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Chi Xu

Chi Xu

Product design engineer | Apple | Class of 2012

It was, as Chi Xu remembers it, a sight for tired eyes.

“I once pulled an all nighter in the Grainger Library second floor during an angry snowstorm," he says. "When I was done with the struggle and looked out of the window in the twilight, I saw the most quiet and beautiful snow scene in my life .

"It felt like hard working pays off," says the Apple product design engineer with two UI degrees — BS/enginerering ('12) and MS/mechanical engineering ('15).