I’m grateful to work with these self-motivated and curious students!

PhD Students

• Xiaofan Zhou, 2024 Summer -
• Ke Fang, 2026 Spring -
• Jiale Zhao, 2026 Fall -
• Zhilin Zhang, 2026 Fall -
• Yupu Yao, 2026 Fall -

Master and Undergraduate Students at UIC

• Rajvi Shah (Honors College), Undergraduate, 2024-
• Olukolajo Sodipe (Honors College), Undergraduate, 2025-
• Adit Sharma (Mentor: Xiaofan Zhou), Undergraduate, 2026-
• Giovanni Vaccarino (Mentor: Dehai Min), Master student, 2025-
• Vaishnavi Jadhav, Master student, 2026-

Visiting Students

• Guanyu Lyu, Master student at UChicago, 2026-
• Marcus Guo, High schooler at Woodside Priory School (Mentor: Ke Fang), 2026-
• Jialin Qin, Independent researcher, 2026-

Alumini

• Huy Nguyen (Mentor: Xiaofan Zhou), Undergraduate at Augustana College, 2025-2026
• Weihao Liu, 2025 - 2026. PhD student at UIC.
• Dehai Min, 2025 - 2026. PhD student at UIC.
• Shicheng Fan, 2025 - 2026. PhD student at UIC.
• Haochang Hao, 2025-2026. PhD student at UIC.
• Huiyi Chen, Master student at SEU & Monash University, 2025-2026. Next: PhD student at UIC.
• Nathan Michael Hittesdorf, Master student at UIC. Next: Data scientist at CME Group.
• Kailin Zhang (Mentor: Dehai Min), Master student at NYU, 2025.
• Shweta Parihar, Master student, 2024-25. Next: PhD student at NJIT.
• Ke Fang, Master student at UPenn, 2025-26. Next: PhD student at PSU.
• Zicong He, Master student at Georgia Tech, 2024-2025
• Boxuan Zhang, Master student at Wuhan University, 2024-2025. Next: PhD student at Rutgers.
• Sai Shridhar Balamurali, Master student at UIC, 2024-25. Next: AI engineer at Foxbox Digital
• Baiting Chen, Master student at UCLA, 2023-25. Next: PhD student at UCLA.
• Zimo Qi, Undergraduate at SUSTech, 2024-25. Next: Master’s student at JHU.
• Shreya Ganguly (Honors College), Undergraduate, 2024. Next: UIUC.
• Jiancheng Dong, Undergraduate at Nanjing University, 2024. Next: PhD student at City University of Hong Kong.
• Jiayuan Su, Master student at ZJU-UIUC, 2023-24. Next: Algorithm Engineer at Tencent.
• Xinlin Peng, Undergraduate at ZJU, 2023-24
• Tianyi Zhao, Master student at USC, 2022-25. Next: PhD student at UVA.
• Shan Xie, Master student at Eindhoven Technology University, 2023-24
• Bhuvani Shah, Undergraduate at UIC, 2022. Next: Software Engineer at Adyen

Funding

We would like to thank the following sponsors and funding agencies for supporting our research: NSF, NIH, Simons Foundation, Amazon, Cisco, Google, UIC Institute for Health Data Science Research, and DHS CINA.