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 (149 total) can be found below.

2027 – 2026 – 2025 – 2024 – 2023 – 2022 – 2021 – 2020

2027

Ali Alabiad — M.S. Student (Advisor: Siavash Mirarab) (2026–2027)

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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) (2026–2026)
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) (2026–2026)
Sumukh Pinge — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2022–2026)
Tianqi Zhang — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2021–2026)

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2025

Aleska Alvarado — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Allison Ibarra — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Allison Wang — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2025)
Citlali Villarreal — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Cole Carter — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2025)
Erin Equipilag — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Evan Honggo Widjojo — Undergraduate Regents Scholar (2024–2025)
Fengcheng Li — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Galvin Fickes — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
Hala Al Sheikh — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Harmonie Turner — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Jack Morales Ortiz — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
Jake Geronilla — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Janis Portillo — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Jose Barcelo Garcia — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
Kaicheng Li — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Karen Yan — Undergraduate Regents Scholar / Undergraduate Researcher (2023–2025)
Kenia Roman Ortiz — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2025)
Kevin Cioccia — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Kyra Fetter — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2025)
Lorraine Xie — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Maddie Ritter — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2025)
Min Paing — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2024–2025)
Olga Gantovnik — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Ryan Xavier — Undergraduate Researcher (2025–2025)
Sophia Garibay — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Sviatoslav Gantovnik — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Veronica Madrid Martinez — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)
Yareli Aguilar Diaz — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2025–2025)

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2024

Aiden Espiritu — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Anna Santos — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Ariel Broudy — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
David Vargas — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Emiliano Moreno-fierro — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Gabrielle Ruliva — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Gazelle Perez — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
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 (2024–2024)
Katy Stadler — Undergraduate Researcher (Co-Advisor: Bradley Voytek) (2024–2024)
Kayla Phillips — Undergraduate Researcher (2024–2024)
Leandra Visaya — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Lia Viray — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Lilianne Montehermoso — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Melissa Rodriguez Acosta — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
Miamor Gelacio — PRISM Center Summer High School Research Program Trainee (2024–2024)
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 (2024–2024)
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)

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2023

Alex Tan — High School Intern (2023–2023)
Alisa Rosing — High School Intern (2023–2023)
Amy Koh — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023–2023)
Anghela Payan — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2023–2023)
Giang Nguyen — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2023–2023)
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 (2023–2023)
Maya Morfin — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2023–2023)
Minxuan Zhou — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2023)
Nathanael Dufresne — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2023–2023)
Phu Dang — UCSD PACE Fellowship Program Trainee (2022–2023)
Ramiro Narváez Romo — ENLACE Summer Research Program Intern (2023–2023)
Sunwoo Kim — M.S. Student (2022–2023)
Tanvi Munjeti — High School Intern (2023–2023)

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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 (2022–2022)
Isaac Shamie — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Nathan Lewis) (2019–2022)
Jeffrey Liu — Undergraduate Researcher (2022–2022)
Jennifer Jiang — Undergraduate Researcher (2022–2022)
Josh Cross — Undergraduate Researcher (2021–2022)
Josiah Ruby — High Tech High Chula Vista (HTHCV) Intern (2022–2022)
Justin Morris — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2022)
Kai Lee — Undergraduate Researcher (2022–2022)
Katherine Izhikevich — Undergraduate Researcher (2021–2022)
Katy Chu — Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) Trainee (2022–2022)
Liangde Li — M.S. Student (Advisor: Arun Kumar) (2021–2022)
Matei-Alexandru Gărduș — Undergraduate Researcher (2022–2022)
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 (2022–2022)

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2021

Alan Apte — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021–2021)
Alan Tsui — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021–2021)
Annie Van — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2020–2021)
Aryan Malik — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021–2021)
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 (2021–2021)
Evan Suong — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021–2021)
Huiwen Lu — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021–2021)
Jared Zhang — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2021–2021)
Judy Liu — UCSD Computational Biology and Medicine (CBAM) Trainee (2021–2021)
Laura Xu — M.S. Student (Advisor: Francisco Contijoch) (2021–2021)
Lavanya Verma — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2020–2021)
Lily Steiner — Undergraduate Researcher (2021–2021)
Niya Shao — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2020–2021)
Rachel Fernandez — UCSD Computational Biology and Medicine (CBAM) Trainee (2021–2021)
Ricardo Aguilar — UCSD Computational Biology and Medicine (CBAM) Trainee (2021–2021)
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)

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2020

Alex Fong — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2020)
Anjelina Velazquez — UCSD DBMI Short Term Training Program (STTP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020–2020)
Eric Xiao — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2020)
Hannah Zhao — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2020)
Hannah Fisher — Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) Trainee (2020–2020)
Hemanth Battu — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2020)
Jaz Gill — Undergraduate Researcher (2019–2020)
Jing Shi — UCSD Academic Internship Program (AIP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020–2020)
Joona Kim — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2020)
Kim Almaraz — UCSD CSE Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) Trainee (2019–2020)
Mhea Bustria — UCSD DBMI Short Term Training Program (STTP) Undergraduate Trainee (2020–2020)
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 (2020–2020)
Savannah Collyer — Undergraduate Researcher (2019–2020)
Tiffany Ho — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2020)
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 (2020–2020)
William Duan — Undergraduate Researcher (2020–2020)
Yeseong Kim — Ph.D. Student (Advisor: Tajana Šimunić Rosing) (2019–2020)

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