The UCLA Computer Science Department continues to celebrate another year of remarkable research accomplishments and achievements. We are proud to introduce fourteen exceptional graduate students who are embarking on a new chapter in their careers as professors at prestigious universities worldwide. These emerging scholars epitomize the pinnacle of excellence in both research and education within UCLA’s CS department and have made outstanding contributions these graduates have made to the field of Computer Science.
Patrick Chen, UCLA Ph.D. 2022
Faculty advisor: Cho-Jui Hsieh
Position: Assistant Professor | Binghamton University
https://patrick-h-chen.github.io/index.html
Arun Durvasula, UCLA Ph.D. 2021
Faculty advisor: Sriram Sankararaman
Position: Assistant Professor | University of Southern California
https://arundurvasula.github.io/
Spencer Frei, UCLA Ph.D. 2021
Faculty advisor: Quanquan Gu
Position: Assistant Professor | University of California, Davis
https://simons.berkeley.edu/people/spencer-frei
Ziniu Hu, UCLA Ph.D. 2023
Faculty advisor: Yizhou Sun
Position: Assistant Professor | Rennselaer Polytechnic University
https://acbull.github.io
Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran, UCLA Ph.D. 2020
Faculty advisor: Demetri Terzopoulos
Position: Assistant Professor | University of Kentucky in Lexington
https://www.engr.uky.edu/directory/imran-abdullah-al-zubaer
Ang Li, UCLA Ph.D. 2021
Faculty advisor: Judea Pearl
Position: Assistant Professor | Florida State University
https://www.causalds.org/
Zhaowei Tan, UCLA Ph.D. 2022
Faculty advisor: Songwu Lu
Position: Assistant Professor | University of California, Riverside
https://cs.ucr.edu/~ztan/
Matthew Wang, UCLA M.S. 2023
Faculty advisor: Guy Van den Broeck
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor | University of Washington
https://matthewwang.me/
Jian Weng, UCLA Ph.D. 2023
Faculty advisor: Tony Nowatzski
Position: Assistant Professor | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
https://were.github.io/
Pei Wu, UCLA Ph.D. 2021
Faculty advisor: Alexander Sherstov
Position: Assistant Professor | Penn State University
https://pwu.netlify.app/
Yanchao Yang, UCLA Ph.D. 2019
Faculty advisor: Stefano Soatto
Position: Assistant Professor | University of Hong Kong
https://yanchaoyang.github.io/
Huan Zhang, UCLA Ph.D. 2020
Faculty advisor: Cho-Jui Hsieh
Position: Assistant Professor | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
https://www.huan-zhang.com/
Diyu Zhou, UCLA Ph.D. 2020
Faculty advisor: Yuval Tamir
Position: Assistant Professor | Peking University
https://zhou-diyu.github.io/
Dongruo Zhou, UCLA Ph.D. 2023
Faculty advisor: Quanquan Gu
Position: Assistant Professor | Indiana University Bloomington
https://sites.google.com/view/drzhou