Class Notes Archives
July/August 2009 |
June 2002 Hi Everyone, Oded Asherie <asherie@lse.ac.uk> is currently doing an MS in finance and economics at the London School of Economics. Sheryl Ott finished her tour as an Air Force instructor pilot at Sheppard AFB, TX, last year. Having recently completed an F-16 flying course, she is off to Osan AB, Korea, and plans to go to Spangdahlem AB, Germany, next year. Paulo Pereira and Leah Spencer were married October 13 in Manchester, NH. After honeymooning in San Miguel, Paulo and Leah returned to Billerica, MA, near Teloquent Communications, where Paulo has worked for seven years. During the wedding, Richad C. Davis was the honor attendant, and Sameera Iyengar '93 and Kim Stevenson SB '86, MCP '93 were in the wedding party. Richard started working on Simulink at Mathworks in Natick, MA, in October. He is looking forward to teaching 26 students about computer graphics for video games through the MIT high-school studies program. In August, Matthew Cutler married Kristin Davis at the Old North Church with a reception at Limbo, a restaurant/jazz lounge in Boston's Ladder District that he helped open. NetGenesis, the Web analytics company that Matt helped found in 1994, became part of the SPSS Customer- Centric Solutions division, and Matt is now vice president of corporate marketing. He is commuting to Chicago from Boston almost every week. He often sees many alums, induding Brad Pearson, and reports that seven out of eight members of the '95 DU class attended Dave Brandenburger's wedding. Iliana Fujimori completed her PhD in electrical engineering with Charlie Sodini at MIT (finally). After a two-week vacation in New Zealand and Australia, she joined the optical networking division at Silicon Laboratories in Nashua, NH. She and Dye-Zone Chen SM '98 are planning an August wedding. Scott Rhodes and Annie Fortunato Rhodes moved to North Andover, MA, in mid-November and delivered 7-pound, 17 1/2", Genevieve Grace on Dec. 20. After two sunny years at Stanford B-school, Raaj Chitaley is back to all his regular activities in Boston: working at BCG, living the in the South End, and going to the Blue Room and Last Drop. Jenn Long Steele is now director of information technology at a Boston law firm. So much for Course VII. On March 14 at 1:59 pm, The Venture Cafe: Secrets, Strategies, and Stories from America's High-Tech Entrepreneurs by Teresa Esser, will be published by Warner Business Books. Much of the action about high-tech entrepreneurship at MIT takes place at the Muddy Charles Pub. Visit: www.theventurecafe.com. Derek Cedillo and his wife, Nancy, had their fourth boy on Jan. 20. Derek is at GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati as a mission analyst for military programs. He also coaches Little League baseball, pee-wee football, youth soccer and an adult softball team. He is working with the local city government on its Web development and is helping to rejuvenate the city's business district. Nicole Gotti and Ed Hernandez are expecting their first baby in March. After Ed completes his MBA at Kellogg, the family will move to Minneapolis, MN, where he will be doing brand management for 3M. On Feb. 11 in Weston, MO, Amber Dudley Mazooji married Mohammad Mazooji and Giovanni Della-Libera attended the festivities. For lack of better things to do, Tarik Saleh is now at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, breaking things in possible exchange for a doctorate degree. Uday Jhunjhunwala is in New York working for Rho Ventures, a technology venture capital firm. Colin Page has been setting up and overseeing a coalition of approximately 200 employers and human resource and placement professionals who volunteered to provide assistance to people who either lost their job as a direct result of the Sept. 11 attack or were a surviving spouse of someone who died. After witnessing the events of Sept. 11 firsthand, Prashant B. Arce Doshi was publicly recognized and commended by his company's president for his help with relief efforts. The experience was tremendously profound and life-transforming, as it occurred almost exactly one year after the death of his wife, best friend, and soulmate, Lizette Arce Doshi. Prashant has written a white paper on how the private sector can play a role in homeland security, and is working on developing a model for more effective disaster assistance benefits delivery. He received corporate sponsorship for a nonprofit to streamline the efficiencies in the charitable giving market, and is further developing the concept. He plans to write a book on his personal experiences and reconciliation of science with spirituality, and is looking for publishers. Contact him if you are in the D.C./northern Virginia area <Prashant.Doshi@ams.com.> Michael Capalbo is doing his postdoc in theoretical computer science in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. If you are in the area, send him an e-mail <mrc@ias.edu.> Carlos and Bonnie Kim Niederstrasser recently moved to Virginia and are both at Orbital Sciences Corporation where Bonnie has transferred into the systems engineering group. They vacationed in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula for two weeks last September, where they both became certified Scuba divers. They are interested in recommendations for future Scuba trips. Carrie Miller quit her job with an Enron-tainted startup and is deciding between job offers. Between planning a wedding for June 1 and having recently completed the whole job-search thing, she is mostly wishing that she could just take a nap and wake up on her honeymoon. After selling out so much that Amazon.Man shipped her off to London for a year, Rebecca Leonardson quit, ran across Spain singing karaoke duets with German ex-patriots, ending up in an Oakland love hovel with Eddie W. Kohler. Soon Chelle Gentemann and Celeste Winant were walking in on them. In the end, Rebecca set off to serve her country counting fish in Americorps, leaving Eddie with their boy Max, who should be starting MIT in the fall of 2019. After celebrating his PhD by traveling for six months throughout Europe, Mexico, and southern California, Victor Holmes has returned to his lab at UC Berkeley (for better pay) to clean up scientific loose ends and find a new job in environmental science or bioremediation. In the meantime, he is biking about 50 miles a week and playing lots of ultimate frisbee. Raja Jindal is pursuing a PhD at beautiful UCSB and can be reached at <jindal@alum.mit.edu.> Vadim Khayms is currently living in Santa Clara, CA, working as a spacecraft propulsion engineer at Lockheed Martin and teaching at Stanford University. In January, after finishing her PhD in astronomy at the University of Florida, Elizabeth (Beth) Holmes said goodbye to alligators in the swamp and moved to sunny, refreshingly dry Pasadena to start her postdoc at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Nicole Wainwright (currently enjoying the San Francisco bay area) and Jake Loomis '94 will be getting married in Wimer, OR, on June 22, 2002. After finishing his PhD at Stanford and postdocing at Berkeley, Christopher Barrington-Leigh has interrupted his research career in space physics and is living in Teton National Park, reading lots and preparing to battle the "profound dehumanization and systemic banalization of civilization,"or corporate globalization -Ranjini Srikantiah, ranjini@alum.mit.edu. |