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Over the years, the UC Berkeley Geosystems program has had the distinct pleasure of educating outstanding students, who, as alumni, have become leaders in geotechnical engineering practice and research. Below, is an incomplete listing of our alumni.

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Ian Brown

PhD - December 1980
Ian R. Brown Associates Ltd
Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Donald Hammond

MSc - May 1994
HNTB Corporation
Kansas City, Missouri, USA

John Tinucci

SRK Consulting (US), Inc.
Aspen Park, Colorado, USA

Doug Schwarm

MSc - December 1988
Atlas Geotechnical
Scotts Valley, California, USA

Theodore B. Feldsher

Berkeley, California, USA

Adam M. Dyer

MSc - May 2008
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
New York, USA

APOSTOLOS KOZOMPOLIS

MSc - June 1998
OMIKRON KAPPA CONSULTING SA
Marousi, Greece

Salah SADEK

American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon

Christian Ledezma

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Gang Wang

PhD - December 2005
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong

Ken Murphy

MSc - June 2006
Douglas County Colorado
Parker, Colorado, USA

Eryn Alexander

MSc - May 2017
BGC Engineering Inc.
Vancouver, Canada

LAITH NAMIQ

PhD - January 1979
Elk Grove, California, USA

Mita Nguyen

Langan
San Francisco, California, USA

Ezra Setiasabda

California, USA

Yannis Chaloulos

MSc - January 2008
Greece

Carlos Guardia

MSc - July 1972
RODIC Consultants, India
Laranpur, India

Chen Li

MSc - May 2020
JTC Corporation
Singapore

Tsung-Yen Lee

MSc - May 2020
AECOM
Berkeley, California, USA

David Mathews

MSc - May 1988
Mathews Consulting, LLC
Prairie Village, Kansas, USA

Rodolfo Sancio

PhD - December 2003
Geosyntec Consultants
Houston, Texas, USA

Tim Light

MSc - May 2016
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services
San Francisco, California, USA

Sarah Boudreau

MSc - May 2016
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Inc.
San Francisco, California, USA

Christopher Hunt

PhD - June 2000
Geosyntec Consultants
Oakland, California, USA

Andrew Yeskoo

PhD - December 2022
Geocomp
Acton, Massachusetts, USA

Brandon Sanders

MSc - May 2016
Langan
San Francisco, California, USA

ATHANASIOS PLATIS

MSc - June 1980
GEOCONSULT Ltd.
Agia Paraskevi, Greece

Greg Lavrentiadis

PhD - May 2021
California Institute of Technology
Berkeley, California, USA

Justin Ray

MSc - May 2012
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
Sacramento, California, USA

Xavier Vera-Grunauer

PhD - July 2014
Guayaquil, Ecuador

Edward Button

MSc - December 1998
ARUP
Sydney, Australia

R. Dunn

PhD - January 1983
R Jeffrey Dunn, Geotechnical Consultant
Walnut Creek, California, USA

MD AZIZUL MOQSUD

Yamaguchi University Japan
Nagawa, Japan

Timothy Forrest

MSc - May 2018
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
Oakland, California, USA

Elena Ayers

MSc - May 2005
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Inc.
Oakland, California, USA

Terrence Carroll

MSc - June 2007
HOCHTIEF Engineering GmbH
Frankfurt, Germany

Maria-Daphne Mangriotis

PhD - December 2009
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Benjamin Pappas

MSc - May 2003
Miller Pacific Engineering Group
Novato, California, USA

Mark Havekost

MSc - June 1994
McMillen Jacobs Associates
Portland, Oregon, USA

Maggie Parks

PhD - January 2019
ENGEO
Portland, Oregon, USA

Roozbeh Geraili Mikola

PhD - August 2012
Delve Underground
San Francisco, California, USA

Edmund Medley

San Mateo, California, USA

Chukwuebuka Nweke

PhD - December 2017
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA

Alejandra Alfaro

MSc - May 2016
Perth, Australia

Michael Chamberlain

MSc - May 2016
Haley & Aldrich
Seattle, Washington, USA

Cynthia Valenzuela

Golder Associates
Lima, Peru

Daniel Wade

BSc - December 1989
GEI Consultants
Walnut Creek, California, USA

Scott Yehl

MSc - June 2019
GEI Consultants
Oakland, California, USA

Joseph de Larios

MSc - May 1993
GEI Consultants, Inc.
Oakland, California, USA

Amalia Giannakou

MSc - July 2006
GR8 GEO
Athens, Greece

Spyros Giannakos

GR8 GEO
Athens, Greece

Cory Miyamoto

MSc - May 2012
GEI Consultants, Inc.
Walnut Creek, California, USA

James Gingery

MSc - June 2001
Keller North America, Inc.
El Cajon, California, USA

Josh Zupan

PhD - March 2014
GEI Consultants
Walnut Creek, California, USA

Sabyasachi Mowar

Seattle, Washington, USA

Roberto Luque

MSc - May 2012
Berkeley, California, USA

Katrina Watkins

MSc - May 2017
Langan
Sacramento, California, USA

William Levy

MSc - May 1980
AECOM
Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Kim Huynh

MSc - May 2015
Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.
Oakland, California, USA

Vasiliki Dimitriadi

Edinburgh Napier University
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Kord Wissmann

Geopier Foundation Company, Inc.
Davidson, North Carolina, USA

Robert Pyke

Robert Pyke, Consulting Engineer
Alamo, California, USA

Craig Shields

Rockridge Geotechnical, Inc.
Oakland, California, USA

Janet Kan

MSc - May 2003
ENGEO Incorporated
Milpitas, California, USA

Dina Hunt

MSc - May 2006
Gannett Fleming
Sacramento, California, USA

J David Rogers

Rolla, Missouri, USA

Poul V. Lade

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Chris Carpenter

Cornforth Consultants, Inc.
Beaverton, Oregon, USA

Christine Beyzaei

Berkeley, California, USA

John Sturman

BSc - May 1984
Raytheon Technologies
Fort Washington, Maryland, USA

Chelsea Woods

MSc - June 2013
Riverside County Department of Waste Resources
Moreno Valley, California, USA

Dimitris Pitilakis

Thessaloniki, Greece

James Eric Go

MSc - May 2005
Arup
London, United Kingdom

Matthew Pollard

MSc - May 2003
Ventura, California, USA

JunYu Lei

MSc - May 2020
Rockridge Geotechnical
El Cerrito, California, USA

Kelli McCurdy

MSc - May 2018
Langan
San Jose, California, USA

Robb Moss

San Luis Obispo, California, USA

Jonathan Stewart

PhD - December 1996
UCLA
Santa Monica, California, USA

Rune Storesund

PhD - May 2009
Storesund Consulting
Berkeley, California, USA

Alan Kropp

MSc - December 1972
Alan Kropp & Associates
Berkeley, California, USA

Weibing Gong

Berkeley, California, USA

Nina Gardner

Berkeley, California, USA

Jonathan Dalpe

Berkeley, California, USA

Yingnan Xu

UC Berkeley
Shanghai, China

Zorana Mijic

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

Peter Hubbard

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

Nicholas Brown

United States Air Force
Richmond, California, USA

Allen Winders

MSc - May 2021
A3GEO
Oakland, California, USA

Edward Vaccaro

Berkeley, California, USA

Harrison Kwan

San Francisco, California, USA

Yongxi Liang

MSc - October 2020
Berkeley, California, USA

Stephen Chow

Singapore

Rica Chen

Mississauga, Canada

Lane Klansek

MSc - June 2021
GEI
Oakland, California, USA

Josh Hoeflich

San Francisco, California, USA

Tessa Williams

MSc - May 2017
Berkeley, California, USA

Justin Qiu

Oakland, California, USA

Drew Gomberg

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

Ambrose Lau

Sacramento, California, USA

Heyder Carlosama lopez

Oakland, California, USA

Andrew Heath

PhD - December 2002
University of Bath
Bath, United Kingdom

Rafael Jimenez

Madrid, Spain

Jim Collin

Bethesda, Maryland, USA

John Fahd Touma

Engineering & Research International
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Adrian Rodriguez-Marek

Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Ben Mason

Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Kenneth Johnson

PhD - May 1987
WSP USA
San Francisco, California, USA

Frederick Tajirian

PhD - September 1981
Chevron ETC
Oakland, California, USA

Stephen Dickenson

PhD - January 1994
New Albion Geotechnical, Inc.
Reno, Nevada, USA

Allison Faris

PhD - December 2004
Kite Pharma
Culver City, California, USA

Mark Freitas

GEI Consultants
Oakland, California, USA

Kyle Morris Rollins

PhD - December 1986
Provo, Utah, USA

Annie Kammerer

PhD - May 2002
Department of Defense
Bowling Green, Virginia, USA

Steve Kramer

Seattle, Washington, USA

Carrie Foulk

MSc - May 2002
BSK Associates
Livermore, California, USA

Juan Pestana

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Kimberly Mugg

MSc - May 2003
El Dorado Hills, California, USA

Nathaniel Russell

Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA

Claire Gibson

MSc - June 2002
Clarity Engineering, LLC
Seattle, Washington, USA

Kit Tung

San Francisco, California, USA

Jennifer Donahue

PhD - December 2007
JL Donahue Engineering
Bend, Oregon, USA

Sean Callan

Advanced Geosolutions Inc
Lake Forest, California, USA

Dimitris Dermatas

Athens, Greece

Thomas Benson Jr.

MSc - June 1982
Leighton Consulting, Inc.
Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA

JOHN MURPHY

MSc - May 2013
Oberlin, Kansas, USA

Ruonan Ou

MSc - May 2017
Berkeley, California, USA

Kecheng Chen

Berkeley, California, USA

Renjie Wu

MSc - November 2017
Berkeley, California, USA

Linqing Luo

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California, USA

Lelio Mejia

Geosyntec Consultants
Orinda, California, USA

Michael Gardner

PhD - August 2018
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada, USA

Robert Lanzafame

PhD - March 2017
Technical University Delft, the Netherlands
Delft, Netherlands

Devon Laduzinsky

MSc - May 2012
Heap
San Francisco, California, USA

Nathaniel Wagner

PhD - May 2016
Slate Geotechnical Consultants
Oakland, California, USA

Alp Balcay

MSc - May 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Jennifer Lo

BSc - May 2000
Aurecon
Auckland, New Zealand

Mike Little

MSc - May 2015
Atlas Geotechnical
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Chi-Sharn Lim

MSc - May 2002
IC Singapore
Singapore

Estefan Garcia

PhD - December 2018
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Uri Eliahu

ENGEO
San Ramon, California, USA

Michael Stojanoff

MSc - May 1996
Terracon Consultants
Nevada, USA

Jim French

MSc - June 1982
Amec Foster Wheeler
Oakland, California, USA

Juan Perri

PhD - December 2006
Exponent, Inc.
Oakland, California, USA

Joel Monschke

Stillwater Sciences
Whitethorn, California, USA

Lianna Winkler-Prins

MSc - May 2015
Caltrans
Eureka, California, USA

Todd Bradford

MSc - May 2015
Pleasant Hill, California, USA

Susan Chang

PhD - December 1996
City of Seattle Dept of Construction and Inspections
Shoreline, Washington, USA

Eric Riddiough

MSc - June 2003
City of Morro Bay
Morro Bay, California, USA

Albert Yeung

Advanced Technovation Limited
Hong Kong

Juan Manuel Mayoral IIUNAM

II UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico

Giovanna Biscontin

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Andy Y.F. Leung

MSc - May 2005
Hong Kong

Fernando Pardo de Santayana

MSc - December 1985
Geotechnical Laboratory, CEDEX
Madrid, Spain

Jiaer Wu

PhD - December 2002
CHEC USA INC.
San Ramon, California, USA

Morley Beckman

MSc - May 2005
Deere & Ault Consultants, a Schnabel Engineering Company
Longmont, Colorado, USA

Dennis Grubb

PhD - December 1995
Jacobs
Cape May, New Jersey, USA

Jorge Zornberg

Austin, Texas, USA

Carlos Lazarte

Consulting Geotechnical Engineer
Potomac, Maryland, USA

Patrick Bassal

MSc - May 2014
UC Davis
Davis, California, USA

Wing-Shun Kwan

MSc - August 2008
Cal State LA
Glendora, California, USA

Jennie Watson-Lamprey

PhD - June 2007
Slate Geotechnical Engineering Inc.
Berkeley, California, USA

Frank Wang

MSc - June 2001
PARIKH Consultants, Inc.
Milpitas, California, USA

Quinn Todzo

MSc - March 2021
Cotton Shires and Associates Inc.
Los Gatos, California, USA

Brian Zelenko

MSc - May 1985
WSP USA
Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Intisar Ahmed

MSc - May 2022
Thurber Engineering Ltd.
Vancouver, Canada

Lindsay Shapiro

MSc - May 2018
Keller
San Francisco, California, USA

Zicong Ng

Berkeley, California, USA

Meera Kota

BSc - March 2019
Berkeley, California, USA

Parson Jericho Galicia

BSc - May 2021
Berkeley, California, USA

Yu-Chi Chang

Berkeley, California, USA

Jingxuan Wang

Berkeley, California, USA

Jose Magana

MSc - June 2022
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services
Los Angeles, California, USA

Viridiana Navarro

Dublin, California, USA

Magreth Kakoko

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Piradeepan Uthayakumar

MSc - May 2022
GeoEngineers
Bellingham, Washington, USA

Damon Nguyen

Fremont, California, USA

Ethan Ross

Berkeley, California, USA

Cagri Aytekin

Langan Engineering
Berkeley, California, USA

Osmar Charca

Berkeley, California, USA

Cheuk Bun Lam

Berkeley, California, USA

Kelvin Tian

MSc - May 2022
AECOM
Drome, Australia

Jiahui Yang

Berkeley, California, USA

Plengpin Kobrthanachai

Berkeley, California, USA

Amber Kennedy

BSc - May 2020
Berkeley, California, USA

Devina Borwankar

Berkeley, California, USA

Malhar Patil

MSc - May 2022
Savi Infrastructure & Properties Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India

Tamer Kabo

Berkeley, California, USA

Emma O'Hara

Albany, California, USA

Vladislav Zasmolin

Berkeley, California, USA

Emre Celik

Berkeley, California, USA

Hayley Palilla

MSc - May 2022
Folsom, California, USA

Yizhen Yan

Berkeley, California, USA

Derek Schikora

Univserity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

Binyao Hao

Berkeley, California, USA

Kevin Zhu

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

Elio Daher

Alan kropp and Associates
Berkeley, California, USA

Tamar Baumer

Berkeley, California, USA

Mohammed Alabkari

Saudi Aramco
Berkeley, California, USA

Yoshinori Iwasaki

Osaka, Japan

Saleh Alwehaiby

MSc - May 2017
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Mike George

PhD - December 2015
Berkeley, California, USA

Chin Man Mok

PhD - May 1999
GSI Environmental Inc.
Orinda, California, USA

Viridiana Navarro

ENGEO
Pleasanton, California, USA

Christopher Conkle

MSc - May 2006
Geosyntec Consultants
Los Angeles, California, USA

Dylan Maxwell

MSc - May 2018
BGC Engineering
Vancouver, Canada

Vangelis Petas

MSc - May 2018
Greece

Bak Low

PhD - December 1985
Researcher
Singapore

Mohamed Makasees

Berkeley, California, USA

Mark Stanley

MSc - October 1990
HDR
Folsom, California, USA

Christos Zoupantis

MSc - May 2014
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
New York, USA

Ryan Bulatao

MSc - May 2022
Western Ground Improvement
Artesia, California, USA

Haze Rodgers

MSc - May 2002
Blackburn Consulting
Auburn, California, USA

Kody Vandervort

Berkeley, California, USA

Jan Tengdyantono

PARIKH Consultants, Inc.
Oakland, California, USA

Mia Verdolin

San Diego, California, USA

Yongdai Gu

Stantec
Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Clem DeGiovanni

MSc - May 2023
Condon Johnson and Associates
Berkeley, California, USA

Adithya Salil Nair

Berkeley, California, USA

Cecilia Burke

McMillen Jacobs Associates
Berkeley, California, USA

Fernanda Corvillon

ENGEO
San Ramon, California, USA

Raymond Yang

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Lauren Bedoya

Oakland, California, USA

Carlos Jimenez

BSc - December 2020
Krazan & Associates, Inc.
Berkeley, California, USA

Joshua Torres Galvez

MSc - May 2023
Stantec
Denver, Colorado, USA

Reece Canfield

Berkeley, California, USA

Leslie Ramirez

Sanger, California, USA

Siravich Kittharnthong

Pakkret, Thailand

Zi-Xiang Gng

MSc - May 2024
Berkeley, California, USA

Santiago Martinez-Granata

BSc - August 2021
Alameda, California, USA

Eli Trast

Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Jintong Wang

Milpitas, California, USA

Daniel Hutabarat

PhD - August 2020
Haley & Aldrich, Inc
Bothell, Washington, USA

Marcos Pinheiro

Oakland, California, USA

Jason Byun

MSc - May 2008
Jacobs Engineering Group
Leander, Texas, USA

Julien Cohen-Waeber

PhD - May 2018
Exponent
Portland, Oregon, USA

Bill Gookin

PhD - December 1998
El Segundo, California, USA

Matthew Kuhn

PhD - September 1987
University of Portland
Fort Dodge, Kansas, USA

Thomas O'Dell

GRI
Portland, Oregon, USA

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