METALS Alumni (*including December 2024 graduates)

Class of 2024

Ruihan (Lucy) Cao*

Instructional Designer II @ Texas A&M

Luojia Chen*

Product Design Intern @ Clocky

Monica (Yimei) Chen

UX Designer @ Epic Systems

Andrea Chisholm

Curriculum Director @ The Future Innovators Academy

Mufei He*

Product Designer @ Pam

Tzu-Yun Huang

Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University

Siwei Jin*

Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University

Jason Ke

Senior AI Product Manager @ Tencent

Yujie Li*

AI Product Manager @ Hithink

Jasper Liu*

I/UX Designer @ Arcadia VIZ

Dhruvisha Mondhe

Course Developer @ Carnegie Mellon University

Dieyu (Della) Ouyang*

Learning Developer @ Open Learning Initiative

Yiliu (Mandy) Pan

Research Intern @ Carnegie Mellon University; Incoming PhD Student @ University of California, Irvine

Yihan Qiao*

Instructional Designer @ The University of Kansas

Kay Qiu

UI Designer @ OPPO

Jingdi (Kevin) Shang*

Product Designer at GoValley

Yvette Wang*

Learning Experience Designer @ BrainStorm

Siyun Wen*

Learning Experience Designer @ Intuit

Muzhe Wu

Incoming PhD Student @ University of Michigan Incoming PhD Student @ UMich

Ruiwei Xiao

PhD Student @ Carnegie Mellon University

Wanting Yang

Engineering Analyst @ Deloitte China

Wayne Yao

Product Manager @ YXT

Manqing Yu*

Learning Designer @ TikTok

Tingxue (Tracy) Yu*

Product Designer @ TikTok

Fern Zhang

Learning Design Manager @ Amazon

Yiyang (Sandy) Zhao *

Instructional Designer @ Open Learning Initiative

Class of 2023 (*including December 2023 graduates)

Meiyi Chen*

Research Associate @ Carnegie Mellon University

Shiyu Duan

Product Designer @ Wegmans Food Markets

Laura Delince Ceballos*

Learning Engineer & Product Analyst @ Open Learning Initiative

Qinglin Feng*

Learning Engineer @ Carnegie Mellon University

Lanning Zhang*

User Experience Researcher @ Alibaba Group

Xiangqing Zhang

Product Designer @ SoJo Spa Club

Yankun Zhao*

CEO & Co-Founder @ WisdomPlan

Xinyu Zou*

Product Manager @ Alibaba

Class of 2022

Prithika Acharya

Program Manager @ Toddle

Yinan Cai

UX Designer @ T-Mobile

Tiago Castro

Software Engineer @ Block

Chaoran Chen

PhD Student @ University of Notre Dame

Gabriel Winter Clark

Learning Engineer @ Carnegie Mellon University

Tyree Cowell

Learning Engineer @ Carnegie Learning

Xinlu Gou

Senior UX designer @ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Yudi (Cyndi) Jia

Product Manager @ Stealth Startup

Jimmy King

Product Manager @ MARi

Marc Levesque

Product Manager @ Panorama Education & Lesson With You Co-Founder

Cuiting Li

Software Engineer @ Peerceptiv

Yinmiao Li

PhD student @ Northwestern University

Yu (Yuki) Liao

Product Designer @ Duolingo

Zijing Lu

Aastha Patel

Product x Learning Design @ Rocket Learning

Rachel Pehrsson

Associate Software Engineer @ Scholastic

Tadpol Rachatasumrit

Software Engineer ll @ Lucid Software

Liujing Ren

UX Researcher @ ThinkCERCA

Princy Sasapara

Technical Program Manager @ Google

Abubakir Siedahmed

PhD student @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Boon Hong (Donovan) So

Co-Founder @ BricksAI (Backed by Y Combinator)

Jingyi (Jenny) Song

Associate Software Engineer @ Veeva Systems

Yinru Sun

Product Designer @ TikTok

Shang-Yuan (Sean) Wang

Product Designer @ Verse

Xinzhu Wang

Teaching Consultant @ Duke Learning Innovation

Xinyu Yang

Ziwen Zeng

Product Designer @ iHeartMedia

Hanxiao (Hazel) Zhang

UX Designer @ Samsung Research America

Jiaqi Zhang

Instructional Designer, Intermediate @ Doña Ana Community College

Qianru Zhang

UX Designer @ Kora Financial

Yanling (Jenny) Zhang

Product Designer @ Hanwha Vision

Xiaoyang Zhou

UX Researcher @ NIH

Class of 2021

Daniel De Angulo

Chih-Yun Huang

UX Designer @ Carnegie Learning

Joseph Kopko

Full Stack Engineer @ PLUS - Personalized Learning Squared

Caitlin Lim

Assistant Course Developer @ Carnegie Mellon University

Xinyu Lin

UX Program Manager, Research Operations @ Amazon

Baptiste Moreau-Pernet

Machine Learning Engineer @ Digital Harbor Foundation

Xiaoyu (Scarlett) Shi

UX Researcher @ Dynatrace

Class of 2020

Henry Chang

Software Engineer @ NoRIILA

Ziqi (Dakota) Dong

Product Manager @ Startup

Nabeeha Fatima

Instructional Designer @ EY Global Learning Design and Development

Lilian (Jiachen) Gong

Research Professional @ Arizona State University

Yuqing Guo

UX Designer @ Deloitte - Applied AI Group

Sudhir Gupta

Principal Learning Product Manager @ Axway

Xinying Hou

PhD Student @ University of Michigan

Chuyao Hua

User Experience Designer II @ Oracle

Estelle Jiang

Lead User Experience Designer @ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Yue Jiang

Senior Staff UX Designer @ Palo Alto Networks

Jialu Li

UX Designer @ JD

Shujing Lin

Senior Engineer I - Software Engineering @ Guild

Hsing (Paul) Liu

Mac/iOS Engineer @ IPEVO

Xuanyuan (Ember) Liu

Senior Product Designer @ Airwallex

Shiyang Lyu

UX Designer @ Apple

Xiaoyu Shi

User Experience Designer @ SAP

Neil Thawani

Research Programmer @ Carnegie Mellon University

Yuchen (Erin) Xie

Product Designer III @ Chime

Miaojun Xu

Han Xue

UX Designer @ Harness

Gautam Yadav

Learning Engineer @ Carnegie Mellon University Simon Initiative

Junhui Yao

Scrum Master @ Huawei

Chenning Ye

UX Designer @ Alibaba​

Ruwen You

Product Manager @ Yuanfudao

Congying Zhang

UX Designer @ NetApp

Lauren Zito

Manager, Design Team @ WGU Labs

Guodong Zhao

Product Manager @ Pacer Health

Shijie (Daniel) Zhu

Yu Zhao

Senior Interaction Designer @ Bloomberg

Class of 2019

Greg Bunyea

Learning Experience Lead @ NYU School of Professional

Harley Chang

Learning Engineer − Eberly Center @ Carnegie Mellon University

Canhai Chen

Software Engineer @ Apple Accessibility Department

Tanvi Domadia

Program Manager, Learning Engineer @ Open Learning Initiative

Ryan Emberling

Director of Engineering @ ASSISTments

Wei Gong

User Experience Designer @ SAP

Shivang Gupta

Head of Product @ PLUS - Personalized Learning Squared

Kim Larson

Director, Special Projects ETX @ Arizona State University

Hao Li

Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood

Wenjie Li

Senior UX Designer @
Automation Anywhere

Zhoulin (Sasha) Meng

User Experience Designer @ Cengage

Rishi Pisipati

Software Engineer II @ BetterLesson

Juliet Pusateri

Instructional Designer @ EY

Yihong Shi

Senior Product Designer @ VMware

Xiaoyan Song

Product Manager @ Tezign

Qianhui Sun

Instructional Designer @ EY

Jiasi Tan

Lead UX Designer @ Apple

Hanyu Tang

Software Engineer @ Yelp

Jiaqi Wang

Senior Product Designer @ Samsung

Kexin (Bella) Yang

PhD Student @ Carnegie Mellon University

Duoduo (Doris) Zhang

Product Designer @ Confluent

Mingtong Zhang

Game Designer @ Tencent

Xiaofei Zhou

PhD Student @ University of Rochester

Class of 2018

Pankaj Ajit

Data Science and Engineering Manager @ Shopify

Mohammed Alburaiki

Factory Director & Co-owner @ Elements Factory

Mianhong (Cherie) Chen

UX Design @ YouTube

Siyu Chen

Senior Frontend Engineer @ TikTok

Michelle Deng

Software Engineer @ Amazon

Tianmi Fang

Senior User Researcher @ Rubrik

Courtney Francis

Program Manager, Learning Sciences for Innovators @ Carnegie Mellon University

Yumei Jin

Founding UX Designer @ ISIMA

Naga Santhosh Josyula

Instructional Designer @ EY

Ye Jin Lee

UX Designer @ Hyundai

Yulin Liu

UX Researcher @ Squarespace
Portfolio

Zachary Mineroff

Senior Learning Engineer @ Carnegie Mellon University

Rui Ning

@ TAL Education Group

Elizabeth Onstwedder

Senior Learning Designer @ Duolingo

Napol Rachatasumrit

PhD Student @ Carnegie Mellon University​

Julia Ridley

Product Manager @ Penn Foster Group

Jiaojiao Song

Lead Product Designer @ Goldman Sachs

Roger Strang

Instructional Designer @ Cal State Long Beach

Lu Sun

PhD Student Cognitive Science Department and Design Lab at UC San Diego

Srinivasa Talluri

VP of Data Science @ Inspire

Cheng Hong Wang

UX Designer @ Amazon Web Services

Chenxin Wang

Interaction Designer @ Internet Brands

Yeyu Wang

PhD Student @ University of Wisconsin-Madison

Samantha Weaver

Instructional Designer @ EY

Anne Xie

Senior Product Manager @ Phenom

Lu Yang

Product Designer @ GoodHire

Mengxin Yu

UX Designer @ TAL Education Group

Class of 2017

Lu Chen

Senior Experience Designer, AVP @ PNC

Yali Chen

Founder @ Stealth

Kevin DeLand

Content Writer & Software Engineer @ Mathigon (Freelance)

Rohan Gulati

Junyu Huang

Co-Founder @ Toma

Amanda Johnson

Director of Product Design @ YouScience

Sarah Klein

Principal Product Designer @ Brandcake LLC and Sarah Klein Coaching

Nick Lewis

Curriculum Product Manager @ DeepLearning.AI

Pei Lin

Senior User Experience Product Manager @ OPPO

Jordan Marks

Advanced Systems Manager @ BAE Systems

Yilin Ying

Program Manager @ GetSetUp

Tianxin Yu

UX Researcher, Google Maps @ Google

Class of 2016

Halida Astatin Herwan

Researcher @ Bukalapak

Alexandra Brusilovsky

OLI Developer @ @ Carnegie Mellon University

David Hwang

Engineering Manager @ Anthropic

Steven Moore

Postdoctoral Fellow @ Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute

Shailja Harendra Relwani

Software Engineer II @ Microsoft

Samyak Shah

Product Manager @ Opendoor Education

Kathy Yu

Full Stack Engineer @ Rocket Money

Class of 2015

Timothy Burkhart

Learning Consultant @ TiER1 Performance Solutions

Vikram Kamath Cannanure

PhD Student @ Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute

Chien-Yu Chang

Senior Product Designer @ Inspera

Steven Dang

Data Scientist @ Lexia Learning*

Ya Gao

Senior User Research Manager @ Microsoft Cloud + AI

Qian Hu

Staff Product Designer, Learning @ LinkedIn

Justin Kahn

Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn

Guanjie Li

Senior UX Researcher @ Meta

Arka Mani

Director @ Jammate Solutions, India

Ariel Norling

Product designer @ Plumb

Cassandra Taylor

Managing Director, Postsecondary Education @ ideas42

Yujing Tian

Lead UX/UI Designer @ China Life Property

Fei Yu

Senior Product Designer @ Rubrik

Naixin Zhang

Product Manager @ Airbnb

Class of 2014

*Denotes METALS alumni who after graduation entered and graduated from a PhD program.

Danny Koh

Assistant Director @ Ministry of Defense of Singapore

Avinash Parida

Product Design Lead @ Facebook

Martina Pavelko

Cognitive Scientist @ Carnegie Learning

Mark Potter

Sr. Product Owner for Data Innovation & Insights @ ETS - AI Research Labs

Yujun Song

Product Designer @ Facebook