The Solitary Search for a Cure
When her son was a toddler, Swapna Sasidharan (M.A.S. ITM ’10) grew increasingly concerned with his development. He did not crawl until he was three and a half years old, and was delayed in many other...
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Ahead of the Curve
“I was where I was when I was,” he says via telephone from India, where he is serving his second term as an independent member in the upper house of India’s Parliament, representing Bangalore and the...
Brewing Up Something Big
The first taste of craft beer for Ankur Jain (CS ’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...
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 Chitré, Panama. He says competing has...
‘SMART’ Student Earns Cybersecurity Scholarship
Cedric Nartey’s (ITM, M.A.S. CYF 3rd Year) commitment to leadership and innovation, and his connections through Illinois 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 Illinois from his home country, the Philippines, he says that Illinois Tech’s was the best. “During...
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
Illinois Tech’s own Sejal Vaishnav (CS ’00, M.B.A. ’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 Illinois 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...