Students in my research group work on funded projects and/or their master's theses. Some students chose to enter the industry and others decided to pursue PhD degrees after graduation. Visiting students/scholars are also welcome.
Current students
Ze RenPhD student
2025 Fall – Present- Teja SeeramdasuPhD student
2024 Spring, 2026 Spring – Present 
Girija Shankar Yasam (GS)Graduate research assistant
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Amalia CortezUndergraduate research assistant
Computer Science & Math
Antonio IbarraUndergraduate research assistant
Computer Science
Shaivil PatelUndergraduate research assistant
2025 Fall – Present
Angelica SanyalUndergraduate research assistant
2025 Spring – Present
Alumni
Graduate research assistants
- Natalie Quinlan2026 Spring
- Harshitha Maartha2026 Spring
- Regan Alzueta2025 Fall
- Ipsita Priyadarshinee2025 Fall
- Noelle Veome2025 Summer – 2025 Fall
- Viviana Cortes2024 Fall – 2025 Fall
- Arun Subramani2024 Spring
- Md Abu Naeem Khan2024 Spring – 2025 Spring
- Mahesh Raju2023 Fall – 2024 Spring
- Sharjeeluddin Haqqani Mohammed2023 Spring – 2023 Fall
- Gabriela Ibarra2022 Fall – 2023 Spring, 2024 Fall – 2025 Spring
- Pravin Mishra2022 Fall
- Upala Junaida Islam2018 Fall – 2020 Summer
- Priyesh Rai2018 Spring – 2019 Fall
- Danish Nabeel Mohammed2019 Spring
- Manfei Xie2017 Fall – 2019 Spring
- Muhammad Adib Uz Zaman2016 Fall – 2018 Spring
- Lilendra Maharjan2016 Fall – 2017 Summer
Engineer-in-residence (EIR) graduate student assistants
- Anchal Dharmendra Doongarshi2022 Summer – 2022 Fall; co-supervised with Dr. Nguyen
- Aparna Harikumar2022 Summer – 2022 Fall; co-supervised with Dr. Nguyen
- Stanley Ugwu2022 Summer – 2022 Fall; co-supervised with Dr. Nguyen
- Pieter Coosemans2022 Spring – 2022 Fall; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran and Dr. Chen
- Nidhin Dileepkumar2021 Spring – 2022 Spring; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran and Dr. Chen
- Dheeban Kumar Srinivasan Sampathi2020 Spring, 2021 Spring – 2022 Fall; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran and Dr. Chen
- Prathika Selvan2018 Summer; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran, Dr. Nguyen, and Dr. Asoudegi
- Deepan Kasthuri2018 Summer; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran, Dr. Nguyen, and Dr. Asoudegi
- Mohammed Hariri2018 Spring – 2018 Summer; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran, Dr. Nguyen, and Dr. Asoudegi
- Keerthika Lakshminarayanan2018 Spring – 2018 Summer; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran, Dr. Nguyen, and Dr. Asoudegi
- Shivam Shinde2018 Spring; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran, Dr. Nguyen, and Dr. Asoudegi
- Sharjeel Siddique2018 Spring; co-supervised with Dr. Damodaran, Dr. Nguyen, and Dr. Asoudegi
Undergraduate research assistants
- John White2024 Spring – 2026 Spring
- Michael Sensenbrenner2024 Spring – 2025 Fall
- Jack Rissman2025 Spring
- Luke Ali2022 Fall
- Taylor Coffey2021 Spring – 2021 Summer
- Sairyia Jemison2020 Spring
- Patrick Wasilewski2019 Spring
- Logan Weintraub2018 Summer
Visiting students
- Peng Su2026 Summer
- Qing Deng2026 Summer
- Xinyuan Zhang2026 Summer
- Zeyi Xia2026 Summer
- Yingying Hu2025 Spring
- Zhiyun Wang2025 Spring
- Yu Zhang2025 Spring
- Jiyuan Gao2024 Spring
- Zhaohui Liang2024 Spring
- Haimin Lu2019 Fall – 2020 Spring
- Runhua Wu2019 Fall – 2020 Spring
- Mingzhong Wan2017 Fall
AI-LEADS lab members
Current students and alumni of AI-LEADS
Graduate and undergraduate students from Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Speech-Language Pathology, Physical Therapy, and other programs work in the AI Lab for Early Autism Diagnosis and Screening. The current roster and alumni are listed on the lab website.
See AI-LEADS studentsJoin us
Interested in AI for health, optimization, or data analytics? Send a CV and a short statement of interest. Email Dr. Wang