Suraj Rampure is a Lecturer in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

While at Berkeley, he helped create and teach multiple undergraduate computer science and data science courses, including the core upper-division course for data science majors and an introductory programming course for non-majors. There, he was the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the departmental Distinguished Graduate Student Instructor Award in 2020 and the campus Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times award in 2021.

At UC San Diego, he will focus on the undergraduate experience for data science students and will be involved in data science education research.