Graduate Student Ambassadors

Wondering what life is like at Rice? Have a question about doctoral programs? Reach out to one of our student ambassadors by emailing gradambassadors@rice.edu, register for our Coffee Chats, and make sure to check out our grad student blog here.

Elsa Acosta de Anda, Rice University
Elsa Acosta de Anda

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish


Furqan Ahmad, Rice University graduate student ambassadors and Ph.D. student in ECE
Furqan Ahmad

Home Country: Pakistan | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering


Fariha Ahmad, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Fariha Ahmad

Home Country: USA | Program: Bioengineering | Language: English

Rice Graduate Student Ambassador Marquise Bell
Marquise Bell

Home Country: USA | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English


Rice Graduate Student Ambassador Sadie Brasel
Sadie Brasel

Home Country: USA | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, French


Graduate Student Ambassador Autumn Bruncz
Autumn Bruncz

Home Country: USA | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering| Languages: English

Maria Astrid Campos Mata, Rice University
Astrid Campos Mata

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Spanish


Chun-Ying Chao, Rice University Graduate Student
Chun-Ying Chao

Home Country: Taiwan | Program: Civil & Environmental Engineering | Languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin


Ellie Chen, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Ellie Chen

Home Country: USA | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Mandarin

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Baifu Chen

Home Country: China | Program: PhD in Strategic Management | Languages: English, Mandarin


Ying Chen, Rice graduate student ambassador
Ying Chen

Home Country: China | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Chinese


Yan-Yu Chiou, Rice university graduate student ambassador and Ph.D. student
Yan-Yu Chiou

Home Country: Taiwan | Program: Economics

Will Choi, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Chi Hun Choi

Home Country: South Korea | Program: Materials Science & NanoEngineering | Languages: Korean, English, Spanish


Alina Chow, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Alina Chow

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemistry


Cande Cicinelli, Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Cande Cicinelli

Home Country: Argentina | Program: Architecture | Languages: English, Spanish

Rice Graduate Student Ambassador Nina Cook
Nina Cook

Home Country: USA | Program: English| Languages: English, Spanish


Karyssa Courey, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Karyssa Courey

Home Country: USA | Program: Psychological Sciences


Michelle Duran Chaves, graduate Ambassador
Michelle Duran Chaves

Home Country: Costa Rica | Program: Chemistry | Language: English, Spanish

Emily Elia, Rice University graduate student in Political Science
Emily Elia

Home Country: USA | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Spanish


Vanessa Espinoza, Rice University graduate student ambassador Ph.D. doctoral student in chemistry
Vanessa Espinoza

Postdoctoral Associate


Viraj Ghosh, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Viraj Ghosh

Home Country: USA | Program: Bioengineering

Victoria Granja, Rice University doctoral student and graduate student ambassador
Victoria Granja

Home Country: Ecuador | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish


Carly Graverson, Rice University
Carly Graverson

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemistry


Niklas Gross is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at Rice University and a Graduate Student Ambassador
Niklas Gross

Home Country: Germany | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, German

Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez of Rice University
Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Systems, Synthetic & Physical Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese


Dallas Havens, Rice Graduate Ambassador
Dallas Havens

Home Country: USA | Program: Philosophy | Languages: English


Chia Hsieh, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador in EEB
Chia Hsieh

Home Country: Taiwan | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology| Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English

Jennifer Hunter, Rice University Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at Rice University
Jennifer Hunter

Assistant Dean


Rodrigo Ibarra Garcia Padilla, Rice University BioSciences
Rodrigo Ibarra Garcia Padilla

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French


Onyekachi Idigo, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Onyekachi Idigo

Home Country: Nigeria | Program: Biosciences | Languages: English and Igbo

Jeannette Ingabire is a Ph.D. student in the Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology Department at Rice University
Jeannette Ingabire

Home Country: Rwanda | Program: Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology


Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Sathvik Ajay Iyengar

Home Country: India | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering Program | Languages: English, Japanese, Tamil, Kannada


Debadrita Jana, PhD Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Debadrita Jana

Home Country: India | Program: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences | Languages: English, Bengali, Hindi

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Mirae (Sunny) Kim

Home Country: South Korea | Program: Computer Science | Languages: English, Korean


Yoon Jung (Jenny) Kwon is a doctoral candidate in the Strategic Management department of the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.
Yoon Jung Kwon

Home Country: South Korea | Program: Business (Strategic Management) | Languages: English, Korean


Marc-Ansy Laguerre Rice University Fulbright doctoral student
Marc-Ansy Laguerre

Home Country: Haiti | Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering | Languages: Haitian Creole, French, English

Nhi Le, Rice Graduate Ambassador
Nhi Le

Home Country: Vietnam | Program: Statistics | Languages: English, Vietnamese


Wei-Hao Lee, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Wei-Hao Lee

Home Country: Taiwan | Program: Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology Program | Languages: English, Chinese, Mandarin


Seiichi Matsuda
Seiichi Matsuda

Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; E. Dell Butcher Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology

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Robin Mo

Home Country: Hong Kong | Program: BioSciences | Languages: English, Mandarin


Joshua Moore, Ph.D. Student At Rice University in Houston, Texas and a graduate student ambassador
Joshua Moore

Home Country: USA | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology Program


Fernanda Morales, Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Fernanda Morales

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Spanish, French

Nam Nguyen, Rice University Graduate Student
Nam Nguyen

Home Country: Vietnam | Program: Statistics | Languages: Vietnamese, English


Njideka (Syndi) Nnorom, Rice University graduate student ambassador
Njideka Nnorom

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering


Toni Panzera, graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Toni Panzera

Home Country: South Africa | Program: Physics & Astronomy | Languages: English, Afrikaans

Neethu Pottackal, Rice University Materials Science Grad Student
Neethu Pottackal

Home Country: USA | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering| Languages: English, Malayalam


Ivan Rosa de Siqueira, Rice University ambassador graduate student Ph.D.
Ivan Rosa de Siqueira

Home Country: Brazil | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Portuguese


Edgar Ruiz Bello, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Edgar Ruiz

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish

Joshua Samba, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Joshua Samba

Home Country: USA | Program: Applied Physics


Phelecia Scotland, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Phelecia Scotland

Home Country: Dominica | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering Program


Yingru Song, Rice University graduate Ph.D. doctoral student and research assistant
Yingru Song

Home Country: China | Program: Mechanical Engineering

Daziyah Sullivan, Rice University doctoral student and graduate student ambassador
Daziyah Sullivan

Home Country: USA | Program: Mechanical Engineering


Carlos Taveras, Rice Graduate Ambassador
Carlos Taveras

Home Country: USA | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish


Akpan Ubong-Abasi Asukwo, graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Akpan Ubong-Abasi Asukwo

Home Country: Nigeria | Program: Religion | Languages: English, Yoruba, Igbo, Ibibio

Rice University graduate student Utana Umezaki
Utana Umezaki

Home Country: Japan | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Japanese, English


Jason Uwaeze
Jason Uwaeze

Home Country: USA | Program: Computer Science | Language: English


Bohan Zhang, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Bohan Zhang

Home Country: China | Program: History | Languages: English, Chinese