Atlas Wang [CV] atlaswang@utexas.edu Associate Professor (Tenured), Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow #7 (Now focused on training the next-generation super intelligence - Preview above)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Junyuan Hong Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2023 (Summer 2023 - )
Ziwei Yang Ph.D., Yale University, 2023 (Fall 2023 - )
Neel P. Bhatt Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 2023. Co-hosting with Prof. Ufuk Topcu (Fall 2023 - )
Hezhen Hu Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China, 2023 (Fall 2023 - )
Guoliang Kang (Postdoc) co-hosted with Prof. Philipp Krähenbühl, Mar - Oct 2021Current: Full Professor, ECE@Beihang University
Xiaohan Chen (Ph.D) Fall 2017 - Summer 2022 Current: Senior Research Scientist ("Ali Star"), Alibaba Damo Academy, Seattle
Junru Wu (Ph.D) Spring 2018 - Summer 2023 Current: Research Engineer, Google Deepmind
Haotao Wang (Ph.D) Fall 2018 - Summer 2023 Current: Research Scientist, Qualcomm AI Research
Ziyu Jiang (Ph.D) Spring 2019 - Summer 2023 Current: Research Scientist, NEC Labs America
Wuyang Chen (Ph.D) Fall 2019 - Summer 2023 Current: Assistant Professor, CS@Simon Fraser University, starting Fall 2024 after another year of postdoc at UC Berkeley
Tianlong Chen (Ph.D) Fall 2019 - Summer 2023 Current: Assistant Professor, CS@UNC Chapel Hill, starting Fall 2024 after another year of postdoc at MIT/Harvard
Yan Han (Ph.D) Fall 2017 - Summer 2023 (with VITA: since Fall 2021) Current: Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon
Xinyu Gong (Ph.D) Fall 2018 - Summer 2023 Current: Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok
Shiwei Liu (Postdoc) Aug 2022 - Oct 2023 Current: PI, ELLIS Institute Tübingen & MPI Intelligent Systems, starting Spring 2025 after another year of Newton visiting fellowship at Oxford
Yifan Jiang (Ph.D) Fall 2019 - Summer 2024 Current: Senior Research Scientist, Apple AIML
Scott Hoang (Ph.D) Fall 2021 - Summer 2024* (degree frozen, as job offer is too good :-) Current: Senior Research Scientist, Apple AIML
Yuning You (Ph.D) co-advised with Dr. Yang Shen@TAMU, Fall 2019 - Summer 2024 Current: Assistant Professor, CS@CUHK Shenzhen, starting Fall 2025 after another year of postdoc at Caltech
Long-Term Visitors (with VITA for 6 months or more)
Simone Angarano, Ph.D. student in ML at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, visiting VITA during Aug 2023 - May 2024
Lu Yin, Ph.D. student, CS@Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, visiting VITA during Aug 2022 - Jul 2023 (now Assistant Professor, CS@ University of Surrey, UK)
Yee Yang Tee, Ph.D. student, EEE@Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, visiting VITA during Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 (now Co-Founder, inspections.ai, Singapore)
Artur André Oiveira, Ph.D. student, CS@University of São Paulo, Brazil, visiting VITA during Dec 2021 - May 2022 (now Postdoctoral Researcher, CS@University of São Paulo)
Iago Breno Araujo, Ph.D. student, CS@University of São Paulo, Brazil, visiting VITA during Dec 2019 - May 2020 (now Data Scientist, FAPESP, Brazil)
Shuai Yang, Ph.D. student, CS@Peking University, China, visiting VITA during Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 (now Assistant Professor, CS@Peking University)
Short-Term Interns (with VITA for 3 months or remotely - we now rarely take interns)
Saebyeol Shin, undergraduate, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, Fall 2023 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@Cornell)
Diganta Misra, M.S. student, MILA/University of Montréal, Canada, Summer 2023 [remote] (Next Move: ELLIS Ph.D. student, MPI-IS)
