Mentees of William L. Chapin
This page highlights exceptional individuals
who were at some point in their careers hired by and
mentored by William L. Chapin.
Center for Design Research (1990-1995)
- Toni Schneider (1993)
Then: MSCS grad student at Stanford
What: Took over completion of the Beachtron product for Crystal River Engineering,
allowing Bill to get back to focus on my dissertation project: DesignSpace.
Now: Founder and Partner of True Ventures,
Good article in Swisspreneur
- Andy Wilson (1993)
Then: MIT grad student
What: Jumped-in to help Bill pull together DesignSpace for both Siggraph '93 and SigCHI '94.
Now: Scientist at Microsoft Research
- Tim Lacey (1993)
Then: CDR grad student
What: Became Bill's partner on DesignSpace, pulling off both Siggraph '93 and SigCHI '94.
Now: Retired at age 31, after co-founding Immersion (IMMR)
Aureal (1996-1997)
- Suneil Mishra (1996)
Then: New MSCS grad of George Washington University
What: Second team-member of Aureal's Advanced Technology Group
Now: Investor, Advisor, Consultant
- Fahri Surucu (1996)
Then: New EE doctorate from UIUC
What: Developed host-based, C++ real-time 3D audio signal-processing system for Aureal's Advanced Technology Group
Now: Scientist at Apple
- Martin Walsh (1997)
Then: New Signal-Processing doctorate from Trinity College
What: Lead scientist for head-related transfer function (HRTF) research within Aureal's Advanced Technology Group
Now: VP R&D at DTS
AuSIM (1998-2018)
- Lennox Smith (1998)
Then: Musician and Sound Engineer
What: AuSIM's "Golden Ears"
Now: Contractor at Seacliff Construction & Design
- Christina Andersson (1999)
Then: Sweden Expat with VR experience at Prosolvia
What: Developed AuSIM's sales and marketing plan
Now: Senior Account Executive at SAP in Sweden
- Joel Storckman (1999)
Then: Software Engineer at Boeing
What: Engineering Manager and Partner at AuSIM
Now: Office Manager at Christ Community Church
- Ryan Jacobs (1999)
- Elizabeth Purswell (1999)
- Rachel (Wilkinson) Capstick (1999) * Arup
- Sovann Neak (2000)
- Michael Lundell (2000)
- Agnieszka Roginska (2000)
Then: Doctoral student at Northwestern University
What: 3D Audio Scientist at AuSIM
Now: Music Associate Professor at NYU
- Geoffrey Zheng (2000) * Google
- Bryan Cook (2000)
Then: New MSEE from Stanford
What: Intern turned employee to lead the re-design and implementation of AuSIM3D
Now: Senior Engineer at Hillcrest Labs
- Kamil Dziekanowski (2000)
Then: New MESC from Warsaw Univ of Technology
What: Intern turned employee to lead hardware design at AuSIM
Now: Senior Engineer at NVidia
- Helmut Oettl (2001) * Rehm Thermal
- Brook Eaton (2001)
- Anita Lillie (2001)
- Michelle Daniels (2001) * Machine Learning at Bose
- Sandeep Ghael (2001) * Machine Learning at Amazon
- Jelle vanKleef (2002)
- Quincy Carroll (2002)
Then: Stanford GSB student
What: Business intern
Now: CPO at Ellation
- Ryan Cassidy (2005) DTS
- Jen Carlile (2005)
Then: New MA/MS from Stanford
What: Intern turned employee to lead 3DVx software
Now: Co-Founder of Outer Labs
- Abigail Kressner (2006)
- Johan Gustafsson (2006) * Fingerprint Cards
- Wayne Jackson (2006) * Google
- Andy Sarroff (2007)
Then: Graduate student at NYU
What: 2X intern, willing to do anything
Now: Machine Learning doctoral candidate at Dartmouth
- Simon de Leon (2007)
- Dan Mennitt (2007)
- Andrew Suchy (2007) * Alliant
- Anne Rwigara (2007)
Now: Rwandan Justice Fighter
- Mikael Antonsson (2008) * Qliro
- Jeff Cooper (2008)
- Vinay Kothanpally (2013)
- Karin Brotjefors (2013)
- Ken Schiller (2013)
Then: Carleton undergrad
What: Intern turned contract engineer to develop Android interface
Now: Software Engineer at Waymo
- Stephen Grinich (2013) * 98point6
- Josh Pitkofsky (2014)
- Nayely Martinez (2014)
- Simon Orlovsky (2015) * Uplift
- Wanchen Yao (2015) * ThoughtWorks
- Micah Nacht (2015)
- Yanshan Guo (2015) * Facebook
- Michelle Matrianni (2015)
- Sam McHugh (2016)
- Chris Shoemaker (2016)
- Makala Hiershima (2016)
- Matt Javaly (2016)
- Jonah Tuchow (2016)
- Ammar Babar (2017)
- Katie Tritschler (2017)