RUGS -- Russell's Unusual Group of Students
Current members
Current members residing elsewhere, and former members
- Daniel Filan (PhD 2024)
- Sam Toyer (PhD 2024), now a Research Scientist at OpenAI
- Johannes Treutlein, now a Research Scientist at Anthropic
- Paria Rashidinejad (PhD 2022), now an Assistant Professor at USC
- Michael Dennis (PhD 2023), now a Research Scientist at Google Deepmind
- Adam Gleave (PhD 2022), now CEO of Far AI
- Erdem Biyik (postdoc 2022-23), now an Assistant Professor at USC.
- Thanard Kurutach (PhD 2021), now a Research Engineer at Cruise
- Rohin Shah (PhD 2021), now a Research Scientist at Deepmind
- Dylan Hadfield-Menell (PhD 2021), now an Assistant Professor at MIT
- Karthika Mohan (postdoc 2019-21), now an Assistant Professor at Oregon State
- Yi Wu (PhD 2020), now Assistant Professor at Tsinghua
- Daniel Reichman
- Smitha Milli
- Erik Karlsson
- Sheng-Yu (Peter) Wang
- Tongzhou Wang, now a PhD student at MIT
- Jared Rulison
- Nishant Desai
- Yusuf Erol
- David Moore, now at Google
- Siddharth Srivastava (postdoc 2012-15), now Assistant Professor at Arizona State
- Nick Hay (PhD 2016), now at Vicarious
- Constantin Berzan (MS 2015), now at Waymo
- Hugh Chen, now a PhD student at the University of Washington
- Farhad Kamran
- Sharad Vikram
- Aaron Wong
- Chris Xie
- Tejas Srinivasan
- Lea Jia
- Mark Rogers
- Xiang Cheng
- Alec Hoey
- Abhishek Gupta
- Oliver He
- Richard Doan
- Da Tang (in Beijing)
- Simon Du, undergraduate researcher, now an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington
- Will Cushing (postdoc 2013-15)
- Ole Torp Lassen (postdoc in Paris, 2013-14), now Lecturer at Roskilde University, Denmark
- Wei Wang (postdoc in Paris, 2013-14), now at Huawei
- Lei Li (postdoc 2011-14), now at Toutiao
- Shaunak Chatterjee (PhD 2013), now at LinkedIn
- Nimar Arora (PhD 2012), co-founder and CEO of Bayesian Logic., Inc.
- Daniel Duckworth (MS 2012), now at Premise
- Jason Wolfe (PhD 2011), now at Prismatic
- Tony Dear, undergraduate researcher, now a Lecturer at Columbia.
- Kevin Canini (PhD 2011), now at Google Ventures
- Brian Kulis, postdoc, 2010-2011, now Assoc. Prof. at Boston University
- Emma Brunskill, postdoc, 2009-2011, now Assoc. Prof. at Stanford
- Norm Aleks, now at Kaiser
- Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, postdoc, 2007-2009, now at SRI
- Erik Sudderth, postdoc, 2006-2009, now Asst. Prof. at Brown University
- Gregory Lawrence (PhD 2009), now at Yahoo!
- Fei Sha, postdoc, 2006-2007, now Associate Professor at USC
- Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli, postdoc, 2005-2007, now at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
- Bhaskara Marthi (PhD 2006), now at WillowGarage
- Brian Milch (PhD 2006), now at Google
- David Sontag (undergraduate researcher, 2003-5), now Assistant Professor at NYU
- Mark Pearson (MS 2006), now at Google
- David Latham
- Arnab Nilim, postdoc, 2004-2005, now a member of the Credit Derivatives Group at Citigroup
- Mark Paskin (PhD 2004), now at Google
- Eric Xing (PhD 2004), now Full Prof. at CMU
- Eyal Amir, postdoc, 2001-2003, now Assoc. Prof. at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Ilya Shpitser (undergraduate researcher, 2001-2), now Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins
- Vassilis Papavassiliou (PhD 2003), formerly at Teracent, now at Google
- Hanna Pasula (PhD 2003), now a postdoc at MIT
- David Andre (PhD 2003), now at Bodymedia Inc.
- Daishi Harada, formerly at Teracent, now at Google
- Kevin Murphy (PhD 2002), now Assoc. Prof. at University of British Columbia
- Jeffrey Forbes (PhD 2002), now a lecturer at Duke University
- Nikunj Oza (PhD 2001), now a Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center
- Joao de Freitas ("Nando"), postdoc, 1999-2001, now Assoc. Prof. at University of British Columbia
- Nir Friedman, postdoc 1996-98, now Senior Lecturer at Hebrew U.
- Geoff Zweig (PhD, 1998), now member of technical staff at IBM T.J. Watson Labs
- Ronald Parr (PhD, 1998), now Associate Professor at Duke University
- Othar Hansson (PhD, 1998}, now at Google
- Timothy Huang (PhD, 1997), formerly Assoc. Prof. at Middlebury College, VT; died June 2011
- Nathan Sturtevant (BS, 1997), now Assistant Professor at University of Denver
- Archie Russell
- Magnus Stensmo, postdoc
1996-7, now at IBM Almaden
- Lewis Stiller, now at Brightware
- W. Sean Owen
- Huma Dar
- Vandana Agarwal
- Jonathan Tash (PhD, 1996), now at Kontiki Inc.
- Keiji Kanazawa (postdoc, 1994-5), now at Microsoft Network
- Avi Pfeffer, BS, 1996, now
Associate Professor at Harvard University
- Daphne Koller (postdoc, UC Presidential Fellow, 1993-5), Associate Professor at Stanford
- Scott Schmidler (BS, 1995), now Associate Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University
- Andrew Mayer (PhD, 1994), founder of Heuristicrats Research Inc.
- Sabine Glesner (MS, 1994), now Professor at the Technical University of Berlin
- Ron Musick (PhD, 1994), now at Ikuni Inc.
- Scott Davies (BS, 1994; PhD, CMU, 1995), now at Google
- Gary Ogasawara (PhD, 1994), Director of Engineering at Gemini Mobile
- Shlomo Zilberstein (PhD, 1993), Professor at UMass Amherst
- Marie desJardins (PhD, 1992), research scientist at SRI, now Associate Professor at Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Sonia Marx (MS, 1991)
- Jeffrey Conroy (MS, 1991)
- Sudeshna Sarkar (MS, 1991), IIT PhD 1996, now Associate Professor at IIT Kharagpur
- Sven Koenig (MS, 1991), now Associate Professor at USC
- Lise Getoor (MS, 1989), now Associate Professor at Univ. of Maryland
- Lonnie Chrisman (BS, 1987), PhD,
CMU, 1996, now Research Scientist at the Institute for the Study of
Learning and Expertise and CTO of Lumina Decision Systems
- Christopher Malone (MS, 1988)
- Eric Wefald (MS, 1988), died August 1989
- Sampath Srinivas (MS, 1988), Stanford PhD 1994, now CEO, DanaStreet Internet Inc.
- Brenda Barbour (MS, 1987), AT&T Bell Labs
- Ramanathan Guha (MS, 1987), Stanford PhD 1991, former Chief Engineer at Netscape; founder, ePinions; now at Google
- Soumitra Dutta, (MS, 1987), now Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology at INSEAD, France