Faculty

Prof. Junjie Hu
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison

PhD Students

Rheeya Uppaal
PhD in CS, Spring 2022-
AI Safety Interpretability Generalization
Binwei Yao
PhD in CS, Fall 2023-
Pluralistic alignment Personalization Evaluation
Zefan Cai
PhD in CS, Fall 2024-
LLM Efficiency LLM Architecture LLM Memorization
Stockton Jenkins
PhD in CS, Fall 2024-
Agentic Retrieval Multi-modal Retrieval Knowledge Graphs
Ishita Kakkar
PhD in CS, Fall 2025-
AI Safety

Alumni

PhD

Tim Ossowski
PhD in CS (2021-26), now Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research
Sean Yun-Shiuan Chuang
PhD in cognitive science, advised by Prof Tim Rogers, now Staff AI Research Scientist at PayPal AI
Ruixue Lian
PhD in ECE, co-advised w/ Prof. William Sethares, now applied scientist at Amazon AWS

MS

Tara Bobinac
MS in CS
Karthik Suresh
MS in CS
Shan Leng
MS in Stats, now PhD in BDS at UW-Madison
Samarth Mathur
MS in ECE, now software engineer at Supernova Technology
Yuye Jiang
MS in CS, now software engineer at Oracle
Gowtham Ramesh
MS in CS, now applied research scientist at AMD
Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar
MS in CS, now research engineer at NVIDIA
Shilu He
MS in Math, now software engineer at Amazon Alexa

BS

Agam Goyal
BS in CS, now PhD in CS at UIUC
Jack Ziyang Cai
BS in ECE/Math -> MS in ECE
Shanchao Liang
BS in CS/Math, now PhD in CS at Purdue
Shunchi Zhang
Exchange student from XJTU, now MS in CS at JHU