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Principal Investigator
Farinaz Koushanfar
Current Students
Ruisi Zhang
Ruisi Zhang
PhD Candidate
Research Focus: Distributed Training Acceleration; Machine Learning Security
Soheil Zibakhsh
Soheil Zibakhsh
PhD Candidate
Research Focus: Learning Based Optimization, Deep Reinforcement Learning, ML Compression and Optimization
Neusha Javidnia
Neusha Javidnia
PhD Student
Research Focus: LLMs, Watermarking and Hardware Software/Algorithm Co-Design
Yaman Jandali
Yaman Jandali
PhD Student
Research Focus: Robust. Fair, and Trustworthy AI/ML
Alexia Reyes
Alexia Reyes
PhD Student
Research Focus: Optimization, AI/ML Network Security, Wireless Networks
Pedram Aghazadeh
Pedram Aghazadeh
PhD Student
Research Focus: AI robustness, Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Modal Language Models
Noah Marosok
Noah Marosok
PhD Student
Research Focus: Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Privacy-Preserving Computation, Optimization
Schmidt AI in Science PostDoc
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Undergraduate Students
Aiden Tabrizi
Research Focus: AI/ML Development & Training
Alumni
Dr. Jung-Woo Chang (PhD 2025), Applied Scientist at Cognichip
Dr. Nojan Sheybani (PhD 2025), Research Engineer at Nexus
Dr. Xinqiao Zhang (PhD 2025), Senior ML Scientist at Cotality
Dr. Nasimeh Heydaribeni (PhD EECS UMich, Postdoc 2023-2025), Research Scientist at Google
Dr. Shehzeen Hussain (PhD 2024, ECE Best Dissertation Award), Research Scientist at NVIDIA AI
Dr. Mojan Javaheripi (PhD 2023), Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft AI, LLMs, Phi model team
Dr. Zahra Ghodsi (PhD ECE NYU, Postdoc 2021-2023), Assistant Professor of ECE at Purdue University
Dr. Huili Chen (PhD 2022, ECE Best Dissertation Award), Research Scientist at Amazon AWS Security
Dr. Mohammad Samragh (PhD 2021), Research Scientist at Apple Mind
Dr. Siam Hussain (PhD 2021), Research Scientist at Chainlink Labs
Dr. Sadeqh Riazi (PhD 2020), Co-Founder of Pyte (Acquired by All-Hands AI)
Dr. Bita Rouhani (PhD 2018, ECE Best Dissertation Award), Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA
Dr. Ebrahim Songhori (PhD 2016), Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini (PhD 2015, ECE Best Dissertation Award), Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Dr. Joonho Kong (PhD 2012 Seoul National, Postdoc 2012-2014), Associate Professor of EE at Kyungpook National University
Dr. Arslan Munir (PhD 2012 U of Florida, Postdoc 2012-2014), Associate Professor of EECS at Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Max Rostami (PhD 2013), Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Dr. Mehrdad Majzoobi (PhD 2012), Entrepreneur in Residence at Circuit Launch
Dr. Yousra Alkabani (PhD 2011), Associate Professor at Ain Shams University
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