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Name<\/strong>: Arman Siddiqui<\/span><\/p>\n

Major<\/strong>: Computer Science | Minor: Analytics<\/span><\/p>\n

Accomplishments<\/strong>: 2023 Student-Elected Commencement Speaker, MLAT Research Assistant, Boston Dynamics robot dog operator<\/span><\/p>\n

Chances are, you\u2019ve seen Arman Siddiqui in Swenson Hall. Arman is the one with the permanent smile and positive attitude asking people about their day and remembering details about friends\u2019 important life moments. Kindness and positivity embody Arman, someone with a huge heart always willing to help a student, staff, or faculty member with a project, research, or a community event and shows up with a smile. It\u2019s hard to believe that his college journey of graduating with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Analytics almost didn’t happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Journey to Chapman<\/b><\/h3>\n

While in high school, Arman was diagnosed with Crohn\u2019s disease, which changed his life forever. Having to go from doctor to doctor with one treatment after another, this diagnosis affected every part of his life, resulting in several missed experiences and friendships. Trying to make sense of his diagnosis, Arman found a way to turn something very painful into something positive (which has become his personal motto); he decided he wanted to help others with the same chronic illness and attend medical school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing up in Orange County, Arman stayed close to home and his doctors while he continued his studies at Irvine Valley College, however, after 27 hospitalizations he realized that ultimately medicine was not the path he wanted. He had to shift gears. Thankfully, he had a passion for something else: breaking things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like some kids, Arman found enjoyment in breaking things. There was something cathartic about the process: break the item, look at all the parts, then figure out how to put them back together. A process all too familiar for engineers and like others before him, served as that <\/span>aha<\/span><\/i> moment for Arman. He discovered his next academic journey and quickly began searching for a local university accepting transfer students in spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChapman University does accept transfer students during spring, they just opened a new engineering school and my uncle and my dad took classes at Chapman. It was a full circle moment,\u201d Arman said with Panther pride. \u201cBut, I\u2019d never seen the campus and I was transferring during COVID. Not the ideal situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Community is Where You Make It<\/b><\/h3>\n

Staring at a computer screen during the first semester at a new school is not ideal; however, from the moment Arman clicked on the Zoom link, the anxiety faded and the excitement built. Although he was not in-person or on-campus, he already started to feel the openness from the students and faculty and a community forming. \u201cChapman is a special place\u2014I felt a sense of community and care even remotely,\u201d said Arman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With that feeling of community already formed, the transition to in-person classes was seamless. He already knew the students, staff, and faculty because of the constant communication and support, so seeing Chapman\u2019s campus was incredible, especially the Fowler School of Engineering (FSE). Arman reflects, \u201cSeeing Swenson Hall and the Keck Center was an incredibly special moment. It felt like home from the get-go.\u201d He also credits his peers who were willing to be open, and kind, and connect with him almost immediately. After missing experiences post-diagnosis, he felt a deep sense of belonging within the walls of Swenson Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arman met Dr. Erik Linstead during one of his first classes and that encounter opened doors for involvement in the biggest lab in engineering: Machine Learning and Affiliated Technology (MLAT). \u201cErik accepted me into MLAT with about 20 or 30 research students where I was able to do research in computer vision. We were creating an algorithm to locate where graffiti is in a community and determine if it was vandalism or art.\u201d Through that experience, Arman learned, \u201cIt\u2019s not that research fails to succeed, research simply evolves and changes. Oftentimes you have 100 ideas and only two work.\u201d Working with a small group of research students and Dr. Linstead and Dr. Elizabeth Stevens allowed him to meet new people and get involved early on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapman University is inherently a small institution, but its size offers opportunities to interact with others fairly easily. FSE\u2019s graduating class is a small number of close-knit students who experienced so many things together, including helping to build FSE\u2019s culture of equity and respect. Arman used the word, \u201creciprocation\u201d to describe the culture. \u201cYou are embraced by the faculty and staff within Fowler, everyone is open, selfless, and students are treated with respect and as an equal. Your professor will treat students like an equal and it is reciprocated. This combination of the two creates a loving community – embrace it and it will embrace you.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He also credits Dean Andrew Lyon for the warm and welcoming environment because it \u201cstarts with the person at the top. Andrew takes the time to care about students, be part of that experience, and takes a moment to chat. He really does his due diligence to put Fowler first. He wants feedback and he tries to reassure that students are part of that change.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Parting Words from the Student-Elected Commencement Speaker<\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cI\u2019m incredibly honored to be selected. It\u2019s not something that I envisioned and is nothing short of a miracle. It doesn\u2019t feel real, yet,\u201d Arman said. When reflecting upon his position as a leader within his group of peers and offering words of wisdom, he said, \u201cEvery opportunity that you don\u2019t take is a missed opportunity. You don\u2019t have to succeed every time to be successful. It\u2019s not about making a perfect shot every time but making the best shot you can. Sometimes we see failed projects, but that is part of the process. Do everything that you think you can do because what you find is that you will get better at doing things during that experience. Reflect back on all the things you\u2019ve done and where it has taken you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for Arman? \u201cFinishing school means getting a job – finding a place to call home for the next few years. A place where I will be treated well and respected just like I am respected at Fowler.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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We would like to take this opportunity to thank Arman Siddiqui for this interview and extend our congratulations on being selected as the Commencement speaker. Arman would like to thank his family: his dad, mom, and little brother. He would also like to thank Katie Rodeghiero for her constant support, his friends here at Chapman, and the faculty and staff at Fowler for treating him as an equal and seeing him as their friend.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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