==== Alumni ====
    * Yi Li, PhD Student, graduated in 2016 (first placement of employment: Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab 
    * Daniel Newkirk, PhD student, graduated in 2016
    * Jake Biesinger, PhD Student, graduated in 2014  (first placement of employment: Google)
    * Yifei Chen, PhD Student, graduated in 2014  (first placement of employment: Baidu)
    * Lingjie Weng, PhD Student, graduated in 2014  (first placement of employment: LinkedIn)
    * Yuanfeng Wang, PhD student, graduated in 2013 (first placement of employment: LivingSocial)
    * Lokesh Kumar, MS Student, graduated in 2010 (first placement of employment: Microsoft)
    * Hansook Chong, PhD student, graduated in 2010 (first placement of employment: R&D Scientist at Ambry Genetics)
    * Scott Christley, Postdoctoral Researcher (Now Staff Scientist at University of Chicago)
    * Guibo Ye, Postdoctoral Researcher (Now faculty at Dept of Math at University of Iowa)
    * Garrick Peschke, Undergraduate (firstplacement of employment: Google)
    * Thanh Tran Nguyen, Undergraduate
    * Nan Zhang, MS Student, graduated in 2014 (first placement of employment: Yelp)
    * Anbang Xu, MS Student, graduated in 2014 (first placement of employment: MapR)
    * In-Jung Kim, Visiting Professor from Global Handong University, Korea