People

PhD students

• Olivia Davis
• Xinyu Gu
• Stefan Ivanovic
• Mrinmoy Roddur
• Thea Traw

Alumni

• Eman Zwawi, high-school student, internship (Summer 2018) -> UIUC undergrad in MCB
• Amitha Sandur (co-advised with Kyle Schachtschneider), MS student, independent study (Fall 2018) -> Computational Biologist at the Broad Institute
• Shunping Xie, MS student, thesis (Spring 2019)
• Silas Hsu, PhD student, independent study (Spring 2019)
• Yerong Li, PhD student (Fall 2019)
• Jiaqi Wu, MS student, thesis (Spring 2020) -> Facebook
• Nuraini Aguse, MS student, thesis (Spring 2020) -> Route
• Medha Patil, BS student (CS @ UIUC), REU (Summer 2020)
• Smarak Pattnaik, BS student (CS @ UIUC), REU (Summer 2020)
• Sarah Christensen, PhD student (joint with Tandy Warnow), thesis (Fall 2020)
• Jackie Oh, BS student (CS @ UIUC), Spring 2020
• Toluwanimi Aroyo, high-school student, internship (Summer 2021)
• Raneem Saadah, high-school student, internship (Summer 2021)
• Palash Sashittal, MS student (also PhD student in Aerospace Engineering), thesis (Summer 2021) -> Postdoc at Princeton CS -> Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech CS
• Ayesha Kazi, BS student CS @ UIUC (Fall 2021)
• Yichi Zhang, BS student CS @ UIUC (Fall 2021)
• Zubair Lalani, BS student CS @ UIUC (Summer 2021, Fall 2021)
• Sophia Yang, PhD student, indepedent study (Fall 2021)
• Nayonika Roy, BS student CS @ UIUC, CS STARS (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
• Michelle Jun, BS student CS @ UIUC, CS STARS (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
• Michael Xiang, BS student CS @ UIUC (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
• Juho Kim, PhD student (joint with Sanmi Koyejo), thesis (Summer 2022)
• Tyler Camp, BS student CS @ UIUC (Summer 2022)
• Mayank Hirani, BS student CS @ UIUC (Summer 2022)
• Nitya Sunkad, BS student CS @ UIUC, CS STARS (Fall 2022)
• Chuanyi Zhang, PhD student (joint with Idoia Ochoa), thesis (Spring 2023)
• Samuil Donchev, BS student CS @ UIUC, independent study (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
• Akul Joshi, BS student, Computer Science, independent study (Spring 2023)
• Griffen Mustion, MS Bioinformatics student, Computer Science, independent study (Spring 2023) and continuing research (Summer and Fall 2023)
• Vikram Ramavarapu, MS Bioinformatics student, Computer Science, independent study (Spring 2023) and continuing research (Summer and Fall 2023)
• Divya Koya, BS student CS @ UIUC, CS STARS (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
• Sana Naffakh, BS student CS @ UIUC, CS STARS (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
• Anna Hart, PhD student, independent study (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
• Yuanyuan Qi, PhD student, thesis (Spring 2024)
• Leah Weber, PhD student, thesis (Summer 2024) -> Postdoc at MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Keshav Gandhi, high-school student, internship (Summer 2021), REU (Summer 2022, Summer 2024, Summer 2025)
• Nicole Dong, MS student (Fall 2024)
• Daniel Feng, BS student CS @ UIUC (Spring 2023 to Spring 2025) -> PhD student at Harvard Medical School