PhD Students (4)

• Byron A. Johnson, PhD Student, PBS (2020 – 2025)
  • Next position: Postdoc with Susana Chung at UC Berkeley
• Jacob Granley, PhD Student, CS (2020 – 2025)
  • Next position: Postdoc in the Bionic Vision Lab
• Aiwen Xu, PhD Student, CS (2020 – 2024)
  • Next position: Software Engineer, AI/ML at Snowflake
  • Google Summer Internship (2022, 2023)
  • Started PhD in 2019 in the Four Eyes Lab; joined us in 2020
• Justin M. Kasowski, PhD Student, DYNS (2020 – 2023)
  • Next position: Founder/CEO at RealmVR
  • Started PhD in 2018 in the Liz Chrastil Lab; joined us in 2020

Postdoctoral Scholars (4)

• Jacob Granley, Postdoctoral Researcher, CS (2025 – 2026)
  • Next position: ML Engineer at Neuralink
• Roksana Sadeghi, Postdoctoral Researcher, CS (2025)
  • Next position: Health Studies Scientist at Apple
• Amirali Vahid, Postdoctoral Scholar, ICB (2022 – 2023)
  • Next position: Postdoc at Stanford Medicine
• Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Postdoctoral Scholar, CS (2022 – 2023)
  • Next position: Senior AI Researcher at Kimera Technologies

Accessibility Assistants (1)

• Krishna Dhulipala, Student Assistant, CS (F24 – S25)

Visiting Scholars (2)

• Julia Tomas-Barba, PhD Student, University of Zaragoza (F25)
• Kha Nguyen, UC LEADS Scholar, UC San Diego (M20)

Lab Managers (4)

• Jiaxin Su, Student Assistant, PBS/PSTAT (F24 – S25)
  • Next position: MS in Health Data Science at UC San Francisco
• Tori LeVier, Student Assistant, PBS (F23 – S24)
  • Next position: Lab manager for Crockett Lab at Princeton
  • Colville-Dearborn Memorial Award, CoL&S, UCSB (2024)
  • Morgan Award for Research Promise, PBS, UCSB (2024)
• Lily M. Turkstra, Junior Specialist, PBS (F22 – M23)
  • Next position: PhD student in the Bionic Vision Lab
• Ryan Neydavood, Junior Specialist, PBS (F21 – S22)
  • Next position: Doctoral of Dental Surgery Program at USC

MS Students (10)

• Jing Peng, MS Student, CS (S24 – F25)
• Callie Sardina, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
• Madori Spiker, MS Student, CS (F21 – W24)
• Umang Garg, Lab Volunteer, ECE (F23)
• Kimia Afshari, Research Assistant, CS (F22 – W23)
• Ashley Bruce, MS Student, CS (F21 – S22)
  • MS Student of the Year Award, CS, UCSB (2022)
• Alex Rasla, BS/MS Student, MS, CS (F21 – S22)
• Lucas Relic, MS Student, MS, CS (W22 – S22)
• Avani Tanna, Research Assistant, MS, CS (W22)
• Zuying Hu, Research Assistant, CS (W20 – M20)

Honors Students (10)

• Catrina Coe, Honors Student, PBS (S25 – F25)
• Hasith Basnayake, Honors Student, PBS (F24 – S25)
• Ivy Wang, DIMAP Student, CS (F23 – S24)
  • Outstanding Senior Award, CoE, UCSB (2024)
• Lauren Eckhardt, Honors Student, PBS (F22 – S23)
• Ethan Meade, DIMAP Student, CS (W23 – S23)
• Anvitha Akkaraju, Honors Student, PBS (F21 – S22)
• Tanya Bhatia, Honors Student, PBS (F21 – S22)
• Bill Nguyen, Honors Student, PBS/MATH (S21 – S22)
• Rachel Mochizuki, Honors Student, PBS (W21 – M21)
• Nathan Wu, Research Assistant & DIMAP Student, CS (W20 – S21)

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

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

Undergraduate Students (85)