The Lab & Beyond

Advising

A vibrant, active research group — plus a sustained commitment to broadening participation in AI through mentoring and open education.

Reliable AI Lab

Current Ph.D. students

Sriram Balasubramanian
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Yize Cheng
Kazem Faghih
Parsa Hosseini
Atoosa Malemir Chegini
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Mobina Pournemat
Keivan Rezaei
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Mehrdad Saberi
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Shoumik Saha
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Chenrui Fan
Gaurang Sriramanan
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Arman Zarei
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Alumni

Graduated Ph.D. students

Samyadeep Basu
2025
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Vinu Sankar Sadasivan
2025
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Wenxiao Wang
2025
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Mazda Moayeri
2025
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Neha Kalibhat
2024
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Priyatham Kattakinda
2024
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Aounon Kumar
2023
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Alexander Levine
2023
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Sahil Singla
2022
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Aya Abdelsalam Ismail
2022
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Yogesh Balaji
2022
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Master's
Siddhant Bharti
2025
Sriram Balasubramanian
2023
Broader Impact

Mentoring & outreach.

High School

AI4ALL Summer Camps

Faculty organizer of UMD's summer AI camps (2019–2023) with AI4ALL and the Maryland Center for Women in Computing, mentoring 46 high-school participants — including 28 women and 15 students from underrepresented groups. Read more →

Undergraduate

Summer REU Program

Faculty organizer of UMD's NSF-funded REU bridging theory and applied CS, mentoring 12 undergraduates including six women (Summers 2019–2021). Read more →

Women in Computing

Tech + Research

Organizer of the Tech+ Research program (Fall 2019, 2021, 2022) with Technica, engaging undergraduate women in AI research on deep generative models. Read more →

Honors Research

Gemstone Honors Program

Mentored two Gemstone undergraduate research teams (2019–present) — 15 students including four women — with one team successfully defending its thesis. Read more →

National Initiative

Rising Stars in Machine Learning

Founder of UMD's nationwide "Rising Stars in ML" program supporting women researchers as they pursue academic careers — now in its fifth year. Read more →

Open Education

Open-Access Lectures

My "Foundations of Deep Learning" course is fully free on YouTube, with lectures viewed more than 95,000 times. Watch →