Faculty and Researchers

William Wang
Professor, Computer Science

Shiyu Chang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Xifeng Yan
Affiliated Professor, Computer Science

Simon Todd
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Ivan Bercovich
Visiting Scholar

Graduate Students

Alfonso Amayuelas
Ph.D. Student

Li An
Ph.D. Student

Antonis Antoniades
Ph.D. Student

Congrui Du
Ph.D. Student

Weixi Feng
Ph.D. Student

Xinyi Gao
Ph.D. Student

Bairu Hou
Ph.D. Student

Jiabao Ji
Ph.D. Student

Gurusha Juneja
Ph.D. Student

Gyuwan Kim
Ph.D. Student

Zekun Li
Ph.D. Student

Tengxiao Liu
Ph.D. Student

Yujian Liu
Ph.D. Student

Deepak Nathani
Ph.D. Student

Xiao Pu
Ph.D. Student

Michael Saxon
Ph.D. Student, NSF Fellow

Xinyi Wang
Ph.D. Student

Qiucheng Wu
Ph.D. Student

Jingbo Yang
Ph.D. Student

Guanyu Yao
Ph.D. Student

Kexun Zhang
Ph.D. Student

Kaijie Zhu
Ph.D. Student

Undergrad Students

Shamita Gurusu
Undergraduate

Ryan He
Undergrad.

Vaishnavi Himakunthala
Undergrad.

Hugo Lin
Undergraduate

Liliana Nguyen
Undergraduate

Andy Ouyang
Undergrad.

Daniel Rose
Undergrad.

Wesley Truong
Undergraduate

Edwin Yee
Undergraduate

Mystery
Undergraduate

Ph.D. Alumni

Mai E. ElSherief
Ph.D., 2019; Advisor: E. Belding. Now Assistant Professor at Northeastern

Xin (Eric) Wang
Ph.D., 2020; Now Assistant Professor at UCSC

Wenhan Xiong
Ph.D., 2021; Now Research Scientist at xAI

Wenhu Chen
Ph.D., 2021; Now Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo

Zhiyu Chen
Ph.D., 2022; Now Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Dallas

Yijun Xiao
Ph.D., 2022; Now Research Scientist at Meta AI

Sharon Levy
Ph.D., 2023; Now Assistant Professor at Rutgers University

Alon Albalak
Ph.D., 2024; Now Technical Staff at SynthLabs

Liangming Pan
Postdoc, 2024; Assistant Professor at University of Arizona

Tsu-Jui Fu
Ph.D., 2024; Now Research Scientist at Apple AI/ML

Yi-Lin Tuan
Ph.D., 2024; Now Founder, Orchat AI

Wanrong Zhu
Ph.D., 2024; Now Research Scientist, Adobe Research

Xianjun Yang
Ph.D., 2024; Now Research Scientist at Meta AI

Yujie Lu
Ph.D., 2025; Now Research Scientist, Meta AI

Jiachen Li
Ph.D., 2025; Now Research Scientist at xAI

Wenda Xu
Ph.D., 2025; Now Research Scientist at Google Translate

Mascot

Panda
Mascot

Alumni

• Wenyue Hua (Postdoc, now at Microsoft Research)
• Eddie Zhang (MS, now at OpenAI)
• Guanhua Zhang
• Matthew Ho (USCB CS, now Ph.D. student at UC San Diego)
• Alex Mei (MS, now at Two Sigma)
• Liangming Pan (Vising Ph.D. from NUS)
• Hong Wang
• Hongmin Wang (Now at Microsoft)
• Xiyou Zhou
• Qingfu Zhu
• Mahnaz Koupaee (Now Ph.D. at Stony Brook)
• Siyao Li (Now M.S at CMU)
• Nidhi Hiremath
• Yuxin Huang
• Vivek Pradhan
• Jing Qian
• Conner Vercellino
• Vivek Kulkarni (Postdoc, now at Stanford)
• Pengda Qin (Visiting Ph.D. from BUPT, now at Alibaba)
• Qingyu Yin (Visiting Ph.D. from HIT, now at Amazon)
• Shaolei Wang (Visiting Ph.D. from HIT)
• Pushkar Shukla (UCSB CS MS, now Ph.D. at TTIC)
• Guancheng Ren (UCSB CS, now M.S. at Columbia)
• Barbara Korycki (UCSB CS, now Ph.D. at UMich)
• Ke Ni (UCSB CS, now Ph.D. at CMU)
• Deren Lei (UCSB CS, now M.S. at USC)
• Sai Nikhil Maram (UCSB CS)
• Lawrence Lim (UCSB CS)
• Brian Lim (UCSB CS)
• Thien Hoang (UCSB CS)
• Ashwini Patil (UCSB CS)
• Chani Jindal (UCSB CS)
• Abhay Chennagiri (UCSB CS)
• Yanju Chen (UCSB CS)
• Darren Huang (Visiting undergraduate from NTU)
• Daniel Spokoyny (UCSB CCS, now Ph.D. at CMU)
• Tyler Vuong (UCSB ECE, now Ph.D. at CMU)
• Shao-Yi Zhang (UCSB CS & Stats)
• Sam Dunn (UCSB CS)
• Andrew Gaut (UCSB CS)
• Sophie Groenwold (UCSB CS)
• Samhita Honnavalli (UCSB CS)
• Lily Ou (UCSB CS)
• Aesha Parekh (UCSB CS)
• Tony Sun (UCSB CS)
• Rukmini Bapat (UCSB CS)
• Anisha Kabir (UCSB CS)
• John Judge (UCSB CS)
• Prince Wang (UCSB CS, now Ph.D. at CMU)

Undergraduate & Highschool Interns

• Alex Jones (Visiting undergraduate from Dartmouth)
• Kai Nakamura (Now at Caltech)
• Shirlyn Tang
• Tomohiro Nakamura (Now at UTokyo)
• Han Cao (Now M.S. at UCSD)
• Yongji Wu (Now Ph.D. at Duke)
• Jiannan Xiang (Now M.S. at CMU)
• Chen Wu (Now M.S. at CMU)
• Tianyu Liu (Now Ph.D. at ETH)
• Sahil Jain (The Harker School, Summer 2018)
• Haoyang Wen (HIT, 2018 Summer, Now M.S. at UIUC)
• Haoyu Wang (SJTU, 2018 Summer, Now M.S. at UPenn)
• Pengfei Yu (THU, 2018 Summer, Now Ph.D at UIUC)
• Yu Hao (THU, 2018 Summer, Now M.S. CMU)
• Hui Liu (PKU, 2018 Summer, Now Ph.D. at Queen's)
• Zhiqi Lin (USTC, 2018 Summer)
• Ray Oshikawa (Univ. of Tokyo, 2018 Summer)
• Akul Gupta (Evergreen Valley High School, San Jose, 2017 Summer, Now B.S. UCSC)
• Xianda Zhou (Tsinghua, 2017 Summer, Now M.S. UT-Austin)
• Yuteng Ma (Tsinghua, 2017 Summer)
• Xuanyue Yang (BUPT, 2017 Summer, Now M.S. CMU)
• Fengyu Deng (SJTU, 2017 Summer, Now M.S. UT-Austin)
• Zikun Lin (Tsinghua, 2017 Summer, Now M.S. Columbia)
• Shiyi Han (Beihang, 2017 Summer, Now M.S. Brown)
• Liwei Cai (Tsinghua, 2017 Summer, Now M.S. CMU)
• Zheyu Wang (Tsinghua, 2017 Summer, Now Ph.D. USC)
• Fangjun Zhang (HKU, 2017 Summer, Now M.S. NYU)