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Atul Nipane

Aug 11, 2022

MSIS Alumnus Pushes Patient Monitoring Forward

Atul Nipane graduated from Northeastern University with an MS in information systems in 2017. He is currently a software test engineer at Philips, a position he has held since October […]

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

Parth Gargava

Aug 11, 2022

Bringing Blockchain Technologies to the Financial World

Parth Gargava joined Northeastern University in the Fall of 2016 as a MS in information systems student. Throughout his studies, Gargava focused on advanced data science, application development, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; but it was his passion for blockchain and cryptocurrency that ignited his career.

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

Evan Kodra

Jul 27, 2022

Alum Evan Kodra Is Driven To Make a Difference

Evan Kodra, PhD’14, interdisciplinary engineering, co-founded risQ, a startup that factors the impacts of climate change and social equity into municipal investment decisions. With its success, he also established a graduate fellowship for future climate-change researchers at Northeastern’s College of Engineering.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

David Sequino

Jul 01, 2022

From Co-op Student to Co-op Sponsor—and Cheerleader

David Sequino, E’90, electrical engineering, is proud to say that every employee in the Boston office of his company, INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS), is not only a Northeastern graduate—but almost all were also former co-op students. As co-founder and chief executive officer of ISS, Sequino has been an enthusiastic supporter of Northeastern’s co-op program since the company was created in 2010.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Patrick Carey

Apr 21, 2022

In the ‘Spirits’ of Entrepreneurship Mechanical Engineering Alumnus Launches Company

In early 2016, childhood best friends Patrick Carey, E’06, mechanical engineering, and Jesse Sommer reunited to plot yet another entrepreneurial venture.  Inspired by the fervor of New York State’s budding […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Mark Schanfein

Feb 01, 2022

Alum Mark Schanfein Can’t Sit Still

Curiosity has taken him around the world, including behind the walls of North Korea’s nuclear program Growing up on Long Island, Mark Schanfein, E’72, mechanical engineering, couldn’t wait for his […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jude Arbogast.

Nov 09, 2021

Northeastern Prepared Him for Success

Alumnus Jude Arbogast, E’19, civil engineering, explains all the opportunities that Northeastern University provided to prepare him to take on new and exciting challenges.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Yuqi Fang

Oct 18, 2021

Pivoting to Tech Leads to Co-op and Full-Time Job at Facebook

Yuqi Fang, MS’21, information systems, wanted to pivot her career from psychology to information technology. She joined the information systems program at Northeastern’s Silicon Valley campus, and focused in web development and design. One of Fang’s notable endeavors was a Facebook hackathon, where participants build projects using Facebook programs. She did a co-op with Facebook’s privacy team, and is now a full time software engineer there.

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)