Meet Our Student Scholars
Meet Our Student Scholars
Meet Our Student Scholars
Meet Our Student Scholars
- 2017 Cohort

Brian Bick
Class of 2020 Major: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Catalysts for energy production, metamaterials, thin film technology
Favorite Thing About SBU: The mentors and people who believed in me and helped guide me to success.

Douglas Clare
Major: Environmental Studies

Adam Dean
Class of 2020 Major: Coastal Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Marine Ecology, Estuarine Restoration, Coastal Zone Management, Ocean Acidification, Marine Trophic Cascades
Favorite Thing About SBU: My favorite thing about SBU would have to be the research opportunities, and faculty that I have met. I have made some very amazing and interesting connections to faculty and other members of the coastal conservation community, and enjoyed a break from main campus by taking advantage of the semester by the sea program (which allows those who want to be involved the opportunity to get out of the classroom and do some fieldwork).

Jose Menjivar
Class of 2019 Major: Applied Math and Statistics

Edina Laliberte
Major: Geology

Jerry Tingley
Class of 2019 Major: Applied Math and Statistics

Julianna Volpe
Class of 2019 Major: Mechanical Engineering
- 2018 Cohort

Steven Butera
Class of 2020 Major: Biochemistry

Ramez Kaupak
Class of 2020 Major: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Sustainable energy, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence
Favorite Thing About SBU: Rigorous Electrical Engineering Program

Joshua Hastings
Class of 2020 Major: Civil Engineering

Kevin Hatton
Class of 2020 Major: Geology
Research Interests: Geochemistry
Favorite Thing About SBU: Being able to work in the FIRST (Facility for Isotope Research and Student Training) lab doing research in the Turkana Basin

Kathan Shah
Class of 2019 Major: Computer Science

ChuXiang Wang
Class of 2020 Major: Mathematics
Career Interests: Software engineer or analyst
Favorite Thing About SBU: Making friends and taking classes.

Nattarika Saengkhueankaeo
Major: Geology

Brian Serra
Major: Chemistry

Wenshu Dong
Class of 2020 Major: Applied Math and Statistics

Andrey Lavrentyev
Class of 2020 Major: Computer Science

Fatou Jobe
Major: Biology
Career Interest: Biological scientist
Favorite Thing About SBU: Being a part of S-STEM ASSETS
- 2019 Cohort

Dmitri Bazile
Major: Engineering chemistry/Chemistry

Larissa Chraim
Major: Marine Science

Asia Flood
Class of 2021 Major: Chemical Engineering

Sara Foley
Major: Geology

Max Gomez
Major: Marine Vertebrate Biology

Crystal Huang
Major: Biochemistry

Ryan Sanders
Class of 2020 Major: Chemical Engineering

Hayley Levine
Major: Astronomy

Andrew Sillato
Major: Biochemistry

Amanda Tyrrell
Major: Psychology

Gabrielle Vaillant
Major: Applied Math and Statistics

Panqian Wang
Major: Biology
- 2020 Cohort

Aaron Berkman
Major: Computer Science

Marileidy Gonzalez Rivera
Major: Biochemistry

Matthew Guidi
Major: Computer Science

Yanqiu Guo
Major: Applied Math and Statistics

William Laffey
Major: Biology

Jameliah Litchmore
Major: Biology

Chloe Mack
Major: Computer Science

Natalie Navedo
Major: Biology

Sherzod Nimatullo
Major: Computer Science

Ayotunde Otuyelu
Major: Biology

Qi Pan
Major: Civil Engineering

Jacinto Rojas
Major: Marine Biology

Justin Schwartz
Major: Chemistry

Gianna Sclafani-Zamora
Major: Geology

Nkeiru Ubadike
Major: Physics

Yajie Wang
Major: Computer Science

Shihao Wen
Major: Physics

Sarah Yousef
Major: Biology
- 2021 Cohort

Jiajun Chen
Class of 2023 Major: Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer vision
Favorite Thing About SBU: S-STEM ASSETS and the library

Myles Tucker
Class of 2023
Major: Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Vibration Mechanics & Structural Dynamics of simple and complex structural systems (with Dr. Paolo Celli), Matrix Structural Analysis (conducted by myself over the winter break).
Favorite Thing About SBU: I love the environment that SBU’s staff and students make up. The Civil Engineering program is a smaller, but tight nit, department where everyone is super close to each other, regardless of whether you are a student, TA, or professor.

Jose Liang
Class of 2023 Major: Computer Science
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence
Favorite Thing About SBU: Nice place to jog!

Johnathan C. Linton
Class of 2023 Major: Biology
Research Interests: Interested in researching animal related studies, especially studies involving wolves & wolf diversity such as insight on the development of coastal Sea wolves in Canada
Favorite Thing About SBU: There are many different events that give you opportunities to socialize and meet new students who share similar interest or who are just cool people in general to interact with.

Arianna Luna
Class of 2023 Major: Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Water resources engineering
Favorite Thing About SBU: My favorite things about SBU are the very helpful programs, clubs, people.

Thomas Cappello
Class of 2023 Major: Chemistry
Research Interests: Anything within the scope of chemistry
Favorite Thing About SBU: Stellar Steps and Intramural Sports

Zhenchao Xia
Class of 2022 Major: Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer Vision
Favorite Thing About SBU: Best learning community and all kinds of interesting club activities.

Jeremy Lutsky
Class of 2023 Major: Computer Science
Research Interests: Interested in threat analysis and mitigation techniques in cyber security
Favorite Thing About SBU: Working collaboratively with other students on computer science projects

Kayla Huaranga
Class of 2023 Major: Biology
Research Interests: I’m open to anything to do and may be related to environmental, genetics or marine life
Favorite Thing About SBU: Having a lot of common with my peers in regards to aspirations and goals.

Emily Byrnes
Class of 2023 Major: Biochemistry
Research Interests: Sustainability, Bioenergy
Favorite Thing About SBU: All the events and giveaways on campus every day and the friend’s I’ve made

Megumi Imaizumi
Class of 2023 Major: Biology
Research Interests: My research interests are animal & wildlife conservation. Consequently, I'm also interested in climate change and it's effect on the environment.
Favorite Thing About SBU: My favorite thing about SBU is there are many opportunities and clubs you can join and be apart of because it is such a large campus.

Michael Campos
Class of 2023 Major: Computer Science
Research Interests: Still figuring it out.
Favorite Thing About SBU: The New Computer Science Building

Tuyen Vo
Class of 2024 Major: Computer Science
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