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HCDE Master's Alumni Directory

The department of Human Centered Design & Engineering is building our alumni directory so you can stay in touch with current students and your fellow alums.

HCDE graduates, please take a minute and submit your information to be added to the directory. If you would like to update an existing entry, email us at hcdeweb@uw.edu with your request.

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2024

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Kanwardeep Bassi
MS, 2024
Email

Website

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Ujjval Chopra
MS, 2024
Email

LinkedIn

Jessica Hord

Jessica Hord
MS, 2024

Product Designer II
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Aneesha Lakra

Aneesha Lakra
MS, 2024
Email

UX Researcher
LinkedIn

Luka Liu

Luka Liu
MS, 2024

Product Designer
Codecademy
LinkedIn

Yani Liu

Yani Liu
MS, 2024

UX Designer
Autodesk
LinkedIn

Rohan Pal

Rohan Pal
MS, 2024
Email

LinkedIn

Kaustubh Yadav

Kaustubh Yadav
MS, 2024

LinkedIn

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Celeste Zhao
MS, 2024

 

2023

Tony Ji

Tony Ji
MS, 2023

UX Designer
Autodesk
LinkedIn

Danielle Yelin Jo

Danielle Yelin Jo
MS, 2023

UX Researcher
Starbucks
LinkedIn

Tony W. Li

Tony W. Li
MS, 2023

LinkedIn

Katrina Ma

Katrina Ma
MS, 2023
Email

Senior Designer
McKinsey & Company
LinkedIn

Gresshaa Mehta

Gresshaa Mehta
MS, 2023
Email

Senior Product Designer
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Namrata Panchumarti

Namrata Panchumarti
MS, 2023

Senior UX Researcher
MathWorks
LinkedIn

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Kyle Wang
MS, 2023
Email

Product Manager
Splunk
LinkedIn

Charlsy Yang

Charlsy Yang
MS, 2023
Email

Designer
Website

2022

Lan

Lan Allison
MS, 2022
Email

Design Researcher
American Marketing Association
LinkedIn

Ana Bernard

Ana Bernard
MS, 2022
Email

UX Designer
Website

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Melissa Dowell
MS, 2022
Email

Senior Product Designer
Songtrust
Website

Jessica He

Jessica He
MS, 2022

Designer
IBM
LinkedIn

Cindy Huang

Cindy Huang
MS, 2022
Email

User Experience Designer
Microsoft
LinkedIn

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Susan Jung
MS, 2022
Email

UI Designer 2
Esri
LinkedIn

Ryan McLean

Ryan McLean
MS & UCD Certificate, 2022

Product Manager - Employee Safety
LinkedIn

Shuba Ambiar

Shubha Nambiar
MS, 2022

Website

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Emily Stensland
MS, 2022

UI/UX Generalist
Epic Games Inc.
Website

2021

   

Evie

Yu-Yen (Evie) Cheng
MS, 2021

UX Researcher
Allen Institute for AI
LinkedIn

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Soumya Jindal
MS, 2021

UX Engineer
Apple
LinkedIn

Yuwen Li
MS, 2021
Email

UX Designer
Tableau Software
LinkedIn

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Meghna Nayak
MS, 2021
Email

Product Designer
Cohere Health
LinkedIn

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Patriya Wiesmann
MS, 2021

Senior UX Designer
The Lego Group
LinkedIn

 2020

Nicole Alvarez

Nicole Young Alvarez
MS, 2020
Email

LinkedIn

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Sondra Batbold
MS, 2020

Group Product Manager
LinkedIn

Anusha Bhaskarla

Anusha Bhaskarla
MS, 2020
Email

Sr. Associate UX Engineer
Workday
Website

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Jessica Biondo
MS, 2020
Email

Website

Alison Buchanan

Alison Buchanan
MS, 2020

User Researcher
LinkedIn

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Jessica Carr
MS, 2020

Design Researcher
Microsoft
Website

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Kevin Chang
MS, 2020
Email

UX Designer
SailPoint
LinkedIn

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Erika Dillman
MS, 2020
Email

UX Writing/Design/Research
Freelance
LinkedIn

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Kellie Dunn
MS, 2020

Website

Laura East

Laura East
MS, 2020
Email

Communications Manager
University of Washington Department of Epidemiology
Website

Dawn Ferguson

Dawn Ferguson
MS, 2020

UX Researcher
KPWHRI
LinkedIn

Klare Frank

Klare Frank
MS, 2020
Email

Product Design Manager
GitHub
Website

Joshua Nelson

Joshua Nelson
MS, 2020
Email

Product Designer
Facebook
Website

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Liz O'Dore
MS, 2020
Email

UX Research Lead
Microsoft

Ariel Rios
MS, 2020
Email

User Experience Designer
Microsoft
Website

Ayush Sharma

Ayush Sharma
MS, 2020
Email 

Product Designer
Credible Labs Inc.
Website

Kyle Thomas

Kyle Thomas
MS, 2020

Senior UX Researcher
Amazon
LinkedIn

Cyndi Thompson

Cyndi Thompson
MS, 2020

LinkedIn

Kent Tsai

Kent Tsai
MS, 2020
Email

UX Designer
Website

Sam Yun-Shan Yang

Sam Yun-Shan Yang
MS, 2020
Email

UX Designer
Juniper Networks
LinkedIn

Ivy Zhag

Ivy Zhang
MS, 2020

UX Designer
Cisco
LinkedIn

2019

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Meghna Bhairappa
MS, 2019
Email

LinkedIn

Kairavi Chahal

Kairavi Chahal
MS, 2019

UX Designer
Website

Rachael Cicero

Rachael Cicero
MS, 2019

Civic Designer
City of Seattle
LinkedIn

Peter Cutler
MS, 2019

UX Designer
Trakstar
Website

Kimberly Dziubinski
MS, 2019
Email

Sr Experience Designer
Cisco | Webex
LinkedIn

Ping-Kwan

Ping-Kwan Lai
MS, 2019
Email

Product Manager
SMART Technologies
LinkedIn

Hannah Nursalim

Hannah Nursalim
MS, 2019
Email

User Researcher (Contract)
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Haley Rohl

Haley Rohl
MS, 2019
Email

Product Designer
HBO Max
Website

Nicole VanMeter

Nicole VanMeter
MS, 2019

UX Researcher
Amazon
LinkedIn

Eric Zelna

Eric Zelna
MS, 2019
Email

Data Analytics Manager
Boeing

Manuel Zetino

Manuel Zetino
MS, 2019
Email

Senior UX Researcher
Electronic Arts

2018

Josh Baker
MS, 2018
Email

UX Designer
WSECU
Website

Andrew Boydston

Andrew Boydston
MS, 2018
 

UX Designer
Amazon Game Studios
LinkedIn

Alik Brundrett

Alik Brundrett
MS, 2018

Product Designer
Facebook
Website

Kailey Chan

Kailey Chan
MS, 2018
Email

Senior UX Designer
Expedia
LinkedIn

Ashish Chaudhary

Ashish Chaudhary
MS, 2018
Email

Staff Interaction Designer
GE Healthcare

Lea Lonnberg-Hickling

Lea Lonnberg-Hickling
MS, 2018

Interaction Designer
Google
Website

Angela Rosette-Tavares
MS, 2018
Email

UX Designer
KUOW 
LinkedIn

Julie Stuart

Julie Stuart
MS, 2018

Design Researcher
Microsoft

Jihoon Suh

Jihoon Suh
MS, 2018

Product Designer
Facebook
Website

Tongfang

Tongfang Sun
MS, 2018

Product Designer
Google
Website

Tessa

Tessa Taoxi Li
MS, 2018
Email

Product Designer
PwC

2017

 

Paula Chuchro
MS, 2017

Senior Product Manager
Hulu
LinkedIn

Staci Jamie

Staci Jamie
MS, 2017

UX Designer
Accenture
Website

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Jasmine Lawrence
MS, 2017
Email

Technical Program Manager
Facebook
Website

Ken Milne

Ken Milne
MS, 2017
Email

Senior Design Researcher
Microsoft
 

Ryan Moore

Ryan Moore
MS, 2017

Senior UX Designer
Fujifilm Sonosite
Website

Ricki Mudd
MS, 2017
Email

User Experience Specialist
Intel
LinkedIn

Matt Reynolds
MS, 2017
Email

Senior Product Designer
Uber
LinkedIn

Paul Roberts
MS, 2017

Human Innovation Fellow
Office of Personnel Management
LinkedIn

Samuel Shen
MS, 2017

UX Designer II
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Veronika Sipeeva
MS, 2017

Design Researcher 2
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Meena Sujanani

Meena Sujanani
MS, 2017
Email

UX Researcher
Google
LinkedIn

Dorothy Wong

Dorothy Wong
MS, 2017
Email

UX/Interaction Designer
Microsoft
Website

Danning Zhang

Danning Zhang
MS, 2017
Email

UX Designer
Tableau Software
Website

Tingting Zhang

Tingting Zhang
MS, 2017

UX Researcher
Salesforce
LinkedIn

Yuan Zhuang
MS, 2017
Email

User Experience Researcher
Expedia Inc.

Julie Zhuying Li
MS, 2017

Product Designer II
Microsoft
LinkedIn

2016

Ankur Agrawal
MS, 2016

Sr. Software Engineer
Unity Technologies
LinkedIn

Gary Anderson

Gary Anderson
MS, 2016
Email

Sr. UX Program Manager
Microsoft
Website

Meredith Anderson
MS, 2016

LinkedIn

Allan Bathurst

Allan Bathurst
MS, 2016

Associate Director, Product Design
Chewy
Website

Denise Borges

Denise Borges
MS, 2016
Email

Sr. Product Designer
Highstpot

Liz Lingshuang Chen
MS, 2016
Email

UX Designer
Chef Software

Caroline Colon
MS, 2016
Email

Sr. User Researcher
Bungie, Inc.
LinkedIn

Amani Ahmed Dye
MS, 2016
Email

Principal Program Manager
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Siddhartha Gudipati

Siddhartha Gudipati
MS, 2016

Interaction Designer
1989
Website

Wenvi Hidayat
MS, 2016

UX Designer
Microsoft

Terri Lovins
MS, 2016
Email

Research Scientist
UW Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching
LinkedIn

Alex R. Mann
MS, 2016
Email

Web Communications Coordinator
Washington State University
Portfolio

Gordon Patterson
MS, 2016

Senior Product Designer
Reddit, Inc.
LinkedIn
 

Melanie Penney
MS, 2016
Email

User Researcher
Anthro-Tech
 

Aravind Ravi
MS, 2016
Email

Senior UX Designer
Fresh Consulting
Website

Alysse Schwertscharf

Alysse Schwertscharf
MS, 2016
Email

Product Designer
Workday, Inc.
LinkedIn

Chen Ye

Chen Ye
MS, 2016

Designer
Apple
Website

Ruiyi Zhou
MS, 2016
Email

UX Designer
SAP

 2015

Victoria Briscoe-Keck
MS, 2015
Email

737 MAX Systems Certification Lead and Project Manager
Boeing
LinkedIn

Kelly Campbell
MS, 2015
Email

Sr. Designer
SanMar

Diane Conrad
MS, 2015
Email

Web and Software Development, UX Design
Cascading Pixel
LinkedIn

Allie Deford

Allie Deford
MS, 2015
Email

UX Researcher
User Research International
LinkedIn

Margaret DeGraw (Lyons)
MS, 2015
Email

UX Researcher
User Research International

Shengjun Huang
MS, 2015
Email

Senior Product Designer
Dato
LinkedIn

Gabrielle Mehlman

Gabrielle Mehlman
MS, 2015
Email

User Experience Designer
Deloitte Digital
LinkedIn
 

Kellie Rogers
MS, 2015
Email

 

Lead UX Designer
Kanopy

Jeffrey Smith
MS, 2015
Email

Senior User Experience Designer
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Qian Zhang
MS, 2015
Email

UX Designer
Amazon
LinkedIn

2014

Peter Abrahamsen
MS, 2014
Email

Consultant
Teaching Channel
LinkedIn

Emily Barrows
MS, 2014
Email

UX Engineer
Nordstrom
LinkedIn

Andrea Chin
MS, 2014

Staff UX Researcher
Achieve
LinkedIn

Henrik Christensen
MS, 2014
Email 

UX Designer
Zillow
LinkedIn

 

Kelly Elston
MS, 2014

Sr. UX Researcher
Providence Health & Services
LinkedIn

Allison Forrester
MS, 2014
Email

Digital Experience Manager
Lenati

Eman Ismaiel
MS, 2014
Email

UX Designer
Amazon

Julius Magsino
MS, 2014; BS, 2012
Email

Senior User Experience Designer
98point6 Inc.
LinkedIn

 
 

Alicia Nogrady (Lee)
MS, 2014

Product Manager
RealSelf
LinkedIn

 
 

Ranjini Radhakrishnan
MS, 2014
Email

User Researcher

Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma
MS, 2014

User Experience Designer
Deloitte Digital
Website

 

Darwin Witt
MS, 2014

UX Designer
Amazon
LinkedIn

2013

Shannon Brown

Shannon Brown Carter
MS, 2013
Email

Product Design Manager
TrueAccord
LinkedIn

Valentina Ferrari
MS, 2013

UX Designer
Adobe
LinkedIn

Justin Hamacher
MS, 2013
Email

Faculty, Division of Design and mHCI+D
University of Washington
Website

Karen Holum
MS, 2013
 

 

Professor
Lake Washington Institute of Technology

 

Brad Jacobson
MS, 2013
Email

Experience Strategist
R/GA

Theano Petersen
MS, 2013
Email

Sr. Content Engineer
Microsoft (past)
LinkedIn

Thomas Stanton
MS, 2013
Email

Sr. UX Researcher
Providence Health & Services
LinkedIn

2012

Joshua Bean
MS, 2012

Technical Writer
Amazon Web Services
LinkedIn

Eldridge Harding
MS, 2012
Email

Technical Writer/Editor
U.S. Federal Government
LinkedIn

Chris Lam
MS, 2012
Email

Designer
Clover Health
LinkedIn

Behzod Sirjani
MS, 2012
Email

Senior Researcher
Slack

2011

Pausali Chakraborty (Sen)
MS, 2011

User Experience Designer
Amazon Web Services
LinkedIn

Sara DeGruttola
MS, 2011

Senior UX Designer
athenahealth
LinkedIn

James Humphrey
MS, 2011; BS, 2009

Design Researcher
Microsoft
LinkedIn

Tony Santos
MS, 2011
Email

 

2010

Holly Ambler
MS, 2010

Principal UX Researcher
EMC Isilon

Melinda McRae
MS, 2010
Email

Learning Management and Web Specialist
University of Washington
Website

Molly Rollitt
MS, 2010
Email

UX Designer
Concur Technologies
LinkedIn

Mark Stewart
MS, 2010
Email

User Experience Engineer
University of Washington
LinkedIn

2009

Brandi Arnold
MS, 2009
Email

Senior User Researcher
Bungie
LinkedIn

Michael Berg
MS, 2009
Email

Senior User Experience Researcher
Amazon
LinkedIn

Ryan Collier
MS, 2009

Head of Product Design
Socrata
LinkedIn

David Dye
MS, 2009; BS, 2002
Email

Business Consultant
Anthem Inc
LinkedIn

Stacy La
MS, 2009
Email

Director of Design
Clover Health
LinkedIn

Breanne Miller

Breanne Miller
MS, 2009

Head of Product Design, Entertainment
Facebook
LinkedIn

Yana Potashnik

Yana Potashnik 
MS, 2009

Director, User Research
Maven Clinic
LinkedIn

2008

Marita Graube
MS, 2008; BS, 2001

Principal
Pixel Theory Inc.
Website

Lorie Whitaker
MS, 2008
Email

Sr. User Experience Researcher
Capital One Auto Finance

2006

Josh LaMar
MS, 2006
Email

CEO
Amplinate
LinkedIn

2005

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Constanze Kratel
MS, 2005
Email

Senior Developer Relations Manager
BigCommerce
LinkedIn

Anthony Torrence
MS, 2005

Sr. UX Researcher
Concur Technologies, Inc.
LinkedIn

Ariel van Spronsen
MS, 2005
Email

Self-employed
Content strategist
LinkedIn

2003

Ben MacKay
MS, 2003
Email

Senior Software Architect
Asignio, LLC
LinkedIn

2002

Lynn Gottlieb
MS, 2002; BS, 1997
Email

LinkedIn

1999

Emily Bauer
MS, 1999
Email

Director of Licensing
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
LinkedIn

Jay Pederson
MS, 1999

Security Specialist
IBM

Karen Sharkey
MS, 1999
Email

Technical Writer
Freelance

1997

Anita Salen
MS, 1997
Email

Research Faculty
Naval Postgraduate School

Michael Stivers
MS, 1997

User Experience Designer, Principal Technical Writer
QAD
LinkedIn

1996

Tamara Adlin

Tamara Adlin
MS, 1996
Email

President
Adlin, Inc.
Website

Jill DeMarco
MS, 1996
Email

Program Manager (retired)
Boeing

1995

Kelcie Anderson (Guiberson)
MS, 1995
Email

Program Manager
Biotronik
LinkedIn

1992

Joy Lashley (Tollman)
MS, 1992; BS, 1991

Senior Technical Writer
SAS
LinkedIn

1991

Amy O'Brien de Rie
MS, 1991
Email

Technical Communications Specialist
University of Washington
LinkedIn

1988

Barbara Lewton
MS, 1988
Email

Product Manager
Sun-Up Software