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
Leadership
Aldric Gozon
Programs Director
Akshit Dewan
Software Director
Madeeha Khan
Director
Andrew Fan
Hardware Director
Nia Nasiri
Software Director
Adam Loo
Software Director
Project Managers
Brian Ellis
Mechanical PM
Bryant La
Mechanical PM
Michelle Cheung
CPR PM
Max Gu
Atlas PM
Helen Zhao Chen
Atlas PM
Ben Liao
Runtime PM
Corey Williams
Edu PM
Abhi Vedati
Edu PM
All Other Staff
Jonathan Atkins
Shepherd
Samuel Berkun
Shepherd
Sultan Badri
CPR
Hailey Jang
Dawn
Saketh Panchumarthy
Dawn
Catherine Lee
Mechanical
Andrew Dacayanan
Dawn
Ashish Pandian
Dawn
Paul Ahn
Pimulator
Shannen Yang
Shepherd
Maxime Berenshteyn
Runtime
Parsa Jorat
Runtime
Alex Wong
Shepherd
Charles Hong
Pimulator
Kaitlyn Chan
Electrical
Jason Bowens
CPR
Jessica Au
CPR
Sherwin Afshar
Electrical
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
Samuel Fung
ThinkTank
Humphrey Hu
Carnegie Mellon
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
Daniel Lee
Advisor | Google
Jared Porter
Phasespace
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