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Sharp intuition, confidence, and adaptability are a potent recipe for professional success. A dash of luck doesn’t hurt either. Together, this recipe has fueled Mingyi Shao, MPS ’24, through the often common twists and turns of the academic and professional journey. Today, Shao is a software development engineer at Amazon – a job she secured earlier this...

Just one year out, Kendall Hoffman ’23, MPS ’23, already sees how her education in the Master of Professional Studies program in information science informs her work as a product manager. “Being in this role and directly applying what I learned in college and grad school has been really cool,” she said. Hoffman's "role” is within the federal workforce. In...

With a J.D. degree in hand and a career in law under way, Edward Wu , MPS ’25, had a kind of revelation. It was late 2022, and Edward, then practicing privacy and technology law for tech startups, was following word of a newly launched large language model (LLM) – ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence (AI) wave was fast approaching, he suspected, and...