About

The Life@EE panel series is a platform for discussion of the experiences of Yale electrical engineering students as undergraduates, graduates, and career professionals. The series is organized by Professor Priya Panda (https://intelligentcomputinglab.yale.edu/) and a team of Yale undergraduates!

Interested in joining the team and helping organize future Life@EE events? Please email priya.panda@yale.edu for more information!


Next event

Join us for our next talk on Thursday, April 28th! A panel of three Yale alumni will share their perspectives on the diverse opportunities and career paths available in the electrical engineering field.

This will be a hybrid event, so you can join us in person or on Zoom. Pizza and refreshments will be served!

Details

Speakers

Will Braff, ’05

Will graduated from Grace Hopper in 2005 with a BS in Physics, and holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. As the Battery Material and Cell Engineering Manager in Apple Special Projects Group, Will leads development of new lithium ion battery chemistry and design concepts. He lives in Palo Alto, CA, and has three young children.

Adam Wolnikowski, ’21

I’m EECS ’21, and while at Yale published research on hardware security and networking with Profs. Jakub Szefer, Robert Soule, and Rajit Manohar, for which I received the CS department undergraduate research prize. After Yale, I worked as an embedded systems engineer at Humatics, a robotics startup, and recently began a new position as a software engineer at Anduril, a defense startup.

Aunica Steele, ’15

Aunica Steele graduated from Yale with an ABET-accredited B.S. in EE in 2015. She has since held two roles at Microsoft, the first as a Product Engineer with Microsoft Devices in the New Product Introduction group, and her current role as an AI Hardware Engineer in the Azure Hardware Architecture group. She earned her Master’s in EE in 2021 from Stanford while working at Microsoft.