Lab Members

Jung-Woo Chang (ECE PhD student, 2020-Present)

Yaman El Jandali (ECE PhD student, 2023-Present)

Neusha Javidnia (ECE PhD student, 2023-Present)

Nojan Sheybani (ECE PhD student, 2020-Present)

Soheil Zibakhsh Shabgahi (ECE PhD student, 2022-Present)

Ruisi Zhang (ECE PhD student, 2021-Present)

Current PhD Co-Advisees

Alexia Reyes (ECE PhD student, 2022-Present, co-advised with Prof. Tara Javidi)

Xinqiao Zhang (SDSU-UCSD joint PhD program, co-advised with Prof. Ke Huang)

Dr. Nasimeh Heydaribeni (PhD EECS U of Michigan, 2023-Present)

Dr. Shehzeen Hussain (PhD 2024, UCSD ECE Best Dissertation Award), Now Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Dr. Mojan Javaheripi (PhD 2023), Now Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft AI, LLMs, Phi model team

Dr. Zahra Ghodsi (PhD ECE NYU, Postdoc 2021-2023), Now Assistant Professor of ECE at Purdue University

Dr. Huili Chen (PhD 2022, UCSD ECE Best Dissertation Award), Now Research Scientist at Amazon AWS Security

Dr. Mohammad Samragh (PhD 2021), Now Research Scientist at Apple Mind

Dr. Siam Hussain (PhD 2021), Now Research Scientist at Chainlink Labs

Dr. Sadeqh Riazi (PhD 2020), Now at a startup

Dr. Bita Rouhani (PhD 2018, UCSD ECE Best Dissertation Award), Now Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA

Dr. Ebrahim Songhori (PhD 2016), Now Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini (PhD 2015, ECE Best Dissertation Award), Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

Dr. Joonho Kong (PhD 2012 Seoul National, Postdoc 2012-2014), Now Associate Professor of EE at Kyungpook National University

Dr. Arslan Munir (PhD 2012 U of Florida, Postdoc 2012-2014), Now Associate Professor of EECS at Florida Atlantic University

Dr. Max Rostami (PhD 2013), Now Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Dr. Mehrdad Majzoobi (PhD 2012), Now Entrepreneur in Residence at Circuit Launch

Dr. Yousra Alkabani (PhD 2011), Now Associate Professor at Ain Shams University