Student Research Collaborators

Amazing Students at UC San Diego

Current Students

PhD Students (co-advised with Leo Porter and Bill Griswold)

• Anshul Shah (primary advisor, 2021 - )
• Ismael Villegas Molina (primary advisor, 2021 - )
• Audria Saravia-Montalvo (primary advisor, 2024 - )
• Francis Geng (co-advisor, 2024 - )
• Alex Chao (2025 - )
• Annapurna Vadaparthy (PhD committee member, 2025 - )

Master’s Students

• Elena Tomson (2023 - )
• Hailey Li (2025 - )

Undergraduate Students

• Anya Chernova (2022 - )
• Gonzalo Allen-Perez (2022 - )
• Nawab Mulla (2024 - )
• Ethan Perez (2025 - )
• Marlyn Arque Rupa (2025 - )
• Kyla Ma (2025 - )
• Adrian Nazzal (2025 - )
• Mia Chen (2025 - )
• Yuan-Kai (Kevin) Yang (2025 - )
• Shivani Sridar (2025 - )

Alumni

PhD Students

• Emma Hogan (2021 - 2025, Professor @ Bard College)

Master’s Students

• Thomas Rexin (2023 - 2025, PhD in CS Education @ North Carolina State University)
• Hayden McTavish (2021 - 2023, PhD @ Duke University)
• Sunwoo Kim (co-advised with Niema Moshiri and Mia Minnes, 2022 - 2023)
• Prajwal Anand (Mar - Jun 2021, first employment @ Experian)

Undergraduate Students

• Ginger Smith (2022 - 2025, Engineering & Public Policy PhD Student @ CMU)
• Josue Martinez (2024 - 2025)
• Fatimah Alhumrani (2023 - 2024)
• Jessica Lam (2019 - 2022, first employment @ Meta)
• Elias Fang (2019 - 2023)
• Vardhan Agarwal (2020 - 2023, first employment @ Amazon)
• Mrinal Sharma (2021 - 2024, first employment @ Visa)
• John Driscoll (co-advised with Leo Porter and Bill Griswold, 2021 - 2024)
• Alexandra Michael (2021 - 2024, now PhD in Computer Science @ University of Washington, Seattle)
• Ruoxuan (Hero) Li (2022 - 2024, MS @ Columbia University)
• Zimo Peng (2022 - 2024)
• Michael Granado (2022 - 2023, MS @ Stanford University)
• Yada Chuengsatiansup (2020 - 2023, first employment @ Apple)
• Sharad Venkateshwaran (2021 - 2023, first employment @ SambaNova)
• Lavanya Satyan (Sep 2021 - Apr 2022, first employment @ Meta)
• Anne Xu (July 2020 - Dec 2021, first employment @ Goldman Sachs)
• Carmen Nayeli Guzman (July 2020 - Dec 2021, now PhD @ UCLA)
• Ana Selvaraj (Jul 2020 - Jun 2021, now MS @ Stanford)
• Divyam Rana (July 2020 - Dec 2021)
• Dustin Lin (Sep 2020 - Aug 2021)
• Elise Kim (Jan - Dec 2021)
• Dhruv Sood (Dec 2020 - Mar 2021)
• Amita Stowitts [ERSP] (Sep 2020 - Jun 2021)
• Angelina Le [ERSP] (Sep 2020 - Jun 2021)
• Melissa Ignacio [ERSP] (Sep 2020 - Jun 2021)
• Ronaldo Garcia-Hernandez [ERSP] (Sep 2020 - Jun 2021)
• Keshab Agarwal (Jul 2020 - Jan 2021)
• Navina Mahesh (Jul 2020 - Sep 2020)
• Ganesh Susarla (Feb 2020 - Jun 2021)
• Shungo Najima (Jan 2020 - Jun 2020, now @ Cornell)
• Derek Hwang (Dec 2019 - Jun 2021)
• Yuzi LYu (Dec 2019 - Jun 2021)
• Dekun (William) Ma (Sep 2019 - Jun 2020, now @ New York University)
• Savera Soin (Sep 2019 - Mar 2020)
• Viren Abhyankar (Sep 2019 - Jun 2020)

Awesome Students at UW-Madison

Past Students

Master’s Students

• Varun Naik (Jan 2018 - May 2019, now @ Google)

Undergraduate Students

• Pan Gu (Jan 2019 - Feb 2020, now PhD in Biomedical Engineering @ Johns Hopkins)
• Alisa Zhang (Jan 2019 - May 2019, now @ University of Michigan)
• Nikhil Kumar (Sep 2018 - May 2019)
• Houqi Li (Sep 2018 - May 2019)
• Virat Singh (Nov 2018 - Feb 2019)