Warnow Lab students and postdocs

Current PhD students

Minhyuk Park, CS PhD student, started Fall 2021. MS thesis available at IDEALS.










Yasamin Tabatabaee, CS PhD student, started Fall 2021. MS thesis awarded Dec 2023 available at IDEALS.














James Willson CS PhD student, started Fall 2020














Baqiao Liu, CS PhD student, started Fall 2020










Chengze Shen, CS PhD student, started Fall 2020









Eleanor Wedell, PhD student, started Fall 2022. MS thesis awarded April 2022 available at IDEALS.











Alumni from UIUC

Postdocs (former)

Paul Zaharias, Spring 2020-2022 Google Scholar page














Students (former)

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.










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 postdoc at Rice with Todd Treangen.













Vladimir Smirnov, CS PhD student, graduated August 2021; thesis available at IDEALS. Then postdoc at Cambridge University (Richard Durbin)










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














Dissertation committee students

Undergraduate research assistants at UIUC

Full Set of Alumni