Ph.D. students and postdocs

I was gratified to receive the campus-wide Graduate Mentoring Award in 2020. To find more information about my broader “academic family,” visit my genealogy entry.

current

in alphabetical order

	Idan Attias Postdoctoral Fellow at IDEAL, 2024 -- present (co-mentored with Avrim Blum) learning theory, decision-making, game theory, optimization, inference, information theory
	Bethany Austhof Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, in progress
	Xing Gao Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, in progress (co-advised with Yu Cheng)
	Duan Tu Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, in progress

former

in reverse chronological order

	Thomas Jacob Maranzatto Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, 2024 "Combinatorial Methods for Learning and Information Theory" current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Maryland (Maryland was Jake's first emplyer after UIC.)
	Saeed Hajizadeh Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, 2023 "Large-scale Minimax Optimization Problems" current position: Visiting Faculty at Roosevelt University (Roosevelt was Saeed's first employer after UIC.)
	Neshat Mohammadi Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIC, 2022 (co-advised with Anastasios Sidiropoulos) "Geometric Algorithms for Metric and Graph Learning" current position: Researcher at Truveta first position: Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University in Medicine
	Aditya Potukuchi Research Assistant Professor (postdoc) at UIC, 2020 -- 2022 (co-mentored with Will Perkins) discrete mathematics, probability theory, analysis of algorithms, coding theory, data science current position: Assistant Professor at York University in Electr. Eng. and Comp. Sci. (York University was Aditya's first employer after UIC.)
	Shelby Heinecke Ph.D. Mathematics at UIC, 2020 "Resilient Structures and Robust Machine Learning Algorithms" current position: Senior Research Manager at Salesforce (Salesforce was Shelby's first employer after UIC.)
	Mano Vikash Janardhanan Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, 2019 "Algorithms for Learning Networks and Learning from Networks" current position: Quantitative Researcher in Balyasny Asset Management first position: Applied Research Scientist at Lifion by ADP
	Benjamin Fish Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, 2018 "New Models and Algorithms for Data Analysis" current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in Comp. Sci. and Eng. first position: Postdoctoral Researcher at MSR Montréal and the Mila-Quebec AI Institute
	Yi Huang Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, 2017 "Problems in Learning under Limited Resources and Information" current position: Research Staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Comput. Sci. first position: Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago in Medicine
	Ádám D. Lelkes Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, 2017 (co-advised with György Turán) "Algorithms and Complexity Results for Big Data" current position: Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind first position: Software Engineer at Google Research
	Li Wang Research Assistant Professor (postdoc) at UIC, 2015 -- 2017 mathematical optimization, tensors, large-data, machine learning current position: Associate Professor at University of Texas at Arlington in Mathematics (UT Arlington was Li's first employer after UIC.)
	Jeremy Kun Ph.D. in Mathematics at UIC, 2016 "Graphs, New Models, and Complexity" current position: Staff Software Engineer at Google first position: Bitcoin Protocol Engineer at 21 Inc.