Current Members

Xingyu Fu
PLI Postdoctoral Fellow

Yong Lin
PLI Postdoctoral Fellow

Xinyi Wang
PLI Postdoctoral Fellow

Xi Ye
PLI Postdoctoral Fellow

Adithya Bhaskar
PhD student

Jeff Cheng
PhD student

Lucy He
PhD student, w/ Peter Henderson

Yoonsang Lee
PhD student

Zhuorui Ye
PhD student, w/ Zhuang Liu

Howard Yen
PhD student

Wuwei Zhang
MSE student

Kevin Wang
Undergraduate (w/ Benjamin Eysenbach)

Joie Zhang
Undergraduate

Alumni

PhD students and postdoctoral researchers

• Catherine Chen, CV Starr Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025, now at Abridge
• Alexis Chevalier, visiting postdoc/PLI postdoc 2022-2024, now at Cohere
• Howard Chen, PhD 2025 (expected)
• Dan Friedman, PhD 2025 (expected), now at Apple
• Tianyu Gao, PhD 2025 (expected), now at OpenAI / incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSE
• Tanya Goyal, PLI postdoc 2023-2024, now assistant professor at Cornell CS
• Jinhyuk Lee, visiting postdoc 2020-2021, now at Google
• Yu Meng, visiting PhD student 2023, now assistant professor at UVA CS
• Mengzhou Xia, PhD 2025 (expected), now at OpenAI / incoming assistant professor at CMU MLD
• Alexander Wettig, PhD 2025 (expected), now at Cursor
• Zexuan Zhong, PhD 2024, now at xAI

MSE and undergraduate students

• Sabhya Chhabria, MSE 2024
• Ben Dodge, undergraduate student, 2020-2021 -> PhD student @Stanford
• Manan Goenka, undergraduate student, 2020-2021 -> Microsoft
• Jiayi Geng, MSE 2025 -> PhD student @CMU
• Victoria Graf, undergraduate student, 2022-2024 -> PhD student @UW
• Aatmik Gupta, undergraduate and MSE student, 2022-2024
• Jacquline He, undergraduate student, 2021-2022 -> PhD student @UW
• Ziqing Huang, visiting undergraduate student from Tsinghua University, 2022 -> MSE student @Stanford
• Huihan Li, MSE 2022 -> PhD student @USC
• Saumya Malik, undergraduate student, 2023-2024 -> Predoctoral Young Investigator @AI2
• Jane Pan, MSE 2023 -> PhD student @NYU
• Chris Sciavolino, MSE 2021 -> Jane Street
• Jenny Sheng, undergraduate student, 2021-2022 -> PhD student @Tsinghua
• Zachary Siegel, undergraduate student, 2023-2024
• Xingcheng Yao, visiting undergraduate, 2021 Spring -> PhD student @UCLA
• Howard Yen, undergraduate and MSE, 2021-2024 -> PhD student @Princeton
• Jiatong Yu, undergraduate, 2022-2023 -> MSE student @Princeton
• Colin Wang, MSE 2025 -> PhD student at UC Berkeley
• Zhiyuan Zeng, visiting undergrad, 2023 Summer -> PhD student @UW

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Schmidt DataX Fund, Princeton SEAS Innovation Funds, Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce for generous support of our research. My students have been also supported by Apple (Mengzhou Xia), Bloomberg (Mengzhou Xia), Google (Dan Friedman), IBM (Tianyu Gao), and JP Morgan (Zexuan Zhong) through their fellowship programs - Thanks for the support!