Students
Illinois NSAI Lab
Photo taken at BakeLab Patisserie, April 2026
Ph.D. students
- Eric Xiang Gao
- Zhan Jin
- Han-Ting Liang (co-advised by Indy Gupta)
- Seoyul Oh (co-advised by Deepak Vasisht)
- Yinjie Zhao
Master’s students
- Nikhil Chandrasekar
- Chris Chen
- Chan Ju (Martin) Chong
- Keyuan Hu
- Xiayang Jin
- Will Kung
- Yu-An (Ann) Lai
- Ang Li
- Tianyi Zhong
Undergraduate students
- Yiqi Mei
- Yuxuan Tang (visiting student from Tsinghua)
Alumni
(with publications or significant collaborations)
- Anya Gill (M.S. student) CoreWeave
- Jiajun Ruan (M.S. student) Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota
- Luke Hsiao (undergraduate)
- Kai Luo (visiting student from Tsinghua) Research Engineer at Tencent
- Ian Zhang (undergraduate) Citadel Securities
- William Zheng (undergraduate) Ph.D. student at Berkeley
- Yikai Zheng (visiting student from Tsinghua) Ph.D. student at Tsinghua
Microsoft Research RedmondFormer students
(with publications or significant collaborations)
- Neil Agarwal (Ph.D. from Princeton, 2025) Research Scientist at Meta
- Yihua Cheng (Ph.D. from UChicago, 2025) CTO & Co-Founder at Tensormesh
- Shuowei Jin (Ph.D. from Michigan, 2025) Applied Scientist at Amazon
- Ruiying Ma (B.S. from Tsinghua, 2025) Ph.D. student at Berkeley
- Yun Ni (B.S. from Nanjing University, 2025) M.S. student at CMU
- Zhengxu Xia (Ph.D. from UChicago, 2024) Google
- Zhiying Xu (Ph.D. from Harvard, 2024) Applied Scientist at Amazon OpenAI
- Michael Rudow (Ph.D. from CMU, 2023) McKinsey CTO at Treseder AI
- Tong Chen (B.S. from Tsinghua, 2022) Ph.D. student at UW
- Pinghe Li (B.S. from USTC, 2022) Ph.D. student at ETH Zürich
- Hang Zhu (Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, 2022) Research Scientist at ByteDance
- Yueying (Lisa) Li (Ph.D. student at Cornell)
- Zibo Wang (joint Ph.D. student, USTC & MSR Asia)
- Yajie (Lesley) Zhou (Ph.D. student at Maryland)