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SJSU Grad Slam 2025

Grad Slam 2025 was a success! Congratulations to our winners: Tomy Tran, First Place; Lydia Durunguma, Second Place; and Anjali Sharma, Audience Choice.

Watch the 2025 Grad Slam Event

What is Grad Slam?

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Grad Slam: Where SJSU’s brightest minds tackle the world’s toughest problems. In Grad Slam, graduate students compete in front of a live audience and a panel of judges, and are scored on their ability to communicate their impactful, and innovative research, scholarship, or creative activity.

See what Grad Slam is all about!

And the 2025 Grad Slam Winners are...

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First Place

Tomy Tran

Mechanical Engineering, MS

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Second Place

Lydia Durunguma

Applied Economics, MA

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Audience Choice

Anjali Sharma

Environmental Studies, MS

The 2024 Grad Slam Winners

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First Place

Jennifer Benbow

Bioinformatics, M.S.

Watch Jennifer’s Grad Slam Winning Presentation

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Second Place

Timothy Tan

Materials Engineering, M.S.

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Audience Choice

Shruthi Srinivasan                

Biomedical Engineering, M.S.  

Watch Shruthi's Grad Slam Winning Presentation

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Your contribution can make a big difference. A donation to our Grad Slam fund can help us keep the program going for years to come.

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Past Grad Slam Information

Grad Slam Archive

The Grad Slam Archive is where you can find past event information, such as event and past winner recordings, and information about our past judges.

Visit the Grad Slam Archive

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