Yang Wu: CS, Community, and Confidence
Yang Wu has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Schlumberger Global Oilfield...
Category Archives: Grad Students
Johnny Chen: Keeping Products and Careers on Track
“A really good product on time is better than a great product a year...
Joann Chuang Anderson, VP of Engineering at Scoop, on Career Moves and Commuters
“We’d like to talk to you about joining us as Vice President of Engineering,”...
Vinay Pai: CS, Leadership, and Opportunity
Vinay Pai applied to Rice University early decision in the fall of 1983, but...
Scott Ruthfield: Build your own Gig
Scott Ruthfield was burned out on math and computer science by the end of...
Harsh Upadhyay: MCS and the Courage to Change
After three years of working for Goldman Sachs as a developer analyst in southern...
Akshaya Srivatsa: Growing your CS Career
Bolt’s Director of Engineering, Akshaya Srivatsa, was first drawn to Rice University’s Ph.D. program...
Allison Heath: CS and Genomics
Allison Heath arrived at Rice University as a Physics major. “Then I took COMP...
Sharon Goza: Computer Graphics and Gamification
Rice University alumna Sharon Goza (MCS ’89) recalls showing up for her first co-op...
Bill LeFebvre: Unix, Open Source, and the World Wide Web
At age 12, he was a bit of a bookworm with a nondiscriminatory palate....