Former group members & research visitors
Former postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, undergraduate researchers, visitors, and research interns associated with the Mathematical Machine Learning group and related research activities at UCLA and MPI MiS.
Former postdocs
Yulia Alexandr2024–2026, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCLA · next: tenure-track, University of Melbourne
Angelica Torres2023–2025, Postdoc, MPI MiS · next: Assistant Professor, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Rishi Sonthalia2021–2024, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCLA · next: Assistant Professor, Boston College
Michael Murray2021–2024, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCLA · next: Lecturer, University of Bath
Marie Brandenburg2023–2024, Postdoc, MPI MiS · next: Postdoc, KTH
Pradeep Kr. Banerjee2019–2023, Postdoc, MPI MiS · next: Postdoc, TUHH
Katerina Papagiannouli2021–2022, Postdoc, MPI MiS · next: Postdoc, Learning and Inference Group, MPI MiS
Jing An2021–2022, Postdoc, MPI MiS · next: Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor, Duke
Yu Guang Wang2020–2021, Postdoc, MPI MiS · next: Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Nina Otter2018–2021, CAM Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA · next: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Queen Mary University of London
Quynh Nguyen2020–2021, Postdoc, MPI MiS
Former PhD students
Kedar KarhadkarPhD 2025, UCLA Mathematics · next: G-Research
James ChapmanPhD 2025, UCLA Mathematics · next: Google
Jiayi LiPhD 2025, UCLA Statistics & Data Science · next: Postdoc, MPI CBG
Pierre BréchetDr. rer. nat. 2025, MPI MiS / Leipzig University · next: Learning and Inference Group, MPI MiS
Johannes MüllerDr. rer. nat. 2024, IMPRS MPI MiS / Leipzig University · next: Postdoc, RWTH Aachen
Hanna TseranDr. rer. nat. 2023, IMPRS MPI MiS / Leipzig University · next: Project Researcher, University of Tokyo
Benjamin BowmanPhD 2023, UCLA Mathematics · next: Applied Scientist, AWS
Hui JinPhD 2022, UCLA Mathematics · next: Research Engineer, Huawei
Yonatan DuklerPhD 2021, UCLA Mathematics · next: Applied Scientist, AWS
Undergraduate research
Cash BowmanUCLA undergraduate research · subsequently PhD student, UCLA Statistics & Data Science
Niket PatelUndergraduate research
Ruibin LyuUCLA Statistics & Data Science / Applied Mathematics · subsequently Columbia University
Aryan DalalUCLA undergraduate research
Cara BurgesUCLA Mathematics of Computation
Kevin LiuUCLA Applied Mathematics
Franklin LiuUCLA Applied Mathematics
Jiayue LiuUCLA Applied Mathematics
Lucas HouUCLA Applied Mathematics
Candice CaiUndergraduate research · subsequently Brown University
Adrian Ruiz DoblasExchange undergraduate, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Visitors
Tom JacobsCISPA · Winter 2026 visitor, MPI MiS
Renata TurkešUniversity of Antwerp · Winter 2026 visitor, MPI MiS; Sep 2021–May 2022 Fulbright visitor, UCLA
Manjot SinghLMU · Fall 2025 visitor, UCLA
Carson NewmanSummer 2025 Competitive Edge Fellow, UCLA
Erik BolagerTUM · Spring 2025 visitor, UCLA
Felix KonradBonn · February 2024 visitor, MPI MiS
Research interns
Dora KleinUniversity of Bonn · Summer 2023 research intern, MPI MiS
Friedrich WickeBerlin / Harvard · May–September 2022 research intern, MPI MiS