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Rob Adams

Art Director for Destiny 2, Bungie
Previous: Atari, Electronic Arts, Naughty Dog

Sandeep Adasseri

Global Business PMO Leader,
Philips Oral Health Care

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Amit Anand

UW MSTI 2018
Product Manager II, Mastercard

Jared Andersen

AI Product Marketer
Previous: Microsoft, Intel

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Saransh Arora

Data Engineer II,
Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios

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Daniel Azua

UW MSTI 2021
Application Engineer, OnRobot

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Hrithik Bandaru

UW MSTI 2024
Software Engineer II, GEICO

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Seema Bansal

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Copilot

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Sara Bell

Senior UX Researcher, Dayforce
Previous: Microsoft, Premera Blue Cross

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Morgan Blair

Head of Design, slothparadise LLC
Previous: Store Nº8 (Walmart), Project Archer, REI, Xome

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Japneet Boyal

Product Manager, Intapp

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Padraic Casserly

UW MSTI 2018, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2019
Global Health Engineer | PhD Student

Ricky Chachra

Founder, Peferd, Inc.
Previous: Lyft, IBM

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Jay Chakalasiya

UW MSTI 2020, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2021
Software Engineer - Machine Learning, Google

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Mia Champion

Founder and Principal Consultant, Unalomia
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington
Previous: Amazon Web Services, Mayo Clinic

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Arpit Chaudhary

Senior Software Engineer, Apple
Previous: Amazon, Philips, Adobe

Nikita Chhabria

Software Development Manager, Amazon
Previous: IBM

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Magnus Christerson

Angel Investor, Self Employed

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Ken Christofferson

UW MSTI 2020, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2021
Computer Science PhD | University of Toronto

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Amani Christopher

Manufacturing Engineer,
The Boeing Company

Ilya Chugunov

Research Scientist, Adobe
Previous: Google, Meta, Microsoft

David Claridge

CTO, Viscera Health
Previous: Snowflake, Stripe, Google

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Michael Cross

UW MSTI 2021, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2022
Head of Product, Owl AI

Melroy D'Souza

UX Executive, Human-AI Product Advisor
Previous: Microsoft
Lecturer

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Gaoxi (Cici) Dai

MSTI 2018
Software Engineer, Meta

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Paul Dietz

Inventor, Maker, Educator
Previous: Microsoft, Mitsubishi Electric, Walt Disney Imagineering
Affiliate Professor, UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Yanfei (Eureka) Du

UW MSTI 2024
Product Designer II, Uber

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Alejandro Estrada

Founder & Managing Partner,
Catorce Ventures
Previous: Visa, HP, Mckinsey

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Yifei Fang

UW MSTI 2021
Senior AI Native System SW Engineer, NVIDIA

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Cody Gagnon

UW MSTI 2020
Senior Cloud Engineer, Oshkosh Corporation

Lincoln Ghioni

Manufacturing Engineer, Meta
Meta Reality Labs
Previous: Microsoft Applied Sciences Group

Bhoomika Ghosh

Senior Technical Product Manager,
Amazon Prime
Previous: Deloitte Consulting, Capgemini

Todd Gilbert

Software Developer, Amazon

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Steven Guh

UW MSTI 2020
Senior Software Engineer, Google

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Kelsey Guo

UW MSTI 2020
Senior Product Designer, Cohere Health

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Prashant Gupta

Software Development Manager, Amazon

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Pawan Gupta

Senior Manager (Software Engineering),
Amazon (AdTech)
Previous: Boeing, Tata Consultancy Services

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Steven Gustafson

AI Scientist and Co-Founder, BigFilter.AI
Assistant Teaching Professor,
University of Washington
GIX Mentor

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Ketki Hardas

UW MSTI 2020
UX Designer II, Amazon

Stephen Hilbert

Chief Business Officer, Oisin Biotechnologies, OncoSenX
Startups, E-Commerce, Investor Relations, Strategy, VC's, Consulting, Product, Sales, Manufacturing

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Tommy Ho

UW MSTI 2020
Software Engineer, Snap Inc.

Jiayuan Huang

Principle Manager at Core AI, Microsoft
NGO Founder and Board Member, Aurora Young AI Academy

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Hsinya Hung

UW MSTI 2022
Senior Service Designer, JPMorgan Chase

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Soojin Hwang

UW MSTI 2022
Product Designer, Gen AI, T-Mobile

Vasu Raj Jain

Senior Software Engineer, Amazon

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Jenna James

Product Designer, Stoke Space,
Previous: Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), Vulcan

Ted Jordan

Senior Operations Program Manager
Sales Manager, Avenue In Consulting LLC
Previous: Microsoft

Karan Juneja

Engineering Leader, Amazon
Previous: Microsoft, WeWork

Mohit Kalra

Senior Software Engineer,
Privacy-Aware AI Infrastructure
Large Technology Company
AI infrastructure (100M+ users)
Previous: Warner Brothers, Oracle, Cisco

Manav Kapoor

Sr. Technical Product Manager, Amazon
Previous: Goldman Sachs, Barclays, JP Morgan

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Ellie Kemery

Principal AI User Research Lead,
SAP Business AI
Previous: Microsoft, Nike, Brooks Running

Minjee Kim

UW MSTI 2023
Interaction Designer, YouTube | Google

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Mark Kotzer

Chief Growth Officer, North America, DareeSoft
Previous: Expedia, Startups, Liberty Mutual

Sebastian Kuhn

UW MSTI 2024, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2023
Co-founder | Product & AI Engineering, VirWave
Product Engineer, Farringdon
Previous: Astrolabe Analytics, UBS, Accenture

Priyanka Kuvalekar

Senior UX Researcher, Microsoft
Previous: Cisco

Sukhmani Lamba

Lead Product Manager, Microsoft
Previous: Wayfair, Deloitte

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Ed Lee

CEO, Seattle Partners LLC
Regional Partner-Seattle, Startup World Cup
Previous: Microsoft, Startups

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Sixuan Li

UW MSTI 2019
Senior User Experience Designer, Tableau

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Shine Lin

UW MSTI 2019
Software Engineer, Amazon

Rick Lin

Engineering Program Manager, Apple
Previous: NVIDIA

Jim Liu

Engineering Leader, PitchBook
Previous: Nordstrom, Microsoft, StockX, Starbucks

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Yifan Liu

UW MSTI 2018
Experience Designer, Electronic Arts

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Hua Lo

UW MSTI 2021
Product Designer, Expedia Group

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Zhiyuan (Mike) Ma

UW MSTI 2018, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2019
Software Engineer, Meta

Meghana Makhija

Senior Product Manager - Tech, Amazon
Previous: Deloitte Consulting, JPMorgan Chase

MaryAnn McClung

Vice President - Enterprise Solutions, Kforce
Previous: AT&T, American Airlines, CompuCom, Nortel Networks

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Bety Mehide

UW MSTI 2018
Software Engineer, Google

Geetika Mehta

Senior Technical Product Manager,
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Dennis Meinhardt

Lecturer
GM, Head of Global Program Management,
Cloud and AI Infrastructure,
Microsoft

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Garrett Millaway

UW MSTI 2022
Partnerships Manager, SpaceX
Previous: T-Mobile

Sanjay Mishra

Director of Product Management, Google
Previous: Microsoft, Oracle

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Saif Mustafa

UW MSTI 2022
Senior Account Executive, Cash Flow Portal
Previous: Groundlight AI, Deloitte Consulting

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Mark Nader

Staff Product Designer, Tava Health
Previous: Amazon Devices

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Radiya Noor

Staff Technical Product Manager,
Walmart Global Tech

GM Ogle

CEO, Vigilant Engineering
Previous: Microsoft, Fresh Consulting, Product Creation Studio

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Will Onstott

Quality and Design Verification Engineer
Optical Engineer, Microsoft

Rachelle Ornan

Associate Technical Fellow,
Cabin Experience & Design,
The Boeing Company,
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Previous: NASA, Lockheed Martin

Sunny Parawala

Software Engineer, Stripe

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Pritesh Patil

Go-to-Market Manager, Amazon
Previous: Goodreads, UW, T-Mobile

Yuecheng Peng

UW MSTI 2025
PhD Student in HCDE, University of Washington
Previous Research: UW, Tsinghua University, UC Berkeley, Zhejiang University

Kumar Rahul

Senior Research Scientist, Amazon Prime Video

Naman Rajpal

Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Brian Remick

Principal Software Architect, Microsoft

Christian Richard

Principal Design Manager, Microsoft
Previous: Philips, IBM

Elena Salaks

Business Consultant, GECH Enterprises
Previous: Microsoft

Priyanka Saraf

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Previous: Samsung Electronics

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Mikhail Savvateev

UW MSTI 2018
Product Manager, CPM Educational Program

Simran Saxena

UW MSTI 2024
Software Engineer, Microsoft

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Julia Schwarz

Principal Software Engineer, HoloLens Microsoft
Previous: Google, Microsoft (XBOX, MSR)

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Chuck Scott

UW MSTI 2020
Product Manager, Jacobian

Sarthak Shah

Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
Previous: Microsoft, Intel

Parminder Singh

Sr Technical Program Manager, Amazon
Previous: Meta, Google

Namitha Somasundaram

Manager, Engineering Product Management, Micron Technology, Inc.
Previous: Intel

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Jigar Soni

Software Engineer, Apple
Previous: Amazon Web Services, SAP

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Ralph Stegner

Cloud Transformation Executive
Azure Strategy & Enterprise Innovation
Strategic Technical Unit
Microsoft

Alexander Story

Prototype Model Maker/Industrial Designer, Microsoft Research Hardware Laboratory

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Maksim Surguy

UW MSTI 2018
Principal AI Design Technologist, Zillow
Previous: Amazon, NBC News

Swatee Surve

Chief Product Officer & Founder, Litesprite
Principal Product & Technology Executive, Convergent Catalyst Advisors
Previous: Premera Blue Cross, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Nike, Eastman Kodak

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Prashant Suryakumar

Advisor to the CEO, Quber Tech
Angel Investor/Fund Manager, Seattle Angel Conference
Previous: Microsoft, Dell

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Vivian Swain

UW MSTI 2021
Product Manager, lululemon

Jovonia Taylor-Hayes

CEO/Owner, LIFT in Life Coaching and Consulting
Previous: Amazon and Boeing

Anand Prakash Tiwary

Director of Engineering (UI), Harness
Forbes Technology Council, AI Frontier Network
Previous: Cisco, Infosys

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Ross Todrzak

UW MSTI 2021, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2022
Senior Product Manager, Alaska Airlines

Kristin Toth

Entrepreneur | Executive | Advisor | Board Member | Speaker | Educator | Author
Founder/CEO, Ulu Partners
Previous: Amazon, zuliy, Dell

Han Tran

Senior Product Innovation Manager,
Fluke Corporation
Previous: General Electric

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Genevieve Tremblay

Artist, Researcher & Creative Technologist
Previous: Microsoft, Catalytic Innovators Group, The Fulbright Program, UW

Srinidhi Vaddy

Technical Operations Engineer, Stripe Inc
Previous: Sonos, Center for AI & Robotics

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Abinaya Sree Vairasundaram

Software Development Engineer, AWS
Previous: VISA, Sprint/T-Mobile

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Vinay Reddy Varadhapally

Senior Product Manager, Amazon
Previous: JPMorgan Chase, Tesla

Richard Velazquez

Head of Product Management, Amazon Leo
CEO, Latinx MBA Association
Previous: Microsoft, Amazon, Honda R&D, Porsche AG, Ford, P&G, PepsiCo

Kelly Wald

Member of Technical Staff, Creative Design, Microsoft Robotics
Previous: The Walt Disney Studios, WME, Myspace, Booz Digital

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Yun-Cheng (Jerry) Wang

UW MSTI 2021
System Development Engineer,
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Joey Wang

UW MSTI 2021
AI Engineer, Fathom.ai

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Erick Watson

Chief Product Officer
AI, Data & Compute Infrastructure
Founder, SproutVest Advisers
Previous: Google, Microsoft, Angi

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Jim Webb

Director of Hardware Engineering, Impulse Labs
Previous: Meta, Intel, Carbon Design Group, Lockheed Martin

Lumi Wei

UW MSTI 2021
Product Designer II, Microsoft

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Ryan Wu

UW MSTI 2018
Senior Product Manager, Wyze Labs

Jason Yang

UW MSTI 2026
Associate Product Manager, Google DeepMind

Zhitao Yu

Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Previous: Google, UW, GIX, Amazon, slb

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Richard Zaragoza

Principal Product Designer
Previous: Meta, Supermodel.AI, HTC VIVE, Vulcan, Microsoft

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Yuanwei Zhang

UW MSTI 2019
Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Yuqing Zhang

UW MSTI 2023
Senior Product Designer, BridgeRock Capital

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Euphie Zhao

UW MSTI 2022
AI Product Manager turned Entrepreneur
Previous: TikTok, BridgeRock Technologies

Jianyu Zhou

UW MSTI 2018, Tsinghua MSE (DSIT) 2020
Software Engineer, Databricks

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Yujie Zhu

UW MSTI 2021
Software Engineer, Turnkey
Previous: Eigen Labs, Amazon

Dave Zucker

Autonomy Hardware Development Lead, Carbon Robotics
Previous: Microsoft, Shift Labs, Seattle Photonics Associates, BlazeMetrics, Kuleana Technology