Alumni
Our undergraduate and graduate alumni are well placed. Some have joined the academic community as faculty members in top research-focused universities in the US and abroad, some are in transition as post-doctoral research associates in various universities and the industry, some are pursuing graduate studies after completing a Bachelor or Master’s degree from BU, some have joined research and development teams in companies, and a few have chosen to tread the entrepreneurial path and have joined, even founded, technology start-up companies.
Note: The list below is incomplete and is constantly updated as new information becomes available.
* Degree received from the Systems Division or from the Department of Manufacturing Engineering (prior to July 2008)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
| Year |
Last Name, First name | Advisor(s) |
Now at: |
| 2020 | Chen, Jiawei | Ishwar/Konrad | Oppo, Palo Alto, CA, Deep Learning Research Engineer |
| Chen, Ruidi* | Paschalidis | Microsoft Research, Seattle | |
| Houshmand, Arian* | Cassandras | ||
| Lam, Emily | Little | ||
| Rapp, Joshua | Goyal | ||
| Swaszek, Rebecca* | Cassandras | ||
| Wang, Taiyao* | Paschalidis | Philips Research, Cambridge MA | |
| Xu, Tingting* | Paschalidis | Facebook, Menlo Park, CA | |
| Zhang, Yue* | Cassandras | ||
| Zhang, Wenyang | Nawab | ||
| Zhao, Jinyuan | Konrad/Ishwar | Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, Software Engineer | |
| Zhu, Henghui* | Paschalidis | Amazon Web Services Research, New York | |
| 2019 | El Bakoury, Islam | Nazer | |
| Zhou, Nan | Cassandras | ||
| 2018 | Bolukbasi, Tolga | Saligrama | |
| Ding, Huanyu | Castañón | ||
| Nan, Feng* | Saligrama | ||
| Prince, Gregary | Little | Raytheon | |
| Xin, Lianxiao | Starobinski | ||
| 2017 | Aksoylar, Cem | Saligrama | |
| Brisimi, Theodora | Paschalidis | ||
| Chau, Jimmy | Little | ||
| Chen, Yuting | Saligrama | ||
| Crane, Molly | Nawab | MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, Staff Member | |
| Gaudreau, Amanda | Konrad, Goldstein | ||
| He, Wenbo | Nazer | The Mathworks Inc., Natick MA, Senior Software Engineer | |
| Farag, Michael | Nazer | ||
| Ozdemir, Pinar | Nawab | ||
| Pourazaram, Sepideh* | Cassandras | ||
| Simhon, Eran* | Starobinski | Philips Research, Cambridge, MA | |
| Sun, Xinmiao* | Cassandras | ||
| Sun, Zachary | Karl | ||
| Zhang, Jing* | Paschalidis | ||
| 2016 | Castañón, Gregory | Saligrama | |
| Fleck, Julia | Cassandras | ||
| Kavurmacioglu, Emir | Starobinski | ||
| Khazaeni, Yasaman | Cassandras | IBM, Research Staff Member | |
| Si, Wei | Starobinski | ||
| Wu, Jonathan | Ishwar, Konrad | Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA, Technical Staff Member | |
| Zhang, Yuting | Little | Philips Research North America, Cambridge, MA | |
| Zhao, Qi | Paschalidis | ||
| 2015 | Butala, Pankil | Little | Qualcomm, Sa Diego, CA, Software Engineer |
| Dai, Wuyang | Paschalidis | Adobe Inc., San Francisco, Data Scientist | |
| Ding, Weicong | Ishwar, Saligrama | Technicolor, CA | |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Trachtenberg | University of Kansas, Faculty Member | |
| Moghadasi, Mohammad | Paschalidis | Nomis Solutions, San Francisco, CA, Optimization Software Engineer | |
| Rahaim, Michael | Little | Univ. of Massachusetts, ECE Dept. Faculty Member | |
| Wang, Joe | Saligrama, Castañón | ECE Dept, Boston University, Post-doctoral Fellow | |
| 2014 | Chen, Ke | Castañón | CCC Information Services, Chicago, IL |
| Cilingiroglu, Berkin | Unlu, Karl, Konrad | DCG Systems, Fremont, CA, Image Processing Engineer | |
| Lin, Xuchao* | Cassandras | Lujiazui International Financial Asset Exchange Co. Ltd., Research Scientist | |
| Martin, Limor | Karl, Ishwar | Applied Materials, Israel, Algorithm Developer |
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| Trapeznikov, Kirill | Saligrama | Systems and Technology Research, Woburn, MA | |
| Tuysuzoglu, Ahmet | Karl | Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, Research Scientist | |
| Qian, Jing | Saligrama | Facebook, Research Staff | |
| 2013 | Bangla, Ajay Kumar | Castañón | Google Inc., Mountain View, CA |
| Geng, Yanfeng* | Cassandras | Amazon.com Inc. | |
| Huang, Fuzhuo* | Paschalidis | Google Inc., Mountain View, CA | |
| Mirzaei, Hanieh | Paschalidis | Google Inc., San Diego, CA | |
| Motamedvaziri, Delaram | Saligrama, Castañón | Visual IQ Inc. | |
| Wang, Tao* | Cassandras | Sabre Airline Solutions | |
| Zheng, Jiefu | Castañón | Google Inc.,, Boston, MA, Software Engineer | |
| 2012 | Ambwani, Sonal | Karl | Samsung Neurologica, Danvers, MA, SPECT Imaging Engineer |
| Cole, Bryan Thomas | Nawab | Chicago Cubs, Research and Development Analyst | |
| Kebarighotbi, Ali* | Cassandras | ||
| Lin, Yingwei | Paschalidis | Microsoft Corp. | |
| Locke, Taylor* | Paschalidis | MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA | |
| Stojanovic, Ivana | Karl | Nokia, Berkeley, CA, Lead Research Engineer | |
| 2011 | Burkay, Birant Orten | Karl, Ishwar | Turn, Redwood City, CA |
| Chen, Yin* | Paschalidis | Procter & Gamble, Germany, Member Technical Staff | |
| Debitetto, Paul | Castañón | Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, Member Technical Staf | |
| Estanjini, Reza Moazzez* | Paschalidis | ||
| Guo, Kai | Ishwar, Konrad | Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA, Senior Engineer | |
| Guo, Song | Little | ||
| Fazlollahi, Niloofar | Starobinski | Ericsson, Member Technical Staff | |
| Kumar, Rohit | Castañón | ||
| Li, Binbin* | Paschalidis | SAS Institute Inc., Member Technical Staff | |
| Ma, Nan | Ishwar | EECS, Dept., UC Berkeley, Post-doctoral Fellow | |
| Vitolo, Thomas John* | Castañón | ||
| Wang, Ye | Ishwar | Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge, MA, Member of Technical Staff | |
| Wu, Ruomin* | Paschalidis | Bloomberg, Member Technical Staff | |
| Wu, Zeyu | Little | Microsoft | |
| Yao, Chen* | Cassandras | ||
| Zhao, Manqi | Saligrama | Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, Member Technical Staff |
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| Zhong, Minyi* | Cassandras | Microsoft Corp., Member Technical Staff | |
| 2010 | Agarwal, Ashish | Little | NALCO Company, Member of Technical Staff |
| Al Daoud, Ashraf | Alanyali | University of Waterloo, ECE Dept., Kitchener, ON, Canada, Post-doctoral Researcher | |
| Ermis, Erhan | Saligrama | Boston Consulting Group, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| Hitchings, Darin | Castañón | Livevol Inc., Lead Quantitative Engineer | |
| Jenkins, Karen | Castañón | Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, Sensor Algorithms Engineer | |
| Ma, Nan | Ishwar | Insight Data Science 2012 Fellow, Palo Alto, CA | |
| Mutlu, Huseyin | Starobinski | VoxPop Communities (www.influenster.com), Vice President of Engineering | |
| Vittolo, Thomas* | Castañón | Polymath Consulting | |
| Xiangdong, Song* | Paschalidis | Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China, Lecturer | |
| Weiyao, Xiao | Starobinski | Bloomberg, Member Technical Staff | |
| 2009 | Aeron, Shuchin | Saligrama | Tufts University, ECE Dept., Medford, MA, Faculty |
| Atia, George | Saligrama | University of Central Florida, ECE Dept., Orlando, FL, Faculty | |
| Chang, Sam | Nawab | Bose Corporation, Signal Processing Engineer | |
| Guo, Dong* | Paschalidis | Entrepreneur, China | |
| Mao, Jianfeng* | Cassandras | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Assistant Professor | |
| Rodriguez-Diaz, Eladio | Castañón | BU School of Medicine and VA Center, Boston, MA, Post-doctoral Researcher | |
| Savas, Onur | Alanyali | Intelligent Automation, Inc., Member Technical Staff | |
| Xu, Ning* | Cassandras | Akamai Technologies Inc., Member Technical Staff | |
| Liang, Zhuangli | Karl | Caliper Life Sciences, Optical Imaging Scientist | |
| 2008 | Kang, Seong-Cheol* | Paschalidis | Korea National Transportation Institute, Researcher |
| Keene, Sam | Carruthers | Cooper Union, New York, NY, Assistant Professor | |
| Martin, Benjamin | Castañón | The Mathworks Inc., Natick MA, Member Technical Staff | |
| Shen, Yang* | Paschalidis | Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago, IL, Assistant Professor | |
| Zhuang, Shixin* | Cassandras | The Mathworks Inc., Natick MA, Senior Software Engineer | |
| 2007 | Ince, Serdar | Konrad | Sensormatic Turkey, Product Manager |
| Lai, Wei* | Paschalidis | Columbia Management, Equity Analyst | |
| Laifenfeld, Moshe | Trachtenberg | Apple, Israel | |
| Ma, Xiang | Castañón | ||
| Pavlovich, Julia | Karl | Analogic Corp., Peabody, MA, Senior Imaging Engineer | |
| Tao, Wu | Starobinski | Nokia, Member Technical Staff | |
| Wesselowski, Kirk* | Cassandras | Analyst in field of oil exploration | |
| 2006 | Bozinovic, Nikola | Konrad | Frame Inc., Founder and CEO |
| David, Brynmor | Karl | Creare Inc., Hanover, NH, Engineer | |
| Kaur, Parminder | Karl | Case Western Reserve University, Post-doctoral Researcher | |
| Li, Wei* | Cassandras | The Mathworks Inc., Natick MA, Senior Software Engineer | |
| Litvin, Andrew | Karl | Analogic Corp., Peabody, MA, Senior Imaging Engineer | |
| Miao, Lei* | Cassandras | University of Cincinnati, Assistant Professor | |
| Ristivojevic, Mirko | Konrad | Imprivata Inc., Principal Software Engineer | |
| Shao, Jian* | Paschalidis | Financial Software Firm, Analyst | |
| Wotiz, Robert | Nawab | BAE Systems, Nashua, NH | |
| Wu, Xiaoyi* | Cassandras | Cambridge Energy Solutions, Quantitative Analyst | |
| 2005 | Ahner, Darryl* | Castañón | US Army, LTC, US Air Force Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor |
| Ray, Saikat | Starobinski | Ericsson, Member Technical Staff | |
| Shi, Yonggang | Karl | University of Southern California, Associate Professor | |
| Wang, Ke | Little | ||
| Yu, Haining* | Cassandras | Disney Corp., Senior Systems Engineer | |
| 2004 | Gang, Sun* | Cassandras | Tongji University, China, Assistant Professor |
| Laurent, Sophie | Karl, Konrad | ADIT, France, Manager of Essonnian office | |
| Su, Chang* | Paschalidis | Financial Analyst, China | |
| Weisenseel, Robert | Karl | Cargometrics Inc., Senior Scientist | |
| 2003 | Basu, Prithwish | Little | Raytheon BBN Technologies |
| 2002 | Liu, Yong* | Paschalidis | Hedge fund analyst |
| Vassilaras, Spyros | Paschalidis | Athens Information Technology University, Greece, Assistant Professor | |
| 2001 | Mujdat Cetin | Karl | Sabanci University, Turkey, Associate Professor |
| 2000 | Kamalabadi, Farzad | Karl | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, ECE Department, Associate Professor |
| John Kaufhold | Karl | Deep Learning Analytics, Managing Partner and Data Scientist |
Master of Science (MS, thesis or project)
| Year | Last Name, First name | Advisor(s) | Now at: |
| 2020 | Duan, Zhihao | Konrad/Ishwar | Purdue University, ECE Dept., PhD candidate |
| Levinson, Katherine | Nawab | ||
| Xiao, Yu | Konrad/Ishwar | Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA, Technical Staff Member | |
| 2019 | Li, Shengye | Konrad, Ishwar | Univ. of Delaware, PhD candidate |
| Song, Bowen | Trachtenberg | ||
| 2018 | Zhou, Weichao | Li | Boston University, ECE Dept., PhD candidate |
| 2015 | Craley, Jeff | Goyal | Johns Hopkins University, PhD candidate |
| Timchenko, Maxim | Trachtenberg | ||
| 2014 | Shekhar, Shashank | Ishwar | Lumiata, San Mateo, CA |
| Terracciano, Katherine | Ishwar | Systems and Technology Research (STR), Woburn, MA | |
| 2013 | Aksoylar, Cem | Saligrama | |
| Gancarz, John Edward | Little | ||
| Jin, Jiaxi | Trachtenberg | HP Labs, China | |
| Li, Liang | Konrad | ||
| Sataline, Chrsitopher J. | Trachtenberg | ||
| To, TszHang | Trachtenberg | ||
| 2012 | Chen, Zhu | Saligrama | |
| Clark, Benjamin | Nawab | ||
| Cullen, Daniel | Konrad, Little | ||
| Dendir, Ermias | Saligrama | ||
| Guo, Jinshan | Castañón | ||
| Hedstrom, Jonathan Carl | Nawab | ||
| Lall, Rohindra Vighnesh | Little | ||
| Li, Qimeng | Alanyali | ||
| Li, Xiaonan | Starobinski | ||
| Lin, Kan | Starobinski | ||
| Liu, Xulei | Trachtenberg | ||
| Ma, Xiaohui | Trachtenberg | ||
| Orakcal, Cankut | Starobinski | ||
| Ozdemir, Pinar | Nawab | ||
| Qi, Zhao | Paschalidis | ||
| Ravindranathan, Lokesh Amarnath | Trachtenberg | Mathworks Inc., Natick, MA | |
| Roy, Rohan | Trachtenberg | ||
| Shah, Fahmil Haque | Nawab | ||
| Turhan, Aylin | Starobinski | ||
| Wang, Meng | Konrad, Ishwar | ||
| Wei, Yi | Starobinski | ||
| Yi, Feitong | Konrad | ||
| Yu, Xiang | Starobinski | ||
| Zhang, Yaoqi | Karl | ||
| 2011 | Abu Bakr, Seif | Nawab | |
| Azzizi, Elham | Little | ||
| Brown, Geoffrey | Konrad | MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA | |
| Chau, Jimmy | Little | Boston University, ECE Dept., PhD candidate | |
| Chen, Ke | Castañón | Boston University, ECE Dept., Ph.D. candidate | |
| Cole, Bryan Thomas | Nawab | Boston University, ECE Dept., Ph.D. candidate | |
| Estanjini, Reza Moazzez* | Paschalidis | ||
| Feng, Yao | Little | ||
| Fu, Jiaxu | Konrad, Betke | ||
| Ganesan, Santosh | Nawab | Massachusetts General Hospital | |
| Kuznetsov, Mikhail | |||
| Liu, Yang | Little | ||
| Liu, Yichuan | Cassandras | ||
| Ozkan, Huseyin | Saligrama, Konrad | ||
| Shah, Rashmi | Carruthers | ||
| Shao, Yuecheng | Konrad | Bloomberg LP, New York, NY | |
| Trapeznikov, Kirill | Castañón, Saligrama |
Boston University, Boston, MA, Ph.D. candidate (ECE) | |
| Warke, Abhijit | Castañón | Affectiva Inc., Waltham, MA | |
| Wu, Haotian | Saligrama | ||
| Wu, Hongchang | Trachtenberg, Starobinski | ||
| Xia, Wenya | Little | ||
| Xiong, Ruosen* | Cassandras | ||
| Yan, Kai | Little | ||
| 2010 | Boisvert, Anne | Nawab | J.A.Volpe National Transportation Systems Center |
| Ganesan, Santosh | Nawab | Massachusetts General Hospital | |
| Huss, Andrew | Castañón | Raytheon Corp. | |
| Loya Choi Zorn, Elena | Konrad, Ishwar | Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA | |
| Martini, James | Ishwar | iZotope Inc., Cambridge, MA | |
| Pegors, Katherine | Karl | Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA | |
| Shah, Kandarp | Little | InterDigital | |
| Shivashankar, Nagaraja | Saligrama | Qualcom, Inc., Senior Software Engineer | |
| Tuysuzoglu, Ahmet | Karl | Boston University, Boston, MA, Ph.D. candidate (ECE) | |
| Wu, Huan-Yu | Ishwar, Konrad | Boston University, Intern | |
| Yifan Yu | Ishwar, Konrad | ||
| 2009 | Esteve, Cristina | Konrad, Ishwar | Aervox S.L., Madrid, Spain |
| Li, Zhuang | Konrad, Ishwar | Migma Systems, Inc., Walpole, MA | |
| Liu, Wei | Konrad, Ishwar | ||
| Prince, Gregary | Little, Carruthers | ||
| 2008 | Begin, Elizabeth | Konrad | Volcano Corp., Billerica, MA |
| Lin, Jason | Nawab | E Ink Corporation | |
| McHugh, James M. | Konrad | Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA | |
| Williams, Richard | Castañón | Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA | |
| 2007 | Corwin, Brian | Castañón | BAE Systems, Nashua, NH |
| Hsieh, Lung-Chang | Konrad | C & S Dayspring Inc. Taiwan | |
| Sakhuja, Ankur | Ishwar | AMD Inc. (ATI division), Boxborough, MA | |
| Singh, Angad | Starobinski | Capital IQ, Member Technical Staff | |
| Toba, Brian | Nawab | Microsoft Corp., Software Development Engineer | |
| 2006 | Fercho, Todd | Konrad | Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA |
| Jain, Ashish | Konrad | Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL |
| Year |
Last, First name | Advisor(s) |
Now at: |