People

Cyrus Shahabi

Director and Professor


PhD Students


Chrysovalantis Anastasiou

Nripsuta (Ani) Saxena

Arash Hajisafi

Maria Despoina Siampou

Bita Azarijoo

Narges Ghasemi

Shang-Ling (Kate) Hsu

Chen Chu


Undergraduates


Jena Bhandari

Jonathan Qin

Aniket Singh

Satwika Vemuri Naga Kaivalya

Tracy Chen


PostDoc Alumni


Min Young Mun

Next: Principal Engineer, Samsung Eletronics

Sanjay Purushotham

Next: Assistant Professor, UMBC

Tobias Emrich

Next: Director of the Data Science Lab, LMU München

Tim Marsh

Next: Honors Program Director, GFS, Griffith University

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

Next: Assistant Professor, University at Albany

Han Su

Next: Associate Professor, UESTC


PhD Alumni


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


MSc and BSc Alumni


John Cutone

Next: Delta Analytics

Vinuta Hedge

Next: Amazon

Jingyun Yang

Next: USC

Summer Seo

Next: Dell Technologies

Jianfa Lin

Next: Amazon

Sumeet Agrawal

Next: Microsoft

Shivnesh Rajan

Next: Facebook

Hyunjun Park

Next: IBM

Summer Seo

Next: Dell Technologies

Akshay Deshmukh

Next: Oracle

Suveena Thanawala

Next: USC

Chengyi Chen

Next: USC

Nihar Agrawal

Next: USC

Charalambos Poullis

Next: Assoc. Prof., Concordia University

Milad Ali Ershaghi

Next: Schlumberger

Michael Ciesielka

Next: Startup

Ashley Luo

Next: Verizon

Ari Summer

Next: AdGenomics

Mike Yerou

Next: USC

Junyuan Shi

Next: Qualcomm

Meha Agrawal

Next: Goldman Sachs

Jingyi Du

Next: Microsoft

Shireesh Asthana

Next: Facebook

Nicholas Bopp

Next: Microsoft

Colin Gu

Next: VMWhere

Grady Laksmono

Next: Zynga Inc

Vanessa Kuroda

Next: NASA Ames

Arjun Rihan

Next: Pixar Animation Studios

Yosuke Shimizu

Next: Beancube

Erdem Ergin

Next: Wolverine Trading, LLC

Fernando Arreola

Next: Boeing

Ning Jiang

Next: PayPal of eBay, Inc

Farid Parvini

Next: USC

Shirin Eghtesadi

Next: TeraDyne

Rolfe Schmidt

Beom Kun Kim

Next: InfoLab, USC

Soojung Hyun

Next: Helio

Sahar Mastoureshgh

Next: Warner Bros

Minyoung Mun

Next: UCLA

Farnaz Azmoodeh

Next: Google

Bahareh Navai

Next: Deluxe Digital Studios

Dimitris Sacharidis

Next: NTUA, Greece

Jigesh Vora

Next: Wilshire Associates

Hezhi (Eddy) Ai

Next: Alcatel

Yi-Wen Chang

Next: Integrated Decision Systems

Brian Ellenberger

Next: Georgia Tech.

Adil Faisal

Next: Microsoft

Jabed Faruque

Next: NCR

Shuping Jia

Next: Synopsys, Inc

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

Next: MBA at Univ. of Michigan Business School

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

Next: Muyo, Mobile App Developer

Yu Sun

Next: Facebook

Jiayun Ge

Next: Microsoft

Daniel Cantwell

Next: SpaceX

Xiaochen Yang

Next: Google

Abbas Zaidi

Next:

Matthew Lim

Next: Cisco

Brian Plotnik

Next: PwC

Roopal Kondepudi

Next: Microsoft

Yingzhe Liu

Next: -

Shangrou Sun

Next: -

Sitao Min

Next: Rutgers Business School

Jay Jungwon Yoon

Next: Krikey AI

Dejia Hao

Next: DataVisor

Arvind Bright

Next: Google

Akshansh .

Next: Appen