Advising

Current Group

• Govind S. Sankar, PhD student

• Yiheng Shen, PhD student

• Ian Zhang, undergrad

Alumni

Postdocs:

• Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy, 2019-21 Now at Google

• Yu Cheng,  2017-19 Now faculty at Brown

• Kyle Fox, 2015 - 17 Now faculty at U.T. Dallas

• Sungjin Im, 2012-13 Now faculty at U.C. Merced

PhD Students:

• • Erin Taylor, PhD, 2023 Now at Geometric Data Analytics

  • Kangning Wang, PhD, 2022 Now postdoc at Stanford

    • Honorable mention, ACM SIGEcom Dissertation Award, 2022

    • Best Dissertation Award, Duke CS Department, 2022

• Reza Alijani, Ph.D., 2020 Now software engineer at Google

• Brandon Fain,  Ph.D., 2019 Now faculty at Duke

  • Best Dissertation Award, Duke CS Department, 2019

• Xiaoming (Nate) Xu Ph.D, 2015 Now software engineer at Google

• Janardhan Kulkarni Ph.D, 2015 Now at Microsoft Research

  • Best Dissertation Award, Duke CS Department, 2015

• Sayan Bhattacharya  Ph.D, 2012 Now faculty at U. Warwick

Undergraduates:

• • Zeyu Shen, 2020-23 Now Ph.D. student at Cornell

    • Finalist, CRA Outstanding Undergrad Researcher Award, 2022

  • Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov, 2022-23 Now Ph.D. student at Stanford

• Charles Lyu, 2018-20 Now PhD student at MIT

  • Finalist, CRA Outstanding Undergrad Researcher Award, 2020

• Xingyu Chen, 2019 Now software engineer at Facebook

  • Winner, Alex Vasilos Memorial Award for excellence in research from Duke CS 

• Siyang Chen, 2012 Now software engineer at Google

• Peng Shi,  2007-10 Ph.D., MIT; now faculty at USC

  • Finalist, CRA Outstanding Undergrad Researcher Award, 2009

High School Students:

• William Fan, 2019-20 B.S. from UPenn

• Nina Prabhu, 2017-18 B.S. and M.S. from Stanford