Alumni@Work

The University of Texas at Austin prepares advanced degree students and scholars for a wide range of career possibilities. Search these alumni profiles by disciplinary background, industry and identity and watch their short videos to learn more about the type of work that advanced degree alumni pursue, the strategies they employ, and how their typical days look.

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Bharathwaj Sankaran received his PhD in Civil Engineering (CEPM Specialization) from UT-Austin in 2017. He is currently working as a Lead Consultant at Advisory Services Division of WSP USA, where he primarily focuses on infrastructure project planning and development, project portfolio evaluation and prioritization, project financing, and data analytics. He has worked with tolling authorities and State DOTs across the country in projects related to net revenue estimation for highway toll facilities, benefit-cost analysis for transportation infrastructure projects, pricing and policy studies, traffic safety studies, and applied research on emerging technologies. A data science enthusiast, he has worked with several programming languages, statistical software, and BI tools to support data-driven decision-making in several tasks in his line of work for transportation agencies.
  • Bharathwaj Sankaran, PhD

Dr. David (Dave) Barry received his PhD in Curriculum & Instruction (Early Childhood Education) from UT-Austin in 2021. He is currently working as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at West Chester University of PA, where he teaches early childhood teacher education courses to preservice teacher candidates.

  • David Barry, PhD

Elisa received her PhD in Linguistics from UT-Austin in 2020. She is currently working as an NLP Research Scientist at Abridge AI. Elisa develops machine learning algorithms to understand medical conversations and enable patients to better follow through on their care.

  • Elisa Ferracane, PhD
Saurabh Gupta received his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT-Austin in 2020. He is currently working as a Sr. GPU Architect at NVIDIA Corporation, where he works on designing future graphics and parallel processing architectures. His day-to-day work life includes working on functional and performance simulators to evaluate future GPU features.
  • Saurabh Gupta, MS
Oscar Galvis received his PhD in Civil Engineering (Transportation) from UT-Austin in 2021. He is currently working as a Resident Engineer at Trimble, where he actively supports New Mexico Department of Transportation on preserving their transportation assets, including engaging with different teams, analyzing databases, and support database management.
  • Oscar Galvis

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