Graduate and Undergraduate Students



Daniel Beaglehole
UC San Diego
PhD student
Feature Learning, Deep Learning Theory, Data-dependent Kernels



Samantha Chen
UC San Diego
PhD student
Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Transport, Neural Networks

Yilan Chen
UC San Diego
PhD student
Deep learning theory, LLMs and foundation models, principled algorithms for real-world applications





Mohammad Fereydounian
University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Graph Neural Networks, Optimal Transport, Information Coding Theory

Khashaiar Gatmiry
MIT
PhD student
Machine Learning Theory, Sampling, Optimization









Thien Le
MIT
PhD student
Geometric Deep Learning Theory, Learning under Invariances/Equivariances, Continuous Optimization


Tenghao Li
UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations








Yuan Luo
UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations



Behrad Moniri
University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
High-dimensional Asymptotics, Random Matrix Theory, Deep Learning and Information Theory










Nicholas Sieger
UC San Diego
PhD student
Spectral Graph Theory


Anusha Srikanthan
University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Robotics, Learning-based Control, Multiagent Systems




Ye Tian
UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations, Networks

Berkay Uslu
University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Networks


Grigoris Velegkas
Yale University
PhD student
Trustworthy Machine Learning, Non-convex and Submodular Optimization, Online Learning


Xinghan Wang
UC San Diego
PhD student
Decentralized and Federated Bayesian Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning




Chien-Yi Yang
UC San Diego
PhD student
System Optimization, Machine Learning, Electronic Design Automation



Yi Tian
MIT
PhD student
Machine/Reinforcement Learning, Control Theory, Robotics, Optimization, Game Theory



Ruisi Zhang
UC San Diego
PhD student
Machine and Federated Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Large Language Models

Yiming Zhang
UC San Diego
PhD student
Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Loss Functions


