Mark Liberman is a Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania , holding appointments in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer and Information Science . He serves as Director of the Linguistic Data Consortium and Faculty Director of Ware College House . His career spans linguistics, speech technology, and computational methods. Education: Harvard University (1965-1969), MIT (M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) Professional Experience: AT&T Bell Laboratories (1975-1990), University of Pennsylvania (1990-present) His research interests include: Corpus-based Phonetics : Analyzing speech patterns via large-scale datasets. Clinical Applications : Developing speech biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases. Tonal Phonology : Studying lexical tone and intonation in languages like Yoruba and Mandarin. Formal Annotation Models : Creating frameworks for linguistic data standardization. Recent publications highlight automated speech analysis, cross-linguistic prosody, and digital biomarkers for conditions like ALS-FTD and Alzheimer’s. His collaborations span computational linguistics , neurology , and cognitive science . Scientific awards include the IEEE James L. Flanagan Award (2017), Antonio Zampolli Prize (2010), and fellowships from the AAAS and Linguistic Society of America . He advises PhD students May Chan and Jonathan Him Nok Lee and contributes to editorial boards for journals like Cognition and Annual Review of Linguistics . His work bridges speech science , language technology , and neurocognitive research .
Geoffrey E. Hinton is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is renowned for his foundational contributions to machine learning, particularly in the development of deep learning and neural networks. His research focuses on understanding learning processes in both artificial and biological systems, with key contributions including Boltzmann machines, backpropagation, and deep belief networks. He teaches advanced machine learning courses such as CSC2535, emphasizing topics like graphical models, variational inference, and deep learning architectures. His work has been published extensively in top journals and conferences, with recent papers exploring forward-forward algorithms, analog diffusion models, and scalable neural network training methods. Hinton has advised numerous PhD and master's students and collaborates with institutions like Vector Institute. He is a central figure in the global AI community, regularly presenting at conferences (e.g., 2023 talks on CBS 60 Minutes, BBC, and PBS). His lab focuses on advancing machine learning theory and applications, addressing challenges in vision, language, and generative models.
Sarita V Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she conducts research spanning hardware, programming languages, operating systems, and applications with a focus on domain-specific systems. Her work bridges theoretical foundations and practical implementations, particularly in extended reality and heterogeneous computing. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993, 1989) and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (1987). Prior to joining Illinois, she served on the faculty at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. Adve's research centers on generalizable and scalable specialization for domain-specific systems, with current emphasis on extended reality (XR) systems including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. She chairs the ILLIXR consortium to democratize XR research and developed the first fully open-source XR system (ILLIXR). Her foundational contributions include memory consistency models for C++ and Java programming languages, the Spandex coherence framework for heterogeneous systems, and software-driven approaches for hardware reliability. Her work spans hardware reliability (SWAT and RAMP projects), power management (GRACE system), and instruction-level parallelism. Recent publications reveal a strong focus on energy-efficient XR systems, hardware-software co-design for AI workloads, and resilience analysis. Her team explores rendering offload, visual-inertial odometry optimization, and compositional error injection frameworks, often targeting tradeoffs between energy, latency, and accuracy in mobile and edge environments. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of the ACM and IEEE ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award Anita Borg Institute Woman of Vision in Innovation Award ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship UIUC University Scholar University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Adve actively mentors students and has received multiple teaching awards. She co-founded the CARES movement to address discrimination in CS research events and chairs CS@Illinois CARES. Her service includes leadership roles in ACM SIGARCH (2015-2019), DARPA/ISAT study group, ACM Council, and Computing Research Association. She has secured significant funding including DARPA initiatives and Google Faculty Research Awards. She leads the ILLIXR consortium and has established collaborative research programs such as the $8.3M DARPA Joint University Microelectronics Program. Her lab focuses on open-source XR development, heterogeneous system architectures, and reliability-aware designs, with strong industry and government partnerships.
Qianwen Wang is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research combines interactive visualization with interpretable machine learning to foster intuitive, efficient, and reliable Human-AI collaboration. She actively seeks motivated students, research assistants, and interns to join her dynamic research team at UMN CS. Dr. Wang's research focuses on three primary themes: Human-AI Collaboration, where she designs tools to facilitate Human-AI interaction; Automatic & Intelligent Visualization, where she develops techniques to make visualizations accurately interpreted and easily used; and VIS+(X)AI in Biomed/Healthcare, where she studies how visualization and explainable AI can promote scientific discoveries in biomedicine and healthcare. Her work has made significant contributions to visualization, human-computer interaction, and bioinformatics, with particular applications in biomedical knowledge graphs and single-cell omics analysis. Her recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward integrating visualization with large language models and graph neural networks for biomedical applications. She has published extensively at top venues including IEEE VIS, ACM CHI, and Nature Medicine, with a focus on making AI systems more interpretable and useful for domain experts, particularly in healthcare contexts. Her work often bridges theoretical advances in visualization with practical applications in genomics and healthcare. Two IEEE VIS Honorable Mention Awards (2022, 2024) Best Paper Award from IMLH@ICML 2021 Two Best Abstract Awards from BioVis ISMB (2021, 2022) HDSI Postdoctoral Research Fund Award Research covered by MIT News and Nature Technology Features Dr. Wang actively contributes to the academic community through service roles including General Chair for ISMB BioVis, VisNotes and Poster Chair for IEEE PacificVis, and Program Committee member for IEEE VIS, ACM CHI, and ACM IUI. Her research has been supported by various grants that enable her team to develop innovative visualization techniques and explore their practical applications in biomedical domains. Her research group maintains an active presence in the visualization and HCI communities, with members participating in major conferences and workshops. The lab focuses on creating tools that bridge the gap between complex AI models and human understanding, with particular emphasis on making these technologies accessible and useful for domain experts in biomedical research.
John Paisley is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a member of Columbia's Data Science Institute (DSI). He holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University (2004-2010), followed by postdoctoral research in Computer Science at Princeton University and UC Berkeley. His research focuses on Bayesian models, posterior inference techniques for Big Data, and applications in data analysis, recommendation systems, information retrieval, and compressed sensing. He has pioneered methods like Bayesian Gaussian Process ODEs and Double Normalizing Flows, with recent work emphasizing uncertainty quantification in environmental modeling and neuroimaging analysis. His collaborative workflows (e.g., bneR ) address air pollution exposure and PM2.5 concentration uncertainties, combining Bayesian nonparametric ensembles with geospatial data. He has also developed frameworks for neural network interpretability, image denoising, and compressed sensing MRI. Paisley's work bridges statistical theory and applied machine learning, with applications in healthcare, environmental science, and geophysics. His academic contributions include over 50 publications since 2016, spanning topics like deep metric learning, adversarial learning, and variational inference optimization. He maintains an active research group and serves on editorial boards for machine learning and signal processing journals.
Naresh R. Shanbhag is the Jack Kilby Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as Director of the Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) Center and held the D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professorship at IIT Mumbai from 2015-2020. Previously, he was a visiting faculty member at National Taiwan University (2007) and Stanford University (2014). Dr. Shanbhag received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota (1993) in Electrical Engineering. From 1993 to 1995, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as the lead chip architect for AT&T's 51.84 Mb/s transceiver chips over twisted-pair wiring for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)-LAN and very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) chip-sets. His research focuses on the design of energy-efficient machine learning, communications, and signal processing systems on resource-constrained embedded platforms. He explores fundamental trade-offs between energy efficiency, latency and accuracy of decision-making systems implemented in nanoscale technologies, with applications to computer vision, biomedicine, automatic target recognition, and imaging. His work spans four primary focus areas: Resource-efficient Machine Learning for the Edge, In-memory Computing (IMC), Energy-efficient High Data Rate Communications, and Shannon-inspired Statistical Error Compensation (SEC). Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong emphasis on in-memory computing architectures (SRAM, MRAM, RRAM) for machine learning acceleration. His work consistently addresses energy-accuracy trade-offs, with increasing attention to security aspects of hardware implementations and applications to MIMO signal processing and edge AI systems. His research demonstrates a progression from theoretical foundations to practical silicon implementations. 2024 Semiconductor Research Corporation Innovation Award 2018 Semiconductor Industry Association/Semiconductor Research Corporation University Researcher Award 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award 2006 IEEE Fellow 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award Professor Shanbhag has mentored over 50 graduate students who now work at leading technology companies including Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and Apple. His research has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, AFRL, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Texas Instruments, Sandia National Laboratories, and industry partners including IBM, GlobalFoundries, and Intel Corporation. He led the Alternative Computational Models research theme (2006-2012) and was the founding Director of the SONIC Center (2013-2017), a 5-year multi-university center funded by DARPA and SRC. Currently, he leads research themes in the SRC and DARPA funded JUMP 2.0 Program's Center for Co-Design of Cognitive Systems and the Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity, and in the NSF IUCRC Center for Advanced Semiconductor Chips with Accelerated Performance (ASAP). As Director of the Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) Center, Professor Shanbhag leads a multidisciplinary team exploring novel computing paradigms for the nanoscale era. His group has benchmarked an extensive collection of in-memory computing and digital accelerator IC designs, maintaining a publicly available IMC benchmarking repository of metrics extracted from published IC prototypes. His research philosophy integrates concepts from information theory, statistical signal processing, detection and estimation, VLSI architectures, and digital and analog integrated circuits to develop energy-efficient systems from algorithms to silicon implementations.
Ward Whitt is the Wai T. Chang Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He joined Columbia in 2002 after a 25-year research career at AT&T, including positions at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs, where he was named an AT&T Fellow. He is also an Affiliated Member of the Financial and Business Analytics center. Professor Whitt's research focuses on stochastic processes and their applications in real-world systems. His primary areas of interest include queueing theory, stochastic-process limits, numerical transform inversion, and modeling of customer contact centers and telecommunications networks. His work bridges theoretical probability with practical engineering solutions, particularly in large-scale service systems. The available publication indicates a strong emphasis on stochastic-process limits and their use in approximating complex queueing systems. His research trends show a consistent focus on asymptotic methods, diffusion approximations, and performance analysis of stochastic models over decades. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1996) Professor Whitt has advised numerous graduate students and postdoctoral researchers throughout his career, though specific names are not listed in the provided text. He has led multiple research projects funded by industry and federal agencies, particularly in the domains of telecommunications and service operations, leveraging his expertise in applied probability and performance modeling. He is affiliated with research initiatives in financial and business analytics at Columbia, contributing methodological advances in stochastic modeling to data-driven decision-making systems.
Tim Q. Duong, Ph.D., is a Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, affiliated with the Departments of Radiology, Biochemistry, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Neuroscience. His research focuses on medical imaging, MRI, image analysis, machine learning, and predictive modeling for studying diseases like COVID-19 , neurodegeneration (Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis), brain injuries , and breast cancer . Develops AI-driven MRI techniques for early disease detection Investigates neuroplasticity in glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy Leads grants from NIH and National Eye Institute Research Trends : Recent publications emphasize AI integration in medical imaging, long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2, and advanced MRI applications for ocular and neurological disorders. Grants include multiple R01 awards for diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma studies. Training Opportunities : Actively recruits postdocs, research coordinators, and faculty. Offers research positions for graduate, medical, and high school students, including Regeneron Scholar programs. Labs & Teams : Leads the Duong Lab at Montefiore Medical Center, focusing on translational research for clinical imaging solutions.
Manuel R. Amieva is a Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine , holding joint appointments in Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology . He is also a member of the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) . His clinical practice at Stanford Medicine Children's Health focuses on pediatric infectious diseases. Education: Medical Education: Stanford University School of Medicine (1997) Fellowship: Stanford University Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship (2004) Internship & Residency: Stanford Health Care at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (1998-1999) Dr. Amieva's research investigates host-pathogen interactions at epithelial barriers, with specific expertise in Helicobacter pylori , Listeria monocytogenes , Salmonella enterica , and Staphylococcus aureus . His lab develops innovative organoid culture systems with controlled polarity to study microbial colonization and oncogenic mechanisms. Key discoveries include: H. pylori's manipulation of epithelial junctions via the CagA protein Listeria's exploitation of cell extrusion sites for invasion Staphylococcus toxin interactions with adherens junctions Gastric stem cell activation by pathogens Recent publication trends show continued leadership in infectious disease mechanisms (2020-2025), with a focus on: Pathogen-specific epithelial breach strategies Organoid modeling of viral/bacterial interactions Redox-dependent host factor regulation Single-cell spatial transcriptomic analyses Multi-institutional educational frameworks His scientific collaborations span disciplines including: Gastric cancer genomics initiatives COVID-19 lung infection models Stem cell-microbe interactions Medical education reform projects Dr. Amieva maintains active clinical research while mentoring students in both the Microbiology & Immunology and Pediatrics programs. His lab at Stanford employs advanced 3D confocal microscopy and organ-on-a-chip technologies to visualize epithelial colonization dynamics.
Prof. Waldemar Kolanus leads the Molecular Immunology and Cell Biology department at the University of Bonn's Life & Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES) . His research bridges immunoregulation , stem cell dynamics , and metabolic stress responses in immune cells. Unit 2 member at LIMES Principal investigator in SFB 704 and ImmunoSensation Cluster Leads a multidisciplinary lab with postdocs, PhD students, and technical staff His work focuses on intracellular signaling pathways connecting immune activation to tissue homeostasis, particularly through: Cytohesin proteins in integrin-mediated adhesion and migration TRIM71 in stem cell regulation and congenital hydrocephalus High-salt environments affecting macrophage function Publication trends show expertise in immune cell migration , genetic models , and chemical inhibition , with frequent use of mice and zebrafish for in vivo studies. Key articles explore: TRIM71's dual role in auditory development and germ cell maintenance Cytohesin family's Golgi regulation and insulin signaling Ruxolitinib's off-target migration inhibition of dendritic cells Contact details: Address: LIMES Institute, Carl-Troll-Straße 31, Bonn Email: kolanus.sekretariat@uni-bonn.de Phone: +49 228 73-62788
Jessica Williams, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute (LRI) with additional faculty appointments at Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, and Cleveland State University. She serves as the Cleveland Clinic liaison for Kent State University and represents the Clinic on the Executive Council for the Brain Health Institute and the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Executive Committee. Education: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroimmunology, Washington University School of Medicine (2017) Ph.D. in Immunology, The Ohio State University (2011) M.S. in Physiology, Purdue University (2006) B.S. in Biology/Chemistry, Lindenwood University (2004) Dr. Williams' research focuses on neuroimmune interactions during multiple sclerosis, particularly examining regional responses of CNS glia to immune stimuli and astrocyte-immune crosstalk. Her lab employs murine MS models, primary human and murine cell analyses, and MS patient lesion assessment to investigate cytokine-mediated neuroprotection and CNS repair mechanisms. Recent work highlights protective astrocyte functions mediated by traditionally deleterious cytokines. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals consistent focus on neuroimmune crosstalk in MS, with increasing emphasis on astrocyte heterogeneity, cytokine signaling (particularly IFNγ), and novel therapeutic targets like immunoproteasomes. Key themes include regional CNS differences in immune responses, glial cell repair mechanisms, and translating basic findings into potential MS therapies. Scientific Awards: Lerner Research Institute Excellence in Education Award (2022) Mentor of the Year Award (2023) Dr. Williams actively mentors the next generation of scientists as evidenced by her CIMER Trained Mentor certification and the graduation of PhD student Brandon Smith. Her research is supported by significant funding from the NIH, National MS Society, W.M. Keck Foundation, Brain Health Research Institute, and Neurological and Vision Impact Area. She regularly serves on study sections for the NIH, National MS Society, and Department of Defense. The Williams Laboratory investigates the interplay between immune and central nervous systems during MS, with current projects examining cytokine-mediated neuroimmune crosstalk for CNS repair and regionally distinct glial responses to inflammation. The lab employs advanced techniques including murine MS models and primary human cell analyses to identify novel therapeutic pathways for MS patients.
Jonathan A. Kelner is a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research focuses on applying techniques from pure mathematics to solve fundamental problems in algorithms and complexity theory, with the goal of developing practical algorithms for real-world questions. Dr. Kelner received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2006. Before joining the MIT faculty, he spent a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. His educational background has provided a strong foundation for his interdisciplinary research spanning mathematics and computer science. His research interests include combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, spectral graph theory, distributed computing, machine learning, computational geometry and topology, computational biology, signal processing, and random matrix theory. Kelner's work demonstrates how deep theoretical insights can lead to practical algorithmic improvements, particularly in graph algorithms and optimization problems. His approach often involves connecting seemingly disparate areas of mathematics to create novel algorithmic techniques. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong focus on spectral graph theory, optimization algorithms, and the Sum-of-Squares method. His work frequently addresses fundamental questions in theoretical computer science with practical implications for algorithm design. A notable trend in his research is the development of nearly-linear-time algorithms for various graph problems, which represents significant improvements over previous approaches. NSF CAREER Award Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship NEC Award for Research in Computers and Communication Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award Best Student Paper Award at STOC 2004 Best Paper Award at STOC 2011 Kokusai Denshin Denwa Junior Faculty Chair 2008 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award 2011 School of Science Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education 2012 Professor Kelner has been actively involved in mentoring students and has received recognition for his teaching excellence, including the School of Science Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education in 2012. His research has been supported by prestigious grants including the NSF CAREER Award. He has collaborated extensively with researchers across multiple institutions, often working with other leading figures in theoretical computer science to produce groundbreaking results in algorithm design. At MIT, Kelner is part of both the Mathematics Department and CSAIL, positioning him at the intersection of theoretical mathematics and practical computer science. This dual affiliation reflects the interdisciplinary nature of his work, which bridges pure mathematical theory with concrete algorithmic applications.
Nicole M. Gasparini is an Associate Professor in Tulane University's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Science & Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. from MIT (2003) and researches fluvial/tectonic geomorphology, landscape evolution modeling, and climate-erosion interactions using tools like Landlab. Her work investigates sediment transport, river network evolution, and human impacts on landscapes. Research integrates field data with numerical models to quantify erosion processes across diverse environments. Publications demonstrate expertise in geomorphic model development, particularly through contributions to the Landlab toolkit. Recent articles focus on climatic controls on erosion, fault geomorphology, and uncertainty quantification in earth-surface models. Awards: Marguerite T. Williams Award for contributions to geosciences and advocacy against harassment in STEM Leads collaborative projects on landscape response to climate change and mentors students/postdocs in geomorphology and computational modeling.
Rex Ying is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University's School of Engineering & Applied Science. He leads research in graph neural networks, geometric representation learning, and explainable AI, with applications spanning physical simulations, biology, knowledge graphs, and recommender systems. His lab actively recruits PhD students interested in geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, and trustworthy AI. Dr. Ying received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University under Jure Leskovec, with a thesis titled "Towards Expressive and Scalable Deep Representation Learning for Graphs." Prior to that, he graduated from Duke University in 2016 with highest distinction, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. His research focuses on three interconnected areas: advancing graph neural network architectures for improved expressiveness, scalability, and interpretability; innovating in geometric representation learning for data with diverse characteristics; and developing real-world applications across scientific domains. He has pioneered influential algorithms including GraphSAGE, PinSAGE, and GNNExplainer, and developed the first billion-scale graph embedding services at Pinterest as well as graph-based anomaly detection algorithms at Amazon. His recent publication trends show a strong focus on hyperbolic geometry for foundation models, non-Euclidean representation learning, and multimodal applications in computational biology. The research demonstrates increasing integration of geometric deep learning with large language models and foundation model architectures. KDD 2022 Dissertation Award 2019 Baidu Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence Dr. Ying actively serves the research community as a committee member for major conferences including AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, and WebConf for over seven years, and as area chair for LoG 2022. He co-leads the open-source PyTorch Geometric project and has organized numerous workshops on graph learning. His industry collaborations include Pinterest, Amazon, Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, Siemens, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Saudi Aramco. He teaches "Deep Learning for Graph-Structured Data" at Yale and mentors students in developing cutting-edge graph learning algorithms. His research lab collaborates with both academic institutions and industry partners to advance the state-of-the-art in graph representation learning, with particular emphasis on geometric deep learning and its applications to scientific discovery and real-world systems.
Shang-Tse Chen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia , National Taiwan University . He leads the NTU AI Security Lab , focusing on applied and theoretical machine learning with emphasis on cybersecurity, adversarial ML, and ML privacy/fairness. Education: PhD in Computer Science (Georgia Tech, 2019), BSc in CSIE (NTU, 2010) Awards: K. T. Li Young Researcher Award (2025), IBM PhD Fellowship (2018), KDD Best Student Paper Runner-Up (2016), NSF SaTC Grant (2017-2021) His research spans adversarial ML, certified defenses, model inversion attacks, and intersection with differential privacy/fairness. Recent work includes physical adversarial attacks on object detectors and practical defenses using JPEG compression. He teaches courses like Security and Privacy of Machine Learning and Introduction to Medical Informatics . Key publication trends show focus on adversarial robustness (ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR), cybersecurity applications (ACSAC), and ML fairness (ACL/EMNLP). Collaborations include industry partnerships with Intel Labs and Symantec. Scientific Awards: K. T. Li Young Researcher Award (2025) ACM TiiS Best Paper Honorable Mention (2020) IBM PhD Fellowship (2018) KDD Audience Appreciation Award Runner-Up (2018) Symantec Fellowship Runner-Up (2016) KDD Best Student Paper Runner-Up (2016) NSF Grant (2017) He advises 13 current students (PhD/MS/Undergrad) and has mentored alumni now at CMU/UC Berkeley. The lab actively recruits postdocs and students across levels.