Spotlight Stories

Jan 09, 2019
Journey Leads to Facebook
Qifei “Rose” Lu, MS’18, information systems, was leading her guests on a tour of Facebook. The cafeteria and its neighboring amphitheater. The snack stand. The espresso bar. The common work stations, the outdoor balconies overlooking Lake Union, the foosball and ping-pong tables of the social media giant’s headquarters. Facebook is at the center of a […]

Jan 09, 2019
A Super Great Experience
“I think that at the beginning it is kind of hard for everyone if you have never been to the United States. Once you get an understanding of how things are done and to do things like how to upload homework or find information, you get that it’s a super great experience,” said Lisandro Mentasti, […]

Nov 15, 2018
Dream Co-op to Full Time Job
“I’m using my undergrad experience and my graduate experience that I built upon for my professional experience,” said Vineel Kondiboyina, MS, Bioengineering 2018. For many students, it is a dream to co-op with a company, end up loving the experience, and later ending up working for that company full time. For Vineel Kondiboyina, that is […]

Nov 09, 2018
A Powerful Combination
Ankita Pradeep, MS Data Analytics Engineering 2019, got her undergraduate industrial engineering degree in India. Back at home, she worked in the logistics industry for two years. There, she gained experience in data analysis, which drove her interest to the field and inspired her to apply to the brand-new Data Analytics Engineering master’s program at […]

Nov 02, 2018
A Fork in the Road
Zhuohan Yu, MS, Data Analytics Engineering 2021—It’s a lot easier to pick a career path when you first enter school and follow it. It’s harder to find out along the way that what you’re studying isn’t what you want to be doing. The hardest part is deciding to change your path and starting a new […]

Nov 01, 2018
Dell EMC Co-op Leads to Patent
PhD Computer Engineering student Yifan Sun has been awarded a US patent while completing his co-op at EMC. This patent is 1 of 5 patent applications that have been submitted by Dell EMC listing Sun as a co-inventor. Yifan Sun is a member of the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Laboratory. A student went off to […]

Oct 30, 2018
Ready for the High Demand Field of Data Analytics
After he did his first master’s in bioengineering, Zhenyuan Lu, MS Data Analytics Engineering 2019, realized that data analytics was something he was also very interested in. He chose Northeastern’s Data Analytics Engineering program for the variety of practical courses and the co-op program, allowing him to apply his knowledge in the real world. “The […]

Oct 05, 2018
MSIS Is the BEST
Enthusiastic and ambitious individual Soumiya Roy, MS’18, information systems, already had decent experience in information technology when she first came to Northeastern all the way from New Delhi, India, to study information systems. Both heavily data-oriented coursework and a great co-op experience helped her grow professionally and get a full-time job in San Francisco after […]