Interns

Since 2009, I have mentored or co-mentered 69 interns.

Undergraduate and Master Intern Students (Stanford University and Adobe)

1. Dana Sittler, Stanford, summer 2009, now Product Lead at Netflix

2. C.V. Krishnakumar Iyer, Stanford summer 2009, now Software Engineer at Apple

3. Pratyus Patnaik, Stanford, summer 2009, now Senior Director and Okta

4. Claire Abu-Hakima, Stanford, summer 2010, now Product Manager at Google

5. Robert Dates, summer 2016 and 2017, now Principal Engineer, CEO & Founder at Yaheard, LLC.

6. Daniel Thompson, summer 2016, now Senior Product Designer at Syngenta

7. Tuan Manh Lai, KAIST, autumn 2017, 2018, now a Ph.D. student at UIUC

8. Nham Le, KAIST and University of Waterloo, spring 2018, 2019, 2020, now Ph.D. student at University of Waterloo

9. Darian Nwankwo, summer 2018, now Ph.D. student at Cornell University

10. Tzu-Hsiang (Antonie) Lin, CMU, summer 2018, now Senior ML Engineer at Apple

11. Yiming Yang, UC San Diego, summer 2018, now Software Engineer at Apple

12. Steven Layne, summer 2018, now Cofounder and CTO at Norby

13. Ruth Petit, summer 2018, now Computer Scientist at Adobe

14. Gabrielle Taylor, summer 2018, now Ph.D. Student at Auburn University

Ph.D. Intern Students (Adobe)

1. Liang Dai, UC Santa Cruz, summer 2012, now ML Lead at Snap

2. Yuanfeng Wang, USC, summer 2012, now Data Scientist at Living Social

3. Trung Nguyen, NUS, summer 2013, now Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Netflix

4. Bruno Castro da Silva, UMass Amherst, summer 2014, now Assistant Professor at Umass Amherst

5. Franck Dernoncourt, MIT, summer 2015, now Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Research

6. Anirban Roychowdhury, The Ohio State University, summer 2015, now Research Scientist at Facebook

7. Omid Bakhshandeh, University of Rochester, summer 2016, now Cofounder at Verneek

8. Kan Chen, USC, summer 2016, now Senior Research Scientist at Waymo

9. Pranjal Daga, Purdue University, summer 2016, now Product Leader at Brex

10. Codruta Girlea, UIUC, summer 2015 and 2016, now Staft Software Engineer at Lyft

11. Ramesh Manuvinakurike, USC, summer 2016, 2017, now Research Scientist at Intel

12. Jacqueline Brixey, USC, summer 2017

13. Arman Cohan, Georgetown University, summer 2017, now Assistant Professor at Yale University

14. Dung Thai, UMass Amherst, summer 2017, 2018

15. Quan Hung Tran, Monash University, summer 2017, now Research Scientist at Adobe Research

16. Yipin Zhou, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, summer 2017, 2018, now Research Scientist at Facebook AI

17. Hao Tan, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, summer 2018, now Research Scientist at Adobe Research

18. Zahra Rahimi, University of Pittsburgh, summer 2018, now Applied Scientist at Amazon

19. Nadiia Chepurko, MIT, summer 2018, now ML Engineer at Tulip Interfaces

20. Subhadeep Dey, EPFL, autumn 2018, now Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft

21. Seunghyun Yoon, National University of Seoul, autumn 2018, now Research Scientist at Adobe Research

22. Chenyun Wu, UMass Amherst, summer 2018, now Software Engineer at Waymo

23. Anthony Colas, University of Florida, summer 2019

24. Jing Shi, University of Rochester, summer 2019, now Research Scientist at Adobe Research

25. Tuan Lai, Purdue, summer 2019, 2020, now a Ph.D. student at UIUC

26. Shubham Agarwal, Heriot-Watt University, summer 2019, 2020, now Research Scientist at Pulse Lab

27. Hyounghun Kim, UNC, summer 2020, now Assistant Professor at UNIST

28. Sangwoo Cho, University of Central Florida, summer 2020, now Research Scientist at Tencent America

29. Meryem M’hamdi, USC, summer 2020, 2022

30. James Chen, UNC, summer 2020, now Applied Scientist at AWS

31. Jianguo Zhang, University of Illinois at. Chicago, spring 2021, now Research Scientist at Salesforce AI Research

32. Nikita Soni, University of Florida, summer 2021, starting as Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 2022

33. Yifan Li, the University of Texas at Dallas, summer 2021, now Research Scientist at Meta

34. Thang Pham, Auburn University, summer 2021, autumn 2023

35. Jaemin Cho, UNC, summer 2021

36. Mingxue Zhang, UMass Armhest, summer 2021

37. Adyasha Maharana, UNC, summer 2021

38. Amir Veyseh, University of Oregon, summer 2021

39. Cesa Salaam, Howard University, summer 2021

40. Yeon Seonwoo, KAIST, autumn 2021

41. Archiki Prasad, UNC, summer 2022

42. Ioana Croitoru, Romanian Academy, summer 2022

43. Yicong Hong, ANU, summer 2022, spring 2023

44. Bo He, UMD, summer 2022

45. Zhongfen Deng, UIC, summer 2022

46. Hai Phan, Auburn University, fall 2022, now R&D Engineer, Blue Marble Geographics

47. Hyunjae Kim, Seoul National University, Spring 2023

48. Chongyang Gao, Northwestern University, Spring 2023

49. Viet Lai, University of Oregon, Spring 2023

50. Mihir Parmar, Arizona State University, Spring 2023

51. Yuan Zang, Brown University, Summer 2023

52. Weixi Feng, UCSB, Summer 2023

53. Qiucheng Wu, UCSB, Summer 2023

54. Dawit Mureja Argaw, KAIST, Summer 2023

55. Mengjiao Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology, Summer 2023

Ph.D. Thesis Committee Member

1. Franck Dernoncourt, MIT (2017)

2. Hyounghun Kim, UNC (2021)

3. Tuan Lai, UIUC (2023)