Faculty

• Dongjin Song

Graduate Students

• Jinyu Hong, Ph.D. student, Fall 2025 - Present

  • BE from UESTC and MS from UESTC
  • Award:
    • Eversource Fellowship 2025

• Guiquan Sun, Ph.D. student, Fall 2025 - Present

  • BS from South China Agricultural University

• Kanghui Ning, Ph.D. student, Fall 2024 - Present

  • BE from UESTC and MS from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
  • NeurIPS x 1, ICDM x 1, KDD x 1
  • Tutorial at KDD 2025
  • Award:
    • UConn CSE Graduate Fellowship, 2024
    • UConn SoC Predoctoral Fellowship, 2025
  • Intern
    • Ant Financial, Summer 2024
    • Morgan Stanley, Summer 2026

• Xuyang Shen, Ph.D. student, Spring 2024 - Present

  • BE from UESTC and MS from University of California San Diego (UCSD)
  • Tutorial at KDD 2025
  • Award:
    • Eversource Fellowship 2024
    • UConn SoC Predoctoral Fellowship 2025
  • Intern
    • NEC Labs America Summer 2025

• Zijie Pan, Ph.D. student, Fall 2022 - Present

  • BS and MS from University of Virginia (UVA)
  • ICML x 1, IJCAI x 1, KDD x 1,
  • Tutorials at WWW 2023, SDM 2023, KDD 2025, AAAI 2026
  • Award
    • UConn CSE Predoctoral Fellowship (Honorable Mention), 2023
    • GE Fellowship for Excellence 2023
    • UConn CSE Predoctoral Fellowship 2024
    • UConn SoC Predoctoral Fellowship 2025
    • Eversource Fellowship Summer 2025
  • Intern
    • Eversource Energy Summer 2024

• Yushan Jiang, Ph.D. student, Spring 2022 - Present

  • BS from CAUC and MS from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)
  • NeurIPS x1, KDD x 2, IJCAI x 1, CISS x 1
  • Tutorials at WWW 2023, SDM 2023, KDD 2024, AAAI 2025, and KDD 2025
  • Award
    • GE Fellowship for Next Gen Scholar, 2022
    • GE Fellowship for Excellence 2023
    • UConn CSE Predoctoral Fellowship 2023
    • UConn CSE Anthony W. DeSio Endowed Fellowship 2024
    • Impactfulness of Research award in RiSC 3.0 from NEC Labs America 2024
    • UConn SoC Predoctoral Fellowship 2025
  • Intern
    • NEC Labs America, Summer 2024
    • Mayo Clinic, Summer 2025

• Yamila Garcia, Master student, Spring 2024 - Present

  • BS from University of Connecticut (UConn)

• Xinhao Wang, Master student, Spring 2024 - Present

  • BS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

• Nikolas Anagnostou, Master student, Fall 2024 - Present

  • BS from University of Connecticut (UConn)

• Brendan Barnett, Master student, Fall 2025 - Present

  • BS from University of Connecticut (UConn)

Undergraduate Students

• Anshul Rastogi, Summer 2024 -

High School Students

• Jesse Wang, Fall 2024 -
  • Glastonbury High School

Former Members

• Xikun Zhang (Co-advisor), June 2020 - Summer 2024
  • Ph.D. student, University of Sydney
  • BS from USTC and MS from University of Sydney
  • IEEE T-PAMI x 1, IEEE T-NNLS x 1, NeurIPS x 1, ICLR x 1, KDD x 1, ICDM x 1
  • Tutorials at AAAI 2025, AAAI 2024, IJCAI 2024, WWW 2023 and SDM 2023
  • Employment: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
• Chang Li (Co-advisor), 2018 - 2021, Co-advisor
  • Ph.D. Student, University of Sydney
  • KDD x 1, ICLR x 1
  • Employment: JD Explore Academy, Research Scientist
• Wei Zhu, May 2020 - Aug 2020, Intern at NEC Labs America
  • Ph.D student, University of Rochester
  • Employment: Amazon, Applied Scientist
• Dixian Zhu, May 2019 - Aug 2019, Intern at NEC Labs America
  • Ph.D Student, University of Iowa
  • AAAI x 1
  • Employment: Stanford, Postdoc
• Chuxu Zhang, May 2018 - Aug 2018, Intern at NEC Labs America
  • Ph.D Student, University of Notre Dame
  • AAAI x 1, KDD x 1, Patent App x1
  • Employment: Brandies University, Assistant Professor
• Xinyang Feng, May 2018 - Aug 2018, Intern at NEC Labs America
  • Ph.D student, Columbia University
  • ACM MM x 1, AAAI x 1, Patent App x 1
  • Employment: Facebook, Research Scientist
• Yuanpu Xie, May 2017 - Aug 2017, Intern at NEC Labs America
  • Ph.D student, University of Florida
  • Employment: Twitter, Senior Machine Learning Engineer@Cortex
• Yao Qin, June 2016 - Sep 2016, Intern at NEC Labs America
  • Ph.D student, University of California San Diego
  • IJCAI x 1, Patent x 1, Patent App x 1
  • Employment: Google Brain, Research Scientist
• Susmita Ojha, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
  • Master Student, University of Connecticut
• Sebastiano Alderucci, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
  • Master Student, University of Connecticut
• Madani Mohammad, Fall 2022 - Fall 2023
  • Master Student, University of Connecticut
• Ryan Lagasse, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
• Brendan Barnett, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
• Okem Chime, Summer 2023 - Fall 2023
  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
• Rahul Bhagwani, Spring 2022 - Spring 2023
  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
• Varsha Rathore, Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
• Dylan Manchester, Spring 2021
  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
• Eric Wang, Spring 2021, Honors Thesis
  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut
• Arnav Kumar, Summer 2023 - Fall 2023
  • South Windsor High School
• Spencer Danese, Summer 2023 - Fall 2023
  • Glastonbury High School
• Jay Tummala, Summer 2023 - Fall 2023
  • Glastonbury High School
• Jason Zhou, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022,
  • Glastonbury High School -> B.S. student of CS @ University of Michigan
• Hangyue Li, Summer 2021 - Spring 2022, Remote Intern
  • UESTC -> CS Ph.D. student of CS @ Washington University in St. Louis