Category: Student Spotlight
November 5, 2024
How Yating Zhuang, MS in Project Management '24, Found Home in the U.S.
by Marcelle Santos Change is never easy, but for Yating Zhuang, a student in the Master of Science in Project Management program at Northeastern in Silicon Valley, moving from China to the United States in 2022 was disorienting. Before the move,...
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September 12, 2024
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 no surfing experience, and he couldn’t swim, either. But there were people willing to help....
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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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July 8, 2024
Venni Yu is Building Towards Something Greater
Profile by Marcelle Santos. Header photo by Ruby Wallau for Northeastern University. Venni Yu always knew that there was more to life than her immediate reality. As a teenager, she knew that her world was tiny compared to the vastness...
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June 4, 2024
Trupal Chaudhari Thinks You Should Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
by Marcelle Santos Trupal Jeevan Chaudhari was only ten when he chose to go to boarding school two hundred miles from home. There, away from everything he knew, he thrived. He took up yoga and meditation. He received an academic...
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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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April 2, 2024
Everybody Knows Nikshita: Student Spotlight
by Marcelle Santos Towards the end of last year, Nikshita Ranganathan received good news and bad news. The good news was that she had been granted a Professional Development Award to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration, an annual conference for...
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March 7, 2024
Breathe and Release: Maalavika Manjunatha Brings a Lifetime of Yoga to Campus
by Marcelle Santos Maalavika Manjunatha was only twelve years old when she found herself surrounded by strangers, struggling to hold a tree pose. She didn’t know whether to try to keep up with the chanting or the Asanas (yoga poses),...
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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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