Students

           

Note on student advising
Advisors are in positions of power over their graduate students and students are unfortunately not always empowered to speak up when something is not right. I welcome student input, especially if I or one of my colleagues has said or done something that makes a student feel uncomfortable. Professors should not behave in ways that are abusive, toxic, disparaging or unwelcomed. Students should not experience any of those behaviors from their advisors, and if they do, though it can be scary, I hope they tell me. Though I cannot promise outcomes, I will be available to listen and try to help.

Current Students at UChicago

Alumni

    PhD
  • Jenna Cryan (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UChicago 2023)
  • Emily Wenger, (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UChicago 2023), Assistant Professor, Duke University
  • Francesca Falzon, (co-advised w/ Roberto Tamassia, PhD UChicago 2023), Postdoc ETH
  • Huiying Li, (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UChicago 2023), TikTok
  • Yuxin Chen, (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UChicago 2022), Facebook/Meta
  • Zhujun Xiao (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UChicago 2021), ByteDance ML team
  • Yuanshun Yao (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UChicago 2020), ByteDance Adversarial ML team
  • Zhijing Li (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2019), Facebook ML team
  • Shiliang Tang (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2019), Research Scientist at Facebook AI
  • Xinyi Zhang (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2019), Facebook Research Scientist
  • Yanzi Zhu (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2019), Google AR/VR
  • Bolun Wang (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2018), Facebook Security/Abuse Team -> ByteDance Security
  • Ana Nika (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2017), Microsoft
  • Qingyun Liu (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2017), Facebook -> Google Brain
  • Gang Wang (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2016), Associate Professor, UIUC
  • Yibo Zhu (co-advised w/ Heather Zheng, PhD UCSB 2016), Microsoft Research -> ByteDance Research
  • Xiaohan Zhao (PhD UCSB 2015), Snapchat
  • Christo Wilson (MS 2008, Ph.D. 2012), Associate Professor, Northeastern University
  • Alessandra Sala (PostDoc/Researcher 2007-2011), Head of Analytics, Bell Labs -> Director of Data Science, Shutterstock
  • Vinod Kone (Co-advised H. Zheng, Ph.D. 2011), Twitter -> Mesosphere -> Segment
  • Krishna Puttaswamy (Ph.D. 2010), Bell Labs -> Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn -> AirBNB -> Uber
  • Matthew Allen (co-advised R. Wolski, Ph.D. 2009), VP at Barclays Capital
  • Gayatri (Swamynathan) Badriprasad (co-advised K. Almeroth, Ph.D. 2008), Zynga
    MS
  • Kirti Bhandari (MS 2017), Microsoft
  • Pritha D. N. (MS'16) Riverbed -> Cisco
  • Divya Sambavisan (MS 2015), Yelp
  • Allen Chang, (BS/MS 2013), Box
  • Manish Mohanlal (MS 2012), Yelp
  • Konark Gill (MS 2012), Facebook
  • Troy Steinbauer (MS 2011), Zynga
  • Ashwin Sampath (MS), Juniper
  • Lakshmi Ganesh (MS), (PhD Cornell), Facebook
  • Matt Sun (MS), Netflix
  • Kyo Lee (MS)
  • Rama Alebouyeh (MS)

For (my) Students