Ph.D Students
Visiting Scholars
Simone Angarano , Ph.D. student in ML at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Aug 2023 - 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
Kevin Wang, CS@UT Austin, May 2022 - present
Henry Castillo, CS@UT Austin, Aug 2022 - present
Jinze Zhao, ECE@UT Austin, Aug 2023 - present
Yihan Xi, CS@UT Austin, Aug 2023 - present
Jonathan Liu, CS@UT Austin, Dec 2023 - present
Alumni
Ph.D Students/Postdocs (4 in Academia, 12 in Industry )
Ye Yuan (Ph.D) Fall 2015 - Summer 2020 (with VITA: since Fall 2017)
Current: Research Scientist, Bytedance AI Lab, Seattle
Zhenyu Wu (Ph.D) Fall 2017 - Summer 2021
Current: Senior Algorithm Engineer, Cruise
Guoliang Kang (Postdoc) co-hosting with Prof. Philipp Krähenbühl, Mar - Oct 2021
Current: 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 Research NYC
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: Research Scientist, LinkedIn
Wenqing Zheng (Ph.D) Fall 2018 - Summer 2023 (with VITA: since Spring 2021)
Current: Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon
Xinyu Gong (Ph.D) Fall 2018 - Summer 2023
Current: Principal Applied Scientist, Oracle Cloud
Scott Hoang (Ph.D) Fall 2021 - Summer 2024* (degree frozen, as job offer is too good :-)
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Apple AIML
Visitors/Interns
Yee Yang Tee, Ph.D. student, EEE@Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, visitng VITA during Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Artur André Oiveira, Ph.D. student, CS@University of São Paulo, Brazil, visitng VITA during Dec 2021 - May 2022
Shuai Yang, Ph.D. student, CS@Peking University, visitng VITA during Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
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 [remote] (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
Undergraduate RAs & Senior Design Teams
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)
Mingkang Zhu, CS@UT Austin, undergraduate, Jan 2021 - Aug 2022 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CSE@CUHK)
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)
Benjamin McKenzie, CSE@TAMU, undergraduate, Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Ryan Wells, CSE@TAMU, undergraduate, Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 (Next Move: Software Engineer, JP Morgan)
Chase Brown, CSE@TAMU, undergraduate, Summer 2018
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]
