Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Michael Beyeler
Assistant Professor
Lab Manager
Tori LeVier
Student Assistant
Graduate Students
Umang Garg
Lab Volunteer
Lucas Gil Nadolskis
PhD Student
Jacob Granley
PhD Candidate
Yuchen Hou
PhD Student
Byron A. Johnson
PhD Candidate
Justin Kasowski
PhD Candidate
Galen Pogoncheff
PhD Student
Callie Sardina
MS Student
Madori Spiker
MS Student
Lily M. Turkstra
PhD Student
Apurv Varshney
PhD Student
Aiwen Xu
PhD Candidate
Undergraduate Students
Kartik Adimulam
Research Assistant
Anissa Carter
Promise Scholar
Juliana Chou
Lab Volunteer
Yongtak (Dylan) Chung
Research Assistant
Harshita Gangaswamy
Research Assistant
Isabella Gonzalez
Lab Volunteer
Yolanda He
Research Assistant
Isaac Hoffman
Research Assistant
Sangita Kunapuli
Research Assistant
Anderson Liu
Research Assistant
Dariya (Dasha) Lobko
Lab Volunteer
Xiankun Lu
Research Assistant
Meghana Makineni
Lab Volunteer
Julia Novick
Research Assistant
Jennifer Phung
Lab Volunteer
Laya Pullela
Research Assistant
Ethan Roma
Research Assistant
Eirini Schoinas
Research Assistant
Shivani Sista
Research Assistant
Jiaxin Su
Research Assistant
Eyob Teshome
SEEDS Fellow
Sukhi Toor
Lab Volunteer
Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars (2)
- Melani Sanchez-Garcia, CS (2022 – 2023)
- Amirali Vahid, ICB (2022 – 2023)
Graduate Students (7)
- Kimia Afshari, MS, CS (F22 – W23)
- Ashley Bruce, MS, CS (F21 – S22)
- Zuying Hu, MS, CS (W20 – M20)
- 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 (44)
(≥ 2 quarters in the lab)
- 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)
- Justin Chung, CS (F22 – S23)
- Lauren Eckhardt, PBS (S21 – S23)
- 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)
- Rucha Kolhatkar, CE (M21 – F21)
- Tori LeVier, PBS (F22 – M23)
- Hongzhen (Dylan) Lin, CS (W20 – S21)
- Ananth Mahes, PBS (W21 – S22)
- 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)
- Ruben Olmos, PSTAT (W21 – M21)
- Rashi Raghulan, MCDB (F19 – S20)
- Vanessa Salgado Zavaleta, CS (F21 – S22)
- 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)
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)