Selected PhD Graduates

Renjie PI

Research Scientist
NVIDIA
USA

PhD 2025
Supervised by Xiaofang ZHOU

Xinchen WAN

Network Engineer and Researcher
ByteDance
Bellevue, WA, USA

PhD 2025
Supervised by Kai CHEN

Hanrong YE

Research Scientist
NVIDIA Research
Santa Clara, CA, USA

PhD 2025
Supervised by Dan XU

Zifan SHI

Research Scientist
Adobe Research
San Jose, CA, USA

PhD 2024
Supervised by Dit-Yan YEUNG and Qifeng CHEN

Wuqi ZHANG

Research Scientist
MegaETH
Stanford, CA, USA

PhD 2024
Supervised by Shing-Chi CHEUNG

Dongkyu LEE

Applied Scientist II
Amazon
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2023
Supervised by Nevin L. ZHANG

Xin LIU

Senior Applied Scientist
Amazon Search - Rufus
Palo Alto, CA, USA

PhD 2023
Supervised by Yangqiu SONG

Li MA

Research Scientist
Scanline VFX Studio
Los Angeles, CA, USA

PhD 2023
Supervised by Pedro SANDER

Xingbo WANG

Research Scientist
Bosch
San Jose, CA, USA

PhD 2022
Supervised by Huamin QU

Da YAN

Member of Technical Staff
Anthropic
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2022
Supervised by Wei WANG

Jiajie TAN

Senior Indoor Location Engineer
Instacart
San Francisco, CA, USA

PhD 2021
Supervised by Gary Shueng-Han CHAN

Hongming ZHANG

Senior Researcher
Tencent AI Lab
Seattle, WA, USA

PhD 2021
Supervised by Yangqiu SONG

Xiaopeng LI

Research Scientist
Meta
Bellevue, WA, USA

PhD 2019
Supervised by Nevin L. ZHANG

Yao MING

Quantitative Researcher
Citadel Securities
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2019
Supervised by Huamin QU

Shuai ZHENG

Co-Founder and CEO
Stealth Startup
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA

PhD 2019
Supervised by James KWOK

Xingjian SHI

Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Santa Clara, CA, USA

PhD 2018
Supervised by Dit-Yan YEUNG

Wei BAI

Principal Software Research Architect
NVIDIA
Redmond, WA, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Kai CHEN

Jingjie JIANG

Staff Software Engineer
Google Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Bo LI

Yanhong WU

Senior Staff Research Scientist
Meta
Menlo Park, CA, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Huamin QU

Nikos ARMENATZOGLOU

Senior Software Development Manager
Amazon Web Services
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2015
Supervised by Dimitris PAPADIAS

Yueqi LI

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Stealth
San Jose, CA, USA

PhD 2015
Supervised by Shing-Chi CHEUNG

Peng LIU

Software Engineer
Uber
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Charles ZHANG

Dongni REN

Founder and CEO
Reorc
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Gary Shueng-Han CHAN

Conglei SHI

Founder
Stone Frontier
San Francisco, CA, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Huamin QU

Panpan XU

Senior Applied Scientist
Amazon Web Services
Santa Clara, CA, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Huamin QU

Erheng ZHONG

Senior Staff Engineer
Meta
Menlo Park, CA, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Weizhu CHEN

Technical Fellow and CVP
Microsoft
Redmond, WA, USA

PhD 2012
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Derek Hao HU

Senior Staff Software Engineer
Meta
Bellevue, WA, USA

PhD 2012
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Nathan Nan LIU

Principal Scientist
Amazon
Palo Alto, CA, USA

PhD 2011
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Stavros PAPADOPOULOS

Founder and CEO
TileDB, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, USA

PhD 2010
Supervised by Dimitris PAPADIAS

Xiangye XIAO

Product Manager
Google Inc.
Mountain View, CA, USA

PhD 2009
Supervised by Qiong LUO

Junfeng PAN

Engineering Manager
Meta
Menlo Park, CA, USA

PhD 2007
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Haifeng JIANG

Principal Software Engineer
Google Inc.
Los Altos, CA, USA

PhD 2004
Supervised by Hongjun LU