Current Members

PhD Students

Weitang Liu
(2021 - )

Yangkun Wang
(2022 - )

Yufan Zhuang
(2022 - )

Xintong Li
(2023 - )

Letian Peng
(2023 - )

Feng Yao
(2023 - )

Yuwei Zhang
(2023 - )

Co-advised PhD Students

Shuheng Li
w/ Rajesh Gupta
(2020 - )

Master Students

Tianle Wang
(2023 - )

Longfei Yun
(2024 - )

Lizhe Zhang
(2024 - )

Alex Nguyen
(2024 - )

Undergraduate Students

• Shang Zhou
• Jinya Jiang

Lab Alumni

PhDs

Bill Hogan
(2021 - 2025)

Zi Lin
(2021 - 2025 --> Google DeepMind)

Zihan Wang
(2020 - 2025 --> Anthropic, LLM Alignment)

Dheeraj Mekala
(2021 - 2025 --> Meta, LLM Agent)

Jiayun Zhang
w/ Rajesh Gupta
(2020 - 2025 --> Amazon)

Zilong Wang
(2020 - 2025 --> Amazon, LLM pre-training)

Chengyu Dong
(2021 - 2025 --> Amazon, LLM post-training)

Ranak Roy Chowdhury
w/ Rajesh Gupta
(2019 - 2024 --> Amazon)

Xiyuan Zhang
w/ Rajesh Gupta
(2020 - 2024 --> Amazon)

Jiacheng Li
w/ Julian McAuley
(2020 - 2023 --> Meta)

Masters

Prashant Vaidyanathan
(2024 --> Wiliot as ML Engineer)

Lesheng Jin
(2023 -> OctoML as MLSys Engineer)

Sudhanshu Ranjan
(2023 -> AI/NLP startup)

Zichao Li
(2021 -> UC Santa Cruz for PhD study)

JiMin Mun
(2021 --> Salesforce --> CMU for PhD study)

Xianjie Shen
(2021 --> Nanhu Research Insititute)

Peiran Li
(2021 -> Google)

Jiaman (Lisa) Wu
(2020 -> Ohio State U for PhD study)

Bachelors

• Colin Wang (2023 –> Princeton for Master study)
• Kewen Zhao (2023 –> CMU for Master study)
• Beilei He (2022 –> UPenn for Master study)
• Yuxuan Fan (2022 –> Startup)
• Zhenyu Bi (2021 –> CMU for Master study)
• Joey Hou (2021 –> UPenn for Master study)
• Yang Li (2021 –> Columbia for Master study)
• George Pu (2021 –> UCLA for Master study)

Acknowledgement

Our work is sponsored in part by NSF CAREER Award 2239440, NSF Proto-OKN Award 2333790, Sponsored Research Projects from companies like Cisco and eBay, as well as generous gifts from Google, Adobe, and Teradata. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the views, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes not withstanding any copyright annotation hereon.

Previous Support:

• NSF Convergence Accelerator under award OIA-2040727.
• NIH Bridge2AI Center Program under award 1U54HG012510-01.
• Cisco-UCSD Sponsored Research Project