GRADUATES OF 2007

• IMRAN MASOOD AKBARÂ Imran will be working at a solar cell startup in Livermore after going scuba diving in Monterey.
  
  
• ALEXANDER MENEZES CARTER will be spending a year in Brazil with my family after graduation, then will be going to Graduate School...either in Mathematics or Computer Science, most likely.
  
  
• GREGORY ANDREW CHANAN With University Distinction. Greg will be staying at Stanford as a Masters Student in Computer Science. He will also be working as a research assistant in the Distributed Systems Group.
  
  
• RISHI CHOPRA Rishi graduated at the end of winter quarter and began a job as an actuarial analyst with Mercer HR Consulting and works in the retirement practice, where pension plans are valued so companies know how much they need to put in each year (among other things). ``Being an actuary is a great fit for an MCS major as it requires strong math and stats and some CS to use the software. It's highly recommended if you don't mind taking exams for a few more years!'' Rishi said it was his advisor Brad who got him on the track of being an actuary when he wasn't sure about grad school or going to work. He did and the rest is history.
  
  
• KATRIN LISBETH COX With Departmental Honors/ Biology track. After graduation, Katrin will take some time off to travel and look for a job in the computer science industry.
  
  
• CHAITANYA J.K. EKANADHAM With University Distinction. Chaitu double majored in MCS and Symbolic Systems (honors). In the fall, he will return to his home state to enroll in the Mathematics Ph.D. program at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. There, he hopes to research the mathematical and computational aspects of neuroscience.
  
  
• GEOFFREY DAVID EVANS Geoff will be working at a consulting firm in San Francisco next year.
  
  
• SATYAN SURESH GAJWANI Satyan is earning a minor in Economics, major in Mathematical and Computational Science, and a masters in Management Science and Engineering. Though originally considering a CS major or an Econ major, he found both to be too constricting; MCS was perfect as it offered flexibility and breadth in his numerous topics of interest. In addition, both Brad and Helen were super helpful with accommodating any requests. Next year, he'll be a Structured Finance trader at Lehman Brothers in New York, primarily dealing with Asset Backed Securities.
  
  
• JACKSON JACOB GARTON Next year J.J. will be living in San Francisco and working in Menlo Park as an Analyst at a Makena Capital, a capital management firm.
  
  
• RAVI GROVER With Distinction; elected to PhiBetaKappa. Cotermed in Statistics while working for Zazzle as a User Interface Engineer for two years. Learned both data and web presentation/user interface skills; now Ravi works for Facebook as a Data Analyst, where both skills are required. So things have fallen into place quite nicely!
  
  
• DAVID CHUNHSIAO KAO May go to graduate school in UK for Master's in Finance, or working in Irvine as a Risk Data Analyst.
  
  
• PAWEL MICHAL KROLIKOWSKI Next year attending Univ of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in pursuit of a PhD in Economics
  
  
• HUI HUANG LEE Elected to PhiBetaKappa. After graduation, Hui Huang will be working over the summer as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs for the principal strategies and structured credit groups. Immediately after, he will be returning to San Francisco to work with Clarium Capital a global macro hedge fund. He also received graduate school offers from Oxford and Cambridge in Operations Research and Financial Mathematics. After a short stint in the industry, he will decided whether or not to matriculate at graduate school immediately, or after several years.
  
  
• TAI-JIN LEE With Departmental Honors Concentration in CS theory; more specifically, algorithms. Most of classes focus on diff. types of algorithms and algoithmic paradigms with a couple classes of applic. of algorithms such as cryptography and natural language processing. Will be staying at Stanford for coterm in MS & E
  
  
• REBECCA MEREDITH LOEW Next year she will be working as a program manager for Microsoft in Mountain View on Power Point.
  
  
• AMRITA NATH Amrita will be at Stanford in the fall to complete a Master's in Statistics. she hopes to do a Ph.D. in the near future.
  
  
• BRIAN NOBORU NOGUCHI Brian is staying in the area, launching two companies: one about online video advertising and another that is developing a patent search engine.
  
  
• RYAN ROLLIN OBLAK Ryan will be working for PrepMe Inc., a Silicon Valley startup as a software engineer after graduation.
  
  
• HEATHER DUNDEE PAYNE This July Heather will start working in asset management as an analyst in the Account Management Group of BlackRock in New York.
  
  
• BENJAMIN TUCKER SAVAGE Ben will start working full time at a Menlo Park Incubator. Can't tell you the name because it is still in stealth mode and not supposed to be talked about much. With a dozen other Stanford/Berkeley students he will be brainstorming/programming/starting companies together, under the guidance of a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist. The goal is to learn about the internet, business and entrepreneurship through DOING. They already have at least 4 web-based businesses currently under development. After several years of working, he intends to return to grad school to continue studying Statistics or Applied Math.
  
  
• ASHFAQUE SIDDIQUI Immediately after Stanford Ashfaque is joining an economic consulting firm called LECG in the San Francisco area and plan on applying for graduate programs in Finance in the coming year.
  
  
• CHANNING MO-YIN WONG Will be doing a PhD at stanford next year in CME.