Group Members
Current Group
Faculty
Ph.D. Students
M.S. Students
- Dante Bailey
- Gehao Zhang
- Haodong Yang
- Lihao Zheng
- Tianhang Zhu
- Yiming Li
- Yiyan Peng
Undergraduate Students
- Brooks Hu
- Danah Ansari
- Eric Yang
- Ethan Foong
- Fiorelli Wong
- Jixin Yan
- Tia Rice
Alumni
Ph.D.
- Anthony Goeckner — PhD 2026
- Payal Mohapatra — PhD 2026
- Ruochen Jiao — Applied Scientist at Amazon (PhD 2024)
- Lixu Wang — Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (PhD 2024)
- Yixuan Wang — Software Engineer at Aurora (PhD 2024)
- Xiangguo Liu — Research Scientist at Meta (PhD 2023)
- Shichao Xu — Software Engineer at Google (PhD 2022)
- Zhilu Wang — Software Engineer at Google (PhD 2022)
- Hengyi Liang — PhD 2021
- Shuyue Lan — Software Engineer at NVIDIA (PhD 2021)
- Bowen Zheng — Software Engineer at Pony.ai (PhD 2018)
- Tianshu Wei — Software Engineer at Google (PhD 2018)
- Peng Deng — Software Engineer at Snap (PhD 2016)
M.S.
- Bingqi Shang — PhD student at MSU
- Chenxi Liu — PhD student at UMD
- Devashri Naik — PhD Student at University of Illinois at Chicago
- Frank Yang — Software Engineer at Scale.Ai
- Gyaan Antia
- Haijie Li
- Jinjin Cai — PhD Student at Purdue University
- Shamika Likhite — Software Engineer at SpeechAce
- Shivi Shivistrava — Controls Engineer at Merit Controls
- Shiyuan Duan — PhD student at UIUC
- Sparsh Gautam — Computer Vision Engineer at Tesla
- Talia Ben-Naim — Software Engineer at Medtronic
- Tianze Liu — PhD Student at Michigan Technological University
- Vincent Rimparsurat — Software Engineer at Epic Systems
- Weihe Gao
- Xiaoyuan Zhang
- Xinliang Li — PhD Student at University of Georgia
- Xinyu Cao
- Yueyuan Sui — PhD Student at Northwestern University
- Yufei Wang — PhD student at Northeastern
- Zinan Wang
Undergraduate
- Aria Ruan — Test Hardware Controls Engineer at Tesla
- Ruiqi Xu — PhD student at UChicago
- Samuel Hodge — Motor Engineer at Milwaukee Tool
Visitors
- Justin Liu — University of Southern California
- Nicolas Martinet — Predoctoral Research Associate at INSEAD
Postdoctoral
- Chao Huang — Associate Professor at the University of Southampton
Join Us
We are always looking for motivated students and researchers interested in trustworthy AI, cyber-physical systems, and design automation. If you would like to join the IDEAS Lab, please email Prof. Qi Zhu with your CV and a brief description of your research interests.