Outgoing Ph.D.s & Postdocs
Outgoing Postdocs
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
Outgoing Ph.D. Students
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
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
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
Siting Li
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Advisor(s): Simon S. Du
Research area: Multimodal models
Employment preference: Industry – Research
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
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
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
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
Patrick Yin
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Advisor(s): Abhishek Gupta
Research area: Robotics, Reinforcement Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development