people
PhD Students
Omid Mersa (Fall 2024–present)
Education: BS @ Iran University of Science and Technology; MS @ University of Tehran
Research: Quantum Computing, Time Series
Publications: ICASSP ×1, CHASE ×1, EMNLP ×1, MILCOM ×1 (2 as first author)
Tejal Nair (Fall 2025–present)
Education: BS @ Cornell University; MS @ Cornell University
Research: LLM Trustworthiness
Publications: ACL ×1, EMNLP ×1 (1 as first author)
Maiqi Jiang (Fall 2025–present)
Education: BS @ Northeastern University (Shenyang); MS @ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Research: Graph Learning, Efficient LLMs
Publications: EMNLP ×2, ICASSP ×2, ACL ×1 (2 as first author)
Master Students
- Yushun Liu — BS @ UVA -> MS @ Northwestern; ISBI ×1 (1 as first author); co-advised with Xugui Zhou
- Chenjie Ni — BS @ SEU -> MS @ Northwestern; EMNLP ×2 (2 as first author)
- Noman Ali — BS @ Panjab University -> MS @ TUM
- Zhen Xu — BS, MS @ NYU
- Yiran Ding — BS @ Hunan University, MS @ Brown
- Girija Bhusal — BS @ Tribhuvan University; EMNLP ×1
Undergraduate Students
- Xuzhong Wang — BS @ WM; EMNLP ×1 (1 as first author); co-advised with Haipeng Chen
- Jack Stawasz — BS @ WM; supported by NSF REU
Alumni
- Jaidyn Vankirk — BS @ WM, MS @ WM; co-advised with Gang Zhou
- Jackson Taylor — BS @ WM; EMNLP ×1
- Mahmud Wasif Nafee — BS @ BUET -> PhD @ RPI; EMNLP ×1, ACL ×1 (1 as first author)