Optimization, Probability and Learning (OPAL) Lab
Current Group Members
Neharika Jali
PhD Student, ECE
Alumni
Post-Doc
- Pranay Sharma, 2021-2024, now faculty member at C-MinDS IIT Bombay
PhD
- Divyansh Jhunjhunwala, PhD 2025, now at Amazon
- Shuli Jiang, PhD 2025, now at Amazon
- Tuhinangshu Choudhury (co-advised by Weina Wang), PhD 2024, now at Meta
- Yae Jee Cho, PhD 2024, now at Google
- Samarth Gupta (co-advised by Osman Yagan), PhD 2022, now at Amazon
- Jianyu Wang, PhD 2022, now at Apple
- Ankur Mallick , PhD 2022, now at Microsoft
- Ahmet Inci (co-advised by Diana Marculescu), PhD 2022, now at NVIDIA
- Ting-Wu (Rudy) Chin (co-advised by Diana Marculescu), PhD 2021, now at Citadel
Masters
- Siddharth Shah, CMU ECE M.S. 2025 → Credit Genie
- Siddharth Ambekar, CMU ECE M.S. 2024 → PhD at UIUC
- Eshika Pathak, CMU ECE M.S. 2024 → PhD at UIUC
- Jiarui Li, CMU ECE M.S. 2024 → PhD at U. Michigan
- Rohan Panda, CMU ECE M.S. 2022 → InWorld AI
- Aushim Nagarkatti, CMU ECE M.S. 2022 → NVIDIA
- Zhiyuan Zhao, CMU ECE M.S. 2021 → PhD at Georgia Tech
- Advait Gadhikar, CMU ECE M.S. 2020 → PhD at CISPA
- Shreyas Chaudhari ,CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2020 → U Mass Amherst PhD
- Chaitanya Dwivedi , CMU ECE M.S. June 2020 → PathAI
- Hao Liang , CMU ECE M.S. June 2020 → Rice University PhD
- Zhouyi Yang, CMU ECE M.S. June 2020
- Sai Bhargav Yalamanchi, CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2018 → Uber
- Souptik Sen, CMU INI M.S. Jun 2018 → LinkedIn
- Mani Swetha Mandava, CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2018 → NVIDIA
- Malhar Chaudhari, CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2017 → Oracle
Undergraduate students
- Tarun Chiruvolu, CMU SCS, B.S. June 2024
- Sophie Smith, CMU SCS, B.S+M.S. Dec 2021 → Meta
- Dhruva Kaushal, CMU ECE, Integrated B.S. and M.S. Dec 2019 → Apple
Summer Interns
- Akash Dhasade, 2024, → PhD student from EPFL
- Divyansh Jhunjhunwala, 2019, → PhD student at CMU
- Subhojyoti Mukherjee, 2019, → PhD student at Wisconsin-Madison
- Sanghamitra Dutta, 2017 (at IBM Research), → faculty at U. Maryland