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CIS Ph.D. Alumni

  • Dr. Alex Dayer (2024)

  • Dr. Emilio Lobato (2024)

  • Dr. Zunaira Iqbal (2024)

  • Dr. Ben Falandays (2022) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University

  • Dr. Ketika Garg (2022) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech

  • Dr. Tim Meyer (2022) —  Applied Cognitive Scientist, Pacific Science and Engineering

  • Dr. Shannon Proksch (2022) — Assistant Professor, Augustana University

  • Dr. Adolfo Ramirez-Aristizabal (2022) — Associate Principal Researcher, Accenture Labs

  • Dr. Jordan Ackerman (2022) — Associate Principal Researcher, Accenture Labs

  • Dr. Camila Alviar (2021) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University

  • Dr. Sara Schneider (2021) — Project Coordinator at UC Merced

  • Dr. Daniel Schloesser (2021) — Production Designer at gen.boutique

  • Dr. Daniel Comstock (2021) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis

  • Dr. Ayme Tomson (2021) — Lawrence Livermore National Labs

  • Dr. Matthew Turner (2021) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Earth System Science, Stanford University

  • Dr. Alexandria Pabst (2021) — Research Scientist, Accenture

  • Dr. Butovens Médé (2021)

  • Dr. Umesh Krishnamurthy (2021)

  • Dr. Morgan Fleming (2019) — Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook

  • Dr. Brandon Batzloff (2020) — Director, Frontiers of Science Institute, University of Northern Colorado

  • Dr. Gina Pretzer (2019) — Speech pathologist, Seattle-Tacoma

  • Dr. Samuel Spevack (2019) — Data Scientist, Exponent

  • Dr. Chelsea Gordon (2019) — Research and Data Analysis Lead, zyBooks

  • Dr. Tim Shea (2018) — Accenture Inc.

  • Dr. Daniel Holman (2018)

  • Dr. Laura Kelly (2018) — Post-Doctoral Fellow, Naval Research Labs, Washington, D.C.

  • Dr. Jessica Ross (2018) — Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (advisor: Alvaro Pascual-Leone)

  • Dr. David Vinson (2017) — AI Researcher, Accenture Tech Labs

  • Dr. Patricia Lichtenstein (2017) — Sessional Instructor, UC Merced

  • Dr. Maryam Tabatabaeian (2017) — Data Scientist, CISCO, CA

  • Dr. Jeffrey Rodny (2017 — Research Scientist, Neurala, Boston, MA

  • Dr. Drew Abney (2016) — Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Cincinnati (previously post-doc Indiana: Linda Smith)

  • Dr. Bryan Kerster (2016) — SMB Analyst, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA

  • Dr. Till Bergmann (2016) — Data Scientist, Sales Force Einstein

  • Dr. William Benjamin St. Clair (2016) — Machine Learning Developer, Krypton Cloud, San Francisco, CA

  • Dr. Bodo Winter (2016) — Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK

  • Dr. Alexandra Paxton (2015) — Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Connecticut (previously post-doc UC Berkeley: Tom Griffiths)

  • Dr. Shanna Erickson (2015) — Instructor, Chabot College, Las Positas College, Livermore, CA

  • Dr. Michelle Greenwood (2015) —  Assistant Director, Rising Scholars Program, Merced College

  • Dr. Katherine Livins (2015) — Data Scientist, Apple (Previously Senior Quantitative Analyst, Product Innovation and Content, Netflix)

  • Dr. Janelle Szary (2015) — Data Scientist, Pymetrics, NY

  • Dr. Justin Matthews (2014) — Assistant Professor, Psychology, California State University, Monterey Bay

  • Dr. Eva Čadež (2014) — currently interviewing for faculty jobs

  • Dr. Eric Chiu (2014) — Senior Data Scientist, Educational Results Partnership

  • Dr. Stephanie Huette (2013) — Associate Professor, University of Memphis

  • Dr. Michael Romano (2011) — Research Associate, Emory-Tibet Neuroscience Initiative

  • Dr. Corrine Townsend (2011) — Administrator, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

  • Dr. Trent Kriete (2010) — Chief Data Scientist, RxREVU, Boulder, CO

Updated 2022