Northwestern CS Celebrates Graduation of 68 Master’s Degree Students

Northwestern University’s Department of Computer Science recognizes 68 master’s degree students who graduated during Northwestern Engineering’s 2024 PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, held on December 14 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

“The Department of Computer Science at Northwestern is proud and pleased to congratulate the nearly 70 master’s degree students who received their degrees,” said Christopher Riesbeck, director of the Master of Science in Computer Science Program and associate professor of computer science. “They came to us from around the world and devoted great effort and resources in their quest for deeper knowledge and skills in computer science. We are confident that they will impress the rest of the world as they have us during their time here.”

The students who received a master’s degree in computer science during the winter ceremony included:

• Cesar Ades
• Layan Alabdullatef
• Zitao Cai
• Adam Chen
• John Chen
• Sida Chen
• Tianfeng Chen
• Yibo Chen
• Yifan Chen
• Zhendong Chen
• Vincent Chiu
• Le Fang
• Sarah Fazio
• Alex Feng
• Andrew Gao
• Nathan Greiner
• Chiao-Wei Hsu
• Zanhua Huang
• Patrick Jiang
• Ira Joshi
• Malvika Khanna
• Doohwan Kim
• Simon Kim
• Rashna Kumar
• Jiho Kwak
• John Li
• Qinyan Li
• Hongda Lin
• Peiru Liu
• Tianyi Liu
• Jiarui Lu
• Keene Lu
• Daniel Majcher
• Zayn Makdessi
• Buvani Pai
• Darshit Amit Pandya
• Maya Pandya
• Claire Pare
• Saloni Patel
• Runkai Qiu
• Nick Rao
• Breanna Reyna
• Murat Sankaya
• Soham Rajesh Shah
• Soroush Shahi Vernousfaderani
• Meisen Shu
• Chen Si
• Shengzhe Sui
• Vidhi Vazirani
• Chang Wang
• Chenyu Wang
• Keyi Wang
• Max Ward
• Blaise Webbeking
• Jiahui Wu
• Yuyuan Wu
• Anna Xiao
• Quanyue Xie
• Haichen Xu
• Oscar Xu
• Qingyuan Yao
• Zheng Yu
• Haoyang Yuan
• Congkai Zhang
• Jiusheng Zhang
• Runlei Zhang
• Wenhao Zhang
• Haoran Zhao