{"id":1023,"date":"2021-06-17T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai-new\/?page_id=1023"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:28:03","slug":"lab-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/research\/lab-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Current Graduate Students<\/h3>

Renxiang Huang (ECE)
MS, UIUC
2024-<\/p>

Mo Lyu (CS)
BS, City University of Hong Kong, China
2024-<\/p>

Yanhao Jin (Statistics, Co-advise with Krishnakumar Balasubramanian<\/a>)
MS, UC Davis
2024-<\/p>

Haodong Liang (ECE)
MS, University of Michigan
2023-<\/p>

Chenye Yang (ECE)
MS, Columbia University
2022-<\/p>

Aunsh Bandivadekar (ECE, Co-advise with Boon-Ling Yeo)
BS, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
2024-<\/p>

Kaleb Kokott (ECE)
BS, UC Davis
2025-<\/p>

Alumni<\/h3>

Jipeng Li, MS, 2025
Thesis: In-Context Reinforcement Learning with Transformer and Mamba Architecture<\/p>

Xinyi Ni, PhD, 2024
Thesis: Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning with Coherent Risk Measures<\/a>
Current Employment: Tiktok<\/p>

Guanlin Liu, PhD, 2024
Thesis: Towards Adversarial Robustness of Sequential Decision Making Algorithms<\/a>
Current Employment: ByteDance<\/p>

Parisa Oftadeh, MS, 2024
Thesis: Multi-Agent Constrainted Linear Bandits<\/p>

Yulu Jin, PhD, 2023
Thesis: Robust Statistical Inference with Privacy and Fairness Constraints<\/a>
Current Employment: Paypal<\/p>

Xiaochuan Ma, PhD, 2023 (co-advised with Professor Shuguang Cui<\/a>)
Thesis: Two-stage Sequential Change Diagnosis Problems<\/a>
Current Employment: Samsung<\/p>

Minhui Huang, PhD, 2022 (co-advised with Professor Shiqian Ma<\/a>)
Thesis: Minimax Problems in Optimal Transport: Algorithm Design and Convergence Analysis<\/a>
Current Employment: Meta<\/p>

Xinyang Cao, PhD, 2022
Thesis: Distributed Optimization Methods Robust to Byzantine Attackers<\/a>
Current Employment: Micron Technology<\/p>

Aakansha Bhatt, MS,\u00a0 2022
Thesis: Host Memory Buffer Implementation in Modern Solid State Devices<\/p>

Victor Madrid, MS, 2022
Thesis: An Information Theoretic Approach for Fair Machine Learning<\/p>

Puning Zhao, PhD, 2021
Thesis: Nearest Neighbor Methods with Applications in Functional Estimation and Machine Learning<\/a>
Current Employment: Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University<\/p>

Fuwei Li, PhD, 2021 (co-advised with Professor Shuguang Cui<\/a>)
Thesis: On the Adversarial Robustness of Machine Learning Algorithms<\/a>
Current Employment: Black Sesame Technology<\/p>

Melody Tao, MS, 2020
Thesis: Deepfake Detection Using Sequential Transient Change Detection<\/p>

Wenwen Zhao, PhD, 2018
Thesis: Distributed Testing with Multi-terminal Data Compression<\/a>
Current Employment: Qualcomm<\/p>

Wenwen Tu, PhD, 2018
Thesis: Information Theoretic Approaches for Security and Privacy<\/a>
Current Employment: Meta<\/p>

Bingwen Zhang, PhD, 2017
Thesis: Change-points Estimation in Statistical Inference and Machine Learning Problems<\/a>
Current Employment: Google<\/p>

Mostafa El Gamal, PhD, 2017
Thesis:\u00a0Distributed Statistical Learning under Communication Constraints<\/a>
Current Employment: Western Digital<\/p>

Ain-ul-Aisha, PhD, 2017
Thesis: Fundamental Limits of Poisson Channels in Visible Light Communications<\/a>
Current Employment: Hatachi Insight Group<\/p>

Jun Geng, PhD, 2014
Thesis: Quickest Change-Point Detection with Sampling Right Constraints
Current Employment: Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China<\/p>

Raied Caromi, PhD, 2014 (Co-advised with Dr. Seshari Mohan)
Thesis: \u00a0Optimal Spectrum Sensing and Channel Search Strategies for Cognitive Radio Systems: Algorithms, Analysis and Real-time Implementation
Current Employment: National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/p>

Past Visitors<\/h3>

Tian Xia, Visiting Professor, 2019-2022
Ying Li, Visiting Student, 2019-2020
Ken-wen Huang, Visiting Student, 2019-2020
Jin Xu, Visiting Professor, 2018-2019
Yunfang Zhu, Visiting Professor, 2018-2019
Rongfei Fan, Visiting Professor, 2017-2018
Qian Liu, Visiting Professor, 2017-2018
Qi Gu, Visiting Student, 2017-2018
Zhenzhou Tang, Visiting Professor, 2015
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Lab Members Current Graduate Students Renxiang Huang (ECE)MS, UIUC2024- Mo Lyu (CS)BS, City University of Hong Kong, China2024- Yanhao Jin (Statistics, Co-advise with Krishnakumar Balasubramanian)MS, UC Davis2024- Haodong Liang (ECE)MS, University of Michigan2023- Chenye Yang (ECE)MS, Columbia University2022- Aunsh Bandivadekar (ECE, Co-advise with Boon-Ling Yeo)BS, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India2024- Kaleb Kokott (ECE)BS, UC Davis2025- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":163,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023\/revisions\/2298"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/lai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}