STEM Navigators: Exploring STEM Careers Panel

Join STEM Navigators for our Exploring STEM Careers Panel! We’ll have a panel of Yale alumni in various STEM fields who will talk about their journeys to their careers and will answer any questions that you have! This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with alumni and learn about the various career paths you can take with your STEM degree! Pastries will be provided! Our panelists are:

- Cory Combs, YC’14 B.S. Physics and B.A. Philosophy, who is an associate at Trivium China and is working to map out the interplay between China's disparate climate, energy, industry, natural resource, and macro policies to figure out where its grand experiment to build a sustainable economy will lead – and with what consequences.
- Sam Samdani, YC’84 B.S. Chemical Engineering, who is working as an external advisor at McKinsey and has experience from his roles serving at interim CEO at QuantumCT and found and current CEO of BQ Alpha Inc.
- Wendell Jones, YC’82 B.S. Biology, who is currently serving as a medical consultant and director at Advanced Aesthetics Inc., and has more than 15 years of experience working as a physician in emergency medicine, urgent care, and has 2 ½ years of experience providing disability exams.
- Nokkvi Ellidason, YGSAS MSc S&DS, is the CEO of GAIMIN, a company that turns personal computers into a decentralized cloud network. Instead of relying on big data centers, GAIMIN connects user-owned devices to provide sustainable computing power for AI, file sharing, and enterprise needs. Under Nokkvi’s leadership, GAIMIN is building a network where people can earn rewards by sharing their unused computing resources through a gaming platform, while businesses get affordable and scalable cloud services. GAIMIN also owns GAIMIN Gladiators, a world-renowned esports team that helps promote its technology.

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