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