Students

PhD Candidates

Sudarshan Babu

B.S.: Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Anna University
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Madhur Tulsiani
Email | Room 412.16

Ju-Chieh Chou

B.S.: National Taiwan University
M.S.: National Taiwan University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization; Speech and language
Advisor: Karen Livescu
Email | Home Page | Room 510

Xiaodan Du

B.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
M.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Area of Focus: Machine learning and Computer Vision
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich
Email | Home Page | Room 525
Honors: 2023 Outstanding TA Award

Jiading Fang

B.S.: Zhejiang University
M.S.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Area of Focus: 3D Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Robotics
Advisor: Matthew Walter
Email | Room 432

Mrinalkanti Ghosh

B.Tech: West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
M.Tech: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Area of Focus: Algorithms and Complexity
Advisor: Madhur Tulsiani
Email | Home Page

Gene Li

B.E.: Princeton University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
Email | Home Page | Room 412.6

Jiahao Li

B.S.: Sun Yat-sen University
M.S.: Washington University in St. Louis
Area of Focus: Computer Vision
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich
Email | Room 511

Shengjie Lin

B.S.: Tsinghua University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Matthew Walter
Email | Room 432

Xiao Luo

B.E.: University of Science and Technology of China
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Jinbo Xu
Email | Room 412.14

Naren Manoj

B.S.: University of Texas at Austin
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, Machine learning and optimization
Advisors: Avrim Blum and Yury Makarychev
Email | Room 404
Honors: 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Keziah Naggita

B.S.: Makerere University
Area of Focus: Human-Centric Machine Learning
Advisors: Avrim Blum and Matthew Walter
Email | Room 404

Max Ovsiankin

B.A.: University of California - Berkeley
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisor: Yury Makarychev
Email | Home Page | Room 403

Ankita Pasad

B.S.: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
M.S.: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Area of Focus: Machine learning applications to speech and language processing tasks
Advisor: Karen Livescu
Email | Home Page | Room 404
Honors: 2020 Outstanding TA Award

Kumar Kshitij Patel

B.Tech.: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
Email | Home Page | Room 512.18

Kavya Ravichandran

B.S.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Eng.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Avrim Blum
Email | Home Page | Room 512.18

Pedro Pamplona Savarese

B.S.: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
M.S.: Columbia University
Area of Focus: Machine Learning Theory
Advisor: David McAllester
Email | Home Page | Room 511

Pushkar Shukla

B.Tech.: Uttarakhand Technical University
M.S.: University of California, Santa Barbara
Area of Focus: Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Advisors: Matthew Turk
Email | Room 527

Ziwei Xie

B.E.: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Area of Focus: Computational biology and bioinformatics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Jinbo Xu
Email | Room 512.8

David Yunis

B.S.: University of Chicago
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Matthew Walter
Email | Home Page | Room 432

Pre-Candidacy Students

Marcelo Beramendi Caballero

B.S.: Case Western Reserve University
Area of Focus: Speech and language, Vision and graphics, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Karen Livescu
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2024-25 Student Body Representative

Dimitar Chakarov

A.B.: Princeton University
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
Email

2024-25 Student Body Representative

Chung-Ming Chien

B.S.: National Taiwan University
M.S.: National Taiwan University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Speech and language
Advisor: Karen Livescu
Email | Home Page | Room 506

Melissa Dutz

B.A.: Pomona College
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisor: Avrim Blum
Email | Room 506

Jingtian Ji

B.E.: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
M.E.: Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lausanne
M.E.: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Area of Focus: Robotics
Advisor: Matt Walter
Email

Tianchong Jiang

B.S.: University of Chicago
B.A.: University of Chicago
Area of Focus: Robotics, Speech and language, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Matt Walter
Email

Nirmit Joshi

B.Tech.: Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Nati Srebro
Email | Room 512.13
Honors: 2024 Outstanding TA Award

Amin Mohamadi

B.S.: Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
M.S.: University of British Columbia
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Zhiyuan Li
Email | Room 526

Ron Mosenzon

B.S.: Open University of Israel
M.S.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisor: Julia Chuzhoy
Email | Home Page | Room 512.12

Keming Ouyang

B.S.: University of Michigan
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisors: Madhur Tulsiani and Yury Makarychev
Email

Donya Saless

B.S.: University of Tehran
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity, Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Avrim Blum
Email | Home Page | Room 412.22

Omshi Samal

B.A.: Colgate University
Area of Focus: Algorithms and complexity
Advisors: Madhur Tulsiani and Yury Makarychev
Email

Jose Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda

B.S.: New York University Abu Dhabi
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Speech and language, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich
Email | Room 403

Luzhe Sun

B.SE.: Xiamen University
M.S.: University of Chicago
Area of Focus: Robotics, Vision and graphics
Advisor: Matthew Walter
Email | Room 432

2024-25 Student Body Representative

Vincent Tan

B.E.: Zhejiang University
Area of Focus: Robotics, Machine learning and optimization, Speech and language
Advisor: Matt Walter
Email

Haochen Wang

B.S.: University of Chicago
M.S.: Carnegie Mellon University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization; Vision and graphics
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich
Email | Home Page | Room 510

Shuo Xie

B.S.: Peking University M.S.: University of Chicago
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization, Speech and language
Advisor: Zhiyuan Li
Email | Room 525

Sally Xu

B.E.: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
M.S.: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich)
Area of Focus: Speech and language
Advisor: Karen Livescu
Email

Chenxiao Yang

B.S.: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
M.S.: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Area of Focus: Machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Zhiyuan Li
Email

Jessica Yang

B.S.: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.S.: University of Michigan
M.S.: University of Chicago
Area of Focus: Speech and language
Advisor: Karen Livescu
Email

Other Students Working at TTIC

Joshua Ahn

Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich

Yanhong Li

Institution: University of Chicago
Advisors: Karen Livescu, David McAllester, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Jaiwei Zhou
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Matthew McPartlon

Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Jinbo Xu

Tushant Mittal

Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Madhur Tulsiani
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Kevin Suk

Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich

Lijia Zhou

Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Nati Srebro