Lab Members

Principal Investigator

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Michael Beyeler
Assistant Professor

Lab Manager

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PBS

Tori LeVier
Student Assistant

Graduate Students

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DYNS

Lucas Gil Nadolskis
PhD Student

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CS

Jacob Granley
PhD Candidate

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CS

Yuchen Hou
PhD Student

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PBS

Byron A. Johnson
PhD Candidate

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CS

Galen Pogoncheff
PhD Student

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CS

Callie Sardina
MS Student

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CS

Madori Spiker
MS Student

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PBS

Lily M. Turkstra
PhD Student

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CS

Apurv Varshney
PhD Student

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CS

Aiwen Xu
PhD Candidate

Undergraduate Students

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ENG, SOC

Fatima Aguilar
SEEDS Fellow

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CS

Kanav Arora
Research Assistant

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CS

Anissa Carter
Promise Scholar

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CS

Yongtak (Dylan) Chung
Research Assistant

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CE

Edward Ding
ERSP Scholar

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PBS

Isabella Gonzalez
Research Assistant

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CS

Lixing (Leo) Guo
Research Assistant

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CS

Isaac Hoffman
Research Assistant

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CS

William Huang
Research Assistant

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CS

Sangita Kunapuli
Research Assistant

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CS

Luke Li
Research Assistant

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CS

Anderson Liu
Student Assistant

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PBS

Dariya (Dasha) Lobko
Lab Volunteer

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PHYS

Xiankun Lu
Research Assistant

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PBS

Nancy Mahmoud
SEEDS Fellow

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CS

Adyah Rastogi
Research Assistant

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CCS

Eirini Schoinas
Research Assistant

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PSTAT, MATH

Jiaxin Su
Research Assistant

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CS

Eyob Teshome
SEEDS Fellow

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PBS

Sukhi Toor
Lab Volunteer

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CS

Alvin Wang
ERSP Scholar

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CS

Ivy Wang
DIMAP Student

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CS

Kyle Zhao
ERSP Scholar

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CS

Jennifer Zhu
ERSP Scholar

Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars (2)

  • Melani Sanchez-Garcia, CS (2022 – 2023)
  • Amirali Vahid, ICB (2022 – 2023)

Graduate Students (9)

  • Kimia Afshari, MS, CS (F22 – W23)
  • Ashley Bruce, MS, CS (F21 – S22)
  • Umang Garg, MS, ECE (F23)
  • Zuying Hu, MS, CS (W20 – M20)
  • Justin Kasowski, PhD, DYNS (W20 – F23)
  • Ziming Qi, MS, CE (F20 – M21)
  • Alex Rasla, MS, CS (F21 – S22)
  • Lucas Relic, MS, CS (W22 – S22)
  • Avani Tanna, MS, CS (W22)

Lab Managers (2)

  • Ryan Neydavood, Junior Speciliast, PBS (M21 – S22)
  • Lily M. Turkstra, PBS (F22 – M23)

Visiting Scholars (1)

  • Kha Nguyen, UC LEADS (M20)

Undergraduate Students (55)
(Senior RAs ≥ 2 quarters in the lab)

  • Kartik Adimulam, PBS (F23 – W24)
  • Anvitha Akkaraju, PBS (W20 – S22)
  • Sriya Aluru, CS (F21 – S23)
  • Nick Arenberg, CS (F21 – S22)
  • Tanya Bhatia, PBS (W21 – S22)
  • Alec Bodolay, PBS (W22 – M22)
  • Annika Brydon, ENV (S21 – M21)
  • Cheng Han (Johnson) Chan, CS (F22 – S23)
  • Alexander Chau, CS (S22 – M22)
  • Juliana Chou, PBS (M23 – W24)
  • Justin Chung, CS (F22 – S23)
  • Lauren Eckhardt, PBS (S21 – S23)
  • Harshita Gangaswamy, CE (F21 – S22, F23 – W24)
  • Robert Gee, CS (W22 – F22)
  • Anand Giduthuri, CS (S22 – M22)
  • Elaine Ho, CS (W22 – S22)
  • Yuchen Hou, PBS (W21 – S22)
  • Nandini Iyer, PSTAT, ECON (F22 – S23)
  • Rutvik Jha, CE (W22 – M22)
  • Wayne D. Johnson, PBS (F21 – S22)
  • Mari Khachatryan, PBS (S23 – W24)
  • Rucha Kolhatkar, CE (M21 – F21)
  • Tori LeVier, PBS (F22 – M23)
  • Hongzhen (Dylan) Lin, CS (W20 – S21)
  • Ananth Mahes, PBS (W21 – S22)
  • Meghana Makineni, PBS (S23 – M23)
  • Ethan Meade, CS (W23 – S23)
  • Khalid Mihlar, CE (F22 – S23)
  • Ori Mizrahi, CS (M20 – F20)
  • Rachel Mochizuki, PBS (W21 – M21)
  • Sahil Naik, CE (F21 – M22)
  • Ryan Neydavood, PBS (W20 – S21)
  • Bill Nguyen, PBS, MATH (S21 – S22)
  • Julia Novick, CCS (W23 – S23)
  • Ruben Olmos, PSTAT (W21 – M21)
  • Megumi Ondo, CS (F23 – W24)
  • Laya Pullela, CCS (F22 – W24)
  • Rashi Raghulan, MCDB (F19 – S20)
  • Ethan Roma, PBS (F23 – W24)
  • Vanessa Salgado Zavaleta, CS (F21 – S22)
  • Shivani Sista, CS (F21 – W24)
  • Angel Solares, PBS (S21 – M21)
  • Gita Supramaniam, CS (F21 – S22)
  • Molly Tang, BIO (W23 – S23)
  • Shuyun Tang, PSTAT (W21 – M21)
  • Dharynka Tapia, PSTAT, ECON (F22 – S23)
  • Archita Tharanipathy, MCDB (W21, F21 – F22)
  • Lexie Van Os, PBS, COMM (F21 – S23)
  • Wade Varesio, CS (F21 – W22)
  • Francie Wei, CS (S21 – S22)
  • Nathan Wu, CS (W20 – S21)
  • Kelly Yan, CS (S21 – M21)
  • Zhongyi (Maynic) Ye, CS (W21 – S21)
  • Luke Yoffe, CS (W23 – S23)
  • Wanqian (Daisy) Zhong, CS (F23 – W24)

High School Students (11)
(most via UCSB Research Mentorship Program)

  • Emma Gao, The Harker School (M21)
  • Ethan Gao, Ojai Valley School (M20)
  • Chitsein Htun, North Hollywood High (M21)
  • Jain Yash, Moreau Catholic High (M21)
  • Surya Jasper, Saint Francis High School (M21)
  • Lisa Li, Texas Academy of Math & Science (M21)
  • Andrew Liang, The Harker School (M23)
  • Andre Mao, Homestead High (M21)
  • Versha Rohatgi, Mountain View High (M20, M21)
  • Shivani Sama, Tesla STEM High School (F22 – S23)
  • Emma Shen, Del Norte High School (M23)