Max Sehaumpai won a Barry Goldwater Scholarship
June 9, 2022
Max Sehaumpai is a junior at CCNY who will be graduating in Fall 2023. He recently won a 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. This federally funded scholarship is America’s premier award for undergraduates majoring in math, science, and engineering.
Max
Sehaumpai, a Queens native, came to CCNY as an applied math major,
but eventually chose to double major in computer science as well.
He didn’t know what he wanted to pursue initially, but CCNY opened
the door for him with opportunities to work with various faculty,
even outside of mathematics, which opened his eyes to a wide range
of possibilities. He has been working with Prof. James
Booth since the Fall 2020 semester under the City College
Fellowship. Most of his work has been applying computer science
techniques to storm surge data and doing statistical analysis to
analyze patterns with cyclones.
“I love that CCNY doesn’t just support students in their division, but helps students as a whole”, he explains. “Prof. Asohan Amarasingham has also been a great advisor and everyone I’ve had interaction with has been so supportive”. He also encourages all students to reach out to people that they're genuinely interested in working with and when you feel tired and burnt out, remember how passionate you were in the beginning to rekindle the flame.
In addition to being the winner of a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, he was a City College Fellow from 2020-22 and a Climate Policy Fellow with the Colin Powel School in 2021-22 academic year. He plans on going to graduate school to become a professor in the future, since he really enjoys and feels comfortable in an academic environment.
He also credits Jennifer Lutton, Dr. Michael Wijaya, Prof. Joseph Bak, and Crystal Sawyer for all their advice and help along his journey.
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