TTIC Students

PhD Candidates

Sudarshan Babu

B.S.: Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Anna University
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Madhur Tulsiani
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Falcon Dai

B.S.: University of Chicago
B.A.: University of Chicago
Area of Focus: Foundation of reinforcement learning, natural language processing
Advisor: Matthew Walter
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Xiaodan Du

B.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
M.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Area of Focus: Machine learning and Computer Vision
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich
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Jiading Fang

B.S.: Zhejiang University
M.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Robotics, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Matthew Walter
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2021-22 Student Body Representative

Lingyu Gao

B.S.: Tsinghua University
M.S.: Tsinghua University
Area of Focus: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Kevin Gimpel
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Mrinalkanti Ghosh

B.Tech: West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
M.Tech: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Area of Focus: Algorithms and Complexity
Advisor: Madhur Tulsiani
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Ben Lai

B.S.: Columbia University
B.A.: Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Jinbo Xu
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Gene Li

B.E.: Princeton University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
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Jiahao Li

B.S.: Sun Yat-sen University
M.S.: Washington University in St. Louis
Area of Focus: Computer Vision
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich
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Shengjie Lin

B.S.: Tsinghua University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Matthew Walter
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Xiao Luo

B.E.: University of Science and Technology of China
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Jinbo Xu
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Naren Manoj

B.S.: University of Texas at Austin
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, Machine learning and optimization
Advisors: Avrim Blum and Yury Makarychev
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Omar Montasser

B.S.: Pennsylvania State University
M.S.: Pennsylvania State University
Area of Focus: Machine Learning
Advisor: Nati Srebro
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Honors: 2017-18 Partha Niyogi Memorial Fellowship

Keziah Naggita

B.S.: Makerere University
Area of Focus: Human-Centric Machine Learning
Advisors: Avrim Blum and Matthew Walter
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Rachit Nimavat

B.S.: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Area of Focus: Theoretical computer science, mainly Algorithms and Complexity
Advisor: Julia Chuzhoy
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Max Ovsiankin

B.A.: University of California - Berkeley
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisor: Yury Makarychev
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Ankita Pasad

B.S.: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
M.S.: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Area of Focus: Machine learning applications to speech and language processing tasks
Advisor: Karen Livescu
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Honors: 2020 Outstanding TA Award

Kumar Kshitij Patel

B.Tech.: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
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Kavya Ravichandran

B.S.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Eng.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Avrim Blum
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Pedro Pamplona Savarese

B.S.: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
M.S.: Columbia University
Area of Focus: Machine Learning Theory
Advisor: David McAllester
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Shane Settle

B.S.: University of California, Los Angeles
Area of Focus: Speech and language
Advisor: Karen Livescu
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Han Shao

B.S.: Nanjing University
MPhil: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Avrim Blum
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Pushkar Shukla

B.Tech.: Uttarakhand Technical University
M.S.: University of California, Santa Barbara
Area of Focus: Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Advisors: Matthew Turk
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Bowen Shi

B.S.: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
M.S.: ENSTA ParisTech, University of Paris 6
Area of Focus: Machine Learning and Speech Processing
Advisor: Karen Livescu
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Freda Shi

B.S.: Peking University
Area of Focus: Speech and language
Advisors: Karen Livescu and Kevin Gimpel
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Shashank Srivastava

B.Tech: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisor: Madhur Tulsiani
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Kevin Stangl

B.S.: University of California, Los Angeles
Area of Focus: Machine Learning Theory
Advisor: Avrim Blum
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Honors: 2019 Outstanding TA Award

Qingming Tang

B.E.: Fuzhou University
M.E.: Fuzhou University
Area of Focus: Machine Learning and Speech Recognition
Advisor: Karen Livescu
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Ziwei Xie

B.E.: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Jinbo Xu
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Takuma Yoneda

B.E.: Toyota Technological Institute
Area of Focus: Robotics, Speech and language, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Matthew Walter
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Davis Yoshida

B.S.: University of Colorado Boulder, B.S. Double Major Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
M.S.: University of Colorado Boulder, M.S. Applied Mathematics
Area of Focus: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Kevin Gimpel
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Honors: 2021 Outstanding TA Award

David Yunis

B.S.: University of Chicago
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Matthew Walter
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Pre-Candidacy Students

Chung-Ming Chien

B.S.: National Taiwan University
M.S.: National Taiwan University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Speech and language
Advisor: Karen Livescu
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Ju-Chieh Chou

B.S.: National Taiwan University
M.S.: National Taiwan University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization; Speech and language
Advisor: Karen Livescu
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Melissa Dutz

B.A.: Pomona College
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisor: Avrim Blum
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Nirmit Joshi

B.Tech.: Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
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Anmol Kabra

B.S.: Cornell University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
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Ron Mosenzon

B.S.: Open University of Israel
M.S.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisor: Julia Chuzhoy
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Marziyeh Movahedi

B.S.: Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani University
M.S: Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics
Advisor: Jinbo Xu
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Donya Saless

B.S.: University of Tehran
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
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Jose Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda

B.S.: New York University Abu Dhabi
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Speech and language, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich
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Haochen Wang

B.S.: University of Chicago
M.S: Carnegie Mellon University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization; Vision and graphics
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