Heyuan "Michael" Ni

Degree: 
BA
Year: 
2024
Current Position Title: 
PhD Student
Current Employer: 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Q. What aspects of your MCB degree program best helped you prepare for your career?

A. Definitely the people. The peers, mentors, and professors I've met at Berkeley have not only humbled me by sharing their knowledge and perspectives but have also inspired me simply by being amazing individuals. All the memories I cherish will help guide me and take me far in my career as an aspiring scientist-entrepreneur.

Q. How did you decide on your current career path?

A. A PhD program, to me, is a crazy yet fascinating journey where I truly challenge myself to tackle the unknown using both learned tools and creativity. The feeling of solving problems that no one in history has ever solved is quite amazing.

Q. Share your favorite Berkeley lunch place, coffee shop, landmark study spot...etc. 

A. Back in the days you will see me either at Strada, at LKS, or on my electric skateboard commuting to one of these two.