2020 Doctoral Graduates
Join us in celebrating the Doctoral class of 2020! Below are our graduating students. Click to view their graduate celebration pages which include the degree being awarded, their department or program, dissertation title, and dissertation chair(s). Send them a congratulatory message on social media with: #UCLADoctoralClass2020
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Grouped by Major
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Aerospace Engineering
Cesar Huerta
Anthropology
Molly Bloom
Kotrina Kajokaite
Matthew Richard McCoy
Dalila Ozier
Christopher Stephan
Anoush Tamar Suni
Gwyneth Talley
Applied Linguistics
Architecture
Mohamed Monkez Shaker
Shannon Starkey
Art History
Megan Bernstein
Kristina Borrman
Soyeon Kim
Hye-Shim Yi
Asian Languages and Cultures
Matthew Hayes
Jaehyun Jo
Shih-Wei Sun
Astronomy
Michael Topping
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Hung-I Lee
Victor Pinto Abarzua
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Eric Torres
Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology
Alexander Bradley
Jessica Davis
Ryan Lannan
Jonelle White
Bioengineering
Stanislav Culaclii
Arshia Ehsanipour
Rory Geoghegan
Dian Huang
Jessica Martinez Martinez
Sam Carsten-Puisis Norris
Peter Pellionisz
Elaine Qian
Nova Smedley
Po-Min Wang
Bioinformatics
Adriana Arneson
Christopher Hartl
Kimberly Insigne
Zong Miao
Stephen Tran
Ivette Zelaya
Yida Zhang
Zijun Zhang
Biology
Katelyn Gostic
Manzhu Kang
William Tyler McCraney
Biomathematics
Bhaven Mistry
Biomedical Physics
Anthony James Hardy
Biostatistics
Cellular and Molecular Pathology
Jason S Hong
Chemical Engineering
Abdulaziz Alturki
Jeremy Conner
Yiu-Sun Hung
Soo Kim
Xianyang Li
Nicholas Liu
Ehsan Shirzaei Sani
Elias Sideris
Angus Sidore
Zhihao Zhang
Chemistry
Renato Aguilera
Taylor Aubry-Komin
Alex Bagdasarian
Kevin Cannon
Brett Cory
Rafal Dziedzic
Dominic Goronzy
Leibniz Hang
Morgan Howe
Kate Liu
Marco Messina
Matthew Pagenkopp
Brian Shao
Richard Sportsman
Logan Stewart
Shenkai Wang
Yiliu Wang
Huimin Yang
Diana Yugay
Huanchen Zhai
Chicana & Chicano Studies
Leigh-Anna Hidalgo
Rafael Solorzano
Civil Engineering
Saman Abdullah
Barbaros Cetiner
Haiwen Gao
Yi-Hsuan Hsiao
Yu Miao
Tandre Oey
Zachary Stanko
Xiaobo Zhu
Yinghui Zhu
Community Health Sciences
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
Moustafa Alzantot
John Bender
Nazanin Farahpour
Xiaohan Fei
Anahita Hosseini
Tao Zhou
Culture and Performance
Maria Del Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz
Economics
Maria Arteaga
El Hadi Caoui
Ksenia Shakhgildyan
Yilin Wang
Nan Wu
Education
Christin Ahn
Christina Apostolakis
Holly Bailey-Hofmann
Dustin Black
Anne Blackstock-Bernstein
Leah Bueso
Sandy Chavez
Seung Won Chung
Nora Cisneros
Monique Corral
Hilary Crocker
Jahneille Cunningham
Margaret Dahn
Jonathan Davis
Adrienne Dellinger
Christopher Fennell
Janelle Franco
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Devon Graves
Katherine Griffin
Lindsay Hauptman
Mark Hill
Laura Hotchkiss
Alana Kinarsky
Kara Heidi Akemi Kogachi
Ung-Sang Lee
Jonathan Lopez
Lisa Miller
Emily Pressman
Timothy Randall
Jason Rock
Gloria Rodriguez
Eric Setoguchi
Andrea Steinman
Christina Toolan
Anthony Steve Trochez
Christine Vega
Damani White-Lewis
Colin Williams
Jung Yun
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Kartik Ahuja
Sulaiman Alghunaim
Ahmed Alzuhair
Zachary Ballard
Mathew Biedka
Max Ho
Ahmed Ibrahim
Mohammed Karmoose
Weicong Li
Peng Lu
Srinivas Prasad Mysore Nagaraja
Lingnan Song
Yulia Sunyoto
Jimmy Wu
Qianteng Wu
Kun Yuan
Heng Zhao
Electrical Engineering
Christopher Curwen
Jieqiong Du
Xiao Shi
English
Benjamin Shearer Beck
Katherine Bonnici
Kiel Steven Shaub
Martin Zirulnik
Environmental Health Sciences
Environmental Science and Engineering
Kazue Chinen
Jennifer Taylor
Epidemiology
Ethnomusicology
Albert Agha
Film and Television
French and Francophone Studies
Gender Studies
Fred Ariel Hernandez
Geography
Catherine Tsukasa Bender
Lauren Nicole Brown
Ali Nehme Hamdan
Lincoln Pitcher
Geology
Kevin Coffey
Geophysics and Space Physics
Lior Rubanenko
Emily Smith
Health Policy and Management
Jonathan Baghdadi
Hiroshi Gotanda
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Veronica Garcia Moreno
History
Ceren Abi
Christopher Stephen Bingley
Hippolyte Albert Goux
Samuel Keeley
Lindsay Alissa King
Kelly McCormick
Kevin Richardson
Guillermo Ruiz Stovel
Human Genetics
Malika Freund
Liangke Gou
Information Studies
Athanasia Chtena
Dustin O'hara
Islamic Studies
Cameron Zargar
Italian
Linguistics
Nikolaos Angelopoulos
Daniela Culinovic
Meng Yang
Management
Elicia John
Mahyar Kargar
Daniel Yavorsky
Geoffery Zheng
Materials Science and Engineering
Pedro Arias
Michelle Flores Espinosa
Sungjoon Lee
Ariella Machness
Roxanne Radpour
Shin-Hung Tsai
Rui Wang
Nathan Weiss
Keo-Yuan Wu
Xinke Yu
Hongxiang Zhao
Mathematics
Kevin Arlin
Shyr-Shea Chang
Mengyuan Ding
Michelle Feng
Thomas Gilton
Jiayin Guo
Qi Guo
Sangchul Lee
Jialin Liu
Cassidy Mentus
Baichuan Yuan
John Zhang
Mechanical Engineering
Mohammad Alabdullah
Anthony Barra
George Demoulin
Matthew Gerber
Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena
Kaiyuan Jin
Joonsang Kang
Behnam Khaki
Yu-Hsiu Lee
Ling Li
Tianxing Man
Obaidallah Munteshari
Jordan Price
Tyler Rhodes
Marco Riva
Joseph Schneider
Kuan-Wen Tung
Xiongfeng Zhu
Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Evan Abt
Joseph Capri
Richard Morgan
Xiang Yin
Molecular Biology
Cody Aros
Quen Cheng
Tran Do
Jessica Ong
Guillaume Urtecho
Meaghan Valliere
Molecular Toxicology
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology
Kaitlin Dixie
Tien Dong
Laura Gabriela Kammel
Shuin Park
Music
Patrick Gutman
Zachary Klein
Tomas Peire Serrate
Anastasia Petanova
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Scott Abramson
Neuroscience
Daniel Alejandro Cantu
Jeffrey Richman
Nursing
Yalda Rahimi
Nursing Practice
James Simmons
Oral Biology
Danny Hadaya
Philosophy
Antti Sakari Hiltunen
Michael David Skiles
Physics
Mert Besken
Justin Christensen
Paul Crandall
Alexander Edison
Daniel Gilman
Ashwin Hegde
Peter Heuer
Alexandra Latshaw
Jared Lodico
Nathan Majernik
Rajapaksayalage Rajapakse
Anthony Ransford
Ryan Roussel
Chandler Schlupf
Christian Schnaible
Physics and Biology in Medicine
John Ginn
Political Science
Manoel Gehrke Ryff Moreira
William Koppel
Daniel Lim
Eoghan McGreevy-Stafford
Evgeniya Nazrullaeva
Anton Sobolev
Feng Yang
Psychology
Ariana Naomi Bell
Todd Eric Brown
Barbara Caplan
Susan Carrigan
Emily Escovar
Andrew Frane
Lauren Goldstein
Joanna Kim
Jeffrey Knotts
Leah Lessard
Bita Mesri
Teresa Nguyen
Hua Ni
Isabel Ramos
Amy Rapp
Leslie Rith-Najarian
Ben Shulman
Lindsay Staples
Michael Sun
Timothy Williamson
Public Health
Lindsay Duplessis
Mahmoud Gaddoury
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Social Welfare
Lia Watai Marshall
Ioana Schmidt
Sociology
Brooks Ambrose
Andrea Lee
Special Education
Rosalinda Larios
Laura Rhinehart
Statistics
Seyed Jal Kazemitabar Amirkolaei
Yang Liu
Seunghyun Min
Tao Yuan
Theater and Performance Studies
Hye Kyoung Kwon
Urban Planning
Stephen Brumbaugh
Andrew Schouten