Current Ph.D. Students:
Former Students:
Sahil Singla
Next: Google Research. webpage.
Aya Ismail
Next: Genentech Research. webpage.
Yogesh Balaji
Next: Nvidia Research. webpage.
Cassidy Laidlaw
Next: UC Berkeley PhD. webpage.
Eric Wallace
Next: UC Berkeley PhD. webpage.
Other Advising Activities:
Summer REU for Undergraduate Students
The CS department at UMD hosts an annual NSF-funded REU program whose goal is to bridge between the theory and other disciplines within the computer science and engineering. I have been one of the faculty organizers of this program, in Summers of 2019-2021.
AI4ALL Camps for High School Students
I have served as one of the faculty organizers of summer AI camps at UMD in 2019-2022 for high school students in collaborations with the AI4ALL organization as well as Maryland Center for Women in Computing (MCWIC). The goal of this camp is to create an inclusive and diverse field of AI by targeting and serving high school students from underrepresented communities.
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Tech + Research: Welcoming Women to Computing Research
I have been one of the organizers of the Tech+ Research program in Fall 2019, 2021 and 2022 at UMD. This program is a workshop to engage undergraduate women in computing areas specially AI. This is a joint program with Technica.
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Rising Stars in Machine Learning
I have created and organized UMD's “Rising Stars in ML” program:
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