Students

Current advisees

• Ankita Shukla, Post-Doc
• Sameeksha Katoch, (co-advised with Andreas Spanias) ECEE Ph.D. student
• Hongjun Choi, ECEE Ph.D. student
• Rajhans Singh, ECEE Ph.D. student
• Kowshik Thopalli, ECEE Ph.D. student
• Eunsom Jeon, ECEE Ph.D. student
• Sinjini Mitra, ECEE Ph.D. student
• Rakshith Subramanyam (co-advised with Spring Berman), ECEE Ph.D. student
• Niccolò Meniconi, ECEE Ph.D. student
• Xavier Nokes, Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences
• Neil Franks, M.S. Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• Olivia Hernandez, M.F.A. Theatre (Interdisciplinary Digital Media)
• Ri Lindegren, M.F.A. Dance (Interdisciplinary Digital Media and Performance)
• Jordan Haagen, Creative Enterprise & Cultural Leadership MA ( + Barrett Honors)
• Ankith Raaman, Computer Science B.S. student
• Devesh Nath, Electrical Engineering B.S. student (+ FURI 2022)
• Baaz Jhaj, Computer Science B.S. student (+ FURI 2022)
• Ella Wang, high-school intern (BASIS Chandler)

Ph.D. graduates

• Anirudh Som, Ph.D. (ECEE), Fall 2020. Advanced Computer Scientist, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Princeton.
• Rafael Iriya, Ph.D. (ECEE, co-advised by the late Nongjian Tao) Spring 2020. Senior Research Scientist at EverestLabs.AI.
• Suhas Lohit, Ph.D. (ECEE), Fall 2019, Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.
• Juan Andrade Rodas, Ph.D. (ECEE, co-advised with Andreas Spanias), Spring 2019, University of Cuenca, Ecuador.
• Berkay Kanberoglu, Ph.D. (ECEE, co-advised with David Frakes), Fall 2018. Sr. Research Engineer, Samsung Research, Irvine CA.
• Qiao Wang, Ph.D. (ECEE + AME), Fall 2018. Research Scientist, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Princeton.
• Kuldeep Kulkarni, Ph.D. (ECEE + AME) Summer 2017. Research Scientist, Adobe Research, Bangalore (previously post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University).
• Henry Braun (co-advised with Andreas Spanias), Ph.D. (ECEE) Fall 2016. Research Scientist, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota.
• Rushil Anirudh Ph.D. (ECEE + AME) Spring 2016. Computer Scientist, at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (previously postdoc at IBM Almaden).
• Vinay Venkataraman, Ph.D. (ECEE) Spring 2016. Principal Research Scientist, Nike Innovations (previously at Explorer.ai and Google ATAP).

Masters graduates

• Xavier Nokes, M.A. Arts, Media, and Engineering, Summer 2021. First position co-Manager of Art Production at Wonderspaces (also current PhD student).
• Kalyan Ainala M.S. ECEE (co-advised with Hemanth Venkateswara), Spring 2021.
• Daniel Barboza, M.S. (ECEE) Fall 2020. Computer Vision Engineer at BioTrillion.
• Kaushik Koneripalli, M.S. (ECEE) Summer 2019. First position Siemens Research, New Jersey.
• Anik Jha, M.S. (ECEE) Fall 2018. Imagry Inc.
• Li-Chi Huang, M.S. (Comp. Engg.) Fall 2017. First position Graftek Imaging.
• Mayank Gupta, M.S. (Comp. Engg.) Summer 2017, First position Meta Co.
• Chaitanya Potaraju, M.S. (ECEE), Summer 2017. First position AdviNow Medical.
• Prashanth Seshasayee, co-advised by X. W. Sha, M.S. (ECEE+AME) Fall 2016. Intel.
• Varsha Iyengar, co-advised by X. W. Sha M.S. (CS + AME) Spring 2016. Google ATAP.
• Henghao Zhou, M.S. (ECEE + AME) Spring 2016. Now at HSBC, NY.
• Aswin Sivakumar, M.S. (ECEE) 2014. Freescale Semiconductor.
• Vaishnav Desai (co-advised with Hari Sundaram), M.S. (CS) 2013. Intel Corp.
• Tingfang Du, M.S. (ECEE+AME) 2012. Lytro Inc.
• Long Cheng, M.S. (ECEE+AME) 2012. Now at Google.

UG  alumni and visitors

• Vincent Li, Computer Systems B.S. student. Currently, Engineering Intern at Western Digital.
• Afra Nawar (NSF REU trainee), Computer Engineering B.S. student. Currently Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech + Clare Booth Luce Fellow.
• Farhan Rahman (NSF REU trainee), Computer Engineering B.S. student. Currently Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech + Computational Neural Engineering Training Program fellow.
• Ankita Shukla, Ph.D. student IIIT-Delhi, Summer 2017, Spring + Summer 2019.
• Ahnaf Masroor, B.S. (NSF REU trainee), 2015-2017. Currently PhD student at UIUC.

Student Recognition and Awards

• Jordan Haagen, awarded 2022 Mensch Prize at the ASU Barrett Honors College in the Fine and Performing Arts Category.
• Afra Nawar (NSF REU trainee) accepted for Ph.D. as a Clare Booth Luce Fellow, at Georgia Tech, Fall 2021.
• Farhan Rahman (NSF REU trainee) accepted for Ph.D. as a Computational Neural Engineering Training Program Fellow, at Georgia Tech, Fall 2021.
• Xavier Nokes named Spring 2021 Outstanding Graduate of the Herberger Institute in the Entrepreneurship category.
• Xavier Nokes and Olivia Hernández featured in the State Press and ASU News for work done for ASU Gammage Drive-Thru Immersive Art Experience.
• Afra Nawar received Honorable Mention for the 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduation Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
• Afra Nawar, selected as Student speaker + Flag Bearer for the Fulton Schools of Engineering Convocation Spring 2020 ceremony.
• Anirudh Som invited to present interdisciplinary movement analysis work at Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) workshop on “AI for social impact”.
• Anirudh Som’s 2019 summer internship at Roche receives recognition as Most Innovative.
• Kowshik Thopalli’s 2019 summer internship work at SRI received recognition in four categories: Most Innovative, Most Impactful, Best Poster, and Audience Choice, as judged by SRI jury.
• Makayla Donaldson, Hadassah Fromowitz, Robert Graves, Olivia Ruthven, Timothy Sparks, Joseph and Sandra Palais Senior Design Prize Winners, First ever Online Capstone team to win the award, 2019.
• Anirudh Som, NSF travel award to attend NSF-CBMS workshop on Topological Methods, 2019.
• Ankita Shukla, NSF travel award to attend NSF-CBMS workshop on Topological Methods, 2019.
• Suhas Lohit, ASU ECE travel Award, 2019, to present paper at CVPR 2019.
• Kuldeep Kulkarni, CVPR Doctoral Consortium, 2017. Full travel award to participate.
• Vinay Venkataraman, CVPR Doctoral Consortium, 2016. Full travel award to participate.
• Suhas Lohit, University Graduate Fellowship, 2015.
• Suhas Lohit and Kuldeep Kulkarni, Best paper award, Computational Cameras and Displays Workshop, 2015.
• Rushil Anirudh, ASU ECE travel award, 2015, to present and attend the Data Compression Conference (DCC).

Student Internship Experiences

• Eunsom Jeon, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Princeton 2021.
• Hongjun Choi, Intel, Chandler 2021.
• Ella Wang, high school visitor at the GML, accepted to the Research Science Institute (RSI) at MIT.
• Rajhans Singh, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) 2021, Intel (Chandler AZ, Summer 2019).
• Kowshik Thopalli, Lawrence Livermore National Labs (summer 2018), Stanford Research Institute (SRI Princeton, summer 2019), Microsoft Research (Summer 2020).
• Anirudh Som, Mayo Clinic (summer 2015), Lawrence Livermore National Labs (summer 2018), Roche (Santa Clara, summer 2019), SRI Princeton (Summer 2020).
• Suhas Lohit, Stanford Research Institute (SRI Princeton, summer 2017), Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL Boston, summer 2018).
• Qiao Wang, Xerox Labs France (summer 2015), Stanford Research Institute (SRI Princeton, summer 2017).
• Vinay Venkataraman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (summer 2014 and summer 2015).
• Kuldeep Kulkarni, Xerox Research India (Bangalore, summer 2015), Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL Boston, summer 2016).
• Rushil Anirudh, Intuitive Surgical (summer 2013), DropCam Inc. (summer 2014), Lawrence Livermore National Labs (summer 2015).