Selected PhD Graduates

Xinchen WAN

Researcher
ByteDance
Seattle, 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

Xin LIU

Applied Scientist
Amazon Search/A9
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

Instructional 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

Huaijin WANG

Postdoc Scholar
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA

PhD 2023
Supervised by Shuai WANG

Xingbo WANG

Postdoc
Cornell University
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2022
Supervised by Huamin QU

Yifang WANG

Postdoc
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA

PhD 2022
Supervised by Huamin QU

Aoyu WU

Postdoc
Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA

PhD 2022
Supervised by Huamin QU

Da YAN

Systems Researcher
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, TX, 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

Senior Applied Scientist
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, 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

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

PhD 2019
Supervised by James KWOK

Xingjian SHI

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

PhD 2018
Supervised by Dit-Yan YEUNG

Wei BAI

Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research Redmond
Redmond, WA, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Kai CHEN

Hao WANG

Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Dit-Yan YEUNG

Yanhong WU

Research Scientist
Meta
Menlo Park, CA, USA

PhD 2017
Supervised by Huamin QU

Suining HE

Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA

PhD 2016
Supervised by Gary Shueng-Han CHAN

Nikos ARMENATZOGLOU

Software Development Manager
Amazon Web Services
Palo Alto, CA, USA

PhD 2015
Supervised by Dimitris PAPADIAS

Yueqi LI

Staff Software Engineer
X, the moonshot factory
Mountain View, 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
Google Inc.
New York, NY, USA

PhD 2014
Supervised by Charles ZHANG

Conglei SHI

Software Engineer
Transform
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

Principal Researcher
Tencent
Palo Alto, 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

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

PhD 2013
Supervised by Charles ZHANG

Xiaofei ZHANG

Assistant Professor
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA

PhD 2013
Supervised by Lei CHEN

Weizhu CHEN

Partner Science Manager
Microsoft
Redmond, WA, USA

PhD 2012
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Derek Hao HU

Senior Manager
Snap Inc.
Seattle, WA, USA

PhD 2012
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Nathan Nan LIU

Applied Scientist
Amazon
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

PhD 2011
Supervised by Qiang YANG

Ji LUO

Tech Lead Manager
Google Inc.
Sunnyvale View, CA, USA

PhD 2010
Supervised by Qian ZHANG

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