Student Spotlight: Lucas LaValva, '22

Student Spotlight

Meet Lucas LaValva, Class of 2022

"I chose this university because I was excited about the small class sizes and the room for extracurricular academic involvement, and was not disappointed by my decision. Before I was a sophomore, professors from each of my majors had helped me to get involved with departmental activities. I will be graduating from Rowan with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, as well as a minor in Sociology. Machine learning research with Hieu Nguyen and the Mathematics department was an excellent learning experience for me, and the learning assistant and tutoring program in the Computer Science department helped me to sharpen my programming skills by helping others. The University facilitated a large amount of growth, and I was able to see my name on two publications through Dr. Nguyen's research before I joined a research team with Bristol-Myers Squibb through the Computer Science department. After I graduate I'll be heading to San Jose to work as a software engineer, developing the Marko.js framework with an extremely talented group of engineers at eBay. I am grateful for my experience at Rowan and excited for what's to come in my future."