Pioneering data-driven algorithms to make actionable actions in the real world.

We are extremely fortunate to work with a group of highly talented and motivated students. Here are (might be incomplete) lists of student collaborators we work with.

Current Students

• [2021-current] Longchao Da, PhD in CS @ ASU
  • ERA 2023, CASE 2023, CDC 2023, AAAI 2024a, AAAI 2024b, IJMLC 2024, ECML-PKDD 2024, CIKM 2024, SDM 2025, ICML 2025, RLC 2025, IJCAI 2025a, IJCAI 2025b, KDD 2025, COLM 2025, AAAI 2026, ICLR 2026, KDD 2026a.
• [2023-current] Tiejin Chen, PhD in CS @ ASU
  • AAAI 2024, BlackHat USA 2024, ITSC 2024, SDM 2025, KDD 2025, ACL 2025a, ACL 2025b, SIGKDD Explorations 2025, EACL 2026a, EACL 2026b, IV 2026, ACL 2026a, ACL 2026b, ICML 2026a, KDD 2026b.
• [2024-current] Xiaoou Liu, PhD in CS @ ASU
  • ICCPS 2025, KDD 2025a, KDD 2025b, ICML 2026b, KDD 2026b.
• [2025-current] Huaiyuan Yao, PhD in CS @ ASU
  • SDM 2025, EACL 2026
• [2026-current] Ferdous Al Rafi, PhD in CS @ ASU
• [2026-current] Varun Shourie, PhD in CS @ ASU
• [2024-current] Mithun Shivakoti, MS in CS @ ASU | Sustainability | IJCAI 2025, KDD 2026a
• [2024-current] Justin Turnau, MS in CS @ ASU | MARL | RLC 2025, EACL 2026
• [2024-current] Thirulogasankar Pranav Kutralingam, MS in CS @ ASU | Sim2Real Transfer | RLC 2025, ICLR 2026, ACL 2026, KDD 2026a
• [2025-current] Jacob Igo, BS in CS @ ASU | AI for Edu | LERN 2026

Current Beds and Bots

Previous Students

• [2025.05-2025.09] Dengjia Zhang, MS in CS @ JHU (Next: UPitts ) | Uncertainty Quantification | PAKDD 2026
• [2024.02-2025.03] Spencer Young, BS in CS @ BYU (Next: GeTech ) | Uncertainty Quantification | ICML 2025, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
• [2024.10-2025.05] Albert Vo, BS in CS @ ASU | Sim2Real | RLC 2025, ICCPS 2025, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award (honorable mention)
• [2024.10-2025.05] Shreyas Bachiraju, BS in CS @ ASU | LLM Agents, Model Compression | RLC 2025, Fulton Engineering Outstanding Graduate, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award (honorable mention)
• [2022.10-2025.05] Jiaxing Zhang, PhD in IS @ NJIT (Next: TikTok) | KDD 2023, LoG 2023, ICML 2024, NeurIPS 2024, ICML 2025, KDD 2025
• [2024.11-2025.05] Yiran Zhang, PhD in ECE @ ASU | Sim2Real Testbed | ICCPS 2025
• [2023.09-2025.05] Kuan-Ru Liou, MS in CS @ ASU | Augmented Language Model | IJMLC 2024, EACL 2026, MS Thesis Outstanding Student Award
• [2024.05-2025.05] Parth Mitesh Shah, MS in CS @ ASU (Next: GoodFin) | AI Agents | CIKM 2024 Workshop, IJCAI 2025
• [2023.12-2025.03] Prithvi Shirke, MS in CS @ ASU (Next: Meta) | Computer Vision, LLM Agent | ITSC 2024
• [2024.04-2024.10] Vishnu Nandam, Undergrad in CS @ ASU | AI Agents | FURI program, CIKM 2024 Workshop, SDM’25, EACL 2026
• [2024.01-2024.05] Rushabh Jaiswal, MS in Computer Science @ ASU | CIKM 2024
• [2023.10-2024.05] Rohan Chhibba, MS in CS @ ASU | CIKM 2024
• [2023.10-2024.02] Chen Chu, MS in CS @ ASU | ECML-PKDD 2024
• [2023.06-2023.08] Minchiuan Gao, Visiting student @ ZJU (Next: CS PhD @ JHU) | AAAI 2024
• [2023.05-2023.08] Kai Ye, Visiting PhD @ UPitts (Next: Post-doc @ Columbia) | AAAI 2024
• [2022.10-2023.06] Junxian Li, Visiting Undergrad in CS @ XJTU (Next: CS PhD @ SJTU) | IJCAI 2023, ICDM 2023
• [2022.03-2023.03] Wenlu Du, PhD in CS @ NJIT (Next: Tenure Track AP @ Skidmore College) | AAAI 2023
• [2021.10-2022.06] Xiaoliang Lei, Visiting MS in CS @ XJTU (Next: CS PhD @ Oregon State University) | KDD 2022
• [2022.04-2022.12] Zhiyuan Feng, Visiting Undergrad in CS @ XJTU (Next: CS PhD @ Tsinghua) | ERA 2023
• [2024.01-2024.06] Ojas Chaturvedi, BASIS Chandler High School (Next: BS in CS @ Purdue)
• [2024.02-2024.06] Zaheen Jamil, BASIS Chandler High School (Next: BS in CE @ UIUC)
• [2022.04-2023.04] Romir Sharma, High School Student @ West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South | CASE 2023, CDC 2023
• [2022.01-2022.05] Johann Winter, Undergrad in CS @ NJIT (Next: CS Master @ NYU)
• [2022.04-2022.09] Melvin Academia, Undergrad in CS @ NJIT
• [2022.04-2022.09] Mahitha Thippireddy, High School Student @ West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South