Karina Edmonds (PhD '97) is the VP, Head of Academies and Universities at SAP. She received her B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, and M.S. and PhD degrees in Aeronautics from Caltech. Since graduating from Caltech, Karina has worked at TRW, JPL, and Google. Born in the Dominican Republic, she is a proud Afro-Latina scientist.
Marcella Gomez (PhD '15) is an assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz in the department of Applied Mathematics. She received her PhD from Caltech in 2015 and a B.S. from UC Berkeley in 2009; both degrees in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests are in synthetic and systems biology. She is also a proud Chicana, first generation Mexican-American from Riverside, California.
Roberto Zenit (PhD '97) is a professor of engineering at Brown University. He earned his BSc at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and M.S. and PhD degrees at Caltech. He was also a 2014-15 Fullbright Scholar at Caltech. Roberto has been a fellow at the American Physical Society, and an elected member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico.