Hi everyone! My name is Anna and I am co-leading the Sports Technology Affinity Group. I’m a Mechanical Engineering graduate student participating in the MEng program here at UC Berkeley. It is my goal to take what I learn in this program and pursue a career in developing new technology to enhance sports performance, to… Read More »
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Han Wang
Affinity Group Lead - Transportation/Autonomous Vehicles
My research focus on the application of deep reinforcement learning in the transportation system within the Civil & Environmental Engineering department. Currently, I’m interested in the operation of multi-agent system.
Xiyu (Ida) He
Affinity Group Lead - Consulting
My name is Ida He. I was born and raised in China until the age of 16 when I came to the US as a high school freshman. I obtained my bachelor’s degree from UC Davis, double majoring in Economics and Statistics. I am now a Master of Engineering student in the IEOR department. Along… Read More »
Ruila Puskas-Juhasz
Affinity Group Lead - Artificial Intelligence
I’m a graduate student in the IEOR department, with a concentration in IP & Entrepreneurship Strategy. Before joining UC Berkeley, I studied Signal Processing for Artificial Intelligence at Télécom Paris in France. Throughout my academic journey, I’ve always liked playing with numbers. This naturally led me to study data, and later on, to study how… Read More »
Xiaolin Wang
Affinity Group Lead - Product Design
Xiaolin is a Master of Engineering student in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) department at UC Berkeley. Xiaolin graduated from the Ohio State University in 2020 with a major in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Design Thinking. He is now attending UC Berkeley to study ME with a specialization in Product Design. During his time… Read More »
Murat Arcak
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department Faculty Lead
Murat Arcak is a professor at UC Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department. He received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (1996) and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997 and 2000). His research is in dynamical systems and control… Read More »
Forrest Brandt
Communications for Engineering Leaders
Forrest is a first year graduate student at the School of Information focusing on Data Science. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Davidson College and upon graduation spent his first few years teaching high school English and Economics in China. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked as a Data and Analytics Sr. Analyst at… Read More »
Heidi Maqueos
Student Affairs & Admissions Advisor
Heidi has worked in higher education admissions as an advisor for the past three years previously at the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership and most recently with Online/On-campus MPH (OOMPH) program at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health where she supported early to mid career professionals in their admissions process. Heidi recognizes and understands the… Read More »
Cal G. Gonzales
Professional Ethics; Organizational Behavior and Negotiations
Cal is a seasoned attorney with significant government, regulatory, investigative and in-house experience. He served as a trial attorney with the US Department of Justice and as an enforcement attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is currently an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Legal and Compliance Division, and Deputy Head of the… Read More »
Leyla Seka
Partner, Operator Collective
Leyla Seka spent over 11 years at Salesforce where she most recently served as the executive vice president of the Salesforce Mobile platform experience, enabling all customers to unlock the power of Salesforce from anywhere. Prior to her current role, Ms. Seka was executive vice president of the Salesforce AppExchange, where she launched a refreshed… Read More »