One Hundred Sixty-Ninth

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES COMM E NCEM ENT

Saturday May 16, 2015 1:30 pm Alumni Arena North Campus

Liesl Folks Dean Presiding Officials

An internationally distinguished researcher and transformative higher education leader, Satish K. Tripathi, PhD, was appointed the 15th president of the University at Buffalo on April 18, 2011. Tripathi, who served as UB’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs from 2004-11, has led the university in achieving significant growth in research activity, enhanced student quality and diversity, and an expanded international presence. As president, he is committed to building on this strong foundation, moving UB into the highest ranks of the nation’s leading research universities. Tripathi served as dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California-Riverside from 1997-2004. Previously, he spent 19 years as a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, and held visiting professorships at the University of Paris-Sud in France and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. The first international-born president in UB’s history, he graduated at the top of his class from Banaras Hindu University Satish K. Tripathi in India and holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Toronto, as well as three master’s degrees—one President in computer science from the University of Toronto and two in statistics from the University of Alberta and Banaras Hindu University. A fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of science from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad. An active leader in the national higher education community, Tripathi serves on the board of directors of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. He was appointed by Gov. Cuomo as co-chair of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council.

Liesl Folks, PhD, MBA, dean of UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is an internationally recognized expert in nanotechnology and magnetism. She holds 12 U.S. patents and is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed technical publications. She is also a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Folks served as president of the IEEE’s Magnetics Society (2013/2014) and was a member of a congressionally mandated panel for the Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, facilitated by the National Academy of Sciences, in 2012. She has an exemplary record of support for STEM education initiatives, from her promotion of innovative programs at the PreK-12 level, to her role in launching a magnetics summer school program through the IEEE, which provides summer study opportunities each year to nearly 100 graduate students from around the world. In 2013, Folks was recognized for her mentorship of science and engineering students with the national AVS Excellence in Leadership Award. Liesl Folks Prior to arriving at UB in January of 2012, Folks worked for more than nine years at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Dean of the School of a hard disk drive company in San Jose, California. Before that, she worked at IBM Almaden Research Center, also in San Engineering and Applied Jose, for six years. Sciences A native of Australia, Folks earned a BSc (1989) and a PhD (1994), both in physics, from The University of Western Australia in Perth, where she subsequently worked as a research fellow. She also holds an MBA from Cornell University (2004).

2 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Program The UB Mace

Prelude

*Processional Remarks Buffalo Brass Quintet Satish K. Tripathi Pomp and Circumstance President, University at Buffalo by Sir Edward Elgar Conferring of Degrees Mace Bearer Satish K. Tripathi Ezra B. W. Zubrow Chair, Faculty Senate and Professor, Anthropology Alma Mater - Lyrics on page 26 James Bobak Banner Carrier Buffalo Brass Quintet Kayleigh Miller Candidate for BS in Biomedical Engineering Closing Declaration The mace is part of the medieval traditions Ezra B. W. Zubrow of the university. It was originally a weapon Herald used to protect kings, and then by 1200 Jeffrey R. Errington *Recessional became more and more a symbol of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Buffalo Brass Quintet authority. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Procession from Aida The UB mace is designed to tell the story of by Giuseppe Verdi UB and the Niagara Frontier. Fashioned by Opening Declaration silversmith Hudson Roysher of Arcadia, Ezra B. W. Zubrow *Audience will remain seated during the Calif., it was used for the first time in 1962. Processional and Recessional. Engraved atop a miniature walled structure National Anthem representing the City of Buffalo are three James Bobak Departmental Receptions arrows bound together, symbolizing the Candidate for BA in Music You are invited to receptions immediately unity of UB and the city. Buffalo Brass Quintet following the commencement ceremony. Other details include symbolic • Chemical and Biological Engineering: Student representations of the discovery of Lake Welcome and Introductions Union Flag Room, on the second floor Erie in 1669 by Joliet and early explorations Liesl Folks • Civil, Structural and Environmental by LaSalle. A crest symbolizes UB’s role as a Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering: first floor of Davis Hall dynamic center of human growth and • Computer Science and Engineering: Student welfare. The motto “University and City Student Address Union, room 210 Community” is lettered in Latin around the Joel Hornbeck • Electrical Engineering: Salvadore Lounge on the knob of the shaft. Candidate for BS in Electrical Engineering second floor of Davis Hall • Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Presentation of Dean’s Award for Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Achievement Engineering: Student Union, room 145 Liesl Folks Wheelchair seating is available at both the front Recognition of State University of right and left side of the arena. A signer is present at New York Honorary Degrees the right front of the arena. Please see an usher for Liesl Folks assistance. Recognition of Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence Telephones and restrooms are available on all Liesl Folks three levels. COMMENCEMENT 2015 3 Program Notes

School's Platform Party Andrew S. Whittaker Ehsan Tarkesh Esfahani Filip Stefanovic Biomedical Engineering Stelios Andreadis Chair, Civil, Structural and Mechanical and Aerospace Chair, Chemical and Biological Environmental Engineering Engineering Engineering Robert C. Wetherhold Aidong Zhang Ciprian N. Ionita Mechanical and Aerospace Stella N. Batalama SUNY Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering Engineering Chair, Electrical Engineering Chair, Computer Science and Engineering James N. Jensen Jinhui Xu Rajan Batta Civil, Structural and Environmental Computer Science and Engineering SUNY Distinguished Professor, Ezra B. W. Zubrow Engineering Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Chair, Faculty Senate, Professor, Chi Zhou Anthropology Venkat Krovi Industrial and Systems Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences Commencement Coordinator Engineering Jennifer L. Zirnheld Electrical Engineering Kurt Bessel Christine A. Human Michael Langberg President-elect, UB Engineering and Associate Dean for Accreditation Electrical Engineering Applied Sciences Alumni Association and Student Affairs Readers Teresa A. Miklitsch Lora Cavuoto Ann M. Bisantz Lead Marshals Senior Advisor, Office of Varun Chandola Chair, Industrial and Systems Undergraduate Education Andrew T. Olewnik Engineering Igor Jankovic Civil, Structural and Environmental Kenneth W. Regan Engineering Josep M. Jornet Mettupalayam V. Sivaselvan Gary F. Dargush Electrical Engineering Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, School of Carl R. Lund SEAS Support Staff SUNY Distinguished Teaching Johannes M. Nitsche Engineering and Applied Sciences SUNY Distinguished Teaching Susan Casucci Professor, Chemical and Biological James Friedman Engineering Professor, Chemical and Biological Jeffrey R. Errington Engineering Toni Marie Schumacher Associate Dean for Undergraduate Jane Stoyle Welch Education, School of Engineering and Marshals Andrew T. Olewnik Applied Sciences Paschalis Alexandridis Director of Experiential Learning Buffalo Brass Quintet Chemical and Biological Engineering Programs Liesl Folks Larry Easter Trumpet Dean, School of Engineering and Carl Alphonce Victor L. Paquet Applied Sciences Computer Science and Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering Dennis Tribuzzi Trumpet Kemper E. Lewis Joseph F. Atkinson Sheldon J. Park Dan Wittmer Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Civil, Structural and Environmental Chemical and Biological Engineering French Horn Engineering Engineering Phil Sims Ravi Ranade Trombone Colleen O’Connell Kevin M. Burke Civil, Structural and Environmental Craig Hodnett President, UB Engineering and Electrical Engineering Engineering Applied Sciences Alumni Association Tuba Lora Cavuoto Kenneth W. Regan Albert H. Titus Industrial and Systems Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Interpreter Chair, Biomedical Engineering From Western New York Varun Chandola Debanjan Sarkar Deaf Adult Services Satish K. Tripathi Computer Science and Engineering Biomedical Engineering President, University at Buffalo Ushers Kerry L. Collins-Gross Mettupalayam V. Sivaselvan We acknowledge the assistance A. Scott Weber Assistant Dean, Office of Civil, Structural and Environmental Senior Vice Provost for Academic Undergraduate Education Engineering of our students and staff. Affairs, University at Buffalo Mark T. Ehrensberger Ramalingam Sridhar Biomedical Engineering Computer Science and Engineering 4 COMMENCEMENT 2015 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Student Club Leaders

Dean's Advisory Council Air and Waste Management Human Factors and Engineering Association Society Michael J. Cadigan*, Chair Maria C. Lehman* Robert Ciralli, President Woodrow Gustafson, President General Manager, IBM New York State Program Manager for Microelectronics, Systems and the Peace Bridge, New York State American Institute of Aeronautics Institute for Electrical and Technology Group Thruway Authority and Astronautics Electronic Engineers Tyler Szczesniak, President Mackenzie Ward, President Patrick F. Abrami* Susan R. Nowicki Consultant Director of Engineering, Northrop American Institute of Chemical Institute of Electrical and Engineers Grumman Amherst Systems Electronic Engineering Robotics Russell L. Agrusa* Emily Benz, President and Automation Society Suren Kumar, President Founder, President and CEO, Venkat Panchapakesan* American Society of Civil ICONICS, Inc. Head of Engineering, YouTube Engineers Institute for Operations Research Anna Kelting, President and the Management Science Dennis W. Elsenbeck* John V. Pilitsis* Regional Executive, National Grid Co-founder, President and CEO American Society of Mechanical Jessica Dorismond, President Upstate NY – West, Community and (retired 2006), Cyoptics, Inc. Engineers Institute of Industrial Engineers Customer Management Chien Sing Poon, President Benjamin Yi, President Frank J. Puskar* Joseph V. Fritz* Founder and Senior Consultant, Association for Computing Machinery Mechanical and Aerospace Chief Executive Officer, Dent Energo Engineering, a KBR Engineering GSA Isaac Reath, President Neurologic Institute subsidiary Mark Tomaszewski, President Biomedical Engineering GSA Lester A. Gerhardt* John R. Pustulka* James Rieffel, President National Society of Black Professor, Computer Science, President and Director, National Fuel Engineers Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Gas Supply Corporation Biomedical Engineering Society Darnell Dodard, President Juan Paredes, President George L. Grobe Scott D. Stevens* Scientista Vice President R&D, Vision Care and Founder and President, Dimension Chemical and Biological Gelareh Malek Pour and Surgical Products at Valeant Fabricators, Inc. Engineering GSA Natasha Sanford, Co-Directors Pharmaceuticals Atif Faiz, President Stephen E. Still* Society of Automotive Engineers Gina B. Hammond* Founder and Managing Director, Chi Epsilon Zachery Willis, President Coletha Mulima, President CSC, recently retired Seabury Airline Planning Group, Society of Hispanic Professional LLC Civil Engineering GSA Engineers Douglas J. Hillman* Kevin Carpio, President President, CEO and Director, Robert Tom* Brian Terranova, President Aerosonic Corporation Senior Director Product Engineering, Computer Science and Society of Women Engineers Fisher-Price Engineering GSA Brianne Stasiak, President Cynthia A. Hoover* Yunfei Hou, President Director, Adsorption R&D, Praxair James F. Van Oss* Students for the Exploration and Engineering Manager, Spacecraft Earthquake Engineering Research Development of Space Dexter Johnson* Fluid Controls, Moog Inc. Institute GSA Matthew Barker, President Chief of the Structural Dynamics Laura Hernandez, President Branch, NASA Glenn Research Ann Wegrzyn* Tau Beta Pi, New York Nu Center Vice President, National Fuel Gas Electrical Engineering GSA Kayleigh Miller, President Jonathan Wu, President Theta Tau/Gamma Delta Epsilon Timothy J. Klein* *School alumna/alumnus President, CEO and co-founder, Engineers for a Sustainable World Nicholas Eadie, Regent ATTO Technology Connor Brown, President UB Design Club Kenneth A. Kota* Engineering Student Association Connor McCafferty, President Joseph Pace, Engineering Clubs Sr. VP, Business Development & UB Robotics Technology, Cobham Mission Systems Coordinator Tyler Haun, President Industrial Engineering GSA Hernan Caceres Venegas, President COMMENCEMENT 2015 5 Dean’s Award for Achievement

Each year, the School of Engineering and Subsequently, he became president and CEO of Neoteris, a leader in the field of Applied Sciences (SEAS) gives its highest honor, Internet access and security, which was acquired by NetScreen Technologies in the Dean’s Award for Achievement, to someone 2003. Juniper Networks then acquired NetScreen in 2004, where Kolluri served who has made a substantial contribution to the as executive vice president and general manager of its security products group. practice of engineering or the applied sciences Now as a General Partner at New Enterprise Associates, Kolluri is on the and/or has had an exceptional professional forefront of venture capitalism and serves on numerous boards of NEA career. This year, it is with great pleasure that the portfolio companies. school honors Krishna ‘Kittu’ Kolluri (MS ISE Kolluri credits his UB education for preparing him for a successful career. “Upon ’88), a General Partner at New Enterprise arriving at UB as an international student, I was incredibly nervous about what Associates (NEA). Kolluri works with some of to expect. Almost immediately though, the school’s faculty and fellow students the world’s most visionary entrepreneurs in took me in and really made UB a home away from home. I feel my time at UB Krishna ‘Kittu’ Kolluri information and energy technologies, helping to truly set me up for future success,” said Kolluri. usher in the next era of great innovators. NEA is Since his graduation from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kolluri has remained a very involved alumnus, always ready to give back. Over Kolluri received a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of the years, he has generously given his time and resources back to SEAS by Technology (IIT), Madras, India, where he was also awarded the school’s serving on the Dean’s Advisory Council and as a member of the Delta Society, distinguished alumnus award in 2005. He received his master’s degree in the school’s leadership annual giving society. operations research from UB in 1988. Outside of his busy professional career, Kolluri enjoys bicycling, golf and cricket, Since earning his master’s degree, Kolluri has employed his extensive technical as well as music and photography. He resides in Saratoga, California with his and management abilities to positively impact numerous companies. He began wife, Vanita, and two children; his daughter, Raina, who is a sophomore in high working for Silicon Graphics, holding a number of engineering and school and his son, Ishaan, who is a sophomore at Columbia studying computer management positions before co-founding Healtheon. Healtheon was a dot- science. com startup that developed software to streamline the inefficiencies of the U.S. The University at Buffalo is honored to name Mr. Kittu Kolluri as an alumnus of health care system. Healtheon later merged with WebMD. Kolluri initially great distinction, whose continued career achievements merit our highest managed engineering before moving through key operational and general regard. management roles, and eventually Senior VP and GM of Provider Services.

Past Recipients of the Dean’s Award for Achievement

1978 1981 1984 James W. McLernon, BS IE 1950, DocHL (Hon) 1998 James DeSerio William C. Moog, Jr. President, Volkswagen Manufacturing Corporation of President, DeSerio Engineers Chairman and President, Moog, Incorporated America 1982 1985 1979 Martin Kasbohm Howard E. Strauss, MS ME 1954 Wilson Greatbatch, MS EE 1956, ScD (Hon) 1984 Director, Research and Development Professor and Associate Dean President, Wilson Greatbatch, Limited Linde Division, Union Carbide Corporation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University at Buffalo 1980 1983 Paul E. Mohn Charles M. Fogel, BS PHY 1935 1986 Professor Emeritus and former Dean Professor and Director of Industrial Liaison School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Gregory B. Jarvis, BS EE 1967, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University at Buffalo Awarded Posthumously University at Buffalo Hughes Aircraft Company NASA Payload Specialist

6 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Past Recipients of the Dean’s Award for Achievement (continued)

1987 1997 2005 H. Robert Leland Calvin C. Chien, MS CIE 1970, PhD CIE 1974 Steven L. Lerner President, Calspan Corporation Environmental Fellow, DuPont Company Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Praxair 1988 1998 Henry P. Semmelhack Hiroshi Morihara, PhD ME 1971 2006 President, Barrister Information Systems Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Peninsula Douglas P. Taylor, BS ME 1971 Laboratories, Inc. President, Taylor Devices, Inc. 1989 President, Via Press, Inc. President, Tayco Developments, Inc. Gerald D. Albertson President, CGC, Inc. Vice-President, Linde Division, Union Carbide 2007 Corporation 1999 Mark H. Karwan Eli Ruckenstein Professor and Dean Emeritus 1990 Distinguished Professor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Ray W. Judson Department of Chemical Engineering University at Buffalo President, The Parsons Corporation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University at Buffalo 2008 1991 Norman R. McCombs, BS ME 1968 Sol W. Weller John Zahorjan, PhD IE 1974 Senior Vice President Furnas Professor Emeritus Adjunct Professor AirSep Corporation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department of Industrial Engineering University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 2009 University at Buffalo Gina Bronkie Hammond, MS CS 1973 1992 Director, Computer Science Corporation's North Lee H. Runk, BS IE 1961 2000 America Public Sector, Defense Division President, Harvard Industries, Inc. Erich Bloch, BS EE 1952, ScD (Hon) 1985 Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitiveness 2010 1993 Principal, Washington Advisory Group, LLC Russell L. Agrusa, BS EE 1976 Irving H. Shames Founder, President, and Chief Exective Officer Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus 2001 ICONICS School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Henry Stone, BS ME 1949 University at Buffalo Vice President, retired, General Electric 2011 Scott D. Stevens, PE, BS CIE 1979 1994 2002 Founder and Chief Executive Officer Robert H. Goldsmith, BS ME 1951 Lawrence L. Peckham, BS IE 1969 Dimension Fabricators, Inc. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Founder, LPA Associates Exten Industries, Inc. 2012 2003 James P. Smist, BS CE 1980 1995 Hadi Makarechian, BS CIE 1972 President Hatim A. Tyabji, MS EE 1969, DocHL (Hon) 2001 Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Dean and Company Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Capital Pacific Holdings, Inc. VeriFone, Inc. 2013 2004 John R. “Jack” Davis, BS IE 1955 1996 George C. Lee Founder and Owner Anthony L. Russo, PhD ME 1969 Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering and I Squared R Element Company, Inc. Executive Director Dean Emeritus Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center (CUBRC) School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 2014 Vice President University at Buffalo Stephen E. Still, BS CIE 1976 Calspan Corporation's Advanced Technology Center Founder and Managing Director, Seabury Airline Planning Group, LLC

COMMENCEMENT 2015 7 SUNY Honorary Degree

A fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and As deputy associate administrator of space science at NASA Astronautics (AIAA), Christopher Scolese, BS ’78, is the current headquarters since 2001, Scolese’s vision had a major impact on director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. One of the the successful Mars Rover missions (Spirit and Opportunity) world’s leading authorities in the area of space systems and other widely known NASA missions, including the Mars engineering, Scolese has been instrumental in shaping Odyssey and Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion missions. Appointed numerous NASA earth science and deep space exploration acting administrator of NASA in 2009, Scolese earned the missions, resulting in many significant scientific breakthroughs agency’s highest honor — the Distinguished Service Medal — and advancements, as well as a better understanding of our for his leadership in this role. planet, solar system and universe. A Buffalo native and distinguished alumnus of the University at Scolese joined NASA in 1987 and has served in numerous Buffalo, Scolese has remained meaningfully engaged with his Christopher Scolese leadership roles, including as manager of the Earth Orbiting alma mater, lecturing at UB and mentoring students. In BS ’78; Director of the Satellite Program, deputy director of flight programs and recognition of his significant and enduring contributions to NASA Goddard Space projects for earth science, and project manager of the Earth space systems engineering and space exploration more broadly, Flight Center Observing System Terra Satellite Mission. the University at Buffalo is proud to confer upon him a 2015 State University of New York Honorary Doctorate of Science.

SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence

Chams Mballo of Dakar, Senegal, graduates Mack Ward of Clarence, N.Y., graduates with a with a bachelor of science in mechanical and bachelor of science in computer science and aerospace engineering. Mballo is co-founder of mathematics. He served as both the president an SAT preparatory program that tutors, and vice president of the University at Buffalo counsels and mentors war refugees and chapter of the Institute of Electrical and underprivileged students in Buffalo. He Electronics Engineers, and has been a teaching conducts research in the Human in the Loop assistant for five semesters with both the System Laboratory and also worked as an Honors College and the Department of undergraduate teaching assistant for the Computer Science and Engineering. Ward also Applied Mathematics and Dynamics courses served as a resident adviser for the Honors offered to engineering students. College Shared Interest Housing Program for Chams E. Mballo Mackenzie R. H. Ward two years.

Student Speaker

Joel Hornbeck of Brockport, N.Y., graduates with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. He transferred to the University at Buffalo from Monroe Community College in 2013. Hornbeck was part of an interdisciplinary student design project with Northop Grumman, an aerospace and defense technology company. He will be pursuing a career at Quality Vision International Inc., an industry leading metrology company. Hornbeck is the winner of the first School of Engineering and Applied Sciences student speaker competition, chosen by a committee of faculty, staff, and students. Joel Hornbeck

8 COMMENCEMENT 2015 The State Emeritus Members Deans Robert J. Genco* Wayne S. Blank* Sheila H. Battle Arjang A. Assad Science, Technology Transfer Robert E. Denning* University Roger I. Blackwell School of Management and Economic Outreach Beverly Foit-Albert* of New York Randall L. Clark Judith B. Ittig* Frank N. Cuomo* Michael E. Cain Robert Granfield Ashok G. Kaveeshwar* Edmond J. Gicewicz* School of Medicine and Faculty Affairs Ross B. Kenzie Board of Trustees Biomedical Sciences Gerald S. Lippes* Francis M. Letro* H. Carl McCall Mary H. Gresham* William J. Maggio Chairman Mary E. Randolph Liesl Folks Educational Collaboration Anthony B. Martino* Rose H. Sconiers* School of Engineering and and Engagement Gerard T. Mazurkiewicz* Joseph W. Belluck* John N. Walsh III Applied Sciences Eric Corngold John T. Ho Murray S. Rosenthal* Henrick N. Dullea James A. Gardner Graduate Education Eileen S. Silvers* Ronald G. Ehrenberg University at Law School (Interim) Keith M. Stolzenburg* Angelo M. Fatta Buffalo Lee H. Melvin Satish K. Tripathi Tina Good Michael L. Glick Enrollment Margaret W. Wong* Peter L.K. Knuepfer School of Dental Medicine Officers Teresa A. Miller Eunice Ashman Lewin* Satish K. Tripathi Jaekyung Lee Equity and Inclusion Directors Marshall A. Lichtman* President Graduate School of Education Dianne Bennett* Lori Mould Andrew M. Stott Sheldon M. Berlow Charles F. Zukoski John L. Murad Jr. Marsha L. Lewis Undergraduate Education Helen M. Cappuccino* Provost and Executive Vice Linda S. Sanford School of Nursing Randall L. Clark President for Academic Sean P. Sullivan Richard Socarides Daniel M. Hamister Affairs James M. O’Donnell Academic Planning and Budget Carl Spielvogel Paul J. Harder Cary F. Staller School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Richard E. Heath Lawrence Waldman Vice Presidents and University at Jeremy M. Jacobs Jr. Cabinet Members E. Bruce Pitman Jordan A. Levy* System Administration J. Brice Bible College of Arts and Sciences Buffalo James W. McLernon* Nancy L. Zimpher Chief Information Officer Foundation Jean C. Powers* Chancellor Robert G. Shibley Ronald M. Schreiber* Dennis R. Black* School of Architecture and Officers Marjorie E. Winkler* Alexander N. Cartwright University Life and Services Planning Francis M. Letro* Provost and Executive Vice Chairman Chancellor Michael E. Cain Nancy J. Smyth Emeritus Trustees Health Sciences School of Social Work Gregory M. Bauer* Randall I. Benderson* Lawrence P. Castellani University at Buffalo Beth Del Genio* Jean Wactawski-Wende Vice Chairman William M.E. Clarkson Council Chief of Staff to the President School of Public Health and Jean C. Powers* Ellen E. Grant* Jeremy M. Jacobs* Health Professions Venugopal Govindaraju* Secretary Mark E. Hamister Chairman Research and Economic Jeremy M. Jacobs* Development (Interim) Vice Provosts and Senior Robert E. Denning* Reginald Newman II Mark J. Czarnecki* Academic Administration Treasurer Vice Chairman J.N. Walsh III Laura E. Hubbard A. Scott Weber Finance and Administration Senior Vice Provost for Edward P. Schneider* Robert T. Brady Executive Director Non Voting Members Michael W. Cropp* Academic Affairs Nancy E. Paton Michael E. Cain Jonathan A. Dandes* University Communications H. Austin Booth Laura E. Hubbard Pamela Davis Heilman* Trustees University Libraries Nancy L. Wells June Williams Hoeflich* Ravinder K. Bansal Nancy L. Wells Charles F. Zukoski Minahil Khan Philanthropy and Alumni Stephen C. Dunnett* Gregory M. Bauer* Engagement Gary R. Bichler Christopher H. Koch International Education *University at Buffalo Thomas E. Black Jr.* Daniel J. White alumnus/alumna Athletics

COMMENCEMENT 2015 9 Candidates Baccalaureate for Degrees Degrees

Subject to the completion of all degree requirements, degrees will be conferred as indicated upon those Recommending Candidates individuals listed herein who were identified by May 1, 2015, and upon such others as may meet the for Degrees requirements of their respective degrees. Candidates are listed according to actual date of degree conferral (September 2014; February 2015; and June 2015). Degree recipients will come forward to be congratulated Liesl Folks during the commencement ceremony. In the following lists, candidates for a double major (a degree Dean emcompassing two majors), are denoted by an asterisk (*). Candidates for a double degree (the award of two distinct degrees completed concurrently), are denoted by two asterisks (**). Candidates for a double major and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering a double degree ae denoted by a diamond ( ◊). September 2014 Today's graduates are presented gifts of pins and pens by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Kyle Patrick Devine § * UB Alumni Relations. Isaac Joseph Diomande William Sterling Edgecomb III * Honors are designated by student names in the Candidates for Degrees according to the following symbols and Paul Michael Galletti § abbreviations. Jimmy Lam † *

University Latin Honors Non-Academic, University-Wide February 2015 Latin Honors are granted to graduating seniors who Recognition Items Brian Richard Bergh † TBP ◊ have completed at least 60 undergraduate credits at Anthony Michael Christiano * The Kente Stole UB, of which at least 54 credit hours are graded, and Steven James Cooper § * Joseph Samuel Demario § * to those who have earned grade point averages, as The kente stole was received by students who Nanediri Devage Binila Chathuranga follows: participated in UB’s ALANA Celebration of Achievement which historically has honored Fernando * § Cum Laude - at least 3.20, to 3.499 Rakitha Chandana Bandara graduating African, Latino/a, Asian, and Native ‡ Magna Cum Laude - at least 3.50, to 3.749 Meegasmulla § * American students. Emily Morog † Summa Cum Laude - 3.75 or more Samuel Frederick Pawlyk § * The Rainbow Tassel This list is based on courses taken through the Fall Nicholas William Ruhland ‡ * 2014 semester. Students may wear a gold cord. The rainbow tassel was received by students who participated in the Lavender Reception, celebrating June 2015 Paul Russell Baumann ‡ TBP * achievements of graduating students who identify Honor Society Max George Blaise III § TBP * with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and TBP: Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor Junehyung Cho * society representing the entire engineering queer (LGBTQ) community at UB. Jesse Jordan Hart Dewey * profession. Students may wear a white stole. Ryan Steven Edmonson ‡ * The Red, White and Blue Cord Ryan Fiust-Klink * The Gold Stole The red, white and blue cord is being worn by Daniel T Giumpa † The gold stole was received by students who are graduating UB students who are reservists, Josh M Gonas ◊ Eric J Graham ‡ University Honors College graduates. members of the National Guard, newly commissioned officers from our ROTC program or Daniel Joseph Halecki § * Dale M Higgins * Delta Alpha Pi veterans of the United States armed forces. Prince Joseph * Delta Alpha Pi is an international academic honor Brian Jeffrey Klossner ‡ * society for college/university students with Michael Adam Landau * disabilities. Graduating members received a blue Margaret Elizabeth Lawn † * and gold cord. Brian Henri Le Floch † * Andrew Lee ‡ TBP * Wookil Lee * Andrew James Lewis ‡ *

10 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Matthew Robert Limina § * Scott Nolan Harrienger § June 2015 Jacob Joseph Nosbisch Tyler Daniel Mancini † * Nazia Tasnim Hasan Chibuzo Akaolisa Yun Shung Ong Matthew Steven Marchincin * Michael Francis Herr ‡ Joshua Daniel Allen Sylvester Owusu-Ansah Nicholas John Marrone § Damien James Hoffman Nathan Robert Anastasia Jonathan William Pearson Nicholas Anthony Matteliano * Richard Louis Izzo ‡ ** David Ricardo Arjona Allyn William Pietruszewski § Chams Eddine Mballo ‡ * Nikita Abirami Mahendra Kumar § Leo Joseph Ayres ** Deanna Marie Platt Sean Michael McEnerney ‡ TBP * Erica Lynn Marron † TBP Robert Vincent Bellotti Michael James Pliszka § Mohammed Shahriman Bin Ethan Michael Matteson Emily Meredith Benz † TBP Shruti Prasad Mohammed Shahreza * Leslie Mcgee Kimberly Anne Berus * Dave Dennis Ramsammy Alexander Michael Moran § * Kyle Indiana Mentkowski § Forest Stephen Blanchard † TBP John Elias Rivera Thomas Scott O'Brien * Kayleigh Erin Miller † TBP Nicholas John Bolak § Anirudha Roy Alvin Okoroji * Noelle Chelsea Elaine Nesbitt Daniel Calzadilla § Daniel Francis Sauter § Matthew Joseph Palombo * Kaitlynn Pearl Olczak ‡ TBP Bryce Dillon Campbell John Daniel Schneible † TBP Hashwint Ramanaathen § * David Robert Olsen ‡ TBP Yunong Cao § ** William Christopher Shampine Shauna Patrice Richards ‡ * Juan J Paredes § Ming Ting Chan ‡ Ada Szramel § Cal Rising * Alexander Rudolf Podgorsak ‡ Jo Shuang Chang Yong Sheng Tan Andrew Romano * Tyler Benjamin Quinn Emily E Congdon ‡ Thien Ngoc Tran † Anindya Sarker * Abhiram S Rao † TBP * Alexander Richard Cook Timothy Francis Valint ‡ TBP Rajat Sharma * Joshua Daniel Reich ‡ TBP Andrew Krauss Craft † TBP Stephen Dennis Vitello † TBP David Nicholas Shufelt * Samantha Michelle Riedener Belle Victoria Cunningham Min Wei § Mandeep Singh * Nolan Alexander Ringo Ryan Patrick Dee Qibiao Weng M H Priyanta Siri Sumana Siri * Hathaitorn Rojnirun § Stephen Gregory Denny Alan Wong Nelson Cheuk Man Tam * Jason Adam Ross † TBP ** Christopher Michael Dundas † Zachary Raymond Wong § Varunkumar Vruddhula § ◊ Diana Victoria Rudz † TBP Joshua M Dupan Yadu Ramachandran ‡ TBP Jia Hao Wen * Gregory Torre Salamone ‡ Sharniece Ellington Jun Hui Yeoh Cody Zampella § * Stephen Michael Schneider ‡ Frederic Robert Forrester † ** Asmah Shafie § Kevin John Fuller § Bachelor of Science in Bachelor of Science in Ryan Andrew Shaw ‡ Frank Vincent Gallucci † TBP Civil Engineering Biomedical Engineering Ashwin Venkataraman Laura Anne Godly ‡ TBP September 2014 Kyle Anthony Weeks † William Carter Hilliard Jr † TBP June 2015 Serdar Aydin Matthew James Willadsen § Kaipin Huang † Bonifacio Jimenez Aguila III § Peter C Barth Olayinka David Ipaye Stephanie Ann Bagatta-Ziel Mete Bayram Bachelor of Science in Samin Islam Rebecca Leigh Berg § Maxwell Selasi Boamah Chemical Engineering Kevin Andrew Jock § Max Farr Carletta Utku Canbulat Jonathan Peter Joy Bilall Cela September 2014 Umut Can Deger Hosne Shabrina Kamal Andrew James Chiacchiero § Marina Gadkary † Jan Dokonal Mustafa Kamal ‡ Justin Michael Chiacchiero § Zhengheng Lin Matthew Ryan Durawa Lindsey Anne Kehl ‡ TBP Jesse David Crespo James M Purvis Omer Lutfu Dursun James Michael Knox Gaurang Pritam Dimri Ian Albert Smythe † Asil Eksi Tho Duc Le Steven Matthew Fatscher Robert James Winegar Jr Kamil Erdem Alexander Li § Nalini Gadkary † Jesus David Giraldo Maliek F Likely ‡ TBP Alec Jason Gerson ** February 2015 Colin Harvey Dun Liu § ** Eric Nicholas Ghiandoni § Charles Kwame Charles Samet Karatas Debrah § TBP Bryan A Moore Erin Elizabeth Giangreco † Onur Kaya Ngai Hin Lo Michael James Parker Morse ‡ TBP Jessica Ann Glauber § Berk Ozgurcan Joseph Nicholas Pecorella Badr Ahmed Morshed ‡ Nicole Marie Griffin § Peter Gabriel Padilla § Nicholas Moscatello § ** Shawn Michael Hanley ‡ TBP Robert Louis Sasser § Matthew William Moskowitz Ahmet Zengin

COMMENCEMENT 2015 11 February 2015 Brett Getz Kristin Kathleen Seel § Zuleime Perez * Ebubekir Aydogan Andrew Ghassan § Atilla Firat Senol Jacob Andrew Reise § Ryan Christopher Blesi * Molly Mckenzie Halpin Cihat Simsek § Xiangxiong Shi † TBP Lidiya Burashnikova Kevin Hebert Harrison Anthony Sinatra William T Shields Jr § Abdullah Emre Demirci Paul Derek Holsberger ‡ Guneet Singh Jake Russell Silas § Ismet Furkan Dolu * James Edward Hunt Nathan Smith Ryan Scott Smith § Carine C Fanou Daniel Patrick Hurley Javier Solis Matthew John Szczepankiewicz † ** Hazal Fidanboy * Brent Andrew Hypnarowski Nicholas Charles Stalnecker § Andrew Zachary Chantel L George Mehmet Inci Tze Yow Teh § Tennenbaum ‡ TBP * Thomas John Held II Yavuz Kaleoglu Sean Xavier Terry ‡ Rebecca Ruth Wasmer Suk H Hyun Anna Marie Kelting Gregory John Van Ness Jacob William Wende Alexander Joseph Kaempf William Christian LaPorte Lingyun Wang § Nicholas Harold Wheeler § Adam Khalil Thomas Dean Lattanzio Kasian Theodore Warenycia † Yixiang Wu † Mehmet Onur Kulak Kelvin Lau Blade Jerome Wayne § Cheng Ye ‡ Craig Joseph Laudani David Alexander Levy Jr Gregory J Welte Kenny Michael Yee Zhen T Lee Corey James Lewis Jon Kenneth Whiting † Melissa Maria Levis Bing Sheng Lim § Benedict Wolfling Bachelor of Arts in Sean Michael Morris Kristina Lochan Jiahao Xiong Computer Science Jacob Daniel Mullen § Wanjian Lu § Zachary Lock Young September 2014 Lorenzo Vida Quebral § Justin Allen Nicholas Lucarelli § John Paul Deluca Conor Liam Mahoney § Bachelor of Science in June 2015 Sara Elizabeth Mantas Computer Engineering February 2015 Matthew James Adams Jr William Vincent Martorana † Jeremy Robert Fritton ‡ Michael A Algios September 2014 Brian M Mazurkiewicz James Andrew Gorski Edward Lee Almeter † Azeez Balogun Duncan Michael McAuley ‡ Alan Thomas Karcich Anthony James Asala Christian J Charlton Matthew John Mckrell § Tianyu Lei ‡ Mahan Azmoun Matthew Francis Endres § Kristopher Michael Mills † Lu Liu § Nathanael Baker Kevin Robert Jones Vladimir Yves Monpremier Pavey Telesphore Nganpi Kimberly Bashualdo Ben C Tarhan Coletha Nyangoma Peter Katisha Tchaeleuch * Matthew Clarence Bedford § Mulima § February 2015 Jeremy Best June 2015 Indairo Alberto Namnum Joseph Michael D'Amato ‡ Petar Boljanac Harsh Agarwal † Brett Scott Newberry Biagio Fiorita Jason Robert Brenner Dalton Joseph Barksdale * Caitlin Marie O'Leary § Jordan Good † Devin Joseph Bush Richard Lee Drees Jr Bekir Talha Ozbagir Kiran Kaur Lall Singh ‡ TBP Ercan Sefa Caglayan Kyle Adam Palmer § TBP Jeffrey K English Richard Joseph Carney Nicholas John Palumbo June 2015 Jason James Fialkowski § Nico Francis Catanzaro Kevin Parker Ashaab Alam Peter Joseph Giancarlo § Seyma Ayse Cevahir Laura Catherine Pavone † TBP Raymond Chen ‡ TBP Hiu Man Ho † ** William K Chan Daniel James Pawlak Stephen Il Hoan Chong § * Hyunwoo Na † * Ray J. Cloud Leandro Rafael Perez Douglas Mcnamara Giordano ‡ TBP Kevin S Rushlow ‡ * Jeffrey Vincent Conese † TBP Christopher Petersen § Tanveer Gupta ‡ Gregory Congdon ‡ Donald Hosie Bachelor of Science in Greg Phattanachitchon ‡ Computer Science Andrew John Couche Ryan David Proud Roger Hsu § * Damien David § Anna Catherine Racz ‡ TBP Calvin H Lee September 2014 Lindsay Nicole Devito Kirk Rommel Ramirez-Brenes Jr ‡ Jules Butalid Manalang Kunal Ratan Arora Patrick William Doherty Cory D Robinson § TBP Joseph Andrew Materski † TBP Yon Phang Chai Brennan Donovan Dubuc † Michael Douglas Robinson § Satyam Mehta Xi Chen Derek Connor Ellefsen § Ryan Garth Rochester Mitchell Nguyen † Richard Samuel Laine Fabrice Etienne Andrea Louise Sacco § Christopher Steven Palmer † William Frank Wheeler II ‡ Shahmahmood Faizi § Matthew Adam Salvadore Emmanuel Panaligan John Everett Fisher Vincent Anthony Santoro § Edward Park ‡ Kok Hoe Gan ‡ Matthew Schultes Priyal Nilesh Patel

12 COMMENCEMENT 2015 February 2015 Gilles Franck Mevaa June 2015 Andrew Zachary Jeffrey S Basden Jr Me Doumamvom ‡ Olajuwon Andre Amao § Tennenbaum ‡ TBP * Michael Stephen Branch Matthew Murphy † Oluwaseun Amao Kyle Thompson § Rachel Alexandra Broardt § Kevin Michael Neary § Joseph Michael Arnet Ryan Gregory Thorne † Glenn Marra Butera § Mark Edward Nemmer ‡ Ronnie Bar-kochba Nicholas Michael Tourjie Ajaypal Singh Cheema Jia Chien Ng § Matthew Farrell Benjamin § Emily Anne Valentine ‡ Stephan Desouza Nhat Minh Nguyen § Corey Emil Blumberg Rakshit Murthy Viswanatham Timothy James Eaton § Jake Daniel Norris Samuel Emmet Bray Shengwei Wang Sileem Ayman Farghaly Ian Andrew Novickis ‡ Nicholas Aldo Cacamis Adam Wasilenko § Michael S Hassan Griffin Kirby Orr Stephen Il Hoan Chong § * Evan Israel Wasner † Stephen Keller § Thomas Robert Papp Thomas Daniel Cirillo Joseph Stephen Wegmann § Deeksha Kumar Om Patel Emily Grace Daigler Scott David Will † TBP Kevin Patrick Menegay Allison Lily Phillips Srdjan Dragojevic Michael O Wong Elie Onokoko ** Matthew David Rajman Dylan Patrick Elliott † Yangyong Zhang § Danny Peng ‡ Frank Peter Runfola Amanda Fodge Angel Miqueas Reyes Mota § ** Natasha Sanford † * Navjot Kaur Ghotra Bachelor of Science in Seongin Skalicky † Robert John Schaumloeffel Joshua Gillebaard Environmental Engineering Philip Benjamin Wright Caitlin Rose Sicurella Marc Philip Greenbaum § September 2014 Jeffrey Allen Smith Yuchao He ‡ Omer Mert Aksakal June 2015 Joshua Studt Kyle Held Ifade Asli Kibaroglu Robert Joseph Ammerman † Matthew Swenson ‡ * Joel Hornbeck Karl Anderson Tyler Paul Thorpe Roger Hsu § * February 2015 Sherif Attia Camilo Alvaro Vargas Nathan E Jacobson § Ismet Furkan Dolu * Adam Nicholas Badawy Mackenzie Reed Henry Ward † TBP * Linfei Ju § Hazal Fidanboy * Cody Bellitto § William Douglas Woodward ‡ Brian Walter Lada ‡ Xu Li Zachary Raymond Bezner Ryan Scott Wymyczak § Tony Lau Frank Urilov Truong Vinh Bui Alexander See Long Yeung Vu Le Luke Phillip Carey § Jingyiping Zhang † Jason Lei § June 2015 Brandon H Carr Xiaoyu Zhang ‡ Qianwen Li ‡ Alexander Phillip Brennen ‡ Hongbin Chen Robert Lawrence Mack Caroline Bukowski Matthew Scott Coia § Bachelor of Science in Aminul Momin ** Andrew C Burns ‡ Nicholas Vincent Di Rienzo ‡ Electrical Engineering Tivauhn Anthoniel Nelson David Jaikla Chan Andrew Fake Andrew Ryan Notice Victor Hoa Chang § September 2014 Shabaz Farooq Beom Jin Oh § Robert C Ciralli Thomas Joseph Bidney Brian James Franko Anthony George Pavlick Charlotte M Clark § Elis Feci § Sean T Frischmann Zuleime Perez * Stephen Peter Conti Jr Joshua Hauptman Jason Joseph Gregory Thakur Prasad Phuyel Luke Patrick Donigan Abhishek Panda Pritesh Gupta Saseen Reddy Punyala Erica Lisa Goldin † Jaejeong Park ‡ Marcellus Dean Hogan Tawsif Iftekhar Rahman Laura Rose Grassi § Andrew Jason Hypnarowski * Steven Joseph February 2015 Chang Ren § ** Patrick Edward Jameson § Michael Au § Brian J Rooney ‡ Shekti Tej Koorapati Roy Young Jin Joo Govinda Chauhan Brandon Rotunno Jacky Luo Samuel James Kriever Christopher Eugene Glowacki § Ryan L Sanders ** Rebecca Michelle Oaks § Scott Laufer Jesse Robert Healy Nazmus Sakib Shan Alanna Olear § Colin Thomas Lawson Hong Yeon Kim § Sonika Singh § Rashad Mohamed Omar Tegan M Leach Jae Ho Lee Michael J Singletary § Matthew Adolph Rakowski Qiwei Lei Derek Liner Trevor Spiotta † Brittany Michelle Sainz § Jie Lin Casey Russell Love Elizabeth Anne Stanley ‡ TBP Joshua Edward Sinay Thomas G Ludwig Jr Matthew Christopher Mesavage Chris Thomas Starling ‡ Julianne Thais Straus § James Matthew Mazur † * Stephanie Crystal Ng ‡ Thomas Douglas Steven § Felix Wong Fan Meng Daniel William Slemmer § Viktor Sukhotskiy ‡ William Blaise Metzel Junyi Zhang ‡ Raymond Tam

COMMENCEMENT 2015 13 Baccalaureate Degrees Bachelor of Science in Kwangil Suh Samuel Frederick Pawlyk § * Tharaka Devapriya Gabadage Industrial Engineering On Tao Tiong Wenmin Ruan Yu Jin Goh Fallon Joan Waxman Nicholas William Ruhland ‡ * Josh M Gonas ◊ September 2014 Jingyan Yang † Tyler Thomas Salamone Nicholas Leonard Grieco § Derek Francis Bongiovanni Benjamin Yi ‡ ** David Michael Schlant Jr Jason Michael Gringhaus † TBP Robert Dallas Calhoun Peter Stephen Sloan Ashley Elizabeth Gurak Jonathan Patrick MacAdam § Bachelor of Science in Mark Andrew Smith Daniel Joseph Halecki § * Michelle Moore Mechanical Engineering Hamlet Spencer Michael Powell Halloran ‡ Christina Diane Peragine § Matthew Peter Stubler Michael Heberle September 2014 Patrick Smith David Truong ‡ Brian Patrick Heffernan Jasser Mahmoud Akarah Sean Yun Cai Wong ‡ Hengtian Yao Alexander Robert Holton Daniel Bachman § Justin Edward Hromowyk § February 2015 Deepak Kumar Deepak Kumar June 2015 Muhamad Ismat Mustaqim Bin Mohammad Ramlan Bin Bahtiar Kyle Patrick Devine § * Kushan Buddhika Abeyawardhane § Ibrahim § Steveland Cody Kalicharan Adler Augusto Duarte de Souza Benjamin James Adams Sarah Beth Jacobowitz § Chang Min Lee William Sterling Edgecomb III * Nicholas Altanian § Royce Adam Jacobs Michael Philip Marra § Christopher Kotey Kotei § Sean Amundsen § Prince Joseph * Abdul Rehman Chethil Salman Jimmy Lam † * Brad L Anderson ‡ Charles Emerson Kalbfell † Sumeet Deep Kumar Brian Christopher Plunkett Vishnu Nair Aravindakshan § Frances David Kalbfell † ** Yongzhi Zhou Muhammad Firdaus Bin Samsudin § Ioan Adrian Ardelean Samuel Edward Kielar ‡ Byung Gun Song ‡ Murphy Emmett Balon Jr June 2015 Spencer Andrew Klein Siddharth Verma Paul Russell Baumann ‡ TBP * John Philip Balzani † Brian Jeffrey Klossner ‡ * Max George Blaise III § TBP * Aloysia Murphy Beaulieu ** February 2015 Matthew Thomas Kryzak Abner Lee Bogan § Curtis Boyle † Brian Richard Bergh † TBP Michael Adam Landau * ◊ Alec Hamilton Brewer Joseph Jacob Brown Ryan Christopher Blesi * Nicholas Emerson Lanzano Charles Burnett Neal Edward Burkard Travis Burt Margaret Elizabeth Lawn † * Peter Joseph Cantella Emrance Kathryn Carro § Chun Fatt Chan ‡ Brian Henri Le Floch † * Adam Kyle Chamberlain § Tin Fang Chen § Anthony Michael Christiano * Andrew Lee ‡ TBP * Haras Chaudhry Nicholas James Delgobbo Andrew Edward Conti Chi Keung Lee Junehyung Cho * Udara Jayanganee Dharmasena Steven James Cooper § * Wookil Lee * Christopher Townsend Chungbin ‡ Christopher Diaz † Joseph Samuel Demario § * Kevin Lenard Dylan James Connelly Nandun Chiranjeewa Edirisinghe Andrew Paul Dexheimer § Andrew James Lewis ‡ * Jason Anthony D Souza Joel Thomas Gough ‡ Brian Michael Dockstader § Zi Liang Kristian Augustus Stafford Izzudin Bin Ibrahim Matthew Robert Limina § * Nanediri Devage Binila Chathuranga Dalland § ** Kyle Jiron Fernando * Andrew Ryan Lotto Michael Anthony DeMeo Michael Jolevski Shaun Flaherty § Tyler Daniel Mancini † * Neelkanth Maheshkumar Desai Nicholas Clark Kreuter Mark Andrew Foley Matthew Steven Marchincin * Jesse Jordan Hart Dewey * Xiao Li § Joshua Marc Friedman Yuri Paul Marsan Jay Deepesh Doshi Kyle John Lovett Rivka Greenfeld Nicholas Anthony Matteliano * Meng Duan Bin Ken Pang † Alexander Harris Joshua Robert Matter Jodie-Ann Valencia Duquesnay Presvin Vinod ** Jonathan D Hughes Kenneth David Mazzone Nicholas Michael Eadie James Anthony Quirk Zachary T Kane Chams Eddine Mballo ‡ * Ryan Steven Edmonson ‡ * Robert Joseph Ricci Ryan Howard Karr Nathan McCabe Kyle Bertrand Erway § Anthony Arthur Runk Keerthi Kumar Connor McCafferty § Evan Kristifer Farino Ana Ester Sanjur Bernal Brendan Connor Lewis ‡ Sean Michael McEnerney ‡ TBP * James Vincent Favale † TBP Matthew Robert Scholze † TBP Rakitha Chandana Bandara Erin Taylor Militello Ryan Fiust-Klink * Charles Edward Smith Meegasmulla § * Mohammed Shahriman Bin Hing Wing Fong Jacob John Stefanon Satoshi Nishiaoki Mohammed Shahreza *

14 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Combined Degrees Darroch Robert Moorhead Courtney Eugene Scott Recommending Candidates Bachelor of Science Alexander Michael Moran § * Sarah Emily Selk † TBP for Degrees (Mechanical Engineering) / Steven Mounnarat Jr Rajat Sharma * Master of Business Thinagaran N Maniam § Patrick Thomas Sheridan Liesl Folks Administration Theodore Ryan Nalesnik † David Nicholas Shufelt * Dean Christian Paul Nelson Mandeep Singh * June 2015 Thomas Scott O'Brien * Manpreet Singh Bachelor of Science / Sean Amundsen Alvin Okoroji * Spencer Philip Smith § Master of Science in Dale M Higgins Matthew Joseph Palombo * Travis Peter Snyder ‡ Computer Science and Peter Christian Penasack Matthew James Stahlman Engineering Russell John Pernal ‡ Erica Lucille Stamboulian Samantha Kate Persic † TBP Brianna Rene Stewart † TBP September 2014 John William Pfalzer M H Priyanta Siri Sumana Siri * Xiang Lin ‡ Daniel Robert Porter Matthew Swenson ‡ * Michael Aaron Slutsky ‡ Jordan Matthew Pytlak Nelson Cheuk Man Tam * February 2015 Hashwint Ramanaathen § * Matthew Davis Tolentino Sergey Cherny ‡ ** Abhiram S Rao † TBP * John Cody Tomaszewski June 2015 Maxwell Clark Reiser Varunkumar Vruddhula § ◊ Shauna Patrice Richards ‡ * Kaidi Wang ‡ Stacey Louise Askey ‡ German Rico Gonzalez Jia Hao Wen * Jennifer Cordaro ‡ * Cal Rising * Zachery Peter Willis § Xia Wu † Jonathan Charles Roche Sean Hong Siong Wong Fandi Yi † ** Andrew Romano * Michael Woodward § Ezra Daniel Rowitsch Man Kit Wu Sarmad Sardar Sabir Jr Liu Yang ‡ Alberto Santiago Matthew David Yates Anindya Sarker * Katie Yu ‡ Dillan Richard Thomas Sayers Cody Zampella § *

COMMENCEMENT 2015 15 Master’s Degrees Recommending Candidates February 2015 Qixin Wang Master of Science in for Degrees Eyhab A Abdalla Sophie Linyi Wang Civil Engineering Rajarshi Biswas Rachel Pranitha Wood Liesl Folks Yuhua He Aradhana Ashok Yoganand September 2014 Dean Bharath Madduri Xuan Gao Vasanthakumar Mahalingam Master of Science in Rajat Jain Master of Engineering in Victor Alix Migeon Chemical Engineering Tianyou Kuang Chemical Engineering Chen Qian Sarah M Murray September 2014 Rebecca Ann Pisarcik September 2014 June 2015 Xiaoni Ma Abhiram Chowdary Ravipati William Chishing Cheuk Hossein Aghakhani Saurabh Singh Ahmad Farid Sakhizadeh Zachary Fine Kavyashree Bukkambudhi Vivek Thimmavajjhala Laura Margaret Haas Shivakumar February 2015 Pavan Kumar Behara Ronak Pravin Vora Mustafa Celebi Chunhui Zhao February 2015 Aston Preetham D Souza Ting Wang June 2015 Harshit Goyal Yamini Sravanthi Ammoor February 2015 June 2015 Ron Heichman Prannay Bali Aubrey L Beckinghausen Xiang Gao Michael C Hotto Mingfu Chen Christopher Peter Buck Pi Jeng Khor Sunayana Jayaram Tai Chun Chung Theodoros Eleftheriou Yong Joon Lee Aniketh Kalur William Ervin Mohsen Ghafari Jun Pan Arun Bhuvanachandran Nair Samar Tamara Fawaz Wei Guo Jiahui Wu Adonis Reinier Pimienta-Penalver Akhila Gollakota Youngtae Han Gaurav Siwach Yang Gu Muhammad Hassan Master of Engineering in Joshua M Weisberger Sogol Hekmatfar Ratan Mohammed Niamul Huda Civil Engineering Moon Kattula Walter James Kaniecki Master of Science in Yujie Ke Tian Luo June 2015 Biomedical Engineering Cheng Kee Lai Nathaniel William Martin Jared Evan Port Benjamin Fatt Soon Lam William John McVitty September 2014 Garrett C Miller Master of Engineering in Junyi Liu Lindsay Rothberg Joshua Moody Electrical Engineering Vincent M Tutino Yang Liu Yayu Liu Alexandros Nikellis September 2014 February 2015 Matthew H. Michnik Nathaniel Oberhaus Waleed Ahmed Ayesha Arzumand Andrew James Mowbray Sandhya Ravindran Robert Bernard Finton Parag Khobragade Na Rong Benjamin Christopher Sabo Changcan Wu Jessica L Utzig Suman Samantray Curtis L Scott Shawreen Manish Shah William E Seychew June 2015 Master of Engineering in Jiaochen Shen Alireza Valikhani Nanditha Anandakrishnan Industrial Engineering Ching-Yen Shih Tao Wu Zahra Chamanzar Abhiram Yadav Singapati Ruijie Xu Alexandra Adrienne Ciolko September 2014 Meng Wang Yangmin Xu Sara Ann Heidinger Timothy John Coughlin Xiaoyan Wang Shuang Hu June 2015 Ming Zeng Master of Science in Yan Li Nashwan Jaleel Ali Alshuwaili Hanguang Zhang Aerospace Engineering Chang Liu Mauricio Diaz Arancibia Runsheng Zhang Jing Luo Alexander Azero Shizhong Zhao September 2014 Christopher D Martensen Yunhan Bai Michael J Mercurio Somaang Menocha Daniel Maxwell Barron Timothy P Wadhams Sreevidhya Ramakrishnan Fatima Bukhari Sara Habibollah Zadeh James Ki Rieffel Pradeep Kumar Chalavadi

16 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Sourodeep Ghosh Saurabh Agrawal Pratik Gajanan Deshpande Sarabjot Kohli Satyavardhan Gogineni Vinay Agrawal Sushant Sudhir Deshpande Pratik Rajendra Kolhe Ali Gurbuz Ankesh Airon Babu Prasad Dhandapani Govind Kothandaraman Jianming Hao Arun Nagendran Anoop Dixith Pradnya Kulkarni Elizabeth Hennessy Alanganallur Muralidharan Angad Gadre Priyanka Ramanuja Kulkarni Laura Liliana Hernandez Pineros Pavana Siddhartha Reddy Alla Vinod Kumar Naidu Galla Hariharan Kumar Ramya Kamineni Aman Alok Swapnesh Gandhi Amulya Kunati Shovik Kanji Archana Muralimohan Manoj Ganjigunte Anantha Murthy Sarang Prakash Kunte Nur Karatoprak Ankit Arora Anuj Garg Sai Kiran Reddy Lattupally Rama Pranav Kristam Arshaq Ahamadu Sulaiman Rahul Garg Xiaobai Li Jimena Yanina Martin Tempestti Ankit Arya John Alan Gerber Vinay Jude Lourd Vincent Sathvika Meenakshisundaram Bharadwaj Avva Sirak Admasu Gizaw Yuanshuo Lu Christopher Olayinka Ameya B Aware Prachi Gokhale Puneet Singh Ludu Abigail Prior Alekya Reddy Bachala Zehua Gong Deepak Madappa Sharath Chandra Ranganath Shashank Shivaji Bagul Ramasamy Gopalan Harish Mangalampalli Ruolong Ren Rakesh Baingolkar Divya Gorey Niranjan Manivasagam Andrea Riedman Uthish Balaji Gaurav Gosavi Vijay Manoharan Joshua Thomas Rodems Rajesh Balasubramanian Niraj Gupta Manoj Mariappan Amy Ruby Praveen Kumar Bandaru Pranav Gupta Yang Mao Kevin Shah Sneha Banerjee Kaushal Vinodbhai Hakani Nirupan Maruthappan Mudit Singh Subhranil Banerjee Nandini Hariprasad Vallerine Winnie Mascarenhas Jingqi Sui Praveen Kumar Bellam Harsha Hassan Somashekara Pranjal Mathur Shuai Tang Jitin Beri Jiangchuan He Karnesh Mehra Bishwas Thapa Piyush Sandeep Bhagade Rohit Holehunnur Shreekant Munish Mehra Xiaone Wei Vivek Bhalla Pranav Pramod Inamdar Palaniappan Meiyappan Gary Worden Devashish Bharadwaj Sinduja Jagadeesan Nitin Mendiratta Ji Xia Abhinav Bhardwaj Ankit Jain Vrushal Vijay Mhatre Cancan Yang Pratik Suresh Bhat Shubhi Jain Sanket Mishra Xiaojing Zhang Sinchan Bhattacharya Mahesh Jaliminche Niranjan Mohan Tao Zhou Satya Prakash Bhukar Long Jing Prateeksha Mudgal Praveen Boddapati Ankur Suresh Joshi Devanshu Mukherjee Master of Science in Computer Yazhou Cao Keyur Sanjeev Joshi Mahak Mukhi Science and Engineering Amol Chandla Shreyas Jukanti Venkata Satya Roopa Amrutha Nisha Keshav Chaudhari Anuja Vijay Kale Mullapudi September 2014 Aniket Arun Chauhan Ninad Vijay Kale Meenakshi Muthuraman Sharath Chandrashekhara Arafath Cherukuru Pavani Satish Kalepalli Anurag Mysari Vikas Dhiman Pavan Sandeep Chitrapu Krishna Teja Kandhibanda Shashwathi Nagaraja Reddy Sanjiban Kundu Shaun Gerard Cosgrove Abhishek Kapoor Anil Kumar Nalamalapu Lei Lin Abhishek Cumbakonam Desikan Priyanka Shriram Karandikar Anand Nandan Menon Carl Nuessle Chen Dai Madhuri Karukonda Amitha Narasimha Murthy Rohit K Pandey Qingcheng Dai Hrishikesh Sharad Karve Neeti Narayan Peng Wang Gauri Ajay Dani Anirudha Manmohan Karwa Tanvi Suresh Nayak Nils Wisiol Avishek Datta Mangesh Kaslikar Paul Nicotera February 2015 Indranil Deb Farida Kassamnath Chetan Pachchhao Shreyas Achrekar Haotian Deng Nikhil Kataria Yaoyao Pan Saket Adusumilli Atharva Arvind Deshmukh Anuj Kaul Aslesha Sanjiv Pansare Bulbul Agarwal Ketan Deshmukh Kaushik Saurabh Unnikrishnan Parameswaran Mayank Agarwal Sayali Narayan Deshmukh Nikhil Khandelwal Sujay Paranjape

COMMENCEMENT 2015 17 Master’s Degrees Shail Surendrabhai Parikh Anant Sarin Vivekanandh Vel Rathinam Jiasen Lu Ramanan Parthasarathy Biplap Sarkar Karthick Krishna Venkatakrishnan Ryan Marcellino Avinash Paruchuri Sarraf Ankit Praneeth Vinjamuri Daniel Edward Mcardle Nikhil Gopal Parvatikar Aditya Mukesh Sawe Sagar Vishwakarma Lu Meng Ameya Patil Vinoth Selvaraju Mahathi Vootla Krishna Nivruth Nandigam Ankit Narayanrao Patil Jenifer Sequeira Koushik Vuggampalli Chaitanya Choudhary Nettem Kshitijkumar Patil Mihir Shah Anil Kumar Vuta Nishant Sankaran Monica Pattjoshi Varun Sharma Sai Praneeth Vysyaraju Tsaschikher Nyamgerel Dilip Dnyaneshwar Pednekar Ashish Shetty Tanmay Wadhwa Shashank Pedamallu Venkata Karthik Penikalapati Bhushan Anil Shitole Yuchen Wang Rajaram Rabindranath Aditya Mukund Pore Swapnil Satish Shukla Saurabh Warvadekar Alagappan Ramu Praveen Kumar Potluri Amit Singh Anuya Ajit Welling Sean Rosney Poonam Kiran Pradhan Gagandeep Singh Abhishek Yadav Satya Lakshmipathi Raju Yeshwanth Pratapaneni Rahul Singh Vibhas Mohan Zanpure Sampathirao Ramamurthy Naidu Vijay Kumar Singh Hao Zhang Parth Prakash Sawant Vivek Raghuvanshi Aditya Singla Xiaozhong Zhang Sriram Shantharam Alok Raj Nikita Sanjay Sinnarkar Yu Zhang Ravi Karan Sharma Vinod Rajapatruni Prateek Shripal Solanki Da Zhou Xinwei Shen Krishna Anandh Rajendharan Yongsheng Song Alexander Paul Simon Senthil Rajendran Sourabh Soni June 2015 Amir Arsalan Soltani Sri Uma Jayaneesh Adike Pradeep Ramachandran Krishnan Shiyamsundar Soundara Rajan Siddharth Srivastava Ahmed Shayer Andalib Vidya Ramachandran Srivathsa Srinivasan Vasanth Subramanian Shane Anderson Pradyun Ramadorai Prashant Anand Srivastava Rakesh Guruprasad Manjunatha Mohit Arora Adithya Ramakrishnan Ankit Sultania Subramanya Aishwarya Balachander Ramalingam Sankaran Xin Sun Yash Upadhyay Sharath Babu Basavaraja Sanjay Ramanathan Bala Seshadri Sura Andreina Susana Nazaret Uzcategui Mohana Krishna Bhunekar Aswin Bharadwaj Ramesh Ajinkya Arvind Suryawanshi Cova Haowei Cheng Swetha Ramineni Sushil Kundu Bich Thi Ngoc Vu Yicheng Cheng Deepak Ravishankar Ramkumar Taher Saifuddin Suterwala Sitaram Chowdary Vuppala Manjusha Choorakuzil Siddhant Rane Abhinav Swami Boyu Wang Adam Czerniejewski Dileep Ranganathan Gaurav Vasantrao Talokar Xia Wu Tianmiao Du Sudarshan Surendra Rao Rahul Tejwani Fei Xu Santosh Kumar Dubey Amber Rastogi Aravindhan Thanigachalam Zhengqi Xu Senghor Etienne Srinivas Harsha Ravipati Harikrishnan Thattamparambil Steven J Yang Anup Ashok Rawka Gopalakrishnan Ninad Madhukar Gawade Xingxiao Yuan Srinivasan Rengarajan Sabharinath Babu Thurvas Aswin Gokulachandran Xinyu Yuan Rohan Vivek Jeyakumar Abhishek Gunturu Roshini Sebastian Anand Prakash Tiwary Vibhav Gupta Master of Science in Ankit Sablok Richa Tripathi Thornton Haag-wolf Electrical Engineering Sai Sekhar Reddy Tummala Xiao Han Subhendu Saha September 2014 Tumpiri Sydney Rockwell Santosh Shankaran Iyer Milky Sahu Dipan Chowdhury Barua Mohan Upadhyay Smriti Jha Mohammadanas Ruknuddin Saiyed Eric William Bartkowiak Jagadeesh Vallabhaneni Xiaowei Jia Davinder Singh Sandhu Ravinder Reddy Bushi Alok Vardhan Shanyao Jiang Umang Prakash Sanghavi Nan Cen Kaustubh Suhas Vartak Bartlomiej Karmilowicz Sruthi Sankar Emrecan Demirors Nishanth Vasisht Anvay Umesh Kawlekar Narendran Sankaran Krishnendu Ghosh Siddarth Reddy Vedere Harshmitha Kondur Piyush Kumar Sankla Kyle Gianiodis Ankur Saran Deepak Veerupapuram Pratik Lade

18 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Raghavendra Reddy Puchala Shreesha Kashyap Aneesh Rajeev Shetye Farshad Ghanei Yan Wang Divya Keerthiraj Chao Shi Chayanjit Ghosh Liyang Zhang Gauri S Kelkar Akash Shimpi Sushanth Girini Yan Zhuang Varun P Khemchandani Sayali Subodh Shinde Shashank Gone Shweta Vasant Khokale Avilok Shrivastava Alekhya Guduri February 2015 Sharayu Kirad Rahul Sindhu Ajeya Yogendra Gupta Naresh Allipoola Devarajan Teja Kothamasu Baljeet Singh Ren He Di An Jaikiran Kumaresan Natarajan Georgios Sklivanitis Praveen Raghunathan Iyer Arokia Rinaldo Andrew Amrita Lahiri Shanmugesh Somalinga Bhuvanesh Deekshitha Jetta Satya Tejashwini Arumilli Zhiheng Li Pujith Somasundaram Sahitya Katanguru Abhishek Awanti Lizhe Lin Rithambara Sriraman Bhavya Dayananda Kattapuni Sai Abhilash Baazaru Ke Shi Liu Kaiying Sun Wan Kim Manmohan Singh Kuldip Singh Zhiyi Liu Yuchen Sun Lokesh Kumar Kodavati Bhamra Tao Lu Michael Swagler Eshwar Kotagiri Nishit S Borkar Yun Luo Khundmir Syed Qingchuan Lai Nikhil Buddi Manoj Kumar Mallela Nithya Reddy Tada Xiaoyu Li Nikhil Burugu Lawrence McDuffie Lohit Telaprolu Sumukh Manjunath Naga Vikas Chakilam Shang Meng Namita Serena Thomas Matthew R Milewski Subhash Chalasani Madhan Mohana Sundaram Soumya Thota Munindhran Nagaswara Rao Giridhar Chelluri Ishan Moitra Sri Saravanan Umapathy Nikitha Panasamudra Shashidhar Tianle Chen Arunkumar Mourougappane Shashank Uppala Junsung Park Yuchuan Cheng Swaroop Reddy Mukku Venkata Krishna Chaitanya Vanam Oscar Kingsley Raju Sanjana Das Lakshmi Narasimhan Mukkur Chaitanya Reddy Vangoori Goutham Sankaranarayanan Saurabh Dawle Raghavan Jaya Lakshmi Veeramachaneni Tirthank Nitin Shah Akshay Prakash Degaonkar Bharathram Adithya Murali Naveen Teja Vempati Ramakanth Siddabattini Paul Michael DeMarco Sudhir Reddy Musirigari Bhoomika Venugopal Prateek Kumar Singh Sai Pruthvi Devanapally Sudharsan Muthukrishnan Chih-Kai Wang Shimona Sinha Madhavi Eerpina Sreedharan Lai Wei Xinhang Sui Abhishek Reddy Gangapuram Pratyusha Nadupalli Venkata Subramanya Vamsi Krishna Fengguo Tian Bharadwaj Ginakunta Krishna Nallar Chakravarthy Yadavalli Viet Tuan Laurent Tran Subashini Gopalsamy Uday Kiran Narra Huan Yang Vishrut Vaibhav Pradeep Avvp Gorthi Rajan Naware Shijie Yang Sreya Harshad Vedant Sai Aravind Chakravarthy Gosamsetti Bindiya Padmanabha Jagadeeswara Prasad Yarramsetty Jiakai Yu Vageesh Govindhen Ankur Parvatikar Sita Gayatri Yayavaram Ke Zeng Gautam Gupta Viralkumar Ashokbhai Patel Yining Zang Zhifeng Zhang Mittul Gupta Abinaya Prabakaran Li Zhang Yiting Zhao Harsimran Singh Di Qi Yonglin Zhong Zahed Hossain Kritika Rana Master of Science in Ankur Jasrapuria Rahul Ravi Kumar June 2015 Engineering Science Sharad Kumar Jha Sai Sankar Ravi Brett R. Bowman Smruti Subhash Jhaveri Sriram Ravindran Maxwell Sawyer Browning February 2015 Xiaochen Jia Guanpeng Ren Ping Liang Chen Yunfei Li Anu Joseph Yu Ruan Lionel Miguel Baudouin Capo Chichi Xiying Yang Dinesh Kajjam Anoop Sarathy Amir Daneshmand Hariharan Subramaniam Kannan Aswin Gautham Deva Prakash June 2015 Krishnapriyaa Selva Kumar Beynan Ransom Mohit Nandkishore Kanojia Akshaya Selvaraj Pallavi Dharmapuri Siddhant Kanungo Vishesh Seshadri Christopher Fritz Sunit Kapuria Kavisha N Shah Steve Matthew Gearhart

COMMENCEMENT 2015 19 Master’s Degrees Master of Science in Prasanth Yugandhar Yawatkar Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Kaveripakkam Narendrababu Sravya Yelamanchili Mechanical Engineering Yashar Khayati Dongchen Yu September 2014 Chetan K Konda Venkata Chao Yuan September 2014 Hao Chen Bharath Kumar Reddy Koppula Ravikiran Chollangi Jennifer Lai-ting Chen Anisha Kulkarni June 2015 Ailipati Delixiati Jungtae Go Vinayak Ashok Kulkarni Eyhab A Abdalla Akshay Vishwas Deshpande Zulqarnain Haider Nikhil Kumar Golbarg Asady Sulabh Gupta Derek Chun Sing Kan Mingming Li Venkata Syam Sundar Atmakuri Lucas Peter Mesmer Ali Karimi Nouri Yang Li Ekta Bhargava Arvind R Ramaswamy Koustubh Subhash Kulkarni Li Lin Zhaodong Cai Sree Shankar Satheesh Babu Amruta Vijay Nayak Xueqian Liu Peng Fei Chang Saman Seifi Xinnan Peng Shrenik Sanjay Luniya Ammar Dohadwala Zhongshan Shi Bijaya Rath Ashish Mahagaonkar Jessica Dorismond Sasitharan Sithambaram Norman Sung Vignesh Mathimohan Negin Ebadi Aditya Vishwanath Thakur Robert M Welch Akash S Mehta Atishay Godre Fan Yang Pooja Reddy Mitta Melissa Theresa Greene Haoyu Zhang February 2015 Sarith Mohan Woodrow Gustafson Nilesh Ananthanarayanan February 2015 Saraboji Murali Jared L Hill Thamarai Kannan Anbumani Taru Agrawal Krishnaraj Muthukumar Adam Michael Houser Tejasvi S Anumukonda Rohit Ashok Bhagat Rohan Naik Ting Shu Hung Narendran Appandaraj Bilal Ahmed Butt Santosh Kumar Nandakumar Aditya Rajeev Joshi Rahul Banthia Swanil Nitin Chaudhari Pushpak Ramdas Neharkar Mingyu Kim Ajay Pal Singh Bath Yin Chi Chen Sasikumar Palanisamy Anshuman Anjani Kumar Nirmal E Benedict Raj Robert John Damiano Vikas Parvataneni Mengxue Li Chiung Wen Chang Angshuman Deka Pavan Parvatikar Dan Liang Chun-Wei Chang Yang Ding Venkat Ankit Patchigoolla Vineet Madasseri Payyappalli Debjyoti Chatterjee Sharvari Divey Feng Pei Sridhar Shankar Mane Sagar Chavan Nianteng Feng Harika Potluri Ameya Arundatt Margaj Bosang Chen Bjorn Cody Dominique Foote Nithin Punaroor Narayanan Satvik Nandagudi Amogh Sanjay Chonkar Joseph Daniel Glab Chandra Sekar Raghupathy Anastasia Nikolaeva Pravin Dhandapani Pranav M Hardas Mayur Ramachandran Menon Bo Pang Vikas Rao Divakaruni Radhika Rangnath Kadam Mahendrakumar Ramamoorthy Ravikanth Patruni Chandan Dollu Lalithkumar Siddhartha Kambala Srijit Sarkar Raghav Pendyala Ranga Raya Reddy Eragamreddy Venkata Sai Subramaniam Eswar Ali Sattarzadeh Alka Philip Tara Ann Feuerstein Kambhampati Sudarshan Sekar Vikram Pulluru Rohit Anil Gaikwad Riddhi Prashant Khinvasara Garima Anil Sharma Ranjani Sureshkumar Priyanka Gholap Raghu Teja Kollarapu Jing Shen Mahboobeh Ghesmaty Sangachin Akhil Chandra Sekhar Grandhi Varun Sudhir Mallya Gagandeep Singh Siddhesh Sawant Monish Praveenkumar Gujar Rituja Dhananjay Marathe Somendra Singh Urvashi Lalit Shah Yue Huang Raghav Mathur Kushagra Sinha Rohan Sahebrao Shingare Pavan Jasti Savan Mestha Arvind Korkadu Sucharitha Sridhar Siddhartha Nambiar Aatithya Jaswal Morteza Moalleminejad Michael A Stearns Philip Samuel Easter Raj Solomon Zhuxi Jiang Habib Mohd Younus Mahindar Kaushik Suresh Kumar Kavitha Vishwanathan Manjunath Holaykoppa Nanjunda Tyler B Morris Vineet Kumar Bingjie Wang Jois Emmanuel Obinna Obunadike Nicholas Stephen Vitello Weixin Wang Aditya Kamble Siddhartha Sri Teja Pasumarthi Zhao Wu Anpeng Zhang Vikranth R Kasireddy Snehal Pathak Jeff Xavier Guanglei Zhao

20 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Alex Matthew Poniatowski Michael Rossi Tushar Pukale Rahul Sanal Narayana V Ravindran Arjun Sathya Prakash Boopalan Sampath Vrishali Baban Sawale Sarvesh Satam Apoorv Sharma Jason Sequeira Hyensup Shim Vaibhav Sharma Digvijay Singh Jeffrey Michael Shearer Therence Aymard Temfack Fogang Vijay Manoj Srinivasan Ragothaman Anjan Kumar Tripathi Trent William Thurston Guhan Velmurugan Te Hsin Tsai Jun Wang Azhar Vellore Yanyu Wang Zhiguo Yang Yiwei Wu Qingyuan Zha Karthik Yerrapragada Minjun Zhu Minhui Zheng Laura Ziegler June 2015 Michael John Anson Vaqas Arshad Hafez Asgharzadeh Ting Ju Chen Yun Cheng Keelan Kadeem Chu For Bradley Darrall Junqing Deng Faraaz Mohammed Siraj Eric M Gande Joseph Thomas Giangreco-Marotta Xi Gong Bin Huang Qinghong Jiang Pranay John Sahil Jayesh Kamdar Malav Kamlesh Kapadia Benjamin Michael Kuch Pranav Prashant Ladkat Yao Li Zhengjiang Li Yangbo Liu Ajinkya Shashikant Lonikar Dhruvin Jasmin Naik Yusuf Esmail Neemuchwala Philip Nii Okai Odonkor Shrey Pareek Kari L Puma Megha Puri Suryanarayana Murthy Rambhotla Kedar Subodh Ratnakar

COMMENCEMENT 2015 21 Doctorate Degrees Recommending Candidates Jacob Mark Heltzel Lei Lin February 2015 for Degrees Major Professor: Carl R. Lund Major Professor: Qian Wang and Adel Bahadir Ismail Aydin SUNY Distinguished Teaching Sadek Major Professor: Murat Demirbas Liesl Folks Professor Dean Mahdi Maghrebi Chetan Ramaiah Dewei Zhu Major Professor: Igor Jankovic Major Professor: Venugopal Doctor of Philosophy in Major Professor: Mark Swihart Govindaraju Aerospace Engineering Afsoon Nicknam SUNY Distinguished Professor Major Professor: Andre Filiatrault June 2015 Doctor of Philosophy in Daniel Schlegel Martin Diz Civil Engineering Reza - Rafiee Dehkharghani Major Professor: Stuart Shapiro Major Professor: Manoranjan Majji Major Professor: Amjad Aref September 2014 June 2015 Doctor of Philosophy in Yasser El Said Alzeni Engin Arslan Zilan Zhong Chemical Engineering Major Professor: Michel Bruneau Major Professor: Tevfik Kosar Major Professor: Amjad Aref September 2014 Ehsan Dehghan Niri June 2015 Zuhal Can Shobhit Gogia Major Professor: Salvatore Salamone Dipanshu Bansal Major Professor: Murat Demibas Major Professor: Sriram Major Professor: Amjad Aref Neelamegham Daniel Mal Bok Dowden Wei Chen Major Professor: Michel Bruneau Manish Kumar Major Professor: Jason Corso Nandini Mondal Major Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker Major Professor: Sriram Alireza Farhidzadeh Suxin Guo Neelamegham Major Professor: Salvatore Salamone Manish Kumar Major Professor: Aidong Zhang Major Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker SUNY Distinguished Professor Kaustubh Rane Hanjin Hu Major Professor: Jeffrey R. Errington Major Professor: Stuart Chen Konstantinos Oikonomou Jesse Lee Hartloff February 2015 Major Professor: Michael Major Professor: Atri Rudra Jung Ho Yang Reza Imani Constantinou Major Professor: David A. Kofke Major Professor: Michel Bruneau SUNY Distinguished Professor Jie Hu SUNY Distinguished Professor Major Professor: Chang Wen Chen Hosein Kerdar June 2015 Major Professor: Gary Dargush Doctor of Philosophy in Kevin Rice Keane Vivek K Bajpai Computer Science and Major Professor: Jason Corso Major Professor: Stylianos Andreadis Maria Koliou Engineering Major Professor: Andre Filiatrault Gaurav Kumar September 2014 Andrew Bodratti Major Professor: Venugopal Muhammed Fatih Bulut Major Professor: Paschalis February 2015 Govindaraju Alexandridis Juan B Aleman Hernandez Major Professor: Murat Demirbas Major Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker Hui Li Subarna Ghosh Daniel W Demonte Major Professor: Aidong Zhang Major Professor: Sheldon J. Park Chandrakanth Bolisetti Major Professor: Vipin Chaudhary Major Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker Xiaoyi Li Dung T Nguyen Rohitesh Gupta Major Professor: Aidong Zhang Major Professor: Sriram Siamak Epackachi Major Professor: Alan Selman Neelamegham Major Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker Anandatirtha Nandugudi Sathyaraja Sriram Sankaran Major Professor: Geoffrey Challen Qiqi Huang Major Professor: Ramalingam Sridhar and Chunming Qiao Major Professor: Sabanayagam Thevanayagam

22 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Brandon W Ross Wenjin Luo Bo Zhang Yong Won Seo Major Professor: Tevfik Kosar Major Professor: Alexander Domijan Major Professor: Weifeng Su Major Professor: Thenkurussi Kesavadas Arti Shivram Daniel Paul Muffoletto Doctor of Philosophy in Major Professor: Venugopal Major Professor: Jennifer Zirnheld Industrial Engineering Andi Wang Govindaraju Major Professor: Deborah Chung September 2014 Bilel Neji Cen Song Serafettin Tasci Major Professor: Albert H. Titus Xiaobo Zhou Major Professor: Murat Demirbas Major Professor: Jun Zhuang Major Professor: Venkat Krovi Farhan Aslam Qazi June 2015 June 2015 Jiun-Jie Wang Major Professor: Adly T. Fam Peiqiu Guan Major Professor: Xin He Nagavenkat Adurthi Major Professor: Jun Zhuang Major Professor: Puneet Singla Peiran Song Zhouhan Yang Major Professor: Gesualdo Scutari Hector J Ortiz-Pena Major Professor: Chunming Qiao Mohsen Daghooghi Major Professor: Mark H. Karwan Major Professor: Iman Borazjani Linfeng Xu SUNY Distinguished Teaching Zilong Ye Major Professor: Kwang Wook Oh Professor Major Professor: Chunming Qiao Seung Kook Jun June 2015 Major Professor: Venkat Krovi Yavus Selim Yilmaz Mark Louis DeMarie Doctor of Philosophy in Major Professor: Murat Demirbas Major Professor: Albert H. Titus Mechanical Engineering Nicole Varble Major Professor: Hui Meng Bing Zhang Muna Jawarneh September 2014 Major Professor: Tevfik Kosar Major Professor: Alexander Domijan Phillip M Cormier Deepika Verma Major Professor: Kemper Lewis Major Professor: Susan Hua Hun Lee Doctor of Philosophy in Major Professor: Kwang Wook Oh Xiangtong He Kumar Vishwajeet Electrical Engineering Major Professor: Youwei Fu Major Professor: Puneet Singla Panagiotis Markopoulos September 2014 Major Professor: Dimitris A. Pados Reza Madankan Hovannes Khatchig Kulhandjian Major Professor: Puneet Singla Major Professor: Tommaso Melodia Zijian Mo Major Professor: Weifeng Su Seyed Navid Samadi Vaghefi Guillaume Thomain Major Professor: Cyrus Madnia Major Professor: Vladimir Mitin Tania Moein SUNY Distinguished Professor Major Professor: Alexander N. Elena R Stefanescu Cartwright Major Professor: Abani Patra Chong Tong Major Professor: Wayne A. Anderson Anish Paul Antony February 2015 Major Professor: David T. Shaw Jennifer R Haggerty Jinwei Zeng Major Professor: Tarunraj Singh Major Professor: Natalia Litchinitser Jing Xu Major Professor: Albert H. Titus Arezoo Hajesfandiari February 2015 Major Professor: Gary Dargush Rui Chen Zhiyong Zhan Major Professor: Jonathan Bird Major Professor: Albert H. Titus Mohammad Ebrahim Kolahdouz Major Professor: David Salac Zhiying Chen Major Professor: Jonathan Bird

COMMENCEMENT 2015 23 History of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

In celebrating this commencement, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) marks over a half-century of educational and research excellence and service to the technical community, to New York State, and to society at large.

The Founding of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Faculty and Leadership: A Heritage of Vision and Talent Engineering courses were initially offered by the College of Arts and Sciences, SEAS has enjoyed consistent success in large part because of its leadership. Over which began granting a Certificate in Engineering in 1929. Early programs were the course of its sixty-plus years, twelve distinguished educators have served as established in engineering science, mechanical engineering, industrial leaders of the school. In 1946, Paul E. Mohn became the first dean. His thirteen- engineering and electrical engineering. Then in 1946, one hundred years after year tenure as dean lent stability to the young school. Frederick H. Thomas the University at Buffalo was founded, the School of Engineering was served as acting dean from 1959–60. E. Arthur Trabant was dean from established. The school was authorized to offer both bachelors and masters 1960–1966; Howard E. Strauss was acting dean from 1966–67. When the degrees. Departments of civil engineering and chemical engineering were added Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences became the administrative body of in 1958 and 1961, respectively. In 1962, the university joined the State engineering at SUNY Buffalo, the head of the faculty was often referred to as the University of New York (SUNY) higher education system and by 1967, the provost. F. Karl Willenbrock was provost from 1967–70; Joseph Bergantz was name had been changed to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences. acting provost from 1970–71; and William Gill served as provost/dean from One year later, aerospace engineering was added, and a comprehensive 1971–1977. George C. Lee took office as dean in 1978, and served in that post engineering school was achieved. An undergraduate program in engineering until 1995. In 1996, Mark H. Karwan became the school's sixth dean, followed physics was added in 1985. The unit changed its name to the School of by Harvey G. Stenger Jr. in 2006. Rajan Batta was the school’s acting and interim Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1989. dean in 2011–12, and in 2013, Liesl Folks joined SEAS as the school’s eighth In 1998, a new department of computer science and engineering was formed by dean. merging the computer science program from the College of Arts and Sciences Our leadership and faculty realize the school's direction with the invaluable with the computer engineering component of the department of electrical and support of our dedicated staff, students, alumni, friends, industry and corporate computer engineering in SEAS. The environmental engineering program was partners. In addition to their dedicated teaching, research, and service, the established in 2000. In 2010, a new department of biomedical engineering was faculty, which now numbers 165, have won prestigious awards, authored formed in collaboration with the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical countless books and articles, and produced many patents for materials and Sciences. In 2014, a new department of materials design and innovation was techniques, all aiming to benefit humankind. More than 45 of our faculty have established, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences. been elected as Fellows of engineering professional societies and 30 are National SEAS has come far since 1946, when it first held courses in the newly dedicated Science Foundation early career award winners. In the past year alone, seven of Karr Parker Engineering Building. Parker Hall was immediately enlarged to our current faculty members were recognized with SUNY Chancellor’s Awards accommodate traditional students and returning GIs intent on pursuing for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Service, and Scholarship and Creative engineering careers after WWII. In the mid-70s to mid-80s, the school moved Activity. Many others hold SUNY distinguished professor titles. to five new buildings on the north campus: Bell, Bonner, Furnas, Jarvis, and Ketter Halls. Our newest building, Davis Hall, opened in 2011 and features an environmentally friendly design and construction. Together these buildings form an outstanding educational and research facility, comprising 275,000 square feet of laboratory and office space.

24 COMMENCEMENT 2015 Programs and Partnerships A Proud Past, A Challenging Future The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was an early innovator in The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is a world-class institution. reforming the traditional preparation of beginning engineers. The school has Today's graduates join the ranks of over 25,000 alumni who have made their always valued interdisciplinary research and has structured itself to promote mark on the discipline, both in the academic world and in industry. Graduates connections across disciplines that benefit undergraduate and graduate study, live in 50 states and 65 countries around the world. as well as to address important social needs like health care, personal security Like any great organization, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is and recovery from natural disasters. SEAS is the home of such prominent continually evolving and stretching to meet new challenges. The more we interdisciplinary research and educational programs as UB’s Center for achieve, the more we see that needs to be done to rise to the challenge of Engineering Design and Applied Simulation (formerly NYSCEDII), Center for training the next generation of great engineers while delivering world-changing Multi-source Information Fusion (CMIF), Center for Unified Biometrics advances in science and technology. (CUBS), Center for Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and To keep up to date with the school, please visit us at engineering.buffalo.edu. Education (CEISARE), and The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE), as well as a membership in the National Science Foundation Center for e-Design. More recently, we have engaged with our campus colleagues to develop research and educational programs under UB’s “E Fund” initiative, which supports programs that will have a high impact both inside and outside the university. These include Computational Data Science and Engineering (CSDE), Home Health and Well-Being through Adaptive Smart Environments (Home-BASE), Institute of Bridge Engineering (IBE), and Institute of Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (ISTL). Our total research expenditures for the academic year 2012–2013 were $60 million. Historically, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' partnership with industry has been valuable and mutually rewarding. Students benefit from the professional interactions that our experiential learning programs provide, and faculty contribute to and gain valuable perspective from industry-sponsored research. Industry partners, meanwhile, benefit from access to a talented workforce and a well-trained knowledge base that provides them with a competitive edge in research and development.

COMMENCEMENT 2015 25 UB Alumni UB Engineering and UB Alma Mater Association Letter Applied Sciences Alumni Music by UB Students in 1903. Association Letter Lyrics adapted by UB Students in 2006 for contemporary use. Dear Class of 2015, Today we celebrate your great achievements at the Verse 1: Dear Class of 2015, UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Congratulations, graduates! Your hard work has commencement ceremony. You have all worked The pride of our spirit and tradition, brought you the knowledge, skills and confidence hard to earn your degree, and have spent many Our alma mater’s truth and name declare. to take the next step in your life. Be proud of your hours and late nights conducting cutting edge Celebrate our history and wisdom, research, studying, completing assignments and accomplishment as we are proud of you. O let us all prepare to sing her glory. On behalf of the UB Alumni Association, I preparing for exams. The UB Engineering and Applied Sciences Alumni Association (UBEAA) is welcome you to our family of UB alumni. Though Refrain: you may be leaving campus today, you’re not proud of your accomplishments and the knowledge base that you have built during your leaving UB. With more than 230,000 UB alumni To Buffalo all hail to thee, years at UB. I encourage you to carry your great around the world, wherever you go you will find Noble and strong it’s our university! fellow alumni. work ethic, knowledge and enthusiasm for engineering forward into your careers. To blue and white pledge loyalty, As you move forward, I encourage you to keep UB Singing I will always remember thee! close. The UBAA is here for you. We will help you On behalf of the UBEAA Board of Directors, we stay connected through regular communication welcome you to the UB School of Engineering and Verse 2: via email and At Buffalo, our quarterly magazine, Applied Sciences alumni family. There are more and alumni chapter events across the U.S. and than 25,000 of us around the world! We encourage We’ll ever keep our standards high, around the world. Need career advice or you to join the UBEAA board and take advantage connections? The UB Career Community will put of potential internship and networking And sing UB’s praises to the sky. you in touch with alumni in your current or target opportunities. The UBEAA will also help you stay Receiving the finest education, geographic area. These are just a few of the services connected to UB through support of annual events Our knowledge we impart unto the nations. UBAA offers to all UB alumni. such as the Engineer of the Year and Order of the Engineer ceremony, the Buffalo Engineer To learn more about the UBAA and the benefits (Repeat refrain) magazine, student club activities, as well as and services available, visit the alumni website at mentoring opportunities. www.alumni.buffalo.edu or contact the Office of Verse 3: Alumni Engagement at 1-800-284-5382 or To learn more about the UBEAA, contact Bethany Mazur: [email protected], the UBEAA Board of [email protected]. Our friends we’ve made with ties that bind, Directors: [email protected], or visit our website A union of our spirit, heart and mind. at: engineering.buffalo.edu/ubeaa. Good luck and best wishes, Together we’ll continue life’s journey, As stated by Conan O’Brien, “Work hard, be kind O may dear Buffalo forever be. and amazing things will happen.”

(Repeat refrain) Carol Gloff, BS ’75 Congratulations, President, UB Alumni Association

P.S. Please make sure to keep UBAA informed when your email address changes. We want to stay in touch. Colleen O’Connell, Civil Eng. BS 2003 President, UB Engineering Alumni Association

26 COMMENCEMENT 2015 The First Commencement

The first commencement of The University of Buffalo was held at the First to whom it was more immediately directed, cannot fail of making them Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, June 16, 1847, when medical degrees ornaments to their profession and to society . . . in thought, word and were conferred on seventeen “young gentlemen.” The event was witnessed deed.” by “quite a large concourse of our citizens, as the occasion was a novelty After 16 weeks of study, which in those days was the entire medical here,” according to the newspaper report. preparation, each graduate was cited for having “specialized” in one of the After an impressive and appropriate prayer, the Honorable Millard following: Hernia, Empiricism, Remittant Fever, Pneumonities, Mania Fillmore, Chancellor, delivered an address dealing principally with an Potu, Puerperal Fever, Erythema, Anatomical Fractures, Typhoid Fever, historical sketch of the rise and progress of education in Buffalo. Pneumonia, Acute Laryngitis, History of Physiology, Dyspepsia, Following music by the choir and conferring of degrees, Professor Haemorrhagi, Inflammatory Croup, Pregnancy, Scarlatina. Hamilton spoke to the graduates. His address was described in a local The students had paid $62.00 for all the lectures in the entire course, plus newspaper the following day as a “feeling and beautiful effort complete a $3.00 matriculation fee, $5.00 for a “demonstrator’s ticket,” and $20.00 with high sentiments, of sound morality and enlarged and pure for a graduation fee. Board, including fuel and light, cost from $2.00 to philanthropy, which, if made the rule and guide of the young gentlemen $3.00 per week.

Academic Costume

The traditional costume worn at commencement exercise is a record of a color that indicates the nature of the degree. For the degree of Doctor of academic achievement of the individuals taking part. Its use, which Philosophy, the color is dark blue, engineers may also wear orange; for originated at English and European universities during the twelfth and Doctor of Medicine, green; for Doctor of Dentistry, lilac; for Doctor of thirteenth centuries, came to the United States in 1754 with the founding Education, light blue; for Doctor of Science, golden yellow; for Doctor of of what is now Columbia University. Law, purple; for Doctor of Social Work, citron, etc. Master’s and bachelor’s In 1895 the Intercollegiate Commission, a group of leading American gowns have no facing. educators, met at Columbia to draft a code which would serve to regulate The hood seems to have had a more practical origin. During the Middle the design of gowns and hoods for various degrees as well as to fix the Ages monks wore them to protect their shaved heads in the winter and as colors that indicate the various faculties. This code has been adopted by a container in which to collect alms. It is the most significant part of the most of the colleges and universities in America. It was revised in 1932 academic dress. Its shape and size indicates the degree of the wearer, the and again in 1959. color of the velvet border indicates the academic field, and the color of the The level of degree held is indicated by the gown’s cut. Doctoral gowns lining indicates the institution granting the degree. The bachelor’s hood is have full sleeves which are round and open. Gowns worn by bachelors three feet long and has a two-inch velvet border, the master’s is three and have long pointed sleeves, and those worn by masters have long, closed, one-half feet long and has a three-inch border, and the doctor’s is four feet somewhat fuller sleeves which reach nearly to the wearer’s knees. The arm with a five-inch border. The State University of New York at Buffalo hood goes through a slit, giving the appearance of short sleeves. is lined with blue and gold stripes; orange signifies engineering. The color as well as cut of the gown varies. Although most doctoral gowns The mortarboard cap has been conventionalized from the skull cap which are black, in some cases their color is that of the university conferring the was worn by monks of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The degree. The doctoral gown is trimmed in velvet; it has three two-inch bars mortarboard is usually black. Tassels are worn over the left front quarter on the sleeves and a five-inch border extending from the back of the neck by degree holders; candidates wear the tassel over the right front quarter down the two sides in front. Although usually black, the velvet may be of until the degree is conferred.

COMMENCEMENT 2015 27 The State Emeritus Members Deans Robert J. Genco* Wayne S. Blank* Sheila H. Battle Arjang A. Assad Science, Technology Transfer Robert E. Denning* University Roger I. Blackwell School of Management and Economic Outreach Beverly Foit-Albert* of New York Randall L. Clark Judith B. Ittig* Frank N. Cuomo* Michael E. Cain Robert Granfield Ashok G. Kaveeshwar* Edmond J. Gicewicz* School of Medicine and Faculty Affairs Ross B. Kenzie Board of Trustees Biomedical Sciences Gerald S. Lippes* Francis M. Letro* H. Carl McCall Mary H. Gresham* William J. Maggio Chairman Mary E. Randolph Liesl Folks Educational Collaboration Anthony B. Martino* Rose H. Sconiers* School of Engineering and and Engagement Gerard T. Mazurkiewicz* Joseph W. Belluck* John N. Walsh III Applied Sciences Eric Corngold John T. Ho Murray S. Rosenthal* Henrick N. Dullea James A. Gardner Graduate Education Eileen S. Silvers* Ronald G. Ehrenberg University at Law School (Interim) Keith M. Stolzenburg* Angelo M. Fatta Buffalo Lee H. Melvin Satish K. Tripathi Tina Good Michael L. Glick Enrollment Margaret W. Wong* Peter L.K. Knuepfer School of Dental Medicine Officers Teresa A. Miller Eunice Ashman Lewin* Satish K. Tripathi Jaekyung Lee Equity and Inclusion Directors Marshall A. Lichtman* President Graduate School of Education Dianne Bennett* Lori Mould Andrew M. Stott Sheldon M. Berlow Charles F. Zukoski John L. Murad Jr. Marsha L. Lewis Undergraduate Education Helen M. Cappuccino* Provost and Executive Vice Linda S. Sanford School of Nursing Randall L. Clark President for Academic Sean P. Sullivan Richard Socarides Daniel M. Hamister Affairs James M. O’Donnell Academic Planning and Budget Carl Spielvogel Paul J. Harder Cary F. Staller School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Richard E. Heath Lawrence Waldman Vice Presidents and University at Jeremy M. Jacobs Jr. Cabinet Members E. Bruce Pitman Jordan A. Levy* System Administration J. Brice Bible College of Arts and Sciences Buffalo James W. McLernon* Nancy L. Zimpher Chief Information Officer Foundation Jean C. Powers* Chancellor Robert G. Shibley Ronald M. Schreiber* Dennis R. Black* School of Architecture and Officers Marjorie E. Winkler* Alexander N. Cartwright University Life and Services Planning Francis M. Letro* Provost and Executive Vice Chairman Chancellor Michael E. Cain Nancy J. Smyth Emeritus Trustees Health Sciences School of Social Work Gregory M. Bauer* Randall I. Benderson* Lawrence P. Castellani University at Buffalo Beth Del Genio* Jean Wactawski-Wende Vice Chairman William M.E. Clarkson Council Chief of Staff to the President School of Public Health and Jean C. Powers* Ellen E. Grant* Jeremy M. Jacobs* Health Professions Venugopal Govindaraju* Secretary Mark E. Hamister Chairman Research and Economic Jeremy M. Jacobs* Development (Interim) Vice Provosts and Senior Robert E. Denning* Reginald Newman II Mark J. Czarnecki* Academic Administration Treasurer Vice Chairman J.N. Walsh III Laura E. Hubbard A. Scott Weber Finance and Administration Senior Vice Provost for Edward P. Schneider* Robert T. Brady Executive Director Non Voting Members Michael W. Cropp* Academic Affairs Nancy E. Paton Michael E. Cain Jonathan A. Dandes* University Communications H. Austin Booth Laura E. Hubbard Pamela Davis Heilman* Trustees Congratulations to the graduating class of 2015! University Libraries Nancy L. Wells June Williams Hoeflich* Ravinder K. Bansal Nancy L. Wells Charles F. Zukoski Minahil Khan Philanthropy and Alumni Stephen C. Dunnett* Gregory M. Bauer* Engagement Gary R. Bichler Christopher H. Koch International Education *University at Buffalo Thomas E. Black Jr.* Daniel J. White alumnus/alumna Athletics

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