Andrea Wang

Andrea Wang (’24, Data Science and Business Administration) is driven by the intersection of emerging technologies and governance, particularly how technological innovation can serve public interest. She currently works in product at Visa, where she supports regulatory initiatives for digital asset products, and previously worked across AI/ML fraud products and M&A. At Cal, she served as President of the Association of Womxn in EE&CS, competed on the Haas International Case Competition team, and danced with AFX Dance. As a Schwarzman Scholar, Andrea hopes to explore how technology can shape and […]

Sophia Young

Sophia Young (’25, Cognitive Science & Data Science), a native of Oakland, California, graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. While at Berkeley, she worked as a Cognitive Science peer advisor, ran the Transfer Student Living and Learning Community, and led student communications for the Residential Life department. Her research projects as a Fung Fellow and Social Science Research Pathways fellow focused on the intersection of technology, design, social science, and public health. Her next step as a Lafayette Fellow includes graduate studies at Université PSL – Paris School […]

Zachary Cooper

Zachary Cooper (’27, Molecular & Cell Biology/Business Administration) is passionate about advancing next-generation therapeutics through oncolytic virotherapy and programmable genome editing. He conducts research in the lab of Dr. David Schaffer at UC Berkeley, adapting CRISPRi/a technologies to modulate gene expression in oncolytic vaccinia virus, and at the Arc Institute under Dr. Patrick Hsu, where he is engineering programmable bridge recombinases. Zachary aims to leverage his interdisciplinary training in molecular biology and business to translate elite discovery into universal access by spinning out innovative technologies from the lab. In the […]

Dan Zhu

Dan Zhu (‘23, Data Science and Business Administration) is pursuing an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business and an MS in Community Health and Prevention Research at Stanford School of Medicine. Dan aspires to build innovative healthcare systems and technologies that improve quality of life for people and communities. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Dan worked at Boston Consulting Group to improve care and utilization management programs for America’s largest health insurers, reducing prior authorization requirements and expanding care access for 35 million people. He has also designed behavioral […]

Tyler Hou

Tyler Hou (’26, Math/Computer Science) will begin doctoral studies at Princeton University in fall 2026, specializing in programming languages. At Berkeley, Tyler worked on the Hydro Project as part of Sky Lab, and later was advised by Max Willsey. His research has focused on developing frameworks and tools to help computer scientists better specify, reason about, and optimize distributed systems. Tyler grew up in New England and attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he discovered a love for poetry and choral music. He runs and sings tenor in Berkeley’s Chamber Chorus.

Kristie Moore

Kristie Moore (’27, Global Studies) is a Mexican-Slovak American from Southern California. Her academic interests include conflict, mass atrocity prevention, and migration, with a specific regional concentration in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. She is an alumna of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program, a student researcher for UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Investigations Lab, and the founder of Female Leaders of the Americas, a nonprofit that works to empower young women from North, South, and Central America. Most recently, she spent a year in Dushanbe, Tajikistan intensively studying Persian […]

Bella Santos

Bella Santos (’27, Conservation and Resource Studies/Public Policy) is an elected ASUC Senator and UC Office of the President Climate Action Fellow committed to advancing environmental justice and a just transition to clean energy. As Eco Senator, she leads Berkeley’s Eco Office, coordinating more than sixty student organizers across climate, sustainability, and environmental justice campaigns. As a UCOP Fellow, she serves as the undergraduate representative on the UC Global Climate Leadership Council and Sustainability Steering Committee, elevating student voice in systemwide climate policy. Raised in San Diego, Bella began organizing […]

Anna Lieggi

Anna Lieggi (’26, Political Science/Global Studies), an incoming CBYX Young Professionals Fellow, will spend a year in Germany serving as a cultural ambassador. At UC Berkeley, she has worked as a research assistant through URAP under Professor Brookman and through SSRP under PhD candidate Nadia Almasalkhi, focusing on welfare policy trends and diaspora political participation. Beyond campus, Anna has spent 300+ hours at the San Francisco Superior Court, where she provided free legal assistance to low-income, self-represented litigants. These experiences have motivated her to attend law school following her year […]

Vivasvan Vykunta

Vivasvan Vykunta (’20, MCB) was born in Berkeley, California to parents who immigrated from India. Vivasvan is currently in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MD-PhD) at UCSF and studies fundamental mechanisms that regulate how immune cells detect and respond to target proteins, hoping to apply this deeper understanding to develop more effective therapeutics. As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, Vivasvan studied Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Immunology. He credits the supportive mentors he found at Berkeley–Astar Winoto, Robert Beatty, and Lok Siu, among many others–for nurturing his […]

Su Kim

Su Kim (’18, Geography) was born and raised in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from South Korea. At UC Berkeley, she earned her B.A. in geography with departmental high honors and a minor in global poverty and practice. While a student, she interned with local abolitionist organizations Justice Now and Californians United for a Responsible Budget, and studied Spanish and Mexican history in Mexico through the Autonomous University of Social Movements. As a Robert and Colleen Haas Scholar (’17-18), she conducted independent research under the supervision of Professor Victoria Robinson, […]