At NC State University, I lead a lab named Softmax [Lab Homepage]. I am fortunate to advise the following students.

Current Students:

• Shengran Guo (Fall 2025 - , PhD)
• Zhezhen Cao (Fall 2025 - , PhD)
• Quoc Hung Le (Fall 2024 - , PhD)
• Yinan Wu (Fall 2024 - , PhD)
• Xiang Lan (Fall 2024 - , PhD)
• Hua Yang (Fall 2024 - , PhD)
• Sen Fang (Spring 2025 - , PhD)
• Weiyuan Ding (Spring 2025 - , Master Student)
• Jason Lu (Spring 2025 - , Undergraduate Student)
• Devon Kennedy (Spring 2025, Fall 2025 - , Undergraduate Student)

Lab Alumni:

• Jingyuan Zhang (Summer 2025, Visiting Undergraduate Student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Nanxi Yi (Summer 2025, Visiting Undergraduate Student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
• Kexin Yi (Summer 2025, Visiting Undergraduate Student from Nanjing University)
• Pankaj Manoharlal Thakur (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, Spring 2025 - Summer 2025, Master Student, First job at LexisNexis)
• Yogesh Hasabe (Fall 2024, Master Student)
• Jahnavi Panchavati (Spring 2025, Master Student)
• Rohan Manish Ajmera (Spring 2025, Master Student)
• John Yu (Fall 2024, Undergraduate Student)
• Justin Kuethe (Summer & Fall 2024, Undergraduate Student)
• Jordan Miller (Summer 2024, Undergraduate Student)
• Xufeng Ce (Summer 2024, Undergraduate Student)
• Nitesh Mishra (Spring 2024, Software Engineer, First job at Barclays)
• Ejaz Shaik (Spring 2024, Master Student, First job at Marvell Semiconductor)
• Firasat Hussain Mohammed (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, Master Student, First job at AdImpact)
• Prabhanjan Vinoda Bharadwaj (Spring 2024, Master Student, First job at Microsoft)
• Deep Mehta (Spring 2024, Master Student, First job at Microsoft)
• Subodh Suryakant Gujar (Spring 2024, Master Student)
• Vignes KanchanadeviVenkataraman (Spring 2024, Master Student)
• Mitchell Huggins (Spring 2024, Undergraduate Student)
• Yinuo Wang (Spring 2024, Undergraduate Student)
• Kriti Patnala (Spring 2024, Undergraduate Student)