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.

Connect with an Ambassador

Connect with one of our student ambassadors via the form here!

Make sure to register for our upcoming events, and 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.

Robyn Alba

Home Country: USA | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Diana Alvarado

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

Aosheen Anand

Home Country: India | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi

Facundo Arredondo

Home Country: Argentina | Program: Data Science | Languages: Spanish, English, Italian

Devesh Awasthi

Home Country: India | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Hindi

Marquise Bell

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

Astrid Campos Mata

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

Rodolfo Cantu

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

Manuel Carmona Pichardo

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

Isha Chakraborty

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

Chun-Ying Chao

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

Ying Chen

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

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

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemistry

Alan Covarrubias

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: Spanish, English, German

Carlos Criollo Paredes

Home Country: Colombia | Program: Applied Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English

Carol De Groote Tavares

Home Country: Brazil | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Portuguese

Iago Henrique de Miranda Mariano

Home Country: Brazil | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Michelle Duran Chaves

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

Enina Egiebor

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, French, Edo

Emily Elia

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

Mauro Florez

Home Country: Colombia | Program: Statistics | Languages: Spanish, English

Brandon García

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Energy Economics | Languages: English, Spanish

Katie Garcia

Home Country: USA | Program: Psychological Sciences

Viraj Ghosh

Home Country: USA | Program: Bioengineering

Norma Gonzalez

Southern Cone Liaison

Victoria Granja

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

Carly Graverson

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemistry | 🏳️‍🌈

Andrews Gyane

Home Country: Ghana | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Twi

Daniela Hikari Yano

Home Country: Brazil | Program: Physics | Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Jennifer Hunter

Assistant Dean | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact

Trang Huynh

Home Country: Vietnam | Program: Political Science | Languages: Vietnamese, English, Japanese

Onyekachi Idigo

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

Sathvik Ajay Iyengar

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

Esther Jimenez

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

Maranda Joyce

Home Country: USA | Program: Political Science

Salpy Kanimian

Home Country: Lebanon | Program: Economics | Languages: Armenian, Arabic, English, and others

Mirae (Sunny) Kim

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

Natalie Kokroko

Home Country: Ghana | Program: Computer Science | Languages: English, French

Natsumi Komatsu

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Japan | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Japanese

Vincent Lai

Home Country: USA | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Vietnamese

Nhi Le

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

Hannah Lim

Home Country: South Korea | Program: Bioengineering | Languages: English, Korean

Rui Liu

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

Anna Lucas

Home Country: USA | Program: Global Affairs | Languages: English, German

Seiichi Matsuda

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

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

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

Asahi Obata

Home Country: Japan | Program: Political Science | Languages: Japanese, English

Max Paxtian

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

Erin Porter

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

Neethu Pottackal

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

Agustin Prinetti

Home Country: Argentina | Program: Political Science | Languages: Spanish (Native), English (Fluent), Italian (Fluent), French (Beginner)

Luisa Rezende

Home Country: Brazil | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: Portuguese, English

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

Dinora Rodriguez

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

Andrés Sánchez

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

Phelecia Scotland

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

Selvalalakshmi Selvaraj Anand

Home Country: India | Program: Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology | Languages: English, Tamil and Hindi

Lul Sharif

Home Country: USA | Program: Chemistry

Jae'la Solomon

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

Ken W. Ssennyimba, Rice grad student ambassador

Ken Ssennyimba

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

Daziyah Sullivan

Home Country: USA | Program: Mechanical Engineering

Arthur Steve Tchoneteck

Home Country: Cameroon | Program: Statistics | Languages: French, English, Nguembah (my dialect)

Akpan Ubong-Abasi Asukwo

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

Sofia Urbina

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

Nathaniel Uy

Home Country: The Philippines | Program: Masters of Global Affairs | Languages: Filipino, English

Moira Venegas

Home Country: Chile | Program: Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English

Kayla Vokt

Home Country: USA | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cam Zapater

Program Administrator | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact

Bohan Zhang

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