Cornell Tech Alumni

Cornell Tech, Cornell University’s graduate campus on Roosevelt Island, NYC, focuses on applied tech, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Founded in 2012, it has quickly become a hub for leaders in computer science, health tech, media, startups, and more.

Alumni Name

Notable Achievement / Famous For

Degree

Graduating Year

Deborah Estrin

Cofounder of Open mHealth; MacArthur “genius” grant; mobile‑health pioneer

Professor (no Cornell degree)

N/A

Mor Naaman

Founder of Connective Media Hub; coined “meformer”; social‐media scholar

Faculty (no Cornell degree)

N/A

Ramin Zabih

ACM & IEEE Fellow in computer vision; impactful clinical‐tech researcher

Professor (no Cornell degree)

N/A

Padmasree Warrior

Former CTO of Cisco; Microsoft board member; influential tech executive

Cornell University Board (no Cornell Tech degree)

N/A

Thomas Ristenpart

Creator of “honey encryption” and typo tolerant passwords; leading security researcher

Professor (no Cornell degree)

N/A

Shreyas Kulkarni MS ’17

Head of product for mental‑health app Mine’d

MS Applied Info Science (ORIE)

2017

Irene Font Peradejordi MS ’21

UX researcher at Twitter META

MS Connective Media

2021

Leanna Mulvihill MS ’20

Product manager at Rosie, a national food‑delivery startup

MS Connective Media

2020

Amarildo Gjondrekaj MBA ’19

Mastercard leader; highlights Tech MBA success

Tech MBA

2019

Raye Schiller CS ’20

Software engineer; Cornell Tech CS alum

MS Computer Science

2020

Miwa Takaki MBA ’15

Head of counsel at Pinterest

Tech MBA

2015

Coco Torres ORIE ’18

Product manager at EY Parthenon

MS Operations Research & Info Eng.

2018

Kiyan Rajabi Health Tech ’18

Senior PM at Humana via Health Tech program

MS Health Tech

2018

Sandra E CM ’20

Technical analyst from Connective Media program

MS Connective Media

2020

Vini Tripathii ECE ’20

Startup‑founding roboticist; highlighted in alumni stories

MS Electrical/Computer Eng.

2020

Willy Lin ORIE ’20

Data scientist in brewing tech

MS Operations Research & Info Eng.

2020

Isha Gandhi ORIE ’21

Joined Splunk as product manager

MS Operations Research & Info Eng.

2021

Osasumwen Eboh CS ’17

Self‑driving car engineer; from hacker to innovator

MS Computer Science

2017

Nick Bayer ’00

Founder of Saxbys with social‑impact focus

MBA (Cornell Tech program)

2000

Scott Belsky ’02

Co‑founder of Behance; Adobe CPO; alumni entrepreneur

MBA (Cornell Tech program)

2002

Nwamaka Imasogie M.S. ’16

Co‑founder/CTO of GitLinks; acquired by Infor

MS Computer Science

2016

Randy Garutti ’97

Founder of Shake Shack; startup innovators alum

MBA (Cornell Tech program)

1997

Students

29

Yocketers Applied

16

Yocketers Admitted

138

Yocketers Interested

Cornell Tech admitted student profiles

GRE

313

TOEFL

108

Profiles that got Into Cornell Tech

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Akash Vaish
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IELTS 7.5

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Vinod Mehta
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Gaurav Mishra
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Maurya Cg
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GRE 322

TOEFL 105

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