Current Members

Xingyu Fu
PLI Postdoc

Gabriel Sarch
PLI Postdoc

Xinyi Wang
PLI Postdoc

Xi Ye
PLI Postdoc

Adithya Bhaskar
PhD student

Jeff Cheng
PhD student

Lucy He
PhD student (w/ Peter Henderson)

Yoonsang Lee
PhD student

Zhuorui Ye
PhD student (w/ Zhuang Liu)

Howard Yen
PhD student

Wuwei Zhang
MSE student

Joie Zhang
Undergraduate

Alumni

PhD students and postdoctoral researchers

• Catherine Chen, CV Starr Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025, now at Abridge
• Alexis Chevalier, visiting postdoc/PLI postdoc 2022-2024, now at Cohere
• Howard Chen (w/ Karthik Narasimhan), PhD 2025
• Dan Friedman, PhD 2025, now at Apple
• Tianyu Gao, PhD 2025, now at Meta TBD / incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSE
• Tanya Goyal, PLI postdoc 2023-2024, now assistant professor at Cornell CS
• Jinhyuk Lee, visiting postdoc 2020-2021, now at Google
• Yong Lin, PLI postdoc 2025-2026, now at Thinking Machines Lab
• Yu Meng, visiting PhD student 2023, now assistant professor at UVA CS
• Mengzhou Xia, PhD 2025, now at OpenAI / incoming assistant professor at CMU MLD
• Alexander Wettig, PhD 2025 (expected), now at Cursor
• Zexuan Zhong, PhD 2024, now at xAI

MSE and undergraduate students

• Sabhya Chhabria, MSE 2024
• Ben Dodge, undergraduate student, 2020-2021 -> PhD student @Stanford
• Jiayi Geng, MSE 2025 -> PhD student at CMU
• Manan Goenka, undergraduate student 2020-2021 -> Microsoft
• Victoria Graf, undergraduate student 2022-2024 -> PhD student at University of Washington
• Aatmik Gupta, undergraduate and MSE student 2022-2024
• Jacquline He, undergraduate student 2021-2022 -> PhD student at UW
• Ziqing Huang, visiting undergraduate student from Tsinghua University 2022 -> Master's student at Stanford University
• Huihan Li, MSE 2022 -> PhD student at USC
• Saumya Malik, undergraduate student 2023-2024 -> Predoctoral Young Investigator at AI2
• Jane Pan, MSE 2023 -> PhD student at NYU
• Chris Sciavolino, MSE 2021 -> Jane Street
• Jenny Sheng, undergraduate student 2021-2022 -> PhD student at Tsinghua University
• Zachary Siegel, undergraduate student 2023-2024 -> PhD student at MIT
• Xingcheng Yao, visiting undergraduate 2021 Spring -> PhD student at UCLA
• Howard Yen, undergraduate and MSE 2021-2024 -> PhD student at Princeton
• Jiatong Yu, undergraduate 2022-2023 -> MSE student at Princeton
• Colin Wang, MSE 2025 -> PhD student at UC Berkeley
• Kevin Wang, undergraduate student 2024-2025 -> OpenAI
• Zhiyuan Zeng, visiting undergrad, 2023 Summer -> PhD student at UW

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Schmidt DataX Fund, Princeton SEAS Innovation Funds, Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce for generous support of our research. My students have been also supported by Apple (Mengzhou Xia), Bloomberg (Mengzhou Xia), Google (Dan Friedman), IBM (Tianyu Gao), and JP Morgan (Zexuan Zhong) through their fellowship programs - Thanks for the support!