2021 - Columbia GSAPP

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Class of 2021 Graduates

Master of Science in Real Estate Development

M.S. Real Estate Development

Thomas Abreu
Michael Adelstein
Jeffrey David Adler
Rasam Aminzadeh
Hajir Saleh Al Khusaibi
Andrew Carroll Allyn
Kevin Phillip April
Varudh Assakul
Kyle Jeffrey Bacon
Alexander Samuel Ball
Mateo Bolivar
Tom Bourne
Oliver Oenslager Bradley
Tomas Buitrago
Brendan Cavender
Zhirong Cen
Chun-Wei Chen
Duen-Chieh Chen
Hong-Syuan Chen
Patrick Chen
Agnes Cheung
David Raines Chillura
Kelly Connelly
Brandon Taylor Conrad
Steven Corsello
Alexander Cutrona
Harry Day-Reiss
Mark-Henry Jean Decrausaz
Nelson De Jesus Ubri
Juan Carlos de la Garza Madero
Han Deng
Hongze Deng
Danielle Dib
Maxwell Charissa Djakasaputra
Han Du
Elaine Feng
Maria Eugenia Figueira
Alexander Fraser
Brianna R. Friedman
Sean Richard Siy Go
Joshua B Gonzalez
Reed Gordon
Jake Greenberg
Jungmoon Ham
Shamkhal Hasanli
Lauren Marie Haverlin
James Ho
David Holiner
Lin Hou
Yaolan Huang
Yong Huang
Lauren Hyland
Eric Jared Iglesias
Spyro Alexander Jacobson
Mohan Jia
Bradley Nicholas
Hunley Jones
Jinsu Joung
Colin Joy
Mustafa B. Kamil
Abdulaziz Kanoo
Begum Karaoglu
Sarah Khalfoune Labou
Ayoung Kim
Keith Michael Kito
Jacob Takeshi Kurosaki
Nicholas Laffin
Angela Lai
Daanish Lalani

Camille Lanier
Alfonso Larrain
Kassandra Shuen Lee Hongyi (Sissi) Li
QUQU LI
George Liao
Jiazhen Lin
Mario A. Lio
Thomas James Lord
Zhixia Lu
Alexander P Lynch
Qianyue Ma
Olivia Dionne McCaughey
Eshan Mehta
Daniel Millan
Tsz Hing Ngai
Cuong Le Dong Nguyen
Maoyuan Ni
Oliver O’Donnell
Rohan P Parekh
Gabriel Max Perl
Nicholas Lincoln Perry
Luis Miguel Pizano
Jacob Polachek
Kylie Mizuki Pond
Xinyi Qu
Marc Vance Raiman
Thi Ratirattananont
Miller Robinson
Lavy Rosenthal
Aaron Sage
Svetlana Samandyk
Oliver Schwalbe
Rosario Giovanni Scumaci
Robert Thomas Sears
Elliot Michael Shahery
Keyuan Shan
Qi Shan
Jingyi Shao
Gregory Shin
Stephen James Steckel
Chongshi Sun
Zheyue Sun
Yeshu Tan
Tianchun Tang
Jeremy Tenenbaum
Jonathan Torrey
Randy Wang
Cecilia Wang
Weicheng Wang
Xinyue Wang
Yangziyan Wang
Yu Wang
Yujia Wang
Jonathan Weinbaum
Jiwen Wu
Yuheng Wu
Larry Xu
Wenshao Xu
Ziwen Yan
Siyuan Yin
Jii Yoo
Chloe Yu
Haochen Zhang
SiQi Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang
Bokai (Will) Zhao
Bowen Zheng
Jiafeng Zheng
Haolan Zhou
Ting (Tina) Zhou

Master of Science in Historic Preservation

M.S. Historic Preservation

Bruno Elias
Rachel Pietron Ericksen
Katlyn Marie Foster
Marisa Kefalidis
Emily Rachel Kahn

Lai Ma
William Todd MacCullum
Caroline Peters
Thomas Briggs Rice
Tucker McIntosh Simmons
Madison Story

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN URBAN PLANNING

M.S. Urban Planning

Abedin Tamin
Myles Benjamin Agudelo
Regina Joy Duque Alcazar
Sebastian Anderson
Natalie Louise Baldacci
Justin Barton
C. Hayes Buchanan
Tihana Bulut
Riley Kimarie Burchell
Mengqi Cao
Xiyu Chen
Hana Dunston
Ashley Reeb Esparza
Camille Jayne Dayupay Esquivel
Ryan Eustace
Yuning Feng
Lanier Hagerty
Colin Malik Hancock
Sanjukta Kashyap Hazarika
Mariana Hinojosa Ronquillo
Elaine Mingsum Hsieh
Yiyi Jiang
Jin Hong Kim

Soyeon Kim
Geon Woo Lee
Hongseog Lee
Lisa Li
Lily Li
Qi Lin
Gina (Shih Yu) Liu
Hui Lu
Priska Marianne
Jason Scott Mencher
Juan Sebastian Moreno
Madeline Ariel Pena
Nicholas Lincoln Perry
Yuan Qin
Zeineb Sellami
Jiuyu Wang
Xifan Wang
Hanzhang Yang
Angel Yin
Shinichi Yoshihara
Zixuan Zha
Haochen Zhang
Haoran Zhang
Yueqi Zhou

DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY IN URBAN PLANNING

PhD in Urban Planning

Cathy Hyun Hye Bae
Bernadette Baird-Zars
Jonathan English
Tyler David Haupert

Elizabeth Marie Marcello
Jung Eun Park
Danielle L Petretta
Rosalie Singerman Ray
Valerie Elise Stahl

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CRITICAL, CURATORIAL, AND CONCEPTUAL PRACTICES

M.S. Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices

Caitlyn Campbell
Nadine Fattaleh
Lucia Galaretto

Benjamin Goldner
Hilary Huckins-Weidner
Ricky Ruihong Li
Emmanuel K. Olunkwa
Marco Piscitelli

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN

M.S. Architecture and Urban Design

Chinedu Obinna Adiele
Ahmed Abdullah
Al Yaseen
Aruna Ananta Das
Anirudh Venkat Bodempudi
Yiyang Cai
Lingbei Chen
Lonas Chiu
Yuehui Du
Corina Fuenmayor Herrero
Ishita Ghosh
Kai Guo
You Jin Hwang
Zuzanna Zofia
Jarzyn´ ska
Chrysothemi Kouloumentas
Cheng Ju Lee
Yoo Jin Lee
Chao Li
Wenjuan Li
Chen Liu
Luchen Liu

Victor Lo
Yifei Luo
Mariana Majima
Wenyi Peng
Thanawat Phituksithkasem
Nupur Roy Chaudhury
Kyle Wilson Sam
Jil Amish Shah
Yi Shang
Yuhui Si
Xiaofei Sun
Yuqi Tian
Scarlet Nga Chin Tong
Xindi Wang
Yunpeng Wu
Dhania Yasmin
Zheng Yin
Lijing Yu
Kai Zhang
Rui Zhang
Wanjing Zhang
Huiya Zhong
Yong Zhuang

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design

Refan Abed
Benjamin Akhavan
Fahad Al Dughaish
Abdelrahman Ala Al-Bakri
Farah Alkhoury
Faisal Majed Alohali
Pabla Amigo
Noor Jahan Begum
Angel Castillo
En-Ho Chan
Chao Chang
Janice Chen
Ying Cheng
Chiun Heng Chou
Jiyong Chun
Michelle Clara
Kshama Dharman Daftary
Tianyuan Deng
Cong Diao
Marie Christine Karim Dimitri
Chenxi Dong
Jishan Duan
Ali Amr ElSinbawy
Nora Fadil
Gabriela Junqueira Franco
Jindian Fu
Renee Gao
Liwei Guo
Behruz Hairullaev
Sarah Ibrahim Hejazin
Man Hu
Seonggeun Hur
Jasmine Nicki Jalinous
Gun Young Jang
Ruochen Ji
Nanjia Jiang
Zhenting Jiang
Mark Melita Kantai
Sungmin Kim
Xianghui Kong
Wan-Hsuan Kung
Keon Hee Lee
Susan Soyoung Lee
Su Li
Tianran Li
Timlok Li

Liang-Yu Lin
Yuedong Lin
Fan Liu
Yipeng Lui
Yuan Liu
Jinxia Lou
Hao-Yeh Lu
Yuanming Ma
Mariami Maghlakelidze
Konstantina Marinaki
Joel McCullough
Devansh Ajay Mehta
Mia Mulic
Camila Nuñez
Junyong Park
Hemila Rastegar-Aria
Emily Grace Ruopp
Cheng Shen
Ruijing Sun
Wanqi Sun
Zhijian Sun
Ziang Tang
Jenifer Tello
Magdalena Valdevenito
Veeris Vanichtantikul
Domenica Velasco
Kai Wang
Lewei Wang
Shengmian Frank Wang
Yueyang Wang
Ziyi Wang
Chia Jung Wen
Xian Wu
Zihan Xiao
Jiayue Xu
Tianheng Xu
Ye Xu
Yuexi Xu
Chen Yang
Tian Yao
Yu-Jun Yeh
Xiaoliang Ying
Eunjin Yoo
Duo Zhang
Fengyi Zhang
Jerry Zhao
Jingrou Zhao
Zixiao Zhu

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE

Master of Architecture

Alina Abouelenin
Rasam Aminzadeh
Isabella Bartenstein
Dylan Belfield
Yasmin Ben Ltaifa
Shuang Bi
Erin Grace Biediger
Oliver Oenslager Bradley
Matthew A Brubaker
Camille Brustlein
Zachary Thomas Bundy
Anirudh Chandar
Hao Chang
Chun-Wei Chen
Melissa Chervin
Thom Chiu
Steven Corsello
Greta Crone Crispen
Ineajomaira Cuevas Gonzalez
Nelson De Jesus Ubri
Mark-Henry Jean Decrausaz
Ashley Reeb Esparza
Camille Jayne Dayupay Esquivel
Alice Fang
Jonathan Foy
Cameron Fullmer
Yirmiyahu Moriel Gilbert
Abhinav Gupta
Rahul Gupta
Charlotte Sie Wing Ho
Lin Hou
Jacob Hu
Jun Ito
Yi Yi Jiang
Begum Karaoglu
Marisa Kefalidis
Mikhail Kolodesh
Spenser A Krut
Camille Lanier
Kassandra Shuen Lee

MinJae Lee
Jacob Chengjie Li
Chengliang Li
Yuan Li
Jiazhen Lin
Guoyu Liu
Lu Liu
Sixuan Liu
Adela Paterno Locsin
Ran Ma
Genevieve Mateyko
David Irarimam Musa
Tung Dinh Nguyen
Urechi Oguguo
Ogheneochuko Vanessa Okor
Jihae Park
Jared Robert Payne
Maru Perez Benavides
Luis Miguel Pizano
Xinyi Qu
Skylar Alexandra Royal
Sage Aaron
Marcell Aurel Sandor
Vera Montare Savory
Tristan Schendel
Lauren Scott
Xinran Amber Shen
Yue Shi
Angela Sun
Liza Tedeschi
Alek Tomich
Brian Jeremy Turner
Taylor James Urbshott
Ian Martin Wach
Joey Xu
Florencia Yalale
Tianyu Yang
Reem Yassin
Charlotte Ziye Yu
Sarah Bisignano Zamler
Elie Zeinoun
楚阳Chuyang 周Zhou

DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY IN ARCHITECTURE

PhD in Architecture

Addison McMillan Godel
Alexander Hilton Wood

FULL COMMENCEMENT DETAILS

Ceremony Details

The Columbia GSAPP Commencement ceremony will be webcast live on Thursday, April 29th from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT. The Pre-Ceremony webcast will begin at 9:30 AM EDT.

GSAPP has partnered with the new and experimental online platform ohyay to create a unique Virtual Ceremony experience on Thursday, April 29th. The event will occur in an online space crafted especially for GSAPP to include the broadcast of the ceremony, as well as interaction with graduates, live on-screen as their names are called, a live feed of the Faculty stage party, and chat with emoji reactions for graduates, faculty, and the audience of family and friends.

Anyone can join on ohyay and the number of guests per graduate is not limited. ohyay is web browser-based and works best on Chrome. A log-in is required, but advanced registration is not.

Graduates will log in using their UNI email address - to be pre-assigned to their virtual seat. There will be a special “green room” for graduates to watch the ceremony together when they are not “on-stage”. Guests will not be visible during the ceremony (i.e., their audio/video will be off), but they can participate in chat and reactions.

Immediately following the ceremony (at approximately 11:15 am EDT), all participants and guests are invited to mingle in the ohyay virtual reception spaces. Here, guests can explore different “rooms,” meeting each other’s families and faculty. These spaces will allow for live audio/video, chat, and emoji reactions.

Advanced instructions for joining the ceremony are now available on ohyay.co/s/GSAPP2021. For those who choose not to participate on ohyay, the webcast will be available directly on the GSAPP website as well as on GSAPP’s YouTube Channel; no reservations or accounts will be required of any graduate or guest. There is no limit to the number of viewers for the webcast. Immediately following the webcast the video will be available to download by graduates in the Lionmail Google Drive, as well as on Panopto and YouTube for streaming.

On Campus Celebrations

On Saturday, May 1st between 1:00-6:00pm, GSAPP graduates are invited to experience the Grad Walk hosted by GradImages on Butler Lawn, immediately followed by GSAPP celebrations on the upper campus where graduates will receive a small gift from the GSAPP Alumni Office. Faculty and students will be able to gather for a limited time in groups of 25 or less across Schermerhorn, Havemeyer, and Fairchild Plazas and are invited to stop by the GSAPP Pavilion on Avery Plaza.

Participants must follow the Columbia Health Compact and show their ID and green pass/screen upon arrival. Masks and social distancing are required. Registration is required for the Grad Walk. Guests are not permitted to attend. Graduates are not required to participate in the Grad Walk to attend the celebration. Graduates are encouraged to sign up for a Grad Walk appointment before or during the celebration time period for their program.

1:00 PM - Historic Preservation & Real Estate Development
2:30 PM - Master of Architecture
3:30 PM - Advanced Architectural Design
4:30 PM - Urban Planning & UP PhD
5:00 PM - Architecture and Urban Design
5:15 PM - Critical Curatorial and Conceptual Practices & Arch PhD

Graduates who are not able to attend the on-campus celebrations will have the opportunity to participate in an exciting virtual booth available to all graduates from April 26-30 (details will be shared soon) and will be mailed their gift from the Alumni Office. Please email commencement@arch.columbia.edu if you did not provide your mailing address on the graduate form, but would like to receive the package.

Grad Walk Details

Date and Time: Saturday, May 1st, 2021, 1:00 - 6:00 PM EDT
Location: Underneath the Tent at the Bulter Lawn, Morningside Campus
Registration: Register on the Grad Images Website

Class of 2021! Strike a pose, get photographed, access selfie stations, and receive fun giveaways at the Morningside campus Grad Walk. Wear your regalia and come ready for a professional photoshoot on Butler Lawn. Digital and printed photographs will be available for purchase from GradImages.

Photo Stations
○ Selfie Stations with celebratory decor and props
○ Center Stage with Low Library as live backdrop
○ International Flags
○ Columbia University Step and Repeat backdrop

COVID Safety Protocols
○ The GradImages reservation system will allow 12 graduating students per 15-minute intervals.
○ Graduates must register in advance, wear their own cap & gown, show their ID upon arrival to verify their appointment plus their Columbia University Green Pass. The check-in process will be completely touchless.
○ Graduates will queue up in front of Butler Library.
○ All Graduates will be required to keep their masks on for all photos.
○ To maintain social distancing and prevent crowds from gathering, students will be encouraged to arrive no more than five minutes before their reservation time.

Contact for GradImages with any questions via email or by phone (800) 261-2576.

International Events

Columbia Global Centers cordially invite all graduates of 2021 to come to the Beijing Center and Columbia-designated WeWork space in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong to celebrate your accomplishments and share your memories at Columbia with your fellows.

During the event, there will be professional portrait photographer and various graduation kits available to you, including gowns and caps, Columbia mascots (Roar Lion), graduation booth props and balloons.

We can’t wait to see you in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong, and to walk you through the end of academic year and cheer to a new start for your future life.

Details

Academic Attire

Note that academic regalia will not be required as part of the Virtual Commencement ceremony; however, it can be purchased as a keepsake from Oakhill. Orders may be placed starting March 1 on columbia.shopoakhalli.com. Orders can also be placed in person at the Columbia Bookstore. Limited regalia may be reserved through April 17 without incurring a late fee. In-store pickup and ship-to-home options are available.

Graduate Slide Information

The deadline has now passed to submit your image, message, and full name as is it should appear on the Graduate Slide for the virtual ceremony. Late submissions and edits will be accepted until Sunday, April 4th at midnight. Please email commencement@arch.columbia.edu. After April 4th there will be no exceptions or additions due to the production schedule, thank you for your understanding.

Portfolio Requirement

Please be reminded that all students graduating from the Master of Architecture, Advanced Architectural Design, or Urban Design programs must submit a portfolio of representative work from each semester of studio in order to graduate.

Master of Architecture Portfolios must be submitted by Thursday, April 22 at 5:00 PM (EDT). This is a strict deadline. Portfolios will also be used to assist the Faculty Awards Committee in determining the recipients of the various design prizes awarded to graduates.

Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design and Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design portfolios will be due in August 2021. This does not impact the ability of any GSAPP graduate to participate in April 2021 Commencement events.

Graduation Prizes

Information about graduation prizes and requirements is here.

End of Year Show

Immediately following the commencement ceremony, GSAPP will present a web-based End of Year Show, featuring student work from across programs.

Diplomas

Will be mailed to the address on file with SSOL. Please review the instructions on the registrar’s website. https://registrar.columbia.edu/content/graduation-and-diplomas

Columbia University Alumni Community

Graduates are invited to join the Columbia University online alumni directory. Take advantage of this valuable lifelong networking resource. Reach out to a former classmate, network with alumni in your region, share life updates and accomplishments, or offer up your expertise and thought leadership to others.

The Online Alumni Community is the only verified space to search for and connect with fellow Columbia alumni across Schools, degrees, graduation years, regions, interests, and more. Login in with your UNI at the Columbia University Alumni website.

Columbia University Ceremony

#GSAPP2021

The Columbia University Commencement ceremony of the 267th academic year will be webcast live on Friday, April 30th, at 10:30am EDT.

Additional information about the University ceremony is available on the Columbia University Commencement website.

Graduates are invited to access the Graduation Kit online here or sign up to receive one by mail via this form.

READ THE GRADUATE FAQ

Please contact commencement@arch.columbia.edu with any questions.