CLASS NOTES
2007
2011 | Reunion Year Drew Macrae (engineering) is CTO at Linkitz, a
toy company that encourages children to explore electronic toys as a way to inspire a lifelong interest in STEM. Kids age 4 and up can create and customize their own wearable toys, “a first-ofits-kind approach to introducing kids to technology and coding.” Read more about Drew and Linkitz at bit.ly/HMCmacrae.
2013
Martha Cavanaugh-O’Keefe (chemistry and biology) married Gregory Jackson this past summer. Mudders in attendance were Amanda Hickman, Brandon Smith, Erin Heyer, Mina Youssef and William Buck Schulze. Martha’s married name is now O’Cavson.
In Memoriam
2009 Janet Komatsu (engineering) recently moved to
San Francisco and now works as a senior research and development engineer at Medtronic. She was previously at Arsenal Medical, a biomedical startup in Boston.
2010 Jonny Simkin (engineering) is CEO of SwyftApp
(http://swyftapp.com/), a mobile app that helps city residents find the fastest, most affordable and most environmentally friendly ways to get around town. To accomplish this, Swyft analyzes real-time pricing and travel times across various modes of transportation, like public transit, ridehailing/taxi, carshare, bikeshare, walking and more. “We’re on a mission to reduce urban congestion and carbon emissions by making it easy for city residents to get around town without driving their own car.” Jonny was a Robert Day Scholar at CMC and a director of product at Rafter Inc. Prior, he was the co-founder and CEO of SwoopThat LLC and HubEdu Inc. (acquired in 2012).
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HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE
AABOG member Kacyn Fujii (engineering) hosted a fun evening with lasers for alumni and friends Nov. 10 at Laser Quest Mountain View. Participants enjoyed a high-tech game of tag, food, drinks and great conversation. “It’s safe to assume there’s still some public distrust over rail automation systems, just like there is for driverless cars,” writes Hannah Groshong (engineering) for redOrbit.com (May 29, 2015) in response to the question “Why don’t we have more fully automated trains?” Hannah writes about two automation technologies: Positive Train Control and GE’s Trip Optimizer system. “It would certainly be interesting to see studies on the perception of rail automation systems, from the perspective of both the public and locomotive engineers, as the technology continues to be developed.” Hannah is researching the role of automation systems in freight rail applications as a graduate student in the Technology and Policy Program at MIT.
Matt McAdams ’92 (physics) suffered a cardiac dysrhythmia and passed away suddenly April 26, 2015, while biking near his home in Golden, Colorado. Matt was founder and president of Woodridge Software, his latest in a series of Colorado-based technology startup companies that included TrackVia, Senware and LeagueLink. He grew up in Wayzata, Minnesota, where he was captain of the cross country team at Wayzata High School. In addition to Harvey Mudd, he attended University of Illinois and California Institute of Technology, where he earned a master’s and a PhD in physics. Matt loved the outdoors, loved to code and loved the Minnesota Vikings. He is survived by his wife, Jennifer; children, Abbie and Luke; and many more family members and friends.