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S C H O O L O F E N G I N E E R I N G A N D A P P L I E D S C I E N C E S

C O M M E N C E M E N T

Saturday

May 14, 2016

2:00 pm

Alumni Arena

North Campus

One Hundred Seventieth

Liesl FolksDean

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An internationally distinguished researcher and higher education leader, Satish K. Tripathi, PhD, was appointed the 15thpresident 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 ofCalifornia-Riverside from 1997-2004. Previously, he spent 19 years as professor of computer science at the University ofMaryland, 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 sciencefrom the University of Toronto, as well as three master’s degrees—one in computer science from the University of Torontoand two in statistics from the University of Alberta and Banaras Hindu University. A fellow of the IEEE and the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Indian Institute ofInformation Technology, Allahabad.

An active leader in the national higher education community, Tripathi serves on the boards of the Association of AmericanUniversities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, andthe 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 DevelopmentCouncil.

Satish K. TripathiUniversity President

Presiding Officials

Liesl Folks, PhD, MBA, dean of UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is an internationally recognized expertin nanotechnology and magnetism. She holds 12 U.S. patents and is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed technicalpublications. 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 mandatedpanel 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 thePreK-12 level, to her role in launching a magnetics summer school program through the IEEE, which provides summerstudy opportunities each year to nearly 100 graduate students from around the world. In 2013, Folks was recognized forher mentorship of science and engineering students with the national AVS Excellence in Leadership Award.

Prior to arriving at UB in January of 2012, Folks worked for more than nine years at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,a hard disk drive company in San Jose, California. Before that, she worked at IBM Almaden Research Center, also in SanJose, for six years.

A native of Australia, Folks earned a BSc (1989) and a PhD (1994), both in physics, from The University of WesternAustralia in Perth, where she subsequently worked as a research fellow. She also holds an MBA from Cornell University(2004).

Liesl FolksDean of the School ofEngineering and AppliedSciences

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Recognition of Chancellor’s Awards for Student ExcellenceLiesl Folks

RemarksSatish K. TripathiPresident, University at Buffalo

Conferring of DegreesSatish K. Tripathi

Alma Mater - Lyrics on page 27Taryn DarnellMusic in PerformanceBuffalo Brass Quintet

Closing DeclarationA. Scott Weber

*RecessionalBuffalo Brass QuintetProcession from Aidaby Giuseppe Verdi

*Audience will remain seated during the Processional and Recessional.

Departmental ReceptionsYou are invited to receptions immediately following the commencement ceremony.

• Chemical and Biological Engineering: Student Union Flag Room, on the second floor

• Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering: first floor of Davis Hall

• Computer Science and Engineering: Student Union, room 210

• Electrical Engineering: Salvadore Lounge on the second floor of Davis Hall

• Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and SystemsEngineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering:Student Union, room 145

Wheelchair seating is available at both the front right and leftside of the arena. A signer is present at the right front of thearena. Please see an usher for assistance.

Telephones and restrooms are available on all three levels.

Prelude

*ProcessionalBuffalo Brass QuintetPomp and Circumstanceby Sir Edward Elgar

Mace BearerA. Scott WeberSenior Vice Provost for AcademicAffairs, University at Buffalo

Banner CarrierKatherine CzerniejewskiCandidate for BS in Biomedical Engineering, BA in Mathematics

HeraldJeffrey R. ErringtonAssociate Dean for Undergraduate Education, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Opening DeclarationA. Scott Weber

National AnthemKristen SmigielskiMusic in PerformanceBuffalo Brass Quintet

Student SalutationSarah Jo CrottsCandidate for MS in Biomedical Engineering

WelcomeLiesl FolksDean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Presentation of Dean’s Award forAchievementLiesl Folks

Student AddressCharles JonesCandidate for PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering

Program

The mace is part of the medievaltraditions of the university. It wasoriginally a weapon used to protectkings, and then by 1200 becamemore and more a symbol ofauthority.

The UB mace is designed to tell thestory of UB and the NiagaraFrontier. Fashioned by silversmithHudson Roysher of Arcadia, Calif.,it was used for the first time in1962. Engraved atop a miniaturewalled structure representing theCity of Buffalo are three arrowsbound together, symbolizing theunity of UB and the city.

Other details include symbolicrepresentations of the discovery ofLake Erie in 1669 by Joliet andearly explorations by LaSalle. Acrest symbolizes UB’s role as adynamic center of human growthand welfare. The motto “Universityand City Community” is lettered inLatin around the knob of the shaft.

The UB Mace

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Program Notes

School's Platform PartyLuke AdamsVice President, UB Engineering andApplied Sciences Alumni Association

Stelios AndreadisChair, Chemical and BiologicalEngineering

Stella N. BatalamaChair, Electrical Engineering

Kurt BesselPresident, UB Engineering andApplied Sciences Alumni Association

Ann M. BisantzChair, Industrial and SystemsEngineering

Gary F. DargushAssociate Dean for Research andGraduate Education, School ofEngineering and Applied Sciences

Jeffrey R. ErringtonAssociate Dean for UndergraduateEducation, School of Engineering andApplied Sciences

Liesl FolksDean, School of Engineering andApplied Sciences

Venugopal GovindarajuSUNY Distinguished ProfessorVice President For Research andEconomic Development

Kemper E. LewisChair, Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Chunming QiaoChair, Computer Science andEngineering

Albert H. TitusChair, Biomedical Engineering

Satish K. TripathiPresident, University at Buffalo

A. Scott WeberSenior Vice Provost for AcademicAffairs, University at Buffalo

Andrew S. WhittakerChair, Civil, Structural andEnvironmental Engineering

Commencement CoordinatorChristine A. HumanAssociate Dean for Accreditation and Student Affairs

HeraldJeffrey R. ErringtonChemical and Biological Engineering

ReadersKarthik DantuComputer Science and Engineering

Andrew T. OlewnikMechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Kris D. SchindlerComputer Science and Engineering

Mettupalayam V. SivaselvanCivil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Lead MarshalsIgor JankovicCivil, Structural and EnvironmentalEngineering

Jennifer L. ZirnheldElectrical Engineering

MarshalsPaschalis AlexandridisChemical and Biological Engineering

Carl AlphonceComputer Science and Engineering

Jason N. ArmstrongMechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Matthew L. BoltonIndustrial and Systems Engineering

Kevin M. BurkeElectrical Engineering

Kerry Collins-GrossAssistant Dean, Office ofUndergraduate Education

John HallMechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Ciprian N. IonitaBiomedical Engineering

James N. JensenCivil, Structural and EnvironmentalEngineering

Venkat KroviMechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Michael LangbergElectrical Engineering

Hui MengMechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Teresa MiklitschSenior Adviser, Office ofUndergraduate Education

Chase C. MurrayIndustrial and Systems Engineering

Johannes M. NitscheChemical and Biological Engineering

Pinar OkumusCivil, Structural and EnvironmentalEngineering

Natesh ParashuramaChemical and Biological Engineering

Matthew J. RinguetteMechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Debanjan SarkarBiomedical Engineering

Jongmin ShimCivil, Structural and Environmental

Ramalingam SridharComputer Science and Engineering

Robert C. WetherholdMechanical and AerospaceEngineering

Yun WuBiomedical Engineering

Jinhui XuComputer Science and Engineering

Ruogang ZhaoBiomedical Engineering

Chi ZhouIndustrial and Systems Engineering

Jun ZhuangIndustrial and Systems Engineering

SEAS Support StaffSusan CasucciKathryn M. DoranJames FriedmanJane Stoyle Welch

Buffalo Brass QuintetLarry EasterTrumpetKarl KroetschTrumpetDan WittmerFrench HornPhil SimsTromboneCraig HodnettTuba

UshersWe acknowledge the assistance of our students and staff.

School of Engineering and Applied SciencesDean's Advisory CouncilMichael J. Cadigan*, ChairGeneral Manager, IBMMicroelectronics, Systems andTechnology Group

Patrick F. Abrami*Consultant

Russell L. Agrusa*Founder, President and CEO,ICONICS, Inc.

Ron Benczkowski*Vice President-Engineering, Moog,Inc., Space and Defense Group

Dennis W. Elsenbeck*Regional Executive, National GridUpstate NY – West, Community andCustomer Management

Joseph V. Fritz*Chief Executive Officer, DentNeurologic Institute

George L. GrobeVice President R&D, Vision Care andSurgical Products at ValeantPharmaceuticals

Cynthia A. Hoover*Director, Adsorption R&D, Praxair

Kenneth A. Kota*Sr. VP, Business Development &Technology, Cobham Mission Systems

Hratch Kouyoumdjian*Founder, President and CEO, TheKPA Group

Maria C. Lehman*Interim Director of Maintenance &Operations, New York State ThruwayAuthority

Student OrganizationsAir and Waste Management AssociationMaryKate Mooney, President

American Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsTyler Szczesniak, President

American Institute of ChemicalEngineersRobert Pettitt, President

American Society of Civil EngineersJane Van Der Karr, President

American Society of MechanicalEngineersMarawan Kenawi, President

Arab American Association of Engineers and ArchitectsMohammed Saleh Al Obahy, President

Association for Computing MachineryMargaret Arnold, President

Biomedical Engineering GSAElise Martin, President

Biomedical Engineering SocietyMax Simon, President

Chemical and Biological Eng. GSAAndrew Kroetsch, President

Chi EpsilonAlexander Stephani, President

Civil Engineering GSATimothy Van Oss, President

Computer Science and Eng. GSAYunfei Hou, President

Earthquake Engineering ResearchInstitute GSABasit Qayyum, President

Electrical Engineering GSAYanshu Li, President

EmergeJoseph Degolia, Editor

Engineers for a Sustainable WorldConnor Brown, President

Engineering Student AssociationBrianne Stasiak, Engineering ClubsCoordinator

Industrial Engineering GSAHernan Caceres, President

Human Factors and EngineeringSocietyAdam Houser, President

Institute for Electrical and ElectronicEngineersDavid Kishlar, President

Institute of Electrical and ElectronicEngineering Robotics and AutomationSocietyMark Tomaszewski, President

Institute for Operations Research andthe Management of ScienceHernan Caceres, President

Institute of Industrial EngineersMelina Guida, President

Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringGSAMark Tomaszewski, President

National Society of Black EngineersNolan Foster, President

New York Water EnvironmentAssociationWiktor Tomkiewicz, President

o-STEMAnna Smith, President

ScientistaSravanika Doddi and Wenxuan Shi,Co-Directors

Society of Automotive EngineersSpencer Heyden, President

Society of Hispanic ProfessionalEngineersKevin Carpio, President

Society of Women EngineersLaura Devine, President

Students for the Exploration andDevelopment of SpaceDaniel Miller, President

Tau Beta PiKatherine Czerniejewski, President

Theta Tau/Gamma Delta EpsilonDwight Robinson, Regent

UB Computational Sciences ClubMohammad Atif Faiz Afzal, President

UB Design ClubZachary Janish, President

UB NanosatSeamus Lombardo, Program Manager

UB RoboticsLiam Flynn, President

UB Society of Asian Engineers andScientistsRicky Banh, President

UB Space BullsKyle Thompson, Team Lead

Susan R. NowickiDirector of Engineering, NorthropGrumman Amherst Systems

John V. Pilitsis*Co-founder, President and CEO(retired 2006), Cyoptics, Inc.

Frank J. Puskar*Founder and Senior Consultant,Energo Engineering, a KBRsubsidiary

John R. Pustulka*President and Director, National FuelGas Supply Corporation

Michael SinicropiExecutive Director, Safety andEngineering Services, Praxair

Stephen E. Still*Founder and Managing Director,Seabury Airline Planning Group,LLC

Robert Tom*Senior Director Product Engineering,Fisher-Price

James F. Van Oss*Engineering Manager, SpacecraftFluid Controls, Moog Inc.

Ann Wegrzyn*Vice President, National Fuel Gas

*School alumna/alumnus

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Dean’s Award for Achievement

Each year, the School of Engineering andApplied Sciences (SEAS) gives its highest honor,the Dean’s Award for Achievement, to someonewho has made a substantial contribution to thepractice of engineering or the applied sciencesand/or has had an exceptional professionalcareer. This year, it is with great pleasure that theschool honors Norman Hayes (BS EE ‘80, BA CS‘80). Hayes is a Director of Engineering inAISCs, and a Computer Architect.

As a Buffalo area native, Hayes was co-valedictorian at Sweet Home Senior High School(Amherst NY) in 1977. Just three years later, he

received a double degree from UB with a Bachelor of Science in ElectricalEngineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science. Hayes continued hiseducation at Cornell University, earning his master’s in Electrical Engineering in1981, on a Bell Laboratories scholarship.

After completing his formal education, Hayes has made substantial technicaland leadership contributions to three pioneering companies. The first wasAT&T Bell Laboratories, a leader in world class R&D that invented the transistor,laser, and Unix. There he developed designs and technologies for some of theworld’s earliest 32-bit microprocessors. He joined his first startup, SunMicrosystems, in 1988. At Sun, Hayes developed ground-breakingmicroprocessor memory management and cache architectures which scaled

from desktop workstations to Sun’s largest packet-switched MP servers. Thesearchitectures continued through many generations, which eventually made miniand mainframe computers obsolete. He joined Juniper Networks as a startup in2000, where he served as a Director of ASIC Engineering on several generationsof networking chipsets, whose top interface speeds advanced from 2.5 Gbps to400 Gbps during his tenure.

Hayes recognizes the role his UB education and experience had in preparing himfor a rewarding and successful career. “UB gave me a solid, broad foundation ofhow to solve real world problems. UB’s faculty and leaders provided greatpersonal examples of teamwork, creativity, and loving what you do.”

Since his graduation from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,Hayes has always been an enthusiastic alumnus. In 1995, he was delighted tobecome a charter member of the Delta Society, the school's leadership annualgiving society, and attended UB’s inaugural homecoming football game (a 14-7win over Cornell) in President Greiner’s box. More recently, an engineeringlaboratory was named after Hayes in Davis Hall. In 2012, he was namedChairman of the Delta Society.

Outside of his professional career, Hayes plays ice hockey and tennis, and enjoysphotography and the arts. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wifeJacqueline; their daughter Elena is a junior at UC Davis studying ManagementEconomics.

The University at Buffalo is honored to name Mr. Norman Hayes an alumnus ofgreat distinction, whose career achievements merit our highest regard.

Norman Hayes

Past Recipients of the Dean’s Award for Achievement

1978James W. McLernon, BS IE 1950, DocHL (Hon) 1998President, Volkswagen Manufacturing Corporation of America

1979Wilson Greatbatch, MS EE 1956, ScD (Hon) 1984President, Wilson Greatbatch, Limited

1980Paul E. Mohn Professor Emeritus and former DeanSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

1981James DeSerioPresident, DeSerio Engineers

1982Martin KasbohmDirector, Research and DevelopmentLinde Division, Union Carbide Corporation

1983Charles M. Fogel, BS PHY 1935Professor and Director of Industrial LiaisonSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

1984William C. Moog, Jr.Chairman and President, Moog, Incorporated

1985Howard E. Strauss, MS ME 1954Professor and Associate DeanSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

1986Gregory B. Jarvis, BS EE 1967, Awarded PosthumouslyHughes Aircraft CompanyNASA Payload Specialist

1987H. Robert LelandPresident, Calspan Corporation

1988Henry P. SemmelhackPresident, Barrister Information SystemsCorporation

1989Gerald D. AlbertsonVice-President, Linde Division, Union CarbideCorporation

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

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1990Ray W. JudsonPresident, The Parsons Corporation

1991Sol W. WellerFurnas Professor Emeritus School of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

1992Lee H. Runk, BS IE 1961President, Harvard Industries, Inc.

1993Irving H. ShamesDistinguished Teaching Professor EmeritusSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

1994Robert H. Goldsmith, BS ME 1951Chairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerExten Industries, Inc.

1995Hatim A. Tyabji, MS EE 1969, DocHL (Hon) 2001Chairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerVeriFone, Inc.

1996Anthony L. Russo, PhD ME 1969Executive DirectorCalspan-University at Buffalo Research Center (CUBRC)Vice PresidentCalspan Corporation's Advanced Technology Center

1997Calvin C. Chien, MS CIE 1970, PhD CIE 1974Environmental Fellow, DuPont Company

1998Hiroshi Morihara, PhD ME 1971Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PeninsulaLaboratories, Inc.President, Via Press, Inc.President, CGC, Inc.

1999Eli RuckensteinDistinguished ProfessorDepartment of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

John Zahorjan, PhD IE 1974Adjunct ProfessorDepartment of Industrial EngineeringSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

2000Erich Bloch, BS EE 1952, ScD (Hon) 1985Distinguished Fellow, Council on CompetitivenessPrincipal, Washington Advisory Group, LLC

2001Henry Stone, BS ME 1949Vice President, retired, General Electric

2002Lawrence L. Peckham, BS IE 1969Founder, LPA Associates

2003Hadi Makarechian, BS CIE 1972Chairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerCapital Pacific Holdings, Inc.

2004George C. LeeSamuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering and Dean EmeritusSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

2005Steven L. LernerSenior Vice President and Chief Technology OfficerPraxair

2006Douglas P. Taylor, BS ME 1971President, Taylor Devices, Inc.President, Tayco Developments, Inc.

2007Mark H. KarwanProfessor and Dean EmeritusSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesUniversity at Buffalo

2008Norman R. McCombs, BS ME 1968Senior Vice PresidentAirSep Corporation

2009Gina Bronkie Hammond, MS CS 1973Director, Computer Science Corporation's NorthAmerica Public Sector, Defense Division

2010Russell L. Agrusa, BS EE 1976Founder, President, and Chief Exective Officer ICONICS

2011Scott D. Stevens, PE, BS CIE 1979Founder and Chief Executive OfficerDimension Fabricators, Inc.

2012James P. Smist, BS CE 1980PresidentDean and Company

2013John R. “Jack” Davis, BS IE 1955Founder and OwnerI Squared R Element Company, Inc.

2014Stephen E. Still, BS CIE 1976Founder and Managing Director, Seabury AirlinePlanning Group, LLC

2015Krishna Kolluri, MS IE 1988General PartnerNew Enterprise Associates

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Mingcong Zhang of Amherst, N.Y., graduateswith a bachelor of science in computer science.Zhang has received multiple scholarships fromUB and the National Science Foundation,which are marks of his high academicachievement. He also has military serviceexperience, and was awarded the U.S. ArmyAchievement Medal. In 2015, Mingcongfounded Snowberg Inc., a technology startupcompany that has been recognized by the NewYork State governor and is sponsored by GoogleInc.Mingcong Zhang

Computer Science

Student Speakers

Sarah Jo Crotts of Alpharetta, Georgiagraduates with a MS in Biomedical Engineeringafter completing her undergraduate studies atAuburn University in 2015. Sarah Jo graduatedfrom Auburn University summa cum laudewith a degree in Biomedical Sciencesconcentrated in Pre-Medicine. After makingthe decision to further her education at theUniversity at Buffalo, she pursued research indesigning and building a reaching apparatusthrough AutoCAD and 3D printing. She plansto return to Atlanta, Georgia and pursue acareer in the biotechnology industry.

Sarah Jo CrottsBiomedical Engineering

SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence

Steven Coffed of Depew, N.Y., graduates with abachelor of science in mechanical andaerospace engineering. Coffed already hasnotable experience in the field; he spent twosummers interning at NASA’s Jet PropulsionLaboratory and a summer studying at France’sInstitut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et del’Espace. He served as president of UB’s chapterof Students for the Exploration andDevelopment of Space for the 2013-14academic year, and participated in two winterstudy abroad trips.

Timothy Van Oss of Buffalo, N.Y., graduateswith a master of science in civil engineering. Hewas a recipient of the Western New YorkProsperity Fellowship and plans to develop thenext generation of iconic structures in theBuffalo metropolitan area. As president of theCivil Engineering Graduate StudentAssociation, Van Oss represented UB studentsat international conferences, bringing back newperspectives that can be applied to local issues.He also served as a practitioner adviser for theUB Student Chapter of the American Society ofCivil Engineers where he mentored students onprofessionalism, budgeting, scheduling andleadership.

Steven J. CoffedMechanical and AerospaceEngineeringUniversity Honors CollegeScholar

Timothy J. Van OssCivil Engineering

Charles Jones of Bear Creek, N.C., graduateswith a Ph.D. in Chemical and BiologicalEngineering. Jones came to the University atBuffalo after graduating from North CarolinaState University in 2011, majoring in bothchemical & biomolecular engineering andbiochemistry. As a graduate student, Jonesauthored over 20 publications and generatedintellectual property that culminated in the co-founding of a company, Abcombi Biosciences,where he currently serves as the chief executiveofficer and oversees operational facilities inBuffalo and Toronto.

Charles JonesChemical and BiologicalEngineering

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Ross B. KenzieFrancis M. Letro* William J. Maggio Anthony B. Martino* Jean C. Powers*Vikki L. Pryor*Stephen H. Shepsman*Steven E. Still*Keith M. Stolzenburg* Satish K. Tripathi D. Scott N. WarmanMargaret W. Wong*

DirectorsGregory M. Bauer*Dianne Bennett*Sheldon M. BerlowHelen M. Cappuccino*Randall L. ClarkDaniel M. HamisterPaul J. HarderJudith B. Ittig*Jeremy M. Jacobs Jr.Jordan A. Levy*Gerard T. Mazurkiewicz*James W. McLernon*Murray S. Rosenthal*Ronald M. Schreiber*Eileen S. Silvers*Marjorie E. Winkler*

Emeritus TrusteesRandall I. Benderson*Lawrence P. CastellaniWilliam M.E. ClarksonEllen E. Grant*Mark E. HamisterJeremy M. Jacobs*Reginald B. Newman IIJohn N. Walsh III

Non Voting MembersMichael E. CainLaura E. HubbardNancy L. WellsCharles F. Zukoski

*University at Buffaloalumnus/alumna

H. Austin BoothUniversity Libraries

Stephen C. Dunnett*International Education

Robert GranfieldFaculty Affairs

Graham L. HammillGraduate Education

Lee H. MelvinEnrollment

Teresa A. MillerEquity and Inclusion

Andrew M. StottUndergraduate Education

Sean P. SullivanAcademic Planning

University atBuffaloFoundationOfficersFrancis M. Letro*Chairman

Gregory M. Bauer*Vice Chairman

Jean C. Powers* Secretary

Robert E. Denning*Treasurer

Edward P. Schneider*Executive Director

TrusteesRavinder K. BansalGary R. BichlerThomas E. Black Jr.*Wayne S. Blank*Robert E. Denning*Beverly Foit-Albert*Ashok G. Kaveeshwar* Kathie A. Keller

A. Scott WeberAcademic Affairs

Nancy L. WellsPhilanthropy and AlumniEngagement

DeansMichael E. CainJacobs School of Medicine andBiomedical Sciences

Liesl FolksSchool of Engineering andApplied Sciences

James A. GardnerLaw School (Interim)

Jaekyung LeeGraduate School of Education

Marsha L. LewisSchool of Nursing

James M. O’DonnellSchool of Pharmacy andPharmaceutical Sciences

E. Bruce PitmanCollege of Arts and Sciences

Robert G. ShibleySchool of Architecture andPlanning

Nancy J. SmythSchool of Social Work

Paul TeslukSchool of Management (Interim)

Jean Wactawski-WendeSchool of Public Health andHealth Professions

Joseph J. ZambonSchool of Dental Medicine(Interim)

Vice Provosts and SeniorAcademic AdministrationA. Scott WeberSenior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Emeritus MembersSheila H. BattleRoger I. BlackwellRandall L. ClarkFrank N. Cuomo*Edmond J. Gicewicz*Gerald S. Lippes*Mary E. RandolphRose H. Sconiers*John N. Walsh III

University atBuffaloOfficersSatish K. TripathiPresident

Charles F. ZukoskiProvost and Executive VicePresident for AcademicAffairs

Vice Presidents andCabinet MembersJ. Brice BibleChief Information Officer

Dennis R. Black*University Life and Services

Michael E. CainHealth Sciences

Beth Del Genio*Chief of Staff to the President

Venugopal Govindaraju*Research and EconomicDevelopment

Allen GreeneAthletics

Laura E. HubbardFinance and Administration

Teresa A. MillerEquity and Inclusion

Nancy E. PatonUniversity Communications

The StateUniversityof New YorkBoard of TrusteesH. Carl McCallChairman

Joseph W. Belluck* Byron W. BrownEric Corngold Henrick N. Dullea Ronald G. Ehrenberg Angelo M. FattaPeter L.K. KnuepferEunice A. Lewin*Marshall A. Lichtman*Stanley S. Litow Thomas MastroRichard SocaridesCarl SpielvogelCary F. StallerNina TamrowskiLawrence Waldman

System AdministrationNancy L. ZimpherChancellor

Alexander N. CartwrightProvost and Executive ViceChancellor

University atBuffalo CouncilJeremy M. Jacobs*Chairman

Mark J. Czarnecki*Vice Chairman

Robert T. BradyMichael W. Cropp*Jonathan A. Dandes*Scott E. FriedmanPamela Davis Heilman*June Williams Hoeflich*Melissa KathanChristopher H. Koch

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Candidatesfor DegreesSubject to the completion of all degree requirements, degrees will be conferred as indicated upon those individuals listed herein who were identified byApril 5, 2016, and upon such others as may meet the requirements of their respective degrees. Candidates are listed according to actual date of degreeconferral (September 2015; February 2016; and June 2016). Degree recipients will come forward to be congratulated during the commencementceremony. In the following lists, candidates for a double major (a degree emcompassing two majors), are denoted by an asterisk (*). Candidates for adouble degree (the award of two distinct degrees completed concurrently), are denoted by two asterisks (**). Candidates for a double major and a doubledegree 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.

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University Latin HonorsLatin Honors are granted to graduating seniors who have completed atleast 60 undergraduate credits at UB, of which at least 54 credit hours aregraded, and to those who have earned grade point averages, as follows:

§ Cum Laude - at least 3.20, to 3.499

‡ Magna Cum Laude - at least 3.50, to 3.749

† Summa Cum Laude - 3.75 or more

This list is based on courses taken through the Fall 2014 semester.Students may wear a gold cord.

Honor SocietyTBP: Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society representing theentire engineering profession. Students may wear a white stole.

The Gold StoleThe gold stole was received by students who are University HonorsCollege graduates.

Delta Alpha Pi Delta Alpha Pi is an international academic honor society forcollege/university students with disabilities. Graduating membersreceived a blue and gold cord.

Non-Academic, University-Wide Recognition Items

The Kente Stole The kente stole was received by students who participated in UB’sALANA Celebration of Achievement which historically has honoredgraduating African, Latino/a, Asian, and Native American students.

The Rainbow Tassel The rainbow tassel was received by students who participated in theLavender Reception, celebrating achievements of graduating studentswho identify with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer(LGBTQ) community at UB.

The Red, White and Blue Cord The red, white and blue cord is being worn by graduating UB studentswho are reservists, members of the National Guard, newlycommissioned officers from our ROTC program or veterans of theUnited States armed forces.

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BaccalaureateDegrees

Folaranmi Rachael Fakayode *Jason Aidan Feuer ◊Jonathan FountainBartlomiej Piotr GadekJake Richard Gemerek † *Frank Carmen Paul Genovese § *Tyler Gifford *Ben Gigone § *Shannon Ruth Griffin § *Mordechai Nachshon Haberman *Andrew Thomas Harris † TBPAlexander Peter Hathaway *Spencer Theodore Heyden § *Thomas Andrew Hoolahan § *Bercely Hurtado Otalora † TBP *Corinne A. Hutchinson † *Dale Jason Kawa *Rachel Elizabeth Keil † *Razmik Khachatryan § *Muhammad Addil Khan *Alexander J. Kolarich §Juncelucan Lagda *Martin Alexander Leff ‡ *Christopher James LewWilliam Porter Stuart Mackay ‡Nicholas Patrick McCasey † *John Paul Mcwhinnie § *George A. Melero *Jennifer Rose Merckel *Luke Joseph Miller §Anthony Montero ◊Elizabeth Moon § *Parthivi Narang *Corey Max Needle † *Brandon John Nunes ‡ *Ifechukwu Ambrose Ononye §Justin Brian OrtJoseph Tyler Pace § *Subin Park §Andrew Pennachi † *Harry A. PerezJack L. Pilie *David Benjamin Ritter § ◊Louis Anthony Rizzo § TBP *Leonardo Alberto Daniel Rodriguez Leon ‡

Benjamin Alexander Rothstein ‡

Caleb J. Saathoff § *Abigail Lynne SheeleyTyler John Szczesniak § *Colin Trinh ‡ *Conor Westphal § **Aaron WixnerRei Yoshinaga §

Bachelor of Science inBiomedical Engineering

September 2015Nalini Gadkary †Chien Sing Poon § *

June 2016Anandita Ananthakumar ‡John Aidan Armstrong ‡Jash Bhayani † TBPNichole Bozyk §Richard Patrick Brooks †Maninderpal Singh Cheema ‡Andrea Roma Ciolko †Nicholas Michael Cocilova ‡Justin Ryan CohenKatherine Ann Czerniejewski † TBP **

Siddhartha DhimanMaury E. FieldsJonathan William Folmsbee §Brandon Gerald Ginley ‡Shima Habibollahzadeh §Brian James Hagan ‡Kent Stephen HarveyRyan Bolton HubbellWan Yin KamMichelle Karker † TBP **Aaron KennedyVinh KhaAlicia Christine Knauf §Connor Charles LeekRachel Su Ann Lim § **Cuiyan Kate Lin † TBPBrendon Robert Lutnick † TBPJoseph Steven MangoSean Martin † TBPKimberley Fairliancy McGarrity §Sarah Jean McKinley ‡

Mudita MishraVienna Laura MottEric Micheal MrukRyan Patrick O'Hara † TBPAdam Kevin Oetinger §Khyati Champakkumar PandyaMark A. Prytyskach §Wesley Emile Rivais §Lauren Valerie Roberts † TBPRichard Joseph Savino §Thomas Matthew SavoldyNicolette Marie Scerra ‡ TBPEvan William Shaw †Daniel W. ShinMax Andrew Simon ‡ TBPClaire Irene Sucharski §Andrey Vasily Svintozelsky ‡Ryan Paul Therrien §An Van Tran ‡Dean Edward Venturin II §Melissa Ann WardNicole Kathleen Wawrzyniak † TBPKunyu Wu

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

September 2015Wei Yang ChyeJames KimQibiao Weng

February 2016Azza Ahmed HosnyJoseph Anthony Manso §Jun Hui Yeoh

June 2016Chin Fong AngSo Mi BaekAnanthan BalachandranJoshua David BarraEnzo Corey Benfanti †Max Julius Braun ‡Darwin Chen †Jenny Chen ‡Po-Han ChenYiran Chen

Recommending Candidatesfor Degrees

Liesl Folks Dean

Bachelor of Science inAerospace Engineering

September 2015Charles Raymond Moon Jr. *Gino Lee Nadela *M. H. Priyanta Siri Sumana Siri *Steven Christopher Scott Sutton § *

February 2016Quinn Alan Adair *Dale Baran § *Jason Ming Chan *Jacob R. Conrad *Daniel Thomas Gardner *Adam Les Hammond § *Tyler Stephen HardenbrookLucius James Jones III *Mitchell Edward Maziarz § *Matthew Thomas Nesper † *Alexander P. O'Brien § *Kristian Sukaj § *Jack Wong *

June 2016Muhammad Nur Ariff Bin Abdul Razak § *

Amadeus Antonio Astacio *Kevin Vincent Ausanio *Jesse Salomon Bauer *Ajit Bhat *Reimon BhuyanConnor Nicholas Bracy *Kevin Alexis Carpio ‡Jeremy Robert Chapman † TBP *Megan Elizabeth Cheney § *Steven J. Coffed † *Katherine Rose Coley ‡ *Nicholas Andrew ColonPeter Joseph Corrao § *Nicholas Patrick Davidson †Peter Davis ‡ ◊

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Michael Tong *Qinqin Xiao ‡Mohammed Sami Ahmed Zaid § TBP

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

September 2015Idris Erdem BostanRyan Matthew Brezi Sr. ‡Hsien Han ChanXilin ChenEngin CirakChristopher P. Radjie Etienne §Fabrice EtienneMusab EyyupkocaVolkan GenelYunus Gorenoglu §Aslan Vecdi IlhanKenan KarakusSyed Adnan LahoriJohn Bernard Martz Jr. Coletha Nyangoma Peter KatishaMulima §

Ufuk MunganAli Cem OzkokAndrew Tongchareon ParagasOnur TurkmenSamet Gokberk UgurluYeng Kit YapMuhammed Yilmaz

February 2016Anthony James AsalaMarwan ElkhattabChristopher Robert HeissChamal Jeewantha HettigamaJustin HwangChristian Mark JacobsKristina LochanAndrew Lapchi Lui § *Eric John MauroMackenzie Elizabeth PayneTarik RaminiJoshua Edward Schmid † TBPJonathan Sungbum ShinMehmet Emin UnverJustin Matthew Woodruff

June 2016Erick R. Bach §Maxwell Joseph Barone

John Michael Billittier Jr. ‡Nicholas Andrew Blake †Brendan BrethelRyan Edward BurnsSuad CakarAndrew David CalkinsZulal CebeciXiaoke ChenYu Hua Cheok §Elizabeth Mariah Clark ‡Nolan ColucciChristopher DaltonGustavo Flavio De Andrade §Alper DemirbagBurak DeveliogluOnder EksiOnur ErdincNeil Elliott Ferguson ‡Christopher Michael FritzlShawn Xiangdong Gao **Tyler Garrity ‡Benjamin Jules Genco §Suyeta GriffinSamuel James Hansen ‡ TBPMark Daniel Hare §Mitchell Hares †Jessica Ann Marie HarmsGino HuamanCheuk Wing Hung §Rosemarie D. HvischMatthew Len ItzlerAdrian IvceJohn Philip Kennedy Jr. Cetin Kilic § TBPYeow Seng KohRoger William LaistnerAbel Cinzam LamkaiRaymond Scott Langill IIJonathan Michael LinfieldAndrew Joseph Machaby ‡Mark James Mahan Jr. Junaid Ashfaq MalikSana MdallelFatjon Zija MecorapajJennifer Rose Merckel *Sean Kerry Murphy ‡Joshua Thomas Myers **Nicholas Andrew MyersWil Hans Nagengast †Martin NgMaisha Noshin

Ryan Stephen O'Malley §Michael Paul OlszewskiCarley Elizabeth ParkerKadir Burak PelekMichael Carmelo PietrantoniSteven Matthew RahnAriel Lindsey Regnier §Jakub RybickiSamet SaglamMohammed Ahmed Saleh Al ObahyAshley Sciandra † TBPBerkant SenolJianhua Shao § **Andrei ShatalovAlexandra Sheng §Daniel Flagg Smith †Cody J. StandingerBrianne Melissa Stasiak §Conor Lawrence StuckiZeynep Sunay *Wey Sherng TanIfeoluwa Tayo - AremuShawn Adam Tennity †Mary Beth Toukatly ‡Jane Sydney Van Der Karr §Vitaliy VysochanskyyEvan Eric Weitz §George Whitney Welsted Jr. Kyle WinthersAndrew McKay WishmanSeth Wittlinger §Jun Xie TBPJackie YeYener YunusogluNicholas Lawrence Zeglen §

Bachelor of Science inComputer Engineering

September 2015Ashaab AlamKeith E. BaranSatyam MehtaRobert M. Szymanski

February 2016Chern Yee Chua †Daniel Lee FischerJohn Joseph Kuhn III §Andrew J. Westcott

June 2016Arunan Bala Krishnan

Brandon L. ChinKimberlyn Marie Comstock †Jeffrey DengRicky Singh DundiDana Michele Havas †Ken He ‡Keira HenryJay William HidyChristopher Seamus HoganNathan Alan Homka §Thomas Anthony Hughes † TBPTony Huynh §Vivian Huynh ‡Se Won JeonWeiguang Jia §Hunter Fredric Jones §William Ross Kellogg †Stephanie Mabel Kong † **Gary Lambert Jr. Andrew Richard Lane §Jessica Faye Lee §Sukrim LeeSharon Lin † TBPShaquille LouisTyler John Lucci †Daniel Lawrence Matera †Alexandra Mary Matzan ‡ TBPAustin James Mermell §Kevin David MilneMadison G. MintzSian Ho NgEmmanuel NsengiyumvaJosuenny O'DonnellHannah Marie Osgood ‡ TBPHengyu PanWen Sheen PangDon Salinda Prasanjith Pathirage **Mikhail PechaginRobert William PettittMohammed W. Rahman §Michael Joseph ReinhardtAna Gabriela Santandreu §Laura Saunders ‡Joseph R. SchedaEthan Andrew Schrodt §Keelan Matthew SchwabZaid Shogan §Jae Ho SonCatherine Danielle SponnJacob Guy Thompson


Andrew Dennison Booth † TBPNicholas Anthony Cellino †Ava Chai § *Yi Chen §Woosuk ChoiWilliam Joseph Clark ‡Robert Alphonso DeBortoli † TBPSameep Dhawan *Kevin Liam Duggan ‡Zachary Benjamin EsmaelzadaMichael Robert Ferris ‡Nolan Foster §Korben Michael Rome Grover ‡ *Matthew Thomas HowardKai Hsiang HsuZhenrong Huang †Nathaniel Dean Hutchings ‡Wendy Jansson ‡ TBPSeth Michael Karas †Seongsu Kim §James Andre LaCourAli MahmoudShawn Malcolm Milligan ‡Joseph Alan PeacockMitchell Rathbun †Jacob Michael RutowskiThomas Jeremy Schouten †Robert ShannonKayleigh Jane SiejakEthan Michael Vane †Matthew Yves WinnickBao XuLeDong Yang §

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

September 2015Michael Joseph McGuireThomas Matthew Mitchell † **

February 2016Christopher Richard CharlesDominessy

Kevin Trey GraziopleneMichael Paul HauptmanJonathan Changwoo OhMatthew J. Wozniak

June 2016Michael F. AliceaMatthew Chan §Patrick Chang §

Jake Christopher Duncan §Adam C. KuneckiKyoung Eun Park §Anika Sharma **

Bachelor of Science inComputer Science

September 2015Alexander Robert BuellChing Hua Anthony ChangRoy Young Jin JooColin Thomas LawsonJohnny LinAlexandra Marie MazzeiMatthew David O'ConnorOm PatelChristopher John Schnabel ‡

February 2016Matthew BalthropNathan Garrett Burgers ‡Yao Feng Chen ‡John Derrick CherryRaymond Chow ‡Kendra S. ClaiborneIan Michael Ford ‡Adam GarrettDong HanAlex Christopher Herdzik ‡Jimmy Zengwang HuangViolin Georgiev Iliev ‡Kunal JaiswalLiang Jia Jiang §Samina Aleen Khan ‡Jason Douglas Kromer §Ryan Joseph Kulkarni TBPMatthew James Lease §Simon LeeZeming Liu ‡Aarav Malik †Caleb Mcmahon-EaganJordan J. NohleGlen Edward NoworytaEmmanuel Obogbaimhe Jr. Benjamin Andrew Paine ‡Nancy RanaAlexander Thomas Rookey †Tamal RoyBenjamin Joseph Rueda ‡Rohan Madhukant ShahRyan Cooney Sicurella ‡

Andrew James Stohr §Tejas VyasKeenan Reed WannopAndrew Steven WillmsJackie XuLidan Xu †Mingcong Zhang ‡

June 2016Shiraz Ahmed Amin § *Ryan M. AnyiStephen C. BassBreckinridge Eliot Borges †Diana Nicole Boulden §Joshua Bueno †Jeremy Caldwell §Arthur Tiendin ChanChristopher Conloon ChanAndrew ChungDaniel Paul Clark ‡Daniel Thomas Conway † *Emmanuel Cott **Michael CzaplickiJialiang DuEric Lee Ernst ‡Martin William Fahy Daniel G. Filipski †Darryl ForconiMatthew James GillYongbo HaoHaoriwa †Calum Booker HenriDuy Xuan HoangGabriel David Scheib Holodak ‡Mengpei Hu ‡Jimmy Huang §Jarret Michael HutchisonKyle B. Jemmott §Amal Khandelwal †Jun Mo KimChristian Bernd KoehlerKevin KooBrynn Elyse KreilickNorbert LamChih-Chun Lee ‡Bobby LiJustin LiangWinnie LiangYong Keat LimShihong Lin §Wenhua Lin † **Todd Alan Lock §

Jack MaGela Malek PourMichael MastroMatthew G. McGovernNicholas John MckiernanSaurav MohapatraBryan Nip § *Gino Joseph NottoJihoon ParkRyan Michael PetersAndrew PlewakAaron PrestonJose David Puentes-OcampoShen QiAdam Sheldon RaetzAntonio RandazzoArjun RayIsaac Reath ‡Robert Thomas RymarczykHarrison K. ShihMark Christopher Simson †Patrick Smith §Christopher Adam SporskiWilliam Michael Spoth ‡ **Allen SuXingdi Tan §Junlin TangRahul TripathiHaider Atta TungChristopher Landon WilsonWilliam Matthew Winnie §Shuaisan YuVicky Zheng ‡

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

September 2015Robert AndersonSrdjan DragojevicAkeem Antonio FrancisJavone Gift ‡Saseen Reddy PunyalaChris Thomas Starling §

February 2016Oleksandr Nemesh §Michael Gregory ThomasJiang Yu ‡

June 2016Haissam Mahammat Adam IIINaved Akhter

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Michael James Nietfeld ‡Emran NurJared Michael O'Hara †Vincent Sabato Parisi †Reginald PierreAlexander Peter Puleio ‡Timothy Dwayne Ravel Jr. Qasim Raza ‡ TBPBoson Ruan §Jean Claude SantiusteCarly Ann Schulz ‡Dominic Pasquale Sciarrino †Derek ShumMatt Harris SingerArjun Singh †Maxim Dmitriy Solomonyuk §Matthew Lewis Spitzer ‡Nanthakumaaran Srikrishnan §Jianfeng Sun § **Edward K. Swinnich §Matthew J. SzmakBryce D. TarasMichael Tong *Dana Marie Voll † TBPKevin Joseph Weigel ‡Andrew Jason WojcinskiZesheng Xiao §Zujia Xu §Dongwei Yu ‡ **Zehai YuSyed Mohammad Zain † *Luke Michael Zakrajsek †Kyle John ZaludWei Zhang §Peng Hui Zhen §

Bachelor of Science inEngineering Physics

June 2016John Luke Maher ‡Victoria Riso †

Bachelor of Science inEnvironmental Engineering

September 2015Victor Okechukwu OdiliAlanna Olear §

Brock HoffmanThomas Charles MalloyBrett William Nolan ‡

June 2016Joseph Ignazio Acquisto §Leonard Arambam ‡Kevin Bartosiewicz ‡Rukasen BeyEmil Ashan Boyagoda ‡Brian ChenBryant Chen §Danielle Lorene Chevalier † TBPAkash ChoudharyDeedat Ahmed ChoudhuryDavid DesantiagoThomas Byron Fortman §Tyler B. HalsteadHokyoung Hwang §Peter HwangSu-Ryun Jeong ‡Anthony Thomas Lauria ‡Dong Youel LeeJoonghee Lee §Cash A. Mahoney §Duc Viet NguyenTarik OsmancevicMaurice John OttRashul PanwarAlison ParkMarvin Perez HernandezRobert Edwin Farquhar Purkiss † TBP

Zachary James Steever † TBPHenrick J. Tan §Harrison Joseph ThompsonSteven Anthony VillacisNathalie Morbey Winder ‡ TBPJillian Laurel YearkeRichard Thomas Young §

Bachelor of Science inMechanical Engineering

September 2015Lok Bahadur BaralJames Ross Brown Jr. Donald William CarterJodie-Ann Valencia Duquesnay


February 2016Cem AyanogluAndrew Lui § *Yeu Deck NguiAnna Lynn Szczepanski

June 2016Braden S. BelliveauDerrick Michael Burgess ‡Alyssa Nicole CarboneHayden ChanPhilip ChanHillary Monica Chiarella ‡Thomas Michael Cuff Jr. §William Thomas EmmertLuke GoetzChester Eric Hochreiter §Alexandra Marie Leader †Paul Austin LewandowskiJacob Michael LipsMubashar Nazar Malik §Amanda M. MurrayRichard Patrick MusticoJustin N. NgJulianna Marie PelellaAshley PomaskiAnthony Michael RamatMichael Reubens †Jonathan Maxwell RinkEdward James SchneiderZeynep Sunay *Anna Svirgun §Robert Sheridan SwickJoshua Michael VaccaroSteven WuTony Lufan YeWendi Zheng

Bachelor of Science inIndustrial Engineering

September 2015Brian Arthur BischoffDavid Mullen ‡ TBP **Jacob John Stefanon

February 2016John Philip Balzani †April Lyn Bouquard

Ismail AktasShiraz Ahmed Amin § *Nathan Anthony BaizeAndrew Scott BasistaQixun Cai §Ava Chai § *Xiangyang Chen ‡Jaehyun ChoiLing Yun Chou §Daniel Thomas Conway † *Samuel John Cook §Timothy Charles Coulter †Paulo DeMelo ‡Dale Scott Denny Jr. §Sameep Dhawan *Daniel Ryan Dye ‡Dillon Matthew Edmister §Lingjie Feng §William Dominick Filosi †Casey FraserDaniel Walter GlabDaniel Johann GoedekerMack Goodstein §Gabrielle Lei Gosset ‡ TBPKorben Michael Rome Grover ‡ TBP *

Conor James HixonAlex Michael Horn §James Scott Houlihan §Darnell JonesCraig William KaiserMatthew Stephen Kaiser §Seungwoo KimAndrew KimballDavid Robert Kishlar †Matthew Bryan Klimek §Vu Le §Jiawen Li ‡Zhulei Li §Hong Woon (Ryan) Lim §Bingyao Lin §Wing Lun Ma †Michael John Mahoney II §Dwight Reagen Ambrocio Mariano §Nathan Albert MingolelliKristina Sergeevna Monakhova †Andrew M. Morizio †Jason William Myrick


Sean Micheal FarleyEric Anthony JovenittiYi Jui Lee ‡Kevin LenardJames Anthony LombardoSophie Lynn Minas † ◊Charles Raymond Moon Jr. *Gino Lee Nadela *Gerardo RojanoSarmad Sardar Sabir Jr. Richard James SambucoAlberto SantiagoM. H. Priyanta Siri Sumana Siri *Steven Christopher Scott Sutton § *Sean Hong Siong Wong

February 2016Quinn Alan Adair *Dale Baran § *Nicholas BellocciJason Ming Chan *Jacob R. Conrad *Daniel Thomas Gardner *Ethan Michael George §Adam Les Hammond § *Danny HuangAndrew Philip HuntLucius James Jones III *Nicholas Ryan KierAnish Vir Arjun KumarAlaina MacheroneAnibal Felipe Martinez §Mitchell Edward Maziarz § *Chris Joseph MustacchioGregory Alex NagyMilton F. Naranjo §Matthew Thomas Nesper † *Alexander P. O'Brien § *Jianzhou QiBehzad RustemiJeffrey Scott §Raiyan Mohammed SirajKristian Sukaj § *Andrea Lee TrumpfhellerCornato Ron VellaJeffrey Scott VerrallCory John VickerdTimothy Martin Whetstone

Kameron Todd WittJack Wong *

June 2016Muhammad Nur Ariff Abdul Razak § *

Christopher W AhearnNurul Athirah Binti Ali Yusup §Edward Dua AmoakoLim Yih AngR. Jamie Asbach §Amadeus Antonio Astacio *Kevin Ausanio *Gregory Thomas AuyangKishen Kumar BalakrishnanRyan James BallJacob David BaranowskiJesse Salomon Bauer *Ryan David Beckinghausen §Raymond Edward Begiers Jr. Aishwarya Bhalchandra §Ajit Bhat *Michael Joseph Bill ‡Jeremy Ryan BossertConnor Nicholas Bracy *Connor David BrownThomas Leonard Brunacini ‡Samson Edmund CameronGianna Elizabeth Caprio §Jeremy Robert Chapman † *Daniel Gerard CheliusMegan Elizabeth Cheney § *Muyang ChengAmanda Karoline CinelliSteven James Coffed † TBP *Katherine Rose Coley ‡ *Kyle William CollinsDaniel Edward CorbettRyan Benjamin CoreyPeter Joseph Corrao § *Ian CummingsStefan Zbigniew Cwalina †Mohamad DaherKevin Andrew DaileyBrian Danson §Kevan Gianathan Darmawan ‡Peter Davis ‡ ◊Dominic Decicco

COMMENCEMENT 201616

CombinedDegreesRecommending Candidatesfor Degrees

Liesl Folks Dean

Bachelor of Science / Master ofScience in Computer Scienceand Engineering

February 2016Scott Florentino †Nathan Ronca ‡ *

June 2016Woodams R. ClarkJesse Daniel Freeman §Sunny Mistry ‡Mark Robert Starczewski Jr. § **Kun Yang

Bachelor of Science (CivilEngineering) / Master ofBusiness Administration

September 2015James Friedman

June 2016Matthew Cuciti

Bachelor of Science (IndustrialEngineering) / Master ofBusiness Administration

June 2016Fernando Galvan Rico §Michael L. Ronci ‡Michael James Stuber §

Bachelor of Science(Mechanical Engineering) /Master of BusinessAdministration

June 2016William Lloyd Bach §Raymond C. Chamberlin §Joseph Timothy Corcoran †Andrew Gerald Serwon §Christofilos Andrew Siderakis

Nicholas Del VecchioConnor Stratton DevineNicholas Colin DiPasqualeKristene Alecks Elia TBPSardar M. Elias §Filippo Esperanca Moreira Da SilvaFolaranmi Rachael Fakayode *James John Faran §Jason Aidan Feuer ◊Jordana Allyn FishMichael John Fitts §Liam FlynnLivio Forte IIIWilliam P. FrischJake Richard Gemerek † *Frank Carmen Paul Genovese § *Tyler Gifford *Ben Gigone § *John Richard GraffShannon Ruth Griffin § *Robert Louis Gucker IIIEthan GundlachDeniz Guven §Mordechai Nachshon Haberman *Alexander Peter Hathaway *Daniel Lance Henry-Small †Dylan Samuel HenschelSpencer Theodore Heyden § *Kyle Michael HinmanThomas Andrew Hoolahan § *Hongyu Hu §Adam Nicholas HubbardThomas Huber §Bercely Hurtado Otalora † *Corinne Hutchinson † *Zachary James IntrabartoloJunhung JangThomas Rogers JenkinsMatthew Dariusz Juskiewicz §Kollin KaletaDale Jason Kawa *Rachel Elizabeth Keil † *Razmik Khachatryan § *Muhammad Addil Khan *Brian William Kiel † TBPMichael Shane KirschenheiterBrendan Matthew KisselbackMarshall Stewart Klee † TBP

Lucas Christopher KowalczykDaniel Dean KromphardtPrashant KshitijJoshua Alexander Kuminski §Youngkwan KwakHenry Hin-Yuen Kwan ‡Juncelucan Lagda *Debrup Laha §Christopher Robert Landschoot §Cameron Michael LanphereJun Ki LeeYu Hsuan Lee † TBPMartin Alexander Leff ‡ *Levi Li §David Liang ‡ TBPYuxi LinZhi LinZhuo Nan Lin §William Wallace Marr †Nicholas Patrick McCasey † *John Paul McWhinnie § *George A. Melero *Mark Joseph MercerJames Joseph MetzgerMohamed Jafran Mohamed JiffryAnthony Montero ◊Elizabeth Suyuan Moon § *Brian James MorrisRamana NagasamudramParthivi Narang *Corey Max Needle † TBP *Alexander John Negri §Gavin Wesley NeillDaniel NewinsThomas Anthony NoonanBrandon John Nunes ‡ *Samuel OdulajaJoseph Frank Oliver §Greg David Ostaszewski §Joseph Tyler Pace § *Zach Andrew PauflerShankha Paul §Andrew Pennachi † *Jack L. Pilie *Brian Albert Pilski §Dennis Posheluk ‡Mark Joseph ReillyGarrett Michael Rice

David Benjamin Ritter § ◊Louis Anthony Rizzo § *Dwight Christopher StanleyRobinson Jr.

Trish Anne Deguia RoqueRobert Alan RoweCaleb J. Saathoff § *Jared SalisburyHarrison Jared SchafferRichard Kenneth SchlehrAdam SchultzZachary Gordon SeaverEmily Marie Senay ‡Aaron W. SimpkinsLeanne Marie SkrabaczBrian Smist †Kathryn Anne SodaroZachary Callan SpeedAlexander Steuerwald §Benjamin K. Stortz †Michael Patrick Sundermier ‡Talwinder Singh Swarn SinghJoseph Paul SzaboTyler John Szczesniak § *Daniel Ryan Szewczyk §Abel Solomon TayeCaleb Taylor Thomas Likup §Samuel William TedescoOmar David TorresColin Trinh ‡ *Carter Daniel TwomblyZhan WangStephen G. WeinheimerMichael Taylor WikTimothy Wolfe Wilko †Aric Todd WilsonTina Zhang §Zhuangcheng ZhengAlex Zhitelzeyf



Master of Science inBiomedical Engineering

September 2015Nanditha AnandakrishnanZahra ChamanzarDaniel Joseph FeldmanShuang HuJing LuoChristopher D. MartensenElise J. MartinSomaang MenochaSreevidhya RamakrishnanJames Ki RieffelShruti SrinivasSophie Linyi Wang

February 2016Christopher Kotey KoteiYan LiRubainaNicole Ashley SalernoAmi Yogesh ShahWentao SongQixin Wang

June 2016Anusha BalasubramoniamSumukh Bysani KrishnakumarCalvin CheahSarah Jo CrottsDaniel Leonard EricsonKritika LakhotiaDavid L. RubachAparna ShankaranRamani VenkateshHongying Wan

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering

September 2015Prannay BaliTai Chun ChungSogol HekmatfarMatthew Henry MichnikChristopher Linn MillerAndrew James Mowbray


Liesl Folks Dean

Master of Engineering inChemical Engineering

September 2015Xiang GaoSatya PopuriSuman SamantrayJiahui Wu

June 2016William S. Evangelista IIMichael J. PotterMing Zeng

Master of Engineering in CivilEngineering

September 2015Jared Evan Port

Master of Engineering inElectrical Engineering

February 2016Jennifer Lynn Drewniak

Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering

September 2015Mustafa CelebiHarshit GoyalSunayana Jayaram

February 2016ArunvivekanandShunmugasundaram

Gaurav Siwach

June 2016Nikhil Sasidharan Pillai

Thomas Aaron BrownPing ChenDuygu DoyrangolRishikesh DuarahPiyush GargVivek Annaswamy KannanArpita Girish KurdekarDung Thi Phuong LeRunwei LiMojeeburahman MashalUsha Sree NadellaAustin NilsenBrandon Ross RichardMudit SinghShaurya SoodZhe SunVivek Bhaskar KoteXiaone WeiAyed Ahmad YaminElif Yildirim

June 2016Daniel Maxwell BarronPei Chuan ChaoTogarepi ChitakaraAustin M. ChudykMichael Patrick ClarkJoseph Adolph CollettiYanbin CuiUgur EkerMaria FedorovaYushan FuJianming HaoGary JordanWan Jian LuMolly Eileen McEvoyJeffrey Bryan MelomoVenkata Gopinaga Sarath PanthangiBasit Z. QayyumRuolong RenUmaipalan SivaratnarajahReda SnaikiKevin J. StevensWiktor Piotr TomkiewiczTimothy James Frandina Van OssMeghan WilsonYi Zhao

Jiaochen ShenChing-Yen ShihMeng WangHanguang ZhangShizhong Zhao

February 2016Benjamin Fatt Soon LamYayu LiuShawreen Manish ShahJianchao WangXiaoyan Wang

June 2016Anix CasimirAparajita DasguptaCheng Kee LaiNajing LiJunyi LiuNachiket Madhav ParanjapeHaiyang ShengYujie TianAditi VermaRunsheng ZhangYusen Zhou

Master of Science in Civil Engineering

September 2015Isaac William AllenAndrew BartlettFatima BukhariJan DokonalArvin EbrahimkhanlouSatyavardhan GogineniNima GolshaniRamya KamineniTylor Edward KunkleSeyedata NahidiJi XiaXiaojing Zhang

February 2016Thomas AndroutselisNicholas BarnhardAaron Michael BehnkeCourtney Elaine Bentley

Master’sDegrees

Master’sDegrees

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Jayanth NasikaPrakash NatarajanDaniel NazarethAbhinav NeelaAmit NihalaniBhargava NissankararaoOghenekeno ObrutuPrasanna Chandrashekhar PaiKaushik Raj PalanichamyAvinash PaliRomit PalitGitanjali PalweDeep Jayesh ParekhRishabh Mahendrakumar PatelUtsav Sudhir PatelJanhavi Anand PatilAbhijit PattanaikSudheer Kumar PaturiSurya Siddharth PemmarajuRavi Kumar Pirakil RaveendranathaKaimal

Rahul Poondy MukundanChetan Prabhu Sree Karteek PulagamKetki Ramesh PurandareNishchita Purushothama PatelWeihao QuReshma RaghavanJonathan Francesco RajHarshith Kumar RamadevNaveen Kumar RamamurthyAravind Kumar RameshVivin RaneRamya RaoSri Ram Krishna Reddy ReddyVishvesh RevooriAkilesh SadassivamAyush Jitendra SanghviDevesh Pradip SanghviAnanda Kanagaraj SankarHrishikesh Vinay SatheChandana Satya PrakashBuddhika Laknath SemageJenil Dinesh ShahVishwas ShanbhogAnkit SharmaChandra Kant SharmaHimanshu SharmaMohammad Shahid Fazal Sheikh

Bhanu Teja ChakkaKrishnakant ChavaliPratik Pramod ChavanShreyas Suhas ChavanChun Yu ChenMani Kishore ChitralaKaramveer ChoudharyManish Kumar DasSathish Kumar DeivasigamaniAniket Mahesh DeoleRahul DerashriAkash Prafulchandra DesaiTejeet Paresh DesaiAkash Sudhir DeshpandeAniket Santosh DeshpandeHarshad Rajendra DeshpandeKeerthana DhagamSankara Vadivel DhandapaniSelvaganesh DharmeswaranSamved Chandrakant DivekarSusana Melba DsaRohit DubeySagar Ashok DulhaniSujoy DuttaVaibhav DwivediOmkar Abhijit GadgilArchit GargShreyas GargTarun GaubaNitya GollamudiSoumasish GoswamiNavya Gowda KariyappaAnkit GoyalChangyang GuShruti GuhaLiwen GuiVenkat Karthik GundavarapuStephen GungTian GuoAshish GuptaMadhur GuptaHarsh Rajesh HarwaniBhakti Ramesh HindujaVenkata Sai Manoj IllendulaSachi JainJesal Deepak JananiKarthik JanarthananHimali Vandan Jani

Rohit JhunjhunwalaShweta JoshiSnigdha JoshiKarthik Kakarla Nagendra PrakashSudharshan Reddy KakumanuManikanta Sandeep KandregulaAnkit KapurVinayak KaruppasamyVenkata Sai Krishna TejaswiKasavajhula

Bikram KashyapHitpal KaurChaitanya KavalipatiAbha KhannaKarthik KiranAditya Pavan KolliRahul KotaMohit KothariGaurav Sandip KshirsagarAnimesh KumarAshok KurakulaMuyuan LiXiaoliang LiXinyang LiJitendra LimayeNikhil Raphael LopesDuc Thanh Anh LuongVamsi Krishna MaddipatlaSubramanian MadhanagopalSivasankaran

Pratham MalikSaurabh Sidharth MandaokarSushanth Reddy MandlyMangai VetrivelanSai Vikneshwar Mani JayaramanNischala ManjunathShiva Mariswamy SubramaniAniket Sadanand MayakalMihir MehtaPritika MehtaWarren Alexander MendoncaMithun NageshAbdul Muqtadir MohammedDevesh MulmuleDhinesh NakkeerarPriyankar NandiNikitha Reddy NandigamaNaveen Narayan

Master of Science in ComputerScience and Engineering

September 2015Jerry Antony AjayMohit AroraSantosh Kumar DubeyKyle MarcusLu MengAlagappan RamuAndreina Susana Nazaret Uzcategui Cova

Sitaram Chowdary VuppalaWeida Zhong

February 2016Abhishek KumarSaravanan AdaikkalavanPriya Bandhavi AlluSudeep Reddy AlluriShishir AmbasthaVidyadhar Reddy AnnapureddyAmogh Sunil AntarkarManpreet AroraMohit AroraAshish KumarAlok AsokAvani Chandrashekhar AtreAvinav SharanSrinivasa Reddy BadePrashanth BalaboinaSatya Chandu Dheeraj BalakaviRakesh BalasubramanianNithin Kumar Reddy BandaruSridhar BandaruPragna BasuSonali BatraSahajdeep Singh BediRamyakrishna Reddy BeesamArpita Venkanna BelagurUtsav BeriSarthak Dundiraj BhatIshan BhattSaptarshi BhattacharjeeTanvi Vijay BhavsarImran Sayyed Adam BijapuriUday Kumar BingiPrathyusha BobbaDaniel Lee Bremiller


Rakshit ShettySagar Bansilal ShindeMimanshu ShisodiaManu ShivakumarRustom ShroffAbhinav ShuklaAlexander Georgiev SimeonovJagvir SinghSimranjot SinghNikhil SinghalAbhinit Kumar SinhaSiddharth Krishna SinhaAmir Arsalan SoltaniSanthosh Kumar SomarapuSankiran SrinathSai Srinath SundarArchana SuregaonkarGirish Suri VenkataramanBalu SwarnaKhushboo TekchandaniPranav TipnisYuvraj TiwariRavi Teja TulluriPravin UmamaheswaranAayush UppalUtkarsh SrivastavaMadni Maksud VadhariyaSai Sri Harshita VallurupalliChakradhar Reddy VangetiHarish VaradarajanGeetika Reddy VaridireddyAbhimat VarmaAnkit VarmaVasul Vatsyayan PriyadarshiMahalakshmi VenkataramanPriyaman Venu SaranyanMeghna VermaViral Vijay ViraHarishankar VishwanathanSri Rajarsh VytlaJun WangShuang WuMeethil Vijay YadavNarasimha Sumanth YajamanyamVenkatesh YerneniHengtong ZhangJi Zhang

June 2016Jacob AmmonsPradeep Kiran ChakkiralaXianglong ChenJoseph Michael D'AmatoHao FanSiddharth Pradeep GhodkeJordan GibsonGuanxiong HuangAndrew Richard HughesChuohao JiangJialiang JiangJiaming LiuSijia LiuXin LiuEthan LuAurijoy MajumdarCong MengJeffrey MurphyArindam NandiDamian U. Ogbonna Jr. Sayaritra PalJianmeng PeiSrinivasan RajappaYuan ShaBowen ShenBhargav ShivkumarSindhuja SuraPrannoy Deepti TumuluriYuhui WuChen Xu

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

September 2015Loris CannelliSteve Matthew GearhartChayanjit GhoshZhe HuLokesh Kumar KodavatiQingchuan LaiFei LuJunsung ParkGoutham SankaranarayananPaolo ScarponiVishrut VaibhavKevin M Wilczak

Ke ZengXiang ZhangZhifeng ZhangNing Zhao

February 2016Dinesh AnantharamanAnusha ArjunSanjay Natraj AshokAditya AwatramaniAmbika BalasubramaniamVamsi Krishna BellidigaHarsh Singh BhalAkash BhatkalPraneeth Varma BuddharajuPeter CaseyArpita ChandSasidhar ChilukuriLinmao CongDecheng CuiYixuan DangRohit DhanukaDaniel Robert DrexelAnish DuttaPrithvi Nath Reddy EmaniZhou FangSindhoora GajulaJanani GanesanAdam M. GannonRajendran Geetha Rani SundaraRaman

Sabareeswar Gowri ShankarYuxiao HeMangesh JaiswalSrinivasa Sandilya JandhyalaSindoora JayaprakashSharath JhadeyGeorge JohnGeo Leemson Joseph RubinsonSwapnil Dilip JoshiSoujanya KadaliSai Pavan Kumar KadiriPruthvik Kagganti PrakashAbhinay Raj Kalambur SabarajanDhinesh Raja KannanKaushik Uday KarandikarUtsav Deepak KatiraRubab Khaled

Venkata Sai Pawan Kumar KilambiZachary M. KolarichYixiao KongMounica KopparapuVijayganesh GurussamyKrishnakumar

Koushik Vikram Kuduva GopalKabirdoss

Anurag Menon KunnathSai Teja LakkimsettyHongyu LiKe LiYiling LiZhiyuan LiShengyang LiuShuangchen LuoSri Krishna MahadevanDeepthi MandapalliRama Chandra Reddy MandepudiSumukh ManjunathPallavi MantroKaran Kumar MardaDio MazurekKaushikee MishraMohammad WasifRoshni Mukund KumarKiruthika MuraliPranav Reddy MuskuVaibhav MutathiRutvik Narayana NadimpallyShruthi NagarajArjun Sudhanva NaikSharath Raveendran NairVenkata Satya Sesha Vivek NanisettyDeepikha NarayanamoorthiNaga Goutham NarneJubin NathawatPrathibha PanchagnulaHoney PandeyJitendra Kumar PandeyAlok Meghashyam PandhareApurva ParadkarSaurabh ParasharJaejeong ParkSindhu PatibandlaPriyanka PattanaikNeil Rajesh PednekarSunil Kumar Penumala

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Master’sDegrees

Gibu RejiAmit Kumar RoyShervin Shirish ShahSiddhartha SharmaShuo Fang TsaoVedant SandhyaSriram VenkatachalamShukun YeZhenyang Zhu

June 2016Mariana BaratoBhishman DesaiArushi DhakadHadi FeyzollahiNeha Deepak GudiLydia KocherMeng LiSayee Mangesh LingayatKylie MolinaroMedha NemadeAbhinav Raj PerlaTrevor PlizgaCharan Theja Reddy PyreddyPraveen Babu RavichandranArjun ShankarKarthik ShanmugasundaramThangavel

John Christopher VacantiXiaomei WangNingji WeiYijing XuYashwanth Chowdary YeddulapalliXiaohang Zhu

Master of Science inMechanical Engineering

September 2015Vaqas ArshadRajmohan AsokanYun ChengJunqing DengRobert Francis Desjardins

June 2016Apoorva BatraJhonnathan Chang WuYuyang ChenDiptanjan SahaIan FarnethAbhilash Kumar GandlaManibharathi GudiyattamGnanamurugan

Sritej GuntaYanbo GuoWoong KimChenyu LiNian LiuAndrea MartinezMohit Kumar NavagareAnjali OmerMahima Ann PhilipDengbin QiaoJordan Richard RadiceGaurav Pravinkumar RavalTripti SharmaMichael SingletaryGaganpreet Singh SranRagavendran SrinivasanKetul Divyesh SuratiUrvakhsha Rayomand TavadiaPradeep VijayasundararajanYuguang WeiAppiah WiafeCong YeZunayeed Bin ZahirChaoyi Zhang

Master of Science inEngineering Science

September 2015Sara Marie Gonzalez

February 2016Saidan QiLei Su

Master of Science in IndustrialEngineering

September 2015Kriti BasuNatalie Christine BendaEkta BhargavaBiplab Sudhin BhattacharyaJonathan David BraunKeith A. FitzsimmonsAshita Raghav GuthulaAnshuman Anjani KumarDan LiangArmando LoliSridhar Shankar ManeRanjani SureshkumarSiddhesh SawantSiddhartha NambiarAnpeng Zhang

February 2016Sojib AhmedLibin Alapatt ThomasDigvijay Reddy AmaramRahul SwamySatya Kalyan BellalaRaghu Ram BojanapalliYamini Poojitha BoyenapallyHernan Andres Caceres VenegasAshok ChandranNaveen ChundruKaran DabasAashwinikumar Vasudev DevariNegin EbadiJing GongPraveen GuthinabailuRan HuoPradeep KrishnanNing LiYuenan LiAjay MallinaSri Soury NoriPraveenkumar RaghavanSathya Narayanan Ramamurthy

Vignan PoshamLakshmi Varsha RachaRam Subbu RamanathanMonisa Ramesh BabuPrasanth Prabu RavichandiranChigarapalli Shruthi ReddyHaochen RenJai Viknesh Sankara NarayananAshok SathyanarayananAjinkya SawantAkshay SaxenaArul Kumar SekarShoaib Ahmed ShaikSowmya SridharanMucun SunSupriya Sastri BalijepalliDerek K. TauffnerGanesh Vaishnav Tavidisetty RajendraDeepanshu UdasiAravindhan VadivelGuna Sai Phani Raja SekharValluripalli

Venkata Tarun VangavaruguHariharan Variyankaval RajasekaranKapil VarunshriNarayan Aiyer VenkatesanAkash VermaRaja Rajeshwari Sowmya VidiyalaGnana Prasuna VuragayalaShanshan XiangHaoyuan XuSumeer YachuPradeep Reddy YaramadaChandan Kumar YelahankaNanjemari

Gaoyang YuFan ZhangJin ZhangTong ZhangXinlei ZhangJunwei ZhaoJianhang Zhu


Jeremy KrolYao LiIan Mark MichaliszynShrey PareekZaccarie Joseph PeoneArjun Sathya PrakashTherence Aymard Temfack FogangAnjan Kumar TripathiGuhan VelmuruganKevin WalczykPo Sheng WangKarthik Yerrapragada

February 2016Niyoosha Ahmadi KhooRongfeng ChenTing Ju ChenKeelan Chu ForNitesh Kumar DagarDigvijay SinghAzadeh DinparastdjadidSiddharth DixitTaylor M. FergusonAnkit Ramkishore KarwaPhanender Reddy KasireddyMohammadhassan KazemiJoseph Michael KeatingKiran Babu KoyalamudiSiddharth KrishnamurthyBenjamin Michael KuchShayne Emanuel MckayDhruvin Jasmin NaikRahul PrasannanFrank G. RepettiRahul SanalRyan SansDaniel SnitzerLily TangToshita Satya ValluriYoutong WangZhiqing ZhaoStephen Zielinski

June 2016Haoran ChenEugenia EpiscopoMohammad FirozAntonio GalbierXiaobin GuoAllicia Neeta GurpersaudChristopher Alvin HaynesBin HuangAmrita LallHongfei LinAdam LloydFelipe Meneguzzo PasqualiPrasanth Raja SekaranBenjamin RinautoSunil Srivatsav RoyyuruArun SunilQintao TanYan XiaRuoyu YangWenyi YangYang Yu

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DoctorateDegrees

February 2016Yanping FengMajor Professor: Joseph F. Atkinson

Bismarck N. LunaMajor Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker

Nam Hoai NguyenMajor Professor: Andrew S. Whittaker

June 2016Stacey Sloan BlerschMajor Professor: Joseph F. Atkinson

Md Tawfiq SarwarMajor Professor: PanagiotisAnastasopoulos

Luke W. ScannellMajor Professor: James N. Jensen

Aikaterini StefanakiMajor Professor: MettupalayamSivaselvan

Shuai, TangMajor Professor: Qian Wang

Xiaone WeiMajor Professor: Michel Bruneau

Doctor of Philosophy inComputer Science andEngineering

September 2015Gang ChenMajor Professor: Sargur Srihari

Wei ChenMajor Professor: Jason Corso

Hu DingMajor Professor: Jinhui Xu

Suxin GuoMajor Professor: Aidong ZhangSUNY Distinguished Professor

Kevin Rice KeaneMajor Professor: Jason J. Corso

Nilesh Vijay KhambekarMajor Professor: Vipin Chaudhary

Xiaoyi LiMajor Professor: Aidong Zhang

Ran XuMajor Professor: Jason J. Corso

Zhi YangMajor Professor: Varun Chandola

Yingbo ZhouMajor Professor: VenugopalGovindaraju

SUNY Distinguished Professor

February 2016Jiun-Jie WangMajor Professor: Xin He

June 2016Ismail AlanMajor Professor: Tevfik Kosar

Engin ArslanMajor Professor: Tevfik Kosar

Panya ChanawangsaMajor Professor: Chang Wen Chen

Si ChenMajor Professor: Kui Ren

Shounak Uday GoreMajor Professor: VenugopalGovindaraju


Liesl FolksDean

Doctor of Philosophy inBiomedical Engineering

June 2016Suyog PolMajor Professor: Stylianos Andreadis

Doctor of Philosophy inChemical Engineering

September 2015Daniel W. DemonteMajor Professor: Sheldon J. Park

Rohitesh GuptaMajor Professor: SriramNeelamegham

Jacob Mark HeltzelMajor Professor: Carl R. LundSUNY Distinguished TeachingProfessor

Sabry G. MoustafaMajor Professor: David A. KofkeSUNY Distinguished Professor

Xianliang WangMajor Professor: Mark T. Swihart

February 2016Charles JonesMajor Professor: Blaine Pfeifer

Yue LiMajor Professor: Mark T. Swihart

Panagiotis MistriotisMajor Professor: Stylianos Andreadis

Sindhu RowMajor Professor: Stylianos Andreadis

June 2016Ioannis KarampelasMajor Professor: Edward P. Furlani

Ramachandran SubramanianMajor Professor: David A. Kofke

Shuen - Shiuan WangMajor Professor: SriramNeelamegham

Xiaozheng XueMajor Professor: Edward P. Furlani

Dewei ZhuMajor Professor: Mark T. Swihart

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering

September 2015Yanbiao ChuMajor Professor: Cemalettin Basaran

Zahrasadat LotfianMajor Professor: MettupalayamSivaselvan

Moses Junior MatovuMajor Professor: Salvatore Salamone

Konstantinos OikonomouMajor Professor: MichaelConstantinou

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Ki Pung RyuMajor Professor: Andrei M. Reinhorn

Lisa ShresthaMajor Professor: Michel Bruneau


June 2016Jared HolsoppleMajor Professor: Moises Sudit

Nicolette M. McGeorgeMajor Professor: Ann M. Bisantz

Mohammadreza SamadiMajor Professor: Alexander Nikolaev

Longsheng SunMajor Professor: Mark H. KarwanSUNY Distinguished TeachingProfessor

Jingyan WanMajor Professor: Changxu Wu

Doctor of Philosophy inMechanical Engineering

September 2015Jinmiao HuangMajor Professor: Rahul Rai

Yoshihiro TakizawaMajor Professor: Deborah D. Chung

Deepika VermaMajor Professor: Susan Z. Hua

Santosh Rohit YerraboluMajor Professor: Joseph C.Mollendorf

February 2016Nagavenkat AdurthiMajor Professor: Puneet Singla

Sourish ChakravartyMajor Professor: Sonjoy Das

Suren KumarMajor Professor: Venkat N. Krovi

June 2016Aliakbar AlamdariMajor Professor: Venkat N. Krovi

Bradley DarrallMajor Professor: Gary F. Dargush

Guoqiang DengMajor Professor: Gary F. Dargush

Zhongwang DouMajor Professor: Hui Meng

Aaron Edward EstesMajor Professor: Manoranjan Majji

Aziz M. NaimMajor Professor: Kemper E. Lewis

Kumar VishwajeetMajor Professor: Puneet Singla

Yunfei HouMajor Professor: Chunming Qiao

Jie HuMajor Professor: Chang Wen Chen

Mahmoud Abo KhamisMajor Professor: Hung Ngo

Doctor of Philosophy inElectrical Engineering

September 2015

Panagiotis MarkopoulosMajor Professor: Dimitrios Pados

Gokturk PoyrazogluMajor Professor: Hyungseon Oh

February 2016

Mark Louis DemarieMajor Professor: Albert H. Titus

Xie ZengMajor Professor: Qiaoqiang Gan

Tianmu ZhangMajor Professor: Alexander N.Cartwright

Yihang ZhouMajor Professor: Lei Ying

June 2016Yanshu LiMajor Professor: Vladimir MitinSUNY Distinguished Professor

Harihara Sudhahar RamamoorthyMajor Professor: Jonathan P. Bird

Richard M. TarbellMajor Professor: Albert H. Titus

Alfredo Vega-IrizarryMajor Professor: Adly T. Fam

Doctor of Philosophy inIndustrial Engineering

September 2015Sabrina CasucciMajor Professor: Alexander Nikolaevand Li Lin

Tolou EsfandehMajor Professor: Rajan Batta andChanghyun Kwon

Peiqiu GuanMajor Professor: Jun Zhuang

Sudeep HegdeMajor Professor: Ann M. Bisantz

Raihan H. RazibMajor Professor: Alexander Nikolaev

Iakovos ToumazisMajor Professor: Changhyun Kwon

Yan XiaMajor Professor: Rajan Batta andRakesh Nagi

February 2016Michael D. Moskal IIMajor Professor: Rajan BattaSUNY Distinguished Professor

Masoumeh TaslimiMajor Professor: Rajan Batta andChanghyun Kwon

Xinhui ZhuMajor Professor: Victor L. Paquet

The Founding of the School of Engineering and Applied SciencesEngineering courses were initially offered by the College of Arts and Sciences,which began granting a Certificate in Engineering in 1929. Early programs wereestablished in engineering science, mechanical engineering, industrialengineering and electrical engineering. Then in 1946, one hundred years afterthe University at Buffalo was founded, the School of Engineering wasestablished. The school was authorized to offer both bachelors and mastersdegrees. Departments of civil engineering and chemical engineering were addedin 1958 and 1961, respectively. In 1962, the university joined the StateUniversity of New York (SUNY) higher education system and by 1967, thename had been changed to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences.One year later, aerospace engineering was added, and a comprehensiveengineering school was achieved. An undergraduate program in engineeringphysics was added in 1985. The unit changed its name to the School ofEngineering and Applied Sciences in 1989.

In 1998, a new department of computer science and engineering was formed bymerging the computer science program from the College of Arts and Scienceswith the computer engineering component of the department of electrical andcomputer engineering in SEAS. The environmental engineering program wasestablished in 2000. In 2010, a new department of biomedical engineering wasformed in collaboration with the UB Jacobs School of Medicine and BiomedicalSciences. In 2014, a new department of materials design and innovation wasestablished, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences.

SEAS has come far since 1946, when it first held courses in the newly dedicatedKarr Parker Engineering Building. Parker Hall was immediately enlarged toaccommodate traditional students and returning GIs intent on pursuingengineering careers after WWII. In the mid-70s to mid-80s, the school movedto five new buildings on the north campus: Bell, Bonner, Furnas, Jarvis, andKetter Halls. Our newest building, Davis Hall, opened in 2011 and features anenvironmentally friendly design and construction. Together these buildingsform an outstanding educational and research facility, comprising 275,000square feet of laboratory and office space.

History of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Faculty and Leadership: A Heritage of Vision and TalentSEAS has enjoyed consistent success in large part because of its leadership. Overthe course of its sixty-plus years, twelve distinguished educators have served asleaders of the school. In 1946, Paul E. Mohn became the first dean. His thirteen-year tenure as dean lent stability to the young school. Frederick H. Thomasserved as acting dean from 1959–60. E. Arthur Trabant was dean from1960–1966; Howard E. Strauss was acting dean from 1966–67. When theFaculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences became the administrative body ofengineering at SUNY Buffalo, the head of the faculty was often referred to as theprovost. F. Karl Willenbrock was provost from 1967–70; Joseph Bergantz wasacting provost from 1970–71; and William Gill served as provost/dean from1971–1977. George C. Lee took office as dean in 1978, and served in that postuntil 1995. In 1996, Mark H. Karwan became the school's sixth dean, followedby Harvey G. Stenger Jr. in 2006. Rajan Batta was the school’s acting and interimdean in 2011–12, and in 2013, Liesl Folks joined SEAS as the school’s eighthdean.

Our leadership and faculty realize the school's direction with the invaluablesupport of our dedicated staff, students, alumni, friends, industry and corporatepartners. In addition to their dedicated teaching, research, and service, thefaculty, which now numbers 165, have won prestigious awards, authoredcountless books and articles, and produced many patents for materials andtechniques, all aiming to benefit humankind. More than 50 of our faculty havebeen elected as Fellows of engineering professional societies and 33 are NationalScience Foundation early career award winners. In the past year, three of ourcurrent faculty members were recognized with SUNY Chancellor’s Awards forExcellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. Many others hold SUNYdistinguished professor titles.

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.


Programs and PartnershipsThe School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was an early innovator inreforming the traditional preparation of beginning engineers. The school hasalways valued interdisciplinary research and has structured itself to promoteconnections across disciplines that benefit undergraduate and graduate study,as well as to address important social needs like health care, personal securityand recovery from natural disasters. SEAS is the home of such prominentinterdisciplinary research and educational programs as Center for Multi-sourceInformation Fusion (CMIF), Center for Unified Biometrics (CUBS), Center forExcellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education(CEISARE), and The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE), as well as amembership in the National Science Foundation Center for e-Design. UnderUB’s “E Fund” initiative, we engaged with our campus colleagues to developresearch and educational programs that will have a high impact both inside andoutside the university. These include Computational Data Science andEngineering (CSDE), Home Health and Well-Being through Adaptive SmartEnvironments (Home-BASE), Institute of Bridge Engineering (IBE), andInstitute of Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (ISTL).

More recently, the campus was challenged to address the difficult problems andquestions 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 andSustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART), aswell as the newly established Research and Education in eNergy, Environmentand Water (RENEW) institute. Our total research expenditures for theacademic year 2014–2015 were $58.5 million.

Historically, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' partnership withindustry has been valuable and mutually rewarding. Students benefit from theprofessional interactions that our experiential learning programs provide, andfaculty contribute to and gain valuable perspective from industry-sponsoredresearch. Industry partners, meanwhile, benefit from access to a talentedworkforce and a well-trained knowledge base that provides them with acompetitive edge in research and development.

A Proud Past, A Challenging FutureThe School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is a world-class institution.Today's graduates join the ranks of over 30,000 alumni who have made theirmark on the discipline, both in the academic world and in industry. Graduateslive in 50 states and 65 countries around the world.

Like any great organization, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences iscontinually evolving and stretching to meet new challenges. The more weachieve, the more we see there is still more to be done to rise to the challenge oftraining the next generation of great engineers while delivering world-changingadvances in science and technology.

To keep up to date with the school, please visit us at engineering.buffalo.edu.

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Academic Costume

The traditional costume worn at commencement exercise is a record of academicachievement of the individuals taking part. Its use, which originated at Englishand European universities during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, came tothe United States in 1754 with the founding of what is now Columbia University.

In 1895 the Intercollegiate Commission, a group of leading American educators,met at Columbia to draft a code which would serve to regulate the design ofgowns and hoods for various degrees as well as to fix the colors that indicate thevarious faculties. This code has been adopted by most of the colleges anduniversities in America. It was revised in 1932 and again in 1959.

The level of degree held is indicated by the gown’s cut. Doctoral gowns have fullsleeves which are round and open. Gowns worn by bachelors have long pointedsleeves, and those worn by masters have long, closed, somewhat fuller sleeveswhich reach nearly to the wearer’s knees. The arm goes through a slit, giving theappearance of short sleeves.

The color as well as cut of the gown varies. Although most doctoral gowns areblack, in some cases their color is that of the university conferring the degree. Thedoctoral gown is trimmed in velvet; it has three two-inch bars on the sleeves anda five-inch border extending from the back of the neck down the two sides infront. Although usually black, the velvet may be of a color that indicates the

nature of the degree. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the color is darkblue, engineers may also wear orange; for Doctor of Medicine, green; for Doctorof Dentistry, lilac; for Doctor of Education, light blue; for Doctor of Science,golden yellow; for Doctor of Law, purple; for Doctor of Social Work, citron, etc.Master’s and bachelor’s gowns have no facing.

The hood seems to have had a more practical origin. During the Middle Agesmonks wore them to protect their shaved heads in the winter and as a containerin which to collect alms. It is the most significant part of the academic dress. Itsshape and size indicates the degree of the wearer, the color of the velvet borderindicates the academic field, and the color of the lining indicates the institutiongranting the degree. The bachelor’s hood is three feet long and has a two-inchvelvet border, the master’s is three and one-half feet long and has a three-inchborder, and the doctor’s is four feet with a five-inch border. The State Universityof New York at Buffalo hood is lined with blue and gold stripes; orange signifiesengineering.

The mortarboard cap has been conventionalized from the skull cap which wasworn by monks of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The mortarboard isusually black. Tassels are worn over the left front quarter by degree holders;candidates wear the tassel over the right front quarter until the degree isconferred.

The first commencement of The University of Buffalo was held at the FirstPresbyterian Church on Wednesday, June 16, 1847, when medical degrees wereconferred on seventeen “young gentlemen.” The event was witnessed by “quite alarge concourse of our citizens, as the occasion was a novelty here,” according tothe newspaper report.

After an impressive and appropriate prayer, the Honorable Millard Fillmore,Chancellor, delivered an address dealing principally with a historical sketch of therise and progress of education in Buffalo. Following music by the choir andconferring of degrees, Professor Hamilton spoke to the graduates. His addresswas described in a local newspaper the following day as a “feeling and beautifuleffort complete with high sentiments, of sound morality and enlarged and purephilanthropy, which, if made the rule and guide of the young gentlemen to

whom it was more immediately directed, cannot fail of making them ornamentsto their profession and to society . . . in thought, word and deed.”

After 16 weeks of study, which in those days was the entire medical preparation,each graduate was cited for having “specialized” in one of the following: Hernia,Empiricism, Remittant Fever, Pneumonities, Mania Potu, Puerperal Fever,Erythema, Anatomical Fractures, Typhoid Fever, Pneumonia, Acute Laryngitis,History of Physiology, Dyspepsia, Haemorrhagi, Inflammatory Croup,Pregnancy, Scarlatina.

The students had paid $62.00 for all the lectures in the entire course, plus a $3.00matriculation fee, $5.00 for a “demonstrator’s ticket,” and $20.00 for a graduationfee. Board, including fuel and light, cost from $2.00 to $3.00 per week.

The First Commencement

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Music by UB Students in 1903. Lyrics adapted by UB Students in 2006 for contemporary use.

Verse 1:

The pride of our spirit and tradition,

Our alma mater’s truth and name declare.

Celebrate our history and wisdom,

O let us all prepare to sing her glory.

Refrain:

To Buffalo all hail to thee,

Noble and strong it’s our university!

To blue and white pledge loyalty,

Singing I will always remember thee!

Verse 2:

We’ll ever keep our standards high,

And sing UB’s praises to the sky.

Receiving the finest education,

Our knowledge we impart unto the nations.

(Repeat refrain)

Verse 3:

Our friends we’ve made with ties that bind,

A union of our spirit, heart and mind.

Together we’ll continue life’s journey,

O may dear Buffalo forever be.

(Repeat refrain)

UB Alma Mater

Dear Members of the Class of 2016,

Congratulations! Your hard work has brought you the knowledge, skills andconfidence to take the next steps in your lives. Be as proud of youraccomplishments as we are of you.

On behalf of the UB Alumni Association (UBAA), I welcome you to our family ofUB alumni. Beginning this year, all UB graduates automatically become membersof 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.

As you move forward, I encourage you to keep UB close. UBAA is here for you. Wewill help you stay connected through regular communication via email, At Buffalo(our quarterly magazine), and alumni chapter events across the U.S. and theworld. We even have a brand new Young Alumni Program designed specifically toprovide our new graduates with career help, volunteer opportunities and engagingsocial events.

To learn more about UBAA, the Young Alumni Program and the benefits andservices available to you, plug into our vast network at buffalo.edu/alumni orcontact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 1-800-284-5382 or [email protected].

Good luck and best wishes,

Mary Garlick Roll (MS ’88 & BS ’84)

President, UB Alumni Association

P.S. Please make sure to keep UBAA informed when your email address changes,so you don’t miss any special invitations or perks!

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UB Engineering and Applied SciencesAlumni Association Letter

Engineers of 2016,

Welcome to the club! Today, you join our 30,000-strong worldwide membership of the University at Buffalo Engineering AlumniAssociation. 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 previouslyposed. After all, that is our job. We engineers find solutions to unsolved problems and our role is nothing less than essential to thecontinued progress of humanity. If that sounds like a big deal, it’s because it is. However as you know, your solutions to your uniqueproblems will be based on the works of engineers and scientists who have preceded you and your own work will become the foundationfor 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 thewide 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 withyou 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. Asteachers, 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 theexperience. 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 yourlife and future, please keep in touch with the Engineering Alumni Association. At the UBEAA, we too thoroughly enjoy celebrating thesuccesses of our fellow alumni, just as we are with you today at commencement. If the next step in your life’s journey takes you someplaceunfamiliar, 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 yourstudent experiences, show you where the good wings are, and go catch a Buffalo game on TV? If you’re staying in Western New York, dropus 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 morerelevant than that of the recent graduate. To learn more about the UBEAA, contact Bethany Mazur: [email protected], the UBEAA Boardof 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

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