Supervised Students

Current Ph.D. Students

Arash Akbari

2024 – 2029 (expected)

Arman Akbari

2024 – 2029 (expected, co-advised with Prof. Silvia Zhang)

Yixiao Chen

2026 – 2030 (expected)

Rahul Chowdhury

2021 – 2026 (expected)

Juyi Lin

2024 – 2029 (expected)

Lei Lu

2022 – 2026 (expected)

Enfu Nan

2024 – 2029 (expected)

Omid Poordashtban

2024 – 2029 (expected, co-advised with Prof. Hossein Mosallaei)

Amir Taherin

2022 – 2026 (expected, co-advised with Prof. David Kaeli)

Yushu Wu

2020 – 2026 (expected)

Changdi Yang

2021 – 2026 (expected)

Xiaomeng Yang

2024 – 2029 (expected, co-advised with Prof. Silvia Zhang)

Lin Zhao

2024 – 2029 (expected)

Research Assistant Professor

Dr. Pu Zhao

Formally start from Fall 2021

Research Scientist

Haochen Zeng

From 2025; M.S. from University of Washington

Research Manager

Yifan Cao

From 2026; M.S. from University of Texas Dallas

Ph.D. and Postdoc Alumni

Caiwen Ding (Graduation Year: 2019) Current Employment: Associate Professor in Dept. of CSE, University of Minnesota
Ao Ren (Graduation Year: 2020) Current Employment: Full Professor in School of CS, Chongqing University. Previous Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of ECE, Clemson University
Xiaolong Ma (Graduation Year: 2022) Assistant Professor in Dept. of ECE, University of Arizona.
Ruizhe Cai (Graduation Year: 2020) Current Employment: Facebook Inc.
Ning Liu (Graduation Year: 2021) Current Employment: Beijing Humanoid Research Center (founding researcher)
Sheng Lin (Graduation Year: 2021) Current Employment: Research Scientist, Tencent U.S.
Hongjia Li (Graduation Year: 2021) Current Employment: Research Scientist, Amazon
Geng Yuan (Graduation Year: 2023) Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of CSE, University of Georgia
Qing Jin (Graduation Year: 2023) Current Employment: Research Scientist, Snap Inc.
Zhenglun Kong (Graduation Year: 2024) Current Employment: Postdoc Researcher, Harvard University
Zhengang Li (Graduation Year: 2024) Current Employment: Research Scientist, Adobe Research
Peiyan Dong (Graduation Year: 2024) Current Employment: Postdoc Researcher, MIT
Malith Jayaweera (Graduation Year: 2024) Current Employment: Amazon Research
Yifan Gong (Graduation Year: 2024) Current Employment: Adobe Research (incoming Assistant Professor of University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Xuan Shen (Graduation Year: 2025) Current Employment: Associate Professor, Zhejiang University in China
Zheng Zhang (Graduation Year: 2024) Current Employment: Microsoft Research
Sung-en Chang (Graduation Year: 2024) Current Employment: Research Scientist, Bose Inc.
Yanyue Xie (Graduation Year: 2025) Current Employment: Research Scientist, Bytedance Seeds
Jun Liu (Graduation Year: 2025) Current Employment: Research Scientist, CMU
Timothy Rupprecht (Graduation Year: 2025) Current Employment (part time): Research Scientist, EmbodyX Inc.
Chao Wu (Postdoc researcher 2022 – 2023) Current Employment: Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology in China
Masoud Zabihi (Postdoc researcher 2022 – 2023) Current Employment: IBM Research
Cheng Lyu (Postdoc researcher 2023 – 2025)
Fangzheng Sun (Primary Advisor: Prof. Hao Sun and Prof. Ryan Wang) (Graduation Year: 2021) Current Employment: Research Scientist, Amazon
Chen Pan (Visiting student/postdoc) Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of CSE, University of Texas San Antonio
Tianyun Zhang (Primary Advisor: Prof. Makan Fardad) (Graduation Year: 2021) Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of ECE, Cleveland State University
Mengshu Sun (Primary Advisor: Prof. Xue Lin) (Graduation Year: 2022) Current Employment: Associate Professor in Dept. of ECE, Beijing University of Science and Technology
Cihan Ruan (Visiting student/postdoc) Current Employment: Incoming Associate Professor in Dept. of Mathematics, Nankai University
Zhe Li (Primary Advisor: Prof. Qinru Qiu) (Graduation Year: 2018) Current Employment: Staff Researcher, Google DeepMind

Visiting Scholar and Students

Prof. Olivia Chen (2019, 2022, Associate Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan)
Hao Tang, currently Assistant Professor at Peking University
Yuxi Hong (2022, Ph.D. student at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, currently Assistant Professor at Indiana University)
Wei Niu (2019, Ph.D. student at College of William and Mary, currently Assistant Professor in Dept. of CSE, University of Georgia)
Runbin Shi (2019, Ph.D. student at University of Hong Kong, currently at AMD Research)

M.S. Alumni (selected)

Shaokai Ye (graduation 2018, researcher at Apple)
Shuo Wang (graduation 2015, currently founder and CEO of Leap.IO)