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

Yi LIN

Postdoc Fellow
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2024
Supervised by Hao CHEN

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

Wai TONG

Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA

PhD 2023
Supervised by Huamin QU

Chengpeng WANG

Postdoc
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA

PhD 2023
Supervised by Charles ZHANG

Xingbo WANG

Research Scientist
Bosch
San Jose, CA, USA

PhD 2022
Supervised by Huamin QU

Yifang WANG

Assistant Professor
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA

PhD 2022
Supervised by Huamin QU

Aoyu WU

Postdoc Fellow
Harvard University
Boston, MA, 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

Zhutian CHEN

Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities, MN, USA

PhD 2020
Supervised by Huamin QU

Meng XIA

Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA

PhD 2020
Supervised by Huamin QU and Xiaojuan MA

Xiaopeng LI

Research Scientist
Meta
Bellevue, WA, USA

PhD 2019
Supervised by Nevin L. ZHANG

Dongyu LIU

Assistant Professor
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, USA

PhD 2019
Supervised by Huamin QU

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

Hao WANG

Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Dit-Yan YEUNG

Yanhong WU

Senior Staff Research Scientist
Meta
Menlo Park, CA, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Huamin QU

Suining HE

Associate Professor
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA

PhD 2016
Supervised by Gary Shueng-Han CHAN

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

Longfei SHANGGUAN

Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

PhD 2015
Supervised by Yunhao LIU and Ke YI

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

Da YAN

Associate Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Wilfred Siu-Hung NG

Erheng ZHONG

Senior Staff Engineer
Meta
Menlo Park, CA, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Xiaonan GUO

Assistant Professor
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA

PhD 2013
Supervised by Lionel NI

Jeff Shaoming HUANG

Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA

PhD 2013
Supervised by Charles ZHANG

Xiaofei ZHANG

Associate Professor
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA

PhD 2013
Supervised by Lei CHEN

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

Qin ZHANG

Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA

PhD 2010
Supervised by Mordecai GOLIN and Ke YI

Xiang LIAN

Associate Professor
Kent State University
Kent, OH, USA

PhD 2009
Supervised by Lei CHEN

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

Xuerong YONG

Professor
University of Puerto Rico
Mayaguez, PR, USA

PhD 2002
Supervised by Mordecai GOLIN