Interns

At MSR I have had the opportunity to work with an amazing set of interns:

• Jessica Bo (2026), Ph.D. student at University of Toronto
• Katelyn Xiaoying Mei (2026), Ph.D. student at University of Washington
• Juhyun Oh (2026), Ph.D. student at KAIST
• Usha Bhalla (2025), Ph.D. student at Harvard University
• Anjali Khurana (2025), Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University, now at Hitachi Energy Research
• Nicole Meister (2025), Ph.D. student at Stanford University
• Tonya Nguyen (2025), Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, soon to be a postdoc at Stanford
• Neha Shukla (2025), Undergrad at Duke University
• Nari Johnson (2024), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, soon to be at Transluce
• Shivani Kapania (2024), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University
• Sachita Nishal (2024), Ph.D. student at Northwestern University
• Wesley Deng (2023), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, now at Microsoft Research
• Kevin Feng (2023), Ph.D. student at University of Washington
• Sunnie S. Y. Kim (2023), Ph.D. student at Princeton University, now at Microsoft Research
• Zana Buçinca (2022), Ph.D. student at Harvard University, soon to be faculty at MIT
• Valerie Chen (2022), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, soon to be faculty at UIUC
• Priyanka Nanayakkara (2022), Ph.D. student at Northwestern University, now a postdoc at Harvard
• Helena Vasconcelos (2022), Undergrad at Stanford University, now a Ph.D. student at Harvard
• Alex Kale (2021), Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, now faculty at University of Chicago
• Mahsan Nourani (2021), Ph.D. student at the University of Florida, now faculty at Northeastern University
• Jessie Smith (2021), Ph.D. student at CU Boulder, now at Spotify
• Zijie Jay Wang (2021), Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, now at OpenAI
• Andrew Anderson (2020), Ph.D. student at Oregon State University, now at IBM
• Lisa Egede (2020), Undergrad at University of Oklahoma, now a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University
• Liz Marquis (2020), Ph.D. student at University of Michigan, now at MathWorks
• Alex Okeson (2020), Ph.D. student at University of Washington, now at Straddles
• Hari Subramonyam (2020), Ph.D. student at University of Michigan, now faculty at Stanford
• Meg Young (2020), Ph.D. student at University of Washington, now at Data & Society
• Marah Abdin (2019), Undergrad at University of Rochester, now at Poolside AI
• Anhong Guo (2019), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon, now faculty at University of Michigan
• Harman Kaur (2019), Ph.D. student at University of Michigan, now faculty at the University of Minnesota
• Michael Madaio (2019), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon, now at Google Research
• Samir Passi (2019), Ph.D. student at Cornell University, now at Microsoft
• Chara Podimata (2019), Ph.D. student at Harvard University, now faculty at MIT
• Samira Samadi (2019), Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, now faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Angela Zhou (2019), Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, now faculty at the University of Southern California
• David Alvarez Melis (2018), Ph.D. student at MIT, now at Microsoft Research and faculty at Harvard
• Ken Holstein (2018), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon, now faculty at EPFL
• Lily Hu (2018), Ph.D. student at Harvard University, now faculty at Yale
• Rediet Abebe (2017), Ph.D. student at Cornell, now a fellow at Harvard
• Manish Raghavan (2017), Ph.D. student at Cornell, now faculty at MIT
• Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh (2017), Ph.D. student at CU Boulder, now at Microsoft
• Rupert Freeman (2016 and 2017), Ph.D. student at Duke University, now faculty at the University of Virginia
• Ryan Rogers (2016), Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania, now at Apple
• Nika Haghtalab (2016), Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, now faculty at UC Berkeley
• Ming Yin (2015), Ph.D. student at Harvard University, now faculty at Purdue University
• Rachel Cummings (2015), Ph.D. student at California Institute if Technology, now faculty at Columbia
• Hoda Heidari (2014), Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania, now faculty at Carnegie Mellon
• Chien-Ju Ho (2013 and 2014), Ph.D. student at UCLA, now faculty at Washington University in St. Louis
• Alice Gao (2013), Ph.D. student at Harvard University, now faculty at the University of Toronto

Typically our interns are Ph.D. students with strong publication records in areas relevant to our lab. We start going through applications for summer interns around November.