ISR Alumni

Steve Abrams (deceased), previously Post-Doctoral Researcher, North Carolina State University
Rohan Achar, Software Development Engineer 2, Amazon
Sushil Krishna Bajracharya, Sr. Software Engineer, NewStore, Inc.
Alex Baker, Chief Data Scientist, Armored Things
Alegria Baquero Merino, Software Engineer, ZocDoc
Mark Bergman, Senior User Researcher and Strategist, Blizzard Entertainment
Gerald Bortis, Vice President of Software Development, NextGen Healthcare
Erin Bradner, Director, Robotics, AutoDesk
Johanna Brewer, Co-Founder, Neta Snook
Judy Chen, Senior User Experience Researcher and Manager, Google
Justin Chung, Senior Technical Program Manager, Google
Leyna Cotran, Systems Engineer, Lyft and Adjunct Professor, Santa Clara University , Lyft Level 5
Nicole Crenshaw, Associate UX Researcher, Blizzard Entertainment
Eric Dashofy, Principal Director of Development, Enterprise Information Services, The Aerospace Corporation
Thomas Debeauvais, Data Scientist, Twitch
Marcio S. Dias, Technical Architect, Scott Logic Ltd, UK
Nicholas DiGiuseppe, Chief Architect, F1 Payments
Yong hun Eom, Software Engineer, Twitter
Justin Erenkrantz, Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, MLB Advanced Media, L.P.
Roy Fielding, Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems and Co-Founder, The Apache Software Foundation
Danyel Fisher, Principal Design Researcher, Honeycomb.io
Rosalva Gallardo Valencia, Privacy Program Manager, Google
Yasser Ganjisaffar, Engineering Manager, Forward Networks
Victor Gonzalez, Founder and Director, Sperientia: [studio+lab]
Michael Gorlick, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation
Scott Hendrickson, Software Engineer, Google
Arthur Hitomi, CTO and Co-Founder, Numecent
Sara Javanmardi, Staff Software Engineer, Google
Chris Jensen, Software Engineer, Google
Eric Kabsich, Head of UX, Stadia, Google
Peter Kammer, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Michael Kantor, Senior Front End Engineer , Airbnb
Maryam Khademi, Computer Vision and AI, Google
Rohit Khare, Product Manager, Google
Thomas Kistler, VP of Engineering, Upthere
Robb Klashner, Independent,
Bart Knijnenburg, Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Benjamin Koehne, Staff User Experience Researcher, Google
Hosub Lee, Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Research America
Nick Lopez, Senior Software Engineer, Google - Kitchener, Canada
Christian Lüer, Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Nicolas Mangano, Fullstack Engineer, Nextgen and Co-Founder, SketchTogether (by Molimur)
Lee Martie, Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA
Jack Muramatsu, Founder, Editor, VP, Vinyl Pulse
Leila Naslavsky, Metrics Engineer/Analytics, Workday
Kristina Winbladh Nasr, Software Engineer, Google
Eugen Nistor, Software Engineer, Google
Peyman Oreizy, Engineering Manager, Care Zone, Inc
Joel Ossher, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir Technologies
Vijay Pelapu, Software Engineer, Microsoft
Jie Ren, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Arthur Alexander Reyes (deceased), previously Senior Lecturer, University of Texas at Arlington
Jason Elliot Robbins, Software Engineer, Google
Jose Romero-Mariona, Lead Research Scientist, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Pacific (SPAWAR)
Wiwat Ruengmee, Chief Technology Officer, Lifeyo
Alireza Sadeghi, Software Engineer, Google
Hitesh Sajnani, Software Engineering Researcher, Tools for Software Engineering (TSE) group, Microsoft
Nithya Sambasivan, Staff Researcher, Research Lead for AI in emerging markets, Google
Suzanne Schaefer, Retired, previously Research Staff Member, UCLA
Wen Shen, Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science, Tulane University
Roberto Silveira Silva Filho, Lead Scientist, Intelligent Industrial Experiences Lab, GE Global Research
Girish Suryanarayana, Principal Key Expert for AI for Software Engineering, Siemens Corporation Research, Bangalore, India
Erik Trainer, User Researcher, Fidelity Investments, User Experience Specialist, City University of New York
Arthur Valadares, Database Software Engineer, Rockley Photonics
Marlon Vieira, Senior Director SW TeamCenter Platform, Siemens PLM Software
Tao Wang, UX Researcher, SAP
Yiran Wang, User Experience (UX) Researcher, Google Seattle/Kirkland
Hiroko Wilensky, Data Systems/Software Engineer, The Boeing Company
Amanda Williams, Senior Business Unit Manager, Jabil Packaging Solutions
Lihua Xu, Associate Professor, East China Normal University
Di Yang, Software Engineer, Microsoft
Mengyao Zhao, User Experience Researcher , WhatsApp Inc.

Alumni affiliated with ISR's predecessor, the Irvine Research Unit in Software (IRUS):

Ken Anderson, Professor and Associate Dean for Education, University of Colorado at Boulder
Juei Chang, Software Engineer, Pixar Animation Studios
David Hilbert, Senior Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Holly Hildreth, Consultant,
M. Gregory James, Senior Product Manager , American Express
David Levine, Lead Technologist, Booze Allen Hamilton
R. Kent Madsen, Miracle Mile Advisors
Nenad Medvidovic, Professor and Associate Chair, University of Southern California
Owen O'Malley, Principal Engineer, LinkedIn
Leysia Palen, Professor & Founding Chair of Information Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
John Self, Sr. Principal Engineer - Software, BAE Systems
Xiping Song, IT Security Consultant & Quality Manager, Siemens Corporation
Dennis Troup, Emerging Technologies Consultants, Inc.