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hanan throwing her graduation cap up in the air

Feb 04, 2020

MSIS Grad Turned Data Scientist

Hanan Khalid Alsalamah, MS’18, information systems, came to Northeastern University from Saudi Arabia, her home country, in the fall semester of 2016 having already researched how she wanted to navigate […]

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

Amal Bukhari

Jan 14, 2020

From Saudi Arabia to Boston and Two Degrees in Between

Amal Bukhari traveled from Saudi Arabia to Boston to pursue an MS in information systems. While at Northeastern she realized her passion for learning, and the importance of furthering her […]

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

doctoral student working in chemical engineering lab

Nov 21, 2019

Taking Research to the NSF I-Corps ‘Shark Tank’

Zach Rogers, a chemical engineering PhD student in Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif’s lab, developed a novel proposal and was selected to join the Northeastern node of the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program for his work.

Chemical Engineering

student working at Toyota Research Institute manning a table at a fair

Nov 20, 2019

Thinking Out of the Box at Toyota Research Institute

When Amanda Zhu graduated from Northeastern University in May of 2018 with a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering, she only had to wait a month before she started […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

students and teacher in front of MGEN sign on campus

Nov 19, 2019

Opening Doors Through Open Source Projects

Professor Tejas Tarikh (left) with his team of students, Krish Jain, Neha Jain, Dhanisha Phadate, and Renu Hadke. The team developed Ansible Podman during their open source project with Red […]

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

student in tall building looking out window with Boston buildings below

Nov 19, 2019

From the Classroom to the CEO’s Office

When Hardik Mody came to Northeastern University in the fall of 2018 he thought he would mostly be studying cloud domain and would hopefully finish with the ability to code […]

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

Northeastern student Alex Bender works on a Dell laptop in the sunlit offices of Boom Supersonic.

Oct 16, 2019

Supersonic Air Travel is on the Verge of a Comeback, and He’s in the Middle of It

Industrial engineering student Alex Bender, E’20, wanted to pursue the idea of high-speed travel, so he reached out to a company and convinced them to hire him as a co-op.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Ricardo Careaga

May 23, 2019

From Paraguay to Northeastern University

When Ricardo Careaga, MS Energy Systems and Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, 2019, was a child growing up in Asuncion, Paraguay, he would frequently go to buy goods at a corner […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Gordon Engineering Leadership Program