Graduate Student Ambassadors

Who are the Graduate Student Ambassadors?

Ambassadors are current graduate students at Rice University! They are a great resource to use when 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.

Our mission

The mission of the Rice Graduate Student Ambassadors is to equip prospective graduate students with accurate, honest information about graduate study. We share our unique experiences and provide informal mentoring, striving to empower prospective students to make the best choice possible for themselves, regardless of where they ultimately study.

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Elsa Acosta de Anda, Rice University
Elsa Acosta de Anda

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


Fariha Ahmad, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Fariha Ahmad

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


Mert Akman, graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Mert Akman

Home Country: Turkey | Program: Business | Languages: Turkish, English, French and German

Graduate student ambassador and Ph.D. student Marquise Bell
Marquise Bell

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


Maria Astrid Campos Mata, Rice University
Astrid Campos Mata

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


Manuel Carmona Pichardo, Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Manuel Carmona Pichardo

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Spanish, English

Madelyn Castro, Rice Graduate Ambassador
Madelyn Castro

Home Country: USA | Program: Psychological Sciences | Language: English


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

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


Ying Chen, Rice graduate student ambassador
Ying Chen

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

Baifu Chen, Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Baifu Chen

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


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

Esteban Dodero-Rojas, Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Esteban Dodero-Rojas

Home Country: Costa Rica | Program: Systems, Synthetic & Physical Biology


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

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 grad student ambassador
Carly Graverson

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemistry

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 | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact


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
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

Esther Jimenez, Rice University graduate student and ambassador
Esther Jimenez

Home Country: USA | Program: Biochemistry & Cell Biology | Languages: English, Spanish


Maranda Joyce, graduate student ambassdor and PhD candidate at Rice University
Maranda Joyce

Home Country: USA | Program: Political Science


Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador Mirae Sunny Kim
Mirae (Sunny) Kim

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

Vinod Kumar, a Ph.D. student at Rice University and a Graduate Student Ambassador
Vinod Kumar

Home Country: Pakistan | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Urdu, Sindhi, Dhatki


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

Kashif Liaqat, Rice Graduate Ambassador
Kashif Liaqat

Home Country: Pakistan | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Language: English, Urdu, Punjabi


Seiichi Matsuda
Seiichi Matsuda

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


Robin Mo, Ph.D. student and Graduate Student Ambassador at Rice University
Robin Mo

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

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

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


Yuya Nakatani, Rice Grad School Ambassador and Ph.D. student
Yuya Nakatani

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


Nam Nguyen, Rice University Graduate Student
Nam Nguyen

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

Toni Panzera, graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Toni Panzera

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


Erin Porter, Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Erin Porter

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English


Neethu Pottackal, Rice University Materials Science Grad Student
Neethu Pottackal

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

Dinora Nicole Rodriguez, graduate student ambassador at Rice University in Houston Texas
Dinora Rodriguez

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


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

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


Phelecia Scotland, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Phelecia Scotland

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

Lul Sharif, Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Lul Sharif

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemistry


Roy Shen, Ph.D. student and graduate student ambassador at Rice University
Roy Shen

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


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

Home Country: China | Program: Mechanical Engineering

Ken W. Ssennyimba, Rice grad student ambassador
Ken Ssennyimba

Home Country: Uganda | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: English, Luganda


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

Home Country: USA | Program: Mechanical Engineering


Arthur Steve Tchoneteck, Rice University Ph.D. student
Arthur Steve Tchoneteck

Home Country: Cameroon | Program: Statistics | Languages: French, English

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

Kayla Vokt, Rice University grad student and ambassador
Kayla Vokt

Home Country: USA | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering


Bohan Zhang, Rice University Graduate Student Ambassador
Bohan Zhang

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