Students
I have been incredibly fortunate to have gotten the opportunity to mentor such amazing graduate, undergraduate, and high school students. A complete list of my past students (148 total) can be found below.
2026
- Ben Laflen — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2026)
- Daniel Ji — M.S. Student, Undergraduate Researcher (2022–2026)
- Daniela Perry — Graduate Student (2025–2026)
- Derek Jones — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2020–2026)
- Eric Covington — Undergraduate Researcher (Co-Advisor: Scott Rudi) (2026)
- Kate Jackson — M.S. Student (2025–2026)
- Katelyn Nguyen — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2026)
- Lucas Patel — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Rob Knight) (2025–2026)
- Maxwell Urbina — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern, Undergraduate Researcher (2022–2026)
- Michael Lamkin — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Melissa Gymrek) (2024–2026)
- Pranav Gangwar — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Yatish Turakhia) (2025–2026)
- Sang Yoon Byun — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Vikas Bansal) (2026)
- Sumukh Pinge — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2022–2026)
- Tianqi Zhang — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2021–2026)
2025
- Aleska Alvarado — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Allison Ibarra — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Allison Wang — Undergraduate Researcher (2025)
- Citlali Villarreal — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Cole Carter — Undergraduate Researcher (2025)
- Erin Equipilag — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Evan Honggo Widjojo — Undergraduate Regents Scholar (2024–2025)
- Fengcheng Li — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Galvin Fickes — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
- Hala Al Sheikh — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Harmonie Turner — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Jack Morales Ortiz — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
- Jake Geronilla — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Janis Portillo — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Jose Barcelo Garcia — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
- Kaicheng Li — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Karen Yan — Undergraduate Regents Scholar / Undergraduate Researcher (2023–2025)
- Kenia Roman Ortiz — Undergraduate Researcher (2025)
- Kevin Cioccia — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Kyra Fetter — Undergraduate Researcher (2025)
- Lorraine Xie — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Maddie Ritter — Undergraduate Researcher (2025)
- Min Paing — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
- Olga Gantovnik — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Ryan Xavier — Undergraduate Researcher (2025)
- Sophia Garibay — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Sviatoslav Gantovnik — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Veronica Madrid Martinez — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
- Yareli Aguilar Diaz — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025)
2024
- Aiden Espiritu — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Anna Santos — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Ariel Broudy — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- David Vargas — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Emiliano Moreno-fierro — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Gabrielle Ruliva — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Gazelle Perez — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Ishika Agrawal — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023–2024)
- Jennifer Havens — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Joel Wertheim) (2021–2024)
- Jessica Zepeda — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Katy Stadler — Undergraduate Researcher (Co-Advisor: Bradley Voytek) (2024)
- Kayla Phillips — Undergraduate Researcher (2024)
- Leandra Visaya — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Lia Viray — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Lilianne Montehermoso — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Melissa Rodriguez Acosta — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Miamor Gelacio — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Peter Wang — Undergraduate Regents Scholar / Undergraduate Researcher (2023–2024)
- Shirley Bian — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023–2024)
- Vishnu Moorthy — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024)
- Vivian Liu — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023–2024)
- Warren Trinh — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023–2024)
- Weihong Xu — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2021–2024)
2023
- Alex Tan — High School Intern (2023)
- Alisa Rosing — High School Intern (2023)
- Amy Koh — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023)
- Anghela Payan — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2023)
- Giang Nguyen — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023)
- Grant Cheng — Undergraduate Regents Scholar (2021–2023)
- Helena Hundhausen — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2022–2023)
- Jaeyoung Kang — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2023)
- Jenny Lam — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2022–2023)
- Jonathan Pekar — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Joel Wertheim) (2019–2023)
- Justyce Granda — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2022–2023)
- Kathy Chen — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2022–2023)
- Leena Kang — UCSD PATHS Scholars Program Trainee (2022–2023)
- Maryelba Soto — ENLACE Summer Research Program Intern (2023)
- Maya Morfin — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2023)
- Minxuan Zhou — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2023)
- Nathanael Dufresne — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2023)
- Phu Dang — UCSD PACE Fellowship Program Trainee (2022–2023)
- Ramiro Narváez Romo — ENLACE Summer Research Program Intern (2023)
- Sunwoo Kim — M.S. Student (2022–2023)
- Tanvi Munjeti — High School Intern (2023)
2022
- An Zheng — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Melissa Gymrek) (2019–2022)
- Annie Liu — Undergraduate Regents Scholar (2021–2022)
- Behnam Khaleghi — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2022)
- Gil Pedroza — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2022)
- Isaac Shamie — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Nathan Lewis) (2019–2022)
- Jeffrey Liu — Undergraduate Researcher (2022)
- Jennifer Jiang — Undergraduate Researcher (2022)
- Josh Cross — Undergraduate Researcher (2021–2022)
- Josiah Ruby — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2022)
- Justin Morris — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2022)
- Kai Lee — Undergraduate Researcher (2022)
- Katherine Izhikevich — Undergraduate Researcher (2021–2022)
- Katy Chu — Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) Trainee (2022)
- Liangde Li — M.S. Student (Advisor: Arun Kumar) (2021–2022)
- Matei-Alexandru Gărduș — Undergraduate Researcher (2022)
- McKenna Lewis — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2019–2022)
- Prothit Halder — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021–2022)
- Rachel Kunowski — Undergraduate Researcher (Advisor: Natasha Martin) (2021–2022)
- Ronak Shah — Undergraduate Researcher (2021–2022)
- Ximena Zavala — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2022)
2021
- Alan Apte — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021)
- Alan Tsui — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021)
- Annie Van — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2020–2021)
- Aryan Malik — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021)
- Colin Young — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2021)
- David Dempsey — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020–2021)
- Edmond Choi — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021)
- Evan Suong — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021)
- Huiwen Lu — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021)
- Jared Zhang — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021)
- Judy Liu — UCSD Computational Biology and Medicine (CBAM) Trainee (2021)
- Laura Xu — M.S. Student (Advisor: Francisco Contijoch) (2021)
- Lavanya Verma — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2020–2021)
- Lily Steiner — Undergraduate Researcher (2021)
- Niya Shao — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2020–2021)
- Rachel Fernandez — UCSD Computational Biology and Medicine (CBAM) Trainee (2021)
- Ricardo Aguilar — UCSD Computational Biology and Medicine (CBAM) Trainee (2021)
- Rosey Bugayong — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2020–2021)
- Sahand Salamat — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2021)
- Saransh Gupta — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2021)
2020
- Alex Fong — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- Anjelina Velazquez — UCSD DBMI Short Term Training Program (STTP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020)
- Eric Xiao — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- Hannah Fisher — Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) Trainee (2020)
- Hannah Zhao — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- Hemanth Battu — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- Jaz Gill — Undergraduate Researcher (2019–2020)
- Jing Shi — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020)
- Joona Kim — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- Kim Almaraz — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2019–2020)
- Mhea Bustria — UCSD DBMI Short Term Training Program (STTP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020)
- Miranda Song — Triton Research & Experiential Learning Scholars (TRELS) Undergraduate Trainee (2019–2020)
- Sabeel Mansuri — Undergraduate Researcher (2019–2020)
- Sarah Meng — UCSD DBMI Short Term Training Program (STTP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020)
- Savannah Collyer — Undergraduate Researcher (2019–2020)
- Tiffany Ho — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- Titan Ngo — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2019–2020)
- Tyler Jang — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2019–2020)
- Viren Abhyankar — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- William Duan — Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
- Yeseong Kim — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2020)