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PhD Alumni

PhD Alumni 2014


  • William Blair Senior Security Software Engineer at SpaceX
  • Cody Doucette Software Engineer at Cloudflare
  • Flavio Esposito Associate Professor at Saint Louis University
  • Kun He Researcher at Meta Reality Labs
  • Ajjen Joshi Lead Computer Vision Scientist at SmartEye
  • Likai Liu
  • Michel Machado CTO at Digirati Intern
  • Xianrui Meng Founder of SealAI
  • Richard Skowyra Assistant Group Leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

PhD Alumni 2015


  • Yilei Chen Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science
  • Matthew Danish Researcher at Utrecht University
  • Dora Erdos Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director at Boston University
  • Benjamin Fuller Associate Professor at University of Connecticut
  • Danna Gurari Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder
  • Ye Li Staff Engineer II VMware
  • Aanchal Malhotra Head of Research at RippleX
  • Christin Naoum
  • Diane Theriault Staff Software Engineer at Google

PhD Alumni 2016


  • Mikhail Breslav Senior Systems Engineer at Cruise
  • Behzad Golshan Software Enginer at Google
  • Audrey Mao Independent researcher
  • Mohammad Saber Mirzaei Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
  • Dimitrios Papadopoulos Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Davide Proserpio Independent researcher
  • Natali Ruchansky Manager at Netflix
  • Jianming Zhang Principal Research Scientist at Adobe
  • Haohan Zhu Engineering Manager at Meta

PhD Alumni 2017


  • Sanaz Bahargam Staff Deep Learning Engineer at Samsung
  • Qinxun Bai Senior Research Scientist at Hikvision Research America
  • Faith Cakir Machine Learning Engineer at Google
  • Jeffrey Finkelstein Previously a Professor at Boston University
  • Maryam Ghasemi Lead Data Scientist at CVS Health
  • Eric Missimer Software Engineer at PLEX Solutions, LLC
  • Zhiqiang Ren Staff Engineer at VMware
  • Dan Schatzberg Research Intern at arm
  • Giovanni Ventorim Comarela Professor at Universidade Federal de Vicosa
  • Yuefeng Wang Akamai Technologies
  • Ying Ye Software Engineer at Google

PhD Alumni 2018


  • Yilei Chen Staff Resesrch Scientist at Visa
  • Zhuoqun Cheng Software Engineer at Pure Storage
  • Wenxin Feng Software Engineering Intern at Google
  • Kun He Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs
  • Omer Paneth Postdoctoral Associate at MIT
  • Wenda Qin Research Intern at Honda Research Institute USA, Inc
  • Zezhou Sun Current PhD student at Boston University
  • Huijuan Xu PostDoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley

PhD Alumni 2019


  • Sarah Bargal Assistant professor at Georgetown University
  • Yiwen Gu Current PhD candidate at BU
  • Jacob Harer Senior software developer at Canopy capital group
  • William Koch Autonomus Navigation lead at Merlin
  • Sha Lai Current PhD candidate at Boston university
  • Zhenyu Liao Research engineer at Meta
  • Nithin Mahendra Varma Junior Professor at University of Cologne
  • Aanchal Malhotra Head of Research at RippleX
  • Larissa Pinheiro Spinelli Software engineer at Wayfair
  • Om Dipakbhai Thakkar research engineer at OpenAI
  • Hanwen Wu Staff Software Engineer at Substrate

PhD Alumni 2020


  • Nabeel Akhtar Akamai technologies
  • James Cadden IBM Research manager
  • Qiaobin Fu Software Engineer tech lead at Google
  • Katherine Missimer Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
  • Ramesh Krishnan Pallavoor Suresh Software Engineer at Google
  • Xingchao Peng PhD Candidate
  • Kaihong Wang Fourth year PhD Candidate
  • Sophia Yakoubov assistant professor at Aarhus University.

PhD Alumni 2021


  • Harshal Chaudhari Senior Applied scientist at Etsy
  • Cody Doucette Software engineer at Coudflare
  • Qiancheng Fu PHD Student at BU
  • Louis Jenson Senior Research engineer at CFD Research Corporation
  • Aneesh Raman Current PhD candidate at BU
  • Sarah Scheffler Assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Xide Xia Research Scientist at Meta
  • Anatoliy Zinovyev PHD Student at BU

PhD Alumni 2022


  • Dmytro Bogatov Software developer at Amazon
  • Qi Feng Research Engineer at Meta
  • Ethan Heilman Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudfare
  • Rawane Issa Cryptography & Secure Computation Researcher & Engineer at Galois, Inc.
  • Emine Kaynar Terzioglu Researcher partnered with Mass Open Cloud and Red Hat
  • Donghyun Kim Assistant Professor at Korea University
  • Mark Lemay Previously an intern at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Siddharth Mysore Sthaneshwar Machine learning research engineer at Electronic arts
  • Mahir Patel Third-Year Computer Vision Ph.D. student
  • Tomislav Petrovic Ph.D. student at Boston University
  • Weihao Qu Assistant Professor at Monmouth University
  • Ben Usman Research software engineer at Google
  • Jiayu Zhang Postdoctoral scholar at Caltech
  • Xiao Zhou Postdoctoral associate at Yale University
  • Zhenxun Zhuang Research Scientist at Meta

PhD Alumni 2023


  • Divya Appapogu Graduate Teaching Fellow at Boston University
  • Esmail Asyabi Cloud Storage at Oracle
  • William Blair Senior Security engineer at SpaceX
  • Nathan Cordner Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Utah Valley University
  • Han Dong Full time PhD student
  • Bassel El Mabsout Ph.D candidate at Boston University
  • Ge Gao Software Engineer at Homesite Insurance
  • Ahmad Golchin Senior researcher
  • Laura Greige AI scientist at Electronic Arts
  • Ping Hu Faculty at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Ivan Izhbirdeev Teaching Assistant for CS 350
  • Hieu Le postdoc at CVLab EPFL
  • Jiawen Liu Teaching Assistant for CS 320
  • Maan Qraitem Full time PhD researcher
  • Ali Raza Senior Engineer at HPC System Architecture
  • Shahin Roozkhosh Affiliated researcher at Redhat
  • Nataniel Ruiz Gutierrez Senior research scientist at Google
  • Kuniaki Saito Senior Researcher at OMRON SINIC X
  • Pratik Sarkar Research Scientist at Surpa
  • Konstantinos Sotiropoulos Research Scientist at Meta
  • Zilu Tang NLP researcher at Boston University
  • Andrew Wood Professor at Boston University
  • Yida Xin Associate Data scientist at Thinkhat

PhD Alumni 2024


  • Dina Bashkirova Software engineer at Google
  • Gavin Brown Postdoc at the University of Washington
  • Andrea Burns Software Engineer at Google
  • Keyi Chen Research assistant, Optimal Lab at Boston University
  • Tianyi Chen Software Engineer at Celonis
  • Ludmila Research Scientist at Meta
  • Prateek Jain Doctoral student at Boston University
  • Ari Karchmer Postdoc at Harvard
  • Vitali Petsiuk Senior Researcher at Samsung Research America (SRA)
  • Chau Pham Teaching Fellow at Boston University
  • Luowen Qian Postdoc at CIS Lab at NTT Research
  • Anwesha Saha Technical Engineer at Spark!
  • Sanskriti Sharma Software Engineer at Redhat
  • Yuhang Song AI frameworks engineer at Intel
  • Ximeng Sun Applied Scientist at AMD
  • Reuben Research intern at Meta
  • Isidora Tourni Co-founder of a startup: Stealth Startup
  • Thomas Unger Software Engineer at Meta
  • Cheng Zhang Research Fellow at UCL
  • Zhongping Zhang Applied Scientist Intern
  • Yi Zheng Researcher at Kolachalama Lab

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