Recent PhD Alumni
Illinois CS has thousands of creative and driven alumni who have become entrepreneurs, educators, or technical visionaries.
An incomplete list of PhD graduates from May 2019 to August 2020 appears below.
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Shegufta Ahsan
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon
Mohammad Babaeizadeh
Research Engineer
Google
Alex Brooks
Software Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
Erin Elizabeth Carrier
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Grand Valley State University
Carmen Cheh
Graduate Research Fellow
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Jason Cho
Data Science Manager
Walmart Labs
Sandeep Dasgupta
Software Engineer
Google Brain
Aditya Deshpande
Applied Scientist
Amazon Web Services
Ashutosh Dhekne
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nikoli Dryden
Postdoctoral Fellow
Scalable Parallel Computing Lab
ETH Zurich
Ahmed El-Kishky
Research Scientist
Facebook AI
Paul Eller
Postdoctoral Researcher
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Motahhare EslamiMehdiabadi
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Faraz Faghri
Investigator
The National Institutes of Health
Tanmay Gupta
Research Scientist
PRIOR
Casey Hanson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Hadi Hashemi
Software Engineer
Google Brain and TensorFlow
Silu Huang
Senior Researcher
Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) Group
Microsoft
Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Auburn University
Farzaneh Khajouei
Computational Scientist
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Konstantinos Koiliaris
Associate
Goldman Sachs
Ha Kyung Kong
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Seattle University
Owolabi Legunsen
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Sihan Li
Senior Software Engineer
Whova
Zhizhong Li
Applied Scientist
AWS Rekognition
Amazon
Xueqing (Susan) Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Ismini Lourentzou
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Kanika Narang
Research Scientist
Facebook AI
Daejun Park
Formal Verification Lead
Runtime Verification, Inc.
Santhosh Prabhu
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMware
Kent Quanrud
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Sajjadur Rahman
Research Scientist
Megagon Labs
Andrew Reisner
Staff Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wenyu Ren
Research Scientist
Advertisement Ranking Team
Facebook
Jason Rock
Senior Artificial Intelligence/Computer VisioTechnologist
Boeing Research & Technology
Jingbo Shang
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California, San Diego
Yu Shi
Research Scientist
Facebook
Tarique Siddiqui
Senior Researcher
Microsoft
Stephen Skeirik
Verification Engineer
Runtime Verification, Inc.
Prakalp Srivastava
Software Engineer
Google Brain
Guliz Tuncay
Software Engineer
Google
Pranjal Vachaspati
Software Engineer
Google
Helen Wauck
Research Scientist
Smart Information Flow Technologies
Liqi Xu
Research Scientist
Facebook
Mengjia Yan
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Haizi Yu
Postdoctoral Scholar
Knowledge Lab
University of Chicago
Yiran Zhao
Software Engineer
Pinterest
Honglei Zhuang
Software Engineer
Google
Chuhang Zou
Research Scientist
Amazon Go