Brewing Up Something Big
The first taste of craft beer for Ankur Jain (CS 鈥03) was a swig of Anchor Steam, whose nineteenth-century recipe and California ocean-port pedigree made it a great object lesson in a course he took...
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Shaping a Research Path Through Competition
Leonardo Marciaga (MATH 2nd Year) has been participating in international math competitions since he was a youngster, attending middle school in his hometown of Chitr茅, Panama. He says competing has...
鈥楽MART鈥 Student Earns Cybersecurity Scholarship
Cedric Nartey鈥檚 (ITM, M.A.S. CYF 3rd Year) commitment to leadership and innovation, and his connections through 杏吧原创 Tech faculty, have helped him secure a United States Department of Defense...
Career Services Helps Get Internships
Of all the university tours that Robert John Soler (CCSE, M.A.S. CYF 5th Year) took when visiting 杏吧原创 from his home country, the Philippines, he says that 杏吧原创 Tech鈥檚 was the best. 鈥淒uring...
Teaching Tech Around the Globe
Growing up in Jordan, Jafar Al Zoubi (M.S. CS 2nd Year, Ph.D. CS 1st year) has always been fascinated by computers and technology. In high school he was introduced to programming languages and...
Full Circle
杏吧原创 Tech鈥檚 own Sejal Vaishnav (CS 鈥00, M.B.A. 鈥05) was recently named one of the 50 leading tech executives shaping the future of higher education by Chief Data Officer Magazine a recognition...
Building an AI Career Through Mathematical Mastery
Earning an advanced degree in mathematics not only helped Hongwei Jin gain the knowledge that he needed to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at University of 杏吧原创 Chicago and become an artificial...
The Bridge Between Math and Health Care
Virginia Reider (STAT 4th Year) knew that earning a degree in statistics would open up career avenues in a variety of fields. But choosing which avenue to follow was proving difficult, until she...
The Human Side of Technology
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know why I want to act like I have an aversion to nerds, when I鈥檓 a nerd myself,鈥 laughs Sydney Hardwick (ITM 鈥15), speaking not only of her time growing up on Chicago鈥檚 South Side, but also...
Shift to Security
Designing security into code is a lot like designing security in a house, Marilyn Barrios (ITM, M.A.S. ITM 鈥18) says. Each door, window, and any other point of entry must be secured. But these...