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Riley Woodruff


PSU Russian Flagship Student

Career Goals: What do you plan to do with your fluency in Russian?
To use it in a career involving natural language processing as that seems to be a strong emerging field of computation.

What attracted you to the Flagship Program?
The ability to acquire Russian proficiency in a relatively small amount of time.

What’s the best aspect of being in the Flagship Program?
The community around it, everyone seems very kind and more than happy to help if there’s a challenging concept that needs to be explained.

Why is fluency in Russian vital to you?
Fluency in Russian will open up many more doors to a future that I’ve always wanted for myself. Traveling and speaking another language has been a dream of mine and fluency in Russian gives me access to the ability to communicate with over 250 million other people that I may not have been able to talk to.

Education
  • BS Computer Science (2025)
  • BA Russian (2025)