Class Notes Archives
July/August 2009 |
July/August 2004 Celeste Winant completed her physics PhD at Berkeley last May and is now a postdoc in neutrino and dark matter detection at LLNL (Livermore). Raj Sodhi joined PNI in Santa Rosa after several months consulting. He continues to play jazz: www.sonic.net/~sodhi. Raja Jindal is working on his tan at UC Santa Barbara. New homeowner Amy Koo joined Raychem Circuit Protection, Tyco Electronics. She was promoted after six months and now whips Asian warehouse operations into shape and streamlines planning processes. She vacationed in Brazil during Carnaval. Alex Backer is a scientist at Sandia National Labs and Caltech. He does research at the interface of cognition, biology, math, information and computation (www.its.caltech. edu/~alex) and spends his weekends kitesurfing, filmmaking, kayaking, camping or relaxing with his family. This January Nicole Wainwright and Jacob Loomis welcomed their baby daughter, Sage Kirin. Nicole is becoming a high school biology teacher through San Francisco State University and will start student-teaching in August. After seven years in Silicon Valley, Bryn Oh and family moved to LA. They are expecting their third child in June. James Choung is a campus staff minister with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at UC San Diego, and is pursuing his doctorate of ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary. He recently played guitar for 20,000 people (www.urbana.org). Stanley Thompson recently joined Squire, Sanders and Dempsey in LA. After restarting Encirq, a software startup in San Francisco, Brit Gould moved to Evanston, IL, and entered an MBA/MEM (engineering management) program at Kellogg. Shalini Verma and Rohit Gupta are enjoying swing dancing, exploring restaurants, and spending time with family in Chicago. Shalini is launching North American operations for Sun's Global Remanufacturing business and is the executive director of Indus Women Leaders (www.induswomenleaders.org). Rohit, an emergency medicine attending at the University of Chicago, will be writing a book on emergency medicine. Jose Sia graduated from George Washington University, (MS?systems engineering concentrating in operations research), and is pursuing a master's in design for product design from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Joyce Espiritu Beebe is in intellectual property management and the Technical Services laboratory at Federal-Mogul Systems Protection Group. She and husband Scott are enjoying daughter Natalie. Matt Knapp moved to Colorado to join the Aviation Technology Group as lead aerodynamicist on Javelin, www.avtechgroup.com. He and Gretchen Braham plan to marry this October. Manoj Bobby Wunnava married Niha Babu on Nov. 29, 2003, in Loveland, OH. Soo Lee Mulchandani, Shinya Fukud, Jennifer Brady, Tresa Vidayathil, and Abiyu Diro attended. Jeff Gonzales attended the January reception in Miami. Mark Story, PhD candidate at the University of Texas, married Haley Showman in October in Charlottesville, VA. Tim Derksen, Kimberly Mazzocco Hart, and Cat Preston were among the MIT attendees.(f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ markandhaley@sbcglobal.net/detail?. dir=/Wedding&.dnm=MIT+and+UT+friends.jpg) Tim Derksen, still at Teradyne, will marry Ann Yen '96 on July 17 in Leawood, KS. Alissa Whitney is class president at vet school at LSU. Her free time goes into home improvements. Tracy Back Embree and husband Kevin moved to Nashville. Tracy enjoys her sales job at Cummins, Fleetguard subsidiary. The couple has been spending beautiful weekends in their new boat. Masahiko Nagamiya left Valeo Lighting Systems in France for a position in the Tokyo office of Behr, a German automotive supplier. Though life was great in Paris, he and his wife are happy to be back in Japan. Luis Baerga finished residency in physiatry and will complete a fellowship in sports and spine medicine at the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation in June. Gail Denesvich started DenesV jewelry, www.denesv.com. L. Francesca Paik, holistic health counselor, is attending acupuncture school in NYC. Uday Jhunjhunwala spent last summer traveling the world. He is in NY working on a novel and doing private investing. Andrew Kraft is the vice president of events worldwide for Ryze.com, an online/offline business networking community. Erin Lavik joined Yale as an assistant professor in biomedical engineering. Her play, Galileo Walking Among the Stars, was read at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC. Michele Lombardi left BCG to join the FIAT Group to restructure their internal F&A service provider. His son, Alessandro, was born June 28. Alice Lin and Rob Pomponio welcomed Carter Hudson in August.
Jay Moore and Shirley Lin bought a house and are expecting their first child. Shirley is an assistant professor of chemistry at the Naval Academy, where flooding from Hurricane Isabel destroyed her lab. Jay is essentially a consultant in signals intelligence for the Office of Naval Research. Arvind Malhan focuses on IT and networking investments at New Enterprise Associates, an early-stage VC firm in Reston, VA. He and wife, Miho, vacationed in Delhi, Bangalore, and Goa, India. Todd Borzych is teaching and competing professionally in international style ballroom and Latin dances in Washington, DC. Krista Tibbs is a federal budget and performance analyst for the Executive Office of the President. Fouad Saad left Dean and Company last year to cofound the MENA Group, an economic development consultancy in DC dedicated to the Middle East and North Africa. In December, Fouad moved to Bahrain to join Stratum WLL, an investment advisory firm cofounded by Ahmed Alumran '97. He is now COO, working with Middle Eastern entrepreneurs and private equity investors to develop and structure regional innovative businesses. In 2002 Stacy Heen started her master's in international affairs at the Fletcher School (Tufts). She traveled extensively, including Iran and Cameroon, and is now planning to work in microfinance. Amber Dudley returned to Boston last fall for the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program. James Brooks is looking forward to completing LFM and returning to the working world. Carol Matsuzaki, in her sixth year as head coach of women's tennis and assistant professor of physical education at MIT, recently published a tennis instruction book, Tennis Fundamentals. She and partner Katy Quinn are planning a vacation to Ireland and Wimbledon this summer.
-Ranjini Srikantiah, secretary, 15 Mountain Ave, Westwood, NJ 07675; ranjini@alum.mit.edu. |
