Ph.D. Students

Utku Umur Acikalin

Research Focus: AI4Science

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Saksham Agarwal

Research Focus: Datacenter Networking

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Simon Alford

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

Daniel Amir

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

Kushal Babel

Research Areas: Security

Sidhika Balachandar

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Rohan Banerjee

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Jialu Bao

Research Focus: Verification of Probabilistic Programs

Christian Belardi

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Julian Bellavita

Research Areas: Scientific Computing

Griffin Berlstein

Luke Bernick

Research Focus: Geo-Distributed Databases

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Noah Bertram

Katharine Blumer

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Marina Bohuk (Sanusi)

Daniel Brous

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Fanjun Bu

Research Focus: Human-Robot interaction

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Qizhe Cai

Research Focus: Systems and Networking

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Ruojin Cai

Eric Campbell

Benjamin Carleton

Benjamin Chan

Research Focus: Cryptography and Distributed Algorithms

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Jonathan Chang

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Jonathan Chang

Yen-Yu Chang

Research Areas: Graphics, Machine Learning, Vision

Shubham Chaudhary

Research Focus: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems

Jerry Chee

Hongzheng Chen

Research Focus: Compiler Optimizations, heterogeneous computing systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Wenxin Chen

Research Focus: Multimodal learning

Research Areas: Computational Biology

Xiangyu Chen

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Aditya Chetan

Research Areas: Graphics, Vision

Erica Chiang

Research Focus: Machine learning, algorithms, society

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Justin Chiu

Gene Chou

Research Areas: Vision

Cazamere Comrie

A. Feder Cooper

Research Focus: Machine Learning Systems

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Keri D'Angelo

Research Focus: Category Theory, Homotopy Type Theory

Alaa Daffalla

Oliver Daids

Research Focus: Graphics, Programming Languages

Research Areas: Graphics, Programming Languages

Xi Deng

Youming Deng

Research Areas: Graphics

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

Sowmya Dharanipragada

Research Focus: Distributed Systems and Networking

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Kate Donahue

Research Focus: Societal impact of AI

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing

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

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

Ali Farahbakhsh

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

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

Dietrich Geisler

Research Areas: Programming Languages

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

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

Yifan Guan

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

Sam Havron

Research Focus: Security & privacy for vulnerable populations

Research Areas: Human Interaction, Security

Rebecca Hicke

Research Areas: Human Interaction

Yilun Hua

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

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

Yan Ji

Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking

Lucy Jiang

Research Focus: Accessibility

Research Areas: Human Interaction

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

Saravanan Kandasamy

Suraaj Kanniwadi Sureshkannan

Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking

Chia-Hsiang Kao

Research Focus: Deep Learning Algorithm

Research Areas: Machine Learning

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

Ariel Kellison

Shreyas Kharbanda

Research Focus: Resource Disaggregation

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Woojeong Kim

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Varsha Kishore

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Haruka Kiyohara

Research Focus: Decision making, Reinforcement learning, Counterfactual evaluation

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Woojin Ko

Research Areas: Graphics, Human Interaction, Vision

Noriyuki Kojima

Raunak Kumar

Research Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Design

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Theory of Computing

Celine Lee

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

David Lee

Research Focus: Program Synthesis, Machine Learning

Katherine Lee

Research Focus: NLP and security

Katherine Lee

Julia Len

Research Focus: Cryptography

Research Areas: Security

Diyang Li

Research Focus: Provable Machine Learning, Large-scale Optimization

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Kangbo Li

Wen-Ding Li

Yueying Li

Research Focus: Systems and Machine Learning

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems and Networking

Jyun-Jie Liao

Research Focus: Pseudorandomness, Complexity Theory, Cryptography

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Shouxu Lin

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

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

Jacqueline Maasch

Research Focus: Machine Learning, Computational Biology

Rishabh Madan

Research Areas: Robotics

Edgar Marroquin

Vaibhav Mehta

Research Focus: Programming Languages/Formal Methods

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Michela Meister

Sanketh Gora Menda

Research Areas: Security

Qian Meng

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Si Yi Meng

Peter Michael

Research Areas: Graphics, Vision

Yimeng Min

Renee Mirka

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Mark Moeller

Research Focus: Verification in Networking

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Anshuman Mohan

John (Jack) Morris

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

Rajiv Movva

Armin Namavari

Research Focus: Security and Applied Cryptography

Research Areas: Security

Kevin Negy

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Haobin Ni

Research Focus: Formal Verification of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

Research Areas: Programming Languages, Systems and Networking

Sloan Nietert

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Rachit Nigam

Research Focus: Programming Languages and Hardware Design

Research Areas: Programming Languages

Darian Nwankwo

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing

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

Miruna Oprescu

Research Focus: Robust Decision Making, Causal Inference

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Carolina Ortega Perez

Marios Papachristou

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

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Dhrumilkumar Patel

Kenneth Peng

Research Focus: Algorithms, machine learning, fairness

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Spencer Peters

Research Focus: Cryptography and Lattices

Richard Phillips

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

Shreelekha Revankar

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

Research Areas: Vision

Travers Rhodes

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics

Andy Ricci

Research Areas: Human Interaction, Robotics

Oliver Richardson

Research Focus: Models of Preference Change, HoTT, Category Theory for ML

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, Theory of Computing

Noam Ringach

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Gloire Rubambiza

Research Focus: Cloud Computing, Information and Communication Technologies for Development, Digital Agriculture

Research Areas: Human Interaction, Systems and Networking

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

Shaden Shaar

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

Zeyu Shen

Research Focus: Computational Social Science

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Michelle Shu

Mariia Soroka

Research Focus: Rendering, Differentiable Rendering

Research Areas: Graphics

Jinyan Su

Research Focus: machine learning and natural language processing

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Jiatian Sun

Research Areas: Graphics, Scientific Computing

Yihong Sun

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Zhen Sun

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

Luming Tang

Bradon Thymes

Trishita Tiwari

Research Areas: Security

Kiran Tomlinson

Research Focus: Computational Social Science

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Nhan Tran

Research Areas: Graphics, Human Interaction, Robotics, Vision

Albert Tseng

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Aaron Tucker

Joshua Turcotti

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

Andrew Violette

Midhul Vuppalapati

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Andrew Wang

Research Focus: Machine Learning

Huaxiaoyue Wang

Research Areas: Robotics

Junxiong Wang

Kaiwen Wang

Research Focus: RL, causal inference, ML

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

Ziyun Wei

Research Areas: Database Systems

Tegan Wilson

Research Focus: Theory, Algorithms, Combinatorics

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Anne Wu

Runzhe Wu

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Youya Xia

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

Gregory Yauney

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Ruolin Ye

Research Areas: Robotics

Seung Won Yoo

Ayaka Yorihiro

Research Areas: Software Engineering

Tao Yu

Research Focus: Privacy and Security

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Yunchen Yu

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

Yunhao Zhang

Research Focus: Theory and Practice of Distributed Systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

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

Noam Zilberstein

Research Focus: Programming Languages and Formal Methods