At Brown University’s 241st Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 24, 2009, the Computer Science Department awarded an all-time high of 42 Master of Science degrees. In addition, 56 bachelor’s degrees and seven Ph.D.s were conferred in the department’s 30th year. Chair Roberto Tamassia said, “Congratulations to the class of 2009! We enjoyed having all of you as part of the computer science ‘family’ here at Brown, and we look forward to watching your successes in the coming years.”
The graduates are:
A.B. Computer Science: Brian Chang, Landon Judkins, Nicholas Leiserson, Andrew Miller (Also completed A.B. in Music), Federico Rodriguez, Nathan Sashihara, Daniel Sprecher (Also completed A.B. in Economics), Jonathan Warren (Also completed A.B. in East Asian Studies)
Sc.B. Computer Science: Andrew Brindamour (Senior Prize), Joshua Dawidowicz, Patrick Doran, David Dufresne, Jesse Errico, Michael Feldman, Jacob Frank, Maxwell Lang, Jay Mattis, Teodor Moldovan (magna cum laude, Senior Prize, also completed Sc.B. in Physics and Math), Brian Moore, Andrew Oates, Gaurub Pandey, Gregory Pascale, Daniel Rosenberg, Christina Salvatore, Todd Shortlidge, James Stout (magna cum laude), Alexander Tuteur, Nathaniel Webb
Sc.B. Math-Computer Science: Dimitar Bounov, Andres Douglas-Castroviejo, Travis Fischer (Honors, Senior Prize), Theodora Hinkle, Matthew Jacobs, Micah Lapping-Carr (Honors), Samuel Ocko (Also completed Sc.B. in Mathematics-Physics), Timothy O’Donnell, Daniel Ricketts (magna cum laude)
Sc.B. Applied Math-Computer Science: Daniel Butler (magna cum laude), Elizabeth Cheever (Honors), Eric Czech, Alexander Franks (Honors, magna cum laude), Andrew Loomis, Catherine Ono
A.B. Computer Science-Economics: Victoria Bartolome
Sc.B. in Computer Science-Economics: Joshua Fuhrmann (magna cum laude, Senior Prize), Diana Huang, Bamidele Odueyungbo, Yaou Wei (magna cum laude), Neha Zope
Sc.B. Computational Biology: Ashwin Cadambi (Honors, magna cum laude), Alexander Chang (Honors), Jeffrey Ericson, David Ginsburg, Elena Helman (Honors), David Moskowitz, Sanjay Trehan
Concurrent Sc.M. in Computer Science and Sc.B. in Math-Computer Science: Sanghoon Cha (magna cum laude)
Sc.M. Computer Science: Muhammad Kamran Azam, Nathan John Backman, Christopher M. Barratt, Andrew Murock Bartholomew, Aysun Bascetincelik, Bradley Alan Berg, Isaac Charles, Neehar Reddy Cherabuddi, Adam Colbert Conrad, Scott Daniel, Brandon Diamond, William Doutre, Sarah Charmian Eisenstat, Kembey N. Gbarayor, Jr., Brendan Hickey, Ling-Ya Huang, Serdar Kadioglu, Edward John Kalafarski, Robert Anderson Kallman, Dong Wook Kim, Mayank Kumar, Ming-Li Lin, Chu-Chi Liu, Feng-Hao Liu, David Imre Lukas, Yuri Malitsky, Sarah Meiklejohn, Shay Mozes, Brandon Nardone, Greg Nicholas, Tyler William Odean, Andrew M. Pavlo, Jennie M. Rogers, Eric Sodomka, Deqing Sun, Ryan Tarpine, Ahmed Wilson, Payman Yadollahpour, Justin Yip, Zhenyuan Zhao, Wenjin Zhou
Ph.D. Computer Science: Yanif Ahmad, Tingjian Ge, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Jay McCarthy, Luc Mercier, Olga Papaemmanouil, John Randolpf Wicks