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PhD Students
![Chrysovalantis Anastasiou](/assets/img/people/chrys.jpg)
Chrysovalantis Anastasiou
![Nripsuta Ani Saxena](/assets/img/people/ani.jpeg)
Nripsuta (Ani) Saxena
![Haowen Lin](/assets/img/people/haowen.png)
Haowen Lin
![Arash Hajisafi](/assets/img/people/arash.jpeg)
Arash Hajisafi
![Maria Despoina Siampou](/assets/img/people/maria.jpeg)
Maria Despoina Siampou
![Bita Azarijoo](/assets/img/people/bita-2.png)
Bita Azarijoo
![Narges Ghasemi](/assets/img/people/narges.png)
Narges Ghasemi
![Shang-Ling (Kate) Hsu](/assets/img/people/kate.png)
Shang-Ling (Kate) Hsu
Undergraduates
![Jena Bhandari](/assets/img/people/jena.jpeg)
Jena Bhandari
![Jonathan Qin](/assets/img/people/jonathan.jpeg)
Jonathan Qin
![Aniket Singh](/assets/img/people/aniket.jpeg)
Aniket Singh
![Satwika Vemuri Naga Kaivalya](/assets/img/people/satwika.jpg)
Satwika Vemuri Naga Kaivalya
![Tracy Chen](/assets/img/people/tracy.jpg)
Tracy Chen
PostDoc Alumni
![Min Young Mun](/assets/img/prev_people/min_mun.jpeg)
Min Young Mun
Next: Principal Engineer, Samsung Eletronics
![Sanjay Purushotham](/assets/img/prev_people/Sanjay_Purushotham.jpg)
Sanjay Purushotham
Next: Assistant Professor, UMBC
![Tobias Emrich](/assets/img/prev_people/tobias.jpeg)
Tobias Emrich
Next: Director of the Data Science Lab, LMU München
![Tim Marsh](/assets/img/prev_people/tim-marsh.jpeg)
Tim Marsh
Next: Honors Program Director, GFS, Griffith University
![Yinan Jing](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Yinan Jing
Next: Assitant Professor, Fudan University
![Hyokyeong Lee](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Hyokyeong Lee
Next: PostDoc, San Francisco State University
![Samaneh Hejazi](/assets/img/prev_people/samanhejazi.jpeg)
Samaneh Hejazi
Next: Senior Engineer, Amazon
![Yinghao Cai](/assets/img/prev_people/cai.jpeg)
Yinghao Cai
Next: Associate Professor, Chineese Academy of Sciences
![Yinan Jing](/assets/img/prev_people/lfan.png)
Liyue Fan
Next: Assistant Professor, University at Albany
![Yinan Jing](/assets/img/prev_people/han.jpeg)
Han Su
Next: Associate Professor, UESTC
PhD Alumni
![Sepanta Zeighami](/assets/img/people/sep.jpeg)
Sepanta Zeighami
Graduated: Feb 2024
Next: PostDoc, University of California, Berkeley
![Ritesh Ahuja](/assets/img/prev_people/ritesh.png)
Ritesh Ahuja
Graduated: June 2022
Next: Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Labs
![Giorgos Constantinou](/assets/img/prev_people/gconst.jpeg)
Giorgos Constantinou
Graduated: Sept. 2021
Next: SDE, Amazon
![Mingxuan Yue](/assets/img/prev_people/mingxuan.png)
Mingxuan Yue
Graduated: Aug. 2021
Next: Software Engineer, Google
![Kien Nguyen](/assets/img/prev_people/kien.png)
Kien Nguyen
Graduated: Aug. 2021
Next: Research Scientist, Facebook
![Luan Tran](/assets/img/prev_people/luan.png)
Luan Tran
Graduated: Aug. 2021
Next: Investment Software Researcher, Worldquant LLC
![Abdullah Alfarrarjeh](/assets/img/prev_people/abd.png)
Abdullah Alfarrarjeh
Graduated: Dec. 2019
Next: Assistant Professor, GJU
![Yaguang Li](/assets/img/prev_people/yanguang.png)
Yaguang Li
Graduated: May 2019
Next: Staff Research Engineer, Google
![Mohammad Asghari](/assets/img/prev_people/mohasg.png)
Mohammad Asghari
Graduated: Aug. 2018
Next: Senior Software Engineer, Google
![Ying Lyu](/assets/img/prev_people/ylu.png)
Ying Lyu
Graduated: May 2018
Next: AI Researcher, DiDi Research America
![Hien To](/assets/img/prev_people/hiento.png)
Hien To
Graduated: Oct. 2017
Next: SDE, Amazon
![Dingxiong Deng](/assets/img/prev_people/deng.png)
Dingxiong Deng
Graduated: Aug. 2017
Next: Software Engineer, Facebook
![Rose Yu](/assets/img/prev_people/rose.png)
Rose Yu
Graduated: May 2017
Next: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
![Afsin Akdogan](/assets/img/prev_people/afsin.png)
Afsin Akdogan
Graduated: Oct. 2015
Next: Software Engineer, Google
![Huy Pham](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Huy Pham
Graduated: June 2015
Next: Software Engineer, Oracle
![Bei Pan](/assets/img/prev_people/beipan.png)
Bei Pan
Graduated: May 2014
Next: Applied Researcher, Microsoft
![Houtan Shirani-Mehr](/assets/img/prev_people/houtan.png)
Houtan Shirani-Mehr
Graduated: June 2013
Next: Software Engineer, Apple
![Ali Khodaei](/assets/img/prev_people/ali.png)
Ali Khodaei
Graduated: May 2013
Next: Product Manager, Yahoo
![Leyla Kazemi](/assets/img/prev_people/leyla.png)
Leyla Kazemi
Graduated: Oct. 2012
Next: Product Manager, Microsoft
![Ugur Demiryurek](/assets/img/prev_people/ugur.png)
Ugur Demiryurek
Graduated: Aug. 2012
Next: Research Scientist, IMSC - USC
![Ling Hu](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Ling Hu
Graduated: July 2012
Next: Software Engineer, Google
![Songhua Xing](/assets/img/prev_people/songhua.jpeg)
Songhua Xing
Graduated: Dec. 2011
Next: Researcher, IBM
![Ali Khosh](/assets/img/prev_people/ali.jpeg)
Ali Khosh
Graduated: Sept. 2010
Next: VP of Emerging Technology, Qaundary Peak Research
![Hyunjin Yoon](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Hyunjin Yoon
Graduated: Sept. 2009
Next: Senior Member of Engineering Staff, ETRI
![Mehrdad Jahangiri](/assets/img/prev_people/mehrdad.jpeg)
Mehrdad Jahangiri
Graduated: Aug. 2008
Next: Software Engineer, Google
![SunHee Yoon](/assets/img/prev_people/sunhee.jpeg)
SunHee Yoon
Graduated: May 2008
Next: PostDoc, Standford University
![Mehdi Sharifzadeh](/assets/img/prev_people/mehdi.jpeg)
Mehdi Sharifzadeh
Graduated: May 2007
Next: Google
![Kiyoung Yang](/assets/img/prev_people/kiyoung.jpeg)
Kiyoung Yang
Graduated: May 2007
Next: Senior Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft
![Farnoush Banaei-Kashani](/assets/img/prev_people/farnoush.jpg)
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Graduated: Dec. 2006
Next: PostDoc Research Associate, InfoLab-USC
![Ching-Chien (Jason) Chen](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Ching-Chien (Jason) Chen
Graduated: May 2005
Next: Senior Software Engineer, Disney Interactive
![Mohammad-Reza Kolahdouzan](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Mohammad-Reza Kolahdouzan
Graduated: Aug. 2004
Next: Yahoo!
![Didi Yao](/assets/img/prev_people/dean.jpeg)
Shu-Yuen Dean Yao (Didi Yao)
Graduated: Aug. 2003
Next: Intel
![Yi-Shin Chen](/assets/img/prev_people/yishin.png)
Yi-Shin Chen
Graduated: Nov. 2002
Next: Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University
![Maytham H. Safar](/assets/img/prev_people/safar.png)
Maytham H. Safar
Graduated: Sept. 2000
Next: Assistant Professor, Kuwait University
![Ali Dashti](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
Ali Dashti
Graduated: Sept. 1999
Next: Assistant Professor, Kuwait University
![Mohammad Alshayeji](/assets/img/prev_people/p.jpg)
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 .
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