Category: Alumni
College of Engineering Alumni Share Career Insights at Mentoring Event
Students gathered on campus in fall semester for an engaging afternoon of career guidance, resume strategies, and real-world advice from technology professionals working at some...
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From Campus to Career: Alumni Share Hard-Won Wisdom on Making the Leap
Photos from 2025 alumni events by Ruby Wallau The transition from student to professional isn't just about landing that first job: it's about shifting how...
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“At the heart of the tech industry”: ’24 alumnus Sahil Gothoskar on how he planned for success
For Sahil Gothoskar, a recent Silicon Valley campus graduate from the College of Engineering, joining tech giant Bytedance as a site reliability engineer is an...
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Why Jussara Barbosa Does Everything Wholeheartedly
Northeastern graduate (‘25) Jussara Barbosa's first assignment as a Student Ambassador in the Office of the Dean was to compile information from all of Northeastern's...
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The grad school experience that made Preeti Jain feel complete
When Preeti Jain (‘25) arrived at Northeastern, she brought a decade of experience spanning consumer goods and tech. She began her career as a key...
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Students reimagine nurse education using immersive tech: “AI-powered training can fill critical gaps”
For Qiwen (Fiona) Xiong, working on Nurse Town has always been personal. “My mother has been a nurse for over 30 years; during the COVID-19...
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How Kewal Gokuldas Brought XR Development to Northeastern in Silicon Valley
Kewal Gokuldas (‘24) was sixteen when he built his first game for a high school programming class. The game, inspired by Dragon Ball Z, was...
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Heejae (Jay) Roh, MPS in Analytics ’24, on Reaching Goals: “Find People To Do Things With”
by Marcelle Santos When Heejae (Jay) Roh walked into a Santa Cruz beach with a surfboard under his arm in February last year, he had...
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Recent alumni on interviewing, job hunting, and why we shouldn’t be afraid of AI (yet)
In a wild job market, what’s it really like to be taking early career positions in tech? This March, two recent alumni from Northeastern in...
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