Your PAAs!

Peer Academic Advisors (PAAs) work within the advising community at Rice to support peers with a wide range of academically-related topics. With personal experience as a Rice student and training from the Office of Academic Advising, PAAs offer advice regarding:

  • specific courses

  • co-curricular opportunities

  • graduation requirements

  • studying abroad

  • research

  • professional school requirements

  • time management

Your Brown PAAs want to help you pursue academics and learning that fit your personal life and goals. Please reach out to us at any time, with any question!

You can email one of us or find one of us in person. Please find a list of all of our names, majors, email addresses, etc. below!

Head PAAS

Emilia Cichocki | Class of 2027 | ejc15@rice.edu
Neuroscience (Computational Neuroscience), Linguistics; Mathematics minor, Computational and Applied Mathematics minor; Certificate in Language and Intercultural Communication - Chinese; pre-grad

Elise Wang | Class of 2027 | ew65@rice.edu
Biosciences, Concentration in Cell Biology and Genetics; Medical Humanities minor; pre-med

Abhishek Tripathi | Class of 2027 | at116@rice.edu
Neuroscience, Biosciences, pre-med

 

O-Week PAAs

Renee Fang | Class of 2028 | rf57@rice.edu
Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; pre-med

Ashby Blackmon | Class of 2029 | ab357@rice.edu
Neuroscience; pre-med

Susan Meng | Class of 2028 | sm253@rice.edu
Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance; pre-med

Megan Smith | Class of 2028 | ms338@rice.edu
Neuroscience; Spanish minor; pre-grad

 

Year-Long PAAs

Olutobi Adeyeri | Class of 2028 | oa32@rice.edu
Computer Science, Social Policy Analysis; pre-grad

Ato Kwamena Quansah | Class of 2028 | aq16@rice.edu
Mathematical Economic Analysis; pre-grad

Angelina Sievers | Class of 2028 | as561@rice.edu
Music Performance; English minor, Certificate in Language and Intercultural Communication - French; pre-grad

Paris Yuan | Class of 2028 | py18@rice.edu
Biosciences; Data Science minor, Anthropology minor; pre-grad

Parnikaa Gurumurthy | Class of 2027 | pg57@rice.edu
Business (Finance), Entrepreneurship minor, Certificate in Language and Intercultural Communication - French

Richa Jayanti | Class of 2028 | rj63@rice.edu
Computer Science; Computational and Applied Mathematics minor

Mhyank Sekhar | Class of 2028 | ms327@rice.edu
Biosciences, Philosophy; Medical Humanities minor; pre-med

Mihir Sekhar | Class of 2028 | ms333@rice.edu
Neuroscience, Religion; Medical Humanities minor; pre-med

Gabbi Arenas | Class of 2029 | ga55@rice.edu
Mechanical Engineering; Engineering Design minor; pre-grad

Neya Gupta | Class of 2029 | ng82@rice.edu
Political Science and Business Finance; Politics, Law, and Social Thought; pre-law

Chris Hsu | Class of 2029 | ch212@rice.edu
Computer Science, Asian Studies

Vedant Khadiya | Class of 2028 | vk35@rice.edu
Political Science, Sport Law; pre-law

Jay Kothari | Class of 2029 | jk210@rice.edu​​​​​​​
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Business minor