Outgoing Postdoctoral Scholars
Quan Ze (Jim) Chen
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Advisor(s): Amy Zhang
Research Area: Human Computer Interaction / Social Computing
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Qingqing Cao
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Advisor(s): Hanna Hajishirzi
Research Area: Efficient NLP, On-Device AI
Dissertation Topic: building efficient and practical NLP systems for diverse platforms
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Tianxing He
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Advisor(s): Yulia Tsvetkov
Research Area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation Topic: Trustworthy Large Language Model Generation
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty
Michael Regan
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi
Research Area: Cognitive semantics, NLP
Dissertation Topic: Structured generation, Language resources
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research, Academic - liberal arts schools
Tianxiao Shen
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi, Zaid Harchaoui
Research Area: Natural language processing, machine learning
Dissertation Topic: Text generation
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Outgoing Ph.D. Students
William Agnew
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Advisor(s): Sidd Srinivasa
Research Area: AI Ethics
Dissertation Topic: AI Ethics for Robotics
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Amanda Baughan
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Advisor(s): Alexis Hiniker
Research Area: Human Computer Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Designing Digital Interfaces for Emotional Attunement
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Terra Blevins
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Advisor(s): Luke Zettlemoyer
Research Area: NLP
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Romain Camilleri
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Advisor(s): Kevin Jamieson
Research Area: Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Fairness, safety and robustness perspectives in sequential decision making
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Lequn Chen
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Advisor(s): Arvind Krishnamurthy
Research Area: Systems
Dissertation Topic: (TBD) Cluster-wide scheduling for DNN and LLM model serving
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Zoey Chen
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox and Abhishek Gupta
Research Area: Vision and Robotics
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Tim Dettmers
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Advisor(s): Luke Zettlemoyer
Research Area: Machine learning
Dissertation Topic: Efficient Large Language Models through Quantization
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty
Sally Dong
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Advisor(s): Yin Tat Lee
Research Area: theory
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Adam Fishman
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox & Byron Boots
Research Area: Robotics, Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: The Expert is the Obstacle: Building a generalizable framework for learned robotic motion
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Emilia Gan
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Advisor(s): Benjamin Mako Hill and Steve Tanimoto
Research Area: Computer Science Education
Dissertation Topic: Patterns of Participation: An Exploration of Gender, Ethnicity, Participation, and Coding Persistence in Informal Learning Environments
Employment Preference: Academia - Teaching Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Josh Gardner
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Advisor(s): Ludwig Schmidt, Zoran Popover
Research Area: Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Robust and Generalizable Models for Tabular Data
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Fatemeh Ghezloo
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Advisor(s): Linda Shapiro
Research Area: Computer vision, Medical image analysis
Dissertation Topic: Optimizing Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Ethan Gordon
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Advisor(s): Siddhartha Srinivasa
Research Area: Assistive Robotics
Dissertation Topic: Tractably Adaptable Food Manipulation for Robot-Assisted Feeding
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Dong He
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Advisor(s): Magdalena Balazinska
Research Area: Data Management Systems & Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Improving Data Management Systems through Machine Learning and Vice Versa
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Gabriel Ilharco
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi and Hanna Hajishirzi
Research Area: Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Benjamin Jones
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Advisor(s): Adriana Schulz
Research Area: Fabrication, AI, Graphics, CAD
Dissertation Topic: AI in Computer Aided Design
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Liyiming Ke
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Advisor(s): Sidd Srinivasa
Research Area: Robotic Learning
Dissertation Topic: Fine Manipulation using Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Mara Kirdani-Ryan
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Advisor(s): Amy Ko
Research Area: Computing Education
Dissertation Topic: Deconstructing Cultural Norms in Computer Science
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Teaching Faculty
Aditya Kusupati
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi, Sham Kakade
Research Area: Large-scale Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Indexing the World
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Anqi Li
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Advisor(s): Byron Boots
Research Area: Robotics, Reinforcement Learning
Dissertation Topic: Safe and Efficient Robot Learning
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Yi Li
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Research Area: Computer Vision, Robotics
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Xiyang Liu
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Advisor(s): Sewoong Oh
Research Area: Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Differential privacy and robust statistics
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Ji Luo
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Advisor(s): Huijia Lin & Stefano Tessaro
Research Area: Cryptography
Dissertation Topic: Functional encryption, attribute-based encryption
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Kelly Avery Mack
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Advisor(s): Jennifer Mankoff
Research Area: HCI focusing on Accessible Technology
Dissertation Topic: Technology for Supporting Dynamic Disability Access Needs
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Xiangyun Meng
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Research Area: Robotics
Dissertation Topic: Deep Learning for Robust and Efficient Navigation in the Real World
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Mike Merrill
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Advisor(s): Tim Althoff
Research Area: ML
Dissertation Topic: ML for time series
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Samantha Miller
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Advisor(s): Tom Anderson
Research Area: Systems
Dissertation Topic: High Velocity Operating Systems Development
Employment Preference: Industry - Development
Sewon Min
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Advisor(s): Hanna Hajishirzi; Luke Zettlemoyer
Research Area: Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Motoya Ohnishi
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Advisor(s): Sham Kakade/ Emanuel Todorov
Research Area: Machine Learning / Robotics
Dissertation Topic: Dynamical systems/ Statistical machine learning/ Reinforcement learning/ Controls
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Pratyush Patel
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Advisor(s): Tom Anderson
Research Area: Computer systems and architecture
Dissertation Topic: Towards power-efficient and sustainable cloud GPUs
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Venkatesh Potluri
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Advisor(s): Jennifer Mankoff
Research Area: Human Computer Interaction -- accessibility, developer tools, and software engineering
Dissertation Topic: Accessible Developer Tools for Blind or Visually Impaired Developers
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Vinitha Ranganeni
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Advisor(s): Maya Cakmak
Research Area: Robotics
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Yasaman Sefidgar
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Personal and Health Informatics
Dissertation Topic: Goal-Centered Personal Informatics Tools
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Sofia Serrano
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Advisor(s): Noah Smith
Research Area: NLP
Dissertation Topic: Experiment Design for Hypotheses About How NLP Models Work
Employment Preference: Academia - Teaching Faculty, Academia - Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Ather Sharif
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Advisor(s): Jacob Wobbrock
Research Area: HCI; Accessibility, Visualization, and Personalization
Dissertation Topic: VoxLens: Improving the Accessibility of Online Data Visualizations for Screen-Reader Users
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Ruoqi Shen
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Advisor(s): Yin Tat Lee
Research Area: Machine Learning, Optimization
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Sudheesh Singanamalla
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Advisor(s): Kurtis Heimerl, and Richard Anderson
Research Area: Systems, Networking, Security and Privacy, Applied Cryptography, ICTD
Dissertation Topic: Distributing Trust in Critical Societal Scale Computing Infrastructure
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Gus Smith
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Advisor(s): Zachary Tatlock, Luis Ceze
Research Area: PL/Arch
Dissertation Topic: Automatically Generating Compiler Backends from Formal Models of Hardware
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Raghav Somani
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Advisor(s): Sewoong Oh
Research Area: Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Scaling laws for optimization algorithms
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Zoe Steine-Hanson
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Advisor(s): Rajesh Rao, Bing Brunton
Research Area: Neural Engineering
Dissertation Topic: Generalized Machine Learning Models for Cross-Participant Decoding of Naturalistic Human Brain Data
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Pascal Sturmfels
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Advisor(s): David Baker
Research Area: Computational Biology
Dissertation Topic: Deep learning methods for the prediction and design of protein small molecule complexes
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Jasper Tran O'Leary
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Advisor(s): Nadya Peek
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Programming Languages, Digital Fabrication
Dissertation Topic: Programming tools for manufacturing and lab automation
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Bandhav Veluri
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Advisor(s): Shyam Gollakota; Michael Taylor
Research Area: Applied ML, HCI and Mobile Computing
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Andrew Wagenmaker
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Advisor(s): Kevin Jamieson
Research Area: Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Towards the True Complexity of Learning Near-Optimal Policies in Markov Decision Processes
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc
Nick Walker
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Advisor(s): Maya Cakmak
Research Area: Human Robot Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Making Robot Behaviors Automatically Transparent
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Matthew Wallingford
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi
Research Area: Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Aaron Walsman
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox, Ali Farhadi
Research Area: Robotics and ML
Dissertation Topic: Online Information Gathering in Complex Interactive Problems
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Yizhong Wang
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Advisor(s): Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Noah A. Smith
Research Area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Yifan Wang
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Advisor(s): Steve Seitz, Brian Curless
Research Area: Computer Vison, Computer Graphics
Dissertation Topic: Neural Rendering
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Peter West
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi
Research Area: NLP
Dissertation Topic: Generating Data with Large Language Models
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty
Addie Woicik
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Advisor(s): Sheng Wang
Research Area: Computational Biology
Dissertation Topic: Leveraging heterogeneous datasets to strengthen representation learning in biological datasets
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Mitchell Wortsman
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi and Ludwig Schmidt
Research Area: Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Robust pre-training and fine-tuning
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Xieyang Xu
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Advisor(s): Ratul Mahajan, Arvind Krishnamurthy
Research Area: Computer Networks and Systems
Dissertation Topic: Toward Easy and Effective Use of Network Testing
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Boling Yang
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Advisor(s): Joshua Smith, Byron Boots
Research Area: Robotics, AI
Dissertation Topic: Embodied AI for Games: Enhancing Robotic Capabilities Through Physical Gameplay
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Wentao Yuan
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Research Area: Robotics
Dissertation Topic: Learning to Manipulate Anything
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Luyang Zhu
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Advisor(s): Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steve Seitz, Brian Curless
Research Area: Computer vision and computer graphics
Dissertation Topic: title TBD, topic is about image-based virtual try-on
Employment Preference: Industry - Research