Fri, Jul 18, 2025

9 AM – 10 AM EDT (GMT-4)

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Join GradFUTURES on Zoom on July 18 at 9:00 a.m. for a graduate alum panel to learn about international science and engineering faculty careers in Asia, Europe, and other regions of North America.


Overview: Scientific research and science-related careers are inherently global, and our graduate students are increasingly interested in learning about diverse careers beyond the United States. This summer, the Graduate School’s GradFUTURES program is tapping into our global network of graduate alums to facilitate online panels about international career pathways. The first panel is for Princeton’s graduate students (and postdocs) in science and engineering. It will focus on shared and distinct facets of science and engineering faculty careers (including job search processes and criteria for success) as well as practical tips about building a career and life in different parts of the world.

These summer panels are part of a larger, customized professional development program specifically tailored to the unique needs of international graduate students, ‘Thriving as an International Scientist and Scholar,’ to be offered in summer and fall 2025.


Panelists include:

  • Hang Deng (*15 CEE), Assistant Professor, Peking University (China)
  • Máté Bezdek (* 19 CHM), Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
  • Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (*19 COS), Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo (Canada)
  • Sophie Spirkl (*18 APC), Associate Professor, University of Waterloo (Canada)
  • Patrick Rebeschini (*14 ORF), Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning, University of Oxford (England)

Moderators:

  • Margarita Belova, GS ECE and GradFUTURES Professional Development Associate
  • Serene Dhawan, GS NEU and GradFUTURES Professional Development Associate

This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Government.

Speakers

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Patrick Rebeschini

Before joining the University of Oxford, I have been a Lecturer in the Computer Science department at Yale University and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Institute for Network Science, hosted by Sekhar Tatikonda. I have a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University, where I worked in probability theory under the supervision of Ramon van Handel.

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Sophie Spirkl

Sophie Spirkl (she/they; PhD 2018) is a mathematician at the University of Waterloo who received tenure earlier this month. Sophie's academic journey includes Germany (bachelor's and master's), the US (PhD and postdocs), and Canada (tenure-track). With a spouse also in math academia, perhaps Sophie's most exciting professional achievement is a partial solution to the 2-body problem. 

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Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo

I am an assistant professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo and a Canada Research Chair in "Minimizing Human Error in Modern Networks". Before joining Waterloo, I was a Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellow at the computer science department of Cornell University, working with Nate Foster, and Rachit Agarwal. I received my PhD in computer science from Princeton University, where I was advised by Jennifer Rexford. I got my B.Sc degree in Computer Engineering from department of Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology.



Research Interests: I am primarily interested in networked systems, with a focus on software defined networking (SDN) and programmable data planes. I explore how to make networks more robust by developing tools for automated analysis of network functionality, generating correct and efficient implementations on high-speed network hardware, and monitoring for validation purposes at run-time.

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Máté Bezdek

Born in November 1991, Máté grew up partly in Budapest (Hungary) and Calgary (Canada). He earned his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry from the University of Calgary in 2014, where he worked with Profs. Curtis Berlinguette and Warren Piers on the syntheses of ruthenium dye complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells and perfluorinated aryl boranes, respectively. Máté then pursued graduate studies at Princeton University with Prof. Paul Chirik. Máté’s graduate work explored proton-coupled electron transfer in molybdenum complexes relevant to the interconversion of ammonia with its elements as well as its application to organometallic chemistry. For his dissertation, Máté was awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton’s top honor for PhD students. After receiving his PhD in June 2019, Máté joined Prof. Timothy Swager’s group at MIT. There, he utilized concepts in molecular aerobic oxidation catalysis to develop gas sensors for the detection of environmental pollutants such as methane and hydrogen sulfide. Following his postdoctoral appointment, Máté joined ETH Zürich as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Chemistry in August 2021, where his research group’s interests span organometallic chemistry, carbon nanomaterial-metal hybrids and stimuli-responsive materials.  

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Hang Deng

Hang Deng is an assistant professor at the College of Engineering and an adjunct professor at the Institute of Energy and Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Peking University, and an affiliated researcher at the Peking University Ordos research institute of energy. Hang received her Bachelor’s degrees in Science and Arts from Peking University, and her PhD degree from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University in 2015. Afterwards, she worked in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, first as a Postdoc fellow and then as an Earth research scientist. Her research focuses on fundamental multiphysics and multiscale problems that underly a multitude of applications, including geologic carbon storage, enhanced rock weathering, and enhanced geothermal systems, waste disposal and contaminant remediation. Hang’s recent research centers around reactive transport processes of various fluids and chemicals in fractured and porous media across scales, e.g., co-precipitation of calcium carbonate with heavy metals and pore-scale interactions between multiphase flow and geochemical reactions.