Outgoing Postdoctoral Scholars
Gavin Brown
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Advisor(s): Sewoong Oh
Research area: Machine Learning and Data Privacy
Research emphasis: I focus on memorization in machine learning and differentially private algorithm design.
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty
Markus Grotz
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Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Research area: Robotics
Research emphasis:
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Tamanna Motahar
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Advisor(s): Maya Cakmak
Research area: Human Centered Computing, Accessibility, Human Robot Interaction, Personal Informatics
Research emphasis: My research integrates User-Centered Design approaches to develop tailored technologies for individuals with severe motor disabilities. By evaluating their unique needs and challenges, I aim to create accessible and effective solutions that enhance their quality of life and autonomy and foster inclusivity and empowerment within the design process.
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty
Outgoing Ph.D. Students
Sandesh Adhikary
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Advisor(s): Byron Boots
Research area: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Dissertation: Mind the Metric: Methods in Metric Aware Machine Learning
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Akari Asai
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Advisor(s): Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Research area: Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Joseph Breda
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Advisor(s): Shwetak Patel
Research area: Ubiquitous computing, public health
Dissertation: Ubiquitous sensing for public health and injury prevention
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Kaiming Cheng
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Advisor(s): Franziska Roesner & Tadayoshi Kohno
Research area: Security & Privacy, Augmented/Mixed Reality
Dissertation: Towards Safer Mixed Reality: Identifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Security and Privacy Threats
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Tapan Chugh
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Advisor(s): Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ratul Mahajan
Research area: Systems for Machine Learning
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Qiwen Cui
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Advisor(s): Simon S. Du
Research area: Machine learning
Dissertation: Reinforcement Learning Theory
Employment preference: Industry - Research
Xiaochuang Han
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Advisor(s): Yulia Tsvetkov
Research area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Cheng-Yu Hsieh
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Advisor(s): Ranjay Krishna, Alex Ratner
Research area: Efficient ML, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models
Dissertation: Efficient Data and Model Scaling for Large-Scale AI Development
Employment preference: Industry - Research
Siddharth Iyer
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Advisor(s): Anup Rao
Research area: Theory
Dissertation: Information theory, Communication Complexity
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Esther Jang
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Advisor(s): Kurtis Heimerl
Research area: Computer Science/Info Science
Dissertation: Infrastructuring at the Margins: Studies in Community Networking
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Kyle Johnson
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Advisor(s): Vikram Iyer
Research area: Microrobotics
Dissertation: Battery-free Autonomous Microrobots
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc
Hanjun Li
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Advisor(s): Huijia (Rachel) Lin, Stefano Tessaro
Research area: Cryptography
Dissertation: Multi-party Computation, Garbled Cricuits
Employment preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Chien-Yu Lin
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Advisor(s): Luis Ceze
Research area: Machine learning system; Efficient machine learning
Dissertation: Sampling and quantization for efficient machine learning system
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Kechun Liu
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Advisor(s): Linda Shapiro
Research area: Computer Vision
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Jiacheng Liu
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi, Hanna Hajishirzi
Research area: NLP
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Industry - Research
Yuxuan Mei
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Advisor(s): Adriana Schulz
Research area: Graphics, Fabrication
Dissertation: Design and Fabrication for Sustainability
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Teaching Faculty, Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research
Amal Nanavati
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Advisor(s): Siddhartha Srinivasa, Maya Cakmak
Research area: Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction
Dissertation: Achieving In-Home Deployability of Assistive Robots: A Case Study in Robot-assisted Feeding
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
James Noeckel
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Advisor(s): Brian Curless, Adriana Schulz
Research area: Computer Graphics
Dissertation: Domain-specific Representations for Reconstruction from Incomplete Data
Employment preference: Academia - Postdoc, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Wei Qiu
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Advisor(s): Su-In Lee
Research area: Computational Biology
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Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Academia - Postdoc
Marissa Radensky
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Advisor(s): Dan Weld
Research area: Human-AI Interaction
Dissertation: Mixed-Initiative Methods for Co-Creation in Scientific Research
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Bandhav Veluri
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Advisor(s): Shyam Gollakota
Research area: ML, HCI
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Industry - Research
Matthew Wallingford
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi
Research area: AI/ML/Computer Vision
Dissertation: Learning Models of the World from Visual Data
Employment preference: Industry - Research
Miranda Wei
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Advisor(s): Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
Research area: Security & Privacy, HCI
Dissertation: Theorizing Everyday Security and Privacy: Towards Sociotechnical Frames, Better Advice, and Less Abuse
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Galen Weld
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Advisor(s): Tim Althoff, Amy Zhang
Research area: HCI
Dissertation: Quantifying Governance of Online Communities at Web Scale
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research
Shirley Xue
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Advisor(s): Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer
Research area: Ubiquitous Computing, Health Sensing, Wearable Computing
Dissertation: Smart Jewelry for Continuous Health Monitoring
Employment preference: Academia - Tenure Track Faculty, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Melih Yilmaz
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Advisor(s): William Noble, Sewoong Oh
Research area: Computational Biology, Machine Learning
Dissertation:
Employment preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development