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Cyrus Shahabi

Director and Professor

Nripsuta (Ani) Saxena

Ph.D. Candidate

Arash Hajisafi

Ph.D. Candidate

Maria Despoina Siampou

Ph.D. Candidate

Bita Azarijoo

Ph.D. Student

Shang-Ling (Kate) Hsu

Ph.D. Student

Chen Chu

Ph.D. Student

Annie Gao

UG CURVE Student

Alvin Tan

UG CURVE Student

Aniket Singh

UG Student

Satwika Vemuri Naga Kaivalya

UG Student

Min Young Mun

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Sanjay Purushotham

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Tobias Emrich

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Tim Marsh

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Yinan Jing

Next: Assitant Professor, Fudan University

Hyokyeong Lee

Next: PostDoc, San Francisco State University

Samaneh Hejazi

Next: Senior Engineer, Amazon

Yinghao Cai

Next: Associate Professor, Chineese Academy of Sciences

Liyue Fan

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Han Su

Next: Associate Professor, UESTC

Chrysovalantis Anastasiou

Graduated: Jun 2025

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Haowen Lin

Graduated: Aug 2024

Next: Meta

Sepanta Zeighami

Graduated: Feb 2024

Next: PostDoc, University of California, Berkeley

Ritesh Ahuja

Graduated: June 2022

Next: Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Labs

Giorgos Constantinou

Graduated: Sept. 2021

Next: SDE, Amazon

Mingxuan Yue

Graduated: Aug. 2021

Next: Software Engineer, Google

Kien Nguyen

Graduated: Aug. 2021

Next: Research Scientist, Facebook

Luan Tran

Graduated: Aug. 2021

Next: Investment Software Researcher, Worldquant LLC

Abdullah Alfarrarjeh

Graduated: Dec. 2019

Next: Assistant Professor, GJU

Yaguang Li

Graduated: May 2019

Next: Staff Research Engineer, Google

Mohammad Asghari

Graduated: Aug. 2018

Next: Senior Software Engineer, Google

Ying Lyu

Graduated: May 2018

Next: AI Researcher, DiDi Research America

Hien To

Graduated: Oct. 2017

Next: SDE, Amazon

Dingxiong Deng

Graduated: Aug. 2017

Next: Software Engineer, Facebook

Rose Yu

Graduated: May 2017

Next: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

Afsin Akdogan

Graduated: Oct. 2015

Next: Software Engineer, Google

Huy Pham

Graduated: June 2015

Next: Software Engineer, Oracle

Bei Pan

Graduated: May 2014

Next: Applied Researcher, Microsoft

Houtan Shirani-Mehr

Graduated: June 2013

Next: Software Engineer, Apple

Ali Khodaei

Graduated: May 2013

Next: Product Manager, Yahoo

Leyla Kazemi

Graduated: Oct. 2012

Next: Product Manager, Microsoft

Ugur Demiryurek

Graduated: Aug. 2012

Next: Research Scientist, IMSC - USC

Ling Hu

Graduated: July 2012

Next: Software Engineer, Google

Songhua Xing

Graduated: Dec. 2011

Next: Researcher, IBM

Ali Khosh

Graduated: Sept. 2010

Next: VP of Emerging Technology, Qaundary Peak Research

Hyunjin Yoon

Graduated: Sept. 2009

Next: Senior Member of Engineering Staff, ETRI

Mehrdad Jahangiri

Graduated: Aug. 2008

Next: Software Engineer, Google

SunHee Yoon

Graduated: May 2008

Next: PostDoc, Standford University

Mehdi Sharifzadeh

Graduated: May 2007

Next: Google

Kiyoung Yang

Graduated: May 2007

Next: Senior Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft

Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

Graduated: Dec. 2006

Next: PostDoc Research Associate, InfoLab-USC

Ching-Chien (Jason) Chen

Graduated: May 2005

Next: Senior Software Engineer, Disney Interactive

Mohammad-Reza Kolahdouzan

Graduated: Aug. 2004

Next: Yahoo!

Shu-Yuen Dean Yao (Didi Yao)

Graduated: Aug. 2003

Next: Intel

Yi-Shin Chen

Graduated: Nov. 2002

Next: Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University

Maytham H. Safar

Graduated: Sept. 2000

Next: Assistant Professor, Kuwait University

Ali Dashti

Graduated: Sept. 1999

Next: Assistant Professor, Kuwait University

Mohammad Alshayeji

Graduated: Sept. 1999

Next: Assistant Professor, Kuwait University

Jena Bhandari

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Jonathan Qin

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Tracy Chen

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John Cutone

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Vinuta Hedge

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Jingyun Yang

Next: USC

Summer Seo

Next: Dell Technologies

Jianfa Lin

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Sumeet Agrawal

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Shivnesh Rajan

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Hyunjun Park

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Summer Seo

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Akshay Deshmukh

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Suveena Thanawala

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Chengyi Chen

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Nihar Agrawal

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Charalambos Poullis

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Milad Ali Ershaghi

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Michael Ciesielka

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Ashley Luo

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Ari Summer

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Mike Yerou

Next: USC

Junyuan Shi

Next: Qualcomm

Meha Agrawal

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Jingyi Du

Next: Microsoft

Shireesh Asthana

Next: Facebook

Nicholas Bopp

Next: Microsoft

Colin Gu

Next: VMWhere

Grady Laksmono

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Vanessa Kuroda

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Arjun Rihan

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Yosuke Shimizu

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Erdem Ergin

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Fernando Arreola

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Ning Jiang

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Farid Parvini

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Shirin Eghtesadi

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Rolfe Schmidt

Beom Kun Kim

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Soojung Hyun

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Sahar Mastoureshgh

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Minyoung Mun

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Farnaz Azmoodeh

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Bahareh Navai

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Dimitris Sacharidis

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Jigesh Vora

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Hezhi (Eddy) Ai

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Yi-Wen Chang

Next: Integrated Decision Systems

Brian Ellenberger

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Adil Faisal

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Jabed Faruque

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Shuping Jia

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Chen-Ling (Ariel) Lin

Next: Integrated Decision Systems

Ching-Sung Lin

Next: Cisco

Rodrigo Lode

Next: Microsoft

Soham Mehta

Next: eBay

Seong Rim Nam

Next: Fetch Technologies

Saifur Rahman

Next: NCR

Nadeem Rana

Next: NCR

Vishal Shah

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Gautam Shanbhag

Next: Amazon

Michael (Jooso) Song

Next: General Electrics

Chung-hao Tan

Next: IBM Almaden

Wugang Zhao

Next: Oracle

Hong Zhu

Next: Network Associates

Jessie Chen

Next: Symantec Corporation

Alexei Naumann

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Yu Sun

Next: Facebook

Jiayun Ge

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Daniel Cantwell

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Xiaochen Yang

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Abbas Zaidi

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Matthew Lim

Next: Cisco

Brian Plotnik

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Roopal Kondepudi

Next: Microsoft

Yingzhe Liu

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Shangrou Sun

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Sitao Min

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Jay Jungwon Yoon

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Dejia Hao

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Arvind Bright

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