LAVAlab Alumni

Graduate, Postdoctoral, and Visiting Scientist Alumni:

Faizan Ahmed (MS May 2019), now at Facebook
Mohamed El-Hadedy Aly, postdoctoral research associate, now research scientist at Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kevin Angstadt, now faculty at St. Lawrence Unviersity
Marco Barcella (MSEE, 2002), U.Va. ECE (advisor: Mircea Stan) - now with IBM
Chunkun Bo (PhD, Dec. 2019), now at Houzz
Michael Boyer (Ph.D. 2012), now with AMD Research
Shuai Che (Ph.D. 2012) - now with AMD Research
Sung Woo Chung (Ph.D. SNU 2003, visiting scientist Mar. 2005 - Jan. 2006) - now Assoc. Professor at Korea U.
Michele Co (Ph.D., 2006) - now a Research Associate with U.Va. CS and part of the UVA 2nd-place DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge team
Greg Faust - now a Ph.D. student in Molecular Biology at U.Va.
Marisabel Guevara (ME, May 2010; Ph.D. Duke 2014) - now with Oracle
Chris Gregg (co-advised with Kim Hazelwood)
Vinh Dang, postdoctoral research associate - now with Sandia National Laboratory
Deyuan Guo (MCS, 2016) - now with Synopsis
John Haskins (Ph.D., 2003) - now with Qualcomm
Cheryl He (ME, 2023)
Kevin Hirst (MCS, 2002) - now with VGT
Tibor Horvath (Ph.D., 2008) - now with Google
Wei Huang (Ph.D. UVA, 2007, postdoc 2008-2010) - now with AMD Research
Eric Humenay (ME, 2007) - now with Impact Technologies
Oluwole Jaiyeoba (Ph.D., 2023), now with AMD Research
Paul Lee (MS, Dec. 2009), U.Va. ECE (advisor: Mircea Stan) - now with SPAWAR, US Navy
Marzieh LEnjani (Ph.D., 2022) - now with Apple
Yingmin Li (Ph.D., Aug. 2006) - now with Qualcomm
Yubo Li, postdoctoral research associate, now with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Zhijian Lu (Ph.D., Jan. 2007), U.Va. ECE (advisor: John Lach)
Jiayuan Meng (Ph.D., Aug. 2010) - now with Argonne National Lab
Brett Meyer (Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon, Dec. 2009, postdoc Nov. 2009 - May 2011) - now Asst. Professor at McGill U.
Donnie Newell, now at Intel
Tho Nguyen, now at the National Academies
Sedat Ozer, postdoctoral research associate, now postdoctoral research associate with MIT Media Lab
Dharmesh Parikh (MCS, 2003) - now with IBM
Zhenyu Qi (Ph.D., Dec. 2010), U.Va. ECE (advisor: Mircea Stan) - now with Broadcom
Reza Rahimi (PhD, Dec. 2020), now with AMD
Elaheh Sadredini (PhD, May 2019), now faculty at UC Riverside
Mastooreh (Negin) Salajegheh, postdoctoral research associate, now with Qualcomm Research
Prateeksha Satyamoorthy (MS Eng. Physics, May 2011)- now with AMD
Karthik Sankaranarayanan (Ph.D. May 2009) - now with Intel Research
Jeremy Sheaffer (Ph.D., 2007) - now with Iowa State U.
Lukasz Szafaryn (Ph.D., 2015), now with AMD Research
David Tarjan (Ph.D. June 2009) - now with Samsung Research
Sivakumar Velusamy (MCS, 2005) - now with Google
Jack Wadden (PhD, 2018) - now postdoc at U. Michigan
Ke Wang, senior research scientist, now with the UVA Data Science Institute
Liang Wang (Ph.D., 2016) - now with Microsoft
Dee A.B. Weikle (Ph.D., 2001), now with Eastern Mennonite U.
Robert "Trey" West (MS, 2021) (co-advised with Mircea Stan) now with Honeywell
Chris White (MCS, 2007) - now with Mythic Entertainment/Electronic Arts
Jing Yang (co-advised with Mary Lou Soffa and Kamin Whitehouse)
Runjie Zhang (Ph.D., 2015), now with Oracle Labs

Undergraduate Researchers:

Jean Ablutz '01
Keenan Alchaar '23, now with Appian
Sean Arietta '08, now a Ph.D. student at Berkeley
Peter Brownlee Bakkum '10, now with Investment Technology Group
Keshav Balasubramanian'18, now a PhD student at USC
Jeff Barbieri '10, now with G3 Technologies
Adam Banda '07
Edric Barnes '12
Clay Carter '07
Matthew Casias '18, now at Capital One
Sui Chan '01
David Chang '10
David C. Chu '04, Ph.D. *09 UC-Berkeley, now at Microsoft Research Asia
Henry Cook '07, now a Ph.D. student at UC-Berkeley
Steve Cook '07, Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz
Puyan Dadvar '05, now with the Washington Metro Transit Authority
George Delmonte '11
Jonathan Erdman '02
Dan Epstein '12, Ph.D. student at U. Washington
David Faulkner '06, now at Amentra
Jordan Fix '11, Ph.D. student at Princeton
Jesse Foster '05, now with Verizon Business
Shougata Ghosh '05, MS *08 Princeton EE
Matt Goodrum '10, now at General Dynamics
Douglas Grosvenor '09, now at High Performance Technologies
Jovian Ho'10
Philo Juang '00, Ph.D. *05 Princeton EE, now with Google
Steve Kelley '01
Adriel Kim '22, now at Microsoft
Shawn Kim '13
Sue Kim '04
Michael King '02, now at Halfaker and Associates
Dan Kramp '19, now at AWS
Paul Lammana '02, now with Solers
Adrian Lanning '00, now at NTELOS Wireless
Irene Lee, class of '17 at Duke
Kyeong-Jae Lee '05, now a Ph.D. student at MIT
Sang-Ha "Shawn" Lee '10, now with Samsung
Drew Maier '07, now at Electronic Arts
Ami Malaviya '05, now with McKinsey
Daniel Marcus '07
David McWhorter '05, now with Commonwealth Computer Research
John Miranda '01, MS*04 George Washington University
Anindo Mukherjee '06, now at SAIC
Linh V. Nguyen, class of '16, Hampden-Sydney College
Eugene Otto '06, founded FooMojo
Chris Palmer '07, now with Bloomberg Financial
Divya Patel '18
Neha Pattanaiak '23
Sanil Rao '19, now PhD student at CMU
Megan Reddy '21, now at Blizzard
Phanwadee Sinthong '14, PhD UVA, now faculty at Chula Engineering University, Thailand
Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn '07, Ph.D.*11, UVA (CS)
Adam Spanberger '02, now at ITT NexGen
Kevin Stammetti '07, now with Booz Allen Hamilton
Yixin Sun '13, Ph.D. at Princeton, now faculty at UVA CS
Arun Thomas '03, MS*08 UVA, now with Vrije U.
Michael Trotter '10, now at CGI Federal
Lora Vaughn '04, now with US-DoD
Christian Viehland '12, now a Ph.D. student at Duke
William Wang '22, now with Rivian
Mike Wilkerson '11
Andrew Wilkes '11, now with Bloomberg
Eric Wirth '04
Vasil Zhigilei '21, now at Cloudflare
Yuriy Zilbergleyt '03

High School Researchers:

Shuyang Chen, Western Albemarle '14, now at Georgia Tech
Jesse Du, Albermarle HS
Dor Hananel, Western Albemarle '15, now at Georgia Tech

Last updated 10 Sept. 2023
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