ALUMNI | Vipin Kumar

Saurabh Agrawal (PhD: December 2018). First job: Research Scientist at Amazon Inc. Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tubi.
Venkat G. Ajjanagadde. PhD: December 1997. Founder and Chief Architect at ElectricVLab.com.
Minesh Amin. PhD: 1996. Founder, CEO at Reneo, Inc.
Gowtham Atluri. PhD: May 2014. Currently Associate Professor at University of Cincinnati.
Shyam Boriah. PhD: April 2010. Currently VP, Artificial Intelligence at Xylem.
Dan Challou. PhD: August 1994. First job: Project Leader, United Defense, Minneapolis, MN. Currently Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota.
Varun Chandola. PhD: September 2009, Associate Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo.
Xi Chen. PhD: November 2016. Currently Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook.
Jeff Dean. BS: Honors Thesis 1999. Currently Chief Scientist at Google. 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 Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.
Ashish Garg. MS: 2011. Currently Director, Product Management, at Meta.
Tushar Garg. MS: 2008. Currently CEO/Co-Founder at Flyhomes.
Rahul Ghosh. PhD: 2023. Currently Applied Scientist at AWS.
Loren Gragert. PhD: November 2014. Currently Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics Tulane University School of Medicine.
Ananth Grama. PhD: May 1996. Currently Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University.
Rohit Gupta. PhD: August 2010. First job: Research Scientist at Genentech. Currently Co-Founder and Chief Product and Innovation Officer at NeuranceAI.
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 at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Sam Han. PhD: October 1999. Currently Chief AI Officer at Washington Post, Washington, DC.
Eric Hartman. PhD: December 1989. First job: Research Scientist at MCC, Austin, TX.
Xiaowei Jia. PhD: July 2020. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Mahesh Joshi. PhD: November 2002. Currently Head of Visual Forecasting, Senior Manager, Analytics R&D at SAS, Inc. Carey, North Carolina.
Anuj Karpatne. PhD: September 2017. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
George Karypis. PhD: May 1996. Currently Research Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota.
Jaya Kawale. PhD: January 2013. First job: Research Scientist at Adobe Research. Currently Founder/CEO at KeplerQ Inc.
Ankush Khandelwal. PhD: May 2019. Currently Staff AI Engineer at Havenly in Denver, Colorado.
Sean Landman. PhD: June 2016. Currently Senior AI/Data Science Manager at Medtronic.
Bill Leinberger. PhD: November 2001. Currently Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, General Dynamics Mission Systems, 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. Currently Retired, Senior Scientist at Peraton Labs.
Tim Mikula. PhD: June 1994. First job: Research Scientist at 3M Corporation, Minneapolis. Currently VP New Product Development at School Perceptions, Shell Lake, WI.
Varun Mithal. PhD: April 2018. First job: Research Scientist at Linkedin, Inc. Currently Engineering Manager, AI and Machine Learning, at LinkedIn.
Guruprasad Nayak. PhD: December 2019. First job: Research Scientist at Amazon. Currently Applied Scientist at Amazon.
Tom Nurkkala. PhD: June 1996. Currently Senior Research Scientist, Peraton Labs.
Wonsuk Oh. PhD: March 2020. Currently Instructor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, New York, NY.
Bilgehan Uygar Oztekin. PhD: July 2005. First job: Research Scientist at Google, Inc. MountainView, CA. Currently Founder/CEO at Your Tech Your Choice.
Gaurav Pandey. PhD: May 2010. Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Deceased.
Vanja Paunic. PhD: March 2014. First job: Research Scientist at National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). Currently Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft.
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. Currently VP of Architecture and Engineering at Ameriprise Financial Services.
Kirk Schloegel. PhD: November 1999. First job: Research Scientist, Honeywell Technology Corp, MN. Currently Principal Software Engineer at Visana Health.
Mark Shaneck. PhD: July 2007. Currently Senior Security Researcher at Clarity.
Somya Sharma. PhD: June 2024. Currently Applied Scientist II at Microsoft.
Gyorgy Simon. PhD: February 2008. Currently Associate Professor, 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.
Kshitij Tayal. PhD: August 2024. Currently Science Manager, AI Foundations, at Capital One.
Jared Willard. PhD: May 2023. Currently Machine Learning Research Engineer at National Laboratory of the Rockies.
Hui Xiong. PhD: June 2005. Currently Associate Vice President for Knowledge Transfer, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
Pranjul Yadav. PhD: March 2017. First job: Research Scientist at Criteo.com. Currently Machine Learning Lead, Risk Externalization, at Google.
Pusheng Zhang. PhD: June 2005. First job: Research Scientist at Microsoft Inc. Seattle. Head of Machine Learning/AI at Cubist Systematic Strategies.