Current group

PhD students

• Sarah Christensen (first year PhD student in CS)
• Erin Molloy, fourth year PhD student in CS at UIUC
• Mike Nute - fifth year PhD student in Statistics at UIUC
• Ehsan Saleh, first year PhD student in CS at UIUC
• Pranjal Vachaspati - third year PhD student in CS at UIUC

• Kodi Collins (senior, double major Economics and Statistics)

Postdocs

• Ruth Davidson, PhD NCSU in Mathematics, funded by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematics

Dissertation committee students

• Alice Doucet Beaupré, PhD student of James O'Dwyer from UIUC Plant Biology

Alumni

• Kevin Atteson (former postdoc), now Chief Quant at Summer Road (computational finance)
• Md Shamsuzzoha Bayzid - CS at UT-Austin (graduated Fall 2016)
• Francois Barbancon (former postdoc) - now working for Palantir Technologies
• Ganesh Ganapathy (former PhD student at UT-Austin) - now working for Apple
• Ashu Gupta, MS 2016, Computer Science, UIUC
• K.T. Hughes (undergraduate advisee at UT-Austin)
• Daniel Huson (former postdoc) - now a Professor of Bioinformatics in Tuebingen, Germany
• Young-suk Lee (undergraduate advisee at UT-Austin), received PhD from Princeton, working with Prof Olga Toyanskaya (CS)
• Libby Levison (former postdoc at Penn)
• Kevin Liu (former PhD student and postdoc at UT-Austin) - now Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Michigan State University
• Siavash Mirarab (former PhD student) - now Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD
• Luay Nakhleh (former PhD student) - now Full Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Rice University
• Serita Nelesen (former PhD student) - now Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Calvin College
• Ken Rice (former postdoc) - now retired
• Nam-phuong Nguyen (former PhD student at UT-Austin and postdoc at UIUC) - now at UCSD doing a postdoc with CS Prof Vineet Bafna. Formerly, he did a postdoc IGB at UIUC, co-mentored by Prof. Becky Stumpf
• Usman Roshan (former PhD student at UT-Austin) - now Associate Professor in Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Christina Skelton (former undergraduate advisee) - now Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
• Michelle (Shel) Swenson (former PhD student and postdoc) - now Visiting Professor at Emory University
• Katherine St John (former postdoc) - now Full Professor of Computer Science at Lehman College
• Ann Taylor (former postdoc) - now Senior Lecturer at York University, UK
• Li-San Wang (former PhD student) - now Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (JPEG)
• Shibu Yooseph (former PhD student) - now Professor at Central Florida University