People

Faculty

Marc Riedel, Ph.D. Full Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Graduate Faculty, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology; Oracle Research Fellow; University of Minnesota

Current Students & Postdocs

Dillon Gustafson Undergraduate Researcher Computer Science & Engineering, Statistics, University of Minnesota.	Yadu Kiran Ph.D. Student Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota.	Jake Kaslewicz M.S. Student (soon Ph.D. Student) Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota.
Farzad Razi Postdoc Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota.	Arnav Solanki Postdoc Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota.	Julia Udell Ph.D. Student Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota Biomarker Discovery Program, Center for Individualized Medicine Mayo Clinic.

Former Students & Postdocs

(Many students have participated in our research activities. Here we list those who have earned M.S. or Ph.D. degrees and/or published papers with us.)

Mustafa Altun Ph.D., 2012 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Now an Associate Professor at the Istanbul Technical University.	Thomas Karl Atkins B.Sc., 2024 Computer Science & Engineering, Statistics, University of Minnesota. Now a Ph.D. Student at Princeton.	John Backes Ph.D., 2013 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Now at Amazon Web Services.
Thee Chanyaswad B.S., 2012 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Ph.D., 2018 Princeton University Last seen: Advanced Data Scientist at KASIKORN Business-Technolog.	Tonglin Chen M.S., 2021 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Engineer at Apple.	Bin Cheng M.S., 2008 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Cadence Design Systems.
Vaibhav Desai M.S., 2016 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Entrepreneur in Seattle.	Zoe Dormuth M.S., 2019 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Last seen: Ph.D. Student at the University of Arizona.	Brian Fett M.S., 2010 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Senior Software Test Engineer at Emerson.
Robby Friedlander B.S., 2014 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Ph.D. Student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.	Hua Jiang Ph.D., 2012 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.	Owen Hoffend B.S., 2020 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Ph.D. Student at the University of Michigan. .
Aleksandra Kharam B.S., 2012 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Senior Electrical Engineer at Boston Scientific.	Vishwesh Kulkarni Postdoc, 2011–2013 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Last seen: Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick.	Ajay Manicka Ph.D. Student Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Now a Ph.D. Student at MIT.
M. Hassan Najafi Ph.D., 2018 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Now Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana.	Weikang Qian Ph.D. 2011 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Now Associate Professor University of Michigan – Shanghai Jia Tong University Joint Institute.	Megha Parhi B.S., 2015 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Ph.D. Student at the University of Texas at Austin.
Ahmad Salehi Ph.D., 2017 Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota. Now Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky.	Phil Senum B.S., 2013 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: IBM Rochester.	Adam Shea B.S., 2009 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Ph.D. Student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Andrew Stephan Postodc, 2021–2022 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Now an Engineer at 3M .	McKenzie van der Hagen B.S., 2017 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. Last seen: Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University.