Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Michael Beyeler
Assistant Professor
Staff
Krishna Dhulipala
Accessibility Assistant
Graduate Students
Ally Chu
BS/MS Student
Jacob Granley
PhD Candidate
Yuchen Hou
PhD Student
Byron A. Johnson
PhD Candidate
Emily M. Joyce
PhD Student
Lucas Nadolskis
PhD Student
Jing Peng
MS Student
Galen Pogoncheff
PhD Student
Hannah L. Stone
PhD Student
Lily M. Turkstra
PhD Student
Apurv Varshney
PhD Student
Undergraduate Students
Raiyah Ahmed
Research Assistant
Kanav Arora
Research Assistant
Ruyi Cao
Research Assistant
Catrina Coe
Honors Student
Luke Herbelin
Research Assistant
Jeffrey Liu
Research Assistant
Adyah Rastogi
Research Assistant
Magnolia Saur
UC LEADS Scholar
Eirini Schoinas
Research Assistant
Shivam Singh
Research Assistant
Tejas Vissapragada
Research Assistant
Alumni
PhD Students (2)
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Justin M. Kasowski, PhD Student, DYNS (W20 – F23)
- Next position: Founder/CEO at RealmVR
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Aiwen Xu, PhD Student, CS (W20 – S24)
- Next position: Software Engineer, AI/ML at Snowflake
- Google Summer Internship (2022, 2023)
Postdoctoral Scholars (2)
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Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Postdoctoral Scholar, CS (2022 – 2023)
- Next position: Senior AI Researcher at Kimera Technologies
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Amirali Vahid, Postdoctoral Scholar, ICB (2022 – 2023)
- Next position: Postdoc at Stanford Medicine
Lab Managers (3)
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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)
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Jiaxin Su, Student Assistant, PBS/PSTAT (F24 – S25)
- Next position: MS in Health Data Science at UC San Francisco
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Lily M. Turkstra, Junior Specialist, PBS (F22 – M23)
- Next position: PhD student in the Bionic Vision Lab
Visiting Scholars (1)
- Kha Nguyen, UC LEADS Scholar, UC San Diego (M20)
MS Students (9)
- Kimia Afshari, Research Assistant, CS (F22 – W23)
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Ashley Bruce, MS Student, CS (F21 – S22)
- MS Student of the Year Award, CS, UCSB (2022)
- 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 (6)
- Hasith Basnayake, Honors Student, PBS (F24 – S25)
- Ethan Meade, DIMAP Student, CS (W23 – S23)
- Rachel Mochizuki, Honors Student, PBS (W21 – M21)
- Bill Nguyen, Honors Student, PBS/MATH (S21 – S22)
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Ivy Wang, DIMAP Student, CS (F23 – S24)
- Outstanding Senior Award, CoE, UCSB (2024)
- Nathan Wu, Research Assistant & DIMAP Student, CS (W20 – S21)
Undergraduate Students (33)
(Senior RAs since F23)
- Kartik Adimulam, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – W24)
- Fatima Aguilar, SEEDS Fellow, ENG/SOC (F23 – S24)
- Alyssa Alanis, Research Assistant, PBS (F24 – W25)
- Anissa Carter, Promise Scholar, CS (S23 – W25)
- Juliana Chou, Lab Volunteer, PBS (M23 – S24)
- Yongtak (Dylan) Chung, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Edward Ding, ERSP Scholar, CE (F23 – S24)
- Harshita Gangaswamy, ERSP Scholar & Research Assistant, CE (F21 – S22, F23 – W24)
- Isabella Gonzalez, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – S24)
- Lixing (Leo) Guo, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Yolanda He, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – S25)
- Isaac Hoffman, Research Assistant, CS (W23 – S24)
- William Huang, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Mari Khachatryan, Lab Volunteer, PBS (S23 – W24)
- Sangita Kunapuli, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – W24)
- Deniz Lapsekili, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- 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)
- Megumi Ondo, Lab Volunteer, CS (F23 – W24)
- Laya Pullela, Research Assistant, CCS (F22 – W24)
- Ethan Roma, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – W24)
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Shivani Sista, ERSP Scholar & Research Assistant, CS (F21 – W24)
- Hynes-Wood Award, CoE, UCSB (2023)
- Jiaxin Su, Research Assistant, PBS/PSTAT (W23 – W24)
- Eyob Teshome, Research Assistant, CS (F21 - F23, F24 – S25)
- Sukhi Toor, Lab Volunteer, PBS (M23 – S24)
- Alvin Wang, ERSP Scholar & Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S25)
- Jianna Wong, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – S25)
- 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)