Group
I work with a team of excellent researchers. We call ourselves the FPSG. What this acronym means is left as an exercise for the reader (most people want the “G” to stand for “Group”).
I am very proud of my academic family (and slightly extended academic family). Here is a semi-recent group photo (Summer 2023):
PostDocs
- Sushant Dinesh (2025-present); UIUC CS Excellence Award
PhD
- Hannah Leung (2022-present; co-advised with Talia Ringer)
- Boru Chen (2022-present)
- Shashank Anand (2024-present; co-advised by Sophia Shao)
- Yan Zhu (2024-present)
- Kris Dong (2024-present; co-advised by Sophia Shao)
- Alex Thomas (2024-present; co-advised by John Kubiatowicz)
- Alan Wang (2025-present); Siebel Scholar, NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, Jane Street Fellowship Finalist, NDSEG Fellow
Undergraduate
- Frederic Wu (2024-present)
- Jaewon Hur (2025-present)
Interns/Visitors
- Rahul Jaikrishna (2025-present)
Alumni
PostDocs
- Yingchen Wang (2024-2025) → Google
- Flavien Solt (2024-2025) → National University of Singapore, Assistant Professor
PhD
- Hadi Asgharimoghaddam (2018-2021) → Meta Research
- Jose Rodrigo Sanchez Vicarte (2018-2022) → Intel Labs
- Kartik Hegde (2017-2023); Facebook PhD Fellow (2019-21) → Startup co-founder (acquired by Cadence)
- Jiyong Yu (2017-2023); Microsoft PhD Fellow (2020-22), W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award → Tenstorrent
- Riccardo Paccagnella (2019-2023); Siebel Scholar, Chirag Foundation Graduate Fellow, Distinguished Reviewer – Oakland/SP Shadow PC, Kuck PhD Thesis Award → CMU, Assistant Professor
- Rutvik Choudhary (2020-2025) → Google
- Sushant Dinesh (2019-2025) → FPSG PostDoc → UT Austin, Assistant Professor
- Nandeeka Nayak (2020-present); SURGE Fellow (2020-2025), NSF GRFP Honorable Mention; Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award → Annapurna Labs
Close PhD collaborators
- Mengjia Yan (Fall 2017-2019) → MIT, Assistant Professor
- Dimitrios Skarlatos (Fall 2017-2020) → CMU, Assistant Professor
- Vivek Nair (2020) → UC Berkeley PhD; Hertz Fellow
- Neil Zhao (2024) → UT Austin, Assistant Professor
Masters
- Rohit Agrawal (Fall 2017-2019) → NVIDIA
- Mohamad El-Hajj (Summer 2018) → Very Good Security Inc. → Google
- Yongye Zhu (2023-2025) → Princeton PhD
- Ronit Nagarapu (2024-2026); Siebel Scholar → Annapurna Labs
- Anish Dhanashekar (2024-2026); Warren Y. Dere Design Award, EECS Outstanding TA Award → NVIDIA
- Anto Kam (2024-2026) → Apple
Undergraduate
- Lucas Hsiung (2018-2019) → SiFive
- Ben Schreiber (2018-2019) → UIUC PhD
- Yulun (Allen) Yao (2017-2019) → Cornell PhD
- Rohan Prabhakar (2019-2021) → Princeton PhD
- Pradyumna Shome (2019-2021) → Georgia Tech PhD
- Joseph Ravichandran (2020-2021) → MIT SM/PhD; NSF Fellow
- Elizabeth He (2021-2022) → Startup
- Aishani Dhutta (2022-2023)
- Alan Wandke (2022-2023)
- Grant Garrett-Grossman (2020-2023) → DoD
- Archie Lee (2024)
- SooHyuk Cho (2024-2025) → Princeton PhD
- Wen Cao (2025-2026) → Stanford MS
- Julia Tomaszewska (2025-2026) → CMU MS
High School
- Max Wolff (Summer 2018)
- Sammy Shang (Summer 2018)
- Nicole Emi (Summer 2019)
- Benjamin ZeBrack (Summer 2019)
- Maya Viswanathan (Summer 2022)
Interns/Visitors
- Alice Wu (Summer 2023) → UCLA PhD
- Mohamad El-Hajj (Summer 2018) → UIUC MS
- Sachit Kuhar (Summer 2019) → Georgia Tech MS
- Jules Peyrat (Summer 2024) → EPFL MS
- Yuxin Jin (Summer-Fall 2024) → Princeton PhD
- Chenxi Wan (Summer-Fall 2024) → CMU PhD
- Florian Chive (2025)
- Jean-Nicolas Strauss (2025)
- Remi Germe (2025)
- Zhenrong Lang (2025)
- Severin Bochem (2025) → Princeton PhD