One Hundred Seventieth

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES COMM E NCEM ENT

Saturday May 14, 2016 2:00 pm Alumni Arena North Campus

Liesl Folks Dean Presiding Officials

An internationally distinguished researcher and higher education leader, Satish K. Tripathi, PhD, was appointed the 15th president of the University at Buffalo in 2011. Tripathi, who served as UB’s provost from 2004-2011, was dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California-Riverside from 1997-2004. Previously, he spent 19 years as professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, including seven years as department chair. Tripathi graduated at the top of his class from Banaras Hindu University in India and holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Toronto, as well as three master’s degrees—one 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 an honorary doctorate from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad. Satish K. Tripathi An active leader in the national higher education community, Tripathi serves on the boards of the Association of American University President Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and the Digital Preservation Network, as well as the Mid-American Conference’s Council of Presidents Executive Committee. He was appointed by Governor Andrew M. 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 2016 Program The UB Mace

Prelude Recognition of Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence *Processional Liesl Folks Buffalo Brass Quintet Pomp and Circumstance Remarks by Sir Edward Elgar Satish K. Tripathi President, University at Buffalo Mace Bearer A. Scott Weber Conferring of Degrees Senior Vice Provost for Academic Satish K. Tripathi Affairs, University at Buffalo The mace is part of the medieval traditions of the university. It was Alma Mater - Lyrics on page 27 Banner Carrier originally a weapon used to protect Taryn Darnell Katherine Czerniejewski kings, and then by 1200 became Music in Performance Candidate for BS in Biomedical Engineering, more and more a symbol of Buffalo Brass Quintet BA in Mathematics authority. Herald Closing Declaration The UB mace is designed to tell the Jeffrey R. Errington A. Scott Weber story of UB and the Niagara Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Frontier. Fashioned by silversmith School of Engineering and Applied Sciences *Recessional Hudson Roysher of Arcadia, Calif., it was used for the first time in Buffalo Brass Quintet Opening Declaration Procession from Aida 1962. Engraved atop a miniature A. Scott Weber by Giuseppe Verdi walled structure representing the City of Buffalo are three arrows National Anthem *Audience will remain seated during the bound together, symbolizing the Processional and Recessional. unity of UB and the city. Kristen Smigielski Music in Performance Other details include symbolic Buffalo Brass Quintet Departmental Receptions representations of the discovery of You are invited to receptions immediately following the Lake Erie in 1669 by Joliet and Student Salutation commencement ceremony. early explorations by LaSalle. A Sarah Jo Crotts • Chemical and Biological Engineering: crest symbolizes UB’s role as a Candidate for MS in Biomedical Engineering Student Union Flag Room, on the second floor dynamic center of human growth • Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering: and welfare. The motto “University Welcome first floor of Davis Hall and City Community” is lettered in Liesl Folks • Computer Science and Engineering: Latin around the knob of the shaft. Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Student Union, room 210 • Electrical Engineering: Presentation of Dean’s Award for Salvadore Lounge on the second floor of Davis Hall Achievement • Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Liesl Folks Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Student Union, room 145 Student Address Wheelchair seating is available at both the front right and left Charles Jones side of the arena. A signer is present at the right front of the Candidate for PhD in Chemical and arena. Please see an usher for assistance. Biological Engineering Telephones and restrooms are available on all three levels.

COMMENCEMENT 2016 3 Program Notes

School's Platform Party A. Scott Weber Matthew L. Bolton Debanjan Sarkar Biomedical Engineering Luke Adams Senior Vice Provost for Academic Industrial and Systems Engineering Affairs, University at Buffalo Vice President, UB Engineering and Jongmin Shim Kevin M. Burke Applied Sciences Alumni Association Andrew S. Whittaker Civil, Structural and Environmental Electrical Engineering Stelios Andreadis Chair, Civil, Structural and Chair, Chemical and Biological Environmental Engineering Kerry Collins-Gross Ramalingam Sridhar Engineering Assistant Dean, Office of Computer Science and Engineering Commencement Coordinator Undergraduate Education Stella N. Batalama Christine A. Human Robert C. Wetherhold Chair, Electrical Engineering Associate Dean for Accreditation John Hall Mechanical and Aerospace and Student Affairs Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Kurt Bessel Engineering President, UB Engineering and Herald Yun Wu Applied Sciences Alumni Association Ciprian N. Ionita Biomedical Engineering Jeffrey R. Errington Biomedical Engineering Ann M. Bisantz Chemical and Biological Engineering Jinhui Xu Chair, Industrial and Systems James N. Jensen Computer Science and Engineering Engineering Readers Civil, Structural and Environmental Karthik Dantu Engineering Ruogang Zhao Gary F. Dargush Computer Science and Engineering Biomedical Engineering Associate Dean for Research and Venkat Krovi Chi Zhou Graduate Education, School of Andrew T. Olewnik Mechanical and Aerospace Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering and Applied Sciences Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Engineering Jun Zhuang Jeffrey R. Errington Michael Langberg Industrial and Systems Engineering Associate Dean for Undergraduate Kris D. Schindler Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Education, School of Engineering and SEAS Support Staff Applied Sciences Hui Meng Mettupalayam V. Sivaselvan Mechanical and Aerospace Susan Casucci Liesl Folks Civil, Structural and Engineering Kathryn M. Doran Dean, School of Engineering and Environmental Engineering James Friedman Teresa Miklitsch Applied Sciences Jane Stoyle Welch Lead Marshals Senior Adviser, Office of Undergraduate Education Venugopal Govindaraju Igor Jankovic Buffalo Brass Quintet SUNY Distinguished Professor Civil, Structural and Environmental Chase C. Murray Larry Easter Vice President For Research and Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering Trumpet Economic Development Karl Kroetsch Jennifer L. Zirnheld Johannes M. Nitsche Trumpet Kemper E. Lewis Electrical Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Dan Wittmer Engineering Marshals Pinar Okumus French Horn Paschalis Alexandridis Civil, Structural and Environmental Phil Sims Chunming Qiao Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering Trombone Chair, Computer Science and Craig Hodnett Engineering Carl Alphonce Natesh Parashurama Tuba Computer Science and Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering Albert H. Titus Ushers Chair, Biomedical Engineering Matthew J. Ringuette Jason N. Armstrong We acknowledge the assistance Mechanical and Aerospace Mechanical and Aerospace of our students and staff. Satish K. Tripathi Engineering Engineering President, University at Buffalo

4 COMMENCEMENT 2016 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Student Organizations

Dean's Advisory Council Air and Waste Management Association Institute of Electrical and Electronic MaryKate Mooney, President Engineering Robotics and Automation Michael J. Cadigan*, Chair Susan R. Nowicki Society General Manager, IBM Director of Engineering, Northrop American Institute of Aeronautics Mark Tomaszewski, President and Astronautics Microelectronics, Systems and Grumman Amherst Systems Tyler Szczesniak, President Institute for Operations Research and Technology Group the Management of Science American Institute of Chemical Hernan Caceres, President John V. Pilitsis* Engineers Patrick F. Abrami* Co-founder, President and CEO Robert Pettitt, President Institute of Industrial Engineers Consultant (retired 2006), Cyoptics, Inc. Melina Guida, President American Society of Civil Engineers Jane Van Der Karr, President Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Russell L. Agrusa* Frank J. Puskar* GSA Founder, President and CEO, Founder and Senior Consultant, American Society of Mechanical Mark Tomaszewski, President ICONICS, Inc. Energo Engineering, a KBR Engineers Marawan Kenawi, President National Society of Black Engineers subsidiary Nolan Foster, President Ron Benczkowski* Arab American Association of Engineers and Architects New York Water Environment Vice President-Engineering, Moog, John R. Pustulka* Association Mohammed Saleh Al Obahy, President Inc., Space and Defense Group President and Director, National Fuel Wiktor Tomkiewicz, President Gas Supply Corporation Association for Computing Machinery o-STEM Margaret Arnold, President Dennis W. Elsenbeck* Anna Smith, President Regional Executive, National Grid Michael Sinicropi Biomedical Engineering GSA Scientista Upstate NY – West, Community and Executive Director, Safety and Elise Martin, President Customer Management Engineering Services, Praxair Sravanika Doddi and Wenxuan Shi, Biomedical Engineering Society Co-Directors Max Simon, President Joseph V. Fritz* Stephen E. Still* Society of Automotive Engineers Chief Executive Officer, Dent Founder and Managing Director, Chemical and Biological Eng. GSA Spencer Heyden, President Neurologic Institute Seabury Airline Planning Group, Andrew Kroetsch, President Society of Hispanic Professional LLC Chi Epsilon Engineers Kevin Carpio, President George L. Grobe Alexander Stephani, President Vice President R&D, Vision Care and Robert Tom* Civil Engineering GSA Society of Women Engineers Surgical Products at Valeant Senior Director Product Engineering, Timothy Van Oss, President Laura Devine, President Pharmaceuticals Fisher-Price Computer Science and Eng. GSA Students for the Exploration and Development of Space Yunfei Hou, President Cynthia A. Hoover* James F. Van Oss* Daniel Miller, President Director, Adsorption R&D, Praxair Engineering Manager, Spacecraft Earthquake Engineering Research Institute GSA Tau Beta Pi Fluid Controls, Moog Inc. Basit Qayyum, President Katherine Czerniejewski, President Kenneth A. Kota* Theta Tau/Gamma Delta Epsilon Sr. VP, Business Development & Ann Wegrzyn* Electrical Engineering GSA Yanshu Li, President Dwight Robinson, Regent Technology, Cobham Mission Systems Vice President, National Fuel Gas Emerge UB Computational Sciences Club Mohammad Atif Faiz Afzal, President Hratch Kouyoumdjian* *School alumna/alumnus Joseph Degolia, Editor Founder, President and CEO, The Engineers for a Sustainable World UB Design Club KPA Group Connor Brown, President Zachary Janish, President Engineering Student Association UB Nanosat Maria C. Lehman* Brianne Stasiak, Engineering Clubs Seamus Lombardo, Program Manager Interim Director of Maintenance & Coordinator UB Robotics Operations, New York State Thruway Industrial Engineering GSA Liam Flynn, President Authority Hernan Caceres, President UB Society of Asian Engineers and Human Factors and Engineering Scientists Society Ricky Banh, President Adam Houser, President UB Space Bulls Institute for Electrical and Electronic Kyle Thompson, Team Lead Engineers David Kishlar, President

COMMENCEMENT 2016 5 Dean’s Award for Achievement

Each year, the School of Engineering and from desktop workstations to Sun’s largest packet-switched MP servers. These Applied Sciences (SEAS) gives its highest honor, architectures continued through many generations, which eventually made mini the Dean’s Award for Achievement, to someone and mainframe computers obsolete. He joined Juniper Networks as a startup in who has made a substantial contribution to the 2000, where he served as a Director of ASIC Engineering on several generations practice of engineering or the applied sciences of networking chipsets, whose top interface speeds advanced from 2.5 Gbps to and/or has had an exceptional professional 400 Gbps during his tenure. career. This year, it is with great pleasure that the Hayes recognizes the role his UB education and experience had in preparing him school honors Norman Hayes (BS EE ‘80, BA CS for a rewarding and successful career. “UB gave me a solid, broad foundation of ‘80). Hayes is a Director of Engineering in how to solve real world problems. UB’s faculty and leaders provided great AISCs, and a Computer Architect. personal examples of teamwork, creativity, and loving what you do.” As a Buffalo area native, Hayes was co- Since his graduation from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Norman Hayes valedictorian at Sweet Home Senior High School Hayes has always been an enthusiastic alumnus. In 1995, he was delighted to (Amherst NY) in 1977. Just three years later, he become a charter member of the Delta Society, the school's leadership annual received a double degree from UB with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical giving society, and attended UB’s inaugural homecoming football game (a 14-7 Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science. Hayes continued his win over Cornell) in President Greiner’s box. More recently, an engineering education at Cornell University, earning his master’s in Electrical Engineering in laboratory was named after Hayes in Davis Hall. In 2012, he was named 1981, on a Bell Laboratories scholarship. Chairman of the Delta Society. After completing his formal education, Hayes has made substantial technical Outside of his professional career, Hayes plays ice hockey and tennis, and enjoys and leadership contributions to three pioneering companies. The first was photography and the arts. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife AT&T Bell Laboratories, a leader in world class R&D that invented the transistor, Jacqueline; their daughter Elena is a junior at UC Davis studying Management laser, and Unix. There he developed designs and technologies for some of the Economics. world’s earliest 32-bit microprocessors. He joined his first startup, Sun The University at Buffalo is honored to name Mr. Norman Hayes an alumnus of Microsystems, in 1988. At Sun, Hayes developed ground-breaking great distinction, whose career achievements merit our highest regard. microprocessor memory management and cache architectures which scaled

Past Recipients of the Dean’s Award for Achievement

1978 1982 1986 James W. McLernon, BS IE 1950, DocHL (Hon) 1998 Martin Kasbohm Gregory B. Jarvis, BS EE 1967, President, Volkswagen Manufacturing Corporation of Director, Research and Development Awarded Posthumously America Linde Division, Union Carbide Corporation Hughes Aircraft Company NASA Payload Specialist 1979 1983 Wilson Greatbatch, MS EE 1956, ScD (Hon) 1984 Charles M. Fogel, BS PHY 1935 1987 President, Wilson Greatbatch, Limited Professor and Director of Industrial Liaison H. Robert Leland 1980 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences President, Calspan Corporation Paul E. Mohn University at Buffalo Professor Emeritus and former Dean 1988 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 1984 Henry P. Semmelhack University at Buffalo William C. Moog, Jr. President, Barrister Information Systems Chairman and President, Moog, Incorporated Corporation 1981 James DeSerio 1985 1989 President, DeSerio Engineers Howard E. Strauss, MS ME 1954 Gerald D. Albertson Professor and Associate Dean Vice-President, Linde Division, Union Carbide School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Corporation University at Buffalo

6 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Past Recipients of the Dean’s Award for Achievement (continued)

1990 1999 2007 Ray W. Judson Eli Ruckenstein Mark H. Karwan President, The Parsons Corporation Distinguished Professor Professor and Dean Emeritus Department of Chemical Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 1991 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University at Buffalo Sol W. Weller University at Buffalo Furnas Professor Emeritus 2008 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences John Zahorjan, PhD IE 1974 Norman R. McCombs, BS ME 1968 University at Buffalo Adjunct Professor Senior Vice President Department of Industrial Engineering AirSep Corporation 1992 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lee H. Runk, BS IE 1961 University at Buffalo 2009 President, Harvard Industries, Inc. Gina Bronkie Hammond, MS CS 1973 2000 Director, Computer Science Corporation's North 1993 Erich Bloch, BS EE 1952, ScD (Hon) 1985 America Public Sector, Defense Division Irving H. Shames Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitiveness Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus Principal, Washington Advisory Group, LLC 2010 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Russell L. Agrusa, BS EE 1976 University at Buffalo 2001 Founder, President, and Chief Exective Officer Henry Stone, BS ME 1949 ICONICS 1994 Vice President, retired, General Electric Robert H. Goldsmith, BS ME 1951 2011 Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer 2002 Scott D. Stevens, PE, BS CIE 1979 Exten Industries, Inc. Lawrence L. Peckham, BS IE 1969 Founder and Chief Executive Officer Founder, LPA Associates Dimension Fabricators, Inc. 1995 Hatim A. Tyabji, MS EE 1969, DocHL (Hon) 2001 2003 2012 Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Hadi Makarechian, BS CIE 1972 James P. Smist, BS CE 1980 VeriFone, Inc. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer President Capital Pacific Holdings, Inc. Dean and Company 1996 Anthony L. Russo, PhD ME 1969 2004 2013 Executive Director George C. Lee John R. “Jack” Davis, BS IE 1955 Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center (CUBRC) Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering and Founder and Owner Vice President Dean Emeritus I Squared R Element Company, Inc. Calspan Corporation's Advanced Technology Center School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University at Buffalo 2014 1997 Stephen E. Still, BS CIE 1976 Calvin C. Chien, MS CIE 1970, PhD CIE 1974 2005 Founder and Managing Director, Seabury Airline Environmental Fellow, DuPont Company Steven L. Lerner Planning Group, LLC Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer 1998 Praxair 2015 Hiroshi Morihara, PhD ME 1971 Krishna Kolluri, MS IE 1988 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Peninsula 2006 General Partner Laboratories, Inc. Douglas P. Taylor, BS ME 1971 New Enterprise Associates President, Via Press, Inc. President, Taylor Devices, Inc. President, CGC, Inc. President, Tayco Developments, Inc.

COMMENCEMENT 2016 7 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence

Steven Coffed of Depew, N.Y., graduates with a Timothy Van Oss of Buffalo, N.Y., graduates bachelor of science in mechanical and with a master of science in civil engineering. He aerospace engineering. Coffed already has was a recipient of the Western New York notable experience in the field; he spent two Prosperity Fellowship and plans to develop the summers interning at NASA’s Jet Propulsion next generation of iconic structures in the Laboratory and a summer studying at France’s Buffalo metropolitan area. As president of the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de Civil Engineering Graduate Student l’Espace. He served as president of UB’s chapter Association, Van Oss represented UB students of Students for the Exploration and at international conferences, bringing back new Development of Space for the 2013-14 perspectives that can be applied to local issues. academic year, and participated in two winter He also served as a practitioner adviser for the Steven J. Coffed study abroad trips. Timothy J. Van Oss UB Student Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical and Aerospace Civil Engineering Civil Engineers where he mentored students on Engineering professionalism, budgeting, scheduling and University Honors College leadership. Scholar

Mingcong Zhang of Amherst, N.Y., graduates with a bachelor of science in computer science. Zhang has received multiple scholarships from UB and the National Science Foundation, which are marks of his high academic achievement. He also has military service experience, and was awarded the U.S. Army Achievement Medal. In 2015, Mingcong founded Snowberg Inc., a technology startup company that has been recognized by the New York State governor and is sponsored by Google Mingcong Zhang Inc. Computer Science

Student Speakers

Sarah Jo Crotts of Alpharetta, Georgia Charles Jones of Bear Creek, N.C., graduates graduates with a MS in Biomedical Engineering with a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological after completing her undergraduate studies at Engineering. Jones came to the University at Auburn University in 2015. Sarah Jo graduated Buffalo after graduating from North Carolina from Auburn University summa cum laude State University in 2011, majoring in both with a degree in Biomedical Sciences chemical & biomolecular engineering and concentrated in Pre-Medicine. After making biochemistry. As a graduate student, Jones the decision to further her education at the authored over 20 publications and generated University at Buffalo, she pursued research in intellectual property that culminated in the co- designing and building a reaching apparatus founding of a company, Abcombi Biosciences, through AutoCAD and 3D printing. She plans where he currently serves as the chief executive Sarah Jo Crotts to return to Atlanta, Georgia and pursue a Charles Jones officer and oversees operational facilities in Biomedical Engineering career in the biotechnology industry. Chemical and Biological Buffalo and Toronto. Engineering

8 COMMENCEMENT 2016 The State Emeritus Members A. Scott Weber H. Austin Booth Ross B. Kenzie Sheila H. Battle Academic Affairs University Libraries Francis M. Letro* University Roger I. Blackwell William J. Maggio Nancy L. Wells Stephen C. Dunnett* Randall L. Clark Anthony B. Martino* of New York Philanthropy and Alumni International Education Jean C. Powers* Frank N. Cuomo* Engagement Board of Trustees Edmond J. Gicewicz* Robert Granfield Vikki L. Pryor* Gerald S. Lippes* Deans Faculty Affairs Stephen H. Shepsman* H. Carl McCall Steven E. Still* Chairman Mary E. Randolph Michael E. Cain Keith M. Stolzenburg* Rose H. Sconiers* Jacobs School of Medicine and Graham L. Hammill Joseph W. Belluck* John N. Walsh III Biomedical Sciences Graduate Education Satish K. Tripathi Byron W. Brown D. Scott N. Warman Lee H. Melvin Eric Corngold Liesl Folks Margaret W. Wong* Enrollment Henrick N. Dullea University at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Ronald G. Ehrenberg Buffalo Teresa A. Miller Directors Angelo M. Fatta James A. Gardner Equity and Inclusion Gregory M. Bauer* Peter L.K. Knuepfer Officers Law School (Interim) Dianne Bennett* Eunice A. Lewin* Satish K. Tripathi Andrew M. Stott Sheldon M. Berlow Marshall A. Lichtman* President Jaekyung Lee Undergraduate Education Helen M. Cappuccino* Stanley S. Litow Graduate School of Education Randall L. Clark Thomas Mastro Charles F. Zukoski Sean P. Sullivan Academic Planning Daniel M. Hamister Richard Socarides Provost and Executive Vice Marsha L. Lewis Paul J. Harder President for Academic Carl Spielvogel School of Nursing Judith B. Ittig* Affairs Cary F. Staller University at Jeremy M. Jacobs Jr. Nina Tamrowski James M. O’Donnell School of Pharmacy and Jordan A. Levy* Lawrence Waldman Vice Presidents and Buffalo Pharmaceutical Sciences Gerard T. Mazurkiewicz* Cabinet Members Foundation James W. McLernon* System Administration J. Brice Bible E. Bruce Pitman Murray S. Rosenthal* Nancy L. Zimpher Chief Information Officer College of Arts and Sciences Officers Ronald M. Schreiber* Chancellor Francis M. Letro* Eileen S. Silvers* Dennis R. Black* Robert G. Shibley Chairman Marjorie E. Winkler* Alexander N. Cartwright University Life and Services School of Architecture and Provost and Executive Vice Planning Gregory M. Bauer* Michael E. Cain Emeritus Trustees Chancellor Vice Chairman Health Sciences Nancy J. Smyth Randall I. Benderson* School of Social Work Jean C. Powers* Lawrence P. Castellani Beth Del Genio* University at Secretary William M.E. Clarkson Chief of Staff to the President Paul Tesluk Ellen E. Grant* Buffalo Council School of Management Robert E. Denning* Venugopal Govindaraju* Mark E. Hamister Jeremy M. Jacobs* (Interim) Treasurer Research and Economic Jeremy M. Jacobs* Chairman Reginald B. Newman II Development Jean Wactawski-Wende Edward P. Schneider* John N. Walsh III Mark J. Czarnecki* School of Public Health and Executive Director Allen Greene Vice Chairman Health Professions Athletics Non Voting Members Joseph J. Zambon Trustees Robert T. Brady Michael E. Cain Laura E. Hubbard School of Dental Medicine Ravinder K. Bansal Michael W. Cropp* Laura E. Hubbard Finance and Administration (Interim) Gary R. Bichler Jonathan A. Dandes* Nancy L. Wells Thomas E. Black Jr.* Scott E. Friedman Teresa A. Miller Charles F. Zukoski Pamela Davis Heilman* Equity and Inclusion Vice Provosts and Senior Wayne S. Blank* Robert E. Denning* June Williams Hoeflich* Academic Administration *University at Buffalo Beverly Foit-Albert* Melissa Kathan Nancy E. Paton A. Scott Weber alumnus/alumna Ashok G. Kaveeshwar* Christopher H. Koch University Communications Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Kathie A. Keller

COMMENCEMENT 2016 9 Candidates for Degrees

Subject to the completion of all degree requirements, degrees will be conferred as indicated upon those individuals listed herein who were identified by April 5, 2016, and upon such others as may meet the requirements of their respective degrees. Candidates are listed according to actual date of degree conferral (September 2015; February 2016; and June 2016). Degree recipients will come forward to be congratulated during the commencement ceremony. In the following lists, candidates for a double major (a degree 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 a double degree ae denoted by a diamond ( ◊).

Today's graduates are presented gifts of pins and pens(PhD candidates) by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and UB Alumni Relations.

Honors are designated by student names in the Candidates for Degrees according to the following symbols and abbreviations.

University Latin Honors Non-Academic, University-Wide Recognition Items Latin Honors are granted to graduating seniors who have completed at least 60 undergraduate credits at UB, of which at least 54 credit hours are The Kente Stole graded, and to those who have earned grade point averages, as follows: The kente stole was received by students who participated in UB’s ALANA Celebration of Achievement which historically has honored § Cum Laude - at least 3.20, to 3.499 graduating African, Latino/a, Asian, and Native American students. ‡ Magna Cum Laude - at least 3.50, to 3.749 † Summa Cum Laude - 3.75 or more The Rainbow Tassel This list is based on courses taken through the Fall 2014 semester. The rainbow tassel was received by students who participated in the Students may wear a gold cord. Lavender Reception, celebrating achievements of graduating students who identify with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Honor Society (LGBTQ) community at UB. TBP: Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession. Students may wear a white stole. The Red, White and Blue Cord The red, white and blue cord is being worn by graduating UB students The Gold Stole who are reservists, members of the National Guard, newly The gold stole was received by students who are University Honors commissioned officers from our ROTC program or veterans of the College graduates. United States armed forces.

Delta Alpha Pi Delta Alpha Pi is an international academic honor society for college/university students with disabilities. Graduating members received a blue and gold cord.

10 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Baccalaureate Degrees Recommending Candidates Folaranmi Rachael Fakayode * Caleb J. Saathoff § * Mudita Mishra for Degrees Jason Aidan Feuer ◊ Abigail Lynne Sheeley Vienna Laura Mott Jonathan Fountain Tyler John Szczesniak § * Eric Micheal Mruk Liesl Folks Bartlomiej Piotr Gadek Colin Trinh ‡ * Ryan Patrick O'Hara † TBP Dean Jake Richard Gemerek † * Conor Westphal § ** Adam Kevin Oetinger § Frank Carmen Paul Genovese § * Aaron Wixner Khyati Champakkumar Pandya Bachelor of Science in Tyler Gifford * Rei Yoshinaga § Mark A. Prytyskach § Aerospace Engineering Ben Gigone § * Wesley Emile Rivais § Shannon Ruth Griffin § * Bachelor of Science in Lauren Valerie Roberts † TBP September 2015 Mordechai Nachshon Haberman * Biomedical Engineering Richard Joseph Savino § Charles Raymond Moon Jr. * Andrew Thomas Harris † TBP Thomas Matthew Savoldy Gino Lee Nadela * September 2015 Alexander Peter Hathaway * Nicolette Marie Scerra ‡ TBP M. H. Priyanta Siri Sumana Siri * Nalini Gadkary † Spencer Theodore Heyden § * Evan William Shaw † Steven Christopher Scott Sutton § * Chien Sing Poon § * Thomas Andrew Hoolahan § * Daniel W. Shin February 2016 Bercely Hurtado Otalora † TBP * June 2016 Max Andrew Simon ‡ TBP Quinn Alan Adair * Corinne A. Hutchinson † * Anandita Ananthakumar ‡ Claire Irene Sucharski § Dale Baran § * Dale Jason Kawa * John Aidan Armstrong ‡ Andrey Vasily Svintozelsky ‡ Jason Ming Chan * Rachel Elizabeth Keil † * Jash Bhayani † TBP Ryan Paul Therrien § Jacob R. Conrad * Razmik Khachatryan § * Nichole Bozyk § An Van Tran ‡ Daniel Thomas Gardner * Muhammad Addil Khan * Richard Patrick Brooks † Dean Edward Venturin II § Adam Les Hammond § * Alexander J. Kolarich § Maninderpal Singh Cheema ‡ Melissa Ann Ward Tyler Stephen Hardenbrook Juncelucan Lagda * Andrea Roma Ciolko † Nicole Kathleen Wawrzyniak † TBP Lucius James Jones III * Martin Alexander Leff ‡ * Nicholas Michael Cocilova ‡ Kunyu Wu Mitchell Edward Maziarz § * Christopher James Lew Justin Ryan Cohen Matthew Thomas Nesper † * William Porter Stuart Mackay ‡ Katherine Ann Bachelor of Science in Alexander P. O'Brien § * Nicholas Patrick McCasey † * Czerniejewski † TBP ** Chemical Engineering Kristian Sukaj § * John Paul Mcwhinnie § * Siddhartha Dhiman September 2015 Jack Wong * George A. Melero * Maury E. Fields Wei Yang Chye Jennifer Rose Merckel * Jonathan William Folmsbee § James Kim June 2016 Luke Joseph Miller § Brandon Gerald Ginley ‡ Qibiao Weng Muhammad Nur Ariff Bin Anthony Montero Shima Habibollahzadeh § Abdul Razak § * ◊ Elizabeth Moon § * Brian James Hagan ‡ February 2016 Amadeus Antonio Astacio * Parthivi Narang * Kent Stephen Harvey Azza Ahmed Hosny Kevin Vincent Ausanio * Corey Max Needle † * Ryan Bolton Hubbell Joseph Anthony Manso § Jesse Salomon Bauer * Brandon John Nunes ‡ * Wan Yin Kam Jun Hui Yeoh Ajit Bhat * Ifechukwu Ambrose Ononye § Michelle Karker † TBP ** Reimon Bhuyan Justin Brian Ort Aaron Kennedy June 2016 Connor Nicholas Bracy * Joseph Tyler Pace § * Vinh Kha Chin Fong Ang Kevin Alexis Carpio ‡ Subin Park § Alicia Christine Knauf § So Mi Baek Jeremy Robert Chapman † TBP * Andrew Pennachi † * Connor Charles Leek Ananthan Balachandran Megan Elizabeth Cheney § * Harry A. Perez Rachel Su Ann Lim § ** Joshua David Barra Steven J. Coffed † * Jack L. Pilie * Cuiyan Kate Lin † TBP Enzo Corey Benfanti † Katherine Rose Coley ‡ * Max Julius Braun ‡ David Benjamin Ritter § ◊ Brendon Robert Lutnick † TBP Nicholas Andrew Colon Louis Anthony Rizzo § TBP * Joseph Steven Mango Darwin Chen † Peter Joseph Corrao § * Leonardo Alberto Daniel Sean Martin † TBP Jenny Chen ‡ Nicholas Patrick Davidson † Rodriguez Leon ‡ Kimberley Fairliancy McGarrity § Po-Han Chen Peter Davis ‡ ◊ Benjamin Alexander Rothstein ‡ Sarah Jean McKinley ‡ Yiran Chen

COMMENCEMENT 2016 11 Brandon L. Chin Michael Tong * John Michael Billittier Jr. ‡ Ryan Stephen O'Malley § Kimberlyn Marie Comstock † Qinqin Xiao ‡ Nicholas Andrew Blake † Michael Paul Olszewski Jeffrey Deng Mohammed Sami Ahmed Zaid § TBP Brendan Brethel Carley Elizabeth Parker Ricky Singh Dundi Ryan Edward Burns Kadir Burak Pelek Dana Michele Havas † Bachelor of Science in Suad Cakar Michael Carmelo Pietrantoni Ken He ‡ Civil Engineering Andrew David Calkins Steven Matthew Rahn Keira Henry Zulal Cebeci Ariel Lindsey Regnier § September 2015 Jay William Hidy Xiaoke Chen Jakub Rybicki Idris Erdem Bostan Christopher Seamus Hogan Yu Hua Cheok § Samet Saglam Ryan Matthew Brezi Sr. ‡ Nathan Alan Homka § Elizabeth Mariah Clark ‡ Mohammed Ahmed Saleh Al Obahy Hsien Han Chan Thomas Anthony Hughes † TBP Nolan Colucci Ashley Sciandra † TBP Xilin Chen Tony Huynh § Christopher Dalton Berkant Senol Engin Cirak Vivian Huynh ‡ Gustavo Flavio De Andrade § Jianhua Shao § ** Christopher P. Radjie Etienne § Se Won Jeon Alper Demirbag Andrei Shatalov Fabrice Etienne Weiguang Jia § Burak Develioglu Alexandra Sheng § Musab Eyyupkoca Hunter Fredric Jones § Onder Eksi Daniel Flagg Smith † Volkan Genel William Ross Kellogg † Onur Erdinc Cody J. Standinger Yunus Gorenoglu § Stephanie Mabel Kong † ** Neil Elliott Ferguson ‡ Brianne Melissa Stasiak § Aslan Vecdi Ilhan Gary Lambert Jr. Christopher Michael Fritzl Conor Lawrence Stucki Kenan Karakus Andrew Richard Lane § Shawn Xiangdong Gao ** Zeynep Sunay * Syed Adnan Lahori Jessica Faye Lee § Tyler Garrity ‡ Wey Sherng Tan John Bernard Martz Jr. Sukrim Lee Benjamin Jules Genco § Ifeoluwa Tayo - Aremu Coletha Nyangoma Peter Katisha Sharon Lin † TBP Suyeta Griffin Shawn Adam Tennity † Mulima § Shaquille Louis Samuel James Hansen ‡ TBP Mary Beth Toukatly ‡ Ufuk Mungan Tyler John Lucci † Mark Daniel Hare § Jane Sydney Van Der Karr § Ali Cem Ozkok Daniel Lawrence Matera † Mitchell Hares † Vitaliy Vysochanskyy Andrew Tongchareon Paragas Alexandra Mary Matzan ‡ TBP Jessica Ann Marie Harms Evan Eric Weitz § Onur Turkmen Austin James Mermell § Gino Huaman George Whitney Welsted Jr. Samet Gokberk Ugurlu Kevin David Milne Cheuk Wing Hung § Kyle Winthers Yeng Kit Yap Madison G. Mintz Rosemarie D. Hvisch Andrew McKay Wishman Muhammed Yilmaz Sian Ho Ng Matthew Len Itzler Seth Wittlinger § Emmanuel Nsengiyumva February 2016 Adrian Ivce Jun Xie TBP Josuenny O'Donnell Anthony James Asala John Philip Kennedy Jr. Jackie Ye Hannah Marie Osgood ‡ TBP Marwan Elkhattab Cetin Kilic § TBP Yener Yunusoglu Hengyu Pan Christopher Robert Heiss Yeow Seng Koh Nicholas Lawrence Zeglen § Wen Sheen Pang Chamal Jeewantha Hettigama Roger William Laistner Don Salinda Prasanjith Pathirage ** Justin Hwang Abel Cinzam Lamkai Bachelor of Science in Mikhail Pechagin Christian Mark Jacobs Raymond Scott Langill II Computer Engineering Robert William Pettitt Kristina Lochan Jonathan Michael Linfield September 2015 Mohammed W. Rahman § Andrew Lapchi Lui § * Andrew Joseph Machaby ‡ Ashaab Alam Michael Joseph Reinhardt Eric John Mauro Mark James Mahan Jr. Keith E. Baran Ana Gabriela Santandreu § Mackenzie Elizabeth Payne Junaid Ashfaq Malik Satyam Mehta Laura Saunders ‡ Tarik Ramini Sana Mdallel Robert M. Szymanski Joseph R. Scheda Joshua Edward Schmid † TBP Fatjon Zija Mecorapaj Ethan Andrew Schrodt § Jonathan Sungbum Shin Jennifer Rose Merckel * February 2016 Keelan Matthew Schwab Mehmet Emin Unver Sean Kerry Murphy ‡ Chern Yee Chua † Zaid Shogan § Justin Matthew Woodruff Joshua Thomas Myers ** Daniel Lee Fischer Jae Ho Son Nicholas Andrew Myers John Joseph Kuhn III § June 2016 Catherine Danielle Sponn Wil Hans Nagengast † Andrew J. Westcott Jacob Guy Thompson Erick R. Bach § Martin Ng Maxwell Joseph Barone Maisha Noshin June 2016 Arunan Bala Krishnan

12 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Andrew Dennison Booth † TBP Jake Christopher Duncan § Andrew James Stohr § Jack Ma Nicholas Anthony Cellino † Adam C. Kunecki Tejas Vyas Gela Malek Pour Ava Chai § * Kyoung Eun Park § Keenan Reed Wannop Michael Mastro Yi Chen § Anika Sharma ** Andrew Steven Willms Matthew G. McGovern Woosuk Choi Jackie Xu Nicholas John Mckiernan William Joseph Clark ‡ Bachelor of Science in Lidan Xu † Saurav Mohapatra Robert Alphonso DeBortoli † TBP Computer Science Mingcong Zhang ‡ Bryan Nip § * Sameep Dhawan * Gino Joseph Notto September 2015 Kevin Liam Duggan ‡ June 2016 Jihoon Park Alexander Robert Buell Shiraz Ahmed Amin § * Zachary Benjamin Esmaelzada Ryan Michael Peters Ching Hua Anthony Chang Ryan M. Anyi Michael Robert Ferris ‡ Andrew Plewak Roy Young Jin Joo Stephen C. Bass Nolan Foster § Aaron Preston Colin Thomas Lawson Breckinridge Eliot Borges † Korben Michael Rome Grover ‡ * Jose David Puentes-Ocampo Johnny Lin Diana Nicole Boulden § Matthew Thomas Howard Shen Qi Alexandra Marie Mazzei Joshua Bueno † Kai Hsiang Hsu Adam Sheldon Raetz Matthew David O'Connor Jeremy Caldwell § Zhenrong Huang † Antonio Randazzo Om Patel Arthur Tiendin Chan Nathaniel Dean Hutchings ‡ Arjun Ray Christopher John Schnabel ‡ Christopher Conloon Chan Wendy Jansson ‡ TBP Isaac Reath ‡ Andrew Chung Seth Michael Karas † February 2016 Robert Thomas Rymarczyk Daniel Paul Clark ‡ Seongsu Kim § Matthew Balthrop Harrison K. Shih Daniel Thomas Conway † * James Andre LaCour Nathan Garrett Burgers ‡ Mark Christopher Simson † Emmanuel Cott ** Ali Mahmoud Yao Feng Chen ‡ Patrick Smith § Michael Czaplicki Shawn Malcolm Milligan ‡ John Derrick Cherry Christopher Adam Sporski Jialiang Du Joseph Alan Peacock Raymond Chow ‡ William Michael Spoth ‡ ** Eric Lee Ernst ‡ Mitchell Rathbun † Kendra S. Claiborne Allen Su Martin William Fahy Jacob Michael Rutowski Ian Michael Ford ‡ Xingdi Tan § Daniel G. Filipski † Thomas Jeremy Schouten † Adam Garrett Junlin Tang Darryl Forconi Robert Shannon Dong Han Rahul Tripathi Matthew James Gill Kayleigh Jane Siejak Alex Christopher Herdzik ‡ Haider Atta Tung Yongbo Hao Ethan Michael Vane † Jimmy Zengwang Huang Christopher Landon Wilson Haoriwa † Matthew Yves Winnick Violin Georgiev Iliev ‡ William Matthew Winnie § Calum Booker Henri Bao Xu Kunal Jaiswal Shuaisan Yu Duy Xuan Hoang LeDong Yang § Liang Jia Jiang § Vicky Zheng ‡ Gabriel David Scheib Holodak ‡ Samina Aleen Khan ‡ Mengpei Hu ‡ Bachelor of Arts in Jason Douglas Kromer § Bachelor of Science in Jimmy Huang § Computer Science Ryan Joseph Kulkarni TBP Electrical Engineering Jarret Michael Hutchison Matthew James Lease § September 2015 Kyle B. Jemmott § September 2015 Simon Lee Michael Joseph McGuire Amal Khandelwal † Robert Anderson Zeming Liu ‡ Thomas Matthew Mitchell † ** Jun Mo Kim Srdjan Dragojevic Aarav Malik † Christian Bernd Koehler Akeem Antonio Francis February 2016 Caleb Mcmahon-Eagan Kevin Koo Javone Gift ‡ Christopher Richard Charles Jordan J. Nohle Brynn Elyse Kreilick Saseen Reddy Punyala Dominessy Glen Edward Noworyta Norbert Lam Chris Thomas Starling § Kevin Trey Grazioplene Emmanuel Obogbaimhe Jr. Chih-Chun Lee ‡ Michael Paul Hauptman Benjamin Andrew Paine ‡ February 2016 Bobby Li Jonathan Changwoo Oh Nancy Rana Oleksandr Nemesh § Justin Liang Matthew J. Wozniak Alexander Thomas Rookey † Michael Gregory Thomas Winnie Liang Tamal Roy Jiang Yu ‡ June 2016 Yong Keat Lim Benjamin Joseph Rueda ‡ Michael F. Alicea Shihong Lin § Rohan Madhukant Shah June 2016 Matthew Chan § Wenhua Lin † ** Ryan Cooney Sicurella ‡ Haissam Mahammat Adam III Patrick Chang § Todd Alan Lock § Naved Akhter

COMMENCEMENT 2016 13 Baccalaureate Degrees

Ismail Aktas Michael James Nietfeld ‡ February 2016 Brock Hoffman Shiraz Ahmed Amin § * Emran Nur Cem Ayanoglu Thomas Charles Malloy Nathan Anthony Baize Jared Michael O'Hara † Andrew Lui § * Brett William Nolan ‡ Andrew Scott Basista Vincent Sabato Parisi † Yeu Deck Ngui Qixun Cai § Reginald Pierre Anna Lynn Szczepanski June 2016 Ava Chai § * Alexander Peter Puleio ‡ Joseph Ignazio Acquisto § Xiangyang Chen ‡ Timothy Dwayne Ravel Jr. June 2016 Leonard Arambam ‡ Jaehyun Choi Qasim Raza ‡ TBP Braden S. Belliveau Kevin Bartosiewicz ‡ Ling Yun Chou § Boson Ruan § Derrick Michael Burgess ‡ Rukasen Bey Daniel Thomas Conway † * Jean Claude Santiuste Alyssa Nicole Carbone Emil Ashan Boyagoda ‡ Samuel John Cook § Carly Ann Schulz ‡ Hayden Chan Brian Chen Timothy Charles Coulter † Dominic Pasquale Sciarrino † Philip Chan Bryant Chen § Paulo DeMelo ‡ Derek Shum Hillary Monica Chiarella ‡ Danielle Lorene Chevalier † TBP Thomas Michael Cuff Jr. § Akash Choudhary Dale Scott Denny Jr. § Matt Harris Singer Sameep Dhawan * Arjun Singh † William Thomas Emmert Deedat Ahmed Choudhury Daniel Ryan Dye ‡ Maxim Dmitriy Solomonyuk § Luke Goetz David Desantiago Dillon Matthew Edmister § Matthew Lewis Spitzer ‡ Chester Eric Hochreiter § Thomas Byron Fortman § Lingjie Feng § Nanthakumaaran Srikrishnan § Alexandra Marie Leader † Tyler B. Halstead William Dominick Filosi † Jianfeng Sun § ** Paul Austin Lewandowski Hokyoung Hwang § Casey Fraser Edward K. Swinnich § Jacob Michael Lips Peter Hwang Daniel Walter Glab Matthew J. Szmak Mubashar Nazar Malik § Su-Ryun Jeong ‡ Daniel Johann Goedeker Bryce D. Taras Amanda M. Murray Anthony Thomas Lauria ‡ Mack Goodstein § Michael Tong * Richard Patrick Mustico Dong Youel Lee Gabrielle Lei Gosset ‡ TBP Dana Marie Voll † TBP Justin N. Ng Joonghee Lee § Korben Michael Rome Kevin Joseph Weigel ‡ Julianna Marie Pelella Cash A. Mahoney § Grover ‡ TBP * Andrew Jason Wojcinski Ashley Pomaski Duc Viet Nguyen Conor James Hixon Zesheng Xiao § Anthony Michael Ramat Tarik Osmancevic Alex Michael Horn § Zujia Xu § Michael Reubens † Maurice John Ott James Scott Houlihan § Dongwei Yu ‡ ** Jonathan Maxwell Rink Rashul Panwar Darnell Jones Zehai Yu Edward James Schneider Alison Park Craig William Kaiser Syed Mohammad Zain † * Zeynep Sunay * Marvin Perez Hernandez Matthew Stephen Kaiser § Luke Michael Zakrajsek † Anna Svirgun § Robert Edwin Farquhar Purkiss † TBP Seungwoo Kim Kyle John Zalud Robert Sheridan Swick Zachary James Steever † TBP Andrew Kimball Wei Zhang § Joshua Michael Vaccaro Henrick J. Tan § David Robert Kishlar † Peng Hui Zhen § Steven Wu Matthew Bryan Klimek § Tony Lufan Ye Harrison Joseph Thompson Vu Le § Bachelor of Science in Wendi Zheng Steven Anthony Villacis Jiawen Li ‡ Engineering Physics Nathalie Morbey Winder ‡ TBP Bachelor of Science in Jillian Laurel Yearke Zhulei Li § Industrial Engineering Hong Woon (Ryan) Lim § June 2016 Richard Thomas Young § Bingyao Lin § John Luke Maher ‡ Victoria Riso † September 2015 Bachelor of Science in Wing Lun Ma † Brian Arthur Bischoff Mechanical Engineering Michael John Mahoney II § Bachelor of Science in David Mullen ‡ TBP ** Dwight Reagen Ambrocio Mariano § Environmental Engineering Jacob John Stefanon September 2015 Nathan Albert Mingolelli Lok Bahadur Baral Kristina Sergeevna Monakhova † September 2015 February 2016 James Ross Brown Jr. Andrew M. Morizio † Victor Okechukwu Odili John Philip Balzani † Donald William Carter Jason William Myrick Alanna Olear § April Lyn Bouquard Jodie-Ann Valencia Duquesnay

14 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Sean Micheal Farley Kameron Todd Witt Eric Anthony Jovenitti Jack Wong * Yi Jui Lee ‡ Kevin Lenard June 2016 Muhammad Nur Ariff James Anthony Lombardo Abdul Razak § * Sophie Lynn Minas † ◊ Christopher W Ahearn Charles Raymond Moon Jr. * Nurul Athirah Binti Ali Yusup § Gino Lee Nadela * Edward Dua Amoako Gerardo Rojano Lim Yih Ang Sarmad Sardar Sabir Jr. R. Jamie Asbach § Richard James Sambuco Amadeus Antonio Astacio * Alberto Santiago Kevin Ausanio * M. H. Priyanta Siri Sumana Siri * Gregory Thomas Auyang Steven Christopher Scott Sutton § * Kishen Kumar Balakrishnan Sean Hong Siong Wong Ryan James Ball February 2016 Jacob David Baranowski Quinn Alan Adair * Jesse Salomon Bauer * Dale Baran § * Ryan David Beckinghausen § Nicholas Bellocci Raymond Edward Begiers Jr. Jason Ming Chan * Aishwarya Bhalchandra § Jacob R. Conrad * Ajit Bhat * Daniel Thomas Gardner * Michael Joseph Bill ‡ Ethan Michael George § Jeremy Ryan Bossert Adam Les Hammond § * Connor Nicholas Bracy * Danny Huang Connor David Brown Andrew Philip Hunt Thomas Leonard Brunacini ‡ Lucius James Jones III * Samson Edmund Cameron Nicholas Ryan Kier Gianna Elizabeth Caprio § Anish Vir Arjun Kumar Jeremy Robert Chapman † * Alaina Macherone Daniel Gerard Chelius Anibal Felipe Martinez § Megan Elizabeth Cheney § * Mitchell Edward Maziarz § * Muyang Cheng Chris Joseph Mustacchio Amanda Karoline Cinelli Gregory Alex Nagy Steven James Coffed † TBP * Milton F. Naranjo § Katherine Rose Coley ‡ * Matthew Thomas Nesper † * Kyle William Collins Alexander P. O'Brien § * Daniel Edward Corbett Jianzhou Qi Ryan Benjamin Corey Behzad Rustemi Peter Joseph Corrao § * Jeffrey Scott § Ian Cummings Raiyan Mohammed Siraj Stefan Zbigniew Cwalina † Kristian Sukaj § * Mohamad Daher Andrea Lee Trumpfheller Kevin Andrew Dailey Cornato Ron Vella Brian Danson § Jeffrey Scott Verrall Kevan Gianathan Darmawan ‡ Cory John Vickerd Peter Davis ‡ ◊ Timothy Martin Whetstone Dominic Decicco

COMMENCEMENT 2016 15 Baccalaureate Combined Degrees Degrees

Nicholas Del Vecchio Lucas Christopher Kowalczyk David Benjamin Ritter § ◊ Recommending Candidates Connor Stratton Devine Daniel Dean Kromphardt Louis Anthony Rizzo § * for Degrees Nicholas Colin DiPasquale Prashant Kshitij Dwight Christopher Stanley Kristene Alecks Elia TBP Joshua Alexander Kuminski § Robinson Jr. Liesl Folks Sardar M. Elias § Youngkwan Kwak Trish Anne Deguia Roque Dean Filippo Esperanca Moreira Da Silva Henry Hin-Yuen Kwan ‡ Robert Alan Rowe Folaranmi Rachael Fakayode * Juncelucan Lagda * Caleb J. Saathoff § * Bachelor of Science / Master of James John Faran § Debrup Laha § Jared Salisbury Science in Computer Science and Engineering Jason Aidan Feuer ◊ Christopher Robert Landschoot § Harrison Jared Schaffer Jordana Allyn Fish Cameron Michael Lanphere Richard Kenneth Schlehr February 2016 Michael John Fitts § Jun Ki Lee Adam Schultz Scott Florentino † Liam Flynn Yu Hsuan Lee † TBP Zachary Gordon Seaver Nathan Ronca ‡ * Livio Forte III Martin Alexander Leff ‡ * Emily Marie Senay ‡ William P. Frisch Levi Li § Aaron W. Simpkins June 2016 Jake Richard Gemerek † * David Liang ‡ TBP Leanne Marie Skrabacz Woodams R. Clark Frank Carmen Paul Genovese § * Yuxi Lin Brian Smist † Jesse Daniel Freeman § Tyler Gifford * Zhi Lin Kathryn Anne Sodaro Sunny Mistry ‡ Ben Gigone § * Zhuo Nan Lin § Zachary Callan Speed Mark Robert Starczewski Jr. § ** John Richard Graff William Wallace Marr † Alexander Steuerwald § Kun Yang Shannon Ruth Griffin § * Nicholas Patrick McCasey † * Benjamin K. Stortz † Robert Louis Gucker III John Paul McWhinnie § * Michael Patrick Sundermier ‡ Bachelor of Science (Civil Ethan Gundlach George A. Melero * Talwinder Singh Swarn Singh Engineering) / Master of Deniz Guven § Mark Joseph Mercer Joseph Paul Szabo Business Administration Mordechai Nachshon Haberman * James Joseph Metzger Tyler John Szczesniak § * Alexander Peter Hathaway * Mohamed Jafran Mohamed Jiffry Daniel Ryan Szewczyk § September 2015 James Friedman Daniel Lance Henry-Small † Anthony Montero ◊ Abel Solomon Taye Dylan Samuel Henschel Elizabeth Suyuan Moon § * Caleb Taylor Thomas Likup § June 2016 Spencer Theodore Heyden § * Brian James Morris Samuel William Tedesco Matthew Cuciti Kyle Michael Hinman Ramana Nagasamudram Omar David Torres Thomas Andrew Hoolahan § * Parthivi Narang * Colin Trinh ‡ * Bachelor of Science (Industrial Hongyu Hu § Corey Max Needle † TBP * Carter Daniel Twombly Engineering) / Master of Adam Nicholas Hubbard Alexander John Negri § Zhan Wang Business Administration Thomas Huber § Gavin Wesley Neill Stephen G. Weinheimer Bercely Hurtado Otalora † * Daniel Newins Michael Taylor Wik June 2016 Corinne Hutchinson † * Thomas Anthony Noonan Timothy Wolfe Wilko † Fernando Galvan Rico § Zachary James Intrabartolo Brandon John Nunes ‡ * Aric Todd Wilson Michael L. Ronci ‡ Junhung Jang Samuel Odulaja Tina Zhang § Michael James Stuber § Thomas Rogers Jenkins Joseph Frank Oliver § Zhuangcheng Zheng Matthew Dariusz Juskiewicz § Greg David Ostaszewski § Alex Zhitelzeyf Bachelor of Science Kollin Kaleta Joseph Tyler Pace § * (Mechanical Engineering) / Dale Jason Kawa * Zach Andrew Paufler Master of Business Rachel Elizabeth Keil † * Shankha Paul § Administration Razmik Khachatryan § * Andrew Pennachi † * June 2016 Muhammad Addil Khan * Jack L. Pilie * William Lloyd Bach § Brian William Kiel † TBP Brian Albert Pilski § Raymond C. Chamberlin § Michael Shane Kirschenheiter Dennis Posheluk ‡ Joseph Timothy Corcoran † Brendan Matthew Kisselback Mark Joseph Reilly Andrew Gerald Serwon § Marshall Stewart Klee † TBP Garrett Michael Rice Christofilos Andrew Siderakis

16 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Master’s Degrees Recommending Candidates Master of Science in Jiaochen Shen Thomas Aaron Brown for Degrees Biomedical Engineering Ching-Yen Shih Ping Chen Meng Wang Duygu Doyrangol Liesl Folks September 2015 Hanguang Zhang Rishikesh Duarah Dean Nanditha Anandakrishnan Shizhong Zhao Piyush Garg Zahra Chamanzar Vivek Annaswamy Kannan Master of Engineering in Daniel Joseph Feldman February 2016 Arpita Girish Kurdekar Chemical Engineering Shuang Hu Benjamin Fatt Soon Lam Dung Thi Phuong Le Jing Luo Yayu Liu Runwei Li September 2015 Christopher D. Martensen Shawreen Manish Shah Mojeeburahman Mashal Xiang Gao Elise J. Martin Jianchao Wang Usha Sree Nadella Satya Popuri Somaang Menocha Xiaoyan Wang Austin Nilsen Suman Samantray Sreevidhya Ramakrishnan Brandon Ross Richard Jiahui Wu June 2016 James Ki Rieffel Anix Casimir Mudit Singh June 2016 Shruti Srinivas Aparajita Dasgupta Shaurya Sood William S. Evangelista II Sophie Linyi Wang Cheng Kee Lai Zhe Sun Vivek Bhaskar Kote Michael J. Potter February 2016 Najing Li Ming Zeng Junyi Liu Xiaone Wei Christopher Kotey Kotei Ayed Ahmad Yamin Yan Li Nachiket Madhav Paranjape Master of Engineering in Civil Haiyang Sheng Elif Yildirim Engineering Rubaina Nicole Ashley Salerno Yujie Tian June 2016 Aditi Verma September 2015 Ami Yogesh Shah Daniel Maxwell Barron Runsheng Zhang Jared Evan Port Wentao Song Pei Chuan Chao Qixin Wang Yusen Zhou Togarepi Chitakara Master of Engineering in Austin M. Chudyk Master of Science in Electrical Engineering June 2016 Michael Patrick Clark Civil Engineering Anusha Balasubramoniam Joseph Adolph Colletti February 2016 Sumukh Bysani Krishnakumar September 2015 Yanbin Cui Jennifer Lynn Drewniak Calvin Cheah Isaac William Allen Ugur Eker Sarah Jo Crotts Maria Fedorova Master of Science in Andrew Bartlett Daniel Leonard Ericson Yushan Fu Aerospace Engineering Kritika Lakhotia Fatima Bukhari Jan Dokonal Jianming Hao David L. Rubach Gary Jordan September 2015 Aparna Shankaran Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou Mustafa Celebi Satyavardhan Gogineni Wan Jian Lu Ramani Venkatesh Molly Eileen McEvoy Harshit Goyal Hongying Wan Nima Golshani Sunayana Jayaram Ramya Kamineni Jeffrey Bryan Melomo Master of Science in Tylor Edward Kunkle Venkata Gopinaga Sarath Panthangi February 2016 Chemical Engineering Seyedata Nahidi Basit Z. Qayyum Arunvivekanand Ji Xia Ruolong Ren Shunmugasundaram September 2015 Xiaojing Zhang Umaipalan Sivaratnarajah Gaurav Siwach Prannay Bali Reda Snaiki February 2016 Kevin J. Stevens June 2016 Tai Chun Chung Thomas Androutselis Wiktor Piotr Tomkiewicz Nikhil Sasidharan Pillai Sogol Hekmatfar Matthew Henry Michnik Nicholas Barnhard Timothy James Frandina Van Oss Christopher Linn Miller Aaron Michael Behnke Meghan Wilson Andrew James Mowbray Courtney Elaine Bentley Yi Zhao

COMMENCEMENT 2016 17 Master’s Degrees Master of Science in Computer Bhanu Teja Chakka Rohit Jhunjhunwala Jayanth Nasika Science and Engineering Krishnakant Chavali Shweta Joshi Prakash Natarajan Pratik Pramod Chavan Snigdha Joshi Daniel Nazareth September 2015 Shreyas Suhas Chavan Karthik Kakarla Nagendra Prakash Abhinav Neela Jerry Antony Ajay Chun Yu Chen Sudharshan Reddy Kakumanu Amit Nihalani Mohit Arora Mani Kishore Chitrala Manikanta Sandeep Kandregula Bhargava Nissankararao Santosh Kumar Dubey Karamveer Choudhary Ankit Kapur Oghenekeno Obrutu Kyle Marcus Manish Kumar Das Vinayak Karuppasamy Prasanna Chandrashekhar Pai Lu Meng Sathish Kumar Deivasigamani Venkata Sai Krishna Tejaswi Kaushik Raj Palanichamy Alagappan Ramu Aniket Mahesh Deole Kasavajhula Avinash Pali Andreina Susana Nazaret Rahul Derashri Bikram Kashyap Romit Palit Uzcategui Cova Akash Prafulchandra Desai Hitpal Kaur Gitanjali Palwe Sitaram Chowdary Vuppala Tejeet Paresh Desai Chaitanya Kavalipati Deep Jayesh Parekh Weida Zhong Akash Sudhir Deshpande Abha Khanna Rishabh Mahendrakumar Patel Karthik Kiran February 2016 Aniket Santosh Deshpande Utsav Sudhir Patel Aditya Pavan Kolli Abhishek Kumar Harshad Rajendra Deshpande Janhavi Anand Patil Rahul Kota Saravanan Adaikkalavan Keerthana Dhagam Abhijit Pattanaik Mohit Kothari Priya Bandhavi Allu Sankara Vadivel Dhandapani Sudheer Kumar Paturi Gaurav Sandip Kshirsagar Sudeep Reddy Alluri Selvaganesh Dharmeswaran Surya Siddharth Pemmaraju Animesh Kumar Shishir Ambastha Samved Chandrakant Divekar Ravi Kumar Pirakil Raveendranatha Ashok Kurakula Vidyadhar Reddy Annapureddy Susana Melba Dsa Kaimal Muyuan Li Amogh Sunil Antarkar Rohit Dubey Rahul Poondy Mukundan Xiaoliang Li Manpreet Arora Sagar Ashok Dulhani Chetan Prabhu Sree Karteek Pulagam Xinyang Li Mohit Arora Sujoy Dutta Ketki Ramesh Purandare Jitendra Limaye Ashish Kumar Vaibhav Dwivedi Nishchita Purushothama Patel Nikhil Raphael Lopes Alok Asok Omkar Abhijit Gadgil Weihao Qu Duc Thanh Anh Luong Avani Chandrashekhar Atre Archit Garg Reshma Raghavan Vamsi Krishna Maddipatla Avinav Sharan Shreyas Garg Jonathan Francesco Raj Subramanian Madhanagopal Srinivasa Reddy Bade Tarun Gauba Harshith Kumar Ramadev Sivasankaran Prashanth Balaboina Nitya Gollamudi Naveen Kumar Ramamurthy Pratham Malik Satya Chandu Dheeraj Balakavi Soumasish Goswami Aravind Kumar Ramesh Saurabh Sidharth Mandaokar Rakesh Balasubramanian Navya Gowda Kariyappa Vivin Rane Sushanth Reddy Mandly Nithin Kumar Reddy Bandaru Ankit Goyal Ramya Rao Mangai Vetrivelan Sridhar Bandaru Changyang Gu Sri Ram Krishna Reddy Reddy Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman Pragna Basu Shruti Guha Vishvesh Revoori Nischala Manjunath Sonali Batra Liwen Gui Akilesh Sadassivam Shiva Mariswamy Subramani Sahajdeep Singh Bedi Venkat Karthik Gundavarapu Ayush Jitendra Sanghvi Aniket Sadanand Mayakal Ramyakrishna Reddy Beesam Stephen Gung Devesh Pradip Sanghvi Mihir Mehta Arpita Venkanna Belagur Tian Guo Ananda Kanagaraj Sankar Pritika Mehta Utsav Beri Ashish Gupta Hrishikesh Vinay Sathe Warren Alexander Mendonca Sarthak Dundiraj Bhat Madhur Gupta Chandana Satya Prakash Mithun Nagesh Ishan Bhatt Harsh Rajesh Harwani Buddhika Laknath Semage Abdul Muqtadir Mohammed Saptarshi Bhattacharjee Bhakti Ramesh Hinduja Jenil Dinesh Shah Devesh Mulmule Tanvi Vijay Bhavsar Venkata Sai Manoj Illendula Vishwas Shanbhog Dhinesh Nakkeerar Imran Sayyed Adam Bijapuri Sachi Jain Ankit Sharma Priyankar Nandi Uday Kumar Bingi Jesal Deepak Janani Chandra Kant Sharma Nikitha Reddy Nandigama Prathyusha Bobba Karthik Janarthanan Himanshu Sharma Naveen Narayan Daniel Lee Bremiller Himali Vandan Jani Mohammad Shahid Fazal Sheikh

18 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Rakshit Shetty June 2016 Ke Zeng Venkata Sai Pawan Kumar Kilambi Sagar Bansilal Shinde Jacob Ammons Xiang Zhang Zachary M. Kolarich Mimanshu Shisodia Pradeep Kiran Chakkirala Zhifeng Zhang Yixiao Kong Manu Shivakumar Xianglong Chen Ning Zhao Mounica Kopparapu Rustom Shroff Joseph Michael D'Amato Vijayganesh Gurussamy Abhinav Shukla Hao Fan February 2016 Krishnakumar Dinesh Anantharaman Alexander Georgiev Simeonov Siddharth Pradeep Ghodke Koushik Vikram Kuduva Gopal Anusha Arjun Jagvir Singh Jordan Gibson Kabirdoss Sanjay Natraj Ashok Simranjot Singh Guanxiong Huang Anurag Menon Kunnath Aditya Awatramani Nikhil Singhal Andrew Richard Hughes Sai Teja Lakkimsetty Ambika Balasubramaniam Abhinit Kumar Sinha Chuohao Jiang Hongyu Li Vamsi Krishna Bellidiga Siddharth Krishna Sinha Jialiang Jiang Ke Li Harsh Singh Bhal Amir Arsalan Soltani Jiaming Liu Yiling Li Akash Bhatkal Santhosh Kumar Somarapu Sijia Liu Zhiyuan Li Praneeth Varma Buddharaju Sankiran Srinath Xin Liu Shengyang Liu Peter Casey Sai Srinath Sundar Ethan Lu Shuangchen Luo Arpita Chand Archana Suregaonkar Aurijoy Majumdar Sri Krishna Mahadevan Sasidhar Chilukuri Girish Suri Venkataraman Cong Meng Deepthi Mandapalli Linmao Cong Balu Swarna Jeffrey Murphy Rama Chandra Reddy Mandepudi Decheng Cui Khushboo Tekchandani Arindam Nandi Sumukh Manjunath Yixuan Dang Pranav Tipnis Damian U. Ogbonna Jr. Pallavi Mantro Rohit Dhanuka Yuvraj Tiwari Sayaritra Pal Karan Kumar Marda Daniel Robert Drexel Ravi Teja Tulluri Jianmeng Pei Dio Mazurek Anish Dutta Pravin Umamaheswaran Srinivasan Rajappa Kaushikee Mishra Prithvi Nath Reddy Emani Aayush Uppal Yuan Sha Mohammad Wasif Zhou Fang Utkarsh Srivastava Bowen Shen Roshni Mukund Kumar Sindhoora Gajula Madni Maksud Vadhariya Bhargav Shivkumar Kiruthika Murali Janani Ganesan Sai Sri Harshita Vallurupalli Sindhuja Sura Pranav Reddy Musku Adam M. Gannon Chakradhar Reddy Vangeti Prannoy Deepti Tumuluri Vaibhav Mutathi Rajendran Geetha Rani Sundara Harish Varadarajan Yuhui Wu Rutvik Narayana Nadimpally Raman Geetika Reddy Varidireddy Chen Xu Shruthi Nagaraj Sabareeswar Gowri Shankar Abhimat Varma Arjun Sudhanva Naik Yuxiao He Ankit Varma Master of Science in Sharath Raveendran Nair Mangesh Jaiswal Vasul Vatsyayan Priyadarshi Electrical Engineering Venkata Satya Sesha Vivek Nanisetty Srinivasa Sandilya Jandhyala Mahalakshmi Venkataraman Deepikha Narayanamoorthi September 2015 Sindoora Jayaprakash Priyaman Venu Saranyan Naga Goutham Narne Loris Cannelli Sharath Jhadey Meghna Verma Jubin Nathawat Steve Matthew Gearhart George John Viral Vijay Vira Prathibha Panchagnula Chayanjit Ghosh Geo Leemson Joseph Rubinson Harishankar Vishwanathan Honey Pandey Zhe Hu Swapnil Dilip Joshi Sri Rajarsh Vytla Jitendra Kumar Pandey Lokesh Kumar Kodavati Soujanya Kadali Jun Wang Alok Meghashyam Pandhare Qingchuan Lai Sai Pavan Kumar Kadiri Shuang Wu Apurva Paradkar Fei Lu Pruthvik Kagganti Prakash Meethil Vijay Yadav Saurabh Parashar Junsung Park Abhinay Raj Kalambur Sabarajan Narasimha Sumanth Yajamanyam Jaejeong Park Goutham Sankaranarayanan Dhinesh Raja Kannan Venkatesh Yerneni Sindhu Patibandla Paolo Scarponi Kaushik Uday Karandikar Hengtong Zhang Priyanka Pattanaik Vishrut Vaibhav Utsav Deepak Katira Ji Zhang Neil Rajesh Pednekar Kevin M Wilczak Rubab Khaled Sunil Kumar Penumala

COMMENCEMENT 2016 19 Master’s Degrees Vignan Posham June 2016 Master of Science in Industrial Gibu Reji Lakshmi Varsha Racha Apoorva Batra Engineering Amit Kumar Roy Ram Subbu Ramanathan Jhonnathan Chang Wu Shervin Shirish Shah Monisa Ramesh Babu Yuyang Chen September 2015 Siddhartha Sharma Prasanth Prabu Ravichandiran Diptanjan Saha Kriti Basu Shuo Fang Tsao Chigarapalli Shruthi Reddy Ian Farneth Natalie Christine Benda Vedant Sandhya Haochen Ren Abhilash Kumar Gandla Ekta Bhargava Sriram Venkatachalam Jai Viknesh Sankara Narayanan Manibharathi Gudiyattam Biplab Sudhin Bhattacharya Shukun Ye Ashok Sathyanarayanan Gnanamurugan Jonathan David Braun Zhenyang Zhu Ajinkya Sawant Sritej Gunta Keith A. Fitzsimmons Akshay Saxena Yanbo Guo Ashita Raghav Guthula June 2016 Arul Kumar Sekar Woong Kim Anshuman Anjani Kumar Mariana Barato Shoaib Ahmed Shaik Chenyu Li Dan Liang Bhishman Desai Sowmya Sridharan Nian Liu Armando Loli Arushi Dhakad Mucun Sun Andrea Martinez Sridhar Shankar Mane Hadi Feyzollahi Supriya Sastri Balijepalli Mohit Kumar Navagare Ranjani Sureshkumar Neha Deepak Gudi Derek K. Tauffner Anjali Omer Siddhesh Sawant Lydia Kocher Ganesh Vaishnav Tavidisetty Rajendra Mahima Ann Philip Siddhartha Nambiar Meng Li Deepanshu Udasi Dengbin Qiao Anpeng Zhang Sayee Mangesh Lingayat Aravindhan Vadivel Jordan Richard Radice Kylie Molinaro February 2016 Guna Sai Phani Raja Sekhar Gaurav Pravinkumar Raval Medha Nemade Sojib Ahmed Valluripalli Tripti Sharma Abhinav Raj Perla Libin Alapatt Thomas Venkata Tarun Vangavarugu Michael Singletary Trevor Plizga Digvijay Reddy Amaram Hariharan Variyankaval Rajasekaran Gaganpreet Singh Sran Charan Theja Reddy Pyreddy Rahul Swamy Kapil Varunshri Ragavendran Srinivasan Praveen Babu Ravichandran Satya Kalyan Bellala Narayan Aiyer Venkatesan Ketul Divyesh Surati Arjun Shankar Raghu Ram Bojanapalli Akash Verma Urvakhsha Rayomand Tavadia Karthik Shanmugasundaram Yamini Poojitha Boyenapally Raja Rajeshwari Sowmya Vidiyala Pradeep Vijayasundararajan Thangavel Hernan Andres Caceres Venegas Gnana Prasuna Vuragayala Yuguang Wei John Christopher Vacanti Ashok Chandran Shanshan Xiang Appiah Wiafe Xiaomei Wang Naveen Chundru Haoyuan Xu Cong Ye Ningji Wei Karan Dabas Sumeer Yachu Zunayeed Bin Zahir Yijing Xu Aashwinikumar Vasudev Devari Pradeep Reddy Yaramada Chaoyi Zhang Yashwanth Chowdary Yeddulapalli Negin Ebadi Chandan Kumar Yelahanka Xiaohang Zhu Nanjemari Master of Science in Jing Gong Engineering Science Praveen Guthinabailu Master of Science in Gaoyang Yu Mechanical Engineering Fan Zhang Ran Huo Jin Zhang September 2015 Pradeep Krishnan Sara Marie Gonzalez Ning Li September 2015 Tong Zhang Vaqas Arshad Xinlei Zhang Yuenan Li February 2016 Ajay Mallina Rajmohan Asokan Junwei Zhao Saidan Qi Yun Cheng Jianhang Zhu Sri Soury Nori Lei Su Praveenkumar Raghavan Junqing Deng Sathya Narayanan Ramamurthy Robert Francis Desjardins

20 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Jeremy Krol June 2016 Yao Li Haoran Chen Ian Mark Michaliszyn Eugenia Episcopo Shrey Pareek Mohammad Firoz Zaccarie Joseph Peone Antonio Galbier Arjun Sathya Prakash Xiaobin Guo Therence Aymard Temfack Fogang Allicia Neeta Gurpersaud Anjan Kumar Tripathi Christopher Alvin Haynes Guhan Velmurugan Bin Huang Kevin Walczyk Amrita Lall Po Sheng Wang Hongfei Lin Karthik Yerrapragada Adam Lloyd Felipe Meneguzzo Pasquali February 2016 Prasanth Raja Sekaran Niyoosha Ahmadi Khoo Benjamin Rinauto Rongfeng Chen Sunil Srivatsav Royyuru Ting Ju Chen Arun Sunil Keelan Chu For Qintao Tan Nitesh Kumar Dagar Yan Xia Digvijay Singh Ruoyu Yang Azadeh Dinparastdjadid Wenyi Yang Siddharth Dixit Yang Yu Taylor M. Ferguson Ankit Ramkishore Karwa Phanender Reddy Kasireddy Mohammadhassan Kazemi Joseph Michael Keating Kiran Babu Koyalamudi Siddharth Krishnamurthy Benjamin Michael Kuch Shayne Emanuel Mckay Dhruvin Jasmin Naik Rahul Prasannan Frank G. Repetti Rahul Sanal Ryan Sans Daniel Snitzer Lily Tang Toshita Satya Valluri Youtong Wang Zhiqing Zhao Stephen Zielinski

COMMENCEMENT 2016 21 Doctorate Degrees Recommending Candidates Sindhu Row February 2016 Suxin Guo for Degrees Major Professor: Stylianos Andreadis Yanping Feng Major Professor: Aidong Zhang Major Professor: Joseph F. Atkinson SUNY Distinguished Professor June 2016 Liesl Folks Ioannis Karampelas Dean Bismarck N. Luna Kevin Rice Keane Major Professor: Edward P. Furlani Major Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker Major Professor: Jason J. Corso Doctor of Philosophy in Ramachandran Subramanian Nam Hoai Nguyen Nilesh Vijay Khambekar Biomedical Engineering Major Professor: David A. Kofke Major Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker Major Professor: Vipin Chaudhary June 2016 Shuen - Shiuan Wang June 2016 Suyog Pol Xiaoyi Li Major Professor: Sriram Stacey Sloan Blersch Major Professor: Stylianos Andreadis Major Professor: Aidong Zhang Neelamegham Major Professor: Joseph F. Atkinson Ran Xu Xiaozheng Xue Md Tawfiq Sarwar Doctor of Philosophy in Major Professor: Jason J. Corso Chemical Engineering Major Professor: Edward P. Furlani Major Professor: Panagiotis Anastasopoulos Zhi Yang September 2015 Dewei Zhu Major Professor: Varun Chandola Daniel W. Demonte Major Professor: Mark T. Swihart Luke W. Scannell Major Professor: Sheldon J. Park Major Professor: James N. Jensen Yingbo Zhou Major Professor: Venugopal Doctor of Philosophy in Aikaterini Stefanaki Rohitesh Gupta Govindaraju Civil Engineering Major Professor: Mettupalayam Major Professor: Sriram SUNY Distinguished Professor Neelamegham Sivaselvan September 2015 February 2016 Yanbiao Chu Jacob Mark Heltzel Shuai, Tang Jiun-Jie Wang Major Professor: Cemalettin Basaran Major Professor: Carl R. Lund Major Professor: Qian Wang Major Professor: Xin He SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Zahrasadat Lotfian Xiaone Wei June 2016 Major Professor: Mettupalayam Major Professor: Michel Bruneau Ismail Alan Sabry G. Moustafa Sivaselvan Major Professor: Tevfik Kosar Major Professor: David A. Kofke SUNY Distinguished Professor Moses Junior Matovu Doctor of Philosophy in Engin Arslan Major Professor: Salvatore Salamone Computer Science and Major Professor: Tevfik Kosar Xianliang Wang Engineering Major Professor: Mark T. Swihart Konstantinos Oikonomou Panya Chanawangsa Major Professor: Michael September 2015 Major Professor: Chang Wen Chen February 2016 Constantinou Gang Chen Charles Jones SUNY Distinguished Professor Major Professor: Sargur Srihari Si Chen Major Professor: Blaine Pfeifer Major Professor: Kui Ren Ki Pung Ryu Wei Chen Yue Li Major Professor: Andrei M. Reinhorn Major Professor: Jason Corso Shounak Uday Gore Major Professor: Mark T. Swihart Major Professor: Venugopal Lisa Shrestha Hu Ding Govindaraju Panagiotis Mistriotis Major Professor: Michel Bruneau Major Professor: Jinhui Xu Major Professor: Stylianos Andreadis

22 COMMENCEMENT 2016 Yunfei Hou Alfredo Vega-Irizarry June 2016 Sourish Chakravarty Major Professor: Chunming Qiao Major Professor: Adly T. Fam Jared Holsopple Major Professor: Sonjoy Das Major Professor: Moises Sudit Jie Hu Suren Kumar Major Professor: Chang Wen Chen Doctor of Philosophy in Nicolette M. McGeorge Major Professor: Venkat N. Krovi Industrial Engineering Major Professor: Ann M. Bisantz Mahmoud Abo Khamis June 2016 September 2015 Major Professor: Hung Ngo Mohammadreza Samadi Aliakbar Alamdari Sabrina Casucci Major Professor: Alexander Nikolaev Major Professor: Venkat N. Krovi Doctor of Philosophy in Major Professor: Alexander Nikolaev and Li Lin Electrical Engineering Longsheng Sun Bradley Darrall Major Professor: Mark H. Karwan Major Professor: Gary F. Dargush September 2015 Tolou Esfandeh SUNY Distinguished Teaching Major Professor: Rajan Batta and Professor Guoqiang Deng Panagiotis Markopoulos Changhyun Kwon Major Professor: Gary F. Dargush Major Professor: Dimitrios Pados Jingyan Wan Peiqiu Guan Major Professor: Changxu Wu Zhongwang Dou Gokturk Poyrazoglu Major Professor: Jun Zhuang Major Professor: Hui Meng Major Professor: Hyungseon Oh Sudeep Hegde Doctor of Philosophy in Aaron Edward Estes February 2016 Major Professor: Ann M. Bisantz Mechanical Engineering Major Professor: Manoranjan Majji Mark Louis Demarie Raihan H. Razib September 2015 Aziz M. Naim Major Professor: Albert H. Titus Major Professor: Alexander Nikolaev Jinmiao Huang Major Professor: Kemper E. Lewis Major Professor: Rahul Rai Xie Zeng Iakovos Toumazis Kumar Vishwajeet Major Professor: Qiaoqiang Gan Major Professor: Changhyun Kwon Yoshihiro Takizawa Major Professor: Puneet Singla Major Professor: Deborah D. Chung Tianmu Zhang Yan Xia Major Professor: Alexander N. Major Professor: Rajan Batta and Deepika Verma Cartwright Rakesh Nagi Major Professor: Susan Z. Hua February 2016 Yihang Zhou Santosh Rohit Yerrabolu Michael D. Moskal II Major Professor: Lei Ying Major Professor: Joseph C. Major Professor: Rajan Batta Mollendorf June 2016 SUNY Distinguished Professor Yanshu Li February 2016 Major Professor: Vladimir Mitin Masoumeh Taslimi Nagavenkat Adurthi SUNY Distinguished Professor Major Professor: Rajan Batta and Major Professor: Puneet Singla Changhyun Kwon Harihara Sudhahar Ramamoorthy Major Professor: Jonathan P. Bird Xinhui Zhu Major Professor: Victor L. Paquet Richard M. Tarbell Major Professor: Albert H. Titus

COMMENCEMENT 2016 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 Jacobs 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 50 of our faculty have established, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences. been elected as Fellows of engineering professional societies and 33 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, three of our Karr Parker Engineering Building. Parker Hall was immediately enlarged to current faculty members were recognized with SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for accommodate traditional students and returning GIs intent on pursuing Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. Many others hold SUNY engineering careers after WWII. In the mid-70s to mid-80s, the school moved 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 2016 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 30,000 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 Center for Multi-source achieve, the more we see there is still more to be done to rise to the challenge of Information Fusion (CMIF), Center for Unified Biometrics (CUBS), Center for training the next generation of great engineers while delivering world-changing Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education advances in science and technology. (CEISARE), and The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE), as well as a To keep up to date with the school, please visit us at engineering.buffalo.edu. membership in the National Science Foundation Center for e-Design. Under UB’s “E Fund” initiative, we engaged with our campus colleagues to develop research and educational 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). More recently, the campus was challenged to address the difficult problems and questions of our time through impactful, interdisciplinary research, education, and engagement. SEAS faculty have assumed leadership roles in these “Communities of Excellence,” in particular, Global Health Equity and Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART), as well as the newly established Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water (RENEW) institute. Our total research expenditures for the academic year 2014–2015 were $58.5 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 2016 25 The First Commencement

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

Academic Costume

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

26 COMMENCEMENT 2016 UB Alumni UB Alma Mater Association Letter Music by UB Students in 1903. Lyrics adapted by UB Students in 2006 for contemporary use.

Verse 1: Dear Members of the Class of 2016, The pride of our spirit and tradition, Congratulations! Your hard work has brought you the knowledge, skills and Our alma mater’s truth and name declare. confidence to take the next steps in your lives. Be as proud of your Celebrate our history and wisdom, accomplishments as we are of you. O let us all prepare to sing her glory. On behalf of the UB Alumni Association (UBAA), I welcome you to our family of UB alumni. Beginning this year, all UB graduates automatically become members Refrain: of the Alumni Association. With more than 240,000 UB alumni around the world, there is power in these numbers—you will find fellow UB alumni wherever you go. To Buffalo all hail to thee, As you move forward, I encourage you to keep UB close. UBAA is here for you. We Noble and strong it’s our university! will help you stay connected through regular communication via email, At Buffalo To blue and white pledge loyalty, (our quarterly magazine), and alumni chapter events across the U.S. and the Singing I will always remember thee! world. We even have a brand new Young Alumni Program designed specifically to provide our new graduates with career help, volunteer opportunities and engaging social events. Verse 2: To learn more about UBAA, the Young Alumni Program and the benefits and services available to you, plug into our vast network at buffalo.edu/alumni or We’ll ever keep our standards high, contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 1-800-284-5382 or And sing UB’s praises to the sky. [email protected]. Receiving the finest education, Our knowledge we impart unto the nations. Good luck and best wishes, (Repeat refrain)

Verse 3: Mary Garlick Roll (MS ’88 & BS ’84) President, UB Alumni Association Our friends we’ve made with ties that bind, A union of our spirit, heart and mind. P.S. Please make sure to keep UBAA informed when your email address changes, Together we’ll continue life’s journey, so you don’t miss any special invitations or perks! O may dear Buffalo forever be.

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COMMENCEMENT 2016 27 UB Engineering and Applied Sciences Alumni Association Letter

Engineers of 2016,

Welcome to the club! Today, you join our 30,000-strong worldwide membership of the University at Buffalo Engineering Alumni Association. In the days surrounding commencement, you will rightfully hear many voices telling you about how your class is different, and your challenges unique. It’s true. The world is a dynamic place and the solutions the world will beg of you will be unlike any previously posed. After all, that is our job. We engineers find solutions to unsolved problems and our role is nothing less than essential to the continued progress of humanity. If that sounds like a big deal, it’s because it is. However as you know, your solutions to your unique problems will be based on the works of engineers and scientists who have preceded you and your own work will become the foundation for your successors’. The story of societal progress is the story of youth and experience working together. Expectations can be daunting. Human instinct can be discouraging and others burdened by the baggage of “the way it’s always been done” may say it’s impossible, but your greatest success will be determined by your ability to blend the experiences of your predecessors with the wide eyed ambition of a young grad. Certainly your student experience came with its own challenges, and professional life will too. Professionally, the balance between humility and ambition is absolutely essential to ultimate success. In addition to the world class technical education we received here at UB, I hope that you’ll take appreciation for the faculty and staff with you on your next step. It’s impossible for them to have taught you everything they’ve learned in their careers, so do not lose touch. As teachers, they take pride in seeing the growth of the careers they’ve fostered for a few years here at Buffalo. You are the youth, they are the experience. The benefits go both ways; our successes fuel their ambition as well. If like us, you feel that the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has had a significant positive impact on your life and future, please keep in touch with the Engineering Alumni Association. At the UBEAA, we too thoroughly enjoy celebrating the successes of our fellow alumni, just as we are with you today at commencement. If the next step in your life’s journey takes you someplace unfamiliar, drop us a line. With 30,000 alumni worldwide, wouldn’t it be nice to have someone in your new home who can relate to your student experiences, show you where the good wings are, and go catch a Buffalo game on TV? If you’re staying in Western New York, drop us a line. We are present and active on campus and always looking to do more to benefit the students. Whether near or far, great or small, your involvement with the UBEAA will help serve those who fill the lecture halls you vacate today. To that end, no perspective is more relevant than that of the recent graduate. To learn more about the UBEAA, contact Bethany Mazur: [email protected], the UBEAA Board of Directors: [email protected], or visit our website at: engineering.buffalo.edu/ubeaa.

With best wishes on behalf of the University at Buffalo Engineering Alumni Association,

Kurt W.R. Bessel (BS AE 2008, MS ME 2009) President, University at Buffalo Engineering Alumni Association

Congratulations to the graduating class of 2016!

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