I have worked with the following students in different capacities:

Ph.D. Advisees:

• Yen-Chieh Lien, UMass (co-advised with W. B. Croft), 2017 — 2024 (expected)
• Sheshera Mysore, UMass (co-advised with A. McCallum), 2018 — 2024 (expected)
• Chris Samarinas, UMass, 2021 — current
• Hansi Zeng, UMass, 2021 — current
• Yaxin Zhu, UMass, 2021 — current
• Mahta Rafiee, UMass, 2022 — current
• Alireza Salemi, UMass, 2022 — current
• Julian Killingback, UMass, 2023 — current

 

Ph.D. Synthesis Project Advisees:

• Mashrur Rashik (Ph.D. Advisors: N. Mahyar and A. Sarvghad), 2023
• Avijit Mitra (Ph.D. Advisor: H. Yu), 2022
• Andrew Drozdov (Ph.D. Advisors: M. Iyyer and A. McCallum), 2021
• Neha Nayak Kennard (Ph.D. Advisor: A. McCallum), 2021
• Sheshera Mysore (Ph.D. Advisor: A. McCallum), 2021

 

MS Advisees (MS Thesis/Project):

• Julian Killingback, UMass MS (2023), now PhD student at UMass
• Arkin Dharawat, UMass MS (2022), now at TikTok
• Amit Hattimare, UMass MS (2022), now at Google
• Prafull Prakash, UMass MS (2021), now at Uber

 

BS Honors Thesis Advisees:

• Yulin Yang, UMass BS (2022)

 

Research Visitors:

• Emma Gerritse (Radboud University, The Netherlands), Sep – Dec 2022
• Stjepan Bijelonjić (Salzburg, Austria), Mar – Aug 2022
• David Fingerlos (Salzburg, Austria), Mar – Aug 2022
• Sebastian Hofstätter (TU Wien, Austria), Oct – Dec 2021

 

Ph.D. Thesis Committee:

• Andrew Drozdov, UMass Ph.D. (Advisors: M. Iyyer and A. McCallum)
• Puxuan Yu, UMass Ph.D. (Advisors: J. Allan and R. Rahimi)
• Nishant Yadav, UMass Ph.D. (Advisor: A. McCallum)
• Shengyao Zhuang, University of Queensland Ph.D. (Advisor: G. Zuccon)
• Dung Thai, UMass Ph.D. (Advisor: A. McCallum)
• Tu Vu, UMass Ph.D. (Advisor: M. Iyyer)
• Kalpesh Krishna, UMass Ph.D. (Advisor: M. Iyyer)
• Haw-Shiuan Chang, UMass Ph.D. (Advisor: A. McCallum)
• Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, UMass Ph.D. (Advisor: J. Allan)
• Jie Zou, University of Amsterdam Ph.D. (Advisor: E. Kanoulas)