People
PhD Students
![]() Yingcong Li (2020-) | ![]() Ege Onur Taga (2023-) | ![]() Alperen Gozeten (2024-) | |
![]() Xuechen Zhang (2020-) co-advised with Jiasi | ![]() Xiangyu Chang (2020-) co-advised with Amit | ![]() Emrullah Ildiz (2022-) |
Postdoctoral Scholar
![]() Xiaofeng Liu co-advised with Bill Currie | ![]() Zhe Du co-advised with Fabio |
PhD Alumni
- Mingchen Li (PhD 2024, Meta Research)
- Yahya Sattar (PhD 2023, currently postdoc with Sarah Dean)
Undergraduate Students and Alumni
- Ziyang Xiong (2024-Present)
- Jinzhi Yang (2024-Present)
- Kutay Tire (2024 Summer)
- Muti Kara (2024 Summer)
- Yixiao Huang (2023 Fall-Present, now at UC Berkeley)
- Haldun Balim (2023, now at Harvard)
- Haotian Chen (2023 Spring-Fall, now at UIUC Stats)
- Ziyang Chen (2023 Fall, now at University of Maryland)
- Chloe Au (2022-2023)
- Antonio Duran-Ramos (2022 summer intern)
- Halil Ibrahim Gulluk (2020 summer+fall intern, now at Stanford)
- Ridvan Yesiloglu (2020 summer intern, now at Stanford)
- Ahmet Demirkaya (2018 summer intern, now at Northeastern)
Postdoc Alumni
- Karthik Elamvazhuthi (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Master’s Students and Alumni
- Xiyuan Chang (2024-Present)
- Yongqi Chen (2024-Present)
- Mohammad Shahneh (Graduated with MS project in 2021)
- Yao-Chun Chan (Graduated with MS project in 2018, now at Google)
- Yinglun Li (Graduated with MS project in 2018, now UCR PhD Student)
- Yuan Zhao (MS student, Graduated 2020 with MS thesis)
- Wei-He Luo (MS student, Graduated 2021)
Prospective Students
We are actively looking for students who are interested in
- machine learning and data science (with a focus on algorithms and theory)
- applied math and statistics
Typical conference venues: ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, COLT.
Typical journal venues: TIT, TSP, JMLR, SIOPT.
Please contact Samet with a CV and transcript!