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Gosuddin Kamaruddin Siddiqi
MSIM, 2018
As of 2025, Gosuddin Kamaruddin was working at Microsoft, focused on NLP, ML and AI fields.
Lauren Sullivan
MLIS, 2018
As of 2021, Lauren had recently moved back to her hometown of Elgin, Illinois, to become an adjunct librarian at Elgin Community College.
Nancy Tran
Informatics, 2018
As of 2024, Nancy was a senior product designer at Carina, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization partnered with home care and child care unions, government entities, and home care agencies. She had recently led efforts to improve web accessibility at Carina through WCAG 2.0 conformance, and planning to get certified as a CPACC, WAS, and eventually CPWA through IAAP in the future.
Jesse Van Hoy
MLIS, 2018
After spending six months at home with a newborn son, Jesse accepted a position as a content and research librarian with Echo Services and will be working on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Echo performs the bulk of the reference and research support service for Microsoft's employees.
Michael Wagner
MLIS, 2018
In 2022, Michael entered his fourth year in Amazon’s Product Knowledge org and recently (December 2021) had been promoted to Ontologist II.
Tara Wilson
Informatics, 2018
Tara celebrated her marriage to Luis Naranjo, Informatics '17, in May 2023.
Jingyu Yang
Informatics, 2018
Jingyu is working at Microsoft in Redmond on a custom security tools team as a software engineer.
Andrea Zager
MLIS, 2018
Andrea is working as a K-5 school library media specialist in the Northshore School District.
Maxwell Zhou
Informatics, 2018
After graduation, Maxwell started at Visa as a penetration tester for mobile and IoT platforms. After a year, Maxwell moved to a cybersecurity firm as a senior cybersecurity consultant and now serves a variety of large organizations in the space.
Kelsey Aiello
Informatics, 2017
Kelsey started working as a UX Designer at Costco in 2023 after four years at Epic Systems.