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
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
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
Sally Dong
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Advisor(s): Yin Tat Lee
Research Area: theory
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Ethan Gordon
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Advisor(s): Siddhartha Srinivasa
Research Area: Assistive Robotics
Dissertation Topic: Balancing Flexibility and Precision in Food Manipulation for Robot-Assisted Feeding of People with Limited Mobility
Employment Preference: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jasper Tran O'Leary
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Advisor(s): Nadya Peek
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Fabrication, Programming Languages
Dissertation Topic: Physical-Digital Programming
Employment Preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Teaching Faculty, 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
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