After graduating from Stanford, Greg Novick '99 joined Apple in Cupertino, California and has since worked on various teams.  Four years ago he helped start the iPhone project, and he has been building the built-in applications and the frameworks that support them and the software development kit.

Jonathan Needleman '99 is at Cornell university finishing his PhD in math.  He is defending his thesis on June 15 and next year I will be an assistant  professor at Oberlin. 

Joseph Lee '99 is currently in graduate school at UCSF studying pharmacogenomics.

Deanna Zhang '99 is married to Jonah Pezeshki  '97 and they live in Northern Virginia.  Deanna and Jonah are both currently working at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

After graduating, Rahul Data '99 attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.  He started a PhD program at Rice University in 2004, but moved to New Orleans in 2005 for a MD/PhD program there.  He hopes to get my PhD in a few months and complete medical school in about two years.

Susan Beatty '99 will be defending her PhD in October.  Her degree will be in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland.  She lives in north Silver Spring with her husband and fellow Blair alum Michael Buckhout-White. 

Ani Manichaikul '99, met her husband Weimin in grad school at Johns Hopkins.  They married in 2006 and moved to Charlottesville together a year later.  Ani finished her PhD in Biostatistics in 2008, and is now working as a postdoc at UVa.  Her project is focused on engineering improved algal biofuel production.  She and Weimin spend all of their time outside of work playing with ther nine-month old son Raffi, who crawls backwards (but not forwards), and loves to make funny sounds.

David Moore '99 spent his undergraduate years at Caltech where he also met my wife, Helen. After graduation in 2003, they were married in 2004 while both of them were in graduate school at MIT.  David earned his MS degree there in 2005.  Afterwards, he stayed at MIT to work on an autonomous vehicle which was entered into the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.  In 2008, he left MIT and completed a summer internship at Google.  Later that fall, he started work full-time at a startup in Los Angeles developing image recognition technology.  The startup was short-lived due to a lack of funding, so he moved on to a full-time job at DreamWorks Animation in Glendale, CA at the beginning of 2009, where he works on software tools for producing 3D animation films.

Ioana Stoica '99 earned B.S.'s in math and electrical engineering and then refound herself in the humanities in graduate school. She is currently teaching dance in SE DC, dances professionally with a Duncan company, studies history and phenomenology (philosophy) at the University of Maryland, and isinvolved in several social justice projects. Her research at the moment lies at the intersection of history (specifically critical race theory) and phenomenology--she is looking at ballet and other forms of civilizing missions (in schools) as impulses of colonialist inheritances.

Nora Achrati '99 is finishing a stint at the Journal of Palestine Studies in DC and getting into local stage and film acting.