Outgoing Ph.D.s & Postdocs
Outgoing Postdocs
Zhiming Huang
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Advisor(s): Jamie Morgenstern
Research area: Online Learning, Optimization, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Computer Networks
Research emphasis: My research focuses on online learning and sequential decision-making, particularly calibration and multicalibration, bandit algorithms, and learning in games. I develop adaptive algorithms with provable performance guarantees, with applications to reliable prediction, resource allocation, and network optimization.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Vinay Koshy
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Advisor(s): Amy X. Zhang
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Human-Centered AI
Research emphasis: Building and evaluating human-AI systems for subjective, ambiguous, and under-defined tasks. Additional computational social science work studying online community dynamics.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty
Nazif Can Tamer
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Advisor(s): Noah A. Smith
Research area: Music Information Retrieval, Multimodal AI, Natural Language Processing
Research emphasis: Audio, video, and specifically music understanding with temporal grounding.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Jesse Zhang
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox, Abhishek Gupta
Research area: Robotics, Reinforcement Learning
Research emphasis: Building pre-training, supervision, and post-training algorithms that make it feasible to make robots efficiently adapt in real world.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Mo Zhou
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Advisor(s): Simon Du, Maryam Fazel
Research area: AI, ML, Optimization
Research emphasis: Mathematical foundations of modern machine learning, with a focus on optimization and learning dynamics in large overparameterized models.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Outgoing Ph.D. Students
Emmanuel Azuh Mensah
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Advisor(s): Kurtis Heimerl
Research area: Computer Vision, Efficient On-Device ML, Representation Learning
Dissertation topic: Adaptive, Efficient, and Context-Aware Vision for Edge Deployment
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Mahtab Bigverdi
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Advisor(s): Ranjay Krishna & Linda Shapiro
Research area: Multimodal reasoning and understanding
Dissertation topic: Beyond Text Reasoning: Visual Reasoning to Unlock Physical Intelligence
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Daniel Campos Zamora
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Advisor(s): Jon Froehlich
Research area: Human Computer Interaction
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Shaan Chopra
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty, Sean Munson
Research area: Human Computer Interaction, Human-Centered AI, Health & Wellbeing
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Yael Eiger
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Advisor(s): Franziska Roesner
Research area: Security/Privacy
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc
Shangbin Feng
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Advisor(s): Yulia Tsvetkov
Research area: Machine Learning, Large Language Models
Dissertation topic: Model Collaboration, For A Bottom-Up and Participatory AI Future
Employment preference:Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin
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Advisor(s): Jeffrey Heer and Daniel Weld
Research area: Human-AI Interaction
Dissertation topic: Surfacing Alternatives to Support Human Oversight of Agentic AI Systems
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Gregor Haas
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Advisor(s): David Kohlbrenner
Research area: Hardware Security
Dissertation topic: Hacking Transistors: Data Remanence Attacks via BTI-based Side Channel Analysis
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Tyler Han
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Advisor(s): Byron Boots
Research area: Robot Learning, Inverse Reinforcement Learning (RL), Model Predictive Control
Dissertation topic: If You Love Your Robot: Minimizing Supervision Toward Real-World Robot Learning
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Rachel Hong
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Advisor(s): Tadayoshi Kohno and Jamie Morgenstern
Research area: Responsible AI
Dissertation topic: AI entanglement: Unveiling legal and societal implications of model dependencies in AI development supply chains
Employment preference: Government / Civil Society
Yao Ching Hsieh
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Advisor(s): Huijia (Rachel) Lin
Research area: Cryptography
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Hamish Ivison
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Advisor(s): Hanna Hajishirzi
Research area: NLP
Dissertation topic: Scaling Reinforcement Learning for Language Models Across Time and Space
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Sanghun Jung
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Advisor(s): Byron Boots
Research area: Robotics, Computer Vision, Autonomous Vehicles
Dissertation topic: Generalizable and Fast Adaptable Robotic Perception Algorithms in Unstructured, Complex Environments
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Chanwoo Kim
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Advisor(s): Su-In Lee
Research area: Biomedical AI, Transparent ML
Dissertation topic: Transparent and Steerable Biomedical AI: From Model Auditing to Scientific Discovery
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Joongwon Kim
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Advisor(s): Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation topic: Structured Search as the Substrate of Reasoning in Language Models
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Daphne Kontogiorgos-Heintz
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Advisor(s): Jeff Nivala
Research area: Machine Learning, Protein Sequencing
Dissertation topic: Toward single molecule protein sequencing with nanopores
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Aaleyah Lewis
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty & Jennifer Mankoff
Research area: Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction, Responsible AI
Dissertation topic: Context-Sensitive Access: Intersectional Approaches to Understanding, Designing, and Computationally Evaluating AI-Mediated Accessibility
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Chu Li
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Advisor(s): Jon E. Froehlich
Research area: Human-computer Interaction
Dissertation topic: Towards Personalized Urban Navigation for People with Diverse Abilities
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty
Margaret Li
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Advisor(s): Luke Zettlemoyer
Research area: NLP
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Siting Li
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Advisor(s): Simon S. Du
Research area: Multimodal models
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Benlin Liu
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Advisor(s): Ranjay Krishna
Research area: Computer Vision, Multimodal
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Jingwei Ma
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Advisor(s): Steve Seitz, Brian Curless, and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
Research area: Computer Vision, Generative AI, Video Generation
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Marius Memmel
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Advisor(s): Abhishek Gupta, Dieter Fox
Research area: Robot Learning, Meta learning, Reinforcement learning
Dissertation topic: Learning how to adapt: from sparse to rich feedback
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Anshul Nasery
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Advisor(s): Sewoong Oh
Research area: Machine Learning, Security
Dissertation topic: Turning attacks into defense for machine learning systems
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Roy Or-El
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Advisor(s): Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
Research area: Computer Vision, Generative AI
Dissertation topic: Generative AI
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Chandler Petersen
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Advisor(s): Georg Seelig
Research area: DNA Computing & Molecular Programming
Dissertation topic: Large-Scale Integration of DNA Logic Gates
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Prashant Rangarajan
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Advisor(s): Rajesh Rao
Research area: Computational Neuroscience, Reinforcement Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Reza Salehi
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi
Research area: Deep learning, LLMs, multimodal models
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Rosario Scalise
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Advisor(s): Byron Boots
Research area: Machine Learning & Robotics
Dissertation topic: Learning to Fail without Failing to Learn
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty
Mengyi Shan
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Advisor(s): Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Brian Curless
Research area: Computer Vision
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Luke Snyder
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Advisor(s): Jeffrey Heer
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Data Visualization
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Anna Spiro
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Advisor(s): Sara Mostafavi
Research area: Computational Biology
Dissertation topic: Toward decoding personal genomes with sequence-to-function models
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Teaching Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Leijie Wang
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Advisor(s): Amy X. Zhang
Research area: HCI
Dissertation topic: End Users in the Loop: Support Iterative Personalization for Everyday Algorithmic Systems
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Xinqi Wang
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Advisor(s): Simon S. Du
Research area: Reinforcement learning, NLP
Dissertation topic: Pbtbench: testing LLM’s ability in understanding and writing semantic-based tests
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Michael Whitmeyer
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Advisor(s): Paul Beame
Research area: Theory, Complexity
Dissertation topic: Collision-finding and Time-Space Tradeoffs
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Teaching Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Guang Yang
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Advisor(s): Noah A. Smith
Research area: Multimodal Models (Pretraining & Post-Training), AI Agents, Evaluation
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Patrick Yin
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Advisor(s): Abhishek Gupta
Research area: Robotics, Reinforcement Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Yunchu Zhang
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Advisor(s): Abhishek Gupta, Siddhartha Srinivasa
Research area: Robotics
Dissertation topic: Teaching Robots to Master Complex Tasks in the Unstructured Real World
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Mingyuan Zhong
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty, Jacob Wobbrock
Research area: Human-AI Interaction, Accessibility
Dissertation topic: AI-Driven Understanding and Enhancement of Interface Accessibility
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Chuning Zhu
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Advisor(s): Abhishek Gupta
Research area: Robot Learning
Dissertation topic: Efficient Robot Learning via World Models
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research