Junfeng Yang

People

PhD and postdoc alumni include 7 professors and 3 founders, as well as researchers and engineers across industry. Current and former PhD students have earned NSF Graduate Research, NDSEG, and other prestigious fellowships.

27 MS and undergraduate researchers went on to PhD programs at Stanford, CMU, Cornell, Columbia, Penn, and elsewhere. 3 high school researchers went on to attend Yale, Columbia, and UC Berkeley. In total, 78 MS, undergraduate, high-school, and visiting researchers have coauthored papers with us.

Members and friends of the lab gathered at a party.
Lab party, 2024

Current Lab

PhD Students

Postdocs

MS & Undergraduate Researchers

High School & Gap-Year Researchers

  • Ezra LandaGap-year researcher (with us since high school)Yale
Members and friends of the lab at Wei Hao's graduation dinner.
Wei Hao’s graduation dinner, 2026

Lab History

PhD Graduates

  • Wei Hao2026Co-advised with Asaf CidonCAIT/Amazon FellowCo-founder, Metlas
  • Tamer Eldeeb2025Co-advised with Asaf CidonCo-founder, Atomix DB
  • Chengzhi MaoPhD ’23Postdoc ’24PhD co-advised with Carl VondrickPostdoc co-advised with Carl VondrickAssistant Professor, Rutgers
  • Kexin PeiPhD ’23Postdoc ’24PhD co-advised with Suman JanaPostdoc co-advised with Baishakhi Ray and Suman JanaNeubauer Family Assistant Professor, UChicago
  • Lingmei Weng2023Co-advised with Jason NiehGoogle
  • David Williams-King2020CTO, Elpha Secure
  • Xinhao Yuan2019Google
  • Yang Tang2019Clinical Associate Professor, NYU
  • Gang Hu2018Google
  • Heming Cui2015Associate Professor, HKU
  • Jingyue Wu2014NVIDIA

Postdocs

  • Penghui Li2024–2026Assistant Professor, NTU Singapore
  • Yaniv David2021–2024Assistant Professor, Technion
  • Yan Cui2013–2015Staff Software Engineer, Facebook
  • Yinzhi Cao2014–2015Professor, Johns Hopkins
  • Hao Li2012–2013Industry
  • Oren Laadan2010–2011Co-advised with Jason NiehFounder & CTO, Cellrox

Visiting Researchers

MS & Undergraduate Researchers

Went On to PhD

  • Chenxi HuangUndergraduate researcher 2025Co-advised with Baishakhi RayPhD at Columbia
  • Leyi CuiMS 2025Co-advised with Baishakhi RayPhD at CMU
  • Qingyuan LiuMS 2025PhD at NTU Singapore
  • Ruize XuMS 2025PhD at Dartmouth
  • Suwei MaUndergraduate 2025Co-advised with Baishakhi RayPhD at Penn
  • Weiliang ZhaoMS researcher 2025PhD at Columbia
  • Zirui ZhangMS 2025PhD at Rutgers
  • Sally Junsong WangMS 2024PhD at Stanford (Stanford Graduate Fellowship)
  • Weichen LiMS 2024PhD at UChicago
  • Lingyu ZhangMS 2023PhD at Duke
  • Scott Kun GengUndergraduate 2023Co-advised with Carl VondrickPhD at University of Washington (NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
  • Xincheng XieMS 2023PhD at UW–Madison
  • Aditya SenthilnathanUndergraduate 2022PhD at Cornell
  • Lauren HongMS 2022PhD at NUS
  • Lingxiao LiMS 2022PhD at Boston University
  • Tal ZussmanUndergraduate 2022PhD at Columbia
  • Guangyu ShenMS 2020Co-advised with Baishakhi RayPhD at Purdue
  • Jonas GuanMS 2020PhD at Toronto
  • Robby CostalesUndergraduate 2020PhD at USC
  • Zhou XuanUndergraduate researcher at UCRPhD at Purdue
  • Graham GobieskiUndergraduate 2017PhD at CMU
  • Andrew AdayUndergraduate 2016PhD at Stanford
  • Tianyu ChenUndergraduate 2016PhD at Indiana
  • Younghoon JeonMS 2013PhD at Columbia
  • Chia-che TsaiMS 2011PhD at Stony Brook
  • John GallagherMS 2011PhD at Columbia
  • Heming CuiMS researcher 2009PhD at Columbia

Other Student Coauthors

High School Researchers