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

Google

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 foundation@pioneers.berkeley.edu 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

Treasurer: Jehan Yang
CEO: Vivien Nguyen
Secretary: Winston Long

Board Members

Jessica Au
Alan Zhang
Dennis Wai
Scott Numamoto
Seiya Ono
Briana Niu
William Li
James Hulett
Xiao-Yu Fu

Acknowledgement

In 2015, Pioneers in Engineering obtained 501(c)(3) nonprofit status with the help of Michael M. Rosen of Fish and Richardson


Tax Information

EIN 47-4554504

IRS Determination Letter

Contact Us

Pioneers in Engineering Foundation

2720 W Grand Ave Apt D

Alhambra, CA 91801

foundation@pioneers.berkeley.edu