Group

🔥 My lab currently has multiple openings for PhD/MS/BS students, interns, and visiting students with flexible start times. If you're interested, please check the prospective student page and review my research page to learn more about expectations for machine learning research in my lab.

PhD Students (in alphabetical order by last name)

Qin Ren (John Hennessy Fellowship)
Tong Shen, co-advised with Ji Liu
Yifan Wang

Visiting Scholars & Collaborators (in alphabetical order by last name)

Master Students

Hanwen Zhang, Nov. 2024 -
Xiang Zhang, Nov. 2024 -
Wen Zhang, Apr. 2025 -
Zhilin Zhang, May. 2025 -
Cheng-Yao Hong, Jun. 2025 -

Undergraduate Students

Lixuan Guo, Nov. 2024 -
Wenjing Liu, Jun. 2025 -
Ben Cheng, Jun. 2025 -
Alexander Do, Sept. 2025 -
Xurui Wang, Oct. 2025 -
Yujia Cai, Oct. 2025 -
Wenhao Gao, Dec. 2025 -
Zhen Yang, Jan. 2026 -
Yunduo Han, Jan. 2026 -
Yiding Hu, Jan. 2026 -

Alumni (PhD)

Yifei Min (PhD’24 @ Yale), Next: Two Sigma
Haocheng Dai (PhD’24 @ Utah), Next: Amazon Science
Shanlin Sun (PhD’25 @ UCI), Next: Meta Superintelligence Labs
Zhiyang Xu (PhD’26 @ Virginia Tech), Next: MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models, Silicon Valley Lab

Alumni (MS)

Fenglin Liu (MS'22 @ PKU), Next: PhD @ Oxford
Nuo Chen (MS'22 @ PKU), Next: PhD @ HKUST → Alibaba Qwen Team
Weicheng Dai (MS'23 @ NYU), Next: PhD @ BU
Dehai Min (MS'25 @ Monash), Next: PhD @ UIC
Lingxiao Li (RA'25 @ MMLab, CUHK), Next: PhD @ BU
Tiansheng Wen (MS'26 @ Xidian), Next: PhD @ Georgia Tech
Xiang Zhang (MS'26 @ UBC), Next: PhD @ UC Berkeley
Wen Zhang (MS'26 @ JHU), Next: PhD @ JHU
Zhilin Zhang (MS'26 @ NYU), Next: PhD @ UIC
Juntai Cao (MS'26 @ UBC), Next: PhD @ UBC

Alumni (BS)

Ruihan Zhao (BS'20, MS'21 @ UC Berkeley), Next: PhD @ UT Austin
Qingcheng Zeng (BS’21 @ Manchester and ZJU), Next: PhD @ Northwestern
Zhiran (Minerva) Zhang (BS'25 @ USTC), Next: PhD @ PSU
Wenjing Liu (BS'26 @ SYSU), Next: MS @ Stanford

Alumni (High School)

Sanskriti (Tiya) Singh (Class'24 @ BASIS Independent Silicon Valley), Next: BS @ MIT