Digital Learning Student Ambassadors
Our Ambassadors are here to answer your questions. Schedule a call with them to learn more about the online student experience. For questions about admission to our online graduate programs, contact Tandon.Digital.Learning@nyu.edu.
Zarifa Kabir
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Program: Bioinformatics, M.S.
Current City: Gainesville, FL
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2025
Favorite Class: My favorite class so far has been the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) course because of the hands-on coursework. I had the opportunity to work with real data and even create my own project as my final paper for the course. It was a great experience to apply what I learned directly to a meaningful project, making the class both challenging and rewarding
Sara El Houzaly
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Program: Bioinformatics, M.S.
Current City: Queens, New York
Expected Graduation Date: December 2026
Favorite Class: My favorite class in the program has been the Next Generation Sequencing course because it provides a practical introduction to how modern sequencing data are analyzed at scale. The course introduces students to high-performance computing environments and teaches how to work efficiently on Unix-based systems, which is essential for handling large sequencing datasets.
Kelly D'oleo
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Program: Emerging Technologies, M.S.
Current City: Silver Spring, MD
Expected Graduation Date: Dec 2025
Favorite Class: My favorite class I've taken so far has been Game Design within the Computer Science department (taken on campus). This has been my favorite because it was the most demanding and rewarding. I believe that games are the epitome of UX design and I learned so much about how to develop a game that truly resonates with people.
Vikram Pentakota
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Program: Emerging Technologies, M.S.
Current City: Brooklyn, NY
Expected Graduation Date: May 2026
Favorite Class: Deep Learning so far because it explained how some of emerging technology work.
Sarah Chamoun
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Program: Emerging Technologies, M.S.
Current City: Brooklyn, NY
Expected Graduation Date: December 2026
Favorite Class: Machine Learning is my favorite class so far because this is my first semester and I got to learn about the different models used in the data science space.
Paul Marinos
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Program: Cybersecurity, M.S. (NYU Cyber Fellow)
Current City: Old Bethpage, NY
Expected Graduation Date: 2026
Favorite Class: My favorite class so far in this program is Principles of Database Systems, because of its strong creative element in addition to its more 'technical' side. For its final project, students are tasked with developing a database-driven web application for any use case they can imagine.
Angel Saad
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Program: Cybersecurity, M.S. (NYU Cyber Fellow)
Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico
Expected Graduation Date: 2027
Favorite Class: Operating Systems. It was intellectually stimulating, challenging yet fun, and the Professor and TAs were great. I enjoyed it so much that I am now a TA in that class.
Jomin Joseph
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Program: Cybersecurity, M.S. (NYU Cyber Fellow)
Current City: Livingston, New Jersey
Expected Graduation Date: May 2027
Favorite Class: My favorite class so far has been the Information Security and Privacy course. What stood out to me the most was the final project, which involved writing a research paper on a topic of our choice. It was a great opportunity to explore an area I was genuinely interested in, and it gave me a firsthand look at the process of academic research and writing.
Jessica Hong
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Program: Management of Technology, M.S.
Current City: Brooklyn, New York
Expected Graduation Date: 2027
Favorite Class: Data Visualization: fun developing dashboards and leveraging tableau to identify patterns, trends, and outlier to facilitate communication.