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2010s Elmar Diederichs (IH 2010) writes, "In 2010, during my first year at the Depart- ment of Statistics at Berkeley, I spent a wonderful summer at I-House with its open and inspiring academic atmosphere. This extraordinary experi- ence helped me to understand the role of networking. I learned to profit person- ally and scientifically from intense co- operations with other people, such that I decided to join the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology for a few years. After this time, I founded the math- ematical think tank 'Elements of Euclid,' that invites highly educated people to participate in creating a fruitful academ- ic sphere. Having this pool of experts today allows us to create and monetarize advanced projects in Machine Learning and AI, that probably would never have come to reality without my initial experi- ence at I-House." For more information, please visit http://elementsofeuclid.org. Praveen Paranjothi (IH 2011) shared that "the Europe India Centre for Business and Industry has named him one of EU-India's top 40 Under 40 EU-India Leaders. Praveen is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, who advises tech- driven VC/PE funds and companies, and invests in scalable innovations built by great teams." Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (IH 2012) is proud to share that she has been selected as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 Europe Class of 2019, in the Science category. Satya is studying the distribution of matter in the universe in the era following the formation of the first stars and galaxies. One of her more recent discoveries has used quasars to examine the presence of carbon in intergalactic clouds 10.8 billion years ago. Ben Chen (IH 2015-16) is now a Ph.D. student at The European Organization for Nuclear Research, otherwise known as CERN. Kaiqi Hua (IH 2015-16) taught as a professor in religious studies for Semester at Sea, the cruise university traveling the world from September to December 2018. He got engaged to his fiancée on the ship! He currently lectures in asian studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Negin Shahiar (IH 2016-18) shared "I interned at the United Nations, and I'm starting a master's program at Oxford this fall." Cris Plunkett (IH 2017-19) is the proud recipient of the 2019 Gold Congressional Award from California's 12th Congressional District representing San Francisco. Olivia Cappelletti (IH 2018) has received an advertising internship at Publicis Communications in New York. R.J. Lee (IH 2018-19) writes that he is "going to be working for IBM as a Data Scientist!" Amy Wang (IH 2018-19) shares, "I'm starting my teaching career in August 2019!" Maria Otero (IH 2018-19) writes, "I just graduated in the top 1 percent of the senior class from Berkeley!" International House Times 19 Alumni News & Notes If you have moved, changed email or mailing addresses, or want to tell us what you have been up to since you left I-House, please let us know! Contact us at: ihalumni@berkeley.edu. Staff Transitions March 1st-October 1st, 2019 Welcome New Staff Valerie Ong Resident Engagement Manager Alicia López Program Coordinator Regina Parker HR Manager Cedric Martin Director of Hospitality Services Jo Kinney Catering Manager Farewell Ben Stopper Information Systems Analyst Jenny Miner Program Coordinator Ryan Jones Director of Admissions Allison Harrisingh Events Coordinator Greg Poulios Director of Dining and Catering Services