Group Members

We closely collaborate with Maja Mataric, David Traum, Lynn Miller and Jon Gratch.

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !

Jump to staff, master and bachelor students, alumni.

Staff

Mohammad Soleymani

Research associate professor, Lab director
email: soleymani@ict.usc.edu

Alesia Gainer

Project manager
email: gainer@ict.usc.edu

  • MBA, Columbia Business School
  • BA, Harvard Univesity

Minh Tran

PhD student
email: minh.n.tran@usc.edu

  • BSc in Computer Science, University of Rochester

Di Chang

PhD student
email: dichang@usc.edu

  • BSc in Informatics, Dalian and TUM

Maksim Siniukov

PhD student
email: siniukov@usc.edu

  • BSc in Computer Science, Moscow State University

Zongjian Li

PhD student
email: zongjian@usc.edu

  • BSc in Electrical Engineering, Fudan University
  • MSc in Electrical Engineering, USC

Kevin Joo

PhD student
email: khjoo@usc.edu

  • BSc in Computer Science, University of Maryland
  • MSc in Computer Science, University of Maryland

Zhangyu Jin

PhD student (co-supervised with Andrew Feng)
email: zjin@ict.usc.edu

  • BSc in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • MSc in Computer Science, USC

Ashutosh Chaubey

PhD student
email: achaubey@ict.usc.edu

  • BSc in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee

Lucía Gómez-Zaragozá

Visiting PhD student
email: lgomez@ict.usc.edu

  • Doctoral student at Universitat Politècnica de València

Master and Bachelor Students

Aarav Monga

Undergraduate researcher/CURVE fellow
email: armonga@usc.edu

Hongkun Gong

Undergraduate researcher
email: hongkung@usc.edu

Ellie Xing

Undergraduate researcher/CURVE fellow
email: elliexin@usc.edu

Bona Suh

Undergraduate researcher/CURVE fellow
email: bsuh@ict.usc.edu

Xulang Guan

Undergraduate researcher/CURVE fellow
email: xguan@ict.usc.edu

Alumni

Yufeng Yin

PhD student 2019 - 2024
Role: Research Scientist at TikTok

Trang Tran

Postdoctoral researcher 2021 - 2023
Role: Applied Scientist at Reality Defender

Leili Tavabi

PhD student 2018 - 2023
Role: Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Hugo Bohy

Graduate summer intern 2023
Role:

Mallory North

REU summer intern 2024
Role:

Jessica Wang

REU summer intern 2024
Role:

Jacob Choi

REU summer intern 2024
Role:

Joey Cindas

REU summer intern 2023
Role:

Haley Miguel

REU summer intern 2022
Role:

Tianxin Zu

Undergraduate researcher, spring 2022
Role:

Jiashu Xu

Researcher assistant, Sept 2021 - Aug 2022
Role: MSc student at Harvard

Madeleine Thompson

Researcher assistant, Sep 2021 - May 2022
Role: Operations Research Analyst at DoD

Yuchen Zhang

Research assistant, Sep 2021 - May 2022
Role: Software engineer at Qualcomm

Geffen Cooper

SURE Undergraduate summer intern 2021
Role: PhD student at UT Austin

Alexander Billups

REU Undergraduate summer intern 2021
Role:

Terri Liu

REU Undergraduate summer intern 2020
Role: Software engineer at Amazon Web Services

Yizhen Wu

Undergraduate student researcher, Jan 2020 - May 2021
Role: Software engineer at Google

Akshat Choube

Master student/research assistant, 2021
Role: Software engineer at Amazon

Liupei Lu

Master student/research assistant, 2020-2021
Role: Senior machine learning engineer at NVIDIA

Vlad Yanov

Software engineer, 2020
Role: Software engineer at Amazon

Kalin Stefanov

Research associate/Postdoc, Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
Role: Research fellow at Monash University

Soheil Rayatdoost

Visiting researcher, 2019 and 2020
Role:

Larry Zhang

Project assistant Computational mental health, Feb-Jul 2020
Role: PhD student at University of Indiana

Baiyu Huang

Student developer, Oct 2019 - May 2020
Role: Software engineer at Meta

Jan Ondras

Research assistant, May-Sep 2019
Role: PhD student at Cornell University

Former visitors, summer interns, BSc/ MSc students

Visitors and interns

Alan Hernandez, Summer 2019

Anna Poon, Summer 2019

Soheil Rayatdoost, Spring 2019