Magnet Alumni News: Summer 2016

Headlines and milestones from Magnet alumni:

• Lorrie Cranor '89 recently spoke to Wired about How Even the FTC's Lead Technologist Can Get Hacked.

  • A graduate student working under Robert Pless '90 at Washington University in St. Louis created TraffickCam, an app to crowd source the creation of a continually updated index of the appearance of hotel rooms to support investigations of sex trafficking. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

  • Hormuzd Katki '92 published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) about an individualized, risk-based approach to screening current and former smokers for the early detection of lung cancer. (Targeted Oncology)

• Dan Bergstralh '93 has joined the faculty at the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor of Biology, after completing post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge under a Marshal Sherfield Fellowship.

• Gautam Mukunda '97 wrote in the Harvard Business Review about The Values Crisis Shaking the Republican Party.

• Jonah Berger '98 has published a new book, Invisible Influence, about the hidden social factors that shape our behavior.

  • Sherman Leung '12 was named a KPCB Fellow at Mango Health this summer.

Alumni stories in this newsletter:

• Quantum Materials: Jon Simon '00 is a Physics Professor at the University of Chicago

• Neuroscience Data: Bingni Wen Brunton '02 is a Biology Professor at the University of Washington

• BoostMySchool: Holman Gao '08 developed a fundraising app for the Foundation

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