CSE Graduates Celebrate Progress and Service with the Class of 2024

Georgia Tech closed the Fall 2024 semester with Commencement ceremonies held Dec. 12-14. Graduates from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) were among the 6,405 new alumni receiving their degrees over the weekend.

“For all this potential to make a difference, there is something I want all of you to remember, the two words on our seal: progress and service,” said Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera in his commencement address to Ph.D. graduates. 

“These two words define us as a community and signify our belief in the power of innovation and ingenuity to serve a greater purpose, to improve the human condition.” 

The School of CSE administers the Ph.D. and M.S. CSE programs, which conferred degrees to graduates representing the colleges of Computing, Science, and Engineering. 

In addition to CSE degrees, the School offers doctoral degrees in computer science and machine learning. Ph.D. graduates who received their diplomas on Dec. 12 at McCamish Pavilion were:

• Jiaming Cui (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2024), advised by School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash
• Jinwoo Go (Ph.D. CSE-CSE), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen
• Koby Hayashi (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), co-advised by School of CSE Regents’ Professor and Chair Haesun Park and School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc
• Hua Huang (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), advised by School of CSE Professor Edmond Chow
• Xin Jing (Ph.D. CSE-CEE 2024), advised by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Phanish Suryanarayana
• Zoe Klesmith (Ph.D. CSE-ME), advised by George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Christopher Saldaña
• Lingkai Kong (Ph.D. CSE-CSE), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang
• Chenying Liu (Ph.D. CSE-CEE), advised by School of CEE Assistant Professor Jorge Macedo
• Rafael Orozco (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), advised by Professor Felix Herrmann, joint with the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and School of CSE
• Shikhar Shah (Ph.D. CSE-CSE), advised by School of CSE Professor Edmond Chow
• Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2024), advised by School of CSE Professor Polo Chau
• Ziyi (Francis) Yin (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), advised by School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann
• Yue Yu (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang
• Danrong Zhang (Ph.D. CSE-CEE 2024), advised by School of CEE Professor J. David Frost

Fall 2024 marked the first time Georgia Tech held two ceremonies for M.S. graduates. After a brief, Institute-wide ceremony, each college held ceremonies where graduates individually walked across a stage and received their diplomas.

Among the 4,000 total master’s graduates, 72 accepted M.S. CSE degrees at the College of Computing’s ceremony on Dec. 14 at Bobby Dodd Stadium. They were:

Tanmayi Ambati

Meron Berhan Belachew

Meng-Ru Cai

Chunyang Cao

Chao-Wen Chang

Haoting Chen

Boyu Cheng

Wil Ton Chuah

Aviv Lior Cohav

Renzo Sebastian Cornejo Tejada

Guangyu Cui

Swapna Jeevan Gadre

Shaivan Hirebelaguly Shivaprakash

Hongbo Hu

Leyao Huang

Ge Jiang

Haitian Jin

Yijie Jin

Ting-Yang Kao

Saranya Kavileswarapu

Yijun Lai

Hongjian Lan

YuChen Liao

Chen Lin

Ping-Chuan Lin

Chang Liu

Zifeng Liu

Tien Lu

Zide Lu

Huizhou Luo

Rupesh Kumar Mahendran

Trevor M. McCrary

Bowen Mu

Bilal Mufti

Arpit Ajay Narechania

Xianyi Nie

Yuhao Niu

Seth Alexander Nye

Yu-Chen Pan

Joseph Pantalone III

Jeongjin Park

Weijian Qian

Liyu Qin

Zhongyi Qiu

Ojas Ravindra Rade

Athulya Ram Sreedharan Nair

Tiannuo Ren

Chloe Saleh

Suraaj Samanta

Shikhar Shiromani

William O'Hare Shue

Yipin Si

Ian Trey Slagle 

Alexandra Ruth Stewart

Zhaoyu Sun

Nianhan Tian

Graham Patrick Vaith 

Zhiyu Wan

Haolin Wang 

Ruijia Wang

Shaopeng Wang 

Shumao Wang 

Zixuan Wang

Mengjiao Wu 

Dengyang Xu 

Zhaoyu Xu 

Xiaoliang Yan 

Yueh-Chang Yang 

Keven Shin Yeh

Boqin Zhang

Tiansheng Zhang

Ningyun Zhu