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.

Leon Vardapetyan received his PhD in Computational and Applied Math from UT-Austin in 1999.He is currently working as a Senior Quantitative Research Scientist at Quantlab Financial where he is solving problems related to automated proprietary trading.

  • Leon Vardapetyan, PhD

Robyn Rap received her PhD in Sociology from UT-Austin in 2016. She is currently a data science manager at Indeed.com, the world’s #1 job site, where she leads a team of data scientists on the Ranking and Job Search product. Her team provides data-driven insights and machine learning solutions and has won several Indeed Innovation Awards for their work on A/B testing and search engine algorithms.

  • Robyn Rap, PhD

Timothy Piper is an assistant professor of Communication and Film & Media Studies at Oglethorpe University. His research focuses on the intersections of industry and identity in US television and sports media. He is currently working on a book project exploring the parallel growths of the National Basketball Association and the multi-channel television industry amid the burgeoning colorblindism of the 1970s and early ‘80s. His previous work has been published in The Moving Image.

  • Timothy Piper, PhD

Pete Kunze received his Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from UT-Austin in 2018. He is currently working as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University, where he teaches film and television studies. His book project, Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance, is under advance contract with Rutgers University Press.

  • Pete Kunze, PhD

Lynn Mellor received her Ph.D. in educational psychology with a specialization in quantitative methods from UT-Austin in 1995. She is currently working as a principal researcher at American Institutes for Research, she serves as the deputy director of the IES-funded Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Southwest. Dr. Mellor is also the principal investigator of an IES-funded research grant to evaluate the new graduation requirements in Texas as a result of House Bill 5. Between 2012 and 2017, Dr. Mellor served as co-principal investigator and study director on an IES-funded opportunistic experiment that examined the impact of providing information to parents in Texas about the role of Algebra II in college admission.

  • Lynn Mellor, PhD

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