Warnow Lab students and postdocs

Current PhD students

Minhyuk Park, CS PhD student, started Fall 2021. MS thesis available at IDEALS. PhD expected Spring 2026.










Chengze Shen, CS PhD student, started Fall 2020. PhD expected Summer or Fall 2025.









Yasamin Tabatabaee, CS PhD student, started Fall 2021. MS thesis awarded Dec 2023; contact Yasamin for this. PhD expected Summer or Fall 2025.














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. PhD expected Spring 2027.











James Willson CS PhD student, started Fall 2020. PhD expected Spring or Summer 2026.














Current undergraduate research assistants at UIUC

Ian Chen, Summer 2025, working on community detection methods.














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.










Baqiao Liu, CS PhD student, started Fall 2020. PhD August 2024.










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.













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

Former undergraduate research assistants at UIUC

Full Set of Alumni