Dana Kianfar (expected 2013)

While pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at The American University of Paris with a minor in Applied Mathematics, Dana has been the CSMS department's representative at the Student Senate for two semesters and has worked with the IT Services department at AUP to design and develop the institution's 50th anniversary website. In Spring 2013, Dana worked at the first Digital Health Innovation Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston called RHINNO (Rapid Health Innovation), in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School. While finishing his degree, Dana is working at the Semantic Web start-up Sepage where he is working on projects for Pernod Ricard and the French Ministry of Culture. In the past, he has collaborated with Hypios where he worked on an expert crowd-sourcing application using Semantic Web technologies.

Alban Demiraj (2013) Sin-Ming Shaw Award

While pursuing his double major in Computer Science and Economics, Alban served for two years as senator to the SGA representing the Department of Computer Science, Math and Science. On his senior year, in collaboration with his close friend Anas Bouzoubaa, Alban developed the "Can-Collecting Autonomous Mobile Robot" which was prised as the best senior project across all disciplines and awarded the Sin-Ming Shaw award. Alban is admitted to continue his studies for the MSc in Computer Science at the University of Oxford starting Fall 13.

Mara Dumitru (2012)

While pursuing her double major in Computer Science (ICT track) and Psychology and a minor in Art History, Mara completed several projects including an ontology based museum recommender and a research on Digital Identity that she presented at the workshop on Identity and Narratives in the Digital Age at Narrative Matters 2012. Following her graduation Mara completed an internship at UNESCO, was asked by the French Ministry of Culture to develop Muséophile, her ontology based museum recommender system which she conceived while studying at AUP, and she is now continuing her studies in the Master 2 at Paris Sud in the HCI program.

Eugenio Carlo Oskian (2012)

With a Self Designed Major in Computational Methods for Applied Mathematics Eugenio has studied how to develop automated, rigorous ways to analyze large datasets and to extract information and structure from unstructured data. Eugenio continued his studies pursuing a Masters in Finance at MIT.

Acadia Webber (2012) – Valedictorian award AUP undergraduate class 2012

While studying at AUP Acadia completed an internships in Applied Behavior Analysis therapy at the Paris Ideal School and a Web design internship at the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris. She volunteered as an English teacher at an ecole maternelle, she assisted the Director of the Division of Arts and Sciences, and regularly contributed to The Planet, AUP’s students’ magazine. After completing her double major in Computer Science (ICT track) and Psychology, Acadia continued her studies at Columbia University Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program.