Research Group

Graduate Students

• Mary Smirnova (Ph.D. student, 08/2025)
• Hang Liu (Ph.D. student, 08/2025)
• Grace Kwon (Ph.D. student, 09/2023)
• Yulu Peng (Ph.D. student, 09/2023)
• Alanah Cardenas-Otoole (Ph.D. student, 09/2021)

Postdoc

• Xiantong Wang (06/2022 – 03/2025)

Visiting Students and Scholars

• Carrie Lai (06/2025 – 08/2025)

Former Students and Postdocs

• Leo Sun (Ph.D. student in Dept. of Statistics, 03/2021-08/2024, IMC Trading)
• Yizhou Zhang (MS student in Dept. of Statistics, 05/2023-05/2024)
• Yurui Chang (MS student in Dept. of Statistics, 01/2022)
• Jena Alidinaj (Undergraduate student, 05/2022 – 06/2023, Boeing)
• Jiaen Ren (Ph.D. student, 09/2016 – 01/2022, Google)
• Zihan Wang (Ph.D student, 09/2016-04/2021; Postdoc, 05/2021 – 08/2023; Assistant Professor at UT Arlington)
• Alanah Cardenas-Otoole (Undergraduate student, 05/2019 – 08/2021)
• Ercha Aa (11/2017 – 11/2019; MIT Haystack)
• Thomas Coppeans (Undergraduate student, 05/2017 – 08/2019)
• Lei Liu (Visiting Ph.D. student, 11/2018-08/2020)
• Victor Villegas (PICASSO REU student from California State University, 06/2020-08/2020)
• Han Jin (Visiting Ph.D. student, 11/2017-10/2018)
• Doga Can Su Ozturk (Ph.D. student, 01/2016 – 08/2018; Assistant Professor at University of Alaska)
• Tom Heine (Ph.D. student, 09/2012 – 09/2016, Millennium Space System)
• Emma Boyd (M.S. student, 09/2014 – 04/2016, Lockheed Martin)
• Changkun Li (Visiting student from University of Science and Technology of China, 06/2017 – 08/2017)
• Jiayue Lu (Undergraduate student, 09/2015 – 05/2018)