Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Dominic Armato (1993) - voice actor
  • Steve Chen (1996) - co-founder/Chief Technology Officer of YouTube, and an early engineer at PayPal.
  • Rob McCool (1991) - author of NCSA HTTPd web server, which became the base of the now-popular Apache HTTP Server. He was also an early Netscape employee who created the early web browser, Mosaic.
  • Ramez Naam (1990) - software developer and author. He helped develop Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook.
  • Yu Pan (1995) - one of the six co-creators of PayPal and was the first employee at YouTube.
  • Nathan Gettings (1995) - early employee of PayPal and co-founder of Palantir Technologies
  • Clara Shih (2000) - bestselling author of The Facebook Era, co-founder of Hearsay Social, and member of Starbucks' Board of Directors.
  • Sam Yagan (1995) - one of the co-founders of SparkNotes and has also co-founded OkCupid, one of the largest (free) web-based online dating sites in the world.
  • Russel Simmons (1995) - early employee of PayPal and co-founder of Yelp

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