Intelligent Data and Systems Lab (IDS Lab)

Lab Director

Feng Yan, Associate Professor

Graduate Students (Dr. Feng Yan is Committee Chair)

Patrick Watters, PhD student, 08/2021 -
Mina Yazdani, PhD student, 09/2022 -
Ruofan Wu, PhD student, 08/2023 -
Xinyang Li, PhD student, 08/2023 -
Anjir Ahmed Chowdhury, PhD student, 08/2023 -
Xu Dong, PhD student (part-time), 01/2024 -
Fan Shu, PhD student, 08/2024 -
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Xiaolong Ma, graduated 12/2024 with a PhD (first placement: Argonne National Laboratory)
Heyang Qin, graduated 12/2022 with a PhD (first placement: Researcher@Microsoft Research (DeepSpeed Team))
Syed Zawad, graduated 12/2022 with a PhD (first placement: Research Scientist@IBM Research)
Amirhesam Yazdi, graduated 12/2022 with a PhD (first placement: Teaching Associate Professor@UNR)
Jun Yi, graduated 8/2022 with a PhD (first placement: MathWorks)
Xinying Wang, graduated 5/2022 with a PhD (first placement: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Ahsan Ali, graduated 5/2021 with a PhD (first placement: Argonne National Laboratory, now research scientist@Amazon)
Cayler Miley, graduated 8/2021 with a MS (first placement: Clear Capital)
Ke Xu, graduated 12/2019 with a MS (first placement: Facebook)
Di Li, graduated 12/2018 with a MS
Gautham Yerroju, graduated 08/2018 with a MS (first placement: Odoo)

Undergraduate Students Advised

Timothy Kashi
Allan Moreno
Carlos Varela
Johan Yamssi
Gabe Petersen
William Willia
Zachary Black
Desislava Nacheva
Masoud Modaressi
Alexander Kharag
Lance Cantu
Michael Knight
Emily Gentry
Mitanshu Chandna
Nikkolas Irwin
Andrew Munoz
Brianna Blain-Castelli
Agui Navarro
Christina Sherpa
Yongyi Zhou
Connor Jordan
Pamella May Nipay

K-12 Students Advised

Katherine Cheng (intern student from Mission San Jose High School.)
Michelle Liu, K-12 student (intern student from Davidson Academy, now at Brown University)
Felix Zhan, K-12 student (intern student from Ed. W. Clark High School, now at Stanford University)

Affiliated Students

Yunchuan Liu, PhD student, University of Nevada, Reno
Jingting Huang, PhD student, University of Nevada, Reno/University of Utah
Abdullah Al-Mamun, PhD student, University of Nevada, Reno
Timothy Tawose, PhD student, University of Nevada, Reno
Adam Cassell, MS student, University of Nevada, Reno
Tunhou Zhang, PhD student, Duke Univeristy
Huanrui Yang, PhD student, Duke Univeristy
Yukun Yang, MS student, Duke Univeristy
Ao Wang, PhD student, George Mason University
Jingyuan Zhang, PhD student, George Mason University
Zheng Chai, PhD student, George Mason University
Zhengge Dai, visisting student, University of Virginia
Om Rameshwar Gatla, PhD student, Iowa State University
Connor Holmes, PhD student, Colorado School of Mines
Daniel Mawhirter, PhD student, Colorado School of Mines
Jiawei Wang, PhD Candidate at TU Dresden
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Riccardo Pinciroli, Postdoc, College of William and Mary first placement: Gran Sasso Research Institute, L'Aquila, Italy.)
Amir Ghasemkhani, Postdoc,(first placement: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), California State University, San Bernardino)
Rui Wu, PhD student, graduated 2018 (first placement: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), East Carolina University)
Jeff Rasley, PhD student of Brown Univeristy, graduated 2018 (first placement: Microsoft Research and AI)
Wei Wen, PhD student, Duke Univeristy, graduated 2019 (first placement: Research Scientist, Facebook AI)
Hsin-Pai Cheng, PhD student, Duke Univeristy, graduated 2021 (first placement: Senior Deep Learning Researcher, Qualcomm )
Zixuan Wang, BS student (intern student, now in University of San Diego as graduate student)
Yuan Xu, MS student, North Carolina State University (intern student, now in Amazon)

Industry and National Lab Collaborators and Supporters