Alumni@Work

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.

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.

Aïcha Lakhssass received her Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning from UT-Austin in 2018. She is currently working as an urban designer and planner at Stantec in Montréal, QC. Her responsibilities include masterplanning for a variety of projects at different scales, performing planning and policy reviews for developments, seeking planning approvals for developments, implementing public engagement processes, and coordinating work in multidisciplinary project teams. Projects she is working on at located both in the United-States and Canada.

Jorge Vazquez Anderson earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin where he focused his research on synthetic biology and RNA regulation. He joined BCG in 2017 as a Consultant in their Dallas office. Jorge has served clients across multiple practice areas, now focusing primarily in the biopharma industry. He spent the better part of 2019 working with BCG Gamma data scientists as part of our Digital Rotation Program. Jorge enjoys spending time with his wife and children, learning Chinese, reading, and watching movies.

Jesse Thomason received his PhD from UT Austin in 2018. He is currently working as a visiting academic at Amazon, and will join the University of Southern California Computer Science department in fall 2021. He works at the intersection of natural language processing and robotics (RoboNLP), helping to bring human language capabilities to robot platforms.