Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ph.D Students

Visiting Scholars

  • Mads Toftrup, Ph.D student in CS at Aahus University, Denmark, Sep 2024 - present
  • Gabriel Jacob Perin, undergraduate student in CS at University of São Paulo, Brazil, Apr 2024 - present

M.S. Students

  • Jose L Rojas, CS@UT Austin, Aug 2023 - present

Undergraduate Students

  • Henry Castillo, CS@UT Austin, Aug 2022 - present
  • Jinze Zhao, ECE@UT Austin, Aug 2023 - present
  • Jonathan Liu, CS@UT Austin, Dec 2023 - present
  • Jamie Mahowald, Math@UT Austin, May 2024 - present

Alumni

    Ph.D Students/Postdocs (5 in Academia, 11 in Industry)
    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)
    • Mukund Varma T, undergraduate, ME@IIT Madras, Summer 2022 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UCSD)
    • Xiaolong Luo, undergraduate, Statistics@USTC, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, Bioengineering@Harvard)
    • Miao Lu, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, MS&E@Stanford)
    • Zhengyuan Li, undergraduate, CS@Tsinghua University, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UIUC)
    • Wenyan Cong, M.S. student, CSE@SJTU, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
    • Qiming Wu, undergraduate, EE@HUST, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: M.S. student, CS@UCSB)
    • S P Sharan, undergraduate, ECE@NIT Trichy, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@UT Austin)
    • Zhenyu Zhang, M.S. student, EEIS@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
    • Zeyuan Chen, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UCSD)
    • Tianxin Wei, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UIUC)
    • Aaditya Singh, undergraduate, IIT Kanpur, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: M.S. student, CS@Georgia Tech)
    • Shreeshail Hingane, undergraduate, IIT Kanpur, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Research Fellow, Microsoft Research, Bangalore)
    • Xuxi Chen, undergraduate, Statistics@USTC, Summer 2019 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
    • Yue Wang, M.S. student, CS@Rice University, visitng VITA during Summer 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@Rice University)
    • Yifan Jiang, undergraduate, EE@HUST, visitng VITA during Summer 2018 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
    M.S. Students
    • Nitin Bansal, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Senior Deep Learning Engineer, MagicLeap)
    • Jianghao Shen, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@North Carolina State University)
    • Pengcheng Pi, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@TAMU)
    • Sheelabhadra Dey, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CSE@TAMU)
    • Nalin Dadhich, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Nvidia)
    • Anjali Chadha, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Alexa AI)
    • Pritish Uplavikar, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Research Engineer, Apple)
    • Karthik Suresh, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Adobe)
    • Prateek Shroff, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2019 - May 2020 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Amazon)
    • Zhenhua He, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 (Next Move: Research Assistant, ECE@TAMU)
    • Ting-Kuei Hu, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Senior Deep Learning Engineer, Qualcomm Research)
    • Yunhe Xue, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Research Engineer, ByteDance AI Lab)
    • Sicheng Wang, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Data Scientist, Microsoft)
    • Scott Hoang, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2019 - May 2021 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
    • Rahul Sridhar, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2020 - May 2021 (Next Move: Computer Vision Engineer, Snap Inc.)
    • Shixin Yu, ECE@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@Cornell University)
    • Everardo Olivares-Vargas, CSEM@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
    • Zehao Zhu, ECEM@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
    Undergraduate RAs
    • Kevin Wang, CS@UT Austin, undergraduate, May 2022 - May 2024 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
    • Codey Sun, ECE@UT Austin, undergraduate, Aug 2023 - May 2024 (Next Move: M.S. student, EE@Stanford)
    • Sunshine Leeuwon, ECE@UT Austin, undergraduate (Moncrief summer intern program by UT Oden Institute), Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
    • Mia Mei, Applied Math@Notre Dame, undergraduate (Moncrief summer intern program by UT Oden Institute), Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
    • Zak Turner, ME@UT Austin, undergraduate (UT GoodSystem program summer intern), Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
    • Akarsh Kumar, ECE@UT Austin, undergraduate, Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, EECS@MIT, NSF Graduate Fellowship)
    • Santosh Balachandra, ECE@UT Austin, undergraduate, Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 (Next Move: Data Scientist, Robinhood)
    • Tianshu Huang, ECE@UT Austin, undergraduate, May 2020 - May 2021 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@CMU)
    • Jason Zhang, ECE@UT Austin, undergraduate, Aug 2020 - May 2021 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@CMU)
    • Ryan King, CSE@TAMU, undergraduate, Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CSE@TAMU)
    • Josiah Coad, Math@TAMU, undergraduate, Jan 2019 - Aug 2020 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UIUC)
    UG Honor Thesis or Senior Design
    • UT ECE Senior Design Team (2022 - 2023): John Lu, Nathan Stern, Steven Nguyen, Mingi Hong, Nguyen Pham
    • UT ECE Senior Design Team (2021 - 2022): Rishabh Parekh, Kush Desai, Akarsh Kumar, Sahil Vaidya, Viraj Parikh, Malav Shah
    • UT ECE Senior Design Team (2021 - 2022): Savi Hanagud, Qingyang Hu, Cathy Le, Saaketh Rao, Jeffrey Wallace, Ming Zhao
    • UT ECE Senior Design Team (2020 - 2021): Jessica Pham, Soroush Famili, William Gu, Matt MacDonald, Ryed Ahmed [Code] [Demo]
    • [Winner of Most Viewed Capstone Final Presentation Award]
    • Benjamin McKenzie, CSE@TAMU, undergraduate, Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
    • Ryan Wells, CSE@TAMU, undergraduate, Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
    • Chase Brown, CSE@TAMU, undergraduate, Summer 2018