About
MISSION
Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) promotes STEM education through a mentorship-based process. We strongly believe that no student should be denied a quality STEM education experience.
Helpful college mentors
PiE runs a decal which trains a group of dedicated mentors consisting of current and past Berkeley students who are ready and willing to help the students
Low cost for schools
Because PiE creates everything in the competition and has a group of wonderful sponsors, we can keep costs low which lowers the barrier to entry for Bay Area schools
Dedicated club members
A group of talented students who make everything happen from the game design to the software to the the logistical planning and community outreach
Leadership

Vasti Orbach
Software Director

Esther Sue
Programs Director

Abhinav Vedati
Director

Brian Whitney
Corporate & Public Relations Director

Justin Hsu
Hardware Director

Qi Li Yang
Software Director
Project Managers

Alexander DeRouen
Shepherd PM

Sameem Saleem
Atlas PM

Victoria Lee
Dawn PM

Brandon Wong
Runtime PM

Jisung Kang
Runtime PM

Emily Chin
Atlas PM

Wendy Qi
Shepherd PM

Paul Tran
Edu PM

Brian Ellis
Mechanical PM
All Other Staff

Mehul Gandhi
Shepherd

Ricky Liu
Electrical

Jason Bowens
CPR

Manrooshree Patel
Edu

Connor McSeveney
Electrical

Jacob Bueno
Shepherd

Ian Leung
Shepherd

Jesus Medina Robledo
Shepherd

Max Boston
Atlas

Sultan Badri
Atlas

Adam Loo
Shepherd

Nia Nasiri
Dawn

Madeeha Khan
Edu

Michelle Cheung
CPR

Samuel Berkun
Shepherd

Jason Bowens
CPR

Matthew Harrigan
Advisor | Advisor | Accenture

Aldric Gozon

Andrew Fan

Akshit Dewan

Bryant La
Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Max Gu

Helen Zhao Chen

Ben Liao

Corey Williams

Jonathan Atkins
IXL

Hailey Jang

Alex Wong
IXL

Angela Kwon
Code.org
Scott Numamoto
Advisor | Render

Seiya Ono
Advisor | Pure Storage

Matthew Chang
Abacus.AI

Tomoya Ogura
Advisor | Captricity

Xiao Yu Fu
Founder | Univ. of Calgary

Vanathi Ganesh
Advisor | Microsoft

Amy Fu

Humphrey Hu
Carnegie Mellon

Samuel Fung
ThinkTank

Douglas Hutchings
Advisor | UC Berkeley

Ryan Julian
Advisor | University of Southern California

Robert Luan
Advisor | Apple

Allen Li
Advisor | Facebook

William Li
Advisor | Sparks

Winston Long
Advisor

Huda Khayrallah
Johns Hopkins

Nikita Kitaev
Advisor | UC Berkeley

Peter Nakamoto
Think Surgical

John Wang
May Mobility

Dennis Wai
Advisor | Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Baladitya Yellapragada
UC Berkeley

Jared Porter
Phasespace

Daniel Lee
Advisor | Google

Or Weizman
Yelp

Pieter Abbeel
Professor

George Anwar
Lecturer
PiE Foundation
Mission
The Pioneers in Engineering Foundation is an independent, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its mission is to promote STEM education through an exciting, mentor-based process.
Donate
Donations to PiE are tax-deductible subject to federal and state charitable giving rules. If you would like to make a donation, please donate online now or email [email protected] to arrange your gift.
Board of Directors and Executive Officers
The PiE Foundation is led by a board of current and former PiE members.
Executive Officers
Board Members
Acknowledgement
In 2015, Pioneers in Engineering obtained 501(c)(3) nonprofit status with the help of Michael M. Rosen of Fish and Richardson