Student and Alumni Stories

Building Skills from Scratch

(M.A.S. DATA SCIENCE ’17)

Guoxuan Hao says the Illinois Tech data science program grants opportunities to intelligent students without strong backgrounds in data science or analytics to become top data scientists or data...

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Opening Doors Through Research

(COMPUTER SCIENCE ’16)

Emily Warman (CS ’16) conducted research with Associate Professor Aron Culotta, the head of Illinois Tech’s Text Analysis in the Public Interest Lab, creating a reusable framework to predict the...

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A Continuing Journey to Better Opportunities

(Ph.D. APPLIED MATHEMATICS ’17)

In 2000 Julienne Kabre emigrated to Chicago from Burkina Faso in West Africa, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics. For nine years she owned a small business in the city...

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An Academic Path

(M.A.S. MATHEMATICAL FINANCE ’12/Ph.D. APPLIED MATHEMATICS ’16)

Tao Chen was attracted to Illinois Tech for its Chicago location and drawn to the city for its position as a financial center. Another reason for his decision to attend Illinois Tech: renowned...

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A Solid Combination

(APPLIED MATHEMATICS ’09)

After graduating from Illinois Tech, Kevin Ventullo earned a Ph.D. in pure mathematics at UCLA. He spent a year teaching at McGill University, but left academia to join Facebook in its Boston office...

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