People

Current members

PhD Students

Alex DeWeese

PhD Student · Fall 2022

• Leo Finzi Memorial Fellowship (2024)
• David H. Barakat and LaVerne Owen-Barakat CIT Dean’s Fellowship (2025)
• Fritsch Family Fellowship (2026)

Ziyi Zhang

PhD Student · Fall 2022

Co-advised with Yorie Nakahira

• Lee-Stanziale Ohana Fellowship (2026)

Chaoyi Pan

PhD Student · Fall 2023

Co-advised with Guanya Shi

• Hsu Chang Memorial Fellowship (2025)
• ICRA Best Paper Finalist (2025)
• William J. Happel Fellowship (2026)

Zeji Yi

PhD Student · Fall 2023

Co-advised with Guanya Shi

• Wei Shen and Xuehong Zhang Presidential Fellowship (2025)
• ICRA Best Paper Finalist (2025)
• Amazon PhD Fellowship (2025 - 2027)

Muhammed Ustaömeroğlu

PhD Student · Fall 2023

• Leo Finzi Memorial Fellowship (2026)
• ECC Best Student Paper (2026)
• Cylab Presidential Fellowship (2026 - 2027)

Vidur Sinha

PhD Student · Fall 2026

• ECC Best Student Paper (2026)

Nai-Chieh Huang

MLD PhD Student · Fall 2025 (Co-advising since Fall 2026)

Co-advised with Max Simchowitz

Master Students

• Euijin Hong
• Jivesh Jain

Past members

Master Students

• Yumeng Xiu (next position: CMU PhD)
• Eric Xu (next position: UC Berkeley EECS PhD)

Selected Visitors

• Han Xu (Master visiting student, next position: Caltech PhD)
• Junxuan Shen (Undergrad visiting student from Caltech, next position: MIT EECS PhD)
• Yang Hu (Undergrad virtual visitor, next position: Harvard PhD)
• Ruixiao Yang (Undergrad virtual visitor, next position: MIT PhD)
• Yizhou Zhang (Undergrad virtual visitor, next position Caltech PhD)
• Emile Anand (Undergrad visiting student, next position: Georgia Tech PhD)