Spotlight Stories
Nov 15, 2018
Dream Co-op to Full Time Job
“I’m using my undergrad experience and my graduate experience that I built upon for my professional experience,” said Vineel Kondiboyina, MS, Bioengineering 2018. For many students, it is a dream to co-op with a company, end up loving the experience, and later ending up working for that company full time. For Vineel Kondiboyina, that is […]
Nov 09, 2018
A Powerful Combination
Ankita Pradeep, MS Data Analytics Engineering 2019, got her undergraduate industrial engineering degree in India. Back at home, she worked in the logistics industry for two years. There, she gained experience in data analysis, which drove her interest to the field and inspired her to apply to the brand-new Data Analytics Engineering master’s program at […]
Nov 02, 2018
A Fork in the Road
Zhuohan Yu, MS, Data Analytics Engineering 2021—It’s a lot easier to pick a career path when you first enter school and follow it. It’s harder to find out along the way that what you’re studying isn’t what you want to be doing. The hardest part is deciding to change your path and starting a new […]
Nov 01, 2018
Dell EMC Co-op Leads to Patent
PhD Computer Engineering student Yifan Sun has been awarded a US patent while completing his co-op at EMC. This patent is 1 of 5 patent applications that have been submitted by Dell EMC listing Sun as a co-inventor. Yifan Sun is a member of the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Laboratory. A student went off to […]
Oct 30, 2018
Ready for the High Demand Field of Data Analytics
After he did his first master’s in bioengineering, Zhenyuan Lu, MS Data Analytics Engineering 2019, realized that data analytics was something he was also very interested in. He chose Northeastern’s Data Analytics Engineering program for the variety of practical courses and the co-op program, allowing him to apply his knowledge in the real world. “The […]
Oct 05, 2018
IS is the BEST
Enthusiastic and ambitious individual Soumiya Roy, MS Information Systems 2018, already had decent experience in information technology when she first came to Northeastern all the way from New Delhi, India, to study Information Systems. Both heavily data-oriented coursework and a great co-op experience helped her grow professionally and get a full-time job in San Francisco […]
Oct 05, 2018
Building Skill and Confidence
Northeastern’s co-op experience was not just one of the best memories of Deekshitha Venkateshaiah’s, MS Information Systems 2019, life. It made her realize that Ernst & Young is the company that she wants to be a part of in the future as well. “That is the kind of flexibility and people I would want to […]
Oct 05, 2018
Opportunity Strikes
Northeastern’s co-op opportunity and the cultural diversity on campus were two factors that motivated Jerin Rajan, MS Information Systems 2019, to apply for the Information Systems master’s program and eventually move all the way from Mumbai, India. Before joining Northeastern’s College of Engineering, Rajan had worked with Big Data and Business Intelligence systems quite extensively. […]