Mentors
Amit Anand
UW MSTI 2018
GIX Mentor
Product Management/Development, IoT
Saransh Arora
Data Engineer II, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Daniel Azua
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
Robotics, Electronics, Automation
Hrithik Bandaru
UW MSTI 2024
GIX Mentor
Software, Product Management
Seema Bansal
Product Manager, Microsoft
Natalia Barankova
Co-Founder, Sowly
Dave Behn
Managing Director, Accenture
Sara Bell
Senior UX Researcher, Dayforce
Dani Bergey
Head of Design, Weave Bio
Morgan Blair
Sr. UX Designer, Project Archer
Tom Blank
System Architect, Meta (now retired)
Quyen Bo
Sr. Director of Business Development & Partner Management,
Amdocs and Business Partner,
5G Open Innovation Lab
Gaia Borgias
Launch Project Consultant & Partnership Manager (Interim)
GIX, University of Washington
Japneet Boyal
Product Manager, Intapp
Matt Carr
Vice President, Amazon
Padraic Casserly
UW MSTI 2018, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2019
GIX Mentor
Global Health, Prototyping, Biomedical Engineering
Jay Chakalasiya
UW MSTI 2020, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2021
GIX Mentor
Software (ML/AI), Entrepreneurship, Research
Mia Champion
Principal Consultant, Unalomia
Professor, University of Washington
Michael Chang
Medical Director,
Physical Medicine Institute
Arpit Chaudhary
Senior Software Engineer, Apple
Magnus Christerson
Angel Investor, Self Employed
Ken Christofferson
UW MSTI 2020, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2021
GIX Mentor
ML/Ai, PM, digital therapeutics, computer vision
Amani Christopher
Manufacturing Engineer,
The Boeing Company
Michael Cross
UW MSTI 2021, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2022
GIX Mentor
PM, Computer Vision, UX, Startups
Gaoxi (Cici) Dai
MSTI 2018
GIX Mentor
Software Development
Ritwika Dey
Senior Embedded Software Engineer,
Infineon Technologies
Paul Dietz
Distinguished Engineer in Residence,
Computer Science Department,
University of Toronto
Alejandro Estrada
Founder & Managing Partner,
Catorce Ventures
Yifei Fang
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
Software Engineering, AI, Data Science
David Fernandez
Principal Technical Recruiter, FIS / Atelio
Cody Gagnon
UW MSTI 2020
GIX Mentor
Full stack development, Cloud engineering, DevOps, IoT
James Gan
Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Mike Grigg
Global Director and Leadership Coach (Strategy | Change | Enablement),
APAX Coaching
Steven Guh
UW MSTI 2020
GIX Mentor
Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing
Kelsey Guo
UW MSTI 2020
GIX Mentor
Product design, UX research/design, health tech, startup
Pawan Gupta
Engineering Manager, Amazon
Prashant Gupta
Software Development Manager, Amazon
Steven Gustafson
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, BigFilter.AI
Lecturer,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
GIX Mentor
Alistair Hamilton
Lecturer,
Human Centered Design and Engineering
Principal,
Design Leadership Consulting
Ketki Hardas
UW MSTI 2020
GIX Mentor
UX Design/Research, Design Ops, AI, Cloud
Tommy Ho
UW MSTI 2020
GIX Mentor
CS, software engineering, AI, ML, data science, big tech, startup
Ernest Hughes
Senior Consultant,
PM & Management Systems Engineer,
HughesGlobal LLC
Soojin Hwang
UW MSTI 2022
GIX Mentor
UX Design, Product Design, UX for AI
George Jacob
Senior Product Manager, Qualtrics
Jenna James
Senior UX Designer,
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Ellie Kemery
Principal AI User Research Lead,
SAP Business AI
Mark Kotzer
Growth Advisor, Kotzer Consulting LLC
Rich Lappenbusch
Senior Principal, Supermicro
Ed Lee
CEO, Seattle Partners LLC
Tianke (Coco) Li
UW MSTI 2019
GIX Mentor
UX design, visual design, IoT, Industrial design
Sixuan Li
UW MSTI 2019
GIX Mentor
UX research/design, product design, data visualization, BI, analytics
Shine Lin
UW MSTI 2019
GIX Mentor
Software, Hardware, IoT, Arvr
Jim Liu
Software Engineering, Engineering Leadership, Commerce, Marketplace, Gen AI
Yifan Liu
UW MSTI 2018
GIX Mentor
UX design, product design, Web3, VC
Yun (Savi) Liu
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
UX/product design, product management
Hua Lo
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
Product Design, Entrepreneurship
Zhiyuan (Mike) Ma
UW MSTI 2018
Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2019
GIX Mentor
Computer science, software, big tech
Bety Mehide
UW MSTI 2018
GIX Mentor
software engineering (full stack/product)
Dennis Meinhardt
Lecturer
GM, Head of Global Program Management,
Cloud and AI Infrastructure,
Microsoft
Dominick Mendoza
UW MSTI 2020
GIX Mentor
Project and product Management, video game industry (quality assurance)
Garrett Millaway
UW MSTI 2022
GIX Mentor
Program and project management, Network, AI, & Cyber Security
Saif Mustafa
UW MSTI 2022
GIX Mentor
Product/program management, startup, AI/ML, UX design, technology consulting
Mark Nader
Senior UX Designer, Amazon Devices
Kaibao Nie
Associate Teaching Professor,
University of Washington Bothell
Radiya Noor
Sr. Technical Product Manager, Amazon
Francisco Gomez Olmedo
Partner, K&L Gates LLP
Nicholas Ong
CEO,
Format Health, World Ventilator Foundation
Will Onstott
Optical Engineer, Microsoft
Adiba Orzikulova
PhD Candidate,
Networking & Mobile Systems Lab (NMSL),
KAIST
Pritesh Patil
Senior Marketing Manager, Deako
Carl Picciotto
Senior Manager / Director of Electrical Engineering, Accenture
Rishi Razdan
Director of Product Management,
Green Dot Corporation
Christian Richard
Principal Design Manager, Microsoft
Mara Rocha
Digitial Experience Design Manager, DSM
Mikhail Savvateev
UW MSTI 2018
GIX Mentor
Product management, UX, entrepreneurship, business management
Julia Schwarz
Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Chuck Scott
UW MSTI 2020
GIX Mentor
Product management, digital health, NLU/NLP, Health AI
Yan (Regina) Song
IP Attorney, AEON Law, PLLC
Jigar Soni
Software Engineer, Apple
Prithvi Srinivasan
Machine Learning Lead, Instacart
Ralph Stegner
Global Sales Leader, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Angela Sun
UW MSTI 2019
GIX Mentor
Product management, entrepreneurship, AI/Gen AI, content creation/creator economy
Maksim Surguy
UW MSTI 2018
GIX Mentor
Robotics, ML / AI, Innovation (patents, prototypes, experiments), UX / UI, Design, Project Management, Lean startups
Prashant Suryakumar
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Ross Todzrak
UW MSTI 2021
Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2022
GIX Mentor
Entrepreneurship, Product Management, AR/VR, Design
Genevieve Tremblay
Senior Strategist, Catalytic
Innovators Group
Abinaya Sree Vairasundaram
Software Development Engineer,
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vinay Reddy Varadhapally
Product Manager, J.P Morgan Chase
Linh Vuu
Sr Technical Project Manager,
T-Mobile
Joey Wang
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
Web development, Product management, entrepreneur
Vivian Wang
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
Networking, Product Management (Data and AI Transformation), Art
Yun-Cheng (Jerry) Wang
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
Software development, Cloud Computing, DevOps, CICD, System/ Infrastructure design
Erick Watson
Co-founder & CEO, Randamu
Jim Webb
Principal Technical Program Manager, Impulse
Lu (Lumi) Wei
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
UX/UI Design
Sungjoon Steve Won
Founder & Designer, Be01
Ryan Wu
UW MSTI 2018
GIX Mentor
product management, UX design
Kexin Xu
Founder, Rise2Gether
Richard Zaragoza
Principal Product Designer, Irreverent Labs
Jared Zhang
UW MSTI 2022
GIX Mentor
Product Design, UX, UI
Yuanwei Zhang
UW MSTI 2019
GIX Mentor
software engineering
Emily Zhang
Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst,
T-Mobile
Euphie Zhao
UW MSTI 2022
GIX Mentor
Product Management, User Research, Networking, Mock Interview, Startups, FinTech, Real Estate
Jianyu Zhou
UW MSTI 2018
Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2020
GIX Mentor
Cloud Computing, Big Data, ML
Yujie Zhu
UW MSTI 2021
GIX Mentor
Software engineering (backend development, server-less backend, infrastructure as code)
