Computing PhD Graduates

Graduated Fall 2021
Post-graduation employment: Computational Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory in Boise, ID

Tyler Phillips’ LinkedIn

Tyler Phillips’ Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2020
Post-graduation employment: Senior Software Engineer at Apple in San Diego, CA

Kathryn Drake’s LinkedIn

Graduated Fall 2022
Post-graduation employment: Investigator, Bioinformatics at Scribe Therapeutics in Alameda, CA

James Beck’s LinkedIn

Graduated Fall 2022
Post-graduation employment: Plasma Physics Group at Sandia National Lab, Postdoc Position

Andrew Jones’ LinkedIn

Graduated in Fall 2023
Post-graduation employment: Senior Scientist at BAE Systems Inc. in Arlington, Virginia

Miu Lun Lau’s LinkedIn

Miu Lun Lau’s Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2024
Post-graduation employment: Postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sante Fe, NM

Damyn Chipman’s LinkedIn

Damyn Chipman’s Google Scholar

Graduated Summer 2024
Post-graduation employment: Postdoctoral position at the Center for Ocean Atmospheric Predictions Studies at Florida State University, Tallahassee

Yao Gahounzo’s LinkedIn

Yao Gahounzo’s Google Scholar

Graduated Summer 2024
Post-graduation employment: Postdoctoral position at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Brian Kyanjo’s LinkedIn

Brian Kyanjo’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2025
Post-graduation employment: Pending

Michael Chiwere’s LinkedIn

Graduated Fall 2019
Post-graduation employment: Assistant Professor at Miami University and Director of the NSSR Cybersecurity Lab

Samer Khamaiseh’s LinkedIn

Samer Khamaiseh’s Google Scholar

Graduated in Fall 2021
Post-graduation employment: Software Engineer at KLA, Portland, OR

Golam Bashar’s LinkedIn

Golam Bashar’s Google Scholar

Graduated Summer 2021
Post-graduation employment: Machine Learning Engineer at Micron in Boise, ID

A K M Nuhil Mehdy’s LinkedIn

A K M Nuhil Mehdy’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2022
Post-graduate employment: Raytheon

Will Unger’s LinkedIn

Graduated in Fall 2023
Post-graduation employment: Software Engineer at Amazon in San Francisco, CA, building an infrastructure for benchmarking and deploying Alexa’s Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models

Ning Shen’s LinkedIn
Ning Shen’s Google Scholar 

Graduated Fall 2023
Post-graduation employment: Assistant Professor of Cyber Systems at University of Nebraska, Kearney (UNK)

Chidi Agbo’s LinkedIn

Chidi Agbo’s Google Scholar

Graduated Summer 2024
Post-graduation employment: Tenure track Assistant Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), a private university in Wisconsin

Chibuzo Ukegbu’s LinkedIn

Graduated Spring 2025
Post-graduation employment: Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech in Bentonville, AK

Nahid Anwar’s LinkedIn

Nahid Anwar’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2019
Post-graduation employment: Machine Learning Engineer at Micron Technology in Boise, ID

Eddie Davis’s LinkedIn

Graduated Fall 2019
Post-graduation employment: Senior Data Scientist at Lowe’s Companies, Inc. in Mooresville, NC

Ion Madrazo’s LinkedIn

Ion Madrazo’s Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2020
Post-graduation employment: Data Scientist at Climate Corp in Seattle, WA

Mikel Joaristi’s LinkedIn

Mikel Joaristi’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2022
Post-graduation employment: Mixed Methods User Experience Researcher at Ivanti in Boise, ID

Dhanush Kumar Ratakonda’s LinkedIn

Dhanush Kumar Ratakonda’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2022
Post-graduate employment: Machine Learning Engineer at Intel Corporation in Portland, OR

Anu Shrestha’s LinkedIn

Anu Shrestha’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2022
Post-graduate employment: Software Engineer II, Contractor at Meta in Redmond, WA

Iker Vazquez Lopez’s LinkedIn

Iker Vazquez Lopez’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2023
Post-graduation employment: Senior GPU Compiler Engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego, CA

Tobi Popoola’s LinkedIn

Tobi Popoola’s Google Scholar

Graduated Summer 2023
Post-Graduation employment: Senior Scientific Programmer for Moody’s in Newark, CA

Golam Md Mortuza’s LinkedIn

Golam Md Mortuza’s Google Scholar

Graduated Summer 2023
Post-graduation employment: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Qudrat E Alahy Ratul’s LinkedIn

Qudrat E Alahy Ratul’s Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2023
Post-Graduation employment: Applied Scientist II at Microsoft

Amifa Raj’s LinkedIn

Amifa Raj’s Google Scholar

Graduated Summer 2024
Post-Graduation employment: Faculty position with California State University – San Marcos, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Kenny Ballou’s LinkedIn

Kenny Ballou’s Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2024
Post-graduate employment: Pending

Janet Layne’s LinkedIn

Janet Layne’s Google Scholar 

Graduated Fall 2024
Post-graduate employment: Data Scientist, Simplot

Graham Annett’s LinkedIn

Graham Annett’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2025
Post-graduate employment: Research Scientist, Meta Seattle

Royal Pathaks’s LinkedIn

Royal Pathak’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2025
Post-graduate employment: Pending

Josh Johnston’s LinkedIn

Graduated Summer 2025
Post-graduate employment:Tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Central Arkansas’ Computer Science and Engineering Department, Conway, AR

Sharif Ahmed’s LinkedIn

Graduated Summer 2022
Post-graduation employment: Data Scientist at Novant Health in Winston-Salem, NC

Mintaek Lee’s LinkedIn

Graduated Fall 2022
Post-graduation employment: Advanced Modeling Engineer/Data Scientist at Micron Technology

Amir Farizhandi’s LinkedIn

Amir Farizhandi’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2023
Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship Award, 2023 recipient
Post-graduation employment: Post-Doc at Boise State University with Dr. Nancy Glenn developing new machine-learning algorithms to address challenges in snow density estimation
Ahmad Hojatimalekshah’s LinkedIn
Ahmad Hojatimalekshah’s Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2023
Post-graduation employment: Data Analytics Specialist/Program Admin Spec II, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in Richmond, Virginia

Md Asif Rahman’s LinkedIn

Md Asif Rahman’s Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2023
Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship Award, 2024 Recipient
Post-graduation employment: Water resources Data Scientist with Lynker’s Hydrofabrics Team developing tools, ETL data pipelines and software to support the next generation of national water models and to advance flood forecasting capabilities
Arash Modaresi Rad’s LinkedIn
Arash Modaresi Rad’s Google Scholar

Graduated Fall 2023
Post-graduation employment: Data Scientist III, Micron Technology, Boise ID

Amrina Ferdous’s LinkedIn

Graduated Spring 2024
Post-graduation employment: Data Scientist at Task Impetus Inc., New Orleans, LA

Ngozi Ihemelandu’s LinkedIn

Ngozi Ihemelandu’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2024
Post-graduation employment: Summer Internship at Idaho National Laboratories followed by a postdoc at Rutgers University, New Jersey

Tianjie Zhang’s LinkedIn

Tianjie Zhang’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2025
Post-graduation employment: Postdoctoral position with CryoGARS at Boise State University

Ibrahim Alabi’s LinkedIn

Ibrahim Alabi’s Google Scholar

Graduated Spring 2025
Post-graduation employment: Pending

Clayton Fields’ LinkedIn