People

PhD students & postdocs

Rui Ding

Postdoc · Co-hosted with Junhong Chen

AI for materials discovery

Oualid Bougzime

Incoming Postdoc · Co-hosted with Junhong Chen

ZD

Zixin Ding

PhD Student

active learning · AI + science · prompt optimization

Zhenya Liu

PhD Student

reinforcement learning · curriculum learning

Yang (Justin) Meng

PhD Student

reinforcement learning · AI + science · continual learning

Diantong Li

Incoming PhD Student

Bayesian optimization

Undergraduate & master's researchers

• Jade Cui — Undergraduate, CS
• Purpleline Zhang — Undergraduate, CS & Economics
• Ricky Bao — Undergraduate, CS
• William Li — Undergraduate, CS
• Linus Gan — Undergraduate, CUHK Shenzhen, CS SSRF Summer 2026
• Hao Shi — Master's Student, MPCS

Alumni — PhD students & postdocs

• Xuefeng Liu — PhD, 2026, co-supervised with Rick Stevens  →  Stanford University (Postdoc)
• Ziyu Ye — PhD, 2025  →  Google DeepMind
• Fengxue Zhang — PhD, 2025  →  Google
• Chaoqi Wang — PhD, 2025  →  xAI
• Chong Liu — Postdoc, 2024  →  University at Albany, SUNY (tenure-track assistant professor)
• Zhuokai Zhao — PhD, 2024  →  Meta AI
• Renyu Zhang — PhD, 2024, co-supervised with Robert Grossman  →  KLA

Alumni — undergraduate & master's

• Diantong Li — CS, BS 2026, visiting student from CUHK → PhD program at UChicago
• Justin Meng — CS & Applied Math, BS 2025 → PhD program at UChicago
• Hanlei Wen — CS, Spring 2025
• Zhenya Liu — MCAM, MS 2024 → PhD program at UChicago
• Tony Zong — Stats, BS 2024 → PhD program at Johns Hopkins University
• Tony Zhu — BS 2023
• Zhongnian Tao — CS, BS 2023
• Noame Qin — MCAM, MS 2022
• Chinmaya Mahesh — BS 2022, UIUC
• Yair Atlas — BS 2022
• Fangjian (Roy) Wu — CAM, BS 2021
• Jiaona Ma — MPCS, MS 2020
• Hank Zhang — MPCS, 2020 → PhD program at NYU (Shanghai track)
• Zifeng Kang — MPCS, MS 2020
• Louise Fan — BS 2020
• Fengxue Zhang — MPCS, 2020 → PhD program at UChicago
• Kaustubh Vinchure — MPCS, 2019

Joining the lab