1990s Rex Black ’90 has finished work on the third edition of his first book, Managing the Testing Process, which was released in August 2009.
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Michael Stiber MS ’90, PhD ’92 has been promoted to professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, where he is the interim director of the Computing and Software Systems Program.
Gaurav Bhasin MS ’98, MBA ’06 is currently a vice president at Pagemill Partners where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, strategic capital raises, and private placements. He is interested in meeting with technology companies and may be reached at gbhasin@pmib.com.
Doug Walters ’90 completed his 7-day, 545-mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles on June 6, 2009. He raised nearly $16K in the fight to end AIDS and help people live longer and stronger. For more information, please visit www.tofighthiv.org/goto/Doug.Walters.
Vincent Gau MS ’98, PhD’01, founder and CEO of GeneFluidics, Inc., writes that its Proteus Robotic System has received the New Product Award from the Association for Laboratory Automation at LabAutomation2009.
David Wang ’91 is country manager of China for RF Micro Devices, Inc. and has also been promoted to director of Asia sales. He has been elected to the Council of China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA) and serves as vice chairman of CSIA’s IC assembly and testing branch. Hani Alexander MS ’93, PhD ’98 joined Alvarez & Marsal as a senior director in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles. Corey Bennett MS ’95, PhD ’00 is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, where he has been continuing his work on temporal imaging which he started as a graduate student. His team recently won the 2009 R&D 100 Award for this technology.
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J.J. Blumenkranz ’95 was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Clement Cheng ’95 is celebrating 10 years of private practice in intellectual property. Joel Elad ’95 is co-authoring a book, Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies with Damien Stolarz ’03. Frank J. Shih MS ’95, MS ’97, PhD ’02 was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor at Seattle University.
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Robert G. Trazo ’95, a principal engineer at Southern California Geotechnical, Inc. and his wife, Viengxong Gimo (Chanphianamvong) Trazo ’94 (Art) recently welcomed the birth of their daughter, Olivia Audrey Trazo on February 12, 2009. Their son, Grant Luke Trazo, was born on September 1, 2006.
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Julian Hsu ’97 (Japanese), MS ’00, MBA ’08 and Vanessa Dang Hsu ’97 (Japanese) welcomed their third daughter, Alyssa Yukiko Hsu, who was born on June 24th, 10:45am, in Laguna Hills, Calif.
Wesley Negus ’98, MS ’00 was recently elected chair of the Surfrider Foundation’s West Los Angeles / Malibu Chapter and also continues to run his surfboard company 9:Fish. See more at http://www.9fishsurf.com. Ramanan Thiagarajah ’98, MBA ’09 graduated with honors from UCLA Anderson. Brian Crossman MS ’99 was appointed Director of Installation Engineering at Thales In-Flight Systems in Irvine, Calif.
2000s Gerard Au ’00 worked on “Making ‘IT’ Green” at UCLA. In addition, he is currently president-elect of the UCLA Staff Assembly and a junior delegate on the Council of UC Staff Assemblies. Naomi (Strauss) Azulai ’00, MS ’01 has been working in Houston, Texas since 2002, and earned her professional engineering license in 2005. In March 2008, she received the “Emerging Leader Award” from the Water Environment Association of Texas. Currently, she is staying at home with her infant son. Yuval Zukerman ’00 graduated as Class Marshall from Harvard University Extension pro, earning a master’s in information technology with a specialization in software engineering. “UCLA gave me an excellent springboard for learning and fed my drive to progress on my career.” He is currently a senior technical architect with Molecular, based in Boston, Mass. Tim Diep ’01 is an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.
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