Welcome!


SAND Lab Faculty

Prof. Ben Y. Zhao

Prof. Heather Zheng

 

Postdoctoral Scholars and Researchers

Arjun Nitin Bhagoji
PhD 2020 Princeton
Research Scientist

 

PhD Students
Zhuolin Yang
(PhD, 2019)
Shawn Shan
(PhD, 2020)
Wenxin Ding
(PhD, 2021)
Anna Yoo Jeong Ha (PhD, 2023) Cathy Yuanchen Li (PhD, 2023)
Josephine Passananti
(PhD, 2023)
Stanley Wu
(PhD, 2023)

Ronik Bhaskar
(PhD, 2024)

 

Undergraduate and High School Researchers

Grace Stephens
UChicago 2027

Daria Fry
Bronx School of Science 2026

 

PhD & Postdoc Alumni
Jenna Cryan
(PhD'23)
Emily Wenger
(PhD'23), Meta, Asst. Prof., Duke
Francesca Falzon
(PhD'23), Postdoc ETH Zurich
Huiying Li
(PhD'23), TikTok

Yuxin Chen
(PhD'22), Meta

Zhujun Xiao
(PhD'21), ByteDance

Kevin Yuanshun Yao (PhD'20), ByteDance

Yanzi Zhu
(PhD'19), Google

Zhijing Li (PhD'19),
Facebook

Shiliang Tang (PhD'19), Facebook

Xinyi Zhang (PhD'19), Facebook

Bolun Wang (PhD'18), Facebook-> ByteDance

Bimal Viswanath (Postdoc'18), Asst. Prof. Virginia Tech

Qingyun Liu (PhD'17), Facebook -> Google DeepMind

Ana Nika (PhD'16) Microsoft

Gang Wang (PhD'16), Assoc. Professor, UIUC

Yibo Zhu (PhD'16), MSFT Research -> ByteDance

Tianyi Wang (Visitor '13-'14), ByteDance

Xiaohan Zhao (PhD'14), Snapchat

Zengbin Zhang (PhD'14), Google

Xia Zhou (PhD'13), Assoc. Prof. Columbia

Christo Wilson (PhD'12), Prof., Northeastern University

Dr. Alessandra Sala (Researcher '07-'11), Bell Labs -> Shutterstock

Vinod Kone (PhD'11), Twitter
-> Mesos

Lei Yang (PhD'11), Intel Labs -> Ant Financial

Lili Cao (PhD'11), Apple

Krishna Puttaswamy (PhD'10), Bell Labs -> Uber

  • Short-term Visitors
  • Jiayun Zhang, 2020
  • Qinge Xie, 2019
  • Toby Lauinger, 2019

  • Undergraduate Research Alumni
  • Iris Hwang, UChicago 2025
  • Emi Andere, UChicago 2025
  • Josephine Passananti, UChicago 2022
  • Hadleigh Schwartz, UChicago 2022
  • Angela Sha, UChicago 2022
  • Talia Gifford, UChicago 2022
  • Max Bronckers, UChicago 2021
  • Angela Liu, UChicago 2021
  • Esin Onal, UChicago 2021
  • Yuxin Guan, UChicago 2022
  • Yucheng Jin, Zhejiang University (summer 2020)
  • Fan Zhang, Tsinghua (summer 2020)
  • Christina Tuttle, Yale (summer 2020)
  • Olivia Sturman, UChicago 2020
  • Shawn Shan, UChicago 2020
  • Max Liu, UChicago 2019
  • Isha Mehrotra, UChicago 2019
  • Wendy Li, UChicago 2020
  • Devshi Mehrotra, UChicago 2019
  • Jacob Burroughs, UChicago 2018
  • Irene Pattarachanyakul, UCSB 2018
  • Veena Chandran, UCSB 2018
  • Jill Farnsworth, UCSB 2016
  • Nader Khalil, UCSB 2015
  • Tristan Konolige, UCSB 2013
  • Bryce Boe, UCSB 2008
  • Christo Wilson, UCSB 2006

  • HS Research Alumni
  • Irene Liu, 2022
  • Mihir Putcha, 2022
  • Amelia Zheng, 2022, Cornell
  • William Zhu, 2022, Yale
  • Roma Bhattacharjee, 2021, Princeton
  • Emily Xi, 2020, U. Pennsylvania
  • Leica Shen, 2020
  • Nira Nair, 2018, William & Mary
  • Trisha Bansal, 2018 (remote), University of Chicago
  • Selena Huang, 2016, Columbia
  • Harshayu Girase, 2016, Berkeley
  • Emily Pan, 2015, CalTech
  • Megan McQueen, 2015-2016, Yale

  • MS Student Alumni
  • Christina Indudhara, (MS 2021), Google
  • Ruben Abbou, (MS 2020)
  • Ziyu Ye, (CAPP 2020), PhD UChicago
  • Kirti Bhandari (MS 2017), Microsoft
  • Pritha D. N. (MS'16) Riverbed -> Cisco
  • Divya Sambasivan (MS'15) Yelp
  • Lin Zhou (MS'14), Google
  • Sahaj Biyani, (MS 2015) Amazon
  • Adelbert Allen Chang, (MS 2014) Box
  • Stephanie Smith, (MS 2013) Yardi
  • Konark Gill, (MS 2012) Facebook
  • Manish Kumar Mohalal, (MS 2012) Yelp
  • Troy Steinbauer, (MS 2011) Zynga
  • Robert Zablit, (MS 2010) Novacoast
  • Madhu Venogupal, (MS 2008) Riverbed
  • Kyo Lee, (MS 2007) Pinterest
  • Lakshmi Ganesh, (MS 2006) PhD Cornell
  • Ashwin Sampath, (MS 2006) Juniper Networks
  • Rama Alebouyeh, (MS 2006) Tata Comm.
  • Matt Sun, (MS 2005) Netflix