Students

I am extremely fortunate to be working with many fantastic PhD, graduate, and undergraduate students without whom this work would not be possible.

Second group outing of 2022. Welcoming two new students to our research group

Our first group outing of 2022 (after a two year pandemic break). Bowling followed by bratwurst and ice cream!

Our first group meeting of the 2019/2020 academic year, welcoming 3 new students to our research group

Our research group hiking the Brown Mountain/El Prieto Trail, 2019

Our research group hiking the Brown Mountain/El Prieto Trail, 2019

Group lunch, 2019

Our research group hiking up to the Hollywood sign, 2018

Group photo with CAIS leadership and summer fellows, 2017

PhD Students

Current

Yingxiao Ye, 2019-present

ISE

Nathan Justin, 2020-present

NSF GRFP 2022 recipient

Computer Science

Bill Tang, 2020-present

NSF GRFP 2022 recipient

ISE

Qingshi Sun, 2022-present

ISE

Ryan Edmonds, 2024-present

Computer Science

Saeed Haghi, 2024-present

ISE

Graduated

Aida Rahmattalabi, 2016-2022

PhD in Computer Science 22'

First position: Sony AI and Meta

Sina Aghaei, 2017-2023

PhD in ISE 23'

First position: postdoc at Harvard University Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab)

Qing Jin, 2019-2024

PhD in ISE 24'

First position: Quantitative Analytics Associate at Barclays Bank

Caroline Johnston, 2019-2024

PhD in ISE 24'

NSF GRFP 2021 recipient

First position: RAND Corporation

Undergraduate Students

Current

Taylor Vander, 2024-present

Computer Science, Howard University

Graduated

Caroline Liu, 2016-2018

ISE

David Desai, Summer 2019

ISE

Nathanael Jo, 2020-2021

Applied Math, Data Science

First position: RegLab, Stanford

Jack Benson, Spring 2021

ISE

Chris Doehring, 2018-2022

ISE

First position: PhD student at University of Michigan IOE

Kathryn Dullerud, 

2019-2022

Economics and Mathematics

First position: Graduate student at EPFL

CAIS Summer Fellows

Graduated

Duncan McElfresh, 2018-2019

Applied Math

University of Maryland

Naveena Karusala, 

Summer 2018

Computer Science

University of Washington

Jennifer Wilson, Summer 2018

Social Work

University of Denver

Hau Chan, Summer 2017

Computer Science

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Visiting Students and Researchers

Current

Han Kyul Kim, Summer 2022

PhD student, ISE

Patrick Vossler, 2021-present

PhD student, USC Marshall School of Business

Nathanael Jo, 2021-present

RegLab, Stanford

Simon Blessenhohl

2020-present

PhD Graduate from USC School of Philosophy

Graduated

Sulagna Mukherjee, 2019

PhD student, Computer Science

Omkar Thakoor, 2017-2019

PhD student, Computer Science

Han Yu, 2018-2019

PhD student, ISE

Javad Azizi, Fall 2017

PhD student, ISE

Master's Students

Current

John Dryden, Summer 2022

ISE Operations Research Engineering

Graduated

Iman Kabir, Summer 2020

Applied Data Science

Dhruv Mathew, 2020

Computer Science

Aditya Chandupatla, 

2019-2020

Computer Science

Aayush Sinha, 2018

Computer Science

Jeffy Jacob, 2019

Computer Science

Camilo Barrera, 2018

ISE

Jing Zeng, 2017

ISE