Faculty

Xin Eric Wang

PhD Students

Chengzhi Liu
UCSB PhD student

Chuhan Li
UCSB PhD student

Saaket Agashe
UCSB PhD student

Yue Fan
UCSC PhD candidate

Qianqi Yan
UCSB PhD student

Kaiwen Zhou
UCSC PhD candidate

Kaizhi Zheng
UCSC PhD candidate

Zhaotian Weng
UCSB PhD Student

Zhen Zhang
UCSB PhD Student

Sophia Xiao Pu
UCSB PhD Student, Co-advised with Prof. William Wang

Deepak Nathani
UCSB PhD Student, Co-advised with Prof. William Wang

Gurusha Juneja
UCSB PhD Student, Co-advised with Prof. William Wang

Undergraduate Students

Anthony Reyna

Anderson Compalas

Ashwin Nagarajan

Daniel Hong

Shreedhar Jangam

Tejas Polu

Ph.D. Alumni

Xuehai He
UCSC Ph.D., 2025. Now Research Scientist at Microsoft AI SuperIntelligence

Jing Gu
UCSC Ph.D., 2025. Now Member of Technical Staff at xAI

Jialu Wang
UCSC Ph.D., 2024, Co-advised with Prof. Yang Liu. Now Research Scientist at TikTok

Swati Jindal
UCSC Ph.D., 2024, Advisor: Prof. Roberto Manduchi. Now Software Engineer at Google AR/VR

Tsu-Jui (Ray) Fu
UCSB Ph.D., 2024, Advisor: Prof. William Wang. Now Research Scientist at Apple AI/ML

Wanrong Zhu
UCSB Ph.D., 2024, Advisor: Prof. William Wang. Now Research Scientist at Adobe Research

Yujie Lu
UCSB Ph.D., 2025, Advisor: Prof. William Wang. Now Research Scientist at Meta GenAI

Weixi Feng
UCSB Ph.D., 2025, Advisor: Prof. William Wang. Now Research Scientist at Amazon AGI

Alumni

  • Chengzhi Liu, University of Liverpool undergrad (next: UCSB PhD student)
  • Qianzhong Chen, Stanford MS (next: Stanford PhD student)
  • Shuyu Gan, ZJU undergrad (next: UMN PhD student)
  • Dhananjay Sonawane, UCSC MS student (next: Conviva)
  • Shree Vignesh S, UCSC MS student (next: Fidelity Investments)
  • Bhrigu Garg, UCSC MS student (next: DataLink)
  • Seongsil Heo, UCSC PhD student
  • Xinyue (Gabby) Liu, UCSC undergrad student (next: UCSD MS student)
  • Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, UCSC MS student (next: UCSC PhD student with Prof.Yi Zhang)
  • Minghao Liu, UCSC PhD student
  • Winson Chen, UCSC MS student (next: UMN PhD student)
  • Diji Yang, UCSC MS student (next: UCSC PhD student with Prof.Yi Zhang)
  • Tongzhou Jiang, UCSC undergrad student (next: CMU MS student)
  • Chun Zhou, UCSC undergrad student (next: UCLA MS student)
  • Peiqi Su, UCSC undergrad student (next: NYU MS student)
  • Joseph Rodrigues, UCSC MS student
  • Jiayi Wei, UCSC MS student (next: Google)
  • An Yan, UCSD MS student (next: UCSD PhD student)
  • Jiannan Xiang, USTC undergrad student (next: CMU MS student)
  • Zhen Zhang, Tsinghua University undergrad (next: UCSB PhD student)
  • Yunchao Zhang, Zhejiang University undergrad (next: HKU PhD student)
  • Lyn Qiu, Peking undergrad + SJTU MS
  • Yuhang He, Zhejiang University undergrad (next: UCLA MS student)
  • Kenan Jiang, UC Berkeley undergrad (next: Emory PhD student)
  • Ruize Xu, RUC undergrad (next: Columbia MS student)

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