Category: Student Spotlight
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 One of...
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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...
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How Hackathons Helped Raj Sudharshan Level Up His Skills
by Marcelle Santos When Raj Sudharshan, 26, entered the Master of Science in Information Systems — Bridge, a technical program at Northeastern University for students...
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Student Spotlight: Purvish Thakkar is Reaching New Heights
by Marcelle Santos Purvish Thakkar is beaming as he talks about everything he’s learning, all the people he’s meeting, the events he’s participating in, and...
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Student Spotlight: Isha Thakkar on Pursuing an MS in Project Management
Profile by Marcelle Santos | Header photo by Ruby Wallau When Isha Thakkar tells people that she’s pursuing a Master’s in Project Management, the...
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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Student Spotlight: Priyanka Chandak
Pursuing your passions while staying open to change by Marcelle Santos At 28 years old, Priyanka Chandak has lived what seems like several completely different...
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