Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Michael Beyeler
Assistant Professor
Lab Manager
Jiaxin Su
Student Assistant
Graduate Students
Jacob Granley
PhD Candidate
Yuchen Hou
PhD Student
Byron A. Johnson
PhD Candidate
Lucas Nadolskis
PhD Student
Jing Peng
MS Student
Galen Pogoncheff
PhD Student
Hannah Stone
PhD Student
Lily M. Turkstra
PhD Student
Apurv Varshney
PhD Student
Alvin Wang
BS/MS Student
Undergraduate Students
Raiyah Ahmed
Research Assistant
Alyssa Alanis
Research Assistant
Kanav Arora
Research Assistant
Hasith Basnayake
Honors Student
Ruyi Cao
Research Assistant
Anissa Carter
Promise Scholar
Deniz Lapsekili
Research Assistant
Adyah Rastogi
Research Assistant
Magnolia Saur
UC LEADS Scholar
Eirini Schoinas
Research Assistant
Eyob Teshome
Research Assistant
Jianna Wong
Research Assistant
Alumni
PhD Students (2)
- Justin M. Kasowski, PhD Student, DYNS (W20 – F23)
- Aiwen Xu, PhD Student, CS (W20 – S24)
Postdoctoral Scholars (2)
- Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Postdoctoral Scholar, CS (2022 – 2023)
- Amirali Vahid, Postdoctoral Scholar, ICB (2022 – 2023)
Lab Managers (2)
- Tori LeVier, Student Assistant, PBS (F23 – S24)
- Lily M. Turkstra, Junior Specialist, PBS (F22 – M23)
Visiting Scholars (1)
- Kha Nguyen, UC LEADS Scholar, UC San Diego (M20)
MS Students (9)
- Kimia Afshari, Research Assistant, CS (F22 – W23)
- Ashley Bruce, MS Student, CS (F21 – S22)
- Umang Garg, Lab Volunteer, ECE (F23)
- Zuying Hu, Research Assistant, CS (W20 – M20)
- Alex Rasla, BS/MS Student, MS, CS (F21 – S22)
- Lucas Relic, MS Student, MS, CS (W22 – S22)
- Callie Sardina, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Madori Spiker, MS Student, CS (F21 – W24)
- Avani Tanna, Research Assistant, MS, CS (W22)
Honors Students (5)
- Ethan Meade, DIMAP Student, CS (W23 – S23)
- Rachel Mochizuki, Honors Student, PBS (W21 – M21)
- Bill Nguyen, Honors Student, PBS/MATH (S21 – S22)
- Ivy Wang, DIMAP Student, CS (F23 – S24)
- Nathan Wu, Research Assistant & DIMAP Student, CS (W20 – S21)
Undergraduate Students (45)
(Senior RAs since F22)
- Kartik Adimulam, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – W24)
- Fatima Aguilar, SEEDS Fellow, ENG/SOC (F23 – S24)
- Anvitha Akkaraju, Research Assistant, PBS (W20 – M21)
- Sriya Aluru, ERSP Scholar & Research Assistant, CS (F21 – S23)
- Tanya Bhatia, Research Assistant, PBS (W21 – M21)
- Cheng Han (Johnson) Chan, Research Assistant, CS (F22 – S23)
- Juliana Chou, Lab Volunteer, PBS (M23 – S24)
- Justin Chung, Research Assistant, CS (F22 – S23)
- Yongtak (Dylan) Chung, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Edward Ding, ERSP Scholar, CE (F23 – S24)
- Lauren Eckhardt, Research Assistant, PBS (S21 – S22)
- Harshita Gangaswamy, ERSP Scholar & Research Assistant, CE (F21 – S22, F23 – W24)
- Robert Gee, Research Assistant, CS (W22 – F22)
- Isabella Gonzalez, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – S24)
- Lixing (Leo) Guo, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Isaac Hoffman, Research Assistant, CS (W23 – S24)
- William Huang, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Nandini Iyer, SEEDS Fellow, PSTAT/ECON (F22 – S23)
- Mari Khachatryan, Lab Volunteer, PBS (S23 – W24)
- Sangita Kunapuli, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – W24)
- Tori LeVier, Research Assistant, PBS (F22 – M23)
- Luke Li, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Anderson Liu, Research Assistant & Student Assistant, CS (S22 – S23, W24 – S24)
- Dariya (Dasha) Lobko, Lab Volunteer, PBS (M23 – S24)
- Xiankun Lu, Research Assistant, PHYS (F22 – S24)
- Nancy Mahmoud, SEEDS Fellow, PBS (F23 – S24)
- Meghana Makineni, Lab Volunteer, PBS (S23 – M23)
- Khalid Mihlar, Research Assistant, CE (F22 – S23)
- Ryan Neydavood, Research Assistant, PBS (W20 – S21)
- Julia Novick, Research Assistant, CCS (W23 – S23)
- Megumi Ondo, Lab Volunteer, CS (F23 – W24)
- Laya Pullela, Research Assistant, CCS (F22 – W24)
- Ethan Roma, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – W24)
- Shivani Sista, ERSP Scholar & Research Assistant, CS (F21 – W24)
- Jiaxin Su, Research Assistant, PBS/PSTAT (W23 – W24)
- Molly Tang, Promise Scholar, BIO (W23 – S23)
- Dharynka Tapia, SEEDS Fellow, PSTAT/ECON (F22 – S23)
- Sukhi Toor, Lab Volunteer, PBS (M23 – S24)
- Lexie Van Os, Research Assistant, PBS/COMM (F21 – S23)
- Wade Varesio, Research Assistant, CS (F21 – W22)
- Alvin Wang, ERSP Scholar, CS (F23 – S24)
- Luke Yoffe, Research Assistant, CS (W23 – S23)
- Kyle Zhao, ERSP Scholar, CS (F23 – S24)
- Wanqian (Daisy) Zhong, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – W24)
- Jennifer Zhu, ERSP Scholar, CS (F23 – S24)
High School Students (11)
(most via UCSB Research Mentorship Program)
- Emma Gao, RMP Scholar, The Harker School (M21)
- Ethan Gao, RMP Scholar, Ojai Valley School (M20)
- Chitsein Htun, RMP Scholar, North Hollywood High (M21)
- Jain Yash, RMP Scholar, Moreau Catholic High (M21)
- Surya Jasper, RMP Scholar, Saint Francis High School (M21)
- Lisa Li, RMP Scholar, Texas Academy of Math & Science (M21)
- Andrew Liang, RMP Scholar, RMP, The Harker School (M23)
- Andre Mao, RMP Scholar, Homestead High (M21)
- Versha Rohatgi, RMP Scholar, Mountain View High (M20, M21)
- Shivani Sama, High School Researcher, Tesla STEM High School (F22 – S23)
- Emma Shen, RMP Scholar, Del Norte High School (M23)