Alumni

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PhD Students:

• Yuan Shen (CS PhD, now at Apple)

PhD Mentees:

• Jason Ren (CS PhD, now assistant professor at UNC)
• Joao Marcos Correia Marques (CS PhD, now at Amazon Robotics)
• Jae Yong Lee (CS PhD, now at Meta)

Master Students:

• Xiyue Zhu (ECE MS, now UIUC PhD)
• Bhargav Chandaka (CS MS, now at Waabi)
• Max Hsu (CS MS, now UIUC PhD)
• David Yao (CS MS, now at Tesla)
• Haozhe Chen (ECE MS, now at Robotics Startup)
• Tianhang Cheng (CS MS, now UIUC PhD)

Visiting Students:

• Zhi-Hao Lin (MS NTU, Now UIUC PhD)
• Yuefan Wu (BS USTC, Now SFU PhD)
• Zeyuan Chen (BS USTC, Now UCSD PhD)
• Qianfan Chen (BS Peking)
• Ziyu Zhu (BS Peking)
• Xiaoxue Chen (PhD Tsinghua)
• Boyuan Chen (BS Tsinghua, now PhD Tsinghua)
• Hongchi Xia (BS SJTU, now PhD UIUC)
• Li Yuan (BS ZJU, now MS ZJU)

Undergraduate Students:

• Ryan Wolf
• Niviru Wijayaratne (Now CMU Master)
• Bhargav Chandaka (Now UIUC Master)

Interns and Mentees before Joining UIUC:

• Ioan Andrei Barsan (Now UofT PhD and Waabi Scientist)
• Simon Suo (Now Scientist at LlmaIndex)
• Sivabalan Manivasagam (Now UofT PhD and Waabi Scientist)
• Shivam Duggal (Now MIT PhD)
• Jerry Liu (Now CEO of LlamaIndex)
• Kelvin Wong (Now UofT PhD and Waabi Scientist)
• Joyce Yang (Now UofT PhD and Waabi Scientist)
• Frieda Rong (Now Stanford PhD)
• Shuhan Tan (Now UT Austin PhD)
• Shangjie Xue (Now GaTech PhD)
• Ze Yang (Now UofT PhD and Waabi Scientist)
• Yun Chen (Now UofT PhD and Waabi Scientist)
• Victor Rong (Now UofT PhD)
• Annie Zhang (Now Amazon)
• Lila Huang (Now Hudson River Trading)
• Xinkai Wei (Now UofT Master)
• Can Cui (Now Cruise)