Illinois Institute of Technology 2015 Commencement Opening Ceremony
The Sixteenth of May Two Thousand and Fifteen Ten in the morning
Ed Glancy Field 31st Street and Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois elcome to IIT’s 146th Commencement Exercise. The university community extends cordial greetings to the families and friends who are gathered W here to celebrate the culmination of years of formal study. For 2,591 students, today’s ceremony officially recognizes their academic accomplishments during the 2014–15 academic year and inaugurates a new era in their lives. With a broad foundation of both intellectual capability and experiential learning that characterizes an IIT education, these graduates also take with them a sound understanding of contemporary society and its values as they join thousands of other IIT alumni. About Illinois Institute of Technology
In 1890, when advanced education was often reserved for society’s elite, Chicago minister Frank Wakely Gunsaulus delivered what came to be known as the “Million Dollar Sermon” near the site Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) now occupies. Gunsaulus said that with a million dollars he would build a school where students of all backgrounds could prepare for meaningful roles in a changing industrial society. Philip Danforth Armour, a Chicago meatpacking industrialist and grain merchant, heard the sermon and came to share the minister’s vision, agreeing to finance the endeavor with the stipulation that Gunsaulus become the first president of Armour Institute.
When Armour Institute opened in 1893, it offered professional courses in engineering, chemistry, architecture, and library science. IIT was created in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute with Lewis Institute (est. 1895), a West Side college that offered liberal arts as well as science and engineering courses. The Institute of Design, 1 founded in 1937, merged with IIT in 1949.
In 1969, IIT became one of the few technology-based universities with a law school when Chicago-Kent College of Law, founded in 1887, became a part of the university. Stuart School of Business was added in 1969 with a gift from the estate of Lewis Institute alumnus and Chicago financier Harold Leonard Stuart. Midwest College of Engineering, founded in 1967, joined the university in 1986, forming the nucleus for IIT’s west suburban campus.
Today, Illinois Institute of Technology is a private, Ph.D.-granting university with programs in engineering, science, architecture, law, human sciences, design, business, and applied technology. More than 10,300 graduate and undergraduate students study here, coming from 48 states and from 97 countries.
Scientists and engineers from IIT have made some of the century’s most important technological advances; IIT architects have shaped the skylines of cities worldwide; and Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni are impacting the legal system. About Illinois Institute of Technology, continued
Three miles south of the Chicago Loop, IIT’s Main Campus was designed by renowned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1940, and IIT’s 19 Mies buildings are the highest concentration in the world. The American Institute of Architects designated Main Campus as one of the 200 most important works of architecture in the country, and Mies’ S. R. Crown Hall, which houses the College of Architecture, was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2001.
Continuing IIT’s tradition of cutting-edge design, the university added two new buildings in 2003—The McCormick Tribune Campus Center, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas, and State Street Village Residence Hall, designed by Helmut Jahn, named one of the Ten Most Influential Living American Architects by the American Institute of Architects.
IIT has four additional campuses. The Downtown Campus is home to Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business. 2 The Institute of Design is located in Chicago’s River North area. The Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus in Wheaton, Ill., offers graduate and undergraduate courses and houses the School of Applied Technology. The Moffett Campus, in Bedford Park, Ill., is the home of the Institute for Food Safety and Health. IIT also has state- of-the-art distance learning programs. Academic Regalia
Much of the American academic ceremonial apparel is derived from that worn at British universities, particularly Oxford University. When Oxford was granted a charter in 1241, its members wore clerical garb because of the close connection between the university and the church. Academic apparel for colleges and universities in America was first introduced at Williams College in 1887. The Intercollegiate Commission drafted the first uniform code in 1895.
The bachelor’s gown is untrimmed, with long pointed sleeves, and is worn closed. The master’s gown has long, crescent-shaped sleeves and may be worn open or closed. The doctor’s gown has velvet facing down the front and three velvet bars on the bell-shaped sleeves. The velvet is either black or the color of the major field of study. For years, most gowns were black, but today most American institutions have followed the British custom of using red or college colors.
The hood is the most important and distinctive feature of the 3 American system. It was originally intended as a head cover and shoulder cape. The color of the trim indicates the degree field; for example, purple is law, orange is engineering, lavender is architecture. The length of the hood and the width of the trim indicate the degree earned, the doctor’s hood being the longest and having the widest trim. The color or colors of the hood lining indicate the degree- granting institution. The Illinois Institute of Technology hood lining has the school colors, a single grey chevron on a scarlet field. Commencement Speaker Christine Lagarde Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Born in Paris in 1956, Christine Lagarde completed high school in Le Havre and attended Holton Arms School in Bethesda (Maryland, USA). She then graduated from law school at University Paris X, and obtained a Master’s degree from the Political Science Institute in Aix en Provence.
After being admitted as a lawyer to the Paris Bar, Christine Lagarde joined the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie as an associate, specializing in Labor, Anti-trust, and Mergers & Acquisitions. A member of the Executive Committee of the Firm in 1995, Christine Lagarde became the Chairman of the Global Executive Committee of Baker & McKenzie in 1999, and subsequently Chairman of the Global Strategic Committee in 2004.
4 Christine Lagarde joined the French government in June 2005 as Minister for Foreign Trade. After a brief stint as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in June 2007 she became the first woman to hold the post of Finance and Economy Minister of a G-7 country. From July to December 2008, she also chaired the ECOFIN Council, which brings together Economics and Finance Ministers of the European Union.
As a member of the G-20, Christine Lagarde was involved in the Group’s management of the financial crisis, helping to foster international policies related to financial supervision and regulation and to strengthen global economic governance. As Chairman of the G-20 when France took over its presidency for the year 2011, she launched a wide-ranging work agenda on the reform of the international monetary system.
In July 2011, Christine Lagarde became the eleventh Managing Director of the IMF, and the first woman to hold that position.
Christine Lagarde was named Officier in the Légion d’honneur in April 2012.
A former member of the French national team for synchronized swimming, Christine Lagarde is the mother of two sons. Student Speaker Cameron Ketchmark Electrical Engineering
Cameron Ketchmark says his desire to immerse himself in city life was just one of the reasons he chose to attend IIT.
“I wanted to experience college on an urban campus with a dedication to academics and career opportunities,” he says. “I also wanted to study on a campus that focuses on sustainability. And Mies? Mies van der Rohe? Mies van der Rohe!”
The Brookfield, Illinois, native says that although Mies architecture was a draw—Ketchmark entered IIT as an architecture major—he found a better fit with electrical engineering.
“I had initially believed that I would be a wonderful artist and designer. Fortunately, I was wrong! After one semester of poorly cut wood models, I made the switch to electrical engineering. It clicked instantly!” he says.
The move paid off academically: Ketchmark was named to 5 the Dean’s List and placed second in the fall 2014 Armour R&D Expo, working with Assistant Professor Joohee Kim on the project Improving Feature Descriptors for Pedestrian Detection. During the most challenging times of study, he says his family’s support of his engineering path and the kind words of professors inspired him to excel.
“A professor or advisor who believes in you and encourages you to succeed beyond the classroom will set fire to your motivation and forever influence you,” he says. “Professor Geoffrey Williamson dealt with my confusion and constant interest swapping for three years. He did so with enthusiasm, often spending far beyond the allotted 15-minute intervals. One particular instance that resonated with me: Dr. Williamson sent me off on my last day of advising, saying, ‘Now go out and do great things!’”
In addition to excelling in his coursework, Ketchmark participated in various student groups and was a champion of IIT student spirit. He served on the Student Government Association and devised the fictitious “IIT Potato” mascot and social media campaign in an effort to build student community on campus. He helped to promote IIT’s Mobile App Development (MAD) club, using social media to build student attendance at coding events. He also participated in the IIT Pumpkin Launch.
After graduation Ketchmark plans to work as an embedded software engineer in the Space and Defense Group at Moog Inc., a worldwide designer, manufacturer, and integrator of precision motion control products and systems. Order of Exercises
Academic Procession
Presentation of Colors By IIT AFROTC Color Guard The audience is requested to rise and remain standing until after the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“The Star-Spangled Banner” Lyrics by Francis Scott Key, Arrangement by Jaret Landon Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Welcome John L. Anderson
6 President
Congratulatory Remarks Bud Wendorf B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1971 Chairman, IIT Board of Trustees Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus of Sargent & Lundy
The Conferring of Honorary Degrees Alan W. Cramb Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Honorary degree recipients are recognized for their commitment to commerce, technology, government, and the betterment of global society.
William F. Baker—Partner for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP Ward Cunningham—Staff Engineer at New Relic and Creator of the “Wiki” Jennifer S. Light—Professor of Science, Technology and Society, and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Commencement Address Christine Lagarde
The Conferring of Bachelor’s Degrees John L. Anderson Bachelor’s degree candidates will be presented by the deans of their respective colleges.
Student Speaker Cameron Ketchmark, Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Alumnus Speaker Judson Althoff B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1995 President, Microsoft North America Sales and Marketing
Alumni Board Speaker Andrea Berry Chairman, IIT Alumni Association Board of Directors and Trustee B.S. Computer Science, 1984 Senior Vice President, Broadcast Media Services, Fox Networks Group
The Conferring of Master’s Degrees John L. Anderson Master’s degree candidates will be presented by the deans of their respective colleges.
The Conferring of Juris Doctor John L. Anderson J.D. candidates will be presented by Harold J. Krent, Dean of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
The Conferring of Ph.D. Degrees John L. Anderson Ph.D. candidates will be presented by Christopher White, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
Closing Remarks 7 John L. Anderson
Academic Recession The members of the audience are requested to remain seated until the academic recession is completed.
Faculty Marshals Andrew Howard Associate Professor John Kallend Professor and Associate Dean, Armour College of Engineering Linda Spentzouris Professor
Congratulations to Graduating Black Knights
The Black Knights student advisory group has provided valuable insight into student and campus activities for the president of IIT since 1940. President John L. Anderson appreciates the contributions of the Black Knights and extends congratulations to the members graduating today: William Nicholas Bafia (B.S. Computer Science and M.S. Computer Science), Phillip Cano (B.S. Mechanical Engineering), Anika Kaiyanna Davis (B.S. Political Science, Minor in History and Literature), Katherine Marie Shafer Peters (B.S. Communication), and Mary L. Thomas (B.S. Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics). Degree Candidates Bachelor’s Degree Candidates
Presentation of Candidates for the Bachelor’s Degree in the IIT College of Architecture
Wiel Arets, Dean of the IIT College of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture Katarzyna Guzik Fall 2014 Jacob Harney Oluwasesan F. Aduroja Ana K. Hernandez Polina Batchkarova Melissa Hoelting § John A. D’Ortenzio Raleigh Howard Quade T. Gallagher Jacob Inserra § Jarrett D. Jespersen Kulsum Ishrati JiWan Lee § Zachary Thomas Jacobs Michael C. O’Rourke Junyeoung Jeon Brianna Saviano Mark Kaminski Jr. Lazar Sretkovic Kyunglan Kim Carolina Verdial Tereza Evgenieva Kostova § Gary A. Kranz Jr. Spring 2015 Michael Kent Kring Allton Kumontoy 10 David J. Abad Alicia Alford Thomas Jean-Renaud Lagarde Francisco Javier Alvarez Rincon §§ Ju hyub Lee Laura Leticia Amaro Lan Lee Ricardo Anguiano Jr. Su Jeong Lee George Baciu Catherine Loman Michael N. Bart Bowen Lu Zachary Boeheim Charles M. Massaro Brittani Nicole Boyce Matthew S. Maule Christopher Brich Trevor Mauro Alex F. Burchard Brittany Mead § Katerina Burianova Rex Meier Zihua Cai Mina Missaiel Erin Chapman Skylar C. Moran § Sonal Chaudhari Isabel Moreno-Garcia Oscar F. Chavez § Ryan P. Murphy † Ki Woung Cho §§ Yiu Fan Ngan § Aristeo Contreras III Tran T. Nguyen Cameron Cortez Olumide A. Oluduro § Amy Czarkowski James Ortega § Carlos A. Davalos John Pasowicz Kiril D. Dimitrov Jesse F. Pazmino Sanja Djokovic Zachary Myles Pena Christopher Ryan Dyck Megan Pool Dhaval S. Gadani Crina I. Popa Noe Garcia-Mendoza Jennifer Potoczak Paige Elise Gaydusek Michael Revord Angelika Glogowski § Alejandro Rojas Yahnna L. Glover § Luke Anthony Romanini Hans Griese William B. Rydin Ma § John Seaman BACHELOR’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Yuriy Skrupskyy Elena Doncheva Dilyana S. Stoyanova Gabriel Espinoza Evan Tjondro Koesoemo Cody Fallico Amber Arlene Ulasich §§ Karolina Zofia Gorz Philips Wira Kyle Gray § Manuel Yeverino § Kenny D. Han Joshua Yoon § Melody Lopez Travis Masters Summer 2015 Edgar Rodriguez Emine Busra Boztepe Ginta Sutkus Lauren M. Capuano Fariha Abdul Wajid Taylor Chan Jing Jie Wong § Cheol-Kyu Cheon Nadim Yahchouchi Aimee Dewante § Yaya Yu
Presentation of Candidates for the Bachelor’s Degree in the IIT Armour College of Engineering
11 Natacha DePaola, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT Armour College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering Architectural Engineering Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Joshua E. Martinez Ivan A. Jose §
Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Ryan Scott Cassel § Maria Christina Behrens §§ Prasanna Deshpande Joshua E. Benemerito David Foehring §§§ Eric W. Briggs Madhushree Ghosh YiYun Fan §§ Sneha Shriram Gindodiya Andrew Robert Gustafson Georgi Kalinov Hristov §§§ Carlos Henry Irazabal Calderon Grzegorz M. Knych Ajay T. Johnson Arthur R. Leclercq Natalie R. Kruit Tymoteusz Maculewicz § Andi Mele § Todd A. Maddamma Yin Ling Ng § Rodolfo Alejandro Manotas Ramos § Christian Alan Ochoa Chi Young Moon § Erick Perez Jesse Ocampo Kevin J. Santos Dino Okic § Ibrahim Tamimi §§§ Corey Ryan Page Whitney A. Theisen §§ Brian Anthony Robert Raddatz Nicole A. Wujcik § Jeffrey Joseph Somerfield §§§ Alvin Sri Dar Summer 2015 Nicholas J. Taluzek § Agnieszka Maria Horoszko-Ligas §§ Kimberly Anne Lis
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Bachelor of Science in David Ilavsky §§ Biomedical Engineering Joash Jacob Fall 2014 Drew A. LeBleu Christopher Barth §§§ Yoon Chye Lee Christen Deanes Colin Daniel McQuone Samandy Fulgence Erez Miller §§ Cecilie G. Tassone Brian P. Mitchell Ray Arya Mohaimani Spring 2015 Alexis Monarrez Chaudhry U. Ahmad Camila Belen Navarrete Silva Edna Arias Manar M. Nawar Uguumur Burentugs §§ Roger Alexandre Ngosso-Same Yi-Liang Chen Van Anh Nguyen § James E. De La Cruz Sylwia Odrzywolska §§§ Jacob Samuel Decker Jaya S. Parulekar §§ Mateo J. Garcia Rani Shah Tamara Gedankien § Gaby A. Sumampouw Kaela Victoria Gerald § Jihad A. Zeid Ameeruddin Ghouse Peter Zurowski § 12 Ziyao Jiang § Nathaniel P. McMahon Summer 2015 Medha S. Parulekar §§§ Junhuan Ding § Roshani Avinash Patil Nicole Patterson Bachelor of Science in Tracy L. Pfeffer Civil Engineering Danielle Molly Reich Fall 2014 Mehal N. Shah § Michelle Janeth Arriola Yewande Taiwo Andrew R. Arvans Veronica Calliste Torres §§ David Keith Brown Sandra Burciaga Summer 2015 Robert A. Gregorio Alka Prasad § Adham Henawi Jia-Hui Shi Suhaib Ibrahim Cynthia S. Yang Rachel Montoute Noah Morkunas Bachelor of Science in Nicole Pauline Press § Chemical Engineering Ana Patricia Salgado Ocampo Fall 2014 Temuulen Tuvshin Analy Cuellar Rudy Vidinhouede Maxine P. Mawussi EuiJin Yang §§ Ariana Mayte Mayorga Barajas Andrew Montague § Spring 2015 Bozhidara Svirkova Olaniyi O. Abimbola Hedaia Ahmad § Spring 2015 Joseph T. Bonokollie Donna Calabria Yanka I. Bozukova Thomas L. Clisham Daniel M. Burke § Magdalen Ann Dyslin § Gina M. Byczynski § Sara Glade §§ Karina Ying Heung Chung §§ Sarine Rebecca Hagopian § William C. Cronin Jerrod Antonio Harris Ryan Cummings BACHELOR’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Glen W. Eberts Summer 2015 Jiede Gu Smit Jain Yunsheng Guo Deepika Vaid Louiza Herras Ben Varghese Aladdin M. Husain §§ Caroline V. Johnson §§ Bachelor of Science in Jae Kyun Kim § Electrical Engineering Hailey Brooke Kunkel Fall 2014 James Leahy Abhiroop Chattopadhyay §§§ David Armando Romero § Brian Cullen Joshua D. Sainer Karol P. Gluc Breanne Stromberg Nathaniel Hurst Elisabeth Stump Anthony V. Krueger Jennifer Tam Roch Kuchno Matthew Thames Thomas Luis Angelo Larco § Jean Wesley Valero Araujo § Sida Liu §§ Daniel Joseph Vanek Yunlong Ma Jeffrey Weng Safouh Maani Takrouri Alma Patricia Navarro Summer 2015 Muhammad Sohail Noor Muhammad 13 Mouna Abdulrazzak Gabriel Cristian Vlas Yanfeng Wang § Bachelor of Science in Yunfei Zheng Computer Engineering Fall 2014 Spring 2015 Nathaniel Hurst Reginald Kojo Adusei Luis Angelo Larco § Rohit Agarwal § Troy Mass Alaa Alaliwi Dimitar G. Mihaylov Gamze Balciogullari Elmar Okanovic Mengjia Cen §§§ Amer Rez Joseph Chee Poh Huan § Bozhidara Svirkova Yi-Liang Chen Aman Syal Donel Edward § Keith E. Hand §§§ Spring 2015 David Ilavsky §§ Rohit Agarwal § Cameron C. Ketchmark §§ Chukwuka I. Alintah Kasey C. Klynstra Muhammad Khizer Arshad Thomas A. Koopman Chenqi Bao § Ricky Leavell Peter Francis Chinetti Kitae Lee Cameron Finnegan YaPeng Li Ottmar Flores Yifan Li § Justin Hui Nancy Lima Ryan A. Jenkins Karan Mahajan § Mustafa Caner Kabukcu Andres Sinhue Medina Ricky Leavell Patryk Muszynski Saad Uddin Mahmood Andrew Akosa Okwudiafor Anali Negrete Nicholiss R. Robinson Komlan M. Tamatekou Zelin Wu §§§
SEE SPECIAL HONORS KEY ON PAGE 19 BACHELOR’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Bachelor of Science in Summer 2015 Electrical Engineering (continued) Mateo E. Alvarado Xiang Si §§ Alejandra Gonzalez Brian P. Strening Biheng Sun §§ Bachelor of Science in Eid B. Sweis Materials Science and Engineering Saaduzzaman Syed § Fall 2014 Raed A. Tawil Kyeonggon Choi Shihan Tian Gustavo de Jesus Torres Spring 2015 Changqing Wang §§ David Foehring §§§ Zaien Alabdeen Y. Wasfi Kathy Ho § Daniel Kenneth Wente George Kim § Yujiang Wu §§§ Grzegorz M. Knych Zelin Wu §§§ Mengtian Xu §§§ Summer 2015 Tifei Yan § David R. Rowell Aobo Yang Chanmo Yang Bachelor of Science in 14 Zhenyu Yang Mechanical Engineering Yuanqing Yao §§§ Fall 2014 Hang Yin §§ Afiq Amani Bin Annuar Xinyi Yu Jennifer Bennett § Yi Zheng §§§ David James Cermak §§§ Jiyao Zhou WingYan Chan § Bertha Contreras Summer 2015 Brian A. Dixon Patrick G. Burgess § Chirag A. Gandhi Sr. Mark V. Procaccio Jose A. Gibaja § Tomas Stundzia Russell W. Hanneman §§§ Veronica A. Hannink §§§ Bachelor of Science in Hae Chan Kim Song § Engineering Management Manuel Leon Madrigal Jr. Fall 2014 Hyun Ah Lim Samira Matezic Victor Wei Liang Lin Jake Edward Wallack Igor Temelkoski Jordan U. Torres Spring 2015 George Zeinieh Lissette Ayvar Matthew P. Bolinder Spring 2015 Carolyn M. Boswell Erfan Ahmadi § Jiede Gu Vanessa Antar Michael D. Johannsen Michael Ayers Cynthia I. Mendes Nicholas Peter Barcenas Lohengrin Beatriz Mindiola Diaz §§ Amanda Christine Belcher Ramzi I. Riadi Piotr Bialyjan Christopher T. Senicka Phillip Cano Whitney A. Theisen Benjamin J. Chandler Hong Joon Choi § BACHELOR’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Dane H. Christianson §§ Parker Noonan §§§ Guillermo J. Colin Navarro §§§ Babatunde Olusegun Olukoye Stephen Blanchard Congdon § Abbas Kuresh Palgharwala David Contreras Darius Piscikas Prasanna Deshpande Patrick D. Porosky Feras Fallah § Kevin President § Ryan Michael Fitzpatrick Michael J. Rivera-Vega Casey Bo Alexandra Fritsch Jake Rosen Manuel Antonio Gonzalez Jr. Courtney A. Rouse §§§ Audel Gutierrez Jr. §§§ Mohammad J. Sallal Georgi Kalinov Hristov §§§ Eric Shafer §§§ George Kim § Zhivko Slavov Slavov Joaquin Antonio Lares § Vishnuvardhan Tanguturi Jason Lawrence Cindy Li Tran Hector Lua Nedim Vrtagic James Elmer Maly Matthew Zitkus § LaKendra Danielle McNeil Victor Medina Summer 2015 Mohd Zairul Bin Mohammad Zin § Thu Hien Thi Tran
Eric F. Musarra Raman Stephen Walwyn-Venugopal 15 Kaustav Neogi Elizabeth M. Zielinski
Presentation of Candidates for the Bachelor’s Degree in the IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences
Christine L. Himes, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences
Bachelor of Science in Communication Bachelor of Science in Political Science Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Katherine Marie Shafer Peters §§ Malinda A. Canton Chris Roberts Andrew Frenz Kiernan C. Sanders Valeria C. Garza Andrea G. Velazquez Duran Spring 2015 Bachelor of Science in Humanities Olurotimi O. Akindele Fall 2014 Anndriene Bell Krishen Blows Anika Kaiyanna Davis § Kimberly A. Koppen Maria Isabel Garcia
Summer 2015 Asma A. Awad
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Bachelor of Science in Psychology Summer 2015 Fall 2014 Caroline Michelle Hanlet Erik Richard Anderson Eghonghon Imarenezor Bobbie Lee Bowman III §§ Rebecca Carson Roma Mirutenko Leslie S. Omotosho Laura Vognar
Spring 2015 Bernadette Elisabeth Bajzek § Wudasse Berhanu Berke § Maria Isabel Garcia Kaysha C. Henry § Edward Youngwook Ho Hayden McDuffee Meg Murphy Angelique E. Pauss
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Presentation of Candidates for the Bachelor’s Degree in the IIT College of Science
R. Russell Betts, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT College of Science
Bachelor of Science in Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry Applied Mathematics Fall 2014 Fall 2014 In Sung Kang §§ Dylan F. Boliske Shane Gladinus Spring 2015 Alexander Kosmas Nabiha H. Khan Jessica L. Mohnke § Jude O. Osamor Paul V. Reymatias Spring 2015 Hector J. Rios Bulnes Marta Baran Haocheng Bian §§§ Summer 2015 Caleb R. Hamilton § Dawlat A. Mohamed § Joseph Mark Kupiec Jahna Tiny Angie Soomer-James §§ Barrett A. Leslie Agustin Salgado Jr. Bachelor of Science in Biology Max T. Wiese Fall 2014 Yuanfang Xiang §§§ Dorcas A. Boykin Sarah K. Romine Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Ricardo Valdez Samuel Kwame Addo-Yobo Anjelica Bettina Fiol Kaysha C. Henry § Sara Iguodala BACHELOR’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Deborah Leja Spring 2015 Carmen-Rose Madiebo Navin T. Abraham Shea Manley Raymond B. Amurao Samantha L. Richmond Asbel H. Assefa Jeannette Roberts William Nicholas Bafia § Renee Takiyah Jacinta Thomas Haocheng Bian §§§ Asha Vyas Kevin John Brandstatter § GyuHyeon Choi §§§ Summer 2015 Ryan M. Ellison §§ Toluwani Deborah Adesanya Daniel J. Fallon Mariah Kuitse Christopher M. Hannon Richard G. Hui Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Wooseok Kim Spring 2015 Cristina Kovacs Dennis J. Chaput Charles A. Kozel II § Karlene Selina Gibbs Meagan Alyce Lenoir Matthew A. Seludo Daniel J. Lim Rachael H. Youngworth §§ Phillip F. Martinez § Jessica C. Merrick § Bachelor of Science in Lohengrin Beatriz Mindiola Diaz §§ 17 Computer Information Systems Peter Henry Olson § Lena Taupier-Letage § Fall 2014 Matthew G. Urban Erik Escobar-Ocon Antonio D. Hudson Summer 2015 Erna Gevondyan Spring 2015 George A. Madeyski Neeraj Mahesh Soparawala John Moroney Alden I. Rose Bachelor of Science in Brian Shea Computer Science Fall 2014 Bachelor of Science in Molecular Mohamad Almohamad Alaliwi Biochemistry and Biophysics Rory Charles Barrett Fall 2014 Christopher Barth §§§ Bozhidara Svirkova Krishen Blows Andrey Danilkovich Spring 2015 Jason N. DiBabbo § Mary L. Thomas § Daniel G. Gordon Rachael H. Youngworth §§ Tony Law Shayan Mukherjee Kurt F. Olson Eric Peter Ronald Louis Pyka II Siddharth Ravikumar Rachel E. Walker Corey A. Ward Weiwei Wu
SEE SPECIAL HONORS KEY ON PAGE 19 BACHELOR’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Bachelor of Science in Physics Bachelor of Science in Fall 2014 Physics Education Gustavo A. Alvarez-Suchini Jr. Spring 2015 Sharbacha Edward Ryan Kamphuis William Fox Christopher C. Moag
Spring 2015 Krzysztof Flis Jesus G. Garcia Cassandra Godette Aleksander J. Korczakowski Varun Kulkarni Michael Lee Michael J. Skiba Miles J. Winter §§
18 Presentation of Candidates for the Bachelor’s Degree in the IIT School of Applied Technology
Carl Robert Carlson, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT School of Applied Technology
Bachelor of Industrial Technology Bachelor of Information Technology and Management and Management Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Alan Edward Beyer § Zeina Abdul Samad §§§ George Stan Bochnik Amadou Barrow § Grainne Terese Flaherty Nils T. Bergman Jonathan Spathelf §§ Gustavo A. Brizuela Dan Wang §§ Nicholas L. Clardy Maya D. Embar §§§ Spring 2015 Mariusz Michal Gladys § Katrina M. Errant Daniel Jn Baptiste Steven Marion Lazarz § John R. Naglich George W. Lowery § William R. Wesselman §§§ Benjamin R. Muth Olufunlola J. Odutayo Spring 2015 Brandyn M. Osborne Sultan Baig John Matthew Stoll Jr. Stephen T. Daniel Bartlomiej Adam Dworak § Summer 2015 Sydney Christina Hardwick Dione Alisa Harris § Tameem A. Imamdad § Thomas P. Rountree William Nicholas Ireland § Anthony Jay Ludlam Nilima Manandhar § Samuel S. Martin Pi Lai Ngai BACHELOR’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Ana Orozco Summer 2015 Pablo Portilla Salas Adrian Aponte Indhi Giovan Powlette Clint Matthew Iaian Bhola Gerald Reimer § Pablo R. Gutierrez Kevin Michael Roemer § Douglas P. Wilhelm § Christina Tovar §§§ Eduardo Villanueva
Presentation of Candidates for the Bachelor’s Degree in the IIT Stuart School of Business
Harvey Kahalas, Ph.D., Dean and Harold L. Stuart Professor of Management and Economic Development, Executive Director, Center for Strategic Competitiveness
Bachelor of Science in Jiaxuan Li Business Administration Yitong Liu § Fall 2014 Karen Lizbeth Nieto Ameena L. Payne George Batah 19 Aashish Bhagavatula IV Stephen Pepper III Michael Farina Shreeyeh Rajan Ryan M. Hynes Chenzhiyuan Rong John K. Kerin III Beatriz Ruiz David Alan Morales Patrick Kevin Schlomas Jeremiah E. Shavers Spring 2015 Zachary M. Urgena Salam Abdulrazzak Diego Fernando Vega Naijia Dong § Zhichao Wang Leonard Fairrow Chengxiang Yang § Malachi J. Gibson Xiaowei Zhu Ricardo A. Gradilla Joel A. Greggio Summer 2015 Di Huang Jorge E. Salas Moreno Sheng Hao Koo Jasmin Dorothea Sturzebecher
Special Honors Key: † = Honors | § = cum laude | §§ = magna cum laude | §§§ = summa cum laude Master’s Degree Candidates
Presentation of Candidates for the Master’s Degree in the IIT College of Architecture
Wiel Arets, Dean of the IIT College of Architecture
Master of Architecture Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Yuchen Bai Weibin Li Kaitlin Marie Beckham Advaith Bhaskar Spring 2015 Carla Carrescia Jarrett P. Abenstein Emma Lee Cline Garret Chow Nidhi Jayesh Desai John Nicholas Derkach Keefer David Dunn Alejandro Fernandez Alvarez De Buer Thomas Geoghegan Ferdinand Norman Kuznik Richard C. Hands Tsai-Fan Lin Minho Kim Peng Peng Yohan Kim Surambika Pradhan Maximilian Daniel Lyon Kathleen Ann Sathern Thang Bao Nguyen William Thomas Owen 20 Eric Schwartzbach John Benjamin Strasser Benjamin Allen Patrun Eveliz Vega Marzan Aaron Joseph Pavitt Tim Wang Lan D. Phan David Lohr Welty Jennifer M. Pisano Marina Pozzan Summer 2015 Jennifer Elaine Robinson Rui Wang Shengliang Rong Xuechen Wang Kaylee Rose Ross Zijian Wang Mark Anderson Rustin II Karl M. Schuster Master of Architecture Architecture Suzanne E. Stawiarski Advanced Program Brittany Jean Sublette Janette Szestowicki Fall 2014 Patrick Robert Vokaty Lili Gong Rachel Rae Weller Weimin He Pengfei Zhang Rui Lin Minju Park Summer 2015 Chenxing Sheng Yue Li Michelle Raquelle Simoni Wei Sha Chong Sun Ekta Wali Adam Johnson Weissert Xu Xu MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Landscape Architecture Master of Science in Architecture Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Andrew Graver D’Arcy Churl Jong Kim Michael P. Finn Ying Yang Sarah Cary Hanson Brett Andrew Harris Spring 2015 Heidi Marjean Petersen Panagiota Loukas Nathan Daniells Sylvester Peihao Tong Summer 2015 Santiago Javier Idrovo
Presentation of Candidates for the Master’s Degree in the IIT Armour College of Engineering
Natacha DePaola, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT Armour College of Engineering
Master of Architectural Engineering Master of Biomedical Engineering 21 Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Kyleen Kay Hoover Kyle T. Mulgrew Sara Lizama Velazquez Hanxiao Wang Ying Zhang Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Wenqiang Liu Alejandro Daras Ballester YiYun Fan Master of Biomedical Imaging Alvaro Gonzalez and Signals Andi Mele Fall 2014 Victoria Torres Arroyo Beatriz Isabel Catalan Carlos Viramontes Spring 2015 Summer 2015 Sivisa Mathavan Jose Carrillo Garcia Mohammad Ali Raza S Julio Marin Garcia Pengzhe Wang Xuanyi Zhou Master of Biological Engineering Fall 2014 Summer 2015 Zhefu Que Alka Prasad Huan Xu
Spring 2015 Jiaqi Ge Yaozhu Leng Zhenjie Liu Yuan Si Chengyao Wang Yuanqing Zou MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Chemical Engineering Siwei Xu Fall 2014 Yanan Xu Nour Abuhalaweh Bao Yang Samandy Fulgence Chengjun Yang Xue Geng Zhengming Yu Aravind Gurumurthy Zongwei Yu Maria Hidalgo Romero Chi Zhang Cheng-Ying Hsieh Fan Zhang Fernando Martin Serrat Wenshuo Zhang Andrew Montague Peter Zurowski Ai Van Nguyen Satish Parimi Master of Construction Engineering Jennifer Leah Riordan and Management Ariadna Rodriguez Farre Fall 2014 Mustafa Sertbas Guillermo Astorqui Steven Smith Abhinav Bitra Gaojun Wang Patricia Carro De La Vega Xiaotian Xu Olga Gureeva Chengnan Zhao Yıldırım Beyazıt Kılınçarslan 22 Luis Martinez Arauna Spring 2015 Mi Young Park Uguumur Burentugs Suhail S. Patel Bei Chen Jose Regino Ramirez Reyes Shiqi Chen Atakan Tetik Sai Charith Cilarapu Xueling Du Spring 2015 Kaela Victoria Gerald Saleh Mohammed A Alaskar Jose Maria Gutierrez Javierre Basmah Almahfoodh Jialuo He Ricardo Anguiano Jr. Yuting He Ashok Reddy Atla Donghai Hu Pablo Casals Vilar David Ilavsky John R. Corradetti Siddhi Joshi Alvaro De Andres Castro Kevin Kyrias-Gann Javier Devesa Sánchez Liangchen Li Marc Domingo Vidal India N. Lucas Lawrence E. Dorn Vishalakshi Mallarapu Dhaval S. Gadani Roopak Mayya Chengying Gan Ray Arya Mohaimani Anna Marie Gannon Palaniappan Narayanan Angelika Glogowski Adam Peter Shalapin Yahnna L. Glover Jaya Bahadur Singh Bing Han Sugandh Sood Mengyun Hu Shiru Sun Pranjal Jain Qinglin Wang Pol Lorente Gay Xiaoyu Wang Zhuoyue Lu Brian Anthony Wright Charles M. Massaro Nan Wu Yiu Fan Ngan Li Xu Olumide A. Oluduro MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Jiwoong Park Master of Environmental Engineering Lorenzo Perez Fall 2014 Francisco Alberto Ruiz de Gopegui Sampron Muhammad Siddiq-E Akbar Juan Pablo Sanchiz Steven Andrew Hall Xiang Zhang Lauren Elizabeth Legler Yi Zheng Dan Zhao Mengyang Zhou Zhekai Zou
Summer 2015 Spring 2015 Ahsan Ali Ahmed Cheng Cheng David Cerdan Hernandez Sara Glade Borja Esquirol Duque Kyudae Hyun Sricharan Lokku Sibo Liu Nitesh Madineni Boyang Lu Guillermo Nieva Sanchez Harshil K. Modi Fernando Paradela Oubiña Christine Keenan Simmons Vishal Arvindbhai Patel Daniel Joseph Vanek Tongchuan Wei Master of Electrical and Shujun Zhang Computer Engineering 23 Fall 2014 Master of Food Process Engineering Jalal Adada Spring 2015 Ines Bernal Bernal Xin Qin Sara Garcia Gonzalez Master of Geotechnical Engineering Spring 2015 Mani Priyanka Aravapalli Spring 2015 Ignacio Antonio Criado Garcia Ibrahim Mohammud Donel Edward Venkatakarthik Gotluru Summer 2015 Carmen Caterina Lazaro Martinez Chi Chen Elisa Lesmes Prieto Yuanjie Yang Jerry Patrick Morrow Laxmi Keerthi Nimma Master of Materials Science Vivek Anilkumar Patel and Engineering Juan Ros Benet Fall 2014 Rohit Tushar Salastekar Lei Liu Shahin Shirzadnia Qiming Wang Spring 2015 Alvaro Jose Gredilla Zubiria Summer 2015 George Kim Laura Garcia Garcia Fan Zhang Francisco Jose Loras Gallego MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Mechanical and Desai Fan Aerospace Engineering Daniel Gabriel Torres Fall 2014 Miguel Gallegos Pablo Aguilar Diaz Tejeiro Yuanchang Gao Alvaro Jose Arana Fernandez De Gamboa Madhushree Ghosh Mikel Arriola Garitaonaindia Michael Nicholas Gluchman Jr. Ignacio Banares Sanchez Borja Guerrero Jose Miguel Benito Ruiz Haoran Han Jennifer Bennett Xiao Li Jean Baptiste Bobo Senbao Lin Pau Burgaya Julia Xinyao Liu Bin Dong Maria Pilar Lopez Beneyto Llorenc Foraste Gomez Suyi Luo Jaime Garcia Diaz-Alejo Taotao Ma Joaquin Gomez-Arnau Ramirez Romain Macquart Veronica A. Hannink Yashaswini Malkireddy Ander Ibeas Moreno Achint Maniar Victor Jimenez Alba Khalid S. Matariyeh Mikel Larzabal Aperribay Haotian Meng 24 Qiujie Li Tushar Vidya Mote Fabien Moyses Wenxun Mu Raul Obis Naval Leroy C. Okoro Thomas Jean Dominique Payet-Burin Akshay Pradeep Patwardhan Jose Antonio Perez Romero Jan-Christian Peters Josu Rivas Vidaurrazaga Pawel Lukasz Pilch Ayush Rustagi Blaise-alexandre Aymeran Revaux Aditya Singh Trevor A. Townsend Alvaro Vidal Torreira Carles Triginer Roig Xudong Wang Jasminkumar Khushalchandra Vanazara Li Zhao Laura Ines Viar Basterra Ziming Zhu Raisa Vitto Nedim Vrtagic Spring 2015 Qi Wu Amol Diwakar Agade Shaojun Wu Hussam Alothman Yan Wu Yimeng An Meng Yang Bony Anjabeen Faizan Yousaf Eloi Barti Tremoleda Nianbo Yu Ranjit Bhagirath Hong Joon Choi Summer 2015 Jaykishan Dakshesh Choksi Carlos Gutierrez Martinez Antoine De La Sayette Marion Anne Le Callonnec Juan Ignacio Domenech Sergio Rodriguez Ortega Jiangbo Dong Jose Antonio Saiz Modol Stephen Duong Jose Angel Sebastian Peral Gokulnath Elangovan Valentin Kevin Gregory Serey Feras Fallah MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Network Engineering Master of Science in Civil Engineering Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Sreepad Raj Putti Subba Rao Maria Gomez Soriano Karen Poghosyan Master of Power Engineering Fall 2014 Spring 2015 Justin G. Odom Armin Jalali Sohi David C. Robertson Faezehossadat Khademi Tao Miao Spring 2015 Sri Ram Murthy Suvvari Ambika Abinavavidyatheerthan Hossein Taghizadeh Khamesi Juneseok Yang Master of Public Works Ji Zhang Spring 2015 Summer 2015 Nuria Ferres Amat Chi Chen Oluwatomisin Fiyinfoluwa Omotoso Siyang Feng Lu Wang Master of Science in Architectural Engineering Master of Science in 25 Spring 2015 Computer Engineering Akram Syed Ali Fall 2014 Shan Huang Master of Science in Anusree Kailash Biomedical Engineering Vikas Sathyanarayana Vaddin Fall 2014 Siwei Xiong Frederick Christian Doe Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Kehinde Ibidunni Adegoke Bonnie Au Aritra Dasgupta Majid Hasan Master of Science in Liubin Jiang Chemical Engineering Fan Lin Yifu Liu Spring 2015 George Joseph Palathingal Vishak Chandra Aralaguppe Deepak Prashaanth Ravi Chandra Jai Vijai Baskar Sathyanarayanan Daniel P. Ward Jiajun Shen Nan Xiao Yanqing Zhang Yushu Yin Yixiang Zhang Linghan Zhao
Summer 2015 Benoit Bernard Jacques Pyllioen MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Science in Zhihong Feng Electrical Engineering Laura Lynn Gardner Fall 2014 Sucheta Sudharma Gargatte Isabel Aranda Font Haowen Gong Jinpeng He Song Gu Weisheng Hong Chao Gui Juan Sebastian Hurtado Jaramillo Shen Guo Ming Jiang Yangfan Guo Karthik Balaji Kannappan Mengqi Han Aravindh Krishnan Xiaodong Hu Yidan Li Xiao Huang Thibault Lohner Yuqi Hui Jeevan Mithra Carles Javierre Petit Keith M. Moses Yonghui Jia Jon Munoa Illarregi Sankesh Jitendra Jain Sibo Nan Albert Juan Ramon Ravish Bipinbhai Patel Sharen Kumar Kanagaraj Sunil Patil Kaustubh Ratnakar Kelkar Alberto Perez Garrido Prashant Kulkarni 26 Kanchan Saxena Kitae Lee David Segui Ang Li Raghavendra Shirodkar Haoxiang Li Tengis Elstei Sukhbaatar Lingyan Li Weidong Sun Peishan Li Vidya Vasudevan Qiang Li Shangqin Wang Zongbo Li Yang Yu Muwei Lin Nu Zhang Xiao Ling Xiaotian Zhang Hanxiong Liu Yunfei Zheng Junchi Liu Yuan Zhi Kecheng Liu Hanzhang Zhu Meihua Liu Kaiyue Zhu Shaochen Lu Li Ma Spring 2015 Ruicheng Ma Hassan Mansour Al Hassan Arif Mahmood Jorge Alcantara Barroso Muhammad Mobeen Mahmood Adnan Baleh Carlos Montes Gonzalez Chuang Chang Sreekanth Narayana Pillai Chengxiu Chen Yue Nie Qiquan Chen Sneha Anand Padaki Xiao Chen Mike Palarz Aritra Dasgupta Xin Peng Sumeet Suresh Deore Maria Polo Alvez Yuvrajsinh Rameshchandra Dodiya Sharath Ramesh Yonghui Fan Andrea Sancho Silgado Yuping Fan Oishee Sarkar Jingzhe Feng Dhavalkumar Rohitkumar Shah Yanjun Feng Paul Sheldon Muduo Shi MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Yinghao Shi Summer 2015 Ranga Ramanujam Srinivasan Gurmanpreet Singh Bhupal Biheng Sun Jinghao Tan Master of Science in Yun Tang Food Process Engineering Juan Rodrigo Valverde Garcia Summer 2015 Bing Wang Yue Zhou Boyang Wang Junchao Wang Master of Science in Materials Science Mengdi Wang and Engineering Xiaomeng Wang Kuang Wu Fall 2014 Zhiyan Xie Suhasini Shrikant Gangatirkar Yue Xu Guojun Yang Spring 2015 Lin Yang Mingming Duan Xin Yang Vladilena Gaisina Ting Yao Ran Ren Xichuan Yao Xuzhe Zhao
Yiyun Yao 27 Jianan Ye Master of Science in Mechanical and Wenda Yu Aerospace Engineering Zailiang Yu Fall 2014 Yu Yuan Sepehr Aboutorabi Goudarzi Mohammadamin Zarshenas William Michael Dziedzic Chenxu Zhang Yu Gu Hao Zhang Peng Zhang Spring 2015 Tao Zhang Guillaume Bonnavion Cheng Zhao Siwei Dong Zhen Zhou Guillermo Duenas Arana Simeon M. Iliev Summer 2015 Panagiotis Lymperopoulos Tonmo Vanessa Carine Fepeussi Javier Garcia Gonzalez Summer 2015 Haokun Li Cedric Zacarias Ramos Silva Zhenyu Miao Aurelien Pierre Jean-Claude Morin Master of Structural Engineering Kushal Virupakshappa Fall 2014 Liang Wang Michelle Janeth Arriola Zongzehui Xia Pejman Azarsa Dhiraj Prakash Zalse Francisco Javier Gonzalez Ramirez Javier Gras Guisado Master of Science in Sharvesh C. Joshi Environmental Engineering Ryan A. Koehn Spring 2015 Daniel Medrano Xiangzhou Mao Rachel Montoute Ratul Roy Nicole Pauline Press Xiaolong Wang Marc Wanagas MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Structural Engineering Summer 2015 (continued) Sandra Burciaga Spring 2015 Amruta Chanabasanavar Nuria Abad Sanz Agnieszka Maria Horoszko-Ligas Sai Krishna Atukuru Swadhin Prusty Joseph T. Bonokollie Anna Roig Escolano Freddy E. Canelo Felix Dominguez Mayans Master of Telecommunications and Glen W. Eberts Software Engineering Paloma Fernandez Ruiz Spring 2015 Jae Kyun Kim Venkateswara Swamy Bandaru Tony Kim Boyu Sun Sebastian R. Koprowski Shoujun Wei Natalie R. Kruit Jeffery M. Lazzaro Master of Transportation Engineering James Leahy Fall 2014 Sai Vishal Chakravarthy Marisetty Laura Colino Ortuno Ruben Perea Fong Paulin Hakizimana Samir M. Qaisar Bharathi Perumal 28 Xu Shen Bin Situ Summer 2015 Breanne Stromberg Josias Abraham Halifa Elisabeth Stump Hayato Takase Master of VLSI and Microelectronics Allison Rachel Toonen-Talamo Adil Nizamuddin Vahora Spring 2015 Joshua W. Wrase Harsh Paragkumar Maniar Vivek Pg
Presentation of Candidates for the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Harold J. Krent, Dean of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Doctor of Science of Law Nan Xiang Spring 2015 Tianyu Xie Rui Tan Mengfei Xiong Matthew D. Zweifel Master of Laws in Financial Services Master of Laws in International Fall 2014 Intellectual Property Law Stephen M. Franklin Richard March Spring 2015 Zilimila Ainiwaer Spring 2015 Xi Chen Fanfu Bu Xianzhi Quan Yue Cao Pongkan Sorthip Anna Dobroslawa Kuniewicz Eliana Torres Chi Lei Jujiang Wang Sara Maktouf Bowei Zhao Bianca-Maria V. Marin Yi Zhong Xiaochen Zhu MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Laws in International and Mingru Chen Comparative Law Carlos Andres Cossio Ampudia Fall 2014 Teona Diasamidze Johanna Sigrid Heberlein † Tacjanna Malgorzata Dziuban Paloma Pascale Pietsch † Yu Fu Viktoria-Verena Ritter Marine Ghandilyan Joel Zangerle † Haiyan Hu Wendi Hu Master of Laws in Taxation Archil Javelidze Przemyslaw Krzysztof Karon Fall 2014 Nino Kharshiladze-Gillikin Jose M. Ortega Krzysztof Maciej Lewicki Mule Li Spring 2015 Yufeng Li Clint A. Costa Chengjie Lian Kapil M. Patel Xiang Lin Qiong Lu Master of Laws in Trial Advocacy Yuchen Lu Spring 2015 Yu Ma Chen Deng Yueyun Ma 29 Haiyan Liu Patrycja Aleksandra Mazur Jing Lu Andriy Moskalyk Ema Enbar Tal Siriluk Na Kalasin Rong Zheng Boning Qiu Enrique Javier Ruiz Cordero Master of Laws in U.S., International, Qian Shi and Transnational Law Milosz Skowronski Szymon Slabkowski Fall 2014 Iryna Sokhatska Akaki Beridze Elene Sulkhanishvili Natia Burduli Lianhui Sun Berenika Czerwinska Jedrzej Szymon Szymczyk Chen Deng Sophio Tabatadze Ana Gagua Caroline Thiriot Iman Hasanvand Uliana Vityk Oleksandr Hyrych Shuang Wang Konstantine Janjghava Yanmin Wang Taras Kovalchuk Yuan Wang Nino Lomaia Mingting Xie Nino Mindiashvili Qiang Yan Vakhtangi Natsvlishvili † Aoshuang Yang Brainas Tarvydas Bei Yang Anano Tsintsabadze † Jia Yu Natalia Karolina Zaczek Wenting Yu Xinning Zeng Spring 2015 Jilin Zhang Khalid Abdulrahman A Alhindi Kaidi Zhang Narek Arushanyan Yue Zhang Helene Therese Jeanne Maria Balcerac Lei Zhou Leiwei Bao Julia Ksawera Barg † designates graduated with honors MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Presentation of Candidates for the Master’s Degree in the IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences
Christine L. Himes, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences
Master of Science in Jeong Hye Kim Information Architecture Inna A. Koval Fall 2014 Andrea Ines Mosqueda Ryan Perzynski Georgia Niki Papaioannou Kristian Peter Nitsch Spring 2015 Amanda Osborn Christine A. McClure Georgia Niki Papaioannou Xi Rao Samantha J. Paruchuri Maxwell Porter Master of Science in Personnel and Samantha Lynn De Dios Stern Human Resource Development David J. Zigun Fall 2014 Master of Science in Rehabilitation and Rui Han Mental Health Counseling Fall 2014 30 Spring 2015 Karen Lucas Martin Kim Heidi M. Maibuecher Ruoqi Pei Spring 2015 Maria K. Ustavalkova Kristi Renee Berlt Amber Lynn West Charlene Black Mo Zhou Amanda Marie Boyd Amanda M. Bulow Master of Science in Psychology Lindsey Elaine Colby Samantha Berit Cymerman Fall 2014 Xi Fang Elisabeth Jewell Batchos Amy Elizabeth French Blythe A. Buchholz Ashley Nichole Gallaway Leah Hecht Rachel N. Hernandez Adeline Leon Jacqueline N. Roche Lisa Melanie Newmark Lauren Rae Ruben Lauren Elizabeth Piper Ashley Corinne Smith Sarah Rusakiewicz Alisha Nicole Warf Joseph Smetter Joanna N. Weir Barry J. Unis Summer 2015 Spring 2015 Moutushi Kundu Tanya C. Auguste Jordan Wheeler Leland Bardsley Anna Kirsten Brown Master of Science in Roger Dimitrov Technical Communication and Talissa Dorsaint Information Design Jordan Sawyer Fuller Lynda Latrice Gibson Spring 2015 Laura Hedrick Adesuwa Cherie Evbuoma Katherine Louise Kereszturi MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Presentation of Candidates for the Master’s Degree in the IIT College of Science
R. Russell Betts, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT College of Science
Master in Biology Hiwa M. Ahmed Gaznai Fall 2014 Yuanlong Gu Celia Mae Dion Qianqi Guan Megan Erin Essman Sandeep Guddekoppa Suresh Allison Kay Kunerth Manishankar Janakaraj Sarah K. Romine Rohan Rajendra Kachewar Deeba Saira Kiran Kumar Kalluri Neil A. Thomas Yanqun Kuang Qi Li Spring 2015 Yunli Liu Adil Ali Hongjian Luo Vance N. Erese Mohan Kumar Madhavan Anita Fareeduddin Harsha Matadhikari Frank J. Lee Akshay Prabhakar Mirajkar Shivanshu Misra Deborah Leja 31 Denise Padilla Soumya NLN Kela Roberts Sreevani Nagendran David Reid Sayre Long Nangong Jithin Nazeer Padikkalakandy Cheriyath Summer 2015 Bhrugen Kamlesh Patel Reza Ojaghi Khalaflou Priya Manilal Patel Tarannum Uddin Sowjanya Potha Madhu Pramod Adithya Master in Chemistry Sourabh Seth Danjun Shi Fall 2014 Pooja Subramanian Manli Da Geetha Prasanthi Thummallapalle Satya Qianhui Gao Cyril Trosset Dongqing Tao Han Wang Manqi Zhang Spring 2015 Xinzhou Zhou Guohao Chai Shengnan Jin Spring 2015 Yongliang Zhong Amin Abolghasem Rasooli NFN Ajay Anthony Master in Computer Science Shriram Anbalagan Fall 2014 NFN Anup Mohan Akash Agarwal Srivatsan Balakrishnan Prasanna Raghavendar Balasubramani Shiva Nageswara Rao Bandereddy Kaushik Bezawada Sai Harshitha Bandlamudi Dylan F. Boliske Kavya Basavanthanahalli Ramachandraiah Kaushal Dontula Adithya Bharadwaj Michael Dougherty Dixitha Bharath Kumar Yifan Du Aalapi Chandrashekhar Bhave Xiang Gao Kevin John Brandstatter MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Jiaqi Chen Maria Dolores Priego Porcuna Srujana Chennareddy Yongzhen Qiu Jigar Jitendra Chheda Rahul Ramachandran Siddhesh Deepakraj Chitnis Nirmal Kumar Ravi Saba Dasadawala Sruthi Reddy Rekula Khush Singh Deoja FNU Richa Krishna Mohan Elluru Geetha Sankineni Zexiang Fan Isabelle M. Santos Hanlu Feng Shefali Sarangal Namrata Gaddameedi Bhawna Sardana Xu Gao Jinjian Shao Rebecah Susmitha Gorla Harmeet Singh Nikhileswar Reddy Gosala Nidhi Varshney Singhai Renuka Sharad Gulavani Xiaoli Song Sanjeev Gupta Vyshnavi Sreenivas Keith Haas Changshu Sun Akshaya Hebbar Supriya Tirunampalli Ramesh Babu Hemanath Babu Jiada Tu Yangzhi Hong Andrew Joseph Turner
32 Xingtan Hu Anuja Vidyadhar Velankar Yuzhang Hu Lokesh Venkatesan Nadia Iglesias Diaz Dingwen Wang Rajahamsa Janagama Peng Wang Matthew J. Jankowiak Yi Wang Ramesh Prabataram Kalbi Qingyuan Wen Bharath S. Kallur Tao Wu Radhika Kalyanaraman You Wu Isha Kapur Yuelong Yang Rajah Yoghindra Srinivasa Katta Dedong Zhao Rajaram Krishnamurthy Yixuan Zhao Aditya Kundu Jie Zhou Priyambada Lal Zeyu Li Summer 2015 Xin Liu Thamer Alrefai Qunyi Lu Pablo Luis Cortes Costa Xiaoyang Lu Kapeel Daryani Chao Lyu Enrique Escribano Hinojar Ying Ma Tony Forlini Zhixuan Ma Pritom Kumar Gogoi Jessica C. Merrick Mengliang Li Jorge Gregorio Nieto Garcia Deric Roshan Pinto Zihan Niu Tribhuwan Pokharia Peter Henry Olson Irfan Mohiuddin Siddiqui Ankit Bharatbhai Patel Praveen Kumar Suresh Babu Monil Ghanshyambhai Patel Wilfrido Vidana Srinivas Pitla MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master in Health Physics Master of Applied Mathematics Fall 2014 Fall 2014 David Kim Qing Pan Joseph Landry Feihong Wang Trang Doan Marquez Yang Xie Marshall Howi Wen Xinyu Zhou Kanru Xie Xinyi Zhu
Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Krzysztof Flis Junyu He Adam Jandeska Jeremy L. Kieser Summer 2015 Justin Robert Maxwell Zheyuan Sun Christopher E. Pagan Adam Quinton Master of Chemistry in Bruce Toomire Analytical Chemistry Kristin Lynn Weibel Fall 2014 Jeramiah J. Yeksavich Andrea Hope Weinecke
33 Master in Materials Chemistry Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Joseph Azzarella Khashayar Ghazianzad Chelsea Bonetti Lisa Hayes Master in Mathematics Education Jessica Elaine Jorvig Spring 2015 Bartosz P. Lapa Thalia Y. Moore Lori Beth O’Connor Karen Ojofeitimi John Harley Peterson Adam Jeffrey Wardlow Summer 2015 Lawanda R. Calhoun Summer 2015 Annemarie Madej Kara Marie Kinzel Barbara Reneé Mayden Tristan L. Roche Master of Chemistry in Materials and Carl G. Stalla Chemical Synthesis Spring 2015 Master in Science Education Amanda Lynn Andrews Spring 2015 Aaron Cortes Master of Data Science Ian P. McNair Spring 2015 Jennifer Lindsey Smit Bhavya Kalluri Jingqian Li Summer 2015 Emmanuel Aldana Summer 2015 Tracie Yvette Hudson-Burt Yi Jin Shawana Ridley Xiaoang Zhang Sara E. Zufan MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Science in Chih-Yu Pai Applied Mathematics Rajul Mukund Patel Fall 2014 Yash Paresh Patel Aditya Kiran Gundaboina Harish Daniel Raba Hongwei Jin Dharaniya Sakthivel Michael A. Streit Spring 2015 Qiaoqiao Tan Weiyi Chen Hector Vega Melinda Bulin Clardy Stormy Vertygo Caleb R. Hamilton Geng Wang Su Li Mengtian Wang Fanjing Liu Yuxi Wang Cullen Tanoue Qianyi Xu Jianhua Wang Tianhao Xu Jingyi Yang Master of Science in Applied Physics Yifei Yang Longwen Zhao Spring 2015 Fangyi Zhu Michael Heim Yixing Zhu
34 Master of Science in Biology Summer 2015 Fall 2014 Yang Han Xin Deng Jahna Tiny Angie Soomer-James Ying Guo Constantine Chris Theodoropoulos Yi-hsiu Lin Hua Yang Moshinali Gulamabbas Sheliya Yang Yuan Yin Wang Di Wu Master of Science in Chemistry Shuai Zhao Spring 2015 Songyang Han Spring 2015 Viviana L. Aguilar Master of Science in Computer Science Yu Bai Wenjing Chen Fall 2014 Adeeba Haroon Dhalech Mengchen Cui Peng Gao Jesus Hernandez Martin Judy Hamouie Ke Li Wenfei Huang Syed Giasuddin Hasan Mohammed Xiaoqi Huo Mitali Shriniwas Nandargikar Dong Jiang Ronald Louis Pyka II Xinghang Jiang Kan Qiao Xin Jin Chandru Rajendran Maharshi Jayeshbhai Joshi Yingjie Sheng Xue Li Feng Tai Jieya Lin Chaofan Yu Xiaodan Lin Andi Zang Benjamin Kwan Liu Qian Zhang Sandhya Menon Xin Niu MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Spring 2015 Lv Zhang Uzair Ahmed Zichen Zhang William Nicholas Bafia Chu Zhao Dong Ding Qiyuan Zheng Haohua Du Jingyu Zhu Ryan M. Ellison Zhaoan Guan Summer 2015 Aruna Kanagaraj Kapeel Daryani Krishnaja Kethireddy FNU Krishna Ramesh Ronald Eric Klose Hang Li Mingjun Lei Boyang Li Master of Science in Molecular Guangyao Ma Biochemistry and Biophysics Zhe Miao Spring 2015 Arjun Nanjundappa Qian Sun Sandeep Palur Yifan Zhang Swathi Rajasurya An Shi Master of Science in Physics Miao Song Fall 2014 Yabin Song 35 Alekya Thalari Yujia Ding Panayiota A. Vassiliou Lu Wang Spring 2015 Yangyang Xie Ge Jiang Jianchao Yang Mingyu Xu Qi Zhan Shiqi Yu Fan Zhang
Presentation of Candidates for the Master’s Degree in the IIT Institute of Design
Patrick F. Whitney, Dean and Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor of Design
Master of Design John Michael Downey Fall 2014 Charles Garrett Vijay Shankar Balijaypalli Sergio Gutierrez Montero Betina De Gorordo Zhuanyi Huang Yuting Huang Karolina Angela Kohler Natalie Scoles Seungcheol Lee Jeffrey C. Turkelson Lili Lin Xinli Lin Spring 2015 Yu-hsien Liu Tiago Baccarelli Justino Nayaab Lokhandwala Maureen Burns Irene Loomis Ge Cao Brian Lucas Szu-Ying Ching Christina M. Noonan Paula Regina De Azevedo Estrela Falco Amanda Rosenberg Beth Schwindt MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Design (continued) Master of Design Methods Evan Scott Fall 2014 Jennifer Sculley Thomas Brandenburg Ariana Shadlyn Anqi Wang Spring 2015 Yiting Yang Karla Davis Yakun Zhao John Jung Andrea C. Zuniga Jonathan Joseph Knutsen Fernando Jose de Buen Lopez Radhika Srinivasan Wendy Uhlman
Presentation of Candidates for the Master’s Degree in the IIT School of Applied Technology
Carl Robert Carlson, Ph.D., Dean of the IIT School of Applied Technology
Master in Cyber Forensics and Security Xinhe Wang Ren Yang 36 Fall 2014 Amadou Barrow Qi Zhao William R. Wesselman Wei Zhou
Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Girithar Anthay Suthakaran Matthew Raymond Buenconsejo Ivette Kembely Carrera Manosalvas Yuanyuan Cao Stephen T. Daniel Peter Clark Ben A. Khodja David J. Crockett Louis Francis McHugh IV Wenjing Dong Ana Orozco Jingjing Fu Marko Zivkovic Karlene Selina Gibbs Ying-chen Huang Master in Food Safety and Technology Chuan Shan Yixin Xu Fall 2014 Xin Yu Jing Bai Chen Chen Summer 2015 Zhe Chen Zining Li Xuan He Yang Shen NFN Jieni Yuzhu Shi Chen Liao Lei Wang Yi Liu Xue Wang Sanjana Nekkanti Hechen Wei Haijing Shen Ruyin Yang Shuoqiu Song Guqin Ye Sarah J. Stark Ye Yu Lingxiang Sun Mengwen Tu MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master in Industrial Technology Shikhar Mehta and Operations Leila Mohajer Fall 2014 Anwar Ahmed Sagirulla Pathan Jorge Afuera Lynda Russo Nazim Aziz Yihan Bai Summer 2015 Alan Edward Beyer Eloisa Maria Compostizo de Andres Alejandro Blanco Ferreira Edgar Diez Ridruejo Gabriel Bonfim Alves Dione Alisa Harris Bruno Conci Fernandez Josep Oriol Pesa Vendrell Alberto De La Fuente Sagaseta Youssef Takhchi Mengyun Li Jaime Ricardo Lopez Master in Information Technology Maria Del Carmen Lopez Fernandez and Management De Lascoiti Fall 2014 Luis Madero Comes Chandrasekhar Pavan Anne Dario Montes Santamaria Sravanthi Bollineni Aitor Nievas Jimenez Efe Zeybek Budak Gerard Nogues Sabate Jill Cermak Samarth Jitendrakumar Patel Naresh Kumar Chadokar 37 Luis Fernando Robledo Sierra Arthur Clouet Hector Robles Padilla Maya D. Embar Javier Carlos Sanjurjo Trigueros Sravya Gattupally Jonathan Spathelf Mariusz Michal Gladys Ravindra Sanjay Talwadker Justin David Jessop Diego Velez Diaz Karthika Kalaimani Dan Wang Sunil Kavali Sreenivasa Murthy Jonathan Douglas Youngren Rishabh Khatod Pedro Yuste Rubio Jalpa Khatri Sindhuja Krishnan Spring 2015 Swapna Lakkimsetty Armand Barnils Sanchez Lucia MoYin Leung Ferran Cabratosa Vidal Bo Liu Seckin Ceylan Kameswari Aparna Mantravadi Raghuveer M. Cumar Guillermo Marin Gonzalez Fernando Diaz Madrigal Fernando Martinez Sidera Weilun Ding Karthik Kumar R Metla Thomas Louis Maurice Duvernois Justin Francis NLN Ahmed El-Isswi Alaba Adekunle Nafiu Katrina M. Errant John R. Naglich Francisco Javier Galan Barbudo Praveena Namuduri Benjamin Roger Christian Gratens Smitha Narendra Clement Guardiola Snehal Baban Pawar Ricardo Gutierrez Fernanadez Mithuna Raju Krishna Juan Luis Hernandez Garcia Meghashree Mandya Ramachandra Iqbal Khan Abinaya Ravindran Zeyu Liu Rafael Antonio Tena Gomez George W. Lowery Ramon Torres Gomez Gabriel Maiorana Jeannette Nkwocha Uche Tanvi Priyadarshini Valluri MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master in Information Technology and Saikiran Chowdary Nuthalapati Management (continued) Osarumwense Orumwense Spring 2015 Temitope Olaotan Oyeyipo Nishant Agrawal Mohan Monish Reddy Pala Kareem Al-Zoobiy Yu Pan Levente Albert Pallava Arasu Pari Jesus Amor Ballesteros Srikanth Pasupuleti Sathish Kumar Aruchamy Sumit Jayant Kumar Patil Sharmila Babu Larry Edward Potter Burim Bakalli Indhi Giovan Powlette Ramya Bandla Anu Prasanna Meygha Bhat Sachin Raj Tejas Sunil Bidwai Shruti Kirandev Ravat Luis Bonet Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez Shalini Bose Bhushan Ashokrao Rohane Meeiling Bradley Rodrigo Rojas Arias Dawid Broda Sandra Rubio Sobrados Anuradha Burra Aditya Pramod Sabadra Manon Chancereul Aditya Salivendra 38 Jiawei Chen Samah Awad Sallam Poojarani Chennai Natarajan Adedayo Olubunmi Abiodun Samuel Laura Maria Chico Tierno Victor Sanchez Alvaro Correa Gonzalez Sergio Sanguino Serrano Antonio Julian De Agustin Bua Neha Sarda Guillermo Ignacio De La Puente Allott Sukanya Sengupta Pengxiang Ding Hemant Sharma Bartlomiej Adam Dworak Vishal Vijay Shirguppi Herbert R. Edwards Vaibhav Singh Nirup Raghunath FNU Carly Helene Swanson Javier Fernandez Escribano Murk Talreja Ashwini Suresh Gawali Sri Rama Krishna Tannidi Sowmya Lakshmi Gorrepati Rene Tapia Ankit Govil Shweta Anilrao Thakare Eduardo Gurria Garcia Velventhan Thangavel Ajaykishan Gurusamy Aishwarya Thirumalai Srinivas Jagadeesh Christina Tovar Mehul Vanit Jakharia Sai Pramod Upadhyayula Monisha Jayabal Luis Villasenor Munoz Divya Reddy Katpally Borja Yanes Garrido Krishna Chaitanya Koyyalamudi Linfeng Zhang Anushya Kumar Yueqing Zhang Bingyu Liu Sathish Kumar Loganathan Summer 2015 Eva Charlotte Magnus David Barriga Ruano Pragnya Manaswini Beatriz Josefina Fuster Gonzalez Agustin Marquez Gomez Kiran Gajendra Abdul Nafeez Mohammad Prudhvi Priyanka Gandamalla Gurpreet Singh Nagpal Fernando Godino Gonzalez Ryan Nelson Jaime Gotor Blazquez MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Gustavo Adolfo Herrera Rodriguez Summer 2015 Ayushi Jain Cheng Qian Eun Sem Kil Daniel Alfonso Vega Martinez Arpan Kumath Michael B. Lechkun Master of Science in Food Process Paula Montojo Torrente Engineering Javier Moreno Valdecantos Spring 2015 Andre Ogara Yancui Huang Rituraj Patel Nachiket Satish Pathak Summer 2015 Nishank Vijay Pujar Sagar Agarwal Lucia Rodriguez Sanchez Chuxuan Hu Diana Sanchez De Abreu Alireza Parvanehvar Diego Sanchez Moreno Nandini Sridharan Master of Science in Food Safety Sai Gunaranjan Vasireddy and Technology Master of Food Process Engineering Fall 2014 Shi Liu Fall 2014 39 Xuexiao Jiang Spring 2015 Yun Li Hao Pan Yan Wu Spring 2015 Pengyi Zhao Xiaoxia Li Chao Zhou Jun Liao Xuefei Liu Summer 2015 Zhen Liu Qing Li Chandni Dilipbhai Vadgama Lyurui Liu Zhaobin Wang Yan Qi Ziqian Zhao
Presentation of Candidates for the Master’s Degree in the IIT Stuart School of Business
Harvey Kahalas, Ph.D., Dean and Harold L. Stuart Professor of Management and Economic Development, Executive Director, Center for Strategic Competitiveness
Master in Mathematical Finance Kaixin Song Fall 2014 Han Tang Yunjing An Jiapeng Wang Xuan Zhao Yi Xie Qingchuan Xu Spring 2015 Yifei Xu Qing He Hang Xuan Yao Kuang Jianhua Zhou Wei Li Jingjie Zhou Siyuan Luo Qiudi Peng Summer 2015 Kaushal Naresh Patel MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Business Administration Summer 2015 Fall 2014 Linjing Chen Vijay Shankar Balijaypalli Christopher Ryan Howard Ran Gao Peiqing Huang Han Lu Yeshwanth Kumar Lanka Hiral Mehta Mengxuan Lei David Payne Jr. Irene Loomis Paul Albert Sheetz Sheng Mao Qi Wang Amanda Rosenberg Thasima D. Taylor Spring 2015 Yaoyi Wang Tiago Baccarelli Justino Sai Prashant Boy Reddy Master of Public Administration Colin Phillip Boynton Fall 2014 Rebecca L. Buck Leah Renee Davis Savitha Gayani Chelladurai Marta Hurtado Martin Cunwang Chen Xixing Jing Yupeng Du Tiancheng Li Patrick James Fitzgibbons Haroon Unjom 40 Junyu Hao Xuejiao Wu Po-wen Hsueh Xiaoyang Xu Shihui Jiang Jieyun Zhang Kimberlee M. Jones Ming Zhong Kun Li Yuan Zhou Minhui Li Yilei Lin Spring 2015 Anqi Liu Danette Buie Yanjun Liu Yuan Cheng Man Lu Miriam Rocio Gonzalez Nadia Mahmud Cheng Guo Conrad Merced Yue Han Eric Nichols Kexin Hu Devon K. Nobles Mark J. Kimzey Siddhartha Pidhadia Ruixing Li Linchao Qi Xiaofeng Qin Snehal Premnath Ramtekkar Reynaldo Serrato Amol Avinash Raste Eboney Tolliver Melissa D. Sherman Elias A. Voulgaris John Harrison Spearman James L. Wright II Manyuan Tong Junjia Xi Di Wu Xue Yang Jingwen Wu Danyan Yu Yingying Xu Bei Yuan Jiaxiang Yang Yong Zhang Chi Zhang Summer 2015 Guadalupe G. Aguirre Henri Miller Linxin Wen MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Master of Science in Environmental Spring 2015 Management and Sustainability Changjiang Bi Fall 2014 Liang Liang Cai Yvette L. Borrego Leandro Capalleja Matthew F. McGregor Jia Chen Peter Monko Pu Chen Giovanni O. Rumbolo Yanan Chen Mohammad Hazem Soudan Yikai Chen Yue Chen Spring 2015 Yujia Chen Karun Abraham Jacob Zhao Chen Jason Wolf Ballew Joel Cohen Patrick John Boyle Zhao Dong Jason Meiner Bhavya Bhupesh Doshi Janhavi Uday Pradhan Liyang Fu John Harrison Spearman Chuyin Gao Wanying Gao Master of Science in Finance Yachen Gao Hang Gong Fall 2014 Ruize Gong 41 Omar Arain Bingqing He Ge Bai Di He Nan Bai Meng He Ignace H. Bridgeforth Zihao Huang Ziling Cen Arslan Jamali Ying-Jiun Chen Pingping Ji Riten Mahesh Dixit Shailesh Kakkar Hugo Freychet John Walter Kosar Trupti Vijay Gadkari Mai Hoan Anh Le Chitral Umeshkumar Gandhi Jiyuan Li Xiangyun Gao Minhui Li Xiaoyu He Xiangwen Li Yu-hao Huang Xiaojing Li Jun Lin Xiaotong Li You Lu Xinsheng Li Christopher A. Price Zhe Li Matthew Daniel Hugh Schaal Zhifeng Li Manasi Hemant Shah Qihao Liang Vivek Sharma Yanzhao Liang Tingjia Wang Wei Lin Lutao Xi Jing Liu Jie Xiong Yahan Liu Shengkun Xu Yiao Liu Jiamaike Yan Yuan Liu Chen Yang Chenye Lu Wanqing Zhang Ling Luo Cheng Zhao Yujie Luo Xiongjian Zhou Hong Ma Xinyi Zhu Sai Ma MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Stephen Madugu Ya Zeng Anisha Venkatesh NLN Guo Zhang Kumar Rohan NLN Hanyi Zhang Luyan Ni Yongzheng Zhang Rentong Nie Yu Zhang Beibei Nong Jialin Zhao Jiayuan Pan Xu Zhao Jinying Qi Zhengyang Zheng Guannan Qiao Da Zhou Abhisekh Shumsher J.b Rana Xianpei Zhou Aditya Anant Sabnis Yi Zhou Rohan Sathe Hui Zhu Joseph Scerba Zhijiao Zhu Weisi Shao Kunhao Zhuang Aditya Sharma Yangyang Song Summer 2015 Kangmiao Su Yao Fu Lu Sun Fanyu Kong Xiaotong Sun Jing Li
42 Ye Sun Qizhen Wu Xiao Tan Meng Tang Master of Science in Marketing Baicheng Tao Analytics and Communication Jiao Tian Fall 2014 Kefang Tian Yunlong Chen Arshad Ullah Xue Chu Bin Wang Cristina Del Real Changjiang Wang Ye Han Chaojie Wang Yingxian Lin Dan Wang Xinyun Luo Gan Wang Franshaun N. Thomas Liyang Wang Cynthia Wojdyla Ran Wang Hui Xu Rongqiang Wang Yu-Lin Yang Ruonan Wang Haoyi Zhang Wenchang Wang Xiaobing Wang Spring 2015 Yiwen Wei Hui A Yao Xie Yan An Ruohan Xu Dongle Chen Xiaoyin Xu Yu Diao Yahui Xu Chumeng Ding Yunbang Xu Yue Dong Ruifan Yan Xintong Gao Shuyi Yang Hongxiang Guo Zechao Yang Ziwei Han Shaoqing Yu Zhengyang Hao Yiwen Yuan Dongfang Huang Liang Yue Bohua Li Lin Zeng MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
Hanzhi Li Graduate Interdisciplinary Pingshi Li Qingyu Li Master of Intellectual Property Xiaoyu Li Management and Markets Yikang Li Fall 2014 Ying Liao Kristine L. Scott Congying Lin Shu-An Lin Spring 2015 Wan-Chen Lin Karla Bayas Salinas Bixue Liu Abhilasha Bharadwaj Mengdi Liu Megan M. Hoggatt Yiyang Liu Angelica Christine Ramos Jalasco Qing Luo Megha N. Patel Xi Luo Lyubomir-Michele Uzunov Jiawei Mao Tianmeng Meng Fernando Francisco Mier Flores Yu Qin Liwei Shi
Siyu Song 43 Yangchao Song Sung Ying Tsai Wen-Han Tsai Ruiyang Wan Honglei Wang Tianhui Wu Siyuan Xiao Bingrui Xu Yingxiao Yan Yudong Yang Yutian Yang Yuehai Yin Limin Yu Xiaolu Yu Yusong Yuan Huoran Zhang Jingjing Zhang Liang Zhang Xin Zhang Yating Zhou Juris Doctor Candidates
Presentation of Candidates for the Juris Doctor in IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Harold J. Krent, Dean of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Juris Doctor Kaley E. Baish Fall 2014 Smajo Bajrovic Sarah E. Aagaard Theresa J. Baker Eric H. Anderson Nima Baratzadeh Carlos Emiliano Baidenbaum Gonzalez Ian C. Barnes Henderson M. Banks Sarah M. Barnes Brigette Klea Barr Nicholas Bartzen John H. Bickley Kaleb M. Beckett Simonida Boscovic Alexandra Beckov Peter Brierton Lindsey K. Berg Michael C. Buchcar Steven J. Bertholomey Jordan K. Clouser Krystal A. Bickford Joseph E. Keavy Maureen G. Bitonio Paige M. Krause Lindon E. Bluth John H. Krzyminski Sergey A. Bogomolov 44 Paulina Lopez Caballero Ferrer Yevgeniy Bolotnikov Alicia K. Malik Iman Boundaoui Karla Marroquin David A. Brody Dylan R. Mombach Casey N. Brown Andrew E. Notestine Stephen E. Brown Lindsey Orlando Elizabeth L. Butler Dana Pownall Ana Carrera Suhey Ramirez John M. Carter Kendra Rose Caitlin M. Casey Megan C. Scholten John Chambers Michael E. Schultz Celetha C. Chatman Adam P. Stone Vincenzo R. Chimera David Strousberg Anna P. Cochran Joshua Weinstein Heather N. Collinet Natalie Zakarzecka Molly L. Condon Lin Zhang Shawn Conner Anne A. Cooper Spring 2015 Claudia L. Cortes Johnny Acosta Tyler M. Cox Michael H. Adler Dana B. Cronkite Virginija Adomavicius Brendan J. Crowley Azadeh Akbari Lucas H. Dahlin Grace O. Akinlemibola Shohreh P. Davoodi Michael Albert Justin D. DeAngelis Daniel G. Allard Matthew R. Demers Ross Allen Ryan J. Devall Michael R. Anderson Susan Dewey Amany Awad Jonathon Dible James Baboulas Pamela Dimo Daniel J. Bacos Jessica Dodd JURIS DOCTOR CANDIDATES
Caitlin S. Donohue Tabitha J. John Kevin Doran Paul S. Johnson Rositsa S. Dracheva Ian M. Jones Elly Drake Herschel M. Joseph Samantha A. Dudzinski Shaun K. Kamps Jessica A. Duhig Adi Kanlic Tarek Emara Brett N. Kaplan Elsa O. Eriksen Hanna Kaufman Brooks Fleming Meron T. Kebede Ian M. Fleming Seth B. Kennedy Tyler C. Forni Vineet Khosla Lyal L. Fox III Soojin Kim Paige Fox Mark J. Kimzey Nichole Fundora Daniel C. Kirby Melody L. Gaal Adrienne N. Kitchen Sara Gaballa Anna Kobrzak Christopher J. Galfano Blake S. Kocian James M. Garceau Ashley Koda Cristina Garcia Taylor J. Kolb
Thomas C. Garretson Kelly K. Koss 45 Cole Garrett Jaclyn Kostich Doug L. Germano Jeffrey Kuo Paul T. Geske Joseph F. Kwiatkowski Jaret S. Glazer Joshua D. Laker Megan Goelzer Jane S. Lee Michael R. Graham Kendra L. Lee Justin C. Greer Corey J. Levin Jena D. Gust Seth J. Levin Shezil N. Habib Christopher S. Livas Erik J. Halverson Emmanuel S. Llamas Ryan P. Hanneken Kimberly D. Loewen Robert A. Harrison Amy L. Loo Khalid J. Hasan Elangie Lozada Michael J. Heim Zachary J. Lysaught Seth T. Heim Abdon Madrigal Eric K. Helal Hanna Maki-Jokela Laura J. Henneman Randall Manoyan Lauren D. Henry Katie E. Marnell Emily Herbick Laurel A. Martinez Matthew A. Heus Melanie J. Matias Jenna Holtz Teri N. McClerklin-Small Aon S. Hussain Meghan McDonald Ryan M. Hynes Lauren R. McGee Bobbie L. Irvin III Daniel J. McGinnis Suzanne E. Jackiw Matthew Mccarter Christina A. Jacobson Michael S. Meier Meredith C. Janes Eric J. Meli Elsa G. Jaramillo Christopher M. Miller John Jefferson Patrick R. Miner JURIS DOCTOR CANDIDATES
Mark B. Minevich Lorien E. Schoenstedt Madeleine J. Minton Emily R. Schroeder Sarah Miruzzi Christen R. Schuler Odell Mitchell III Brittany L. Schuyler Chad B. Mizelle Reid W. Seagren Lauren E. Monaghan Courtney L. Seger Shamama T. Moosvi Joaquin Sena Ashley N. Morin Ian A. Shaffer Ashley N. Moscarello Anish R. Shah Matthew Mulroe Judy B. Shammo Adrian Murati Bridget K. Shanley Stephanie J. Nelson Eric J. Shinabarger Michael D. Noonan Andrew Silver Adam A. Orr Michael H. Sinise Alex Ottenheimer Kyle S. Skala Kaitlin E. Parella Stephen M. Sloan Maxwell L. Parry Gabriella Sneeringer Michael G. Partipilo Kristen Soelter Jinal Patel Michael R. Spanel
46 Prateek R. Peereddy Robert A. Stern Lauren A. Pena Samuel T. Stevens Lucas R. Peters Katherine M. Strohl Jeffrey Price Changkyu Suh Mariela C. Prieto Rebecca A. Sundin McKenna Marie Wigfield Prohov Eric A. Swanson Yan Ling Pui Kyle J. Swanson Rory P. Quinn Lauren S. Taheri Jacob Radecki Alexis Tillett-Saks Saranya Raghavan Alexis M. Tomczewski Alexis M. Ramirez Hannah D. Tuber Daniel A. Raymer Sarah M. Tunney Joshua A. Rehak Joshua N. Turk Adam J. Reis Jerome Urbik David S. Repking Kristin M. Van Acker Irma D. Reyes Bridgette A. Van Tuyle Jared M. Reynolds Mark R. Villalobos Lisa Roccanova Kurt V. Wakefield Claire M. Roche Charis D. Walker Karla V. Rodriguez Arlo B. Walsman Alexander F. Rojas Abrahem Wehbi Benjamin P. Rosborough Max C. Whittington Christopher Rousseau Nicole Wilmet Matthew J. Ruza Richard Wilson Kara N. Ryan Meghan J. Wood Emma U. Sadikovich Chi Zhang David B. Savitt Jing Zhang Alison R. Schaffer Doctor of Philosophy Degree Candidates
Presentation of Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Christopher White, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
IIT College of Architecture Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Mehmet Nihat Hanioglu Farid Abdolhossein Pour Aysan Khorraminejad Spring 2015 Yi Liu Spring 2015 Mohammad Neishapouri Tuan Anh Pham Harshingar Mansukh Patel
Doctor of Philosophy in IIT Armour College of Engineering Computer Engineering Spring 2015 Doctor of Philosophy in Cecilia Rita Garcia Martin Biomedical Engineering Ehsan Monsef 47 Fall 2014 Micah J. Guthrie Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Kamuran Turksoy Gina Anne Martinez Marcella Kae Vaicik Wenyuan Qi Nicolo Testi Summer 2015 Zhi Yang Jarel Kantilal Gandhi Christian R. Osswald Spring 2015 Brent Roger Bacchus Doctor of Philosophy in Adem Celebi Chemical Engineering Xiaohuan Fu Fall 2014 Mohammad Mahdi Ganji Tanha Aadil Benmayza Pramod Govindan Sukhwan Yun Abiodun Olawale Iwayemi Yong Jiang Spring 2015 Xu Zhang Pavel Dutov Seon-Baek Ha Doctor of Philosophy in Min-Suk Jung Environmental Engineering Rebecca M. Mick Spring 2015 Mustafa Cagdas Ozturk Andrew Robert Shaw Ekaterina Pilyugina Bhargavi Subramanian Anand Vishnu Ramanathan Junjie Zhu Magdalena M. Tylka Shahin Zarghami Khanehsar DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE CANDIDATES
Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Doctor of Philosophy in Science and Engineering Technical Communication Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Thomas S. Kozmel II Athir Mahmud Ling Li Andrew J. Roback Monica Sabina Sawicki Kelly Schaefer Jack Sam Shamie
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical IIT College of Science and Aerospace Engineering Fall 2014 Doctor of Philosophy in Jing Jing Applied Mathematics Rakesh Chandran Ramachandran Fall 2014 Kai Liu Spring 2015 Aditya Gahlawat Spring 2015 Arash Kalantari Yuhan Ding Sriharsha Kandala Ting Gao
48 Kang Li Lan Jiang Chenghui Nie Xuan Zhou
Doctor of Philosophy in Biology IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences Fall 2014 Amy Cohen Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology Karen Hsiaoman Hsu Fall 2014 Khushdeep Kaur Mangat Justin Leith Birnholz Morgan Irene Carey Grahovec Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry Kristin Ann Kosyluk Fall 2014 Yunwei Chen Spring 2015 Qiang Ma David Lee Blitz Amanda Brooke Easton Spring 2015 Heidi R. Grathouse Bo Hu Jialin Huang Yin Ma Lindsay L. Sheehan Roberto Alejandro Uribe Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science Summer 2015 Pooja N. Dave Fall 2014 Katherine Meyers Gautam Divgi Shuhui Li
Spring 2015 Lin Gan Zheng Li Kan Qiao
Summer 2015 Ke Wang DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE CANDIDATES
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics Education Spring 2015 Ozgul Kartal
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics Fall 2014 Marat Andreev Christopher Bianchi Yulia Nikolayevna Trenikhina
Spring 2015 Jose Fernando De Arcos Rodriguez Daniel Duffty Christopher J. Pelliccione Amichay Perry Anna Varentsova Daniel G. Velazquez
49 Summer 2015 Gayle L. Ratliff
Doctor of Philosophy in Science Education Fall 2014 Joy Kubarek-Sandor
Spring 2015 Megan Faurot Campanile
IIT Institute of Design
Doctor of Philosophy in Design Spring 2015 Jihyun Sun
IIT Stuart School of Business
Doctor of Philosophy in Management Science Summer 2015 Jeonghoe Lee Kun Li