Rice University
December Commencement Ceremony
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Tudor Fieldhouse
10 a.m.
2024 Degree Recipients
The recipients whose names are listed hereafter completed their degrees in August 2024, or are scheduled to complete degree requirements in December 2024. The information about degrees printed in this program is not official. Inquiries regarding graduates of the university should be directed to the registrar.
Doctor of Philosophy
AUGUST 2024
Rachael May Alfant
Shyam Pravin Bhakta
Lokesh Boominathan
Daniel Christopher
Bourgeois
Paul William Winter Burch
Agnishom Chattopadhyay
Feng-Yang Chen
Jinhang Chen
Lei Chen
Arindam Chowdhury
E-Lim Lydia Wu Chung
Carson Calvin Cole
Aditya Pradip Desai
Esteban Dodero Rojas
Jacques Doumani
Mahmoud El-Youssef
Iris Etchevarren Acquarone
Diego Alonso Fallas Padilla
Shaoxun Fan
DECEMBER 2024
Dauda Umaru Adamu
Priyanka Ali
Tasfia Azim
Daniela Maria Barrios
Santos
Michael Beauregard
Kangjie Bian
Patrick John Blonien
Lucas Bernard Clatanoff
Brown
Melissa Cloutier
Anja Conev
Chelsea Diane Dacus
Sushovan Das
Yuxuan Ding
Yingying Fan
Quintin Gorman
Lindsay Diane Graham
Michael Shane Harless
Chia Hsieh
Marina Elon Hutchins
Rodrigo Ibarra Garcia
Padilla
Eva Yi Jin
Elysa Lam Jui
Shih-Chieh Kao
Dasol Kim
Jung Y. Kim
Junhyung Kim
Min Ju Kim
Bryson Randol Thomas Kisner
Mei-Li Laracuente
Sangsin Lee
Muxiao Li
Siyang Ling
Yunke Liu
Zhen Liu
Zirui Liu
Xinyue Luo
Sophia Natalla Martinez Abbud
Meredith McCullough
Thao N. Nguyen
Yesmar Semaj Oyarzun
Ashish Pal
Tianyang Pan
Jayant Rajendra Patil
Justin Henry Porter
Ciril Samuel Prasad
Carlos Andres Quintero
Pena
Haad Yaqub Rathore
Caleigh Roleck
Sreehari Kalavampara Saju
Trevor Jun Shimokusu
Kavya Lahari Singampalli
Yingru Song
Zachary James Spaulding
Julia Szabo
Ruixiang Tang
Christina Gabrielle Taylor
Xiaokun Teng
Md Shajedul Hoque Thakur
Andrew Jonathon Torma
Bilyana M. Tzolova
James Matthew Webster
Stephen Westich
McKell J. Woodland
Han Wu
Jiarong Xing
Han Yu
Xiaohan Zhang
Binyu Zhao
John Cameron Zito
Romanos Fasoulis
Yuren Feng
Lupe Flores
Sibo Gao
Ray M. Hagimoto
Claire Vivian Hammond
John Her
Andrew Lorin Hitt
Mingchao Jiang
Yilong Ju
Maryam Khalid
Nessa Kim
James Owen Larkin
William James Larsen
Dongjoo Lee
Boning Li
Xin Luo
Nishant Mehrotra
Dibya Deepta Mishra
Rachel Grace Mohl
Noel Molina Limon
Kyle James Myers
Chiagoziem Ngwadom
Ronan William O’Connell
Timothy Allen Oxendahl
Nataira Marie Pagan Pagan
Brenna M. Ram
John Patrick Rotter
Paul Evans Savas
Christopher Patrick Senn
Tanner Alan Shadoan
Ruiheng Song
Anibal Tafur Gutierrez
Shiyu Tan
Xiaoyin Tian
Xinyu Wu
Yaofeng Xie
Qi Xu
Rui Xu
Fangfei Yang
Te Faye Yap
Yu Yin
Yigao Yuan
Zewen Zhang
Hanlin Zhu
Ye Zhu
Doctor of Musical Arts
DECEMBER
2024
Timothy Jordan Roy
Master of Arts
AUGUST 2024
Aliyu Aremu Ahmad
Katherine Susan Alexander
Ana Victoria Benavides Figueroa
Kaitlyn Marie Birkhoff
Thi Thanh Ha Bui
Linqi Cheng
Abigail Katelyn CroweTipton
Zachary M. Feltey
Mauro Eder Florez Rozo
DECEMBER 2024
Mert Akman
Jazmin Argueta-Rivera
Moses Ohene Biney
Chelsea Diane Dacus
Nyah Davis
Edgar Gevorgyan
Lauren Harvey
Michael Joseph Kurian
Abha Lal
Yu Fu
Pauline Goodson
Daniel Pendleton Graeff
Michael Shane Harless
Santiago Hendrichs
Kirsten Hilson
Chia-Chien Hsu
Nghi Nguyen Van La
Fernando Chegjua Liu
Lopez Yu Lu
Steven Luo
Rongke Lyu
Sophia Natalla Martinez Abbud
Mohammad Saeed Mirzaei
Tu Anh Nguyen
Megan Katherine Oakes
Shahill Jerod Parsons
Shengyue Piao
Charlotte Jane Randolph
Dinora Nicole Rodriguez
Yuchen Rui
Lul Sharif
Karla Jeanette Silva
Zachary James Spaulding
Dongjie Xu
Yihua Xu
Binyu Zhao
John Cameron Zito
Mostafa Mohieldin Moham Lotfy
Megan Rose McSpedon
Ian Avram Milden
Isaiah Matan Richmond Mindich
Dibya Deepta Mishra
Weiwei Mo
Adebola Michael Ogundare
Alejandra Osejo Varona Rui Qu
Autumn Raynor
Keren Reichler
Michelle Rieman
Alma Karen Rosas
Rodriguez
Jakira Silas
John Douglas Steinman
Jose Humberto Torres
Xi Wang
Yue Wang
David Nathaniel Wilson
Anthony M. Zdrojewski
Zhou Zhou
Master of Science
AUGUST 2024
Abdulaziz Mohammed
Alameri
Taylor Beisler Carnahan
Josue Casco-Rodriguez
Ana Daniela del Rio Pulido
DECEMBER 2024
Chima Adiole
Morgan Brinson
Benjamin Hanson Cheung
MohammadMoein Darman
Midhuna Duraisamy
Suganthi
Moayed Haji Ali
Ulises Felix Rendon
Yucheng Guo
Sarah Dawn Hamade
Adam Johnston
Naiming Liu
Zhaobo Mei
Edward Duc Hien Nguyen
Martin Sevilla
Eliot Hutton Solomon
Omran Taqi
Hang Wang
Wenjing Wu
J. Alexander Orion Yates
Jianlin Zhou
Yunlu Han
Zhengyi Han
Kunal Lakhanpal
Alexander Ean Lathem
Siyu Liao
Aleida Machorro Ortiz
Ananya Muguli
Master of Bioengineering
AUGUST 2024
Vikram Girish Chavare Zohaib Iqbal
DECEMBER 2024
Raeedah Hassan Alsayoud
Sittichoke Dechanun
Rongshu Jin
Michael Abbiew Larbie
William Taylor Main
Esteban Patricio Ortiz
Khushbu Pahwa
Akhil Reddy Pakala
Anderson Roy Phillips
Kimia Saedi
Ayesha Tariq
Kayla Graciela Vokt
Jianxin Wang
Jing Wang
Haotian Wei
Joshua Joseph Lewis West
Zilin Xiao
Guangyao Zheng
Annanya Vijay Pingale
Somesh Skanda Ramar
Master of Chemical Engineering
DECEMBER 2024
Mohammed Amaa Alkandery
Ali Ghadanfar
Vignesh Shanmugam
Joselin Ruth Rapalo Guerrero
Kachun Ryan Szeto
Master of Civil and Environmental Engineering
DECEMBER
2024
Yichang Lin
Master of Computer Science
AUGUST 2024
Parker Edward Beck
Jie-Si Chen
DECEMBER 2024
Srivatsava Suhas Prakash
Achanta
Kaushal Kumar Agarwal
Sanjeev Balavanthapu
Nikhil Rozuala Banerji
Haitham Batneej
Carter Allen Bodinger
Liam Boubouleix
Chengxuan Cai
Zhiyuan Cai
Chun-Min Chan
Yidan Cheng
Adeline Yao Yi Chew
Nikhil Chigali
Rung-De Chu
Jacob Paris Cox
Divya Dadi
Bryce DiMedio
Tram Quynh Doan
Pavan Kumar Pranav
Donepudi
Yiwei Du
Dziyana Dutava
Keerthana Golla
Weihang Guo
Saakshi Gupta
Feichi Han
Kuangxi He
Cheng-Yen Hsu
Jiaqi Hu
Zhanhua Hu
Qiyang Huang
Steve Allen Hudgson
Kuang-Tse Hung
Matthew Garber
Dante Miller
Sher Shah
Wenjun Zhu
Laura Margaret Jabr
Anu Jain
Chia-Wei Jan
Jeffrey Joan Joan Sam
Joseph Karippaparambil
Kuruvila
Swanand Sanjay Khonde
Tun Han Ko
Hsiu-Chieh Lee
Chengyuan Li
Jiahui Li
Songchen Li
Ziying Li
Jiarui Liang
Jiayuan Liang
Yu-Cheng Liao
Zh-Hao Lin
Haoyuan Liu
Wei Li Liu
Miguel Angel Lopez-Medina
Xiang Lou
Haoting Luo
Wenqing Luo
Nicholas Martin
Anusha Mishra
Joseph Mohanty
Srinivas Babu Mulagala
Mary Nam
Aathmika Neelakanta
Tuan Minh Nguyen
Ji Xuan Ni
Yihan Niu
Pei-Chi Pan
Divit Patidar
Isita Polamarasetti
Mihir Prakash
Haochen Qiu
Yun Shan Nicole Qu
Ross Christian Roberts
James Glenn Robertson
Janhavi Hemant Sathe
Matthew Jordan Selby
Huahao Shang
Taoyang Shi
Anupreet Sihra
Linshengyi Sun
Pranav Suryadevara
Priyam Thakkar
Haonan Wang
Sung-Yi Wang
Yen-Chiao Wang
Yufan Wang
Zhao Wang
Luke William Watson
Mo Kiu Wong
Dong-Lin Wu
Zheng Wu
Wen Yang
Xiaoyu Yuan
Jiangguo Zhang
Yan Zhang
Xuemeng Zhao
Jiahao Zhou
Master of Computational and Applied Mathematics
DECEMBER 2024
Yik Haw Teoh
Chuyang Wang
Master of Computational Science and Engineering
DECEMBER 2024
Sicong Chen Xing Chen
Master of Data Science
AUGUST 2024
Danny Han Boone
Kylee Kay Brown
Christopher Garrett
Ceyda Kora Gursel
Ilyas Kussanov
DECEMBER 2024
Adekunle Oladimeji
Adegboyega
Aldo Aaron Alvarez
Gutierrez
Wensheng Chu
Chih Jung Fang
John Thomas Lattal
Somwipa Lotongkum
Ilya Lutsenko
Jay Ryan Navarro Mapanao
Olutobi Olutimi Ogunleye
Yutong Xue
Yusheng Yang
Efosa Emmanuel Osazuwa
Prannay Parihar
Mehrnoosh Saneifar
Melody Anne Taormina
Fredrik Skale Vaage
Benjamin Lee Weideman
Lingbo Xing
Yijie Zhou
Yushan Gao
Aushanae Haller
Sirui Hao
Jacob Lapp
Qizhi Li
Xingyue Li
Jieming Luan
Kaiyan Ma
Cunyi Mao
Jason Nguyen
Zhen Qin
Junyao Ren
Mark Shapiro
Jayant Thomas
Zhuowen Ye
Jianguang Zhuang
Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering
AUGUST 2024
Lucas Domingo Moreira Bogado
DECEMBER 2024
Freddy Andres Angarita
Cuesta
Yen-Yu Chien
Dominique Duliepre
Elise Rain Gibney
Chen Huang
Yanlin Jin
Wenzheng Li
Xinran Li
Zening Li
Jiaqi Liu
Xiangxin Wan
Kaijie Wang
Jiaer Xia
Juncheng Zhou
Ziyu Zhou
Master of Engineering Management and Leadership
AUGUST 2024
Aaron Slkee Jo
DECEMBER 2024
Geetansh Agrawal
Hawazin Saeed AlGhamdi
Raeedah Hassan Alsayoud
Emilie Corall Josephson
Julieta Mariano
Christopher Edward Ordoñez
Gautam Ketanbhai Patel
Yash Ashok Patil
Suryanshu Pugla
Juan Ernesto Rodriguez
Swarnim Sandeep
Sandro Paolo Serpone
Shangyun Tang
Valentina Varetto
Master of Industrial Engineering
DECEMBER 2024
Nana Yaw Bawiah Xidan Zhang
Haijing Wang Alibi Zhumashev
Master of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
DECEMBER 2024
Zhuoxuan Li Dandi Wang
Master of Mechanical
DECEMBER 2024
Minuri De Silva Noah Soo-Hwan Kim
Master of Statistics
DECEMBER 2024
Alexandria Leigh Brock
Haiming Chen
Yiyang Chen
Zishuo Ding
Anthony Hu
Chenyue Huang
Linshan Jiang
Sarah Lai
Mingzhe Liu
Zhikang Liu
Chongning Wu
Engineering
Aasha Grace Ackerly Zinke
Yiyang Niu
Yunke Wan
Tian Wu
Hanpei Xu
Yizhu Yang
Yixuan Zhao
Chi Zhu
Master of Science in Applied Chemical Sciences
DECEMBER 2024
Dona Mathew Joanna Wing Yi Moy
Master of Science in Bioscience and Health Policy
DECEMBER 2024
Maxine Ziva Akrofi
Elaine Huang
Mackenzie Allyse Jones
Rachel Ray
Deepika Yerva
Master of Science in Energy Geoscience
DECEMBER 2024
Vincent Dillon Bucciarelli
Mohd Faiz Hassim
Jigo Mismanos
Bernard Wee Jun Sim
Dalmiro Zolezzi Mir
Master of Science in Environmental Analysis
DECEMBER 2024
Riley Andrew Becker
Guido Roque Bertola
Wenting Ge Coleman Paul Nickum
Solomon Nyamekye Aaron Jonathan Xu
Master of Science in Space Studies
DECEMBER 2024
Linda Delgado Libien Michael Magaletta
Master of Architecture
DECEMBER 2024
Juliet Anne Hollister Maria Alejandra Lezcano Perez
Pedro Nicolas Sanchez
Master of Music
DECEMBER 2024
Simon Peregrine Housner Sejin Park
Master of Accounting
AUGUST 2024
Vanessa Lynn Johnson Courtney Fei Miller
DECEMBER 2024
Ethan Powell
Grant Gregory Smith
Mary Claire Zogaib
Master of Business Administration
AUGUST 2024
Dominic Agyapong
Madison Grace Allen
Romaine Orlando Anglin
Shelly Nicole Cheavens
Chuku Nwani Chuku
Connor William Dahl
Mary Nerisa Feagins
DECEMBER 2024
Ife Adelona
Alishia Mohammad Ajani
Dunstan Ananyi
Navin Subhash Asthana
Brant Patrick Banks
Anjay Kumar Batra
Maame Esi Akyere Boadu
Nana Yaw Boakye
Ami Buckner
Kalyn L Bullock-Griffin
Gabriel Eduardo Castro
Helen Hsing Yun Chen
Robert Cramer Davis
Adam Wright Dyess
Onyebuchi Egolum
Chibuzor Chinedu Ejiaga
Haylee Grace Green
Wiley Spencer Green
Justin Gregory
DeAnna Sharna Gresham
Huma Fatima Hosain
Jon Aloysius Kearney
James Joseph Kirchdorfer
Jose Luis Liy
Kenneth Samuel Ogueri
Michael Raichel
Natalie Ray
Nathan Lawrence Ross
Jose Antonio Salinas
Jesse Sanchez
Renaldo Dario Simoni
Marco Paolo Solarte
Casey Matthew Sparks
Yvonne Lynette Trejo
Stephanos Zunez
Tyrell Travon Fairley
James Foster
Kennedy Nicole Gamble
Marco Garcia
Denise Gayser
Erica Gordon
Tyler James Hamilton
James Phillip Hefner
Jonathan A Hines
Joshua John Hudson
Amin Aziz Jamal
Donte Jenkins
John Y. Jo
Yaman Kadimati
Sharath Chandra Kalyanapuram
Muhammad Abu Bakar
Khalid
Brian Douglas Lanier
Hilton Tanner L’Orange
Grant Lutz
Prasanna Keshav Magge
Keshava Murthy
Justin Mauller
Jason Taylor McDaniel
Max Leonard Newton
Jeffery Kenneth Nitsche
Travis Owsley
Ravi Dineshkumar Patel
La’Tisha Rocksine Pond
Mauricio Quezada
Lutfi Saqer
Ted Joseph Seago
Michael Sedique
Clay Thomas Servin
Anthony H. Sledge
Amy Lynn Tanguay
Graham Jennings Taylor
Wei Lun Ting
Chukwuma Williams Ulasi
Emily Rose Valadez
Alexander Porter Vandiver
Traci Kristine Walker
Nova Wang
Michael Winters
Master of Energy Economics
AUGUST 2024
Narciso Abiel Cano
Maria Janela Generoso Cantre
Brendan Casey Cumming
Pranav Parag Deshpande
Florence Tseyu Fang
Gavin Braden Flanagan
Aniko Fushimi
Yiyang Guo
Ellen Halseth
Master of Global Affairs
AUGUST 2024
Maya Keona Valdez
DECEMBER 2024
Kensy M. Lopez Emilia Weske
Siqi Jia
Hanwen Kang
Murat Misir
Michelle Sprawls
HanFeng Xie
Master of Social Policy Evaluation
AUGUST 2024
Juan Manuel Gomez Gulsim Magzymova
Master of Arts in Teaching
DECEMBER 2024
Mathew Phillips
Master of Liberal Studies
DECEMBER 2024
Thaddeus Kenny
Chie Kezuka
Mark Linroth
Craig Murrin
Pameet Kaur Otal
Joaquin Alfredo Zaror Elte
Boyu Zhang
Xincheng Zhang
Haoze Zhou
Bachelor of Arts
AUGUST 2024
Andrew Bradford Adams
Akhil Sai Adusumilli
Peter Gabriel Arinze AppioRiley
Morikeoluwa Esther Ayodeji
Joshua Patrick Borja
McKenna Jane Castleberry
Emerson Doran Coronel
Jimmy Mitchell Dickantone
Gazi Fatin Fuad
DECEMBER 2024
Anisha Marie Abraham
Atira Merwan Aidarous
Susan Gregory Albano
Aishwarya Anica Ayyanathan
Jack Alexander Ben-Shoshan
Madison Ariel Blundell
Abigail Elizabeth Brehm
Ashton Tearee Brown
Charlotte Hilliard Cambor
Kobie Javon Campbell
Sritha Reddy Cheemerla
Micah Harrison Davis
Jonah Doddridge
William Ryan Doherty
Alyssa Bumi Dunbrock
Ashira Nalani Edelheit-Rice
Nathan Bernard Estiandan
Sean Fresch
Kayla Shawn Grimes
Haley Claire Hammer
Simon Jordan Hanna
Jalen Samir Hargrove
Evelyn Garza Gallardo
Berkan Gedik
Trinity Akiki Grear
Kathryn Toufic Jarjoura
Sanghyun Kim
Anisha Agrawal Lal
Carson Clay Mathews
Kevin Patrick McCanna
Wafa Mohamed
Matthew David Moore
John Tessieri Harrington
Kennedy Catherine Hart
Dustin Benjamin Ho
Muyao Huang
Conor Nakoa Hunt
Adel Iqbal
Daanesh Hyder Jamal
Andrew Kang
Hinari Philo Katzman
Mohammad Khuroo
Lia Yoon Kim
Matthew John Kobrick
Pratheek Mohankumar
Kuimanda
Sofia Saleem Lakhani
Vivian Le
Audrey Lee
Bryce Shibo Liu
Shizhe Liu
Eleanor Fellows Loden
Marcus Chengyuan Lu
Yifan Lu
Bachelor of Music
AUGUST 2024
Sanghyun Kim
DECEMBER 2024
Sajdah Muhammad
Braedon James Nutter
Natalie Alexandra Pellette
Cameron Pentland
Desmond Cooper Roberts
Davud Tuleyb Sablak
Debasree Saha
Fatou Methiour Samb
Amna Sidiq
Allison Marie Stocks
Cameron Renae Underwood
Zi Wang
Jordan Dean Whelchel
Sydney Kuo Ying
Ha-Vy Nguyen Luu
Benjamin Alexander Martinez
Caleb Joseph Matthews
Nia Nicole McCardell
Ronnie Dewayne McDonald
Nayna Nambiar
Kobe Ngo
Benison Tinh Thi Nguyen
Cecile Quyen Nguyen
Liliana Nikolay Nikolova
Omodolapo Deborah Ogunyemi
Avni Apurva Parmar
Kaylah Prakash Patel
Siddhant Milind Patil
Manasvi Paturu
Mikaili Edouard Pratt
Mainavi Reddy
Jalen Isaiah Reeves
Nitin Reganti
Sage Manu Sabharwal
Nikhil Samudrala
Shannon A. Shao
Caio Santos Skornicki
Lia Chen Stallmann
Thomas Charles Stone
Gabe Dylan Taylor
Emma Ting
Martalisa Marie Tsai
Alex Brahan Upton
Patricio Vela
Irene Ann Wang
Jinbiao Wei
Michael Lee Wong
Brian Z. Xu
Grace Dailing Xu
Jay Yu
Yasha Zemel
Benjamin Zhao
Chunzi Zhao
Michelle Zheng
Monserrat Luna
Lize Shao
Bachelor of Science
AUGUST 2024
Gazi Fatin Fuad Juliet Elizabeth Jones
DECEMBER 2024
Aishwarya Anica Ayyanathan
Madeline Brooke Belknap
Joshua August Davis
Michael Dong
Shrutika Gupta
Baotran Hoang
Amna Yahia Ibrahim
Thomas Bradley Kaldahl
Hinari Philo Katzman
Syed Murtaza Ali Kazmi
Mohammad Khuroo
Andrew Sung Kim
Elim Taffere
Shizhe Liu
Emily Kirsten Madaras
Pranav Raghunand Mandyam
Luke Moore
Ana Park
Claire Young Shi
Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering
AUGUST 2024
Claire Wilcox
Peter Jian Ming Shih
David Joseph Skwarchuk
Agustin Valles
Angelina Jiayi Xu
Jimmy Mitchell Dickantone Mina Caroline Ghayour Maneesh Parmeswaran Rian Amena Philip
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
AUGUST 2024
Kaitlyn Lily Esneault
DECEMBER 2024
Julia Cavalcanti Cooper Morgan Donnalley
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
AUGUST 2024
Natalie Alexandra Pellette Sabrina Lee Talghader Wanqi Yuan
Marlo
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
DECEMBER 2024
Franklin Shiaowei Dai
Qiantong Gao
Laxmi Giri
Jason Han
Alex Scott Hochstein
Gal Kadmon
Yifan Lu
John Burkhart Lynch
Jonathan Enoch Mak
Qing Ning
Lize Shao
Amy Zuo
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
DECEMBER 2024
Stephen Joseph Marcon
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer
Engineering
AUGUST 2024
Nathan Hsiao
DECEMBER 2024
Rachel Ashley Gu Michelle Zheng
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
AUGUST 2024
Javier Alatorre Anisha Agrawal Lal Jacob Hyunwoo Lee
DECEMBER 2024
Julianna Rae Dickman Christian Elijah Francisco
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