ALUMNI
- Saurabh Agrawal (PhD: December 2018). First job: Research Scientist at Amazon Inc.
- Venkat G. Ajjanagadde. PhD: December 1997.
- Minesh Amin. PhD: 1996.
- Gowtham Atluri. PhD: May 2014. Currently Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati.
- Shyam Boriah. PhD: April 2010. Currently Principal Data Scientist at Cibo Technologies.
- Dan Challou. PhD: August 1994. First job: Project Leader, United Defense, Minneapolis, MN.
- Varun Chandola. PhD: September 2009, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo.
- Xi Chen. PhD: November 2016. Currently Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook.
- Jeff Dean. BS: Honors Thesis 1999. Currently Google Senior Fellow at Google, Inc. Jeffrey Dean and Heidi Hopper Scholarship in honor of Vipin Kumar.
- Sanjoy Dey. PhD: August 2015. First job: Research Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
- James Faghmous. PhD: May 2013. (recipient of Outstanding Dissertation Award from University of Minnesota - 2014) First job: Assistant Professor at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
- Gang Fang. PhD: August 2012. (recipient of Outstanding Dissertation Award from University of Minnesota - 2013) Currently Assistant Professor at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
- Ashish Garg. MS: 2011. Currently Lead Product Manager at Facebook.
- Tushar Garg. MS: 2008. Currently CEO/Co-Founder at Flyhomes.
- Loren Gragert. PhD: November 2014. Currently Assistant Professor at Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University.
- Ananth Grama. PhD: May 1996. Currently Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University.
- Rohit Gupta. PhD: August 2010. First job: Research Scientist at Genentech.
- Anshul Gupta. PhD: July 1995. Gupta’s dissertation was selected as one of the five finalists in the 1995 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition.) Currently employed at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
- Sam Han. PhD: October 1999. Currently at Washington Post, Washington, DC.
- Eric Hartman. PhD: December 1989. First job: Research Scientist at MCC, Austin, TX.
- Xiaowei Jia. PhD: July 2020. Currently Assistant Professor at Unviersity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Mahesh Joshi. PhD: November 2002. Currently Research Scientist at SAS, Inc. Carey North Carolina.
- Anuj Karpatne. PhD: September 2017. Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech.
- George Karypis. PhD: May 1996. Currently Full Professor, and ADC Telecom Endowed Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota.
- Jaya Kawale. PhD: January 2013. First job: Research Scientist at Adobe Research.
- Ankush Khandelwal. PhD: May 2019. Currently Research Associate at University of Minnesota.
- Sean Landman. PhD: June 2016. First job: Senior Scientist at Medtronic.
- Bill Leinberger. PhD: November 2001. Currently Research Scientist, General Dynamics, Bloomington,MN.
- Yow-Jian Lin. PhD: April 1988. (Winner of the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the University of Texas at Austin. Lin’s dissertation was selected as one of the five finalists in the 1988 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition. First job: Research Scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ.
- Tim Mikula. PhD: June 1994. First job: Research Scientist at 3M Corporation, Minneapolis.
- Varun Mithal. PhD: April 2018. First job: Research Scientist at Linkedin, Inc.
- Guruprasad Nayak. PhD: December 2019. First job: Research Scientist at Amazon.
- Tom Nurkkala. PhD: June 1996. Currently Associate Professor, Taylor University.
- Wonsuk Oh. PhD: March 2020. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Mt Sinai, New York, NY.
- Bilgehan Uygar Oztekin. PhD: July 2005. First job: Research Scientist at Google, Inc. MountainView, CA.
- Gaurav Pandey. PhD: May 2010. Currently Assistant Professor at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
- Vanja Paunic. PhD: March 2014.First job: Research Scientist at National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).
- V. N. Rao. PhD: July 1990. First job: Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida.
- Kashif Riaz. PhD: January 2018. First job: Director of Data Engineering, Securian Financial.
- Kirk Schloegel. PhD: November 1999. First job: Research Scientist, Honeywell Technology Corp, MN.
- Mark Shaneck. PhD: July 2007. Associate Professor of Computer Science, Liberty University.
- Gyorgy Simon. PhD: February 2008. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Internal medicine and Institute of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota.
- Michael Steinbach. PhD: October 2005. Currently Research Scientist at University of Minnesota.
- Pang Tan. PhD: July 2002. Currently Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University.
- Hui Xiong. PhD: June 2005. Currently Full Professor, Department of Management Science and Information Systems,Rutgers University, NJ.
- Pranjul Yadav. PhD: March 2017. First job: Research Scientist at Criteo.com.
- Pusheng Zhang. PhD: June 2005. First job: Research Scientist at Microsoft Inc. Seattle.