Current Graduate Students
- Cheng Ding (PhD)
- Ivan Grigorik (PhD)
- Tong-Nong Lin (PhD)
- Aditya Thimmaiah (PhD; awarded Graduate School Continuing Fellowship for 2024-2025)
- Zijian Yi (PhD)
- Jiyang Zhang (PhD; co-supervised with Junyi Jessy Li)
Current Undergraduate Students
- Anna Guo (REU Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024)
- Nandita S. Jayanthi (REU Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024; awarded UT FLAS Fellowship 2024)
- Joseph Kenis (Research Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024)
Graduated Students
- Nader Al Awar (PhD 2024; first job: Nvidia)
- Ahmet Celik (PhD 2019; first job: Facebook)
- Ben Fu (MS Thesis 2018; first job: Capital One)
- Yu Yuki Liu (PhD 2024; co-supervised with Owolabi Legunsen; awarded Graduate School Continuing Fellowship for 2023-2024; first job: Meta)
- Pengyu Nie (PhD 2023, awarded Graduate School Fellowship 2017-2022, Graduate School Continuing Fellowship for 2020-2021; awarded UT ECE 2024 Jacome Dissertation Prize; first job: University of Waterloo, Cheriton School of Computer Science, Canada)
- Olivia Mitchell (MS Report 2023; job: Intel)
- Hannan Naeem (MS Thesis 2024; co-supervised with George Biros; first job: Cubist)
- Umair Shahzad (MS Report 2022; first job: Educative Inc.)
- Noah J. Thornton (MS Thesis 2020; co-supervised with Christopher J. Rossbach; first job: Amazon)
- Nathaniel Wiatrek (MS Report 2021; job: USAA)
- Zhiqiang Zang (PhD 2024; first job: Meta)
- Steven Zhu (MS Thesis 2021; first job: Centaur Technology)
Former Members
- Karl Palmskog (Postdoc; first job: researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Marinela Parovic (Visiting researcher Fall 2018; grad school: University of Cambridge)
Former Undergraduate Students
- Rahul Banerjee (REU Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023; first job: Amazon)
- Ethan Beyer (Research Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
- Ben Buhse (REU Summer 2018; first job: Trend Micro)
- Sing-Rong Chiu (Research Fall 2023, Spring 2024; grad school: CMU)
- Jaime Garcia (research Fall 2017)
- Irfan Hasan (research Spring 2017; REU Fall 2017; first job: Capital One)
- Kush Jain (research Fall 2018; REU Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020; awarded UT Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2020-2021; grad school: CMU)
- Sarah Khurram (Research Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
- Shirley Liu (REU Summer 2017, Fall 2017; TA Spring 2018; TA Spring 2019; grad school: GaTech)
- Kayvan Mansoorshahi (REU Summer 2018, Sumer 2019; TA Spring 2019, Spring 2020; grad school: UT)
- Neeley A. Pate (REU Summer 2020; TA Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023; awarded UT ECE Undergraduate Research Scholarship Summer 2021; awarded Cockrell School Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award 2023; grad school: University of Rochester)
- Joseph B. Ryan (URA Spring 2020; first job: Google)
- Rishabh Rai (REU Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018; first job: Salesforce)
- Sahil Vaidya (research Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
- Thomas Wei (REU Summer 2018, Spring 2019; grad school: CMU)
- Fu-Yao Yu (REU Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
Students Supervised at UIUC
I worked with a number of excellent undergraduate and MS
students: