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Friday, June 7, 2024 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EDT

A.D White House, Cornell University | Ithaca, NY

Creating personal and professional networks can help you flourish in your life and work, but “networking” can be uncomfortable for grad students and alumni alike. Join Cornell Alumni Career Programs and the Graduate School during Reunion for a dynamic panel of Graduate School alumni and current grad students. They’ll discuss:

• their career journeys
• how to find connection during and after grad school
• getting out of comfort zone to build community

Informal networking, drinks, and snacks to follow. This event is for Graduate School alumni and current Graduate School students. Space is limited, so registration is strongly recommended.

 

Featuring: 

Bruno Xavier PhD ’08 (Microbiology)
Associate Director, Cornell Food Venture Center, Cornell AgriTech

A nationally-recognized food engineer and scientist, Dr. Bruno Xavier has a Ph.D in Microbiology (Cornell ’08).  He is the Associate Director of the Cornell Food Venture Center, a major extension program of the Department of Food Science at Cornell University and a Scientific Fellow at the New York State Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture.  Dr. Xavier and his team develop outreach programs and extension activities to support new and established entrepreneurs, processors and farmers introducing new products into the marketplace, providing guidelines and assisting in regulatory issues to ensure the safety of food products.  As a Process Authority, Dr. Xavier oversees the establishment of schedule process documentation to comply with federal and state regulatory requirements for more than 2000 products per year for companies throughout the United States. 

Prior to joining the Food Venture Center staff, Bruno served as a post-doctoral associate for Cornell University’s Milk Quality Improvement Program and as a professor of Biotechnology and Industrial Microbiology at Brazil’s Federal University of São João del-Rei.

 

Eilis Monahan PhD ’19 (Near & Middle Eastern Studies) 
Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group

Dr. Eilis Monahan is a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, where she is a core member of the Insurance and the Technology and Digital Advantage practice areas. She has lead teams supporting organizations across the public sector, financial institutions, and the insurance industry on diverse topics, with a focus on operations, technology, and large-scale transformation programs.
 
Eilis first came to Cornell for an MA program in Archaeology to further her career as a professional field archaeologist. She returned to Cornell for her PhD in Near Eastern Studies, during which time she received a Fulbright Fellowship and an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her research in Cyprus on fortifications, landscape, and the development of political complexity during the Middle-to-Late Bronze Age, using traditional archaeological research methodologies combined with GIS and satellite imagery analyses. While at Cornell she served as the Assistant Director of the Cornell Institute for Archaeology & Material Studies, and she was also the co-President of the Cornell Graduate Consulting Club, which she founded and ran with a group of PhD, Professional, and Master’s students in A&S, Engineering and CALS. 

Yuexing Hao, current PhD student (Human Centered Design)

President, Graduate Student Association (HCD) ’23

Yuexing Hao is a Ph.D. student in Human Centered Design at Cornell University. She earned two Computer Science degrees from Rutgers University (B.A.) and Tufts University (M.S). During her study, Yuexing won the NCWIT AIC Collegiate Award (Honorable Mention), second prize in IEEE Communication Society Student Competition, ACM SIGCHI 2023 Gary Marsden Travel Award, Meritorious Prize in the 2020 Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), and Graduate Student Research Competition Award at Tufts University. Yuexing also published several papers at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Intelligent System Conference, AAAI, and Bioinformatics. She reviewed top-venue conferences serving as committee member/associate chair for FAccT, CSCW, and CHI. Currently, her research focus is on Healthcare Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and AI. To learn more about her work, please visit her personal website.

 

Filippos Tzortzoglou, current PhD student (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Co-Founder & Member, Unboxholics YouTube channel

Filippos Tzortzoglou is currently a first-year PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Cornell University. Prior to this, he served for one year as a research assistant in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. He earned his Bachelor’s/Integrated Master’s degree in Production Engineering and Management from the Technical University of Crete in Greece in 2022, graduating in the top 5% of his class. His research interests focus on transportation, particularly the use of connected and automated vehicles. Additionally, he has received several fellowships from foundations in the United States. He is also a co-founder and member of the tech YouTube channel in Greece, “Unboxholics”, which currently has over 1 million subscribers.

Questions? Contact alumnicareer@cornell.edu.