Ph.D. Students

Muhammad Salman Abid

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Utku Umur Acikalin

Research Focus: AI4Science

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Muhammad Ahmed

Simon Alford

Research Focus: Theory induction, program synthesis, abstraction and reasoning in AI

Adnan Armouti

Research Focus: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Systems

Research Areas: Vision

Marianne Arriola

Research Focus: Geometric deep learning, machine learning for biomedicine

Research Areas: Machine Learning

James Austgen

Sidhika Balachandar

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Rohan Banerjee

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Jialu Bao

Research Focus: Verification of Probabilistic Programs

Mark Barbone

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Ali Behrouz

Christian Belardi

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Julian Bellavita

Research Areas: Scientific Computing

Griffin Berlstein

Noah Bertram

Simon Bertron

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Arkaprabha Bhattacharya

Katharine Blumer

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Samuel Breckenridge

Research Focus: Security and Privacy

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Daniel Brous

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Fanjun Bu

Research Focus: Human-Robot interaction

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Ruojin Cai

Yunhao Cao

Benjamin Carleton

Benjamin Chan

Research Focus: Cryptography and Distributed Algorithms

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Yen-Yu Chang

Research Areas: Graphics, Machine Learning, Vision

Shubham Chaudhary

Research Focus: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems

August Chen

Hanyu Chen

Research Focus: Graphics, Rendering, 3D Vision

Research Areas: Graphics

Hongzheng Chen

Research Focus: Compiler Optimizations, heterogeneous computing systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Keting Chen

Research Focus: Network Systems, Operating Systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Wenxin Chen

Research Focus: Multimodal learning

Research Areas: Computational Biology

Zizhao Chen

Aditya Chetan

Research Areas: Graphics, Vision

Erica Chiang

Research Focus: Machine learning, algorithms, society

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Gene Chou

Research Areas: Vision

Sheng-Yen Chou

Cazamere Comrie

Keri D'Angelo

Research Focus: Category Theory, Homotopy Type Theory

Alaa Daffalla

Yijia Dai

Research Focus: Reinforcement Learning

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Oliver Daids

Research Focus: Graphics, Programming Languages

Research Areas: Graphics, Programming Languages

Rajeev Datta

Longxiulin Deng

Research Focus: Computation on Content Creation

Research Areas: Vision

Xi Deng

Youming Deng

Research Areas: Graphics

Ramiro Deo-Campo Vuong

Research Focus: Algorithm design and analysis

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Shachi Deshpande

Research Focus: Casual Machine Learning

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Arjun Devraj

Research Focus: Privacy and security

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Eric Ding

Research Focus: Computer Networks; Systems for ML

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Evan Dong

Research Focus: AIgorithmic Fairness and Social Movements/Theories

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Yuanqi Du

Research Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AI for Science, Computational Sustainability

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Promise Ekpo

Research Focus: Human-Robot interaction

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Robotics

Eric Enouen

Research Focus: Interpretability

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Daniel Enriquez

Omar Eqbal

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Nicolas Espinosa Dice

Research Focus: Reinforcement Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Andres Fabrega Gerbaud

Joshua Fan

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sustainability

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Max Fan

Research Focus: type systems and semantics

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Ali Farahbakhsh

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Yair Feldman

Yunhai Feng

Research Focus: Robot Learning

Research Areas: Robotics

John Fikioris

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Matthew Franchi

Jonathan Gabor

Ge Gao

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Yixuan Gao

Zhaolin Gao

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Susan Garry

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Nora Gera

Research Focus: At the intersection of systems, security, and PL

Research Areas: Software Engineering

Surendra Ghentiyala

Viktor Giannakouris Salalidis

Research Focus: Database Systems

Aaron Gokaslan

Research Focus: Computer Vision / Graphics

Research Areas: Graphics

Albert Gong

Research Focus: ML algorithms

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Gonzalo Gonzalez-Pumariega

Laura Greenstreet

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Sophie Greenwood

Research Focus: Algorithms, AI, and Society

Karuna Grewal

Research Focus: Programming Languages; Systems and Networking

Marc Grimson

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Zeqi Gu

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Vision, Graphics, Robotics

Kevin Guan

Research Areas: Software Engineering

M. Omer Gul

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Vision

Mohit Gurumukhani

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Gemmechu Hassena

Research Focus: Computer Vision and Graphics

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Vision

Rebecca Hicke

Research Areas: Human Interaction

Kevin Hua

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Yilun Hua

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Chengyu Huang

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing

Kuan Wei Huang

Research Focus: Computer Vision/Graphics, Machine Learning

Research Areas: Vision

Yu-Ju Huang

Research Focus: Distributed system, operating system

Kei Imada

Research Focus: Formal Verification of Distributed Systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Tharushi Jayasekara

Research Areas: Software Engineering

Rajat Kumar Jenamani

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Rishi Jha

Research Focus: Security and Privacy in Machine Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Pengyue Jiang

Research Areas: Software Engineering

Haian Jin

Research Focus: 3D Computer Vision and Graphics

Research Areas: Vision

Saehan Jo

Research Focus: Database Systems, Machine Learning for Systems

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems

Anmol Kabra

Research Focus: ML algorithms, AI for Science

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Hasindu Kanaththage

Saravanan Kandasamy

Suraaj Kanniwadi Sureshkannan

Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking

Chia-Hsiang Kao

Research Focus: Deep Learning Algorithm

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Noa Kaplan

Bhaskar Kataria

Research Focus: Wide Area Network and Resource Optimization

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Kimia Kazemian

Research Focus: AI, Machine Learning, Optimization

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Kushal Kedia

Research Focus: Human-Robot Interaction, Planning and Learning

Mahimna Kelkar

Research Focus: Theoretical and Applied Cryptography, Security, Privacy

Research Areas: Security, Theory of Computing

Shreyas Kharbanda

Research Focus: Resource Disaggregation

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Shinhae Kim

Research Focus: Software Engineering, Machine Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Software Engineering

Woojeong Kim

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Yujin Kim

Research Areas: Robotics

Haruka Kiyohara

Research Focus: Decision making, Reinforcement learning, Counterfactual evaluation

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Woojin Ko

Research Areas: Graphics, Human Interaction, Vision

Ben Landrum

Jiale Lao

Research Focus: Database Systems, Machine Learning for Systems, Large Language Modeling

Research Areas: Database Systems

Celine Lee

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

Katherine Lee

Research Focus: NLP and security

Austin Li

Research Focus: Distributed Systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Diyang Li

Research Focus: Provable Machine Learning, Large-scale Optimization

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Oliver Li

Shamus Li

Research Focus: Computational Imaging

Research Areas: Vision

Wen-Ding Li

Wenzhi Li

Research Focus: Machine Learning, Data Management

Research Areas: Database Systems, Machine Learning

Yueying Li

Research Focus: Systems and Machine Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems and Networking

Shouxu Lin

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Bo Liu

Jun You Liu

Research Focus: cryptography, cryptosecurity, cryptoeconomics

Xinrui Liu

Research Focus: human-computer interaction, computer graphics & vision, human-robot interaction

Research Areas: Human Interaction

Yanyi Liu

Research Areas: Security, Theory of Computing

Zhenzhen Liu

Research Focus: Machine Learning

Ziang Liu

Research Focus: build robots that perceive, understand, reason, and interact in the physical world to better assist people with day-to-day tasks, leveraging inspiration from human cognition

Research Areas: Robotics

Justin Lovelace

Linda Lu

Research Focus: Theory of Machine Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Katie Luo

Rundong Luo

Research Focus: Computer Vision

Research Areas: Vision

Jacqueline Maasch

Research Focus: Machine Learning, Computational Biology

Rishabh Madan

Research Areas: Robotics

Yuqi Mai

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Victoria Mao

Edgar Marroquin

Anna Mazhar

Research Focus: Machine Unlearning, Software Testing, and System Reliability

Vaibhav Mehta

Research Focus: Programming Languages/Formal Methods

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Dominik Meier

Research Focus: Sequential and personalized decision making

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Sanketh Gora Menda

Research Areas: Security

Qian Meng

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Si Yi Meng

Peter Michael

Research Areas: Graphics, Vision

Yimeng Min

Mark Moeller

Research Focus: Verification in Networking

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Anshuman Mohan

Giovanni Monea

John (Jack) Morris

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

Rajiv Movva

Bharath Raj Nagoor Kani

Research Focus: 3D Computer Vision

Research Areas: Vision

Armin Namavari

Research Focus: Security and Applied Cryptography

Research Areas: Security

Kevin Negy

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Ernest Ng

Research Focus: Type systems, functional programming

Sloan Nietert

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Rachit Nigam

Research Focus: Programming Languages and Hardware Design

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Chuanruo Ning

Research Focus: 3D information for Robotics

Research Areas: Robotics

Darian Nwankwo

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing

Byungsoo Oh

Research Focus: Machine Learning Systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Princewill Okoroafor

Research Focus: Theory, Algorithms, Machine Learning

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Chidozie Onyeze

Research Focus: Algorithmic Game Theory

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Antonia Oprescu

Research Focus: Robust Decision Making, Causal Inference

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Carolina Ortega Perez

Shankar Padmanabhan

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing

Marios Papachristou

Research Focus: Data Science, Network Science, Algorithms, Statistics

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Sihwa Park

Research Focus: Machine Learning Theories

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Dhrumilkumar Patel

Kenneth Peng

Research Focus: Algorithms, machine learning, fairness

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Wenxuan Peng

Spencer Peters

Research Focus: Cryptography and Lattices

Richard Phillips

Hao Phung

Research Focus: Generative models

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Mahika Phutane

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction

Wasu Piriyakulkij

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Delia Qu

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Brendan Rappazzo

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Richa Rastogi

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning

Silei Ren

Oren Renard

Research Focus: Quantum Computation

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Shreelekha Revankar

Research Focus: visual discovery through the integration of diverse data sources

Research Areas: Vision

Noam Ringach

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Daniel Ritter

Research Focus: Language Modeling and Uncertainty Estimation

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Emily Ryu

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Goktug Saatcioglu

Research Areas: Programming Languages, Security, Systems and Networking

Subham Sahoo

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Yuta Saito

Research Focus: Machine Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Aditya Saraf

Research Focus: Economics and Computer Science

Nitika Saran

Research Focus: Distributed Systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Yair Schiff

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Aditya Senthilnathan

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Shannon Sequeira

Shaden Shaar

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

Yunxi Shen

Research Focus: Networks, OS, Queuing Theory

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Saebyeol Shin

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Michelle Shu

Erald Sinanaj

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Atharv Sonwane

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Mariia Soroka

Research Focus: Rendering, Differentiable Rendering

Research Areas: Graphics

Jinyan Su

Research Focus: machine learning and natural language processing

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Emmanuel Suarez Acevedo

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Jiatian Sun

Research Areas: Graphics, Scientific Computing

Yihong Sun

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Vision

Florian Suri-Payer

Research Focus: Distributed Systems

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Systems and Networking

Zachary Susag

Research Focus: Programming Languages

Hao Tang

Research Focus: neuro-symbolic AI

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Xilin Tang

Research Focus: Systems & Theory

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Jorge Tapias Gomez

Bradon Thymes

Trishita Tiwari

Research Areas: Security

Nhan Tran

Research Areas: Graphics, Human Interaction, Robotics, Vision

Son Tran

Hal Triedman

Research Focus: Cybersecurity and privacy

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Max Tromanhauser

Research Focus: Quantum Complexity and Cryptography

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Albert Tseng

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Tao Tu

Research Focus: 3D Vision

Research Areas: Vision

Khonzodakhon Umarova

Katherine Van Koevering

Research Focus: Networks, Ethics, Machine Learning, and Human Interaction

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Theory of Computing

Spencer Van Koevering

Research Focus: Programming languages and Theory

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Abhishek Vijaya Kumar

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Daniel Vilardell

Research Focus: Cryptography and Blockchains

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Andrew Violette

Midhul Vuppalapati

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Guanghan Wang

Huaxiaoyue Wang

Research Areas: Robotics

Kaiwen Wang

Research Focus: RL, causal inference, ML

Ning Wang

Yanbang Wang

Research Focus: Network Science, Machine Learning on Graphs

Yifan Wang

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Systems and Networking

Yingheng Wang

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Tobias Weinberg

Anne Wu

Katherine Wu

Research Focus: Probabilistic inference, probabilistic programming

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages

Runzhe Wu

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Zhanxin Wu

Research Focus: Robotics

Research Areas: Robotics

Yi Xu

Research Focus: physically-based simulation

Research Areas: Graphics

Himank Yadav

Research Focus: Machine Learning

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Ethan Yang

Research Focus: Vision, Graphics, Computational Imaging

Yuting Yang

Research Focus: Machine Learning Systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Zhihan Yang

Research Focus: Probabilistic Modeling and Inference, Generative Models

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Elaine Yao

Research Focus: SE4AI, AI4SE

Research Areas: Software Engineering

Yulun Yao

Cassandra Ye

Ruolin Ye

Research Areas: Robotics

Seung Won Yoo

Ayaka Yorihiro

Research Areas: Software Engineering

Haozheng Yu

Yunchen Yu

Sofian Zalouk

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Hongbo Zhang

Ruijie Zhang

Research Focus: Distributed System, Applied Crypto

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Tingwei Zhang

Research Focus: Machine Learning Security

Research Areas: Security

Xiaoji Zhang

Zhengxin Zhang

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing

Linxi Zhao

Research Focus: Large Language Models

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Wenting Zhao

Research Focus: Computational Sustainability, Reasoning, Machine Learning

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Yunya Zhao

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Jin Zhou

Research Focus: Machine Learning

Joyce Zhou

Research Focus: Artifical Intelligence, Human Interaction

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction

Jingsen Zhu

Research Focus: Computer Graphics, 3D Vision

Research Areas: Graphics, Vision

Laura Zielinski

Research Focus: Formal verification

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Noam Zilberstein

Research Focus: Programming Languages and Formal Methods