Group Members

Group Leader

PhD Students

  • Sumaira Zaman (since Fall 2018)
  • Samson Weiner (since Fall 2020)

Undergraduate Student Researchers

  • Shreya Seshadri (since Spring 2023)
  • Vihaan Shah (since Summer 2023)
  • Sunwang Luo (since Summer 2023)
  • Abigail Horning (since Summer 2023)


Lab Alumni

Former PhD students:

  1. Abhijit Mondal (Fall 2018 - Fall 2022, PhD student)
    First position: SDE-II at Amazon
  2. Lina Kloub (Fall 2017 - Summer 2021, PhD student)
    First position: Teaching faculty at UConn CSE
  3. Misagh Kordi (Spring 2014 - Spring 2019, PhD student)
    First position: Postdoc at UCLA
  4. Lei Li (Fall 2013 - Spring 2019, PhD student)
    Current position: Senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba Inc

Former MS Students:

  1. Saurav Dhar (Fall 2018 - Spring 2021, MS student; joint with Ion Mandoiu)
  2. First position: Software engineer at Google

  3. Soumya Kundu (Spring 2016 - Summer 2018, Undergraduate researcher and MS student)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at Stanford

Former undergraduate student researchers:

  1. Rachel Parsons (Fall 2021 - Summer 2023, Undergraduate researcher)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at the Univ. of Maryland, College Park
  2. Keegan Yao (Spring 2019 - Summer 2021, Undergraduate researcher)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at Duke University
  3. Emily Maciejewski (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020, Undergraduate researcher)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at UCLA
  4. Samson Weiner (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020, Undergraduate researcher)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at UConn
  5. Taylor Wade (Fall 2017 - Spring 2020, Undergraduate researcher)
    Current position: PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at Duke University
  6. Ming Luo (Summer 2019 - Fall 2019, Undergraduate researcher)
  7. Samuel Sledzieski (Spring 2017 - Spring 2019, Undergraduate researcher)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at MIT
  8. Ashim Ranjeet (Spring 2018 - Spring 2019, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Travellers
  9. Brian Jaworowski (Spring 2018 - Fall 2018, Undergraduate researcher)
  10. Soumya Kundu (Spring 2016 - Summer 2018, Undergraduate researcher and MS student)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at Stanford
  11. Hannah Reed (Summer 2017 - Spring 2018, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Cigna
  12. Eric van Heel (Summer 2017 - Fall 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
  13. Alex Masi (Summer 2017 - Fall 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Google
  14. Chengchen Zhang (Spring 2017 - Summer 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: MS student in computer science at UC San Diego
  15. Kevin Grabowski (Summer 2016 - Spring 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Amazon
  16. Maryzyrene Adao (Summer 2016, Undergraduate researcher)
  17. James Boivie (Summer 2015 - Fall 2015, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Google

Former high-school student researchers

  1. Sai Chimbili (Spring 2022 - Fall 2022)
  2. Rishik Gowrishetti (Summer 2022 - Fall 2022)
  3. Zack Eisbach (Summer 2021 - Fall 2021)
  4. Aryamaan Dhomne (Summer 2021 - Fall 2021)
  5. Yeshwanth Bommareddy (Fall 2018 - Spring 2019)

From left to right: Samson Weiner, Sumaira Zaman, Lina Kloub, Rachel Parsons, Mukul Bansal, Abhijit Mondal. (May 2023).

From left to right: Mukul Bansal, Rachel Parsons, Dylan Cassidy, Abhijit Mondal, Samson Weiner, Sumaira Zaman. (June 2022).

From left to right: Mukul Bansal, Abhijit Mondal, Samson Weiner, Saurav Dhar, Keegan Yao, Sumaira Zaman, Lina Kloub. (June 2021).

From left to right: Sumaira Zaman, Samuel Sledzieski, Lina Kloub, Misagh Kordi, Mukul Bansal, Soumya Kundu, Brian Jaworowski, Farzaneh Rastegari, Lei Li. (July 2018).

From left to right: Eric van Heel, Lei Li, Hannah Reed, Mukul Bansal, Alex Masi. (June 2017).