GRADUATES OF 2005

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE




• MICHAEL AREEN - Michael will be moving to San Diego and will work for Torrey Pines Capital Investment, a mid-size long short global macro hedge fund, as their first and only quantitative analyst. His job description includes model building, regression analysis, risk management, and statistical arbitrage. If successful, he hopes to stay in finance, perhaps one day becoming a fund manager himself.
  
  
• MICHAEL RAFFI ASMAR - (With Honors, with University Distinction) Michael will move to New York City and begin working for Morgan Stanley in the Institutional Equity Division. More specifically he will be working on the Derivatives Trading desk as an analyst.
  
  
• KATARZYNA "KASIA" BRYC - Kasia will be working at Joanna Mountain's lab doing research in anthropological genetics, applying her statistics knowledge to a lifetime interest of hers. She will return home to Ohio while making travel plans to go to Poland.
  
  
• WILLIAM YEN CHIEH CHAN - Upon receiving his diploma, William will move to New York to work with Thomas Weisel Partners investment banking. In the future, he looks forward to attending law school or finding some way to work for himself.
  
  
• HEITOR CHANG - Heitor plans to continue studying at Stanford in the Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. program. He will focus his research on computer multiscale simulations of thin-film adhesion and debonding, which has practical use in microelectronic applications.
  
  
• RAVI GROVER - Ravi, who is graduating with minors in Philosophy and Art Practice (focus in Photography and Digital Art) will be pursuing a Masters in Statistcs at Stanford while working part time with the San Francisco 49ers (doing player and play-by-play analysis) and/or Zazzle (a pre-IPO startup in Palo Alto). He will also be maintaining a yearlong digital art installation of his called "trip," which is located in Stanford's on-campus museum, the Cantor Center. He is also involved in the Silicon Valley Network Analysis Project (SiVNAP) based their various studies.
  
  
• MICHAEL ALEXANDER GUCWA - Michael will be completing a coterm in Management Science & Engineer. He will remain at Stanford over the summer doing research on reputation systems directed by Ashish Goel in the MS&E department.
  
  
• JONATHAN LEE HILL - Jon will be moving to New York to work with the interest rate derivatives group in the FICC division of Goldman Sachs; it is a financial engineering position.
  
  
• BRENDEN WRIGHT LANE - Brenden will work for Fidelity for the summer, near his hometown of Cincinnati. He will return to Stanford in the fall to complete his co-terminal Master's in MS&E.
  
  
• LESTER GEE WAI LAU - Lester currently doesn't have any set plans. The idea right now is just to head home to Hawaii and look from there.
  
  
• SUSAN JIAFENG LI - Susan will begin working as an analyst in the Convertibles Group of Morgan Stanley's Global Capital Markets division, hopefully having fun in New York and missing California, Stanford and the sun terribly.
  
  
• TREOR DAVID LOVETT - [[will technically graduate at the end of summer so no definite career plans yet]] Most likely, will travel for a year and continue to play jazz in the Bay Area or in New York.
  
  
• SHAUN MICAH LYSEN (with Honors) - Shaun Lysen is graduating with honors with an emphasis in Statistics in MCS. His future plans include pursuing a Ph.D in Statistics from the University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School. For the summer, Shaun will relax at home in Minnesota, and catch up on some much needed sleep, watch an enormously large number of movies, enjoy leisure reading for the first time in four years, and prepare himself for his Ph.D. studies. He would also like to travel to Europe. His future plans are to either pursue a career in academic or perhaps a career in industry or government.
  
  
• CONNIE PHONG - Connie will continuing work on optimal orbital maneuvers to rotate line of apsides at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. The problem is applicable to space mission design in general, but is being supported by work she has d one as a member of the Mission Design and Navigation Team for the Mars Telcom Orbiter, which will provide data relay support to NASAS's next generation of Martian surface missions. She'll be making her first conference appearance this summer at the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference. This work along with some traveling will be a nice year-long break and allow her to really figure out which area she'd like to pursue further in graduate school. She's narrowed it down to mathematical biology, astrodynamics, or applied math with a focus on earth sciences.
  
  
• GARY JAMES RAICHART (with Honors, with University Distinction & Phi Beta Kappa) - Gary has completed a coterm in Management Science & Engineering this quarter, and will be working for Standard & Poor's Applied Decision Analysis group in the Corporate Value Consulting department, where he will be an associate at the office in East Palo Alto on University Avenue.
  
  
• WAEL IBRAHIM SALLOUM (with Honors) - Plans to return home to manage an oil refinery for the summer; travel across Europe and backpack across Lebanon. Then return to Stanford to complete his CME masters next year.
  
  
• ADAM RICHARD SCIAMBI - Will start his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford, most likely in the field of condensed matter physics.
  
  
• CAROLINE REISS SMETANA (with Honors) - Caroline will be working forMorgan Stanley in New York. Specifically, she will join the Fixed Income structured product's group that focuses on Collateralized Debt Obligations.
  
  
• ALEXANDER DAVID SMYTH - Next year, Alexander Smyth will be staying at Stanford to begin Masters degree in Management Science & Engineering. Anything beyond that is pure speculation.
  
  
• THOMAS DEAN THOMAS - Thomas was a Stanford student between Fall 1973 and Spring 1977. He had been accepted as a co-terminal master's student but never returned to complete masters degree. Now he needs proof of his undergraduate degree to be accepted into a Master's Program elsewhere. He was awarded a MathCompSci BS at end of Autumn Quarter 2004-05.
  
  
• SEAN LEE TYAN - Sean did a dual major in MCS and Economics. He will start working at CRA International, an economics consulting firm in August. He hopes to gain work experience for a few years before returning to graduate school either in Statistics or Economics.
  
  
• PAUL CHRISTOPHER WILKINS (with Honors, with PBK) -- Starting this fall, he will be teaching high school math in the Baltimore Public School system through the Teach for America Program, which places recent college graduates as teachers in low-income schools. He will also be enrolled in a Master of Arts in Teaching program at Johns Hopkins University while teaching. That will be a 2-year commitment, after which he intends to either keep teaching or return to school to study Computer Science at the graduate level.
  
  
• CATHERINE YIN-SAN WONG - (with Distinction) -- will be working for Kaiser Permanente as a Consulting Data Analyst in their Management Information and Analysis department. This is an arm of the finance department that runs all sorts of analysis and feeds recommendations based on these analyses to senior leadership. Some aspects of the healthcare business that this department looks at include membership, utilization, capital planning, accounting and budgeting. This position really combines her interest in healthcare with her technical background.
  
  
• MARK ZAVISLAK (With University Distinction, PBK) - Co-terming in Computer Science, Mark is receiving his MS this month; he'll be at Google, Inc. this summer and beyond. He plans on going to night law school at Santa Clara after skipping a year.