Alumni Spotlight

New Code Connects Microscopic Insights to the Macroscopic World

Recent alum Tim Linke leveraged ties between UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to conduct his computational research and develop a new framework that couples atom-scale simulations with code that describes the macroscopic world, all within a single simulation.

UC Davis Alum Leads Safety Efforts for Roblox’s Global Community

As the chief safety officer at Roblox, UC Davis alum Matt Kaufman leads safety and civility efforts across one of the world’s most complex online ecosystems. Through this vast digital space, young users are gaining important socialization skills, such as how to communicate, collaborate and be respectful to one another.

Alum Tim Bucher on Saving Farms from 'Farmageddon'

Electrical engineering alum Tim Bucher ’86 combines Silicon Valley innovation with agricultural roots. As CEO and co-founder of Agtonomy, he’s developing autonomous tractor technology to help growers tackle rising costs and labor shortages.

A Conversation with Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner and Alum Judy Chang

Before Judy Chang was overseeing the country's energy transmission as the first Asian American woman Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, she was an undergraduate engineer walking through Kemper Hall. She talks about laying the groundwork for her career in energy policy and how her love of electronic music brought her to UC Davis.

Woman of Steel: Zeynep Gulerce, Ph.D. '08

Zeynep Gulerce's career has been shaped by earthquakes. She was a young civil-engineer-in-training in Türkiye when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of the country. It lasted 37 seconds and claimed more than 18,000 lives and injured tens of thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands lost their homes and businesses.