Khoury Stories
Students. Faculty. Alumni. Community. These are our stories.
Ivy Jordan
For Ivy Jordan, Khoury College’s combined majors awakened a passion to try every field adjacent to computer science. Originally pursuing cybersecurity and criminal justice, she switched into computer science and […]
Ellen Spertus
Ellen Spertus’s programming journey began in her childhood, and led her to a 10-year career as a research scientist at Google. While teaching at Khoury College’s Oakland campus, she encourages […]
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Chris Paul
Eleven different times, Chris Paul has either co-founded a startup or joined on the ground floor. And whether it was online media or rowing machines or an internet-enabled basketball hoop, […]
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Ron Williams
Ronald J. Williams is a retired professor at Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and one of the founding pioneers of neural networks. Today’s neural network platforms such as ChatGPT […]
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Martin Zoltick
Martin Zoltick was part of the first graduating class of Khoury College in 1983 with a BS in Computer Science. He says, “Back then, we had an older building where […]
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Brenda Bailey
As Northeastern University explored launching a new computer science campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada’s second largest tech and innovation hub, they received invaluable support from an expert in the […]
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Rekha Kamat
When Rekha Kamat (MSCS ‘05) was a young girl with a budding passion for science and technology, little did she imagine that she would one day become a prominent leader […]
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Brian Wenzinger
When Brian Wenzinger’s high school guidance counselor suggested he check out the computer science program at Northeastern University, Wenzinger wasn’t sure he would be going to college. It wasn’t a […]
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Melinda Kramer
For Melinda Kramer, professional pivots are nothing new. That’s how Kramer, a member of Northeastern’s first computer science graduating class, marched from R&D co-ops and Wall Street firms to software […]
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Bela Labovitch
Bela Labovitch is leading the way in technology and mentorship at athenahealth, where she is the VP of engineering. A fierce advocate for women in technology, she speaks regularly at […]
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Chris Lambert
When deciding where to go for college in the early 2000s, former Lyft CTO Chris Lambert chose Northeastern University in part off the strength of the co-op program. “I found […]
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Praful Mathur
Since his childhood days, Praful Mathur relished computer science. He just didn’t always know what to do with it. “I wanted to do anything with computers. I would stay up […]
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Natasha Noy
Research has been a driving force of Natasha Noy’s career. After completing her bachelor’s degree at Moscow State University, Noy began applying for United States-based PhD programs in computer science […]
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Maggie Xu
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Affiliation:
- Align Alumni
Location: Seattle
In the middle of the pandemic, Maggie Xu became a mother. Having completed the Align program in 2016, her roles at major tech companies helped her support her new family […]
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Melody Biringer
Melody Biringer calls herself a connection engineer. “I think about how I can engineer an event so that the audience gets seen and heard and connected to each other, versus […]
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Laurel Yamaguchi
Pivotal Ventures was founded by Melinda French Gates to bring more equality and opportunity to people in the United States. Laurel Yamaguchi, Pivotal’s lead for women and tech innovation, focuses […]
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Padmaja Vrudhula
Padmaja Vrudhula considers herself a reluctant technologist. In fact, she originally planned on being a neurosurgeon, but her early experience with an internship at a Seattle software company led her […]
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Daron Green
When Daron Green managed operations and academic relations for Facebook Research in 2018, he saw an issue in its hiring pool: a nominal proportion of women and groups historically underrepresented […]