An Alumni Update: Where Are They Now?

The Stony Brook Graduate School has over 45,800 alumni who enjoy successful careers in a diverse range of fields. This segment of our newsletter is devoted to the careers and lives of our graduates after SBU. If you are alumni, please help us keep this segment current by sending news and photos to graduate_review@notes.cc.sunysb.edu . Each quarter, we will update you on the activities and whereabouts of some of your fellow alumni.

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Vol. 5 No. III - Fall 2008

Sameer Jindal, ‘95

"Two years of graduate education at SUNY SB coupled with the life in New York State prepared me for handling global assignments and to work in international locations and becoming a team player with multi-cultural diverse members." - Jindal

Sameer works at the General Motors Corporation as a Program Engineering Manager in Seoul, Korea. More specifically, he works on designing and developing Mini Cars. Sameer received an engineering degree from Allahabad University in India before he came to Stony Brook. His degree at Stony Brook was an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

Vol. 5 No. II – Spring 2008

Louis J. Caprino, Jr., ‘77

“It [Stony Brook] was a positive experience. One that helped prepare me for my future.” - Caprino,

After receiving his M.A. in Liberal Studies at Stony Brook, Caprino served the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 until 2007. He has since been assigned as chair of Vincennes University's Homeland Security and Public Safety program. While at the FBI, Caprino's assignments included having oversight on: the largest white-collar crime and cybercrime divisions; the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and all special mission/critical incident response groups; targeting the five La Cosa Nostra families and the Sicilian Mafia in New York; and violent crime and civil rights investigations in Northwest Indiana and the South Bend Resident Agency territory with the Merrillville Resident Agency. Caprino has also served overseas as the FBI's legal attache at U.S. Embassies in Canberra, Australia; Wellington, New Zealand; Suva, Fiji; and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Vol. 5 No. I – Winter 2008

Ronojit Adyanthaya ‘04

"My graduate research experience at Stony Brook has helped me immensely in being proficient at B. Braun.” - Adyanthaya

Adyanthaya, a 2004 Masters graduate from the Biomedical Engineering Department now lives in Allentown , PA. He is a Senior Staff Engineer at B. Braun Medical, a 160 year old German based medical and pharmaceutical company, which has offices and facilities worldwide. Adyanthaya joined Stony Brook as an international student from India where he obtained a Bachelors of Engineering in 2002 from the University of Bombay.