Faculty

Kai-Wei Chang
Director

PhD and Postdoc Researchers

Christina Chance
Trustworthy LLM

Cheng-Fu Yang
Mulitmodal Agentic AI

Amita Kamath
Vision-and-Language

Di Wu
Agent Memory and Knoweldge

Elaine Wan
Trustworthy Multimodal AI

Rui Sun
Agentic AI

Xueqing Wu
Co-Advise w/ Peng

Bryan Zhou
Co-Advise w/ Peng

Wenbo Hu
Co-Advise w/ Peng

Eric Jiang
Co-Advise w/ Wu

Xiao Liang
Co-Advise w/ Wu

Steven Swee
Co-Advise w/ Ping

PhD/Postdoc Alumni

Academy

  1. James Zhecan Wang: Postdoc 2025 -> Shanghai AI Lab
  2. Yining Hong: PhD 2025 (Co-Advised with Ying Nian Wu) -> Postdoc at Stanford
  3. Yiwei Wang: Postdoc 2024 -> Assistant Professor at UCMerced
  4. Pan Lu: PhD 2024 (Co-advised with Songchun Zhu) -> Postdoc at Stanford
  5. Kareem Ahmed: PhD 2024 (Co-Advise w/ Broeck) -> Postdoc at UCI
  6. Kuan-Hao Huang: PhD 2023 -> Postdoc at UIUC -> Assistant Professor at TAMU
  7. Md. Rizwan Parvez: PhD 2023 -> Bosch Research -> Qatar Computing Research Institute
  8. Jieyu Zhao: PhD 2022 -> Postdoc at UMD -> Assistant Professor at USC
  9. Muhao Chen: PhD 2019 (informally co-advised with Carlo Zaniolo and Wei Wang)-> Postdoc at UPenn -> Assitant Professor at UC Davis

Industry

  1. Tanmay Parekh: PhD (2026) -> Microsoft AI
  2. Hritik Bansal: PhD (2026) -> Anthropic
  3. Arjun Subramonian: PhD (2026) -> Anthropic
  4. Fan Yin: PhD 2025 -> Google
  5. Wade (Da) Yin: PhD 2025 -> NeoCognition
  6. Anaelia Ovalle: PhD 2024 -> Reflection AI
  7. Masoud Monajatipoor: PhD 2024 (Co-Adivsed with Yang) -> Optum Labs
  8. Harold (Liunian) Li: PhD 2024 -> OpenAI
  9. Tao Meng: PhD 2024 -> Microsoft Superintelligence
  10. Ziniu Hu: PhD 2023 (co-advised with Yizhou Sun) -> xAI -> Meta TBD
  11. Wasi Uddin Ahmad: PhD 2021 -> NVidia
  12. Sunipa Dev: PostDoc 2021 -> Google Research
  13. Dat Duong: PhD 2020 (Co-advised with Eleazar Eskin) -> NIH

Other Alumni

  1. Zongyu Lin: PhD (on leave) -> Moonshot AI -> Meta TBD
  2. Xingcheng Yao: PhD (on leave) -> Moonshot AI
  3. Joe O'Connor: PhD (on leave) -> StealAI, co-founder
  4. Xiao Liu: PhD Student at PKU
  5. Nikil Selvam: PhD Student at Stanford
  6. Shanxiu He: PhD Student at UCSB
  7. Weijia Shi: PhD Student at UW
  8. Zhubo Deng:
  9. Yihe Deng: PhD Student at UCLA
  10. Jesse Cai:
  11. Eleanor Jiang: PhD Student at ETH
  12. Quanyu Long: PhD Student at NTU
  13. Shengyu Jia:
  14. Zhenxin Xiao:
  15. Pei Zhou: PhD Student at USC
  16. Siyu Wang:
  17. Hanwen Jiang: PhD student at UT-Austin
  18. Haoxiang Zhang:
  19. Chen Xia:
  20. Chao Jiang: PhD student at GaTech
  21. Puchin Chen: Google
  22. Peter Kim:
  23. Evelyn Chen: Amazon
  24. Hsin-Yu Fan Chiang:
  25. Daphne Chiou: Google
  26. Zhechao Huang: Master at MIT
  27. Sudharsan Krishnaswamy:
  28. Di Qu: