Students
Illinois NSAI Lab
Photo taken at BakeLab Patisserie, April 2026
Current members
- Han-Ting Liang (Ph.D. student, co-advised by Indy Gupta)
- Seoyul Oh (Ph.D. student, co-advised by Deepak Vasisht)
- Nikhil Chandrasekar (M.S. student)
- Chan Ju (Martin) Chong (M.S. student)
- Anya Gill (M.S. student)
- Ang Li (M.S. student)
- Tianyi Zhong (M.S. student)
- Luke Hsiao (undergraduate)
- Yiqi Mei (undergraduate)
- Yuxuan Tang (undergraduate from Tsinghua)
- Ian Zhang (undergraduate)
Alumni
(with publications or significant collaborations)
- Jiajun Ruan (M.S. student) Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota
- Kai Luo (visiting undergraduate from Tsinghua) Research Engineer at Tencent
- William Zheng (undergraduate) Ph.D. student at Berkeley
- Yikai Zheng (visiting undergraduate 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
- Michael Rudow (Ph.D. from CMU, 2023) 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
- Zibo Wang (joint Ph.D. student, USTC & MSR Asia)
- Yajie (Lesley) Zhou (Ph.D. student at Maryland)