Shaping a Research Path Through Competition
Leonardo Marciaga (MATH 2nd Year) has been participating in international math competitions since he was a youngster, attending middle school in his hometown of ChitrƩ, Panama. He says competing has...
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āSMARTā Student Earns Cybersecurity Scholarship
Cedric Narteyās (ITM, M.A.S. CYF 3rd Year) commitment to leadership and innovation, and his connections through Illinois Tech faculty, have helped him secure a United States Department of Defense...
Career Services Helps Get Internships
Of all the university tours that Robert John Soler (CCSE, M.A.S. CYF 5th Year) took when visiting Illinois from his home country, the Philippines, he says that Illinois Techās was the best. āDuring...
Teaching Tech Around the Globe
Growing up in Jordan, Jafar Al Zoubi (M.S. CS 2nd Year, Ph.D. CS 1st year) has always been fascinated by computers and technology. In high school he was introduced to programming languages and...
Full Circle
Illinois Techās own Sejal Vaishnav (CS ā00, M.B.A. ā05) was recently named one of the 50 leading tech executives shaping the future of higher education by Chief Data Officer Magazine a recognition...
Building an AI Career Through Mathematical Mastery
Earning an advanced degree in mathematics not only helped Hongwei Jin gain the knowledge that he needed to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at University of Illinois Ā鶹APP and become an artificial...
The Bridge Between Math and Health Care
Virginia Reider (STAT 4th Year) knew that earning a degree in statistics would open up career avenues in a variety of fields. But choosing which avenue to follow was proving difficult, until she...
The Human Side of Technology
āI donāt know why I want to act like I have an aversion to nerds, when Iām a nerd myself,ā laughs Sydney Hardwick (ITM ā15), speaking not only of her time growing up on Ā鶹APPās South Side, but also...
Shift to Security
Designing security into code is a lot like designing security in a house, Marilyn Barrios (ITM, M.A.S. ITM ā18) says. Each door, window, and any other point of entry must be secured. But these...
Score Another for Team Tsao
The basketball hoop affixed to the Irvine, Calif. garage of Victor Tsao (M.S. CS ā81) and his wife, Janie, was just one of many in an area dominated by Los Angeles Lakers fans. But this one was...