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 (one as first author)
omersa@wm.edu
Tejal Nair (Fall 2025–present)
Education: BS @ Cornell University; MS @ Cornell University
Research: LLM Trustworthiness
Publications: ACL ×1 (one as first author)
tnair@wm.edu
Maiqi Jiang (Fall 2025–present)
Education: BS @ Northeastern University (Shenyang); MS @ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Research: Graph Learning, Efficient LLMs
Publications: EMNLP ×1, ICASSP ×2, ACL ×1 (two as first author)
mjiang04@wm.edu

Master Students

  • Jaidyn Vankirk — BS @ WM, MS @ WM; co-advised with Gang Zhou
  • Yushun Liu — BS @ UVA; ISBI ×1 (one as first author); co-advised with Xugui Zhou
  • Chenjie Ni — BS @ SEU, MS @ Northwestern; EMNLP ×1 (one as first author)

Undergraduate Students

  • Xuzhong Wang — BS @ WM; co-advised with Haipeng Chen

Alumni

  • Jackson Taylor — BS @ WM; EMNLP ×1
  • Mahmud Wasif Nafee — BS @ BUET -> PhD @ RPI; EMNLP ×1, ACL ×1 (one as first author)