Outgoing Ph.D.s & Postdocs
Outgoing Postdocs
Felix Hähnlein
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Advisor(s): Gilbert Bernstein, Adriana Schulz
Research area: Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction
Research emphasis: Computational and Sustainable Product Design
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Jazette Johnson
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Advisor(s): Jennifer Mankoff
Research area: Human Computer Interaction; Accessibility; AI + Health
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Rohan Kadekodi
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Advisor(s): Baris Kasikci
Research area: Operating Systems, Storage, ML Systems
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Hyeok Kim
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Advisor(s): Jeffrey Heer
Research area: HCI, Visualization
Research emphasis: Data visualization for multiple user contexts, automation for visualization science, and human-centered interfaces for quantum computing
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty
Richard Li
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty, Shwetak Patel
Research area: Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
Research emphasis: Designing and deploying health interventions leveraging sensing and machine learning
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Tracy Mallette
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Advisor(s): Chris Thachuk
Research area: DNA computing, oligonucleotide therapeutics, DNA/RNA hybrids, heterochiral DNA
Research emphasis: My research background is in molecular computing with an emphasis on DNA computing systems for biomedical applications. As a postdoctoral scholar at University of Washington, I researched the strand displacement kinetics and thermodynamic binding parameters of DNA/RNA hybrids, including hybrids with chemically modified nucleic acids.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Jonggyu Park
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Advisor(s): Tom Anderson and Simon Peter
Research area: Power-adaptive datacenters
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Jaemarie Solyst
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Advisor(s): R. Benjamin Shapiro
Research area: Responsible AI, Computing Education, HCI
Research emphasis: How people can be empowered in the age of AI through AI literacy and pathways toward inclusion in the design and evaluation of responsible AI.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Outgoing Ph.D. Students
Vicente Arroyos
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Advisor(s): Vikram Iyer
Research area: Mobile Edge Computing Systems and Sensing for Agricultural and Community Needs Leveraging AI-Powered Tools
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research, Industry – Development, Industry Residencies
Bowei Chen
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Advisor(s): Steve Seitz, Brian Curless, and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
Research area: Computer Vision, Visual Tokenization, Generative AI
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Shaan Chopra
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty, Sean Munson
Research area: Human-Centered Computing, Health, Personal Informatics
Dissertation: Personalized and Community-Informed AI Technologies for Health: Designing
for Self-Tracking and Sense-Making across Diverse Health Goals and Contexts
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research, Pharma or health research centers
Aashaka Desai
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Advisor(s): Jennifer Mankoff, Richard Ladner
Research area: Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation: Language Technology at the Margins: Designing for For Fluidity in d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Communication Accessibility
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Jiafei Duan
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox and Ranjay Krishna
Research area: Robotics
Dissertation: Towards Robotics Foundation Model that can Reason
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Jayne Everson
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Advisor(s): Amy J. Ko
Research area: Computer Science Education
Dissertation: CS is for Everybody: Joyful Secondary CS pedagogies
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Emilia Gan
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Advisor(s): Steve Tanimoto
Research area: Computer Science Education
Dissertation: Working Title: An Examination of Three Programs that Encourage Students’ Persistence in Computer Science from Elementary School to College
Mars Gao
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Advisor(s): J. Nathan Kutz
Research area: AI for Science, AI for physics, Scientific machine learning, Bayesian machine learning.
Dissertation: Interpretable Scientific Machine Learning with governing law discovery
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Carolina Higuera
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Advisor(s): Byron Boots
Research area: Robot manipulation, representation learning, tactile sensing
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Deukyeon Hwang
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Advisor(s): Simon Peter
Research area: System Performance
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Wisdom Ikezogwo
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Advisor(s): Linda Shapiro, Ranjay Krishna
Research area: Computer Vision, Generative AI, Medical AI
Dissertation: Bridging Medical Perception and World Modeling: Learning to Diagnose, Simulate, and Fix
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Liwei Jiang
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi
Research area: AI, ML, NLP
Dissertation: Humanistic, Pluralistic, and Holistic AI Alignment
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Kyle Johnson
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Advisor(s): Vikram Iyer
Research area: Battery-free mircorobotics
Dissertation: Autonomous Battery-free Microrobots
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Start up
Tae Jones
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty, Sean Munson
Research area: Health HCI
Dissertation: Designing for Engagement: Barriers and Challenges to Participating in Health HCI Research
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Aditya Kamath
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Advisor(s): Simon Peter
Research area: Systems for Machine Learning, Computer Systems, Computer Architecture
Dissertation: Mitigating the Impact of Data Movement in Machine Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Johanna Karras
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Advisor(s): Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steve Seitz
Research area: Computer Vision, Graphics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Dissertation: Generative AI for Life-Like Digital Garment Visualization
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Tiernan Kennedy
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Advisor(s): Chris Thachuk
Research area: Molecular Programming
Dissertation: Systematic optimization strategies for molecular circuits
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Teaching Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Chanwoo Kim
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Advisor(s): Su-In Lee
Research area: AI for biomedicine, AI safety
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Maruchi Kim
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Advisor(s): Shyamnath Gollakota
Research area: Wearables, embedded machine learning, wireless audio systems, human computer interaction
Employment preference: Academia – Teaching Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Jeffrey Li
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Advisor(s): Ludwig Schmidt, Alexander Ratner
Research area: AI/ML
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Alisa Liu
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi, Noah Smith
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Mingyu Lu
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Advisor(s): Su-In Lee
Research area: Machine learning interpretability & explainability; Machine learning for biomedicine
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Jesse Martinez
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty
Research area: HCI & Accessibility
Dissertation: Supporting Technology Adoption for People with Disabilities
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Teaching Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Rachel McAmis
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Advisor(s): Tadayoshi Kohno
Research area: Cybersecurity
Dissertation: Security and Privacy for Satellites
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Rahul Nadkarni
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Advisor(s): Noah Smith
Research area: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Innocent Ndubuisi-Obi Jr
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Advisor(s): Kurtis Heimerl
Research area: ICTD, Network & Systems, Security
Dissertation: The Internet is a Walking Topos and Other Tales: Some Popular Semantics for Modern Computer Networking
Employment preference: Peace
Thao Nguyen
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Advisor(s): Sewoong Oh
Research area: Data-centric Machine Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Lisa Orii
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Advisor(s): Richard Anderson
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Health
Dissertation: Human-Centered Mobile Health in Resource-Constrained Settings
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Teaching Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Rock Yuren Pang
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Advisor(s): Katharina Reinecke
Research area: Human Computer Interaction, Responsible AI, Human-AI Interaction
Dissertation: Toward Designing for Anticipating Unintended Consequences of Computing Technologies in the Age of LLMs
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Prashant Rangarajan
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Advisor(s): Rajesh Rao
Research area: Computational Neuroscience
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Melanie Sclar
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi, Yulia Tsvetkov
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation: Structure-Guided Approaches for Robust Language Model Reasoning
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Weijia Shi
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Advisor(s): Luke Zettlemoyer, Noah Smith
Research area: Natural language processing, Machine learning
Dissertation: Breaking the language model monolith
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Taylor Sorensen
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation: Enabling AI for Pluralism, Distributional Intelligence, and Epistemic Uncertainty
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Xia Su
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Advisor(s): Jon Froehlich
Research area: Human Computer Interaction
Dissertation: Collaborative Intelligence for Indoor Space Understanding
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Gian Marco Visani
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Advisor(s): Armita Nourmohammad
Research area: Computational Protein Design, Biophysics
Dissertation: Developing a machine learning model of mutational effects in proteins with applications to antigen stabilization and TCR-pMHC specificity prediction
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Ruotong Wang
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Advisor(s): Amy X. Zhang
Research area: Human-AI Interaction, Social Computing
Dissertation: Towards Socially Coherent AI Systems: Computational and Empirical Approaches to Design AI Systems that Integrate into Human Collaboration
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Junran Yang
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Advisor(s): Leilani Battle
Research area: Visualization, Data management
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Christina Yeung
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Advisor(s): Franziska Roesner
Research area: Security & Privacy
Dissertation: Sloppy MOs: An Evaluation of Online Ads and AI Generated Content Through Mixed Methods
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Government, public policy
Enhao Zhang
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Advisor(s): Magdalena Balazinska, Ranjay Krishna
Research area: Databases, Video Analytics
Dissertation: Compositional Queries over Video Databases
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Jieyu Zhang
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Advisor(s): Ranjay Krishna
Research area: AI / CV
Dissertation: Multimodal language models
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Xiangfeng Zhu
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Advisor(s): Arvind Krishnamurthy and Ratul Mahajan
Research area: Systems and Networking
Dissertation: Application Defined Networks
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development