Students

Current Ph.D. Students

• Alam Ali: 2022 – 2027 (expected)
• Sung-en Chang: (CS Dept.) 2019 – 2024 (expected)
• Peiyan Dong: 2020 – 2024 (expected)
• Yifan Gong: 2019 – 2024 (expected) (Dean’s Fellowship)
• Malith Jayaweera: 2019 – 2024 (expected, co-advised with Prof. David Kaeli)
• Zhenglun Kong: 2019 – 2024 (expected)
• Zhengang Li: 2019 – 2024 (expected)
• Yanyu Li: 2019 – 2024 (expected)
• Jun Liu: 2020 – 2024 (part-time Ph.D. student)
• Lei Lu: 2022 – 2026 (expected)
• Timothy Rupprecht: 2018 – 2024 (expected)
• Xuan Shen: 2020 – 2025 (expected)
• Amir Taherin: 2022 – 2026 (expected, co-advised with Prof. David Kaeli)
• Yushu Wu: 2020 – 2025 (expected)
• Yanyue Xie: 2020 – 2025 (expected)
• Changdi Yang: 2020 – 2025 (expected)
• Pinrui Yu: 2021 – 2025 (expected)
• Zheng Zhan: 2019 – 2024 (expected)

Postdoc Researcher

• Dr. Cheng Lyu (part time, Ph.D. CU Boulder): 2022 –

Research Assistant Professor

• Dr. Pu Zhao

Ph.D. and Postdoc Alumni

• Caiwen Ding
  • Graduation Year: 2019, Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of CSE, University of Connecticut
• Ao Ren
  • Graduation Year: 2020, Current Employment: Full Professor (with tenure) in School of CS, Chongqing University.
  • Previous Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of ECE, Clemson University
• Ruizhe Cai
  • Graduation Year: 2020, Current Employment: Facebook Inc.
• Ning Liu
  • Graduation Year: 2021, Current Employment: DiDi AI Lab (superstar employee)
• Sheng Lin
  • Graduation Year: 2021, Current Employment: Research Scientist, Tencent U.S.
• Hongjia Li
  • Graduation Year: 2022, Current Employment: Amazon
• Xiaolong Ma
  • Graduation Year: 2022, Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of ECE, Clemson University
• Geng Yuan
  • Graduation Year: 2023, Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Dept. of CS, University of Georgia
• Qing Jin
  • Graduation Year: 2023, Current Employment: Research Scientist, Snap Inc.
• Chao Wu
  • Postdoc researcher 2022 – 2023, Current Employment: Associate Professor (中科百人), University of Science and Technology in China
• Masoud Zabihi
  • Postdoc researcher 2022 – 2023, Current Employment: IBM Research
• 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, Dept. of ECE, Cleveland State University
• Mengshu Sun (Primary Advisor: Prof. Xue Lin)
  • Graduation Year: 2022, Current Employment: Associate Professor, Beijing University of Science and Technology
• Zhe Li (Primary Advisor: Prof. Qinru Qiu)
  • Graduation Year: 2018, Current Employment: Google AI
• Fangzheng Sun (Primary Advisor: Prof. Hao Sun and Prof. Ryan Wang)
  • Graduation Year: 2018, Current Employment: Research Scientist, Amazon

Visiting Scholar and Students

• Dr. Minghai Qin (2022 -)
• Prof. Olivia Chen (2019, 2022, Associate Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan)
• Sizhe Chen (2022, M.S. student at Shanghai Jiaotong University, current: Ph.D. student at University of Washington)
• Yuxi Hong (2022, Ph.D. student at KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
• Wei Niu (2019, Ph.D. student at College of William and Mary, current: assistant professor at University of Georgia)
• Runbin Shi (2019, 2020, Ph.D. student at University of Hong Kong)

Current M.S. Students

• Caiyue Lai
• Zhimin Li
• Mengyuan Wang
• Xu Liu
• Lixi Zhou

M.S. Alumni

• Qiyuan An (graduation 2017, currently Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech.)
• Ruizhe Cai (graduation 2016, currently at Facebook)
• Quan Chen (graduation 2018, currently Ph.D. student at Syracuse University)
• Chenxiao Guan (graduation 2015, currently Ph.D. student at U. Wisconsin Madison)
• Heyu Huang (graduation 2019)
• Xue Jiang (graduation 2015, design engineer at Broadcom)
• Zhao Jin (graduation 2018, currently Ph.D. student at Syracuse University)
• Zhengang Li (graduation 2019, currently Ph.D. student at Northeastern University)
• Steffi Mahajan (graduation 2017, currently software engineer at Yahoo Finance)
• Sriram Subbaraja (graduation 2018, ASIC design engineer at TSMC North America)
• Shaokai Ye (graduation 2018, researcher at SenseTime Inc. and Tsinghua University)
• Geng Yuan (graduation 2017, currently Ph.D. student at Northeastern University)
• Shuo Wang (graduation 2015, currently Ph.D. student at CECA, Peking University)
• Yaodong Wang
• Zheng Zhan (graduation 2018, currently Ph.D. student at Northeastern University)
• Hao Zhang
• Wenyu Zhang (graduation 2018, currently software engineer at Yahoo Finance)

Undergraduate Students

• Ryland Arbour
• Kofi Dinizulu

Exchange Students

• Jinkun Luo (2017)
• Wang Yao (2016)
• Yuan Yao (2016)​