Alums
Postdoc Alums
Jocelyn Chi (2024), UCLA, NSF Postdoc, numerical linear algebra, statistical learning (now at Univ. Colorado Boulder)
Halyun Jeong (2024), UCLA, CAM Postdoc, signal processing, machine learning, nonlinear signal recovery (now at SUNY Albany)
Michael Murray (2024), UCLA, PIC Postdoc, machine learning, deep learning theory (now at Univ. Bath)
Shuang Li (2023), UCLA, CAM Postdoc, signal processing (now at Iowa State)
Michael Perlmutter (2023), UCLA, Hedrick Postdoc, signal processing, dimension reduction (now at Boise State)
Longxiu Huang (2022), UCLA, CAM Postdoc, numerical linear algebra, learning, approximation (now at Michigan State)
Jamie Haddock (2021), UCLA, CAM Postdoc, optimization and learning (now at Harvey Mudd College)
Zhishen Leo Huang (2021), UCLA, CAM Postdoc, optimization and sensing (now at Amazon)
Hanbaek Lyu (2021), UCLA, Hedrick Postdoc, dynamical systems, distributed algorithms, network data analysis (now at Univ. Wisconsin)
Liza Rebrova (2021), UCLA, Postdoc, non-asymptotic random matrix theory (now at Princeton Univ.)
Palina Salanevich (2020), UCLA, Postdoc, phase retrieval and learning (now at Utrecht University)
Guangliang Chen (2015), postdoctoral researcher (now at San Jose State)
Student Alums
Yotam Yaniv, UCLA, (2024), stochastic optimization, numerical linear algebra (now at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Zehan Chao, UCLA, (2023), machine learning, sentiment analysis (now at BDStar)
Ben Jarman, UCLA, (2023), numerical linear algebra, machine learning (now at G-Research)
Chris Strohmeier, UCLA, (2023), Data completion and learning
Will Swartworth, UCLA, (2023), stochastic iterative methods, PSD testing, Dissertation Prize (now at Carnegie Mellon)
Xia Li, UCLA, (2022), Distributed optimization (now at Microsoft)
Jacob Moorman (2021), UCLA, Stochastic optimization and Graphical systems (now at Google)
Denali Molitor (2020), UCLA, Data analysis and learning (now at Google)
Anna Ma (2018), Claremont Graduate University, Topic modeling & compressed sensing (now at UC Irvine)
Tina Woolf (2017), Claremont Graduate University, Practical Compressed Sensing (now at JPL)
Ran Zhao (2015), Claremont Graduate University, Stochastic optimization (now at AIG)
Summer Research
- 2024 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
AI For Health and Criminal Justice

Team (mentor: Minxin Zhang)
- Shreya Balaji
- Jiayue Liu
- Xiangdi Lin
- Anshuman Singh
- Alexandria Tan
- Kyle Torres
- 2023 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
AI For Lyme Disease

Team (mentor: Lara Kassab)
- Xinyu Dong
- Haowen Geng
- Abby Hultquist
- Aoxi Li
- Xiangdi Lin
- Jingyi Liu
- Chelsea Nguyen
- Nika Nia
- 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
AI with Community Partners

Team (mentors: Jocelyn Chi (lead), Will Swartworth)
- Xiaofu Ding
- Xinyu Dong
- Olivia McGough
- Chenxin Shen
- Annie Ulichney
- Ruiyao Xu
- 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
AI for Holocaust Studies

Team (mentors: Joyce Chew, Michael Lindstrom, Michael Perlmutter (lead), Todd Presner (co-PI))
- Keyi Cheng
- Leo Lizhou Fan
- Stefan Inzer
- Michelle Lee
- Xiaoxian Hercy Shen
- Yaxuan Zheng
- 2021 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Data Science for Innocence

Team (mentors: Joyce Chew, Longxiu Huang (lead), Ben Jarman)
- Pengyu Li
- Imani Maliti
- Christine Tseng
- Yaxuan Zheng
- 2020 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Data Science for Innocence

Team (mentors: Denali Molitor, Liza Rebrova)
- Ryan Budahazy
- Lu Cheng
- Andrew Johnson
- Josh Vendrow
- Diana Wu
- 2019 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Topic-aware Chatbot
Team (mentor: Hanbaek Lyu)
- Yuchen Guo
- Nicholas Hanoian
- Zhexiao Lin
- Nicholas Liskij
- Jiahao Qu
- Henry Sojico
- Yuliang Wang
- Zhe Xiong
- Zhenhong Zou
- 2018 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Patterns of Lyme Disease
Data Completion Team
- Matthew Patterson, Pomona College
- Sneha Sambandam, UCLA
- Joy Song, Tsinghua Univ.
- Yuanxun Sun, Peking Univ.
Deep Models Team
- Mengdi Gao, UC Irvine
- Eli Sadovnik, UCLA
- Tyler Will, Michigan State
- Runyu Zhang, Peking Univ.
Classification Team
- Eric Chen, UCLA
- Rong Huang, UCLA
- Diyi Liu, Shanhai Jiao Tong Univ.
- Cathy Wahlenmayer, Gannon Univ.
- Jiewen Wang, UCLA
Co-mentors
- Jamie Haddock, UCLA
- Denali Molitor, UCLA
- Anna Ma, UC San Diego
2017 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Data Science meets Lyme Disease Data
- Allyson Cruz, Claremont McKenna College
- Anna Ma (co-mentor), Claremont Graduate University
- Kevin Stangl, UCLA
2015 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Practical Compressive Signal Processing
- Mindy Case, UCLA
- Xiaoyi Gu (NSF RA), UCLA
- Hao-Jun Michael Shi, UCLA
- Shenyingying Tu (NSF RA), UCLA
2015 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Longitudonal MRI and compressed sensing
- Samuel Birns, UCLA
- Bohyun Kim, UC Irvine
- Stephanie Ku, UCLA
- Kevin Stangl, UCLA
2014 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Practical Compressive Signal Processing
- Christopher Garnatz, Pomona College
- Xiaoyi Gu (NSF RA), UCLA
- Alison Kingman, Harvey Mudd College
- James LaManna, Pitzer College
- Shenyingying Tu (NSF RA), UCLA
2014 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Analysis of Neuroscience Data
- Arpineh Asadoorian, UCLA
- Christian Ayala, Claremont McKenna College
- Jessica Nadalin, UC Berkeley
- Ryan McCarthy (RA), UCLA
- Susannah Shoemaker, Pomona College
2014 Summer Graduate Research Program, Claremont McKenna College
Practical Compressive Signal Processing
- Flora Xu Shu Jing (NSF RA), Claremont Graduate University
- Tina Woolf (NSF RA), Claremont Graduate University
- Ran Zhao (NSF RA), Claremont Graduate University
2012 Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS), Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Spectral Clustering and the Attrition Problem
- Bianca Cung, UCLA
- Tony Jin, Stanford
- Juan Carlos Ramirez, Univ. of Mexico
- Aubrey Thompson (project manager), Univ. of Nebraska
2010 VIGRE VPUE Undergraduate Summer Workshop, Stanford
Robust Principal Component Analysis
- Michael Hornstein, Stanford
Past thesis students


- Matthew Aven, Claremont McKenna College (2017), Daily Traffic Flow Pattern Recognition by Spectral Clustering
- Wei Wu, Scripps College (2017), Paving the Randomized Gauss-Seidel Method
- Dejun Wan, Claremont McKenna College (2016), The Randomized Kaczmarz Method with Application on Making Macroeconomic Predictions
- Phillip North, Claremont McKenna College (2015), One-bit compressed sensing with prior information [Best Thesis Award 2015]
- Jonathon Briskman, Claremont McKenna College, Block Kaczmarz Method with Inequalities
- Evan Casey, Claremont McKenna College, Scalable Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms on Apache Spark [Outstanding Thesis Award 2014]
- Nathan Falk, Claremont McKenna College, Policy Uncertainty and Irreversible Investment in the United States
- Aparna Sarkar, Pomona College, Compressed Sensing and Human Vision
- Zachary Siegel, Pomona College, Generative Models and Sparse Coding
- Nathan Lenssen, Claremont McKenna College (2013), Audio Signal Processing and Forecasting [Best Thesis Award 2013]
- Morgan Mayer-Jochimsen, Scripps College (2013), Public Healthcare Evaluation Techniques
- Jing Wen, Pomona College (2013), Spectral Clustering Methods in Finance