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Jack (Xiaolang) Yao joined the SDM program while he was working at GE in Massachusetts. During his summer internship, Jack discovered the need for having a second monitor in his
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A native of Egypt, Fady had spent the first 8 years of his career working for Siemens and Nokia in Europe and North Africa deploying large-scale telecommunication networks. He was
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Dr. Hague enrolled in the SDM program as a sponsored employee at Pratt & Whitney as he transitioned from a role in manufacturing to a role in the office of the Chief Engineer.
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System Design and Management graduates Shruti Banda and Jack Yao are running a second Kickstarter campaign for their startup Mobile Pixels with the goal of bringing an upgraded
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MIT’s System Design and Management (SDM) program has named Ben Linville-Engler to serve as its new industry and certificate director. Linville-Engler brings a long track record
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A startup cofounded by MIT System Design & Management alumnus Rodrigo Diez has won the grand prize in the pitch portion of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship
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Paula Ingabire, SDM ’16, has been appointed to the cabinet of Rwanda by President Paul Kagame. Paula graduated from the SDM program in June 2018, having completed a thesis
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Karan Sachan SDM ’16 is a speaker at the Product Innovation Summit, scheduled for September 27-28 in Boston, MA. Karan is a Senior Product Manager at Nasdaq and the product
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Jack Yao SDM ’15 is running a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring a portable external laptop monitor to market. DUO, a “completely portable dual-screen laptop
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MassRobotics, a nonprofit startup escalator co-founded by MIT System Design & Management (SDM) alumnus Fady Saad, has been awarded a $2.5 million grant to expand operations in