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On October 10-12, 65 members of the SASE WPI Chapter attended the annual 2024 SASE - Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers National Conference Boston, Massachusetts! The convention offered various professional development workshops alongside hospitality suites and resume reviews offered by companies participating in the career fair. The SASE NC Career Fair is the largest STEM career fair for Asian Americans in the United States! Our members were able to network with other SASE chapters from all over the country and connect with recruiters from over 80 companies at the event. Congratulations to all of our members who were able to get interviews, and especially to our 3 members who received on-the-spot offers! Beyond career development, our chapter made great strides within the organization. The WPI SASEHack team C Triple A won Best Childhood Track and Best SASE Sharks Pitch. Our President, Brian Jin, won Overall Best Poster for the Poster Symposium. And for the club, SASE WPI received the Inspire Award for Most Influential Chapter! Congratulations to everyone, and a huge thank you to our club members who helped us achieve this award! Thank you to the WPI CDC Career Advisor Zerayah Obeng for accompanying us, and thank you to the SASE Nationals Team running this great event! Our chapter looks forward to attending the Northeast Regional Conference hosted in Newark, New Jersey!

Last but not least for our SASE WPI Summer Spotlight are Abbas Jivan and Ruba Khan! Sophomore and current SASE WPI Secretary Abbas Jivan worked at federal consulting agency Reveal Global Consulting. Abbas was a Data Science Intern, developing an optical character recognition model able to transcribe documents and forms. His time was spent researching and testing different approaches to optimize model size and speed while retaining accuracy. Senior and former SASE WPI Public Relations Chair Ruba Khan did a Data Science co-op at Amazon Robotics, based in North Reading, Massachusetts. Amazon Robotics is a subsidiary of Amazon, controlling the tech that goes into the delivery and packaging centers. Ruba’s team worked on identifying the different metrics involved with those systems to better understand workflow and figuring out how to optimize it. Our SASE members have been up to incredible things over the summer! We hope to see even more of our members engaging in internships and expanding their horizons next year!

Our third batch of SASE Summer Spotlight members includes Christopher Lam, Ajay Bhagavatula, and Kaylee Phu! Junior Chris Lam was an intern for the U.S. Air Force at Hanscom AFB in Lexington, Massachusetts. Like Kerry, Chris was also able to get this internship through SASE Nationals 2023! Chris currently works in the testing/consultant side of the Air Force, helping develop an ML dashboard to track workloads and predict distribution. Junior Ajay Bhagavatula worked as a Cybersecurity Intern for insurance company Liberty Mutual, stationed in Boston, Massachusetts. Ajay’s job includes assessing and investigating third parties, and ensuring it is safe to do business with them or use their services. He has also been researching how attackers use AI and learning to incorporate AI into defense systems. Sophomore Kaylee Phu interned as a Molecular Biology Research Assistant at Mass General Hospital, centered in Boston. Kaylee’s work consists of shadowing research technicians and helping them work on experiments. Kaylee and her team worked on building a phage library, a collection of diverse bacteria used to create antibodies to treat specific diseases.

Our second batch of SASE Summer Spotlight members includes Sophie Sakamoto, Kerry Xiao, and Faith Myint! Senior Sophie Sakamoto interned at Siemens in Atlanta, Georgia. Siemens is a global production company based in Germany, and the department that Sophie has been working at is focused on Smart Infrastructure, like circuit breakers and power management systems. At her internship, she’s been working with 3D printing to aid in Additive Manufacturing testing capabilities and tolerances. Junior and current SASE WPI Vice President Kerry Xiao worked as an Electrical Engineering Intern at Exelon, the largest utility company in the United States. He was able to get this opportunity through SASE NC 2023! At the Newark office, Kerry has been able to do hands-on work in the field, such as touring a local substation and learning about transmission, substation engineering, and control systems. Junior and current SASE WPI Events Coordinator Faith Myint interned at the Center of Discovery and Innovation in Nutley, New Jersey. Her current project consists of doing constant flow and maintaining organoids of colorectal cells, enabling the testing of mediations and antibodies. This research is important to advancements in treating colorectal cancer.

Over the summer, our SASE WPI members have been busy all over working at internships and co-ops. Here’s a peek at what our members have been up to as the Fall Semester begins! Junior Jeremy Kurtz was in Indonesia working a software engineering internship at KOMPAS! KOMPAS, a newspaper and media company, is the largest distributor of news in Indonesia! Jeremy has been incorporating AI to help answer user questions leveraging KOMPAS’s news database. Senior and former SASE WPI President Jessica Vo was in Merrimack, New Hampshire doing a Product Engineering Co-op at Getinge! Getinge is a medical device company producing tools like vesicular grafts, chest drains, and beta bags. Jessica’s work includes product testing and validation. Junior and former SASE WPI Membership Chair Abhi Yammanuru has been working at Travelers as a Decision Science Intern! Travelers is an insurance company, specializing in commercial property while also working in auto, personal, and business insurance. Abhi has been utilizing Python and Excel to clean, analyze, and visualize data for proper management.