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  • ITCS 6/8010, Introduction to Foundation Models, MS/PhD, Spring 2026, Fall 2026. (Self-developed course.)
  • ITCS 5356, Introduction to Machine Learning, MS (216 students total), Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026.
  • ITCS 5153, Applied Artificial Intelligence, MS (18 students), Spring 2024. (Guest Instructor.)
  • ITCS 6881, Individual Study in AI, MS, Fall 2023, Spring 2024.
  • ITCS 4156, Introduction to Machine Learning, UG (300+ students total), Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024.

Mentoring

PhD Students (UNC Charlotte, 2022–Present)
  • Yihe Wang (from New York University), PhD Student, Fall 2022 – Present. [NeurIPS 2023, NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2026]
  • Nan Huang (from Peking University), PhD Student, Fall 2023 – Present. [NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2026]
  • Taida Li (from Rice University), PhD Student, Fall 2023 – Present.
MS / UG / K-12 (UNC Charlotte)
  • Aniqa Ayesha Arif, Master Student, Fall 2023 – Fall 2024.
  • Elif Engin, MS Student, Spring 2026 – Fall 2026.
  • Himanshi Shrivas, MS Student, Spring 2026 – Fall 2026.
  • Anthony Roca, MS Student, Spring 2026 – Fall 2026.
  • Wanming He, UG Student, Summer 2023.
  • Yu Han, Research Intern, Fall 2022 – Fall 2023.
  • Yuzhen Mao, Research Intern, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023.
  • Eshan Srivastav, K-12 Student, Summer 2023.
  • Ryan King, UG Student, Fall 2022.
  • Ukiah Sperry, UG Student, Fall 2022.
  • Mentor, London Geometry and Machine Learning Summer School (LOGML 2022), Summer 2022.
Co-Supervision (Harvard Medical School, 2020–2022)

Co-mentored with Prof. Marinka Zitnik.

  • Ziyuan Zhao, Bachelor Research Project, Spring 2022 – Summer 2022. (Now PhD student at Harvard.) [NeurIPS 2022]
  • Marko Zeman, Research Student. [ICLR 2022]
  • ManQing Liang, Master Capstone Project, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022.
  • Haoxin Li, Master Capstone Project, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021.
  • Marissa Sumathipala, Bachelor Research Project, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021. [Nature Computational Science]
Co-Supervision (UNSW Sydney, 2018–2019)

Co-mentored with Prof. Lina Yao.

  • Chang Ge, Bachelor Research Project, Spring 2019 – Fall 2019.
  • Kshitij Dani, Bachelor Research Project, Summer 2019 – Fall 2019. (Also co-supervised with Prof. Salil Kanhere.)
  • Meet Desai, Bachelor Research Project, Summer 2019 – Fall 2019. (Also co-supervised with Prof. Salil Kanhere.)
  • Bohan Yu, Bachelor Research Project, Spring 2018 – Fall 2018.