Mentorship

I have directly mentored more than 22 undergraduate and 20 graduate students, including 8 Ph.D. students.  During this mentorship, I help students develop important research capabilities and skill sets, including critical thinking, writing, presentation, and collaboration. During my Ph.D. study, I was involved in various undergraduate research programs, e.g., ERSP and ENLANCE. I have published 42 papers with undergraduate and underrepresented minority (URM) students. Our of those, 33 papers are with 21 individual undergraduate and 25 papers with 15 individual URM students. Beside my volunteered mentorship, I have participated in several programs that aimed to increase the number of undergraduate students, specifically minorities, at UCSD. I mentored about 10 students from ERSP program that tries to increase the number of undergraduate students at CSE department. In addition, I mentored several high-school and college students from ENLANCE program to help increase of the Latino students at UCSD. ​

Supervised Thesis 

​I directly supervised the following students toward their Master thesis: 
- Saransh Gupta, ECE UCSD, Title: Enabling Efficient In-Memory Processing, 2018
- Daniel Peroni, CSE, UCSD, Title: Configurable Approximate Computing, 2017
- Max Masich, CSE, UCSD, Title: Deep Neural Network Acceleration Under the Hardware Uncertainty, 2017

​I also directly supervised two Ph.D. thesis: 
​- Dr. Daniel Peroni, CSE, UCSD, Title: Efficiency-Accuracy Trade-off by Enabling GPU Approximation, 2015-2019
- Dr. Joonseop Sim, ECE, UCSD, Title: Processing in-memory using Emerging Non-Volatile Memory , 2016-2019

Current Students

Here is the up to date list of students: 
  1. ​​Joonseop Sim, ECE PhD, Project: Emerging Memory/Circuit Design 
  2. Daniel Perioni, CSE PhD, Project: Approximate computing
  3. ​Sahand Salamat, CSE PhD, Project: Machine learning acceleration/FPGA
  4. Saransh Gupta, CSE PhD, Project: Processing in-memory
  5. Minxuan Zhou, CSE PhD, Project: Graph processing
  6. ​Yunhui Guo, CSE PhD, Project: Deep learning 
  7. Alice A Sokolova, ECE PhD, Project: Approximate Computing
  8. Justin  Morris, CSE PhD, Project: Energy-efficient classification​
  9. ​Sharadhi Ramakrishna, CSE MS, Project: FPGA acceleration
  10. ​Sanjay Anantha Rao, CSE MS, Project: FPGA acceleration
  11. Saikishan Pampana, CSE MS, Project: Hierarchical clustering
  12. John P Messerly, ECE MS, Project: Collaborative learning 
  13. Samuel Bosch, EPFL,  Project: light-weight classification
  14. Helen Shu, CSE BSc, Project: Machine learning acceleration
  15. Patrick Liu , CSE BSc, Project: Data Compression  
  16. Yaobang Deng, CSE BSc, Project: Object detection
  17. ​Conner Leonard, CSE BSc, Project: Supervised learning
  18. Xinyu Wu, CSE BSc, Project: self learning
  19. Roshan Fernando, CSE BSc, Project: self learning
  20. Leyi Shang, CSE BSc, Project: self learning
  21. Ricardo Garcia, ECE BSc, Project: Approximate computing
  22. Andrew Huang,  CSE BSc, Project: Approximate computing
  23. Jimin Mun, CSE BSc, Project: Approximate computing​​​


Alumni Students

Many of these students joined top schools to continue the graduate study or joined top companies in CS area. Here is the list of Alumina: 
  1. Tarek Nassar (BSc ECE),  Engineer @ Intel Inc., 2018
  2. Shuo Li (BSc CSE), Graduate Program@Carnegie Mellon University, 2018.
  3. Jiani Huang (BSc CSE), PhD Program@University of Pennsylvania, 2018
  4. Pushen Wang, (Ms CSE), Software engineer at Amazon Inc., 2017.
  5. Harveen Kaur (CSE MS), Software engineer @ Apple Inc., 2017
  6. Chenyu Huang, Whitepages, Inc. in Seattle, 2018
  7. Sahil Sharma (CSE MS), UC San Diego
  8. Deqian Kong (BSc CSE), Software engineer @ Amazon Inc., 2017.
  9. Max Masich, (CSE MS), Software engineer @ Health Company, CA, 2017.
  10. Atl Arredondo (BSc CSE), Data science engineer @ slack Inc., 2016 ​
  11. Debanjan Chatterjee (MS ECE), Engineer @ Citadel Information Services Inc., 2016
  12. Yan Cheng (BSc CSE), Graduate student @ CSE, UCSD., 2016
  13. John F Hwang (BSc CSE), Engineer @ Parsons Corporation Inc., 2016
  14. Zhipeng Yan (CSE MS), Research Engineer @ TuSimple Inc.
  15. Moyuan Huang (CSE MS), Software engineer @ appfolio, inc
  16. Chihheng Tzang (CSE MS), Engineer @ Kneron IC design​ Inc.
  17. Chunchun Xu (CSE MS), Software Development Engineer @ Facebook Inc.
  18. ​Seven Wu (CSE BSc), Graduate student @ University of Chicago
  19. Robert Chang-koepp, @ UCSD 
  20. Joyaan Bhesania, CSE BSc, @ UCSD 
  21. Valeria Gonzalez, ECE BSc, @ UCSD 
  22. Thomas Worley, CSE BSc, Graduate Program @ UCSD
  23. Daniel Keirouz, CSE BSc, @ UCSD ​
  24. Abhiram Iyer, ECE BSc, Research Intern @ Salesforce Inc.​​​
left: Jiani joined University of Pennsylvania 
right: Shuo Li joined Carnegie Mellon University
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Deqian: Best undergraduate researcher at UCSD
joined Amazon Inc., as software engineer, 2017
A kind letter from Jiani, my wonderful undergraduate mentee