Category: Align
January 9, 2025
“AI for Good” Hackathons Inspire Students Over Summer Break
by Marcelle Santos When Computer Science Master’s students Aaron (Chieh-Han) Chen, Amy (Hsin-Yao) Huang, Richard (Xinrui) Yi, and Songting Yang went looking for a hackathon they could participate in together over the summer break, they found not one, but three...
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October 15, 2024
Professor Mark Miller featured in The Education View magazine
by Meredith Hutcheson Mark Miller, Lecturer for the Khoury College of the Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Silicon Valley, is featured as the cover profile of this month's edition of The Education View. The profile is a celebration of...
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July 30, 2024
Kaustubha Eluri, Aspiring Product Manager
by Marcelle Santos Growing up, Kaustubha Eluri, 26, never wanted to be any particular thing, but he always knew what he wanted to do. “I never wanted to be a doctor or an astronaut, but I always dreamed of having...
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April 25, 2024
Cybersecurity and Jason Zhang's Passion for Keeping People Safe in an Insecure World
by Marcelle Santos Five minutes into our Zoom call, a tiny human climbed onto Jason Zhang’s lap and waved at the screen. “This is Avery,” he said. “She’s 23 months old.” When Avery turns two, Zhang will be six months...
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February 28, 2024
Networking on the Green: Bay Area Golf Club Builds Career Connections
Align students Aaron Chen and Gio Ong started a golf club to help Northeastern Silicon Valley campus students network by Marcelle Santos [caption id="attachment_8459" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Members of the Bay Area Golf Club at a recent meet up. (Pictured:...
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February 5, 2024
Richard Yue's Quest to Advance Machine Translation
The Align student developed a system that’s 36% better at translating acronyms than Google Translate By Marcelle Santos | Photo by Adam Glanzman for Northeastern Richard Yue compares his work as a researcher in the fields of natural language processing...
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July 26, 2023
Kristine Umeh on Doing It All
by Marcelle Santos Kristine Umeh (Khoury College of Computer Sciences '23) may be a software engineer now, but that’s not going to stop her from playing music or breaking into Nollywood. “I have multiple interests, and I don’t feel like...
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June 12, 2023
Armen's Turn from Classical Pianist to Software Developer
by Marcelle Santos The videos you find of Armen Sarkisian on YouTube start with him walking onstage toward a piano, wearing a suit and tie. Before he sits down, he bows to the audience, who applauds and then listens in...
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May 9, 2023
"None of us get through this alone": The authors of The Latinx Guide to Graduate School on community and academia
Summary by Meredith Hutcheson Photos by Ruby Wallau for Northeastern University A new book by professors from San José State University and the University of San Francisco helps illuminate the way into and through academia for people who have historically...
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April 27, 2023
Kennedy’s Drive for a Fulfilling Life Led Him to Computer Science
by Marcelle Santos Kennedy Ezumah would have probably preferred to be overseas exploring, but, when we spoke, he'd been spending most days at home, doing coursework for his two remaining classes at Northeastern and interviewing for software engineering jobs. He’d...
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