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2025 Governor's STEM Scholars

Meet the 2025 Governor's STEM Scholars.  A class made up of 111 high school and college students from all of New Jersey's 21 counties.  When they graduate from the Governor's STEM Scholars in May 2025, the will join an alumni network of nearly 1,000 STEM students and professionals. 

2024 Governor's
STEM Scholars
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Matthew Abad
Fatima Abella
Yeheira Acosta
Nishi Agrawal
Myra Almeida
Cristina Altamirano
Sarvesh Anand
Krystinna Arevalo
Michelle Ayala
Kare Bangar
Mina Basaly
Suchit Basineni
Julissa Beltrán
Isha Bhatia
Hazel Bonilla
Animesh Borad
Bobby Bress
Malorie Brown
Alexandra Bruno
Kayrine Calderon
Kailan Campbell
Seidy Castillo
Pooja Challi
Sofia Colella
Michael Domenech
Tionna Dunn
Valerie Duran
Noor EL-Hawwat
Carolyn Eloy
Katherine Estevanell
Jolie Estevao
Omolola Falana
Aden Falk
Tunde Fasoro
Isabella Fernandes-Santinho
Mircea Florescu
Adam Freedman
Kenny Frias
Jenny Gao
Hector Gonzalez
Ian Grenda
Carolyn He
Lawrence He
Emily Hickey
Shelby Hilarczyk
Liliana Hopkins
Madeline Hunt
Cindy Hussein
Shreyaah Iyer
Andrés Jaquez Cruz
Claire Jiang
Kaelyn Johnson
Ellie Justin
Raifah Kader
Alexander Kang
Ashley Kim
Marlene Krueger
Anvita Kulkarni
Peter Kutuzov
Sonal Lakhani
Jiwoo Lee
Keira Lee
Anita Lemus Rivera
Dan Leykin
Angelina Lin
Charlotte Liu
Lily Liu
Alisson Lopez Donado
Lola López-Spencer
Madison MacKenzie
Ally MacMullin
Nidhi Mandrekar
Muhammad Mir
Brianna Mosley
Dennise Munyao
Arata Nakano
Pari Narang
Ashley Noboa
Jacob Normand
Alfardi Nuruzzaman
Aidan Ogborn
Niademi Ogundana
Kevin Ozkuyumcu
Chelsea Panton
Misha Patel
Axel Perez
Khushi Prajapati
Anika Pruthi
Annika Raj
Cesar Ramirez
Disha Rana
Ishir Rao
Alex Relovsky
Jerrick Romero
Kaelynn Ross
Reeti Rout
Lindsey Samuel
Lithra Sankari
Alex Savov
Hayden Schechter
Zashaan Shaik
Shubham Sharma
Ved Shenoy
Aaron Simpson
Isabela Simpson
Praise Sodimu
Shirin Sood
Marisa Syed
Jane Tenecota
Jennifer Tian
Nennin Toure
Pranav Tripathi
Vamsikrishna Vaidyula
Riyashi Varia
Shravani Vedagiri
Mia Velasco
Akhil Vemuri
Neeraj Venna
Amber Verma
Raunak Verma
Yash Verma
Madison Walia-Peters
Morgan Walia-Peters
Justen Wen

2023 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Adeola Adeoye-Davids
Yara Aguilar
Emelin Almanzar
Juhi Amin
Reva Amritkar
Sumuk Anand
Niranjana Ananth
Angela Appiah-Kubi
Krithik Ashokkumar
Yhara Barba
Anmol Bhatia
Anthony Boyle
Bertila Bruka
Giancarla Burgos
Albert Caesar
Jocelyn Calderon
Isabella Castillo
Andrew Chang
Vibhav Chaturvedi
Kevin Chen
Duran Chukumba
Liv Chung
Jamie Lynn Connors
Deborah Cousin
Denise Coutinho
Jollen Dai
Ashley Diaz Saguay
Enzo DiMasi
Cole DuHaime
William Ee
Lilya Eid
Jennah Elghamrawi
Zayd Elhedoudy
Ryan Elyakoubi
Nima Fallah
Thomas Gallo
Catherine Gan Ung
Audrey Gang
Sriya Ghankot
Rachel Glantzberg
Saanvi Goel
Jack Goldberg
Jue Gong
Eric Gudiel
Rachel Guhathakurta
Supraj Gunda
Suhani Gupta
Nicholas Hagedorn
Ryen Hagg
Alexandria Hall
Alexis Halm-Owoo
Madeline Heng
Halimat Houandje
Atharva Inamdar
Emmanuel Ishola
Aashika Jagadeesh
Zoe Jenkins-Hiscox
Mrunmayi Joshi
Aaron Kahn
Sanika Karode
Joshua Karten
Paola Kotori
Katherine Krishtopa
Srivatsa Kundurthy
Audrey Kuo
Ryan Lalani
Aliya Laliwala
Makayla Lecky
Kevin Liu
Avantika Malla
Maya Mann
Naia Marcelino
Elizabeth McNamara
Saanvi Mehta
Sebastian Mercado
Sophia Merlino
Kaitlyn Miranda
Devam Mondal
Sareena Naganand
Meera Nair
Zachary No
Kosisochi Okaro
Giovanni Olaya
Allison Ore
Nikhil Osuri
Anas Owais
Udgita Pamidigantam
Danielle Park
Samiya Pathak
Ali-Tyana Peynado
Shuohao Ping
Sruthi Potluri
Steffani Rajapaksha
Sriya Sadhu
Sajoud Saleh
Yash Samat
Mauricio Sanchez
Abhay Sankar
Rhea Sethi
Diya Shah
Kareena Shah
Vinav Shah
Vinesha Shaik
Riya Shenvi
Trevor Sherman
Saloni Singh
Shriya Sudhakar
Davidi Tawfiles
Krishnan Tholkappian
Megan Tseng
Vjosa Ukella
Sarah Usman
Kavya Venkatesan
Vaishvik Vidavalapati
Advika Vuppala
Ananya Vuppala
Alex Weng
Grace Xia
Jeffrey Xu
Yug Yadava
Daisy Yao
Samuel Yeboah-Manson
Xinyi Zhang
Aleicia Zhu
Shawn Zou

2022 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Jacquelyn Anderson
Nikhil Arayath
Ananya Balaji
Arnuv Batra
Shrutee Sangeeta Behera
Sophia Benavente-Sayani
Cassidy Brennan
Sofia Capitillo-Villasmil
Willy Chan
Yuhua Chen
Shriya Dani
Shivam Dave
Sophia Dengler
Daisy Dong
Gabriella Dong
Shubhranshu Dutta
Kamila Esquivel
Fadi Farag
Cameron Farid
Vincent Fox
Nona Fulmore Harris
Elliot Fylstra
Ram Gadhamsetty
Sumana Gadiraju
Isha Gangavaram
Xavier Garay
Aleksander Garbuz
Moho Goswami
Amanda Guan
Lee Haglid
Leo Jasper
Alex Jean
Ella Joasil
Zain Kamal
Tamara Kasikovic
Madeline Keel
Annie Kersten
Isa Khan
Sanya Kohli
Shricharan K.S.
Siya Kulkarni
Darshan Lakshminarayanan
Aliza Lopez
Andric Lu
Elaina Mann
Emily Mawhinney
Deborah McDougall
Sweksha Mehta
Gianna Meurer
Ankit Mithbavkar
Jiya Mody
Lesslie Montiel
Habiba Morsy
Sydney Munn
JéVanni L. Napoleon
Abby Negron
Achunike Okafor
Anita Osuri
Bhavini Pandey
Hannah Park
Anika Parthiban
Diya Patel
Krisha Patel
Sade Peña
Justine Prophete
Ariyana Rahman
Janani Rajan
Aileen Rangel
Mihir Rao
Claudia Reines
Julia Schanen
Chris Sebastian
Ella Sharkey
Ananya Shrivastava
Isabela Simpson
Kayla Soto
Diana Stinkova
Lisa Stites
Prasiddha Sudhakar
Fhameda Sultan
Shivam Syal
Senay Tesfamichael
Mitchell Tillman
Erika Toliao
Devin Torres
PeTr Tran
Nicolle Vilca
Nathaniel Vinoya
Alvin Wu
Audrey Yan
June Yin
Sarah Zampino
Daniel Zhang
Helen Zheng

2021 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Antonio Abbondandolo
Samvit Agarwal
Abdullah Alhaddad
Christian Alvarez
Saniya Attar
Suchit Bapatla
Charlotte Basile
Vimbisai Basvi
Lauren Brenner
Christian Buckley
Shelyn Castellanos
Charly Castillo
Emerson Conk
Gabriella Cubelo
Dahlia Diaz
Jacob Donnini
Mohamed Eraky
Ansh Gadodia
Anna Hansson
Lukas Harmeyer
Margaret Hillyer
Mulin Huan
Savaas Iqbal
Anisha Jackson
Julia Jankojc
Melissa Jara
Sonya Jin
Nitish Kasarla
Edward Kim
Vrushali Koli
Adam Lalani
Emily Lee
Joey Li
Pranay Maniar
Matthew McPhail
Bahram Mehretu
Joseph Mild
Melissa Nanotkar
Diana Neste
Sarah Ou
Anjali Panchu
Kristen Park
Akshat Parthiban
Parthavi Patel
Elizabeth Rehwinkel
Miles Roper
Justin Roskam
Estefan Santi
Emma Savov
Aarsha Shah
Prerna Shankar
Luke Shao
Aleece Siner
Divjyot Singh
Peter Slattery
Ved Sriraman
Sruthi Suresh
Carina Trama
Kennedy Truong
Nicole Vaccaro
Dalilah Valadez
Ethan White
Jacob Wierer
Delmond Wyllis
Krystal Yearis
Aaron Yengbie
Gavin Zhao

2020 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Manuel Ackattupathil
Aderonke Adejare
Moyinoluwa Blessing Akeju
Conor Allan
Jean Alvarez
Bernice Amankwah
Rudra Amin
Samuel Anchipolovsky
Antoinette Antonucci
Christian Arenas
Johan Ayala
Luke Barglow
Jagdeep Bhatia
Dariel Bobadilla
Molly Cantillon
Ava Casale
Nina Casselberry
Bhavana Chamarthi
Walter Chang
Gautam Chawla
David Chen
Sophia Chen
Vivian Chen
Kishore Chidambaram
Priscilla Chinchilla
Jordan Choi
Natalie Chung
Rachelle Dubuisson
Joseph Espinal
Julia Fleming
Emelin Flores
Isabela Fuentes
Akshay Ghandikota
Galena Gomez
Julia Granato
Daphne Hao
Karisma Holloway
Jeffrey Hsu
Aruj Jain
Amna Jan
Sihan Jiang
Mariam Kamerji
Brian Katat
Tejas Kaushik
Arielle Kopp
Tiffany Lau
Eun-Soe Lee
Dianni Leon
Eli Levenshus
Winston Li
Neha Malepati
Stephanie Martinez
Rachel Mason
Sofia Milone
Keerti Mukkamala
Emilia Nathan
Timothy Nuber
William O'Brien
Laura Osorno
Uma Padmanabhan
Ujjayi Pamidigantam
Shivani Patel
Sagar Patil
Isabella Pham
Adwik Rahematpura
Mahfuza Rahman
Dhruv Reddy
Anisa Robinson
Srikar Sadhu
Sharon Samuel
Megan Santhumayor
Arya Sasne
Isabella Serrano
Danielle Serrao
Rameen Shah
Rishi Shah
Vonesha Shaik
Eshaan Sharma
Jonas Simmons
Simar Singh
Aavya Srivastava
Tanush Swaminathan
Allie Tay
Amanda Tong
Kristin Tsay
Adelajda Turku
Brian Uribe
Trang Vu
Melissa Wade
Anna Xia
Aaron Yagnik
Juliana Yang
Bill Zhang
Sophie Zhang

2019 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Margaret Agajanov
Sanskar Agrawal
Azka Asim
Samantha Augustin
Yash Bajaj
Eesha Balar
Jenna Bargfrede
Jack Batt
Anthony Bishara
Jonathan Blaya
Thomas Bocian
Jack Campanella
Ludwin Chavez
Jesse Cheng
Priyanka Chowdhury
Maya Connors
Ashley Diem
Jax DiEugenio
Edward Dimbo
Sambhavi Dwivedi
Mohammad Fauzan
Francesco Ferrara
Alexander Fezza
Dylan Fitzgerald
Meghan Flynn
Ricardo Garcia
Kaylea Gaughan
Catalina Gaviria
Arianna Gehan
George Gerber
Yasmine Ghattas
Mahika Goel
Sebastian Gomez
Sofia Graziano
Anusha Gunti
Sara Hansson
Sherouk Hassan
Mishael Hernandez
Kaitlyn Heyt
Taylor Hickey
Sabina Hobschaidt
Serena Huang
Julia Jeong
Vijay Josephs
Neil Kadian
Avinash Kumar
Shweta Kumar
Boyan Lazarov
Rebecca Leavens
Grace Levey
Jason Li
Isabelle Lin
Yuri Lin
Alexander Luo
Aakriti Mathur
Everett McArthur
Henry McIntyre
Koushik Muralidharan
Hung Nguyen
Christiana Ntim
Afnan Nuruzzaman
Erik Ossner
Srija Patcha
Kevin Pemberthy
William Perry
Manisha Persaud
Anna Prilutsky
Michael Sanchez
Annika Sharma
Neil Slighton
Keia Smith
Saneel Sreeni
Marissa Teitelbaum
Rachel Tiersky
Jevon Torres
Davis Tran
Manya Trehan
Andrew Van Lare
Elise Vergos

2018 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Ritvik Agnihotri
Elizabeth Aguirre
Sanjana Akula
Kathryn Armstrong
Declan Barnes
Sreeta Basu
Ida Behreini
Naomi Benenson
Gabriella Buono
Claudia Carranza
Anjali Chakradhar
Catherine Chen
Brian Cherin
Sergio Crespo
Atirath Dhara
Max Difazio
Ariana Eastwood
Ifeoluwa Ebigbola
Sathya Edamadaka
Julia Ellis
Tiffany Fang
Alec Fox
Pablo Galao Birkman
Elisabeth Gallou
Gurshan Gill
Mariana Goldlust
Abinitha Gourabathina
Anjali Gupta
Mohammed Hassan
Makayla Jeffries
Ana Jesus
Christopher Kang
Vivek Kasarla
Saamia Khan
Vincent Lam
Olivia Long
Aditya Mehrotra
Rachael Mends
Ivan Mitevski
Bruno Moscoso
Mina Musthafa
Anjanay Nangia
Neylan Neal
Kiera Nissen
Ariana Novo
Justin O’Boyle
Briella Payami
Jordan Phillips
Troy Powell
Areej Qadeer
Omar Qari
Thriaksh Rajan
Priya Rajbabu
Ronak Ramachandran
Max Ramer
Ashley Rosen
Kayla Seeley
Hamzah Shaikh
Saumya Shetty
Julia Silberman
Nivedhitha Sivakumar
Nicole Sivetz
John Siyaga
Eshaan Soman
Jennifer Soter
Christian Stone
Victor Manuel Suarez
Avi Sura
Erika Tan
Ester Teper
Isra Thange
Juliana Valencia
Joseph Vecchio
Aditya Vidyadharan
Michael Vitti
Calvin Weaver
Ethan Weinstock
Karena Yan
Jenny Zhu
Lucy Zou

2017 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Bianca Gabrielle Acot
Kunal Adhla
Ashima Agarwal
Shivani Aggarwal
Mahaa Ahmed
Rohit Aita
John Anderson
Madalyn Arcrio
Michael Bai
Anthony Berninzon
Victoria Bigdelle
Jessica Binkiewicz
Anjali Bordoloi
Anthony Brady
Morgan Brattstrom
Sofia Castro-Pedrido
Aydan Celik
Mohamad Chacha
Amber Chan
Hannah Chen
Sandeep Dhagat
Marissa Dolch
Kathleen Falcon
Gabrielle Farrell
Heather Farrell
Jaquline Fezza
Nicholas Fotopoulos
Claire Furino
Allison Gasnick
Jiawen Ge
Julissa Gesumaria
Ravi Ghandi
Cindy Gnawa
Jason Gong
John Goodman
Daniel Gruspir
Daniel Gulko
Liza Guner
Sonia Gupta
Amel Hassan
Eric He
Brandon Hickson
Mikako Rose Inaba
Nandini Issac
Nishat Iyenger
Ryan Jin
Jason Kaplan
Trisha Kaudinya
Christopher Kiel
Eric Kohn
Yashwee Kothari
Lev Krasnovsky
Shruti Kumar
Sylvia Ludwick
Lawrence Luo
Yichuan Ma
Samantha Magda
Kanav Mahajan
Karan Mahesh
Chelsea Mann
Raniya Martin-Davis
Meghna Mehta
Anne Mkrtchyan
Sylvia Mohammed
Joseph Montesano
Trisha Mukhopadhyay
Saachi Pai
Alyssa Parchure
Ayush Parikh
Loreidaly Perez
Gladis Phillips
Christina Ping
Gabriella Romero
Mathew Roskoski
Nikita Shah
Priansh Shah
Saumya Sharma
Sneha Sharma
Matthew Shih
Emily Sinicalco
Mike Solan
Ken Stier
Ananya Swaminathan
Molly Szpakowski
Krishnaveni Tadi
Rajan Thaalank
Rishita Thambireddy
Neelay Trivedi
Melissa Tu
Nupur Turakhia
Athmika Vaseehran
Issac Velasquez
Emily Walsh
Berton Wang
Calvin Wang
Grace Wang
Jason Wong
Erica Wu
Yiyang Wu
Joy Xie
Arvind Yalavarti
Kelly Yu
Celina Zhou
Mary Zsolway

2016 Governor's
STEM Scholars
.

Marwa Abdulhai
Michael Abelar
Seo Bo Shim
Benjamin Boxer
Olivia Chan
Monika Chung
Maria De Abreu Pineda
Ernest Dimbo
Jacob Edelman
Michael Fuerst
Veda Gadiraju
Rachel Gleyzer
Anekha Goyal
Ryan Healy
Brad Hong
Kathie Jin
Richard Kim
Stefani Kocevska
Gabrielle Kozlowski
John Liang
Tina Lu
Rohan Mallya
Brandon May
Thomas McBride
Briana McRae
Yash Metha
Victoria Momyer
Deblina Mukherjee
Brendan Mulvihill
Madona Nasim
Brenda Okereke
Merve Pekdemir
Anna Pietrzak
Alyssa Pitt
Francesca Puglia
Sneha Rampalli
Saira Reyes
Brad Ritschel
Patrick Roach
Mohnish Sabhani
Rachel Sadovnik
Mustafa Salim
Justin Seay
Paulo Serodio
Meghana Singh
Maureen Stephen
Nathan Suek
Gillian Teitelbaum
Samiksha Vittalraj
Leah Womelsdorf
Tyler Wu
Michelle Yao
Olivia Yao
Amanda Zhang
Jasen Zhang
Jessica Zhang
Tiffany Zhao
Ryan Zogheb
Pierce Burgin

2015 Governor's
STEM Scholars
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David Buckman
Sara Camilli
Kristian Catarcio
Jin Chen
Katherine Chew
Saavan Chintalacheruvu
Andrew Crelin
Rebecca Crowther
Will Dadouris
Matthew Dzwonczyk
Olivia Fiebig
Rohan Garg
Brandon Gottlob
Stephen Grice
Yashaar Hafizka
Annemarie Kearns
Maxwell Kearns
Hadi Khezam
Christopher Kim
Susan Knox
Elizabeth Lanphear
John Larkins
Cheng Yin Lu
Joel Maruthanal
Rosa Melillo
Tiffany Paul
Kevin Penaga
Travis Peng
Bianca Pereira
Rajaamatangi Pillai
Neethu Pottackal
Matthew Purri
Vivian Qiang
Ankit Rana
Jeffrey Register
Bianca Riello
Ashley Rosenberg
Iris Rukshin
Maya Rukshin
Kaitlyn Sanford
Annika Seiden
Bret Silverstein
Kunal Singh
Andrew String
Kelly Szaniawski
Himakeerth Tammineedi
Jenna Weingarten
Marisa Wu
Burton Ye
Justin Yu
Herb Zieger
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