37 Notable alumni of New York Institute of Technology
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
New York Institute of Technology is ranked #2,902 in the world and #752 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from New York Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with New York Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jake Sasseville
1985-. (aged 41)
Jake Sasseville is the CEO and Co-Founder of Imiloa Institute.
2. John Brooks
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
John Brooks is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the New York State Senate from the 8th district from 2017 to 2023.
3. Manix Auriantal
1980-. (aged 46)
basketball player
Manix Auriantal is a Canadian retired professional basketball player and is now actively dedicated to the next generation of Canadian athletes. He is of Haitian descent. He currently runs a basketball programme for Louis-Joseph Papineau high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Auriantal has played for several teams from his hometown since graduating from the New York Institute of Technology in...
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4. Fang Wong
1948-. (aged 78)
military officer
Fang A. Wong is a retired United States Army warrant officer who served as the National Commander of The American Legion from 2011 to 2012.
5. Alphan Eşeli
1973-. (aged 53)
film director
Alphan Eseli; born March 7, 1973, is a Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer. Eseli's critically acclaimed first feature film The Long Way Home (2013) has won the Fipresci Prize and the Golden Zenith Award at the 37th Montreal World Film Festival as well as the Best New Talent Award at the 7th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival.
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6. Itzhak Fisher
businessperson
chief executive officer
Itzhak Fisher, is an Israeli businessman who served as the Founder and General Partner of Pereg Ventures.
7. Iman Mutlaq
1966-. (aged 60)
businessperson
Iman Mutlaq is a Jordanian entrepreneur, businesswoman, financier and social activist. She is the founder and President of multinational financial companies; Sigma Investments and INGOT.
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8. Humayun Chaudhry
1965-. (aged 61)
physician
Humayun Javaid Chaudhry is an American physician and medical educator who is president and chief executive officer of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) of the United States, a national non-profit organization founded in 1912 that represents the 70 state medical boards of the United States and its territories and which co-sponsors the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)....
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9. Nicholas Estavillo
1945-. (aged 81)
police officer
NYPD Chief of Patrol Nicholas Estavillo, (born March 13, 1945) is a former member of the New York Police Department who in 2002 became the first Puerto Rican and the first Hispanic in the history of the NYPD to reach the three-star rank of Chief of Patrol.
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10. Jim Ferry
1967-. (aged 59)
basketball coach
James A. Ferry Jr. is an American college basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UMBC Retrievers men's basketball team. He formerly served as interim head coach for the 2020–2021 season at Penn State and the head men's basketball coach at Duquesne, Long Island, Adelphi, and Plymouth State.
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11. Jared Cohn
screenwriter
television actor
film director
actor
Jared Michael Cohn is an American film director, screenwriter and actor, best known for directing Buddy Hutchins. He has also directed films for The Asylum, including Atlantic Rim and Born Bad.
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12. Allison Baver
1980-. (aged 46)
speed skater
short-track speed skater
Allison Baver is an American retired short track speed skater. A member of the U.S. short track speed skating squad beginning in 2002, Baver earned multiple medals in ISU World Cup competition. Baver competed in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m relay events and trained with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the...
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13. Don Cooper
1957-. (aged 69)
baseball player
Donald James Cooper is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent his career in Major League Baseball (MLB) in parts of four seasons with the Minnesota Twins (1981–1982), Toronto Blue Jays (1983) and New York Yankees (1985). He was the pitching coach for the Chicago White Sox from July 22, 2002, until the end of the 2020 season. Under...
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14. John Antioco
John Antioco is an American businessman and currently the chairman of the board of directors at BRIX Holdings LLC and the Managing Partner of JAMCO Interests LLC.
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15. Brian Kenny
1963-. (aged 63)
sports commentator
Brian Kenny is a studio host for MLB Network and a boxing play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports and DAZN. The television face of Sabermetrics and baseball analytics, he is the host of the weekday program MLB Now, known as “the show for the thinking fan". He previously worked for ESPN, where he won three Emmys, and had his own show...
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16. Averof Neofytou
1961-. (aged 65)
politician
economist
Averof Neofytou is a Cypriot politician, who was the President of the then-ruling Democratic Rally (DISY) party from 2013 to 2023, and currently serves as Member of the House of Representatives since 2006, having previously served in the position from 1996 to 1999. Prior to his election to parliament, which he briefly left to serve as Minister of Communications and...
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17. Sarah Fisher
1980-. (aged 46)
racing automobile driver
Sarah Marie Fisher is an American retired professional race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League (IRL, now IndyCar Series) and the Indianapolis 500 intermittently from 1999 to 2010. She also raced in the NASCAR West Series in 2004 and 2005. Fisher took part in 81 IndyCar Series events, achieving a career-best finish of second at the 2001...
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18. Kevin O'Connor
physician
Kevin Charles O'Connor is an American physician and retired U.S. Army colonel who served as the physician to the president under Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump. He was replaced by Sean Barbabella on March 7, 2025.
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19. Patri Friedman
1976-. (aged 50)
nonprofit administrator
software engineer
poker player
Patri Friedman is an American libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and theorist of political economy. He founded The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit that explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies.
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20. Vithaya Pansringarm
1959-. (aged 67)
actor
Vithaya Pansringarm is a Thai actor best known for appearing in Only God Forgives. He is also known in Thailand as "Khun Pu".
21. Chris Algieri
1984-. (aged 42)
nutritionist
boxer
kickboxer
Christopher Mark Algieri is an American professional boxer and former kickboxer. In boxing he held the WBO junior welterweight title in 2014 and challenged for the WBO welterweight title later that year; in kickboxing he was an undefeated ISKA World welterweight and WKA World super welterweight champion. Outside of boxing, Algieri works as a nutritionist.
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22. Rahul Dholakia
film producer
screenwriter
film director
Rahul Dholakia is an Indian film director-producer-screenwriter, most known for his National Film Award-winning film, Parzania, prior to which he also made documentaries like Teenage Parents and New York Taxi Drivers.
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23. SonicFox
1998-. (aged 28)
professional gamer
Dominique McLean, known professionally as SonicFox, is an American professional esports player of several fighting games, currently signed to FlyQuest. They have topped many tournaments, including eight Evolution Championship Series (EVO) events for five different game franchises. They are the highest paid fighting game esports player in the world as of August 4, 2019, with over $719,204.94 in earnings. They...
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24. Shelley Hack
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
model
television actor
actor
film actor
Shelley Marie Hack is an American actress, model, producer, and political activist. She is best known as the face of Revlon's Charlie perfume from the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, and for her role as Tiffany Welles in the fourth season of Charlie's Angels (1979–80).
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25. David Barnea
1965-. (aged 61)
spy
military officer
warrior
David "Dadi" Barnea is an Israeli intelligence chief who serves as the current director of the Mossad, having taken over from Yossi Cohen in June 2021.
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26. Doctor Mike
1989-. (aged 37)
family physician
YouTuber
Mikhail Oskarovich Varshavski, known popularly as Doctor Mike, is a Russian-American family medicine physician, YouTuber, internet personality, philanthropist, racer, and professional boxer. His Instagram account went viral after he was featured in BuzzFeed and People magazine named him The Sexiest Doctor Alive in 2015. He has a YouTube channel on which he posts medically themed entertainment videos and debunks false...
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27. Yi Won
1962-. (aged 64)
businessperson
Yi Won is a great-grandson of Gojong of Korea and one of several who claim to be current head of the House of Yi.
28. JWoww
1985-. (aged 41)
reality television participant
model
Jennifer Lynn Farley, also known as JWoww, is an American television personality. She first came to prominence as one of the eight main cast members in the MTV reality series Jersey Shore, and is a main cast member of its spin-offs, Snooki & Jwoww, Snooki & Jwoww: Moms with Attitude, and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation. She has also made several...
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29. Adam Pascal
1970-. (aged 56)
stage actor
singer
actor
film actor
Adam Pascal is an American actor, singer, and musician, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original Broadway and West End productions of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the Broadway tour of Rent in 2009. He is also known for originating the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's...
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30. Candice Night
1971-. (aged 55)
writer
songwriter
poet
singer
Candice Night is an American singer and musician. She has been the vocalist/lyricist and multi-instrumentalist for the traditional folk rock project Blackmore's Night since its origins in 1997 with her husband, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. She is also the backing vocalist for Rainbow from 1994 to 1997 and 2015–present, again with Blackmore. Her first solo album, Reflections, was released in 2011.
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31. Chris Distefano
1984-. (aged 42)
comedian
Christopher Paul Anthony Distefano is an American comedian. Primarily a stand-up comedian, he began his career in entertainment on MTV and MTV2's shows Guy Code and Girl Code. His first hour-long standup special, Chris Distefano: Size 38 Waist, was released in 2019 by Comedy Central. His second special, Speshy Weshy, premiered on Netflix in May 2022. Distefano co-hosts Hey Babe!...
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32. Karine Jean-Pierre
1974-. (aged 52)
Chief of Staff
press secretary
Karine Jean-Pierre is an American political advisor and spokesperson who served as the 35th White House press secretary from 2022 to 2025, and as a senior advisor to President Joe Biden from 2024 to 2025. She is the first Black person and the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the position of White House press secretary. Previously, she served...
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33. Vanessa Córdoba
1995-. (aged 31)
association football player
Vanessa Córdoba Arteaga is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Beşiktaş.
34. Alonzo Short
1939-. (aged 87)
military officer
Alonzo Earl Short Jr. is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
35. Tai Chih-yuan
1965-. (aged 61)
television presenter
actor
television actor
Andy Tai Chih-yuan is a Taiwanese comedian, actor, show host and YouTuber. He is a graduate of New York Institute of Technology.
36. Saifullah Paracha
1947-. (aged 79)
Saifullah Abdullah Paracha is a citizen of Pakistan who was held without charge in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba for over 18 years. He was released on October 29, 2022. As of May 18, 2021, Saifullah Paracha was approved for release by American authorities after his son Uzair Paracha's conviction was overturned in 2018 and the...
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37. Vincent Connare
1960-. (aged 66)
designer
engineer
photographer
Vincent Connare is an American type designer and former Microsoft employee. Among his creations are the fonts Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS, as well as the Man in Business Suit Levitating emoji. Besides text typefaces, he finalized and hinted the font Marlett which has been used for scalable User Interface icons in Microsoft Windows since 1995 and created portions of...
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