At the end of the 2021-2022 school year, the UCLA Computer Science Department celebrates another year of research excellence and achievements by featuring ten Ph.D. graduates and Postdoctoral Researchers who are about to begin a new journey of their lives as professors at top-notch universities across the globe. These young researchers represent the highest caliber of excellence in research and teaching at the CS department at UCLA.

YooJung Choi

  • UCLA Position: Ph.D., 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Guy Van den Broeck
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
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Jonathan Eyolfson

  • UCLA Position: Postdoc, 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Harry Xu
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
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Arthi Padmanabhan

  • UCLA Position: Ph.D., 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Harry Xu
  • New Position and Institution: Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College
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Liat Shenhav

  • UCLA Position: Ph.D., 2020
  • Faculty Advisor: Eran Halperin
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, New York University
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Chenxi Wang

  • UCLA Position: Postdoc, 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Harry Xu
  • New Position and Institution: Associate Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Alex Wong

  • UCLA Position: Ph.D., 2019
  • Faculty Advisor: Stefano Soatto
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, Yale University
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Qian Zhang

  • UCLA Position: Postdoc, 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Miryung Kim
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
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Xinjun Zhang

  • UCLA Position: Postdoc, 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Sriram Sankararaman
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Jieyu Zhao

  • UCLA Position: Ph.D., 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Kai-Wei Chang
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
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Difan Zou

  • UCLA Position: Ph.D., 2022
  • Faculty Advisor: Quanquan Gu
  • New Position and Institution: Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
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