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Eli Brock

EECS PhD student

B.S.: University of Pittsburgh, Electrical Engineering

Research interests: Optimization, control theory, power systems

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Yixiao Huang

EECS PhD student

B.S.: City University of Hong Kong, Information Engineering

Research interests: Optimization, Transformer Theory, Trustworthy LLM

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George Ma

EECS PhD student

B.S.: Peking University, Information and Computing Science

Research interests: Machine Learning, Graph Representation Learning, Optimization

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Hyunin Lee

ME PhD student

B.S.: Seoul National University, Mechanical engineering

Research interests: Optimization, Machine Learning, Networks

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Srikar Babu Gadipudi

EECS PhD Student

B.S.: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Electrical Engineering

Research interests: Reinforcement Learning, Control Theory, Optimization

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Kaiwen Hu

EECS PhD Student

B.S.: Peking University

Research interests: self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning

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Xutao Ma

EECS PhD Student

M.Eng.: Shanghai Jiao Tong University

B.Eng.: Jiaotong University

Research interests: Optimization, Control Theory, Machine Learning

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Alex Zalles

EECS PhD Student

B.S.: Rice University

Research interests: Optimization, Machine Learning, Optimal Transport

Alumni

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Salar Fattahi (PhD 2020; Thesis): Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

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Cedric Josz (Postdoc 2017-2019), Assistant Professor, Columbia University

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Nan Tian (PhD 2020): Lead Research Scientist, Bosch Research

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Christian Grussler (Postdoc 2020-2021), Assistant Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Mohammad Mahdi Khalili (Postdoc 2019-2020), Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, part-time research scientist at Yahoo! Research.

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Fernando Gama (Postdoc 2020-2021), VP of Machine Learning Research, Morgan Stanley

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Elizabeth Glista (PhD 2023, Thesis): Power Systems Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Ziye (Gaven) Ma (PhD 2024): (Presidential) Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong

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Brendon G. Anderson (PhD 2024): Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University

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Tanmay Gautam (PhD 2024): Research Scientist, Microsoft Research

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Samuel Pfrommer (PhD 2025): Skild AI

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Yatong Bai (PhD 2025): Research Scientist, Music Foundation Models, ByteDance

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Jingqi Li (PhD 2025): Peter O’ Donnell Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, UT Austin