Cynthia Guidry, B.S. ’92, Civil Engineering Deputy Executive Director of Planning and Development, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) Guidry was the first in her family to go to college. She chose a UC because it was close to home and she could commute, which was a significant financial savings for her parents. As a young...
David Cuccia, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’06, Biomedical Engineering Founder, CEO and CTO, Modulated Imaging David Cuccia began thinking about a novel light-based imaging technology when he was a physics major at UC. He went on to earn both a master’s and a doctorate in biomedical engineering, and his dissertation was on spatial frequency domain imaging...
Diane Bryant Former Chief Operating Officer, Google Cloud, B.S. '85 UC electrical engineering alumna Diane Bryant is one of the most powerful women in tech. Most recently, she was the chief operating officer of Google’s Cloud Platform, and was previously the senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation’s Data Center Group, a role...
Jackie Villalobos UC Engineer Jackie Villalobos, a fourth year electrical engineering student at UC, has some advice for future engineering students: get involved on campus! She learned this the hard way. “My first year, I wasn’t involved in anything at all,” she said. “I came in and thought I’m just going to get on top...
Jervaughn Hunter B ioengineering Graduate Student From Port Gibson, Mississippi to the bioengineering lab of Karen Christman at a UC, Jervaughn Hunter said growing up he had no clue he’d one day be in graduate school. Now that he is, he makes it a priority to share the knowledge he’s gained along the way with...
J oan Wada, BS ’85, Electrical Engineering Systems Engineer and Technical Fellow, Boeing Co. Submarine warfare, competitive figure skating and unicycle musicianship are all part of Joan Wada’s story. Growing up in Gardena, she played the clarinet – sometimes while riding a one-wheeled cycle. She chose a UC because she wanted to stay near family...
Juan Banales (BS’13 ME) wasn’t the only person in his family to earn an engineering degree, but he was the first to have a career in engineering with the support of the University of California. Banales’ father earned a degree in agricultural engineering in Mexico, but despite his education and early jobs in engineering, he...
Scott Moura (B.S.’06 ME) is the oldest of four boys, all of whom aspired to attend a four-year university. But early on, Moura’s parents made it clear that they wouldn’t be able to afford to send all of their kids to college. They would need to cobble together financial aid and scholarships to make that...
