People
Current members
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Stephen Becker
Associate Professor
Head of lab. Joined CU 2014 -
Jon Belcher
Postdoc
since 2021; PhD from CU Math dept -
Angran Li
Postdoc, joint with Alireza Doostan
since 2022; PhD CMU -
Kevin Doherty
PhD student
Started CU 2019 -
Jacob Spainhour
PhD student
Started CU 2020 -
Akshay Seshadri
PhD student (physics)
Started CU 2018, jointly advised by Graeme Smith and Manny Knill -
Nuojin (Noki) Cheng
PhD student, co-advised
Started CU 2020, main advisor is Alireza Doostan (Aerospace) -
Alex McManus
PhD student, co-advised
Started CU 2020, main advisor is Nicholas Dwork (CU Anschutz) -
Spencer Shortt
MS 2023
Math dept; randomized a posteriori error estimates -
Claudia Chen
Undergrad (2022; optimization placement for MEG sensors)
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Ibrohim Nosirov
Summer student (2022)
at Colorado School of Mines (main advisor Mike Wakin), low-pass methods and HODLR decomposition for kernel matrices) -
Alexey Yermakov
Undergrad (2022; hyperparameter optimization)
Our lab also works with many PhD students from other groups (e.g., Liz Strong – see ch 4 of her thesis, Tzu-Chi Yen, Killian Wood, Minah Yang)
Former members
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Richard (Richie) Clancy
PhD 2022
Now at Northrop Grumman -
Liam Madden
PhD 2022 (co-advised with Emiliano Dall'Anese)
Now postdoc at UBC Vancouver -
Osman Malik
PhD 2021
Now Alvarez postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab -
Erik Johnson
PhD 2021 (main advisor Dan Larremore)
Now working at Archer DX, Invitae -
David Kozak
PhD 2020 (main advisor Luis Tenorio, Colorado School of Mines)
Now working at Solea Energy -
Zhishen (Leo) Huang
PhD 2020
Postdoc at Michigan State University then Applied Scientist at Amazon -
Eric Kightley
PhD 2019
Now working as data scientist at Amazon -
Jessica Gronski
PhD 2019
Now working at Inspire11, formerly United Healthcare Group in Minneapolis -
James Folberth
PhD 2018
Now working at ICR, Inc. -
Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki
PhD 2017
Now tenure-track professor at CU Denver -
Cooper Simpson
MS 2022
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Matt Maierhofer
MS 2019 (main advisor Mike Mozer)
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Marc Thomson
MS 2019
Now working Monolith, formerly Exxon Mobil Research & Development. "Outstanding graduate of the college" (engineering college) -
Richard Border
MS 2018 (concurrent with PhD at IBS 2019)
Now postdoc at UCLA -
Derek Driggs
MS 2017
Finished PhD at Cambridge 2021. Gates-Cambridge Scholarship. "Outstanding graduate in research" (engineering college)
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Jacob Tiede
Professional MS 2021
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Zhuochen (Jaden) Wang
Undergrad (2020 fast matrix multiplication; 2021 - 2022; geodesic convexity)
honors thesis. Now PhD in Math at Georgia Tech -
Will Shand
Undergrad (2018-20; minimum volume ellipsoids, outlier detection, coresets, locality sensitive hashing)
Now PhD student at University of Virginia) -
Samory Buford
Summer student from Central Michigan University (2021; optimization placement for MEG sensors)
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Benjamin van Court
Undergrad (2015-2016, BS Electrical Engineering, BS Engineering Physics)
Projects: fingerprint analysis using curvelets, formant-based speech editor (DLA program) -
Jeff Everett
Undergrad (2017-2018)
Projects: perceptlearn.com, theoretical machine learning (DLA program). Now software engineer at Google -
Cheryl Hansen
Undergrad (2017-2018; remote sensing of the Chesapeake Bay)
Now at Ball Aerospace -
Abby Schmid
Summer student from U. Chicago (2017; remote sensing of the Yucatan for archaeological ruins)
Now PhD student at CU Aerospace -
Ashley Nelson
Summer student (2017; remote sensing)