Minhyuk Park, CS PhD student, started Fall 2021.
MS thesis available at IDEALS.
PhD expected Spring 2026.
The-Anh Vu-Le.
PhD student, started Fall 2022.
PhD expected Spring 2027.
LinkedIn
Github.
Eleanor Wedell,
PhD student, started Fall 2022.
MS thesis awarded April 2022 available at IDEALS.
Webpage.
PhD expected Spring 2027.
James Willson CS PhD student, started Fall 2020.
PhD expected Spring or Summer 2026.
Paul Zaharias, Spring 2020-2022; now Institut Systematique Evolution Biodiversite (ISYEB), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris)
Google Scholar page
Sarah Christensen, CS PhD student
graduated December 2020; PhD thesis available at
IDEALS. Now at D.E. Shaw in NYC
Gillian Chu
,
PEEC MS student at UIUC (received 2022), thesis available at
IDEALS.
Now at Princeton CS as a PhD student working with Ben Raphael.
Ashu Gupta, CS MS student, graduated May 2016, thesis available at IDEALS.
Now at Apple in Cupertino, CA.
Baqiao Liu, CS PhD student, started Fall 2020.
PhD August 2024; thesis available at IDEALS.
Now a machine learning engineer at Adobe.
Erin Molloy, CS PhD student
(co-supervised with Bill Gropp),
graduated
August 2020; thesis available at
IDEALS.
Now faculty
CS Univ Maryland
Mike Nute,
Statistics PhD student, graduated August 2019; dissertation available
at IDEALS Now
research scientist at Rice with
Todd Treangen.
Chengze Shen, CS PhD student, started Fall 2020.
PhD August 2025; thesis available at IDEALS.
Now Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok.
Vladimir Smirnov, CS PhD student, graduated August 2021;
thesis available at IDEALS.
Then postdoc at Cambridge University (Richard Durbin)
Yasamin Tabatabaee,
CS PhD student.
PhD awarded Fall 2025.
Pranjal Vachaspati,
CS PhD student, graduated 2019; thesis available at IDEALS. Now Senior Software Engineer at Toast
Xilin Yu.
CS MS student, graduated August 2019; thesis available at
IDEALS. Now at Google in
Seattle
