CLASS NOTES
Madi Pignetti (CS) (pen name,
Madi Giovina) published an anthology of visionary art and fiction, Super/Natural: Art and Fiction for the Future in November. There are 23 different artists and authors with works in the anthology, Madi included. Find more information at http://bit.ly/ GiovinaArt19. Emily Schooley (engineering) has worked at Applied
Materials in Santa Clara for the past two years. While there, she’s been the president of the Young Professionals Network at Applied Materials. She recently started a master’s of design impact in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford. “Oh, and I got a dog.”
mechatronics, and design (“and have managed to run into Profs Srebotnjak and Libeskind-Hadas at the d.School!”) Recently, she joined the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory under Scott Delp, a member of the interdisciplinary Bio-X institute. Their group researches athlete and pathological gait to discover how to reduce injury and improve mobility. Marissa writes, “I’m looking to contribute to sensing and interventions outside the lab (think activity-monitoring wearables and video analysis) so that we can more accurately understand and improve movement. Beyond academics, I’m involved in our American Society for Engineering Education chapter and Mechanical Engineering Women’s Group. Since graduating from Mudd, I’ve also enjoyed serving as a member of the Alumni Association Board of Governors. It’s been great regularly seeing so many friends from Mudd both in the Bay and back at Mudd!”
information to neuroscientists studying the brain. Outside of school, she enjoys exploring Boston with other Mudd alumni, baking bread and playing tennis. Jacob Rosalsky (biology) moved to the Bay Area
and is working at 23andMe as a site reliability engineer directly supporting both the research and therapeutics teams.
2019 Morgan Blevins (engineering) begins the first
year of a PhD program at MIT in the AeroAstro department. Her research is joint with the Woods Hole Oceanography Institute. She hopes to find a way for her work to have application in both space and ocean exploration. Giulia Castleberg (engineering) and David Olumese
Jonathan Ueki (physics) is a software engineer at
Facebook.
2018 After hiking the Long Trail in Vermont for three weeks with fellow alums after graduation, Duncan Crowley (engineering) settled in Pasadena, California, where he now lives and works. He enjoys biking and rollerblading around the Rose Bowl and the $3 second-run movie theater. This summer, he plans to move to the Bay Area, try something new with his career and eventually work on a master’s. Bella Lee (biology) works at early stage
biotechnology company A2 Biotherapeutics in Agoura Hills, Califorina. Its focus is on innovation of novel peptide-MHC immunotherapies for cancer as well as other immune diseases. She volunteers as a trilingual medical scribe at a free clinic, recently received a 200-hour yoga teacher certificate and teaches a yoga class weekly in her office. She has applied to MST programs (medical scientist training programs, or MD/PhD) and looks forward to returning to school in 2020 to earn a medical degree. She hopes to specialize in hematology/ oncology and earn a graduate degree in molecular immunology. Marissa Lee (engineering) has entered the second
year of her mechanical engineering PhD at Stanford, where she’s taken courses in biomechanics,
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Zayra Lobo (engineering)
works in Intel’s Internet of Things Group on a variety of robotics projects. She writes, “I’m having a blast applying what I learned at Mudd to the real world, both technical and non-technical. My E80 skills especially have come in handy, since I’ve had to do a lot of debugging under the pressure of deadlines and demos. I even got to travel to Germany this past April and help present some Intel demos at a large industrial trade show in Hanover.” This fall she began pursuing a master’s in computer science at Georgia Tech with a specialization in robotics. She hopes to degrees from Mudd and Georgia Tech to work on cutting-edge robots. Isabel Martos-Repath (engineering) is starting her
second year of graduate school at Northeastern University, where she has been working in the Analog & Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit (AMSIC) Laboratory. Her lab is collaborating on an NIH-sponsored project to design a transceiver and implantable devices for a wireless neuronal activity monitoring system. The aim is that these implants can sense changes in magnetic fields of single or small groups of neurons and then communicate that
took a short trip up to Vancouver, BC, for a week. Giulia writes, “It was absolutely stunning! After that, I came back home to Santa Barbara and have been working full-time at FLIR Systems. I’ve spent my weekends enjoying the sunshine and beautiful California coast.” Casey Gardner (engineering) spent the summer in
Boston as part of the Northeastern-HMC Summer Research Exchange. There, he worked on a project to optimize the design of new buildings to better and more cost-effectively withstand natural hazards while also taking the time to explore the city. Kinjal Shah (CS) works as a software engineer at
Facebook on their probabilistic programming languages team. Lydia Sylla (engineering) worked during the
summer at a local escape room and went hiking and volunteered with the Appalachian Mountain Club. She moved to Boston and joined the manufacturing engineering team at Formlabs in the fall.
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