Faculty:
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PhD students:
Spring 2023 ~
Fall 2024~
Undergrad & Master researchers:
Jiayu Wang
1st-year UG @PSU
Fall 2025 ~ present
Research Achievement: LLM Merging (Wang et al., Arxiv 2026)
Frida Chen
1st-year UG @PSU
Spring 2026 ~ present
Tarun Kumar
2nd-year UG @ PSU
Spring 2026 ~ present
Allegra Francis
2nd-year UG @PSU
Spring 2026 ~ present
Soham Chavan
2nd-year UG @ PSU
Spring 2026 ~ present
Damien Kula
3rd-year UG @ PSU
Spring 2026 ~ present
Hamid Shah
4th-year UG @ PSU
Spring 2026 ~ present
Annie Chen
1st-year Master @ PSU
May 2026 ~ present
(Non-)Thesis students:
Emilia Palmer: UG in Schreyer Honors College. Thesis: TBD. Spring 2026~
Raj Mamidala: UG in Schreyer Honors College. Thesis: TBD. Spring 2026~
Soham Barman: Master in CSE; non-thesis. Spring 2026~
Yash Priyadarshi: Master in CSE; non-thesis. Spring 2026~
Divya Navuluri: Master in CSE; non-thesis. Fall 2025~Dec. 2025
Krishnasai Paleti: Master in CSE; non-thesis. Spring 2025~May 2025
Lakshmi Chandrika Yarlagadda: Master in CSE; non-thesis. Spring 2025~Aug 2025
Ryan Edward Nagengast: UG in Schreyer Honors College. Thesis: Text generator classification. Fall 2024~May 2025
Lok Yiu Wu: UG in Schreyer Honors College. Thesis: Analysis of Internet stance on climate change. Fall 2024~May 2025
Alumni:
Hanzi Xu
Hanzi Xu
Ph.D. degree from Temple University (Spring 2020-June 2024)
Co-supervised with Prof. Slobodan Vucetic
First job: Research Scientist @ Netflix, California
Eugene Kwek
Eugene Kwek
Bachelor degree from Penn State (~ Dec. 2025)
Co-supervised with Prof. Rui Zhang
Achievement:
i) 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
ii) Honorable Mention for the 2025-2026 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (URA);
iii) First-author publication on IJCAI'26 and NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning (paper)
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