The team · then & now
Alumni Hall of Fame
Over the years, hundreds of researchers have passed through the HUMANS Lab. Listed here are those who spent at least a year with us — many now lead labs of their own or drive research at the world’s top companies. Here is where they are today.
Former Postdocs
Alessandro BessiDirector AI R&D, Nextbit AI
Homa HosseinmardiAssistant Professor, UCLA
Goran MuricPrincipal Scientist, InferLink Corp.
Anna SapienzaAssistant Professor, University of CopenhagenFormer PhD Students
Adam BadawyPrincipal Data Scientist, Capital One
Charles (Duke) BickhamMachine Learning Researcher, Bloomberg
Alex BisbergAssistant Professor, CalPoly SLO
Herbert ChangAssistant Professor, Dartmouth
Emily ChenPostdoc, UC Santa Cruz
Ashok DebSenior Lecturer, West Point
Palash GoyalSenior Research Scientist, Google Cloud AI Research
Julie JiangResearch Scientist, Meta
Ryan HT KaoResearch Scientist, Aptima
Akira MatsuiAssistant Professor, Kobe University
Karishma SharmaApplied Scientist, Amazon
Alex SpangherPostdoc, Stanford
Shen YanResearch Scientist, Meta
Yilei ZengSenior Scientist, TencentOther Former Lab Members
Ashwin BalasubramanianSoftware Engineer, Google
Liuliu ChenPhD student, University of Melbourne
Yifei Crystal ChenData Scientist, Facebook
Divya ChoudharySenior Research Scientist, Samsung Research
Zihang Sky EPhD student, Northwestern University
Aditya GuptaSDE II, Amazon
Samar HaiderPhD student, University of Pennsylvania
Nikhil JindalSDE, Amazon
Dhruv MathewMachine Learning Engineer, Quantiphi
Joyston MenesezSoftware Developer, USC School of Social Work
Ankith MohanPhD student, Virginia Tech
Vikram MudaliarSDE II, Amazon
Huy Tran NghiemPhD student, University of Maryland
Jaimin PatelFounder & Builder, Caddi
Jinhu Tony QiPhD Student, CUHK
Vandana Sreenivasa RaoSearch, Salesforce
Tanishq SalkarData Scientist, USC ISI
Chiyu WeiPhD student, Dartmouth College
Weiwei ZhengBig Data Developer, Huawei