Current PhD Students

  • Shengbin Ye, expected to graduate 2024
  • Xin Tan, expected to graduate 2026
  • Tony Gao, expected to graduate 2026
  • Felipe Bedoya, expected to graduate 2027
  • Jiaming Liu, 2024—
  • Ethan Woods, 2024—
  • Nhi Le, 2024—
  • Tyler Bagwell, 2025–

Current MS and Undergraduate Students 

  • Assanali Akhtanov (9/24— )
  • Josh Davis
  • Darya Dziadzinets
  • Hao Qi (MS, 9/24— )
  • Menghan Jin (MS, visiting from UIUC)
  • Elaine Liu
  • Zhikang Liu (MS)
  • Sophia Lyu
  • Krish Kumar (8/24— )
  • Jason Zhu (MS)
  • Wyatt Bellinger (11/24— )
  • Victoria Nian
  • Lin Lu
  • Amlan Dey Avik (12/24— )

Alumni

PhD Students:

  • [6] Zejian Liu (Graduated 2024), currently Principal Data Scientist at Capital One
  • [5] Zijian Zeng (Graduated 2023, co-advise with Marina Vannucci), currently Scientist at PROS
  • [4] Huiming Lin (Graduated 2022), currently Data Scientist/Postdoc at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School
  • [3] Zhengjia Wang (Graduated 2021), currently Postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania
  • [2] Rongjie Liu (Graduated 2020), currently Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
  • [1] Yusha Liu (Graduated 2019, co-advise with Jeffrey Morris), currently Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill

Postdoc:

  • Cheng-Han Yu, 2018-2020, co-advise with Marina Vannucci, currently Assistant Professor at Marquette University

MS Students: 

  • Siling Liu, Graduated 2024, currently PhD student at Michigan State
  • Changhe Ji, Graduated 2024, currently PhD student at Purdue
  • Yangqianzi Jiang, Graduated 2024, currently PhD student at Rice
  • Grace Nie, Graduated 2021, currently PhD student at Rice
  • Ouyang Zhu, Graduated 2020, currently PhD student at the University of Notre Dame
  • Yerong Li, Graduated 2019, currently PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Hangyu Xie, Graduated 2018, currently Algorithm Engineer at ByteDance

Undergraduate Students: 

  • Isha Khapre, currently MS student at U Michigan
  • Ken Chen
  • Yuqi Chen
  • Amber Hu
  • Roy Bian
  • Benjamin Mao
  • Safa Malik (visiting)
  • Wafa Mohamed (Class of 2024), sponsored by Rice REU
  • Ajah Carter (University of Houston), REU
  • Dileka Gunawardana (Class of 2022, Statistics), currently PhD student at Stanford
  • Eduardo Landin (Class of 2022, Statistics and Computer Science)
  • Yuliia Suprun (Computer Science and Statistics, sponsored by Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF))
  • Zouyi Sun (Statistics)
  • Hengtao (Henry) Cui (Statistics)
  • Zi Wang (Statistics and Economics)
  • John Poole (Class of 2023, Reed College, sponsored by Google-Rice REU)
  • Xin Tan (Class of 2021, Statistics), currently PhD student at Rice
  • Michael Price (Class of 2021, Statistics), currently PhD student at Texas A&M
  • Benjamin Zheng (Class of 2021, Computer Science)
  • Minjun (Jay) Park (Class of 2020, CAAM)
  • Yirong Yang (Class of 2021, Math), currently PhD student at the University of Washington (Seattle)
  • Allen Mao (Class of 2020, Mathematics), currently PhD student at Northwestern University

K-12 Students:

  • Anna Zhou (Klein High School in Spring, Texas), 5/2021-8/2021, currently undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Tim Cai (Seven Lakes High School in Katy, Texas), 9/2020-6/2021

Visiting Students:

  • Karol Tang (visiting student from UT Austin)
  • Yingyu Cheng (MS student, University of Virginia), 5/2020-5/2021, currently PhD student at OSU
  • Xinrui Liu (PhD student, SYSU), 10/2018-10/2019, currently Lecturer at Shandong Normal University
  • Wei Tang (PhD student, Chinese Academy of Science)
  • Shijia Zhang (undergraduate student, USTC), 2018, currently PhD student at PSU
  • Keke Mei (undergraduate student, USTC), 2018, currently MS student at NCSU