Category: Blog
August 18, 2023
Allen Sebastian on the Magic of Bringing Curious People Together
by Marcelle Santos Allen Sebastian was a few minutes late for our meeting. He got held up by a call with a recruiter at Nvidia, where he interned last summer. She wanted to know if he'd be willing to come...
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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 25, 2023
2023 Graduates are Welcomed into the Alumni Community
by Meredith Hutcheson Photos by Ruby Wallau The day was sunny and warm in the historic courthouse square of Redwood City, CA. Graduating students from Northeastern’s campuses in San Francisco and Silicon Valley were gathered at the picturesque Fox Theater...
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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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April 21, 2023
Celebrating student research at the Khoury College 40th Anniversary event
This academic year, the Khoury College of Computer Sciences has been celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its beginnings in 1982 with 11 faculty members and 239 students, it now offers programs at 13 campuses in the Northeastern global university...
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April 13, 2023
Abi's Got Plans
by Marcelle Santos At 22, Abirami Chockalingam, (Abi, for short) has the next few years of her life planned. She’s going to graduate in December, start working for a Silicon Valley tech company early next year and land a senior-level...
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April 7, 2023
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 Silicon Valley reconnected with the campus to share their insight with current students. Akanksha Singh...
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March 8, 2023
Student Spotlight: Shruti Lohani
Shruti Lohani's Journey from Telecommunications Engineer to IoT Security Researcher by Marcelle Santos Shruti Lohani will walk into a networking event and ask everyone what they’re working on, then go home and Google what they said to find...
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