Current PhD Students

Master's Students

• Avi Iyer
• Aashrith Madasu

Undergraduate Students

• Wenliang Zheng
• Muyu Pan
• Eugene Kwek

Student Honors and Achievements

Yusen Zhang

• Dr. Tse-Yun Feng Graduate Student Award
• Outstanding Reviewer Award EMNLP 2024
• Internships at Google, Microsoft, Amazon
• Best Paper Award at the 2nd AI4Research workshop @ AAAI 2025.
• SAC Award for Summarization @ NAACL 2025.

Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das

• Dr. Tse-Yun Feng Graduate Student Award
• Internships at Google, Microsoft, Amazon

Nan Zhang

• Internships at Salesforce, NEC Labs

Haoran Zhang

• Outstanding Reviewer Award EMNLP 2024

Ryo Kamoi

• Outstanding Reviewer Award EMNLP 2024
• Internships at Microsoft

Xiaoxin Lu

• University Graduate Fellowship

Jason Wang

• CAFE AI Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis

PhD Alumni

• Yusen Zhang (First Job: Postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University)

Other Alumni

• Chang Shu (UG at Edinburgh → PhD at Cambridge)
• Yilun Zhao (MS at Yale → PhD at Yale)
• Naihao Deng (MS at Umich → PhD at Umich)
• Yunxiang Li (UG at CUHK → PhD at CUHK)
• Wanyong Feng (UG at UNC → PhD at UMass Amherst)
• Yucheng Nie (UG at SYSU → MS at CMU)
• Junru Liu (UG at XJTU → MS at TAMU)
• Songhe Wang (UG at UNC → PhD at Penn State)
• Yiyang Feng (UG at XJTU → MS at EPFL)
• Zeyu Ma (MS at CMU)
• Xiangyu Dong (UG at Beihang)
• Chen Wang (UG at Fudan → MS at UC Berkeley)
• Renu Bandaru (UG at Penn State)
• Chandan Akiti (MS at Penn State)
• Lulu Liu (UG at Penn State → Oracle)
• Jason Wang (UG at Penn State → Amazon)
• Michael Chan (UG at Penn State)
• Jacob Cunningham (UG at Penn State)
• Noah Gearhart (UG at Penn State)
• Qiyu Chen (UG at Penn State)
• Allen Gao (UG at Penn State)
• Tianyang Zhao (MS at PSU → PhD at PSU)
• Sathiyajith K S (MS at PSU)
• Sujeeth Reddy Vummanthala (MS at PSU → Apple)

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