Alumni testimonials

Want to hear from students who have studied at UCL Engineering? Read the stories from our recent graduates, as they offer their insights and experiences of studying an engineering programme at UCL to help you make the most of your studies here and see what roles they have gone onto since graduating.

Rand Hindi

(UCL Computer Science 2006; UCL Biosciences 2011)

Rand studied Computer Science BSc and PhD Bioinformatics and is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company.

Alumna student Chrissy sat on large UCL letters, posing in graduation gown whilst holding flowers

Chrissy Fransisca Olivyana

(UCL Biochemical Engineering 2021)

Chrissy graduated with a MSc in Biochemical Engineering and currently work as a Forest Conservation / Economics Analyst at Zero-Carbon Forest Investments.

Bunmi Aworranti

(UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering 2013; 2019)

Bunmi is now Vice President in Applied Machine Learning at J.P. Morgan following a BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Master’s in Data Science.

Rinna Sijabat

(UCL Chemical Engineering 2017)

Rinna graduated with a MSc Global Management of Natural Resources and now works in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Indonesia.

Roy Yuen

(UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering 2022)

Roy talks about their experiences in the Geospatial Sciences MSc programme and describes what makes studying at CEGE a unique experience. Roy is a recipient of the RSPSoc Student award for his outstanding research in the field of subsurface utility mapping.

Shitta Aspendira Dharmastuti

(UCL Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy 2021)

Shitta has gone onto work as a Policy Analyst as part of the Indonesia COVID-19 Task Force.

Dr Emma Biondetti

(UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2019)

Emma has gone onto be a Postdoctoral Researcher in Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging having completed her PhD in MRI Physics.

Jay Shah

(UCL Computer Science 2015)

Jay is CTO and Co-founder of Kiroku, an AI start-up working on clinical documentation, which is also a part of IDEALondon, a partnership of UCL and Capital Enterprise.

Mohammed Buhassan

(UCL Chemical Engineering 2013)

Mohammed shares what impact the UCL and the Department of Chemical Engineering had on his growth.

Marianna Pittokopiti

(UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering 2018)

Meet Marianna, an alumna who completed an MSc in Internet Engineering and has gone onto work as a Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco.

Alumna student Mendy Ioada stood next to man in front of academic poster board

Mendy Iaoda

(UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering 2016)

Mendy graduated with a Civil Engineering with Seismic Design MSc. We caught up with Mendy to find out what she has been up to since graduating.

Akbarjon Mahmudjonov

(UCL Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy 2019)

Akbarjon has gone onto work as a Grants Manager for the World Bank's Modernizing Uzbekistan National Innovation System Project.

Pratibha Patel

(UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering 2022)

Pratibha talks about their experiences in the Geospatial Sciences MSc programme and describes what makes studying at UCL and CEGE a unique experience.

Alyssa Muck

(UCL Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy 2021)

Alyssa graduated from our Digital Technologies and Policy MPA . She has gone onto work as Head of Government Delivery at Beam.

Ajit P. Yoganathan

(UCL Chemical Engineering 1973)

Aijit with over 40 years of experience after studying at UCL, shares insights about their time at UCL.

Sakiru Babatunde Badmos

(UCL Chemical Engineering 2015; 2020)

Sakiru completed a MSc Chemical Process Engineering and PhD Chemical Engineering before coming to lecture at UCL.

Professor Dr Larissa Suzuki

(UCL Computer Science 2015)

Larissa is Data/AI Practice Lead at Google and an Honorary Associate Professor at UCL Computer Science.

Vome Aghoghovbia-Gafaar

(UCL Chemical Engineering 2015; 2017)

Vome completed both MEng Chemical Engineering and MSc Global Management of Natural Resources and is the founder of Ignite Energy Africa.

Maurizio Casadei

(UCL School of Management 2020)

Maurizio completed a Management MSc and is now working at Christie’s in New York as a client Strategy Analyst for 20th and 21st century art.

Dr Tristan Fletcher

(UCL Computer Science 2011)

Tristan is an entrepreneur and CEO and co-founder at ChAI following his PhD in Machine Learning.

James Brown

(UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering 2006; 2013)

James shares his journey from UCL to a diverse career creating impactful, real-world solutions.

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