Post-docs and PhD Students (Future Professors)

  • Chi Han

    Chi Han (2021-2026)

    Science of Large Language Models (IBM PhD Fellow, Amazon AICE PhD Fellow, Mavis Future Faculty Fellow, ACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Intern at Meta, Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Tong Zhang, Kyunghyun Cho, Christopher D. Manning, Kathleen McKeown)

  • Yuji Zhang

    Yuji Zhang (2023-2025)

    Post-doc, LLM Knowledge Updating, Misinformation Detection, Cultural Norm Aware LLMs

  • Xiusi Chen

    Xiusi Chen (2024-2026)

    Post-doc, Reasoning, Planning and Alignment of Language Agents (SDM Best poster Award Honorable Mention, Intern at Amazon)

  • Jeonghwan Kim

    Jeonghwan Kim (2023-2027)

    Multimodal Foundation Models and Reasoning (Capital One PhD Fellow; HERE PhD Fellow) (Intern at Meta, Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Luna Dong)

  • Alexi Gladstone

    Alexi Gladstone (2024-2027)

    World Models, System 2 Thinking, Self-Supervised Learning, Multimodal Learning (NSF Graduate Research Fellow) (Intern at Meta, Palantir) (Thesis Committee: Yann Lecun, Yilun Du)

  • Cheng Qian

    Cheng Qian (2024-2028)

    LLM Agents, Creative Intlligence (Capital One PhD Fellow) (Intern at Salesforce)

  • Hyeonjeong Ha

    Hyeonjeong Ha (2024-2028)

    Multimodal Agentic Memory (Capital One PhD Fellow) (Intern at Apple, Meta)

  • Aditi Tiwari

    Aditi Tiwari (2024-2028)

    Robust Visual Recognition, Efficient Multimodal Learning, Action Recognition (Adobe PhD Fellow) (Intern at Adobe)

  • Jiateng Liu

    Jiateng Liu (2025-2028)

    AI for Physical Intelligence (Intern at Amazon, Adobe)

  • Kunlun Zhu

    Kunlun Zhu (2026-2029)

    LLM Agents, Multiagent System, Agents for Science

  • Ada Tur

    Ada Tur (2026-2030)

    Language Acquisition, Multimodal Grounding, AI Safety (NSF Graduate Research Fellow; Surge Fellow)

  • Sahil Shah

    Sahil Shah (2026-2030)

    Multimodal Reasoning, Video Understanding

    PhD Students (Future Lead Scientists)

  • Xingyao Wang

    Xingyao Wang (2022-2027)

    LLM Agents (NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship, Intern at Google), Co-Founder of AllHands AI (on leave 2024-2025) (Thesis Committee: Hao Peng, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Graham Neubig)

  • Charles Yu

    Charles Yu (2021-2026)

    Conditioned Generation, Language Model Debiasing (Intern at Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Chengxiang Zhai, Kathleen McKeown)

  • Thao Thi Bich Nguyen

    Thao Nguyen (2023-2028)

    AI for Scientific Discovery, Co-advised by Prof. Martin Burke (Intern at GenenTech)

  • Anna Hart

    Anna Hart (2023-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, AI for Bioengineering, Co-advised by Prof. Huimin Zhao (Intern at ORNL)

  • Xuejun Zhang

    Xuejun Zhang (2025-2029)

    Multimodal Foundation Models (Intern at Amazon)

  • Heng Wang

    Heng Wang (2025-2029)

    Interpretability, Reasoning for Structured Data, LLM Agents (Co-advised by Prof. Jiawei Han) (Intern at Salesforce)

  • Shujin Wu

    Shujin Wu (2025-2029)

    Human-centered AI (Amazon PhD Fellow) (Intern at Amazon)

  • Lawrence Zhao

    Lawrence Zhao (2026-2030)

    AI for scientific discovery, LLM agents (NSF Graduate Research Fellow)