Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Michael Beyeler
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Scholar
ICB
Marius Schneider
starting Fall ‘24
Lab Manager
PBS/PSTAT
Jiaxin Su
starting Fall ‘24
Undergraduate Students
PBS
Raiyah Ahmed
Research Assistant
PBS
Alyssa Alanis
starting Fall ‘24
CS
Kanav Arora
Research Assistant
PBS/PSTAT
Ruyi Cao
Research Assistant
CS
Anissa Carter
Promise Scholar
CS
Deniz Lapsekili
Research Assistant
CS
Adyah Rastogi
Research Assistant
EE
Magnolia Saur
UC LEADS Scholar
CCS
Eirini Schoinas
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 (3)
- Tori LeVier, Student Assistant, PBS (F23 – S24)
- Ryan Neydavood, Junior Specialist, PBS (M21 – S22)
- Lily M. Turkstra, Junior Specialist, PBS (F22 – M23)
Visiting Scholars (1)
- Kha Nguyen, UC LEADS Scholar, UC San Diego (M20)
MS Students (8)
- 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)
- Madori Spiker, MS Student, CS (F21 – W24)
- Avani Tanna, Research Assistant, MS, CS (W22)
Honors Students (8)
- Anvitha Akkaraju, Honors Student, PBS (F21 – S22)
- Tanya Bhatia, Honors Student, PBS (F21 – S22)
- Lauren Eckhardt, Honors Student, PBS (F22 – S23)
- 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 (70)
(Senior RAs ≥ 2 quarters in the lab)
- 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)
- Nick Arenberg, Research Assistant, CS (F21 – S22)
- Tanya Bhatia, Research Assistant, PBS (W21 – M21)
- Alec Bodolay, Research Assistant, PBS (W22 – M22)
- Annika Brydon, Lab Volunteer, ENV (S21 – M21)
- Cheng Han (Johnson) Chan, Research Assistant, CS (F22 – S23)
- Alexander Chau, Research Assistant, CS (S22 – M22)
- 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
- 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)
- Anand Giduthuri, Research Assistant, CS (S22 – M22)
- Isabella Gonzalez, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – S24)
- Lixing (Leo) Guo, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Elaine Ho, Research Assistant, CS (W22 – S22)
- Isaac Hoffman, Research Assistant, CS (W23 – S24)
- Yuchen Hou, Research Assistant, PBS (W21 – S22)
- William Huang, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Nandini Iyer, SEEDS Fellow, PSTAT/ECON (F22 – S23)
- Rutvik Jha, Research Assistant, CE (W22 – M22)
- Wayne D. Johnson, BRAIN Fellow, PBS (F21 – S22)
- Mari Khachatryan, Lab Volunteer, PBS (S23 – W24)
- Rucha Kolhatkar, Research Assistant, CE (M21 – F21)
- Sangita Kunapuli, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – W24)
- Tori LeVier, Research Assistant, PBS (F22 – M23)
- Luke Li, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
- Hongzhen (Dylan) Lin, Research Assistant, CS (W20 – S21)
- 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)
- Ananth Mahes, Research Assistant, PBS (W21 – S22)
- Nancy Mahmoud, SEEDS Fellow, PBS (F23 – S24)
- Meghana Makineni, Lab Volunteer, PBS (S23 – M23)
- Khalid Mihlar, Research Assistant, CE (F22 – S23)
- Ori Mizrahi, Research Assistant, CS (M20 – F20)
- Sahil Naik, Research Assistant, CE (F21 – M22)
- Ryan Neydavood, Research Assistant, PBS (W20 – S21)
- Julia Novick, Research Assistant, CCS (W23 – S23)
- Ruben Olmos, Research Assistant, PSTAT (W21 – M21)
- Megumi Ondo, Lab Volunteer, CS (F23 – W24)
- Laya Pullela, Research Assistant, CCS (F22 – W24)
- Rashi Raghulan, Research Assistant, MCDB (F19 – S20)
- Ethan Roma, Research Assistant, PBS (F23 – W24)
- Vanessa Salgado Zavaleta, ERSP Scholar, CS (F21 – S22)
- Shivani Sista, ERSP Scholar & Research Assistant, CS (F21 – W24)
- Angel Solares, Research Assistant, PBS (S21 – M21)
- Jiaxin Su, Research Assistant, PBS/PSTAT (W23 – W24)
- Gita Supramaniam, ERSP Scholar, CS (F21 – S22)
- Molly Tang, Promise Scholar, BIO (W23 – S23)
- Shuyun Tang, Research Assistant, PSTAT (W21 – M21)
- Dharynka Tapia, SEEDS Fellow, PSTAT/ECON (F22 – S23)
- Eyob Teshome, SEEDS Fellow, CS (F21 - F23)
- Archita Tharanipathy, Research Assistant, MCDB (W21, F21 – F22)
- 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)
- Francie Wei, Research Assistant, CS (S21 – S22)
- Kelly Yan, Research Assistant, CS (S21 – M21)
- Zhongyi (Maynic) Ye, Research Assistant, CS (W21 – S21)
- 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)