adam Daniel Hernandez
David Hsu
Matia Leon Jovanovic
Nidhi Khandekar
Keegan Michael Kim
Min Soo Kim
Brian Youngnam Ko
Michael Anthony Krupnak Jr
Ryan Sheng Lau
Dong Hyun Lee
Benjamin James Legros
Norleakvisoth Lim
Yicheng Liu
Sean Jeffrey Lofthus
Aanchal Mehndiratta
Nithya Anjana Menon
Paulo Morales III
Matthew Ryan Pereira Yee
Kirch Czarina Batoy Quijano
Francis Thomas Quinn
Collin Scott Ryder
Jamie Lynn Salinger
Kevin Harrison Shohat
Sahil Singal
Alexander Soohoo
Alex J. Sun
Jesse Anthony Toledo
Alyna Katherine Tunink
William Turner
Joseph Santos Vera
Peter Wang
Nathan Dao Warren
Owen Henderson Watkins
Connie Ka-Ying Wong
Lindsey Kayla Wong
Abbegayle Ellyssa Young
Ryan Jay Young
Joshua Nathan Yu
Candidates, Summer 2020
Geronimo Gudino
Jacob Hernandez
Esther J. Lee
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Augusto Massaharu Takenaka
Conferred Fall 2019
Michael Adia
Waleed Khalid Al Jashaami
Frederick Michael Alfian
Elizabeth Rose Costello
Jacob Ross Day
Patrick Raymond Fox *Yipeng Li
Megan Ann Parohinog Oliveros
Conferred Winter 2020
Nazreen Farina Binti Ahmad Sabri
Myo Thu Ya Aung
Abigail Edwards
Grace Abby Muenchow
Khang Nhu Nguyen **Brianna Nicole Plancarte
Xiaoxin Zheng
Candidates, Spring 2020
Sara Abou Karroum
Denise Abundis
Charis Joy Ahn
Ahmed Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Kashri
Yousef Dean Almalla
Nicholas Roberto Barba
Rahaf Barrkoudi
Kyle Avery Brisacher
Nicholas Peter Brown
Alexa Camacho Sanchez
Cheston Cheung
Tony I Ting Chiang
Vivian Chong
Trevor Allen Davis
Daniel Dedina
Carlo Raymundo Dela Rosa
Reion Richard Rillera Domingo
Justin Duong
Imani Chantal Elston
Gianna Furumoto
Joshua Harrison Graham
Pooja Gupta
Mathew Michael Gutierrez
Connor William Hahm
Lucas Hamera
Jason Vern Headington
Samuel H. Hwang
Omar Issa
Dhruv Sundaresan Iyer
Karina Jimenez
Kendall Leah Kaufmann
Scott David Kawakami
Karl Andrew Keck
Claire Van Killian
Ellie H. Kim
Angel Alberto Ledesma
Alexander J. Lee
Joshua Jacob Manesh
Margit Meral Goldberg Maple
Kevin Aaron Martinez
Liz Menendez Suarez
Beatrice Tabitha Mititelu
Arya Nanda
Kristine Marielle Yalung Ocampo
Lauren Nicole Posey
William Zachary Puckett
Justin Qiu
Natalia Ramirez
Jared Alexander Rivera
Elizabeth Mary Robinet
Kyle Robert Sample
Keri Ann Scholte
Samuel Everett Sheekey
Anita Sie
Facundo Ignacio Sirri
Ingrid Tifni Spielbauer
Jacob Thomas Stanley
Joceline Claudia Suhaimi
Leo Y. Sum
Elena Rose Sviatoslavsky
Jonathan Kenneth Tai
Brian Michael Tognolini
Hamilton D. Tran
Michael Bailey Choy Uy
Jacob Daniel Valdez
Tiffani Vuong
Margaret Sapwila White
Michael Allen Winders
Jason Zhenyu Yang
Alyssa Lai Jun Yim
Caileen Yu
Abraham Angel Zuckerman
Candidates, Summer 2020
Tiffany Chen
Jianjun Liu
Kelly Tatum London
Elizabeth Raquel Paz
Ziqi Zhang
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEBachelor of Science in Computer Science
Conferred Summer 2019
Deven Agrawal
Siddhartha Shankar Bose
Ritesh Parag Chitalia
Bibek Ghimire
Brandon Hua *Jeremy Nathaniel Neptune
Timothy Quang Tri Nguyen
Analisse Lea Reyes
Udayan Sahai
Matthew Philip Sanchez
Conferred Fall 2019
Andrew Darryl Arifin
Qian Cao
Caleb Howit Chau
Ian Michael Costello
Andrew Xinhua Ding *Aditya Dixit
Mert Ali Dusunceli
Benjamin Feng
Yifei Fu
Joseph Michael Ganley
Wai Yan Htun
Haozhuo Huang ***Yansong Huang
Nguyen Khanh Linh Huynh
Shrey Kakkar
Weston Macrae Kelliher
Susan Krkasharian
Manas Kumar
Stephen Benjamin Lai
Tanuj Pankaj Lalwani
Brian Lee
Byung Hun Lee
Jehu Lee
Huiying Li
Yanyin Liu
Nikita Alekseyevich Lukyanenko
Nina Maller
Xiaoran Mei
Ryan Akira Miyahara
Dharma Dev Naidu *Xian Kai Ng ***Hao Le Nguyen
Junu Park
Di Qu
Amir R. Saad
Kanisha Pushpin Shah
Shuhao Sun
Emily Jessica-Torres Tehrani
Kedar Balaji Thiagarajan
William Tsang
Aaron Van Doren
Chengyu Wang
Michael Wang
Ziheng Xu
Seung Hun You
Fuwei Zhang
Conferred Winter 2020
Arthur O. Arutyunyan
Christopher Marc Aziz *Shabnam Bahmanyar
Jesse Zexi Cai
Alexander Qi-Li Chen
Lawrence Chen ***Xuesen Cui
Michelle Jane Duan ***David Xingxu Feng
Ram Sudish Goli
Qi Kun Gu **Austin Guo
Saman Alex Hashemipour
Boyuan He
Juan Manuel Hernandez Jr
Seokmin Hong
Raymond Hoong
Alex Joseph Hunsader ***Evan Jihwan Kim
Huntae Kim
Gregory Gasing Lee
Hannah Yen-Shin Lin ***Xinyu Liu
Edgar Osvaldo Lopez Jr
Eileen Lu
Xiwei Ma **Michael Cade Mallett **
Amit Ballav Mondal *Hoang Nguyen
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEBachelor of Science in Computer Science (continued)
Leila Mariah Omar
Deven Vimal Patel *Chaitanya Srinivasa Venkata Pedada
Alden Jung Yeon Kim Perrine ***Zachary Prong
Jonathan Andrew Schultz
Jingyue Shen *Liuyi Shi
Taixing Shi
Prabhjot Singh
Kevin Anthony Tolby
Ryan Van Tsang
Minnie Tu
Anirudh Veeraragavan
Benjamin Haochen Yang
Aaron Thien Yoo
Fengwei Zhang
Jiayu Zhao ***
Candidates, Spring 2020
Aman Agarwal
Vaibhav Aggarwal
Kubilay Yucel Agi
Dongchan Daniel Ahn
Ryan Jacob Alderete
Rajiv Anisetti
Aaron Jacob Berdy
Nityan Suresh Bhorde
Anurang Bhuta
Amlan Bose
Benjamin Douglas Brandt
Henry Tri-Hung Bui
Katie Weiwei Cai
Bianheng Cao
Tiffany Chandra
Jason Jiajun Chen
Kaiyuan Chen
Philip Yunhan Chen
Yi-Fang Chen
Vincent Fuhong Cheung
Jonathan Sunghyun Chon
Derek Rawnyu Chu
Edward Tsun Man Chu
Jonathan Wei-Hong Chu
Julien Morris Collins
Justin Thomas Curley
Douglas Michael Dang
Sean Lee Derman Yang
Ashwin Nitin Dharne
Sheldon Dong
Brian Thien-Vuong Du
Sriharshini Duggirala
Elena Lucille Escalas
Yujie Fang
Karen Lam Fann
Lauren Jeanne Fromm
Shashwat Goel
Clayton Wilcox Green
Andrew Grove
Adrien Yuva Hadj-Chaib
Elizabeth Erika Han
Justin Andrew Han
Robathan Tobias Bonnell Harries
Yan He
Sanketh Sharath Hegde
Jair Hinojosa
Terrence Kui Chuen Ho
Trevor Malcolm Holt
Junya Honda
Megan Alison Hong
Brittany Sharon Hsu
Shangyu Lucian Hsu
Edward Changyao Hu
Jiayu Hu
Anthony Wei Humay
Grand Wanteng Huynh
Ka U Ieong
Isaac Belkacem Iguelmamene
Rishabh Jain
Arpit Deepak Jasapara
Yeon Taek Jeong
Sicheng Jia
David Wayne Johnson
Virgil Tristan Jose
Ning Kang
Priya Reddy Kanipakam
Alexandra Rose Kemp-Dahlberg
Dinkar Khattar
Joseph Hyungwoo Kim
Moo Jin Kim
Ricardo Andres Kuchimpos
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEBachelor of Science in Computer Science (continued)
Nurym Kudaibergen
Koji Garrett Kusumi
Raymond Yauhming Kwan
Steven La
Willis Lam
Cheuk Yin Phipson Lee
Eun Taek Lee
Kevin Lee
Lawrence Nelson Lee
William Joseph Lee
Jason Andrew Less
Daniel Tiger Li
Haochen Li
Justin Dong Li
Christopher Kent Lin
Roy Sanga Lin
Bruce Chang Liu
Jessie Qingyue Liu
Justin C. Liu
Kevin Liu
Sijay Liu
Zeyu Liu
Alex Andrew Longerbeam
Darica Elise Louie
Edward Zhang Lu
Zixuan Lu
Jeffrey Allen Lung
Matei Lupu
Kenny Tuan Luu
Anton Lykov
Justin Ma
Subhodh Madala
Morgan Madjukie
Jason Stewart Mally
Pierson Riley Marks
Ruka Matsumoto
Clark Alexander Minor
Pradyuman Mittal
Akikazu Miyazawa
Zicong Mo
Chiara Tripoli Mooney
Mehar Kaushik Nallamalli
Anthony Dinh Toan Nguyen
Baolinh Kianna Nguyen
Nguyen Nguyen
Alissa Mai Niewiadomski
Kareem Mohamed Nosseir
Brandon Michael Oestereicher
Divij Ohri
Christina Marie Oliveira
David Max Padlipsky
Salekh Parkhati
Ayush Ashish Patel
Aashita Patwari
Audrey Kim Pham
Raymond Tan Phan
Meera Reddy Rachamallu
Manish B. Rao
Joseph Kenneth Rasmussen Jr
Kyle Joseph Reidy
Kristi Lea Richter
Christian Lura Rodriguez
Kyle Matthew Romero
Nikola Samardzic
Natasha Sarkar
Siddharth Krishna Satuluru
Suyash Saxena
Samar Seth
Marko Sevo
Matthew Ryan Shaffer
Mitansh Rakesh Shah
Rahul Sameer Sheth
Weijia Shi
Ertheo Siswadi
Neil Eberhart Sonnenberg
Ryan Standt
Akshara Sundararajan
Nikhil Swaminathan
Ari David Sweedler
Kevin Sung De-Ming Tan
William Tan
Zhenhua Tan
Ege Tanboga
Brianna Patricia Tanusi
Lucas Matthew Tecot
Omar Tleimat
David Truong
Quentin Vincent Truong
Ankith M. Uppunda
Dennis van Ee
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEBachelor of Science in Computer Science (continued)
Akaash Venkat
Ashwin Vivekanandh
Feilan Wang
Kevin Wang
Christal Nakpakdee Whitt
Graham E. Wing
Aidan Davis Wolk
Bryan Chapman Wong
Douglas Wai-Keung Wong
Khaled Kyle Wong
Angela Wu
Peiqi Wu
Ziliang Wu
Kevin Yi
Stephanie Joanne Yip
Michael N. Yu
Nanqiao Yu
David Rong Zheng
Langhao Zhong
Jinjing Zhou
Yijing Zhou
Yinsheng Zhou
Hao Zhuang
Nicholas Michael Zimmerman
Candidates, Summer 2020
David Zhao Akeley
Aadil Ali
Yash Choudhary
Steven Guan
Hae Sung Jeong
Sharon Binu John
David Julius Macaraeg
Jeffrey Yufu Qiu
Irfan Muhammad Sattar
Venkata Sai Sriram Sonti
Chayanis Techalertumpai
Pravin Vija Visakan
Linqi Zhou
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEBachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Kerim Doruk Karinca
Conferred Fall 2019
Nikhil Bhatia *Joel Davidson
Tudor George Donca
Hui He
Michael Warsah Liu **Michael Yufeng Liu
Ishan Sharma
Chi Shu Wong
Conferred Winter 2020
Esdras Ismael Aleman Sanchez
Brian Chan
Edward L. Chen
William Wayne Chou *Lucas Xing Fei
Shawye Ho
Timothy Ian Margono
Hannah Tuongvi Nguyen *Marphy Monderin Santos
Amy Alicia Tu
Spenser X. Wong ***
Candidates, Spring 2020
Saibalaji Atmakuri
Anirudh Balasubramaniam
Arpi Yvette Beshlikyan
Jesse Emmanuel Catalan
Johnson Chou
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEBachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering (continued)
Kevin Chuang
Zohar Cohavy
Hannah Ahmed Elarabawy
Zipeng Fu
Shobhit Garg
Joel John George
August O’Neil Greer
Samuel Jacob Grisey
Haiying Huang
Keerti Saagar Kareti
Erdi T. Kidane
Kit Yeung Mak
Daniel Ryan Mitchener
Comran Anthony Morshed
Gajan Rathnam Nagaraj
Christopher Tyler Ngai
Maymuna Syed Reza
Atharv Prashant Sakhala
Taasin Saquib
Ambareesh Raghavender Seetharaman
Pete Shen
Matthew William Valley
Huimin Wang
Derek Qiang Xu
Jeffrey Hsinping Xu
Tara Michele Young
Candidates, Summer 2020
Juhyeok Min
Akram Yinjie Sabbah
Pete Wenkuang Shen
JOINT PROGRAM WITH COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Sidney Allen Crossley, III
Brendan Takashi Tanaka
Xiaohe Yang
Conferred Winter 2020
Joseph Douglas Miller
Jonathan J. Myong
Candidates, Spring 2020
Omar Farooq Ahmad
Myles Hastings Byrne
Kenny Chan
Justin Chang
Jillian Anne Dudley
Alexis Marie Gehrke
Alex Ross Gilbert
Tameez Latib
Derek Anthony Lore
Nathan Zachary March
Charlotte Lindsey McGinn
Matthew Paterno
Samiha Nuzhat Rahman
Brian Dionigi Raymond
Frank Ren
Victor Eduardo Rios
Everett Sheu
Calvin Yung
Austin Shin Hang Zhang
Xilai Zhang
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Shayan Kalantari Darian
Tien Doan
Christopher Harris
Brayden Riley Hesford
Gabriele Isidoro
Suryansh Jain
Nicholas Allen Marks
Georgie Sam Mathews
Aris Menachekanian
Qinghan Meng
Jordan Daniel Murti
Huu Ngoc Tam Phan
Zijun Sun
Amir Uejad
Sandra Katherine Yang
Xiangshen Yao
Conferred Fall 2019
Bader Alfahad
Abdullah Abdulrahman M Alnashwan
Kitae Bae
Jose M. Castano Jr
Maxwell Richard Dolensky
Emmanuel Hayrapetian
Fong Chi Ho
Ting Fung Hui
Minali Karapetian
Mia Matsuhisa Levy
Siti Nurfathah Bint Mohamad Izham
Jeffrey Khoa Nguyen
Sai Govind Padhy
Preni Paichuk
Man I Pang
Paul Brownell Ramstad
Chengyan Tang
Ethan Kim Tran
Tyler Minh Tien Vo
Conferred Winter 2020
Diego J. Arce Amaya
Benjamin Paul Bowen
Andrew Thomas Braun
Soumyadeep Chatterjee
Yujie Chen
Ho Lam Dong
Omar Elayyan
Likun Feng
Yu Gao
Mark Sam Geha
Yuheng Guo
Xu He **Yong Huang
Jeannie Hur *Ketan Ravindra Kapre
Daeho Kim
Mingchao Lai
Hongde Liu
Jiacheng Liu **Huanhua Lu **Tristan Melton
Yiming Pan ***
Daniel Michael Roizen
Abush Haile Semahegn
Raghav Sharma
Shuxin Tan
Yibo Wang
Hasantha W. Weerasekara Arachchi
William Whitehead **I-Lin Wu
Candidates, Spring 2020
Erick Avalos
Ryan Daniel Baillargeon
Keerthi Pradaa Balajee
Gabriel Dayao Baltazar
Juan Francisco Barron Ramirez
Bailey Eugene Battles
Adam Nader Belhouchat
Aarranon Bharathan
Meghedi Boghouzian
Evan Spencer Brown
Zilin Cai
Robert Edwards Carey
Tatyana Chalik
Sumeet Chandra
Patrick Paul Chau
Bryan Chieh-Wei Chen
Kevin Houfar Chen
Joshua Jonathan Cheung
Kai-Tung Chuang
Jason Chung
Sadaf Dadafshar
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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (continued)
Louis Anthony Delgado Castillo
Rohan Desikan
Michelle Ruomei Du
Ali Emami
Keegan Jacob Fowler
Oliver Nathaniel Goch
Ivan Laikit Gomez Siu
Alexander Phillip Graening
Lesley Guzman
Richard Handelin
Jingbin Huang
Tianjian Huang
Jorge Hurtado Jr
Sharuf Islam
Rahul Krishnan Iyer
Arash Jalili Kalhori
Albert Jian
Bennett Parnu Juwvipart
Serene Kamal
Jason Leehsiang Kao
Ariana Kazemi
Kiana Khezri Zartoshty
Kimber King
Rudolph Matthew Klicek
Jan Stanislaw Kujawski
Zachary Jordan Kum
Vincent M. Lau
Kevin Grant Lee
Timothy Feng Yi Lee
Ilana Sara Levy
Zhiying Li
Philip H. J. Liang
Wilson Zijie Lin Wei
Yuze Liu
Joshua Lo
Anthony Vincent Lopilato
Yunhui Ma
John Michael Panoy Machacon
Animesh Venkat Mangu
Siranush Martirosyan
Julian Scott Mendel
Megan E. Metcalf
Jesse David Mooney
Meena Nagappan
Mark Thomas Nasielski
Shayok Neogi
Joel Han Oh
Luis Miguel Villamaria Ong
Juan Ortiz Nieves
Atharva Umesh Padhye
Pooya Pahlevani
Eric Daniel Sarnoff Espinosa
Kanan Cooper Schmid
Michael Schwartz
Jennifer Toshiko Seki
Anirudh Kiran Shankar
Kevin Ke-En Sun
Marcus Pekka Talke
Catherine Tan
Michael Edward Tran
Benjamin Owen Wagstaff
Franklin Wang
Ruochen Wang
William Louis Wauford
Aaron James Wilhelm
Andrew Joseph Wilhelm
Aaron Wissing
Dongyang Xu
Andrew Tran Yamasaki
Bill Yang
Deyu Yang
Tariq Ryan Yousuf
Charles Basil Zaloom, IV
Pyae Phyo Zaw
Qianwen Zhong
Candidates, Summer 2020
Hongyi Chen
Thomas Joseph Garcia
Yibin Gu
Yang Guo
Jeffrey Hsiao-Jar Lee
Zhiheng Ma
Shayane Motamedy
Yourong Yang
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Materials Engineering
Conferred Fall 2019
Nigel Calvin Archer **Daqian Bao
Alexis Yoon Joo
Daniela Paula Marques
Candidates, Spring 2020
Adedimeji Olisaemeka Adeyemo
Isabel Victoria Albelo
Catherine Harumi Barrie
Lisa Soyoung Bok
Tristan Alexander Broadbent
Norris Bai Chia Chen
Matthew Alexander Chin
Darius Chua
Brian Edward Cook
Kevin Takashi Cottrell
Benjamin Michael Gee
Daniel Christopher Guevarra
David Ho
Jacob Ng
Matthew Tuan-Kha Nguyen
Nicholas C. Schneider
Nicholas Marco Sebastiani
Andrew Katsumi Sloan
Thomas Tuan Tran
Justin Alexander Wolfman
Candidates, Summer 2020
Rashed Fayez Atalla Alkhlaifat
Connor William Hein
Hong Jun Kim
Phillip Hok-Yin Leung
Herbert Ramos
Renc Saracaydin
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Junjia Hu
Andrew K. Jacobsen
Avi K. Oliver
Shiyang Peng
Marius Louis Nicolas Peter
Jiehao Zhuang
Mckenzie Taylor Zimmerman
Conferred Fall 2019
Sarah Eunice Choi
Gurveer Singh Dhillon
Sokchu Hwang
Marc Anthony Magana
Rubin Sanjay Patel
Anthony Robert Rasca
Harkuver Preet Singh Sidhu
Conferred Winter 2020
Chinmaya Aditya *Stacey Jeanette Lewis
David Morgan Norris
Syahmi Izzat Bin Salleh *
Candidates, Spring 2020
Juan-Pablo Almanza-Soto
Jonathan Benedict Balk
Louis Alexander Blaya
Josue Jared Castillo Martinez
David Ryan Curry
Alexander Cusianovic
Jacob Thomas Dipietro
Stephen David Eicher
Andrew Charles Evans
Alexander Matthew Gaal
Kevin Parker Gellerman
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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering (continued)
China Geraldine Hagström
Dylan Christopher House
Daniel Roger Huang
Gilbert Choi Johnson
Kyle Robert Johnson
Sarina Kiani
Nicholas Matthew Kuenning
Nate Sung-Ui Lee
Samuel June Lee
Justin Luong
Shane Joseph Mcmurray
Emma Mkrtchyan
Emmanuel Moran
Aryeh Leib Newman
Kyle Angelo Caniezo Pagdayunan
Aimee Pak
Bhav Girish Patel
Trina Patrisha Pendon
Roey Paz-Priel
Bharat Pradeep
Mia-Sara Shannon Reyes
Leland Tatsuo Shimizu
Anthony Alexander Smolyanov
Yvonne Thoy
Jordan Evan Triolo
Ryan Tatsuya Weber
David Andrew White
Bao Yi Zhong
Candidates, Summer 2020
Jiacong Luo
Siyuan Ma
Joseph Ricciardella
Juancarlos Sanchez
Alejandro Serrano Deneken
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Conferred Summer 2019
Alexis Vladimir Caballero-Austria
Connie Young Cho
Kerron Andre Donawa
Gibreel Khaled El-Halabi ***James Gregory Florez
Ismael Jafet Guardado
David Michael Ellis Harper
Joseph Anthony Sheahan Healow
James Hotak Lam
Parker Chase Leinbach
Aurora Luong
Andrea Stephania Peralta
Heesang Shin
David William Sniffin
Trey Patrick Weber ***
Conferred Fall 2019
May Katrina Battleson
Julienne Antonia Bernal
David A. Carrillo *Michael Cui
Aaron M. Feigelman
Kaijian He
Jongwon Lee
Tania Bana Mouchamel
Kasey Murakami
Jimmy Erik Penaloza *Josue Ezequiel Sanchez
Sipora Shaolian
Jonathan Taehyun Song
Shushanik Stepanyan
Nicholas Katung Teoh
Jayden Tjuatja
Audrey Nicole Tu
Anup Swamy Venkatesh
Christian Fernando Zarzosa Mezzich *
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (continued)
Conferred Winter 2020
Thomas Hillary Ervin
Christopher Flores
Louise Hazell
Zhaojiang He **Hyun Seok Jang *
Bum Soo Lee
Nikhil Hemant Pawar
Nicholas James Peters
Phuong Tuyet Vo
Seonghae Ye
Candidates, Spring 2020
Ricardo Daniel Solorzano Acuna
Audrey Jean Adam
Nicholas Marco Yan-Ling Amadeo
Jared Richard Anklam
Mitchell John Annicchiarico
Casey S. Asaoka
Sydney Paiton Austin
Logan Thomas Baurle
Nathaniel Shim Beak
Varun Beldona
Yahia Benhacene
Yahya Awais Bhatti
Jeremy Louis Botka
Ethan Samuel Brown
Jesus Cervantes-Canela
Moneel Mohitesh Chand
Nathan Rayan Chau
Dehice Chavez-Camarillo
Vincent Chendrawan
William Kawai Choi
Kevin Michael Danis
Ryan Taylor Deleon
Sarah Kayleen Douglas
Samuel Galblum Gessow
Conor John Gohl
Anish Gosala
Ashlyn Mihae Hahn
Gabriel Hirsch Feingold
Ma Justeen Hipolito
Nelson Ho
Scott Thomas Hoppes
William C. Hurley
Movsum Huseynov
Kyle Raphael Ignacio
Harshvir Singh Jaggi
Brent Harrison Jerome
Lei Jin
Lindsey Murphy Kaiser
Amar Faisal Hakim Bin Kamal Hakim
Arti V. Kassardjian
Sameer U. Khan
Joshua Min Kim
Thomas Gregory Larner
Caleb Allan Lessard-Clouston
Jian Hao Li
Qinjian Li
Alexander Bodell Lima
Jonathan Lin
Michael James LoCascio
Christopher Bryce Martin
Tyler Austin Mccown
Nlemchi Basil Metu
Ryan H. Miller
Kristen Allison Morse
Cole Forsyth Morter
Aniket Mutatkar
Reana Naik
Daniel Sameh Awad Nashed
Andrew Tien Nguyen
Bryan Dang Nguyen
Carter Thomas Noh
Kyle Masashi Okazaki
Gavin Patrick O’Malley
Amin Imad Osman
Pooja B. Patel
Paul Richard Pfeiffer
Anthony Minh Pham
Madeleine Plant
Ka Fung Poon
Ian Michael Romanas
Daniel Jacob Romero
Simon Beat Rufer
Shibi Prahalad Sadasivam
Baldeep Singh Sandhu
Sehej Singh Sandhu
Luis Gabriel Ochoco Santos
Kunaal Bipin Shah
Dennis Xin Shen
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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (continued)
Kevin Shen
Shubhra Singh
Abilash Sivalingam
Jacqueline Lorraine Staiger
William Stremba
Jordy Supandi
Austin Ho-Man Tang
Daniel Tang
Cornelio Torres Juarez
Andy Pk Tran
Connor William Trump
Daniel Scott Van Lewen
Christopher Justin Wang
Christopher Yiwen Wang
Michael Jeffrey Williams
Jonathan Kenhun Wong
Ryan Wong
Zachary Wong
Emily Yang
Brian Michael Yee
David Johnson Yee
Candidates, Summer 2020
Bertan Hatipoglu
Aidan Mclellan Montiel
William Ray Muhlestein
Mohammad Mustapha Nakouzi
Andrew Tien Nguyen
Nicholas Tang Runke
William Tyler South
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AWARDS AND HONORS
SCHOOLWIDE AWARDSChancellor’s Service Award
Aadil Ali, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Summer 2020
Keerthi Pradaa Balajee, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Spring 2020
Sarah Kayleen Douglas, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2020
Richa Ghosh, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Spring 2020
Adrien Yuva Hadj-Chaib, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Spring 2020
Claire Van Killian, Bachelor of Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Spring 2020
Nicole Marie Kuntjoro, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
Kyle Robert Sample, Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Spring 2020
Mitansh Rakesh Shah, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Spring 2020
Savannah Sealy-Anna Shumock, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
Alexander Soohoo, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Spring 2020
Aaron Wissing, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Spring 2020
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree Recipient
Mariam Sheyda Carson, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
Richa Ghosh, Chemical Engineering, Spring 2020
The Harry M. Showman Prize Recipients
Jimmy Erik Penaloza, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019
Joshua Rosenberg Hooks, Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019
The Russell R. O’neill Distinguished Service Award Recipient
Sarah Kayleen Douglas, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2020
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SCHOOLWIDE AWARDS (continued)
Engineering Achievement Award for Student Welfare Recipients
Sydney Paiton Austin, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2020
Jonathan Benedict Balk, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Spring 2020
Mariam Sheyda Carson, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
Dehice Chavez-Camarillo, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2020
Jessica “Jessii” Morgan Chun, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
Imani Chantal Elston, Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Spring 2020
Elena Lucille Escalas, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Spring 2020
Lauren Jeanne Fromm, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Spring 2020
Alexis Marie Gehrke, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Spring 2020
Richa Ghosh, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Spring 2020
Lucia Gonzalez, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Fall 2020
Alexander Phillip Graening, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Spring 2020
Austin Guo, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Winter 2020
Claire Van Killian, Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Spring 2020
Zachary Jordan Kum, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Spring 2020
Nicole Marie Kuntjoro, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
LeeAnn Kai-Yin Li, Doctor of Philosophy, Bioengineering,Spring 2022
Laura Elizabeth Madril, Bachelor of Science, Materials Engineering, Fall 2020
Kajal Maran, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
Josue Jared Castillo Martinez, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Spring 2020
Srinivas Prasad Mysore Nagaraja, Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Winter 2020
Dominic O’Hanlon Navarro, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2020
Salekh Parkhati, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Spring 2020
Natalia Ramirez, Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Spring 2020
Ryan Rio, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Fall 2020
Izabella Krystyna Samuel, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Spring 2020
Mitansh Rakesh Shah, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Spring 2020
Kevin Sung De-Ming Tan, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Spring 2020
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AWARDS AND HONORS (continued)
DEPARTMENT AWARDSBioengineering Department
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree RecipientMiriam Sheyda Carson, Spring 2020
Outstanding Master of Science Degree RecipientMichael Chen, Spring 2020
Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Degree RecipientJoseph de Rutte, Summer 2020
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree RecipientThanh H. Dang, Spring 2020
Outstanding Master of Science Degree RecipientYantao Xia, Spring 2020
Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Degree Recipient Zhe Wu, Spring 2020
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree RecipientLauren Nicole Posey, Spring 2020
Outstanding Master of Science Degree Recipient Kai Yang, Spring 2020
Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Degree Recipient Farzaneh Shabani Samgh Abadi, Spring 2020
Richard B. Nelson Memorial Scholarship Phoebe Young-In Lee, Bachelor of Science, Spring 2023
Computer Science Department
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree RecipientsAidan Davis Wolk, Computer Science, Spring 2020
Jeffrey Hsinping Xu, Computer Science and Engineering, Spring 2020
Outstanding Master of Science Degree Recipient Alexis Lei Wan Korb, Spring 2020
Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Degree RecipientMuhammad Ali Gulzar, Spring 2020
Outstanding Recognition in Research in Computer ScienceYoung-kyu Choi, Doctor of Philosophy, Fall 2019
Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Doctor of Philosophy, Spring 2020 Saswat Padhi, Doctor of Philosophy, Spring 2020
Tao Zhou, Doctor of Philosophy, Summer 2019
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree RecipientAndrew Joseph Wilhelm, Spring 2020
Departmental Scholar - Bachelor of Science, Master of ScienceThomas Joseph Garcia, Spring 2020
Outstanding Master of Science Degree RecipientsLouis J.E. Delhez, Circuits & Embedded Systems, Spring 2020
Yubin Cai, Physical & Wave Electronics, Fall 2019 Debarnab Mitra, Signals & Systems, Spring 2020
Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Degree Recipients Ahmed Fahad A Alzuhair, Circuits & Embedded Systems, Summer 2019
Sidhant Tiwari, Physical & Wave Electronics, Spring 2020 Han Yan, Signals & Systems, Spring 2020
Christina Huang Memorial Prize RecipientMichelle Ruomei Du, Bachelor of Science, Spring 2020
Materials Science and Engineering Department
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree RecipientsMatthew Alexander Chin, Spring 2020
Justin Alexander Wolfman, Spring 2020
Outstanding Master of Science Degree RecipientYuchen Zhang, Fall 2019
Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Degree Recipients Chungsuk Choi, Summer 2020
Koichi Tanaka, Spring 2020
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree RecipientsLouis Alexander Blaya, Aerospace Engineering, Spring 2020
Mia-Sara Shannon Reyes, Aerospace Engineering, Spring 2020 Jimmy Erik Penaloza, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019 Simon Beat Rufer, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2020
Outstanding Master of Science Degree Recipients Luis Gonzalo Andrade, Aerospace Engineering, Fall 2019 John Franklin Bethea, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019
Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Degree Recipients Cesar Eduardo Huerta, Aerospace Engineering, Fall 2019
Matthew Gerber, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019 Joon Sang Kang, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019
Schoolwide Master of Science in Engineering Program
Distinguished Graduate Student Award RecipientMichael Wray, Summer 2019
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STUDENT LEADERS
Natalia Ramirez, PresidentAmerican Indian Science and Engineering (AISES)
Oliver Lam, PresidentAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Richa Ghosh, PresidentAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Claire Killian, PresidentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Gabriel Alpuerto, PresidentAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Hannah Chun, PresidentAmerican Water Works Association (AWWA)
Kevin Tan, PresidentAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Baolinh Nguyen, PresidentAssociation for Computing Machinery – Women (ACM-W)
Izabella Samuel, PresidentBiomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Andrew Battat, Co-PresidentJason Huan, Co-President
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Aneri Chouhan, PresidentBruin Entrepreneurs
Joshua Wong, PresidentBruin Home Solutions
David Curry, PresidentBruin Hyperloop
Karthik Pullela, PresidentBruin Space Group
Lisa Bok, PresidentBuilding Engineers and Mentors (BEAM)
Bailey Uy, PresidentCalifornia Geotechnical Engineering Association (CalGeo)
Arya Nanda, PresidentChi Epsilon (XE) –
Civil and Environmental Engineering Honor Society
Omar Issa, PresidentEarthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
Connor Matro, PresidentEngineering Ambassador Program (EA)
J. Vikranth Jeyakumar, Co-PresidentKirsten Fetah, Co-President
Engineering Graduate Students Association (EGSA)
Nicholas Lin, PresidentEngineering Society of UCLA (ESUC)
Anish Gosala, PresidentEngineers Without Borders (EWB)
Eric Sarnoff Espinosa, PresidentEta Kappa Nu (HKN) – Electrical and
Computer Engineering Honor Society
Bonnie Lee, Co-PresidentVivian Doan, Co-President
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Gerald Ko, PresidentFormula Drone @ UCLA
Alexander Graening, PresidentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Jennifer Seki, PresidentIEEE Women Advancing Technology Through Teamwork (WATT)
Joceline Suhaimi, PresidentInstitute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Crystal Song, Business LeadInternational Genetically Engineered Machines at UCLA (iGEM)
Lakshmi Deepthi Gangiredla, PresidentInternational Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE)
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Soleong Lee, Co-PresidentEsther Lee, Co-President
Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)
Ryota Goto, PresidentLinux Users Group (LUG)
Catherine Barrie, PresidentMaterials Research Society (MRS)
Grant Hushek, PresidentMentorSEAS
Jessica Chun, PresidentNational Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Sarah Kremer, PresidentPhi Sigma Rho Sorority
Nicolas Escudero, PresidentPilipinos in Engineering and Science (PIES)
Hannah Friedman, PresidentQueers in STEM at UCLA
Chirine Chidiac, PresidentRenewable Energy Association at UCLA (REA)
Srishti Pal, PresidentSociety of Asian Scientists and
Engineers at UCLA (SASE)
Jeremy Engels, PresidentSociety of Automotive Engineers (SAE Bruin Racing)
Adriana Villagomez, PresidentSociety of Latino Engineers and
Scientists (SOLES)
Ikaasa Suri, PresidentSociety of Women Engineers (SWE)
Bharat Pradeep, PresidentTau Beta Pi (TBP) – Engineering Honor Society
Jasmine Trinh, Co-RegentJustin Duong, Co-Regent
Theta Tau – Professional Engineering Fraternity
Jason Chung, PresidentTriangle Fraternity
Bhav Patel, PresidentUCLA 3D4E
Meera Rachamallu, PresidentUCLA DevX
Austin Guo, PresidentUpsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) –
Computer Science Honor Society
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Tsu-Chin TsaoChair of the Faculty
Richard D. WeselAssociate Dean
Academic and Student Affairs
Jia-Ming LiuAssociate Dean
Academic Personnel
Scott BrandenbergAssociate Dean
Diversity and Inclusion
Jenn-Ming YangAssociate Dean
International Initiatives and Online Programs
Harold MonbouquetteAssociate Dean
Research and Physical Resources
Jeffrey GoldmanAssistant Dean
Chief Financial Officer
Christine Wei-li LeeExecutive Director of Communications
Song LiBioengineering
Department Chair
Panagiotis ChristofidesChemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Department Chair
Ertugrul TacirogluCivil and Environmental Engineering
Department Chair
Eliezer GafniComputer Science
Interim Department Chair
Greg PottieElectrical and Computer Engineering
Department Chair
Bruce DunnMaterials Science and Engineering
Department Chair
Tim FisherMechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department Chair
Gene D. BlockChancellor
Jayathi Y. MurthyRonald and Valerie Sugar Dean