Hi, I’m Clayton Greenberg and I was a professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. Students are sometimes quite surprised to learn that there is much more to computer science than programming, but this is really an opportunity in disguise. It means that you are capable and welcome to do cool computational projects even if you didn’t learn how to program during kindergarten 🙂 My favorite classes to teach provide students with the mathematical background that they need to be successful in computer science and its young cousin, data science. In my spare time, I like to troll Siri. (My Ph.D. dissertation, Evaluating Humanness in Language Models, focuses on this.) And I like to sing. I did a lot of singing at Princeton, leading to YouTube videos that my students “discover” every semester. Perhaps it was a little too much singing and not enough studying, but this leads to my best advice for college: pick the program that fits you, rather than changing yourself to fit the program.

PhD Candidate in Astrophysics at Caltech, Stanford Physics Alum, NSF Graduate Fellow

Senior PM at Apple, MIT Masters and Bachelors in Computer Science

Kuan-Chuen Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1973, and nine years of piano lessons constitute his musical studies.

Mr. Wu has excelled in academia, receiving his bachelor’s degree in electrical computer systems engineering from Harvard University in a five-year honors program, an MBA from Iowa State University, and a master’s degree in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University.

He is currently pursuing his doctorate in mechanical engineering from Iowa State. (After graduating from Harvard, he spent five years surfing the dot-com wave before returning to school.) Mr. Wu competed in university-wide competitions at Iowa State.

In 2014, he placed third in the American Protégé International Concerto Competition and in December 2015, performed at Carnegie Hall as part of a winner’s recital. Besides classical piano, Mr. Wu counts chess, mathematics, engineering, and physics among his interests.

MS from Stanford, MIT Alum, Data Engineer at Aimpoint Digital

Hello, I’m Alaisha! I completed my bachelor’s at MIT and master’s at Stanford, both in Mechanical Engineering. I’m currently working as a Data Engineer now and love using those skills on interesting complex data problems. I love exploring how things work and creating things. I’ve taken apart motorcycle engines, designed control systems for self-driving cars, and created projects out of all types of materials!