Current students

• Matt Raymond, PhD student (co-advised with Angela Violi)
• Yilun Zhu, PhD student
• Jianxin Zhang, PhD student
• Alex Ritchie, PhD student (co-advised with Laura Balzano)

Former PhD students and visitors, and placement and/or current position

• Yutong Wang, PhD 2022 (co-advised with Laura Balzano), now Asst. Prof. at Illinois Tech
• Han Bao, visiting PhD student 2019 -> [click link]
• Julian Katz-Samuels, PhD 2019 -> Postdoc at U. Washington, then Amazon then Meta
• Aniket Deshmukh, PhD 2019 -> Microsoft
• Srinagesh Sharma, PhD 2018 (co-advised with James Cutler) -> Microsoft
• Hossein Keshavarz, PhD 2017 (co-advised with Long Nguyen) -> Postdoc at U. Minnesota/IMA, now at General Motors.
• Efren Cruz Cortes, PhD 2017 -> Postdoc at UC Denver.
• Robert Vandermeulen, PhD 2016 -> postdoc at Humbolt University, Berlin.
• Harish Ramaswamy, visiting student/postdoc 2015 (jointly mentored with Ambuj Tewari) -> MSR India, now Asst. Prof. at IIT Madras.
• Takanori Watanabe, PhD 2014 (co-advised with Chandra Sripada) -> postdoc at UPenn.
• Joyce Liu, PhD 2013 (co-advised with Al Hero) -> postdoc at Berkeley, now at UPenn.
• Gowtham Bellala, PhD 2011 -> HP Labs, now at Flipkart.
• JooSeuk Kim, PhD 2011 -> Samsung, now at Amazon.
• Gyemin Lee, PhD 2011 -> postdoc in CSE at Michigan, Professor, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech).

Former M.S. students

• Hrithik Ravi, MS 2024
• Yuren Zhong, MS 2021
• Greg Handy, MS 2013 -> Univ. Utah
• Benjamin Schwartz, MS 2012 -> Qualcomm.
• Tyler Sanderson, MS 2012 -> Google.

Prospective students

If you are a prospective Ph.D. student who is interested in working with me, please read the following. I look for students with strong interest and ability in developing novel machine learning algorithms and proving theoretical guarantees for such algorithms. My students typically study and apply advanced linear algebra, multivariate statistics, convex optimization, measure-theoretic probability, functional analysis, and various other topics in pure and applied mathematics. My students can also expect to gain experience working with real-world data in the context of a particular application. If this appeals to you, please submit an application to the ECE program and indicate me as a faculty of interest.

If you are a current UM masters student looking to transition to the PhD program, the first half of January is when I am typically considering new students. Please include an unofficial transcript and resume.