Group

Positions available

Undergraduate research: At present, my group does not offer undergraduate research or SURF projects.

Graduate studies: Please apply to the Caltech ACM PhD program. Applications are due in November for matriculation the following fall.

Postdoctoral scholars: Please apply to any one the Caltech CMS Department's postdoc searches. Applications are due in December to start the following fall.

Inquiries: If you are interested in working with me, you may contact me by email. Your message must demonstrate that you are well informed about my recent research, and it should explain in detail how our interests align. Owing to the volume of requests, I cannot respond to all inquiries.

Current advising

I am working with several students and postdocs at Caltech as a formal or informal adviser. These include...

Dr. Raphael Meyer, postdoc
Chris Camaño, PhD student (ACM) and Kortschak Scholar
Ethan N. Epperly, PhD student (ACM) and DOE CSGF; 2025-2028 Miller Fellow, UC-Berkeley
Dr. Jorge Garza-Vargas, CMI Postdoc
Eitan Levin, PhD student (ACM) and Kortschak Scholar
Elvira Moreno, PhD student (CMS)

Alumni and alumnæ

I served as (co-)adviser for the following individuals as graduate students or postdocs. Current academic affiliations are listed where available.

Dr. Risi Kondor, now Assoc. Prof. Statistics at Univ. Chicago
Dr. Peter Stobbe
Dr. Brendan Farrell
Dr. Alex Gittens, now Asst. Prof. CS at Rensselaer
Dr. Michael McCoy
Dr. Brendan Ames, now Assoc. Prof. Mathematics at Univ. Alabama
Dr. Richard Yuhua Chen
Dr. Ke Wang, now Asst. Prof. Mathematics at HKUST
Dr. Madeleine Udell, now Asst. Prof. Management Science & Engineering at Stanford
Dr. John Bruer
Dr. Richard Kueng, now Prof. Computing Technologies at Univ. Linz
Dr. Eliza O'Reilly, now Asst. Prof. Applied Math at Johns Hopkins
Dr. Mateo Díaz, now Asst. Prof. Applied Math at Johns Hopkins
Dr. Robert Webber, now Asst. Prof. Mathematics at Univ. California at San Diego

Mentorship

I have worked closely with many other students and postdocs on technical collaborations and aspects of career development. These include...

Dr. Deanna Needell, now Dunn Family Chair and Prof. Mathematics at UCLA
Dr. Lester Mackey, now Senior Researcher at MSR
Dr. Samet Oymak, now Asst. Prof. EE at UM-Ann Arbor
Dr. Roarke Horstmeyer, now Asst. Prof. EE at Duke
Dr. Franca Hoffmann, now Asst. Prof. ACM at Caltech
Dr. Alp Yurtsever, now Asst. Prof. Machine Learning at Univ. Umeå
Dr. De Huang, now Asst. Prof. Applied Math at Peking Univ.
Dr. Florian Schaefer, now Asst. Prof. CSE at Georgia Tech
Dr. Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang, now Asst. Prof. Physics at Caltech
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen, now postdoc at MIT