Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Amirhesam Abedsoltan

UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations

Abdullah Altawaitan

UC San Diego
PhD student
Robotics

Daniel Beaglehole

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

Tristan Brugère

UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations, Chip Design

Hyunsu Chae

UT Austin
PhD student
Chip Design

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

Xuxin Cheng

UC San Diego
PhD student
Robotics
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Chiaki Hirayama

UC San Diego
PhD student
Optimization for Robotics Control

Zhirui Dai

UC San Diego
PhD student
Robotics

Juan Elenter

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Constrained Optimization

Mohammad Fereydounian

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Graph Neural Networks, Optimal Transport, Information Coding Theory
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Khashaiar Gatmiry

MIT
PhD student
Machine Learning Theory, Sampling, Optimization

Sharut Gupta

MIT
PhD student
Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Samar Hadou

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Distributed Optimization on Large Scales
Nicklas Hansen

Nicklas Hansen

UC San Diego
PhD student
Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision

Harshvardhan

UC San Diego
PhD student
Machine Learning, Learning Theory, Optimization

Jesse He

UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations

Amirhosein Javadi

UC San Diego
PhD student
Machine Learning, Generative AI, Active Learning
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Shervin Khalafi

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Networks

Sayak Kundu

UC San Diego
PhD student
Chip Design

Thien Le

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

Jane Lee

Yale University
PhD student
Machine Learning Theory, Optimization
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Tenghao Li

UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations

Xinhao Li

UC San Diego
PhD student
Deep Learning, Language Models
Xuanlin Li

Xuanlin Li

UC San Diego
PhD student
Computer Vision, Robotics

Yingyu Lin

UC San Diego
PhD student
Differential Privacy, Diffusion Models, Causality

Zhan Ling

UC San Diego
PhD student
Imitation and Reinforcement Learning, Robotics

Lanxin (Isabella) Liu

UC San Diego
PhD student
Computer Vision
Xu Liu

Xu Liu

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Perception and Planning, Robotics
Kehan Long

Kehan Long

UC San Diego
PhD student
Optimization and Control, Safe Autonomy
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Yuan Luo

UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations
Zhishang Luo

Zhishang Luo

UC San Diego
PhD student
Chip Design, Topological Data Analysis

Katherine Mao

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Robotics

Behrad Moniri

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

Yujin Nam

UC San Diego
PhD student
Privacy-preserving Computation, Homomorphic Encryption

Riley Nerem

UC San Diego
PhD student
Geometric Algorithms, Data Science
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Hesam Nikpey

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student

Bodhisatta Pramanik

UC San Diego
PhD student
Chip Design

Nikola Raicevic

UC San Diego
PhD student
Intelligent Systems, Robotics, Control
Rachel Selina Rajarathnam

Rachel Selina Rajarathnam

UT Austin
PhD student
Physical Design Automation, Hardware Security
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Alexia Reyes

UC San Diego
PhD student
Chip Design, Networks
Hersh Sanghvi

Hersh Sanghvi

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Robotics, Planning

Yifei Simon Shao

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Robotics
Nicholas Sieger

Nicholas Sieger

UC San Diego
PhD student
Spectral Graph Theory
Geelon So

Geelon So

UC San Diego
PhD student
Learning Theory
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Anusha Srikanthan

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

Behrooz Tahmasebi

MIT
PhD student
Deep Learning Theory
Yuezhan Tao

Yuezhan Tao

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Perception and Planning, Robotics

Matthew Taylor

UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations
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Ye Tian

UC San Diego
PhD student
Foundations, Networks
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Berkay Uslu

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Networks

Sumanth Varambally

UC San Diego
PhD student
Graph Neural Networks

Grigoris Velegkas

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

Zhiang Wang

UC San Diego
PhD student
Chip Design

Xinghan Wang

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

Yuwei Wu

University of Pennsylvania
PhD student
Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Optimization

Zhili Xiong

UT Austin
PhD student
Chip Design, FPGA Placement
Jiarui Xu

Jiarui Xu

UC San Diego
PhD student
Self-supervised Learning, Computer Vision

Chien-Yi Yang

UC San Diego
PhD student
System Optimization, Machine Learning, Electronic Design Automation

Morris Yau

MIT
PhD student
Algorithmic foundations of language and intelligence

Jianglong Ye

UC San Diego
PhD student
Robotics

Yi Tian

MIT
PhD student
Machine/Reinforcement Learning, Control Theory, Robotics, Optimization, Game Theory
Hongzhan Yu

Hongzhan Yu

UC San Diego
PhD student
Optimization, Robotics

Ruipeng Zhang

UC San Diego
PhD student
Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics
Ruisi Zhang

Ruisi Zhang

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

UC San Diego
PhD student
Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Loss Functions
Quanling Zhao

Quanling Zhao

UC San Diego
PhD student
Hyperdimensional Computing, Federated Learning
Heng Zhu

Heng Zhu

UC San Diego
PhD student
Distributed and Statistical Learning, Optimization

Soheil Zibakhsh-Shabgahi

UC San Diego
PhD student
Reinforcement Learning