Students and Mentoring
I have had the privilege of advising exceptional students who have gone on to impactful careers:
- 10 PhD graduates (2019–present)
- 2 former students now faculty at Arizona State University and University of Oklahoma
- Industry placements: Google Deepmind, Amazon, Bloomberg, Pinterest
- Postdoc positions: Georgia Tech, University of Pennsylvania, University of Colorado Boulder
- 61 PhD committees served, 15 MS committees
Current Students
Graduate Students
- Maitrey Mehta (Ph.D., 2021--)
- Jordan Pyper, Co-advised with Jason Wiese (Ph.D., 2021--)
- Oliver Bentham (Ph.D., 2023--)
- Atreya Ghosal (Ph.D., 2023--)
- Iris Nguyen (Ph.D., 2024--)
Undergraduate Researchers
- Catherine Bao (B.S., 2024--)
- Tanya Yu (B.S., 2024--)
Alumni
The lists below show the student’s first position after graduation. Many of my mentees since have moved on to other positions.
Ph.D. and Masters Alumni
- Annie Cherkaev (M.S., 2019) → Galois, Inc.
- Xingyuan Pan (Ph.D., 2019) → Amazon
- Giorgi Kvernadze (M.S., 2020) → Machine Learning Engineer at Route
- Maitrey Mehta (M.S., 2020) → Data Scientist at American Family Insurance
- Jie Cao (Ph.D., 2022) → Postdoc at University of Colorado, Boulder
- Tao Li (Ph.D., 2022) → Google Research
- Vivek Gupta (Ph.D., 2023) → Postdoc at University of Pennsylvania
- Yichu Zhou (Ph.D., 2023) → Yahoo
- Gurunath Parasaram (M.S., 2024) → Data Scientist at EXL
- Zhenduo Wang (Ph.D., 2024) → Postdoc at Georgia Tech
- Zhichao Xu, Co-advised with Bei Wang Phillips (Ph.D., 2024) → Amazon
- Guineng Zheng, co-advised with Rob Ricci (Ph.D., 2024) → Independent researcher
- Mattia Medina Grespan (Ph.D., 2025) → ARUP Laboratories
- Ashim Gupta (Ph.D., 2025) → Bloomberg
Undergraduate Alumni
- Tobin Yehle (B.S., 2016) → 3M
- Oliver Richardson (B.S., 2017) → Grad school at the University of Cambridge
- Maks Cegielski-Johnson (B.S., 2018) → Microsoft
- Nguyen Tran, Undergraduate researcher under the Engineering Scholars and the UROP programs (2019)
- Tarun Sunkaraneni (B.S., 2020) → Microsoft
- Richard Timpson (B.S., 2021) → Salesforce
- Jordan Tan (B.S., 2024) → BS/MS at Utah
- Atharv Kulkarni (B.S., 2025) → Masters program at UNC Chapel Hill
High schoolers and others
- William Guss, International Science and Engineering Fair project on infinite dimensional neural networks (2015)
- Shalini Kasera, High school research experience on authorship identification (2017)
- Shriya Pingali, International Science and Engineering Fair project on using neural networks for cryptanalysis (2018)
- Mala Singh, Utah Science and Engineering Fair project on text classification for healthcare (2018)
- Liana Pruyn Goldstein, High school research project on using NLP to analyze speeches (2019)