Class Notes

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 November, 2024

Deep Patel (B.S. ’20) joins Arctos Insights team.

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David Bosko (B.S. ’89) joins ICS as Executive Director: Air, Space & Cyber. 

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 July, 2024

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb (Ph.D. ’93) was named founding chair of computer science at IU Indianapolis.

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 June, 2024

Andrew Sears (Ph.D. ’93) was named provost and senior vice president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

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 May, 2024

Zvi Band (B.S. ’06) was named the first chief technology officer (CTO) of Keep Company

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 April, 2024

Roger Pierson (B.S. ’84) has been featured in Marquis Who's Who. 

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Martín Farach-Colton (Ph.D. ’91) was inducted as a 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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 March, 2024

Juan Navarro (B.S. ’82) was named President/CEO of Advanced IT Concepts LLC.

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Craig Abod (B.S. ’86) was named Virginia’s 50 most powerful execs by Virginia Business. 

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 February, 2024

Samuel Hui (B.S. ’20) joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as a Programmer and Analyst in the Systems Development and Implementation branch of the Information Technology Directorate.

 August, 2023

Rick Kuhn (M.S. ’85), a computer scientist in NIST's Computer Security Division, was elected a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences.

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 October, 2022

Debanjan Saha (Ph.D. ’95) was named CEO of DataRobot.

 

Matthew Onufrak (B.S. ’13) summited Mount Rainier.

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 August, 2022

FiscalNote, which was co-founded by Jonathan Chen (B.S. ’14) in his dorm room at UMD, went public on the New York Stock Exchange on August 1

 

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Alesia Cain (B.S. ’89) was elected vice president of communications by the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials’ New York Chapter.

 May, 2022

Shravan Goli (M.S. ’94), Coursera's chief product officer and head of consumer revenue, was appointed to NETGEAR’s board of directors.

 

 April, 2022

Nizar Habash (M.S. ’00, Ph.D. ’03), named to MI Technology Review Arabia’s list of “30 leading arab experts in AI”

 

Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, named to IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy. 

 

Michael Antonov (B.S. ’03), co-founder of Oculus, named to IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy. 

 

 February, 2022

Debanjan Saha (M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’95), who had been vice president and general manager of data analytics at Google Cloud, was named DataRobot’s new president and chief operating officer.

 January, 2022

Juan Navarro (B.S. ’82) named President and CEO of HDT Global

 

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Katherine Calvin (B.S. '03, computer science; B.S. ’03, mathematics) Named NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor

 

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 November, 2021

Donald Welch (Ph.D. ’98) left Penn State to lead IT at New York University.

 

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Christopher Jeschke (B.S. ’02) appointed CTO at Accumulus Synergy, a nonprofit corporation working to develop an information and data exchange platform aimed at transforming how drug innovators and health authorities worldwide interact.

 

 September, 2021

Carolina Ruiz (Ph.D. ’96), professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was appointed associate dean of Arts & Sciences.

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