Welcome!
SAND Lab Faculty
![]() Prof. Ben Y. Zhao |
![]() Prof. Heather Zheng |
PhD Students
Anna Yoo Jeong Ha (Korea U. 2023) |
Josephine Passananti(UChicago 2023) |
Stanley Wu
(NEU 2023) |
![]() Ronik Bhaskar (UChicago 2024) |
Undergraduate and High School Researchers
![]() Naryna Azizpour UChicago 2026 |
![]() Lydia Liu UChicago 2027 |
![]() Benjamin Lowry UChicago 2027 |
![]() Viresh Mittal UChicago 2027 |
![]() Daria Fry UChicago 2030, BSS 2026 |
PhD & Postdoc Alumni
![]() Wenxin Ding (PhD'26, NVidia Robotics) |
Shawn
Shan(PhD'25, Asst. Prof. Dartmouth) |
Zhuolin
Yang(PhD'25, Asst. Prof. Univ of Arizona) |
Arjun Nitin Bhagoji (Postdoc'25), Asst. Prof. IIT Bombay |
Jenna Cryan(PhD'23) |
Emily
Wenger(PhD'23), 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 -> Meta |
![]() Yanzi Zhu (PhD'19), Google -> NVidia |
![]() Zhijing Li (PhD'19), |
![]() Shiliang Tang (PhD'19), Facebook |
![]() Xinyi Zhang (PhD'19), Facebook |
![]() Bolun Wang (PhD'18), Facebook-> ByteDance |
Bimal Viswanath (Postdoc'18), Assoc. 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 -> Databricks |
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