Mentoring

I have contributed to the research-based training of 31 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and more than 45 undergraduates since 2005. Eight of my former PhD students and postdoctoral fellows are now faculty, and ten are industrial researchers.

We are currently recruiting postdoctoral fellows and students at all levels. See my advice for prospective members.

Current students & postdocs

PhD Student

Fraol Batole

Reliable agentic output

 PhD Student

Ruchira Manke

Separate development of data and AI models

 PhD Student

Deepak George Thomas

Verifying reinforcement learning algorithms

 Postdoctoral Fellow

Sayma Sultana

Software engineering of AI-enabled systems

Former postdoctoral fellows

Postdoc alum

Breno Dantas Cruz

Research Scientist, Samsung Research

 Postdoc alum

Ali Ghanbari

Assistant Professor, Auburn University

 Postdoc alum

Hoan A. Nguyen

Applied Scientist, Amazon

 Postdoc alum

Zhen Yu

Associate Professor, Guizhou Education University

Former graduate students

  • Sumon BiswasPhD Spring '22, MS Fall '20 · Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
  • Shibbir AhmedPhD Spring '24, MS Summer '22 · Assistant Professor, Texas State University
  • Giang NguyenPhD Summer '24 · Research Scientist, Meta
  • David O'BrienPhD Summer '24 · Research Scientist, Amazon AWS
  • Mohammad WardatPhD Summer '23 · Assistant Professor, Oakland University
  • Rangeet PanPhD Summer '22 · Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Samantha KhairunnesaPhD Summer '21, MS Fall '17 · Assistant Professor, Bradley University
  • Hamid BagheriPhD Summer '20, MS Fall '19 · Data Scientist, John Deere
  • Md. Johirul IslamPhD Summer '20, MS Fall '19 · Amazon R&D
  • Ganesha UpadhyayaPhD Fall '17, MS Spring '15 · Harmony.One R&D
  • Mehdi BagherzadehPhD Summer '16, MS Fall '10 · Associate Professor, Oakland University
  • Yuheng LongPhD Spring '16, MS Spring '10 · Meta
  • Robert DyerPhD Fall '13, MS Fall '08 · Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
  • Tyler SondagPhD Fall '11, MS Fall '09 · Principal Architect, CPU, NVIDIA
  • Astha SinghMS Spring '24 · PhD program, Iowa State University
  • Ramanathan RamuMS Fall '17 · Microsoft
  • Nitin M. TiwariMS Spring '17 · SAP
  • Sean L. MooneyMS Summer '15 · SourceAllies
  • Harish NarayanappaMS Spring '10 · eBay
  • Jaikishan JalanMS Fall '09 · Squad
  • Youssef W. HannaMS Fall '08 · Google
  • Rakesh SettyMS Fall '08 · eBay
  • Mahantesh HosamaniMS Fall '07 · Ericsson

Academic genealogy

My advisor at the University of Virginia was Kevin Sullivan, whose advisor was David Notkin. My academic genealogy goes all the way back to Edsger Dijkstra, who won the Turing Award in 1972.

In a prior life, I worked at Bell Labs India, the R&D organization of Lucent Technologies, where I was interested in bandwidth and power optimization in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks as they scale up. I still keep up with these topics.