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Alumni Connections 2000 - 2009
2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009
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Scott Amsden, B.S. '00
Candidate area: Power Engineering
Currently, I am working in the Power Management Department of Tacoma Power. I owe a lot to Professor Christie for preparing me to do the work of my current position.
The most notable part of my new job is that I am the project lead for the tidal power project in the Tacoma Narrows. Tacoma Power is the first company to look at generating power from the tides in Puget Sound. They recieved their FERC preliminary permit in February of 2006. The project is currently taking measurements of the currents in the Narrows and modeling them to determine the feasibility of installing in-stream hydrokinetic turbines into the Narrows to generate electricity. There are many challenges and obstacles involved with this project but it is hoped that tidal power will prove to be an environmentally friendly source of green power.
Chris Carlson, B.S. '00
Candidate area: Signal Processing
Advisor: Helene Obradovich
Place of internship: Intel Corp.
Since graduation, I've been working with Intel in Hillsboro, OR. I am a senior hardware design engineer, working on developing post-silicon validation platforms for various products mostly in the embedded space.
I have a 14 month old daughter, and starting next week I begin my sabbatical. 8 weeks paid vacation for every 7 years of service. Thankfully, my time as an intern counts towards this milestone.
Now if I could only make our stock price go up?
Aaron Ford, B.S. '00
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
Currently working with electrical/control systems for Pipeline Systems Inc. in Concord, CA. www.pipesys.com
Before moving to Concord, I worked in Chicago, Pittsburgh PA, New York City, and South Carolina.
Aiwen Guo, M.S. '00
Candidate area: Medical image processing
Advisor: Professor Haralick
I have been working for Microsoft as a software engineer since graduation.
Edith Novy (formerly Bailey), M.S. '00
Candidate area: VLSI
Advisor: Carl Sechen
Place of internship: ATL Ultrasound
I'm happy to report I still use my EE degree on a daily basis :)
Currently I'm doing digital verification at Atheros Communications in Santa Clara, CA. Some of the cool things I get to work on include next generation wireless semiconductor devices (WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, etc).
Prior to Atheros, I was at Matrix Semiconductor, a 3-D memory start-up. I joined Matrix after a couple of years at Cypress Semiconductor.
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F.L. Dan Dankert, B.S. '01
Candidate area: VLSI
Advisor: Carl Sechen
After graduation, I accepted a position at AMD in Austin, TX. During my employment, I went on to obtain my MSEE at UT Austin specializing in circuit design.
I recently transferred to AMD's Advanced Architecture and Technology Lab where I will be primarily researching advanced circuit design.
This transfer brought me and my family back to the Seattle area and I couldn't be happier!
Mark Hirota, B.S. '01
Candidate area: Digital Systems
Place of internship: Intel Corporation
After a 6-month internship with Intel in 1999, I was hired on as a Recent College Grad in 2001, and began working in the Enterprise Platform Group at the Dupont, WA site. I've been working there ever since, doing validation on Intel's Xeon processors and server class chipsets. During that time, I've met scores of fellow employees who are UW grads -- go Huskies!
I'm happily married and have 3 beautiful daughters with my wife and we currently reside in my home town of Kent.
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Hans Isern, B.S. '02
Candidate area: Power, Robotics
Advisor: Alex Mamishev
Place of internship: Boeing, Pacific Northwest National Labs
I am currently leading sales and marketing for a startup in the Los Angeles area that develops and trades renewable energy. I recently obtained an MBA from UCLA Anderson. I'm fairly happy living by the beach in LA, but know that one day I'll want to move back to Seattle.
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Daniel Daoura, M.S. '03
Candidate area: Software Engineering
Advisor: Amy Feldman
Place of internship: Boeing
Eddy Ferre, M.S. '03
Candidate area: DSP-Robotics
Hello!
After working for a little over a year in Telecommunication, I'm now a Simulation Software Engineer in the aerospace industry, working on Verification and Validation of embedded systems for Boeing and Airbus aircrafts with Redmond-based company called Triakis (http://www.triakis.com).
I've entered my second year of marriage, and I have a 3-month old son named Manu.
Kisung Lee, Ph.D. '03
Candidate area: Signal Processing in Nuclear Medicine
Advisor: Tom K. Lewellen & Paul E. Kinahan
I work for Department of Radiologic Science in Korea University as an assistant professor.
Minh D Nguyen, B.S. '03
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
Place of internship: Siemens
I graduated from UW with a BSEE 3 years ago and have been working for Boeing for the last 2 years. I'm going to sound like a Boeing recruiter, but I have to say Boeing treats and pays its engineers very well ;). I'm getting engaged this September and will be vacationing in Maui this December. All is good, except that every now and then i have nightmares about Peckol's final project, about not making it to my final exam, and not being able to have enough credits to graduate!!
Vu Pham, B.S. '03
Candidate area: RF/Microwave
Advisor: Yasua Kuga
Place of internship: FAA
Year graduated: 2003
Degree(s) received: BSEE
After graduation, I worked for Lockheed Martin, System Integration, located in Owego, NY as an associate Microwave Engineer. After couple of years, I decided to move back to Seattle and work for the Federal Aviation Administrations, as a spectrum/Communications engineer.
Mike Strumpf, M.S. '03
Candidate area: Distributed Microsystems
Advisor: Denise Wilson
Since graduating I moved to Madison, WI then to Chicago, IL and have ended up in Longmont, CO, which is just north of Boulder. I am working as the Coffee and Tea Traffic and Quality Control Administrator for Allegro Coffee in Thornton, CO.
Allan Yeung, M.S. '03
Candidate area: Digital and Analog Circuits
Place of internship: Intel
Year graduated: 03
Degree(s) received: MSEE
I work as an Analog Engineer at Intel Corporation in their Dupont, Washington office. Specifically, we work on designing the memory (DDR3, FBD) interface for Intel's server platforms.
I have been living in Tacoma, Washington for the past 2 years, and I will move back to Seattle soon.
In my free time, I have been enjoying reading good books, traveling, swimming, and surfing.
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Chris Derouin McKinley, B.S. '04
Candidate area: Antenna and RF Microwave
Advisor: Yasuo Kuga
Place of internship: Impinj, Inc.
Currently working as an antenana and RF microwave engineer at The Boeing Company. Still married to Paul.
Jessica Tsao, B.S. '04
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
After graduating, I went to work designing transmission lines at PacifiCorp, a large electric utility based in Portland, Oregon. I moved back to Seattle last November and decided it was time for a change, so I am now working as a paralegal, studying for the LSAT, and planning to go to law school in Fall of 2008.
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Vy C. Chau, B.S. '05
Candidate area: Digital - VLSI
I work at The Boeing Company in Everett, WA as a Electrical / Electronic Wire Engineer. I am also pursuing a Master of Science - System Engineering at UMR - University of Missouri - Rolla and expected graduation on Spring 2009.
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Nicholas Miller, B.S. '06
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Amy Feldman
Working at a building controls company. Doing well.
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Luca Cazzanti, Ph.D. '07
Candidate area: Signal Processing
Advisor: Maya Gupta
I am returning to work full-time at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the UW. I develop signal processing and machine learning algorithms and systems.
Seth Copeland, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Embedded Systems
Advisor: Amy Feldman
Place of internship: Honeywell
I am working at Philips Medical Systems in Bothell as a software engineer. I do embedded system work on a very cool Ultrasound machine and do most of my programming in C++. I am getting married in December and that's about it.
Daniel Draper, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Embedded Systems
Advisor: Helene Obradovich
Place of internship: Boeing
I am currently working for Fluke Networks in Everett as part of their Advanced Engineering Program. For the next 2-and-a-half years I will be working with senior engineers on rotating engineering assignments (hardware, embedded, software, etc.) and also working towards a graduate degree. After that, I'll settle into a permanent role where I think I'll fit best at Fluke. I'm definitely excited!
Nicholas Gartin, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Analog/Embedded Systems
Currently I am employed by Analog Devices, ADI www.analog.com. I am training in Boston, MA as a FSE (Field Sales Engineer). Following training, sometime in late October of 2007 I will return to the state of Washington and be working out of my Bellevue office. I could not have found a better job and I feel quite lucky. Analog Device is a 26 billion dollar company and treats their employees with the utmost integrity. I hope to work hard now so that I can retire early and travel.
Laura Grupp, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
Harvey Ho, M.S. '07
Candidate area: MEMS
Advisor: Babak Parviz
Seunghyun Hwang, B.S. '07
Candidate area: ECE- Georgia Tech
Lina Jiang, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
Place of internship: Boeing
Seongho Kim, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
I am working on Cypress Semi.
Nathan Kohagen, M.S. '07
Candidate area: Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Richard Shi
Place of internship: Cypress Semiconductor
I am an Electrical Design Engineer Senior at Cypress Semiconductor at the Lynnwood, WA design center. I am on the mixed signal team working on the next generation of PSoC series of chips.
I was married while still an undergrad and we now have 3 children. We are blessed to have just recently bought a home north of campus and we plan to stick around in the area.
Fanghong Li, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Embedded Systems
Place of internship: Impinj
I just started working for Cypress up in Lynnwood in August of 2007. Here I'm working as part of the digital design team to develop the next generation PSoC3 chips. This is a great place to work and to learn things!
Kim Logotaeao, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Embedded Systems
Advisor: Helene Obradovich
Place of internship: Boeing
I am working at Boeing with the 747/767/777 Cabin Databases group.
Stanley R. Oribello, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Digital Communications/Electromagnetics
Employed at The Boeing Company as a Design Engineer for the 737 Electrical Subsystems.
Kyaw Phyo, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Analog Circuits
Advisor: Helene
Working at Puget Sound Energy as Associate Meter Engineer since Dec 17th 2007.
Min Ho Song, B.S. '07
Candidate area: DPS
Place of internship: Honeywell
Working as a web analyst at a private company called ZAAZ in downtown Seattle.
Marcel Volosen, B.S. '07
Candidate area: Biomedical Instrumentation
Place of internship: General Electric
I am working in Southern California; Costa Mesa in Orange County to be exact. I work for GE as a Sales Engineer and I'm loving every moment of it. Southern California is AWESOME. Although I do miss the UW =(.
Kurt Yazici, B.S. '07
Candidate area: EE - Embedded
Advisor: Amy Feldman
Immediately following graduation from our department I started working for Microsoft in Redmond as a Technical Account Manager in their Display Media Operations Group. Essential I deal with clients who are digital advertising agencies putting their creative display ads on the MSN network. My job involves building and testing their ads and then working with sales teams to ensure the agencie's experience working with Microsoft is excellent. It's great fun and I've spent half my 7 weeks here traveling and training outside of the office.
I work with a fantastic team of very smart young individuals from amazing universities and backgrounds from all over the world.
I've already had three speaches from Steve Ballmer (MSCEO), one from Bill Gates, and two from Kevin Turner (COO).
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Will Biederman, B.S. '08
Candidate area: IC Design
Advisor: Brian Otis
Place of internship: JPL, Honeywell, Stryker Year graduated: 08
Heading to Berkeley for grad school!
Yue Du, B.S. '08
Candidate area: Embeded system
Place of internship: Intel
Lula Samuel, B.S. '08
Candidate area: Power Electronics
Advisor: Erica Coleman
Place of internship: IBM
Pahnit Seriburi, Ph.D. '08
Candidate area: BioMEMS
Advisor: Deirdre R. Meldrum
Place of internship: Washington Research Foundation
I am currently a Washington Research Foundation Fellow working on ways to commericalize UW Lab-on-chip technology. I can be reached via pahnit@yahoo.com for more information.
Clement Sun, M.S. '08
Candidate area: DSP, Controls, Analog, Automation
Advisor: Deirdre Meldrum
I am going to be spending the next seven years in Texas earning dual MD/PhD degrees from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the University of Texas at Austin's Bioengineering Department. I'll be back in Seattle in... 2015. Or, that's the plan.
Dustin Williams, B.S. ' 08
Candidate area: VLSI
Working for Intel, nothing much to report yet, just got down here to Hillsboro.
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