Faculty and Researchers

William Wang
Computer Science

Xifeng Yan
Computer Science

Kyle Mahowald
Linguistics

Simon Todd
Linguistics

Shiyu Chang
Computer Science

Lei Li
Computer Science

Ivan Bercovich
Visiting Scholar

Liangming Pan
Postdoctoral Scholar

Students

Alon Albalak
Ph.D. Student

Alfonso Amayuelas
Ph.D. Student

Antonis Antoniades
Ph.D. Student

Weixi Feng
Ph.D. Student

Tsu-Jui Fu
Ph.D. Student

Shamita Gurusu
Undergraduate

Ryan He
Undergrad.

Vaishnavi Himakunthala
Undergrad.

Matthew Ho
Undergraduate

Bairu Hou
Ph.D. Student

Jiabao Ji
Ph.D. Student

Gyuwan Kim
Ph.D. Student

Sharon Levy
Ph.D. Student

Jiachen Li
Ph.D. Student

Hugo Lin
Undergraduate

Yujian Liu
Ph.D. Student

Yujie Lu
Ph.D. Student

Alex Mei
M.S. Student

Deepak Nathani
Ph.D. Student

Liliana Nguyen
Undergraduate

Andy Ouyang
Undergrad.

Siqi Ouyang
Ph.D. Student

Daniel Rose
Undergrad.

Michael Saxon
Ph.D. Student, NSF Fellow

Zhenqiao Song
Ph.D. Student

Wesley Truong
Undergraduate

Yi-Lin Tuan
Ph.D. Student

Danqing Wang
Ph.D. Student

Xinyi Wang
Ph.D. Student

Qiucheng Wu
Ph.D. Student

Wenda Xu
Ph.D. Student

Edwin Yee
Undergraduate

Eddie Zhang
M.S. Student

Guanhua Zhang
Ph.D. Student

Kexun Zhang
Ph.D. Student

Wanrong Zhu
Ph.D. Student, Regents Fellow

Mascot

Panda
Mascot

Ph.D. Alumni

Mai E. ElSherief
Ph.D., 2019; Advisor: E. Belding. Now Assistant Teaching Professor at UC San Diego

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

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

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

Zhiyu Chen
Ph.D., 2022; Now Research Scientist at Meta AI

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

Alumni

• Alex Jones (Visiting undergraduate from Dartmouth)
• 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

• 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)