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M.S. and Ph.D. Alumni

Robert Lewis (M.S. 1981) has had his website on academia ranked among the top 2% in the world: (fordham.academia.edu/RobertLewis).

Ray Van Dyke (B.A. 1985, M.S. 1989), a patent practitioner in Washington, DC, is teaching a course on the basics of intellectual property for the Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland, where he is Chair of the intellectual Property Section; continues as Chair of the Greater Washington, DC Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society; and is an officer in the Patent Lawyers’ Club of Washington, DC.

Mary Szymkowski (M.S. 1991) purchased The Cat Hospital of Durham and Chapel Hill in August 2015, realizing her dream of owning a veterinary practice.

Ronald Azuma (M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1995) was named an IEEE Fellow for 2016, and was a panelist at SIGGRAPH 2015 on the panel “The Renaissance of VR: Are We Going to Do it Right This Time?”

Sixth Sense was purchased by Evolving Systems for $10 million. Don Stone (Ph.D. 1995), who had served as Chief Technology Officer for Sixth Sense, assumed the position of Vice President of Research & Development.

Dan Palmer (Ph.D. 1996), Russell Eberhart, co-inventor of Particle Swarm Optimization, and Marc Kirschenbaum hosted the Swarm/Human Blended Intelligence Workshop (SHBI 2015) in September 2015. This IEEE and ACM sponsored workshop featured research on the interaction between human and machine intelligence. It also featured a particle swarm simulation in which humans on a large field played the role of particles.

Mark Mine (M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1997) was recognized in February 2015 by the 13th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards in Los Angeles with an award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project. Mine, along with Tony Apodaca, Marianne McLean, Gilles Martin, and Edwin Chang, worked on Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquee de Remy (English title: "Ratatouille: The Adventure"), the new trackless ride in La Place de Rémy at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris. Read more about Mark’s work with Disney in the feature Creating Magic from Code.

Miguel Otaduy (Ph.D. 2004) was elected to the 2015 Eurographics Association Executive Committee.

“First,” a real estate startup co-founded by Jess Martin (M.S. 2007), received investments totaling $750k during the summer of 2015.

Tabitha Peck (Ph.D. 2010) was hired as an assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at Davidson College in August 2014.

Undergraduate Alumni

Mark Hutchinson (B.S. 1981) participated in the NC Data4Good event in November 2015 to help the United Way and Foodbank of Central and Eastern NC feed the hungry. He plans to work with culinary schools, university and high school nutrition programs, grocery stores, Campbell Law School, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government, and transportation companies to help tackle the huge problem of hunger in our state.

Andrew Certain (B.S. 1992) was recently promoted to senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services.

In Fall 2015, Amy Rae Fox (B.S. 2004) entered the doctoral program in Cognitive Science at University of California at San Diego, advised by Professor Jim Hollan. Amy joined the Design Lab, where she will research how human conceptualization of space, time, and number informs the design of information visualizations.

Kris Jordan (B.S. 2007) was hired by the Department of Computer Science as a lecturer. You can read about his experience teaching COMP 110 in our feature Computer Science Tour Guide.

Calvin Young (B.S. 2010) was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology for 2015. Calvin and his company Twice were recently featured in Issue 52 of the News & Notes.