Undergraduate
Name, Degree Level, Department, and Research Interest Areas
 | Aryan Sachdev Undergraduate Biology SPIN Student; Illinois Chat |
 | Divvyam Arora Undergraduate Computer Science HPC GPT project |
 | Jamie Calub Undergraduate Computer Science @ Stony Brook University | ML Research Fellow @ UIUC Grow Nutrition Web Development |
 | Vasunandan Dar Undergratuate Computer Engineering Grow Nutrition Web Development |
Graduate
Name, Degree Level, Department, and Research Interest Areas
 | Dou Hoon Kwark Graduate Student MSCS Independent Study – CZ Biohub |
 | Heather Broome Doctoral Student Computer Science UIUC.chat Analysis, REU Mentor |
 | Minyang Tian Doctoral Student Physics CZ Bio Hub; Gravity Group |
 | Priyam Mazumdar Master of Science – MS, Statistics – Analytics Master of Science Statistics PhD – Electrical and Computer Engineering, REU Mentor |
 | Semih Kacmaz Graduate Student Physics Gravity Group |
 | Tingkai Liu Graduate Student Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis Research: IIDAI cloud computing |
 | Xiyue Zhu Graduate Student Electrical & Computer Engineering Thesis Research: AI models for MRI processing |
 | Yurii Halychanskyi Doctoral Student Computer Science Illinois Voucher Program |
Alumni
Name, Degree Level, Department, and Research Interest Areas
| Aaditya Parag Kothary | ECE 120 dataset generation assistance |
| Aarushi Aggrwal | Undergraduate Student ECE Cloud-based AI service for real-time actionable knowledge extraction from video |
| Adam Rebei | Computer Science at Princeton, AI for numerical relativity |
| Adithya Balaji | Part of team working on ECE 120 dataset generation |
| Aditya Sinha | Master of Science Computer Science Collaboration with Argonne National Laboratories |
| Akylai Kasymkulova | Graduate Student Computer Science, UIUC.chat outreach |
| Amir Kazemi | Graduate Student, CEE, DPI-ANL project |
| Aneesh Lodhavia | Computer Science, Development of AI-based tools for visual analytics |
| Arjun Gupta | Electrical & Computer Engineering AI applications for medicine |
| Arnaldo Rios Roman | Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Human fall detection project |
| Arnav Mehta | Electrical and Computer Engineering, IBM Cloud |
| Arnav Das | Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science |
| Asad Khan | Physics Convergence of AI and HPC. Deployment and use of distributed training algorithms on HAL, Summit (Oak Ridge National Lab) and Theta (Argonne) |
| Asmita Dabholkar | Master of Science – Information Science/Studies, AI Chatbot |
| Ayush Sharma | Undergraduate Computer Science SPIN Student; UIUC.chat |
| Ben Rabe | Electrical & Computer Engineering Hyperparameter tuning and its effects on deep learning performance and generalization |
| Bhanu Agarwal | Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science |
| Bingkun Fu | Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering, Independent Study – Mitochondria segmentation project |
| Bryan Zhang | BS, Computer Engineering |
| Chaturvedi Pranshu | Computer Science Using neural networks to analyze tumors in spectroscopic biopsy tissue; biomedical image segmentation with deep learning |
| Chenhao Li | Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Research: Xray analysis with vision-language models |
| Chiming Ni | Undergraduate ECE ZJUI, Truck type detection project |
| Christian Lee | Undergraduate Alliance for Research Enterprise Excellence in STEM Estimating Fractal Dimensions of Terrain Datasets collected from spaceborne and airborne sensors offered as Digital Elevation Model(s) using Box Counting Algorithm |
| Churan He | Electrical & Computer Engineering Implementation of machine learning algorithms on FPGAs |
| Daniel Johnson | Physics |
| Dhruv Sirsikar | Computer Science Development of AI-based tools for visual analytics |
| Diqing Zuo | Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis: FPGA acceleration |
| Diyu Lu | Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Eklavya Tyagi | Undergraduate ECE AI-based workflow management |
| Eric Modesitt | Undergraduate Student CS AI Workflow |
| Fiona Campbell | Undergraduate BS Information Science PNI – Personalized Nutrition Initiative |
| George Daniel | Physics |
| Han Chen | Electrical and Computer Engineering Federated Learning |
| Hangzheng Lin | Electrical and Computer Engineering porting Cancer Center’s models to CS-2; on HOLL-I account |
| Hannah Day | Physics Theory of deep learning, applications of AI to particle physics |
| Hao Huang | Undergraduate Geis College of business Vyriad {rpject |
| Haoran Zhang | Technical System Management Object detection/Classification/Interactive NLG |
| Hasan Al Saeedi | Undergraduate Computer Science Mentor Alliance for Research Enterprise Excellence in STEM students |
| Heather Broome | Doctoral Student Computer Science UIUC.chat Analysis, REU Mentor |
| Hongyu Shen | Electrical & Computer Engineering Graph nets and Bayesian nets for inference of high-dimensional signal manifolds |
| Howard Li | Electrical and Computer Engineering machine learning on FPGA |
| Huili Tao | Graduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Cloud Bursting |
| Imani Parker | Fisk University AI chatbot for personalized nutrition |
| Jack Bai | Electrical and Computer Engineering Dialog systems, Deep learning frameworks |
| Jeff Ma | Graduate Student Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis Research: Smart NIC, FPGA OpenCAPI application acceleration |
| Jiatong Li | Graduate Student Computer Science Collaboration with Argonne National Laboratories: Photocarboxylation |
| Jiaying Wu | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| Jin Song | Electrical & Computer Engineering deep model for human action detection |
| Jonathan Hahn | Undergraduate Alliance for Research Enterprise Excellence in STEM Estimating Fractal Dimensions of Terrain Datasets collected from spaceborne and airborne sensors offered as Digital Elevation Model(s) using Box Counting Algorithm |
| Joseph Rejive | Electrical & Computer Engineering Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms on FPGAs |
| Joshua Kyungil Min | Graduate Student Information Science UIUC.chat – Core Development |
| Justin Piggs | Fisk University AI chatbot for personalized nutrition |
| Justin Wang | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| Kai Karadi | Undergraduate Computer Engineering PNI – Personalized Nutrition Initiative |
| Kastan Day | Computer Science Distributed and Parallel Machine Learning |
| Kavitha Chandrasekar | Charm++ on the cloud |
| Ke Xu | Computer Science |
| Keshav Shivam | Computer Science, Neuromorphic computing |
| Kevin Li | Industrial Engineering 3D Reconstruction in Computer Vision; Deep Ocean Seen and Unseen Objects Detection |
| Lily Ke | Computer Science |
| Lisa Leung | Improving quality of Einstein Toolkit Binary Black Hole Simulations |
| Luis Hernandez | Undergraduate Alliance for Research Enterprise Excellence in STEM Estimating Fractal Dimensions of Terrain Datasets collected from spaceborne and airborne sensors offered as Digital Elevation Model(s) using Box Counting Algorithm |
| Luoyan Li | Graduate Student ECE MS FPGA OpenCAPI |
| Maahi Patel | Graduate Student Computer Science DOE FAIR |
| Maxwell A Lindsey | Undergraduate Computer Science Thesis Research: SIIP |
| Mengshen Yun | Electrical & Computer Engineering Accelerating convolution in deep neural networks on FPGAs |
| Mike Yeh | Computer Science |
| Muhil Arumugam | Statistics and Computer Science Development of AI-based tools for visual analytics (human action recognition) |
| Neha Sheth | |
| Nikil Ravi | Mathematics Convergence of AI and HPC. Training and optimization of AI models with applications to astrophysics, spectroscopy and cancer. Development of scalable distributed training algorithms. |
| Nina Trousdale | Senior-Grainger School of Engineering Individual Study – CS Structural Integrity Analysis Through ML Crack Segmentation |
| Parithimaal Karmehan | Implementing with OpenCAPI framework |
| Parth Patel | Graduate Student Computer Science Development and adoption of resilient federated learning algorithms |
| Parth Tyagi | Computer Science Convergence of AI and HPC. Training and optimization of AI models with applications to astrophysics, spectroscopy and cancer. Development of scalable distributed training algorithms. |
| Philip Richard Chmielowiec | Transfer Learning Applications to Sub-Seasonal Machine Learning Models |
| Pranav Kommaraju | Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Thesis: Personalized Nutrition project |
| Prannav Gupta | Computer Science Development of AI-based tools for visual analytics |
| Priyam Mazumdar | Master of Science – MS, Statistics – Analytics Master of Science Statistics PhD – Electrical and Computer Engineering, REU Mentor |
| Qi Long | Undergraduate ECE – Zhejiang University Senior Thesis: Advancing Domain‐expert LLM for Personalized Education |
| Qihang Zhao | Electrical & Computer Engineering Sound synthesis with GANs |
| Qinren Zhou | Graduate Student MS Ray Serve to serve multiple LLM models |
| Ramesh Saiharshith | Graduate Student DPI-ANL Research Partnerships Seed Grants – SAGE – Tessum |
| Rauf Makharov | Computer Science Analysis of digital elevation maps with deep learning |
| Rishabh Vallecha | Masters in Computer Science Computer Science PNI – Personalized Nutrition Initiative |
| Rishi Patel | Computer Science Convergence of AI and HPC. Training and optimization of AI models with applications to spectroscopy and cancer research. Development of scalable distributed training algorithms. |
| Riya Jain | Undergraduate Computer Science Independent Study – Garden project |
| Rohan Marwaha | Master of Science – MS, Technology Management Software Directorate / Center for AI Innovation / Research Consulting UIUC.chat, Cropwizard, Diamond, hpcGPT, Plants of India, ML4Bio |
| Rohan Prabhakar | Computer Science |
| Ruchika Biswas | Undergraduate Student Electrical and Computer Engineering Project 12: Hybrid Cloud & AI |
| Ruike Zhu | Electrical & Computer Engineering Human fall detection project |
| Ruixin Han | Graduate Student MSIM AI Chatbot – core development |
| Sara Sehgal | Undergraduate Student ECE Air Pollution Benchmarking System using deep learning |
| Sarah Billington | Law Ethical and legal implications arising from of the use of AI |
| Sarah Gawde | Graduate Student Computer Science PNI – Personalized Nutrition Initiative |
| Sarah Habib | Physics |
| Seon Mi Cho | Master of Science Computer Science Caterpillar |
| Seoyoung Yoon | Graduate Student MSIM Enhancing Response Accuracy of an LLM-Based Teaching Assistant Tool |
| Shawn Rosofsky | Physics Convergence of multi-scale and multi-physics simulations and AI; ongoing work focuses on accelerating software stacks with neural nets that describe sub-grid physical processes, such as turbulence |
| Shihua Zeng | Electrical and Computer Engineering 3D medical image segmentation |
| Shilan He | ANL |
| Shitian Yang | Electrical and Computer Engineering 3D medical image segmentation |
| Shixin Chen | Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis Research: Improving LLM responses quality |
| Shuyi Guo | Graduate Student MSIM Enhancing Response Accuracy of an LLM-Based Teaching Assistant Tool |
| Sibo Wang | Astronomy and Computer Science |
| Siddharth Gupta | Undergraduate Physics Collaboration with Argonne National Laboratories: Photocarboxylation |
| Sihan Cheng | Undergraduate BSIS Nutrition Data Collection and Analysis Tool with Generative AI Integration |
| Sophia Witola Reyes | Undergraduate Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering PNI – Personalized Nutrition Initiative |
| Sruthi Bhattiprolu | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| Tanitpong Lawphongpanich | Electrical & Computer Engineering Interfacing deep learning frameworks with FPGAs |
| Tasho Madondo | Undergraduate ECE Omniverse |
| Tejas Alagiri Kannan | Undergraduate Student Electrical and Computer Engineering Cloud-based AI service for real-time actionable knowledge extraction from video |
| Trusha Suresh Talati | Master of Science Computer Science Individual Project – Eye Tracking |
| Vasu Chalasani | Computer Science |
| Vignesh Srinivasakumar | Master of Science, Computer Science, Amazon |
| Vira Kasprova | Undergraduate Computer Science SIIP |
| Vira Kasprova | Undergraduate Computer Science UIUC.chat |
| Wei Ren | Computer Science |
| Wei Wei | Physics |
| Wenjun Wu | Graduate Student MS Industrial Engineering Clustering model for body tissue datasets |
| Wentao Yao | Graduate Student Computer Science TRANS-IPIC |
| Will Tegge | Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Project 12: Hybrid Cloud & AI |
| William Eustis | ECE Department (Computer Engineering) Computer Vision |
| Xiaobo Huang | Mathematics Production scale AI pipeline for gravitational wave detection |
| Xiwei Wang | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Yicheng Lu | Graduate Student Computer Science cloud bursting |
| Yifei (Ray) Xu | Undergraduate Student Computer Science Deep Learning AI analyses of the skilled and developing readers eye movements |
| Yifei Li | Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Independent Study – mitochondria segmentation project |
| Yifei Song | Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis Research: RAI – MPI |
| Yifeng Luo | Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Independent Study – mitochondria segmentation project |
| Yiqi Tao | Undergraduate ECE Digital maps |
| Yuan Ma | Electrical & Computer Engineering Accelerating convolution in deep neural networks on CAPI-based FPGA |
| Yue Yuan | Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis Research: RAI – MPI |
| Yuqi Mao | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| Yuzhou Wang | Mathematics Develop novel deep learning models to identify gravitational wave sources |
| Ze Yang | Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Collaboration with Argonne National Laboratories |
| Zhengyang Zhang | Graduate ECE FPGA app acceleration |
| Zhiwen (Jerome) You | AI Chatbot |
| Zhongbo Zhu | Graduate Student ECE MS Cloud Bursting |
| Zicheng Ma | Graduate Student Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS source-to-source translation of MPI to RAY |
| Zihan Li | Graduate Student MSIM PNI – Personalized Nutrition Initiative |
| Zilinghan Li | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Zixin Huang | Computer Science |