PhD Students

Current PhD Students

Organized by last name.

Sepeher Abdous

Group: Systems & Networking
Lab: Distributed Systems and Networks Lab
Email: sabdous1@jh.edu
Advisor: Soudeh Ghorbani
Research Interests: Computer networks, burst-tolerant data centers, AI networking
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Niyati Bafna

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: nbafna1@jh.edu
Advisor: David Yarowsky
Research Interests: Low-resource natural language processing, multilinguality
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Jin Bai

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Computational Interaction and Robotics Laboratory
Email: jbai12@jhu.edu
Advisor: Greg Hager
Research Interests: Computer vision

Andrew Blair-Stanek

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: ablairs1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Natural language processing, tax law
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Brennon Brimhall

Lab: Advanced Research in Cryptography
Email: brimhall@cs.jhu.edu
Advisor: Matthew Green

Nicole Brown

Lab: Schatz Lab
Email: nbrown62@jhu.edu
Advisor: Michael Schatz
Research Interests: Computational biology, pangenomics, image processing, machine learning
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Ha Manh Bui

Group: Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science
Email: hb.buimanhha@gmail.com
Advisor: Anqi “Angie” Liu
Research Interests: Machine learning
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Isabel Cachola

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: icachola@cs.jhu.edu
Advisor: Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Natural language processing
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Shiye “Sally” Cao

Centers/Institutes: Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare
Labs: Intuitive Computing Laboratory, Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
Email: shiyecao@cs.jhu.edu
Advisors: Chien-Ming Huang, Anqi “Angie” Liu
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction
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Jacob M. Chen

Centers/Institutes: Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare
Email: jchen459@jhu.edu
Advisor: Ilya Shpitser
Research Interests: Causal inference, missing data, graphical models
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Jienan Chen

Group: Systems & Networking
Lab: Advanced Networking Lab
Email: jchen3944@jhu.edu
Advisor: Krishan Sabnani
Research Interests: Computer networks, V2X
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Jieneng Chen

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: jchen293@jhu.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Deep learning, computer vision
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Yixiong Chen

Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: ychen646@jh.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Foundation models, medical image analysis, deep learning
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Sue Min “Jasmine” Cho

Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Advanced Robotics and Computationally AugmenteD Environments Lab
Email: scho72@jhu.edu
Advisors: Mathias Unberath, Russell Taylor
Research Interests: Computer-assisted interventions, computer vision, human-machine interaction, human-centered design
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Ernie Chu

Lab: Vision & Understanding Lab
Email: schu23@jhu.edu
Advisor: Vishal Patel
Research Interests: Generative visual models, computer vision
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Arun Das

Group: Computational Biology & Medicine
Email: arun.das@jhu.edu
Advisor: Michael Schatz
Research Interests: Algorithms, computational genomics, deep learning, genomic privacy, cryptography and computer security
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Alexandra DeLucia

Lab: Mark Drezde Lab
Email: aadelucia@jhu.edu
Advisor: Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Natural language processing, social media
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Sougol Gheissi

Group: Systems & Networking
Lab: Advanced Networking Lab
Email: sgheiss1@jh.edu
Advisor: Krishan Sabnani
Research Interests: Computer networks, software-defined networking, data center networks
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Hannah Gonzalez

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: hgonza13@jh.edu
Advisors: Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi
Research Interests: Natural language processing
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Ayush Gupta

Centers/Institutes: Center for Imaging Science
Lab: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering and Medicine Lab
Email: agupt120@jhu.edu
Advisor: Rama Chellappa
Research Interests: Computer vision, multimodal learning, gait recognition
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Sophia Hager

Lab: Andrews Lab
Email: shager2@jh.edu
Advisors: Nicholas Andrews, Kevin Duh
Research Interests: Natural language processing
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Zitong He

Group: Computational Biology & Medicine
Lab: Florea Lab
Email: hezt@jhu.edu
Advisor: Liliana Florea
Research Interests: Machine learning, computational genomics

Aditya Hegde

Lab: Advanced Research in Cryptography
Email: ahegde@cs.jhu.edu
Advisor: Abhishek Jain
Research Interests: Cryptography, security
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Yicheng Hu

Lab: Imaging for Surgery, Therapy, and Radiology
Email: yhu70@jhu.edu
Advisors: Ali Uneri, Craig Jones
Research Interests: Medical imaging, deep learning
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Ruizhe Huang

Group: Natural Language Processing
Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: ruizhe@jhu.edu
Advisor: Sanjeev Khudanpur
Research Interests: Speech recognition, machine learning

Bo Hui

Group: Information Security
Email: bo.hui@jhu.edu
Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Security and privacy in machine learning
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Jonathan Ivey

Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: jivey6@jhu.edu
Advisor: Anjalie Field, Ziang Xiao
Research Interests: Natural language processing, qualitative data analysis, social factors in computing
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Hisashi Ishida

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Sensing, Manipulation, and Real-Time Systems Lab
Email: hishida3@jhu.edu
Advisors: Peter Kazanzides, Russell Taylor
Research Interests: Surgical robotics, human-robot interaction, virtual fixtures

Rohan Jha

Group: Natural Language Processing
Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence
Advisors: Benjamin Van Durme, Reno Kriz
Research Interests: Information retrieval, natural language processing
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Chuanyang Jin

Email: cjin33@jhu.edu
Advisor: Tianmin Shu
Research Interests: Social cognitive AI
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Adway Kanhere

Lab: Vision & Image Understanding Lab
Email: akanher1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Vishal Patel
Research Interests: Multimodal learning, medical image analysis
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Prakhar Kaushik

Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: pkaushi1@jh.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision, cognitive computing
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Ibrahim Khalilov

Lab: Hopkins Privacy and Security Lab
Email: ikhalil1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Yaxing Yao
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, privacy, security, mobile systems, AI agents
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April Kim

Groups: Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science, Computational Biology & Medicine
Email: aprilkim@jhu.edu
Advisor: Alexis Battle
Research Interests: Computational genomics, machine learning
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Irene Kim

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Labs: Sensing, Manipulation, and Real-Time Systems Lab, Intuitive Computing Laboratory
Email: dkim214@jhu.edu
Advisors: Peter Kazanzides, Chien-Ming Huang
Research Interests: Extended reality (augmented/mixed/virtual reality), deep learning, prostheses, human-robot interaction
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Tianjian Li

Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: tli104@jhu.edu
Advisor: Daniel Khashabi
Research Interests: Natural language processing
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Jinqi Lu

Lab: Foundational Networked Systems Lab
Email: jlu114@jhu.edu
Advisor: Soudeh Ghorbani
Research Interests: Cloud computing, networks, databases
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Yihao Liu

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Laboratory of Biomechanical and Image-Guided Surgical Systems
Email: yliu333@jhu.edu
Advisor: Mehran Armand
Research Interests: Medical robotics, mixed reality, AI
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Yu Lu Liu

Email: yliu624@jh.edu
Advisor: Ziang Xiao
Research Interests: Human-centered evaluation in natural language processing, responsible AI
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Zhengyu Liu

Lab: System Security Lab
Email: zliu192@jhu.edu
Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Web security, browser security
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Ariel Lubonja

Centers/Institutes: Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science
Lab: Distributed Systems and Networks Lab
Email: ariel@cs.jhu.edu
Advisor: Randal Burns
Research Interests: Scalable algorithms, graph machine learning, computer vision
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Wufei Ma

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: wma27@jhu.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning
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Sana Mahmood

Group: Systems & Networking
Email: smahmo12@jhu.edu
Advisor: Soudeh Ghorbani
Research Interests: Optimization of RDMA-enabled data center networks, burst tolerance in data center networks

Songtao Mao

Email: smao13@jhu.edu
Advisor: Xin Li
Research Interests: Theoretical computer science
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Philip Mathew

Centers/Institutes: Information Security Institute
Lab: System Security Lab
Email: pmathew8@jhu.edu
Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Machine learning, robustness
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Aayush Mishra

Email: amishr42@jhu.edu
Advisor: Anqi “Angie” Liu
Research Interests: Out-of-distribution generalization, casual representation learning
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David Mueller

Group: Natural Language Processing
Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: dam@jhu.edu
Advisor: Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Machine learning, multi-task learning, natural language processing
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Ramchandran Muthukumar

Group: Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science
Email: ramcha1994@gmail.com
Advisor: Jeremias Sulam
Research Interests: Theoretical machine learning, adversarial robustness, sparse coding, optimization
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Kartik Narayan

Lab: Vision & Image Understanding Lab
Email: knaraya4@jh.edu
Advisor: Vishal Patel
Research Interests: Computer vision, deep learning
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Bohan Ni

Group: Computational Biology & Medicine
Labs: Schatz Lab, Battle Lab
Email: jasonblues1996@gmail.com
Advisors: Michael Schatz, Alexis Battle
Research Interests: Sequence alignment algorithms, genome assembly algorithms, machine learning, genome structural variants, biological and graph networks

Omobolade Odedoyin

Group: Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science
Centers/Institutes: Mathematical Institute for Data Science, Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science
Labs: Neurodata, Algorithms and Complexity
Email: oodedoy2@jhu.edu
Advisors: Joshua T. Vogelstein, Jessica Sorrell
Research Interests: Theoretical machine learning, statistical methodology for high-dimensional data, reinforcement learning, optimization
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Soumava Paul

Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: spaul27@jh.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: 3D and 4D generative vision
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Michael Peven

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Email: mpeven@jhu.edu
Advisor: Greg Hager
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, statistics

Kaitlynn Pineda

Labs: Intuitive Computing Laboratory, Computation Interaction and Robotics Laboratory
Email: kpineda3@jhu.edu
Advisors: Chien-Ming Huang, Greg Hager
Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, socially assistive robotics, AI, machine learning
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Drew Prinster

Centers/Institutes: Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Mathematical Institute for Data Science
Email: drew@cs.jhu.edu
Advisors: Suchi Saria, Anqi “Angie” Liu
Research Interests: Trustworthy AI/machine learning, AI for health care, uncertainty quantification, AI safety monitoring, human-AI teaming
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Shruthi Prusty

Group: Theory & Programming Languages
Lab: Algorithms and Complexity
Email: sprusty1@cs.jhu.edu
Advisor: Michael Dinitz
Research Interests: Approximation algorithms, combinatorial optimization, high-dimensional probability

Krithika Ramesh

Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: kramesh3@jh.edu
Advisor: Anjalie Field
Research Interests: Privacy and memorization in generative models
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Samuel Remedios

Lab: Image Analysis and Communications Lab
Email: samuel.remedios@jhu.edu
Advisor: Jerry Prince
Research Interests: Medical image processing, super-resolution, signal processing, information theory
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Mahler Revsine

Centers/Institutes: Center for Computational Biology
Lab: Schatz Lab
Email: mrevsin1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Michael Schatz
Research Interests: Computational biology, genomics, deep learning, large language models
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Nathaniel Robinson

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: nrobin38@jhu.edu
Advisors: Kenton Murray, Sanjeev Khudanpur
Research Interests: Multilingual and low-resource language and speech processing
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Jamie Rosas-Smith

Group: Natural Language Processing
Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: jrosass1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Anjalie Field
Research Interests: Natural language processing, speech processing, computational social science

Aniket Roy

Groups: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics, Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science
Lab: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering and Medicine Lab
Email: aroy28@jhu.edu
Advisor: Rama Chellappa
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning
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Saron Demame Samuel

Group: Natural Language Processing
Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence
Email: ssamuel21@jh.edu
Advisors: Benjamin Van Durme, Eugene Yang
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Kate Sanders

Email: ksande25@jhu.edu
Advisors: Benjamin Van Durme, Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Natural language processing, computer vision, cognitive science
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Nikhil Sharma

Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: nsharm27@jhu.edu
Advisor: Ziang Xiao
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, natural language processing, computational social science
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Hongchao Shu

Lab: Advanced Robotics and Computationally AugmenteD Environments Lab
Email: hshu4@jh.edu
Advisor: Mathias Unberath
Research Interests: Computer vision, deep learning, image-guided surgery, augmented reality, robotics
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Hyunwoo Song

Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Medical UltraSound Imaging and Intervention Collaboration
Email: hsong37@jhu.edu
Advisor: Emad Boctor
Research Interests: Functional intraoperative surgical guidance, medical ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging
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Kaiser Sun

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: hsun74@cs.jhu.edu
Advisor: Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Natural language processing, interpretability, evaluation
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Jacopo Teneggi

Group: Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science
Centers/Institutes: Mathematical Institute for Data Science
Lab: Sulam Group
Email: jtenegg1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Jeremias Sulam
Research Interests: Explainability, uncertainty quantification
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Prasad Vagdargi

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Lab: Imaging for Surgery, Therapy, and Radiology
Email: prasad@jhu.edu
Advisors: Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, Greg Hager
Research Interests: Computer vision, deep learning, medical robotics
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Adele Valeria

Group: Computational Biology & Medicine
Centers/Institutes: Institute for Computational Medicine
Email: avaleria@cs.jhu.edu
Research Interests: Computational immunogenomics, computational neoantigen prediction, biological natural language processing
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Nethra Venkatayogi

Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Photoacoustic & Ultrasonic Systems Engineering Lab
Email: nvenkat4@jh.edu
Advisor: Muyinatu Bell
Research Interests: Image-guided surgery, machine learning, medical ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging, surgical guidance
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Neha Verma

Group: Natural Language Processing
Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: nverma7@jhu.edu
Advisors: Kevin Duh, Kenton Murray
Research Interests: Model compression and efficiency, model merging, multilingual natural language processing and machine translation
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Jiahao Wang

Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: jwang384@jhu.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision

Lihao Wang

Lab: HopWINS
Email: lwang231@jhu.edu
Advisor: Renjie Zhao
Research Interests: Mobile computing, human-computer interaction
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Xingrui Wang

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: xwang378@jhu.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision
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Miriam Wanner

Group: Natural Language Processing
Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: mwanner5@jhu.edu
Advisor: Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Natural language processing
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Austin Watkins

Email: awatki29@jhu.edu
Advisor: Raman Arora
Research Interests: Theoretical machine learning, representation learning, robustness, implicit regularization, theory of deep networks
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Gwenyth Portillo Wightman

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: gwightman@jhu.edu
Advisor: Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Natural language processing, health informatics, natural language processing for social good, human-computer interaction
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Yana Wei

Lab: Vision & Understanding Lab
Email: ywei66@jh.edu
Advisor: Vishal Patel
Research Interests: Vision-language understanding
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Orion Weller

Group: Natural Language Processing
Email: oweller2@jh.edu
Advisor: Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Natural language processing, question answering, reasoning, multilinguality, natural language understanding
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Shiwei Weng

Group: Theory & Programming Languages
Lab: Programming Languages Laboratory
Email: wengshiwei@jhu.edu
Advisor: Scott Smith
Research Interests: Programming languages, functional programming, symbolic execution, program analysis
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Andrea Wynn

Email: awynn13@jhu.edu
Advisors: Eric Nalisnick, Anqi “Angie” Liu
Research Interests: AI safety, AI alignment, human-AI collaboration, cognitive science
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Zihao Xiao

Group: Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: zxiao10@jhu.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision
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Yukun Yan

Lab: Radiology AI Lab
Email: yyan59@jhu.edu
Advisor: Craig Jones
Research Interests: Medical image processing, machine learning, computer vision
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Farnaz Yousefi

Group: Theory & Programming Languages
Lab: Programming Languages Laboratory
Email: f.yousefi@jhu.edu
Advisor: Scott Smith
Research Interests: Programming languages, functional programming, symbolic execution, model checking
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Jianjia Yu

Group: Information Security
Lab: System Security Lab
Email: jyu122@jhu.edu
Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Web security and privacy

Haolin Yuan

Group: Information Security
Lab: System Security Lab
Email: hyuan4@jhu.edu
Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Machine learning, privacy and security

Xiaoding Yuan

Lab: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Email: xyuan19@jh.edu
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision
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Han Zhang

Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Advanced Robotics and Computationally AugmenteD Environments Lab
Email: hzhan206@jh.edu
Advisor: Mathias Unberath
Research Interests: Virtual reality, augmented reality, surgical robotics
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Jiaming Zhang

Lab: Laboratory of Biomechanical and Image-Guided Surgical Systems
Email: jzhan282@jh.edu
Advisors: Mehran Armand, Alejandro Martin-Gomez
Research Interests: Image-guided surgery, surgical robotics
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Zihao Zhao

Centers/Institutes: Center for Language and Speech Processing
Email: zzhao71@jhu.edu
Advisors: Anjalie Field, Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Natural language processing, privacy and safety in machine learning
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Mian Zhong

Email: mzhong8@jh.edu
Advisor: Anjalie Field
Research Interests: Natural language processing, computational social science, uncertainty quantification
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Yan Zhong

Lab: Algorithms and Complexity
Email: yzhong36@jhu.edu
Advisor: Xin Li
Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, complexity theory
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