Message from the Dean
On behalf of the entire CCI community, a heartfelt congratulations to all of our incredible 2025 graduates!
At CCI, you’ve dedicated yourselves to mastering the skills, knowledge, and commitment needed to harness technology for the betterment of humanity. You stand ready to tackle the challenges, seize the opportunities, and reap the rewards that come with shaping a world increasingly reliant on information and technology. And you — each and every one of you — are exactly what this world has been waiting for.
Your brilliance, creativity, determination, and boundless passion have already left an indelible mark on our vibrant community of students, faculty, professional staff, and alumni. We have every confidence that you will continue to share your extraordinary gifts with the global community, driving progress and innovation to incredible new heights.
Today, we celebrate YOU and all your remarkable achievements. Tomorrow, we eagerly await the amazing stories of your future accomplishments. Go forth and shine bright — you’re unstoppable!
Congratulations, Forever Dragons!
Ali Shokoufandeh, PhD
Interim Dean and Distinguished University Professor
About the Keynote Speaker
Kamelia Aryafar is a senior executive in Google Cloud AI, focused on building Google Agentspace, Vertex AI Search Verticals and Platform. She is the founder of Google Agentspace, with a mission to enable enterprises to tap into the best of what Google has to offer in agents, assistant and search technologies.
Prior to joining Google, Ms. Aryafar was the executive vice president, chief algorithms and analytics officer, and board member for Overstock.com (now Beyond Inc), where she led the company’s engineering, analytics, AI and product organizations. She previously held roles at Etsy where she worked with product teams across multiple platforms to integrate analytics and AI throughout the user experience.
Ms. Aryafar holds a PhD and MSc in computer science, with a focus on AI and machine learning, from Drexel. A frequent speaker at academic and industry conferences, she is an active member of the machine learning community and a passionate advocate for advancing generative AI, machine learning, technology and women in STEM fields.
You're a Forever Dragon Now!
Don't Miss the University-Wide Commencement on June 12!
We hope you'll join us for this special event at Citizens Bank Park on Thursday, June 12 at 5 p.m. ET. We look forward to celebrating our graduates at the University-wide Commencement ceremony, where our newest Forever Dragons will get the chance to participate in a procession around the baseball field and have their degrees conferred before being officially welcomed into the ranks of Drexel alumni.