Outgoing Ph.D.s & Postdocs
Outgoing Postdocs
Gavin Brown
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Advisor(s): Sewoong Oh
Research area: Machine Learning and Data Privacy
Research emphasis: I focus on memorization in machine learning and differentially private algorithm design.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty
Markus Grotz
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Research area: Robotics
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Jazette Johnson
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Advisor(s): Jennifer Mankoff
Research area: HCI, Accessibility
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Tracy Mallette
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Advisor(s): Chris Thachuk
Research area: DNA Computing
Research emphasis: DNA computing in biological settings, DNA/RNA hybrids, chemically modified nucleic acids
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Tamanna Motahar
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Advisor(s): Maya Cakmak
Research area: Human-Centered Computing, Accessibility, Human-Robot Interaction, Personal Informatics
Research emphasis: My research integrates User-Centered Design approaches to develop tailored technologies for individuals with severe motor disabilities. By evaluating their unique needs and challenges, I aim to create accessible and effective solutions that enhance their quality of life and autonomy and foster inclusivity and empowerment within the design process.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty
Min Jae Song
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Advisor(s): Huijia (Rachel) Lin, Jamie Morgenstern
Research area: Theoretical Computer Science and Machine Learning
Research emphasis: My research focuses on bridging computational complexity and statistical inference.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Theano Stavrinos
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Advisor(s): Tom Anderson, Simon Peter
Research area: Systems
Research emphasis: Data center power management
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Zihan Zhang
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Advisor(s): Simon S. Du
Research area: Machine learning theory
Research emphasis: Reinforcement learning, online learning, bandit theory and game theory
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Xinyi Zhou
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Advisor(s): Amy Zhang, Tim Althoff
Research area: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Research emphasis: Advance AI by leveraging multimodal and online behavioral data to address social challenges, including mis/disinformation and health.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty
Outgoing Ph.D. Students
Sandesh Adhikary
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Advisor(s): Byron Boots
Research area: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Dissertation: Mind the Metric: Methods in Metric Aware Machine Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Akari Asai
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Advisor(s): Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Research area: Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Joseph Breda
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Advisor(s): Shwetak Patel
Research area: Ubiquitous Computing, Public Health
Dissertation: Ubiquitous sensing for public health and injury prevention.
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Yifang Chen
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Advisor(s): Kevin Jamieson, Simon Du
Research area: Interactive Machine Learning, Data Selection
Dissertation: Algorithmic data-efficient learning in the era of large model
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development, Quant Research (Trading)
Kaiming Cheng
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Advisor(s): Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ratul Mahajan
Research area: Systems for Machine Learning
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Qiwen Cui
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Advisor(s): Simon Du
Research area: Machine Learning
Dissertation: Reinforcement Learning Theory
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Emilia Gan
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Advisor(s): Steve Tanimoto, Benjamin Mako Hill
Research area: Social Computing, Computer Science Education
Dissertation: Computer Science Learning in Informal Education Environments
Employment preference: Academia – Teaching Faculty
Nikita Haduong
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Advisor(s): Noah A. Smith
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Xiaochuang Han
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Advisor(s): Yulia Tsvetkov
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Cheng-Yu Hsieh
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Advisor(s): Ranjay Krishna, Alex Ratner
Research area: Efficient Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models
Dissertation: Efficient Data and Model Scaling for Large-Scale AI Development
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Siddharth Iyer
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Advisor(s): Anup Rao
Research area: Theory
Dissertation: Information Theory, Communication Complexity
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Esther Jang
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Advisor(s): Kurtis Heimerl
Research area: Computer Science, Information Science
Dissertation: Infrastructuring at the Margins: Studies in Community Networking
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Kyle Johnson
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Advisor(s): Vikram Iyer
Research area: Microrobotics
Dissertation: Battery-free Autonomous Microrobots
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Jialin Li
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Advisor(s): Tom Anderson, Jon Howell
Research area: Systems Verification
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Hanjun Li
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Advisor(s): Huijia (Rachel) Lin, Stefano Tessaro
Research area: Cryptography
Dissertation: Multi-party Computation, Garbled Cricuits
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Yi Li
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Research area: Robot Learning, VLA, Imitation Learning, Computer Vision
Dissertation: Towards Generalizable Open World Robot Manipulation by Training with Off-Domain Data
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Chien-Yu Lin
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Advisor(s): Luis Ceze
Research area: Machine Learning systems, Efficient Machine Learning and Acceleration
Dissertation: Sampling and quantization for efficient machine learning systems
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Jiacheng Liu
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi, Hanna Hajishirzi
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Kechun Liu
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Advisor(s): Linda Shapiro
Research area: Computer Vision
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Yuxuan Mei
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Advisor(s): Adriana Schulz
Research area: Graphics, Fabrication
Dissertation: Design and Fabrication for Sustainability
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Teaching Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Xiangyun Meng
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Research area: Robotics
Dissertation: Learning for robust, efficient and precise robot autonomy
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Mike Merrill
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Advisor(s): Tim Althoff
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation: Methods for Multimodal Modeling of Time Series Data
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc
Anant Mittal
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility, Health
Dissertation: Designing for Communication and Collaboration in Accessibility and Health
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Michael Murray
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Advisor(s): Maya Cakmak
Research area: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Human-Robot Interaction
Dissertation: Learning from Humans for Robotic Manipulation
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Amal Nanavati
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Advisor(s): Siddhartha Srinivasa, Maya Cakmak
Research area: Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction
Dissertation: Achieving In-Home Deployability of Assistive Robots: A Case Study in Robot-assisted Feeding
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
James Noeckel
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Advisor(s): Brian Curless, Adriana Schulz
Research area: Computer Graphics
Dissertation: Domain-specific Representations for Reconstruction from Incomplete Data
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Kentrell Owens
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Advisor(s): Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
Research area: Security and Privacy
Dissertation: Towards Protecting Consumers on the Margins
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Wei Qiu
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Advisor(s): Su-In Lee
Research area: Computational Biology
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Marissa Radensky
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Advisor(s): Dan Weld
Research area: Human-AI Interaction
Dissertation: Mixed-Initiative Methods for Co-Creation in Scientific Research
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Ananditha Raghunath
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Advisor(s): Richard Anderson
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, ICTD
Dissertation: Bridging Socio-technical Gaps towards AI-enabled Healthcare at the Margins
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Daniel Revier
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Advisor(s): Jeff Lipton
Research area: Computational Fabrication, Physical Simulation & Modeling
Dissertation: Manufacturability-Driven Mechanical Metamaterial Design & Construction
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Yasaman Sefidgar
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty
Research area: Human-Data Interaction, Health Informatics
Dissertation: Goal-Centered Personal Informatics Tools
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Oscar Sprumont
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Advisor(s): Anup Rao
Research area: Theory
Dissertation: Symmetry and Distance: Two Crucial Properties of a Good Code
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc
Bandhav Veluri
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Advisor(s): Shyam Gollakota
Research area: Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Sahil Verma
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Advisor(s): Jeff Bilmes, Chirag Shah
Research area: Machine Learning
Dissertation: Interpretability and Robustness in ML
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Anandghan Waghmare
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Advisor(s): Shwetak Patel
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Sensing, Wearables
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Matthew Wallingford
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi
Research area: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Dissertation: Learning Models of the World from Visual Data
Employment preference: Industry – Research
Miranda Wei
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Advisor(s): Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
Research area: Security and Privacy, Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation: Theorizing Everyday Security and Privacy: Towards Sociotechnical Frames, Better Advice, and Less Abuse
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Galen Weld
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Advisor(s): Tim Althoff, Amy Zhang
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation: Quantifying Governance of Online Communities at Web Scale
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research
Mark Wyse
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Advisor(s): Mark Oskin
Research area: Computer Architecture
Dissertation: The BlackParrot-BedRock Cache Coherence System
Employment preference: Employed
Shirley Xue
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Advisor(s): Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer
Research area: Ubiquitous Computing, Health Sensing, Wearable Computing
Dissertation: Smart Jewelry for Continuous Health Monitoring
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Junran Yang
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Advisor(s): Leilani Battle
Research area: Visualization, Data management, Human-Computer Interaction
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Melih Yilmaz
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Advisor(s): William Noble, Sewoong Oh
Research area: Computational Biology, Machine Learning
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Han Zhang
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Advisor(s): Jennifer Mankoff, Anind Dey
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation: Combining Behavioral Sensing Data and Multi-stakeholder Perspectives for Student Support
Employment preference: Academia – Tenure Track Faculty, Academia – Postdoc, Industry – Research
Mingyuan Zhong
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty, Jacob Wobbrock
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility
Dissertation: Using AI to Identifying Barriers, Understanding Diverse Abilities, and Enhance Accessibility
Employment preference: Industry – Research, Industry – Development
Chenzhi Zhu
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Advisor(s): Stefano Tessaro, Rachel Lin
Research area: Cryptography
Dissertation: Blind signatures, threshold signatures
Employment preference: Academia – Postdoc