Alumni Profiles
Various campus sites have profiled our current students and alumni over the years on various topics, and reading about them can be a helpful way to get a better sense of our program and students.2025
Maxwell Pickering, CL MS ‘25, NLP Research Scientist at Charles River Analytics who completed a Linguistics major, with a minor in South Asian Languages and Literature focusing on Sanskrit, at the University of Washington before our program.
2024
Dohyun (Kimmy) Kim, CL MS ‘24, Machine Learning Engineer, Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. Kimmy completed both a BS and PhD in Physics at Seoul National University before our program.
Brynna Kilcline, CL MS ‘24, Software Development Engineer, Amazon. Brynna studied linguistics and informatics at the University of Washington before our program.
(Note: this profile piece was actually about graduate student life rather than Brynna’s many impressive NLP accomplishments, but we include it here nonetheless!)
Josh Broderick Phillips, CL MS ‘24, Artificial Intelligence Engineer at MITRE who studied linguistics at Brandeis University before entering the graduate program.
Andy Rueda, CL MS ‘24, who studied film & television production at New York University before our program.
2022
Aparna Dutta, CL MS '22, Human Data Research Software Engineer at OpenAI, who graduated with a B.A. in Linguistics as well as minors in Computer Science and Psychology from Northeastern University before our program.
2021
Eli Goldner, CL MS ‘21, NLP Data Scientist at Boston Children's Hospital who completed a double major in Computer Science and in Mathematics, with a minor in Philosophy, at Brandeis University before our program.
2020
Deanna Daly, CL MS ‘20, Software Engineer at Google who completed a double major in Computer Science and in Logic & Computation, with a minor in Language Technologies, at Carnegie Mellon University before our program.
Jin Zhao, CL MS ‘20, a current CS PhD student specializing in NLP at Brandeis, who received a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Sichuan University and an M.S. in Educational Linguistics at UPenn.
Lizzie Liang, CL MS ‘20, Machine Learning Engineer at Google who completed an undergraduate major in Logistics Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, an MS in Industrial Engineering at Bradley University before our program.
2018
Chester Palen-Michel, CL MS ‘18, a current CS PhD student specializing in NLP at Brandeis & Intern at eBay who studied Spanish language teacher education and TEFL at Kent State University before becoming a student at Brandeis University.
2017
José Molina, CL MA ‘17, Google. José completed a double major in Linguistics and in Japanese, with a minor in Classics, at the University of Florida, Gainesville before our program.
2014
Keelan Armstrong, CL MS ‘14, Senior Software Engineer at Grubhub. Keelan completed a double major in Linguistics and in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures with an Arabic language concentration, with minors in Spanish and in Central Eurasian Studies, at the University of Indiana before our program.
Sam Lasser, CL MA ‘14, Senior Formal Methods Engineer at Draper. Sam completed an English major at Oberlin College before our program.