Team

Leilani H. Gilpin

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Leilani H. Gilpin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of methods for autonomous systems to explain themselves. Her work has applications to robust decision-making, system debugging, and accountability. Her current work examines how generative models can be used in iterative XAIstress testing.

Biagio La Rosa

Li Liu

Ph.D. student, UC Santa Cruz

Li is a third-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He has a broad interest in Information Interpretation and Structuring, and Improving Accessibility with Assistive Technologies. Outside of his studies, Li enjoys cooking, photography, and painting.

Peiyu (Olivia) Wang

Ph.D. student, UC Santa Cruz

Olivia is a first-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests include but are not limited to Explainable AI, Human-Centered AI,AI for law and public policy, Natural Language Processing (dialogue system etc.)

Oliver Chang

PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz

Runner, PhD Student, and baseball fan - but necessarily in that order.

Jack Fox Keen

Ph.D. student, Strange Loop, UC Santa Cruz

Jack Fox Keen is a second year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, under the tutelage of Dr. Leilani H. Gilpin. Jack’s research focuses on explainable artificial intelligence for psychological and sociological applications. Jack holds a bachelors of science from Florida Student University for both Scientific Computing and Biomathematics. Jack was the lead data scientist at the Guardian Project for ProofMode, working with the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and other organizations, such as Adobe, on verifiable photo provenance. Some of Jack’s favorite hobbies include writing, painting, and hiking.

Kalyana Suma Sree Tholeti

UC Santa Cruz, Master Student

Kalyana Suma Sree Tholeti is a Masters student advised by Prof. Leilani Gilpin in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the XAI, Responsible data Science, and Generative AI. Her current work is on developing a comprehensive model explanation monitoring framework within the manufacturing domain.

Sijia Zhong

Master student, UC Santa Cruz

Sijia is a second-year Master student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests are explaining the model intelligence.

Shreedhar Jangam

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Shreedhar Jangam is an undergraduate student working under the guidance of Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests are on the applications of explainable systems, their trustworthiness, and reinfocement learning.

Sean Singh

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ananya Das

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ayush Ranjan

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Creighton Glasscock

PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz

Dominick Rangel

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Hugo Lin

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Karman Singh

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Krishna Dua

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Nataniel Jayaseelan

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Nathan

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Nistha

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Prathik Kallepalli

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Rami Wilson

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Richard Dao

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Rishika Srinivas

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Srinidhi Srinivasan

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Suhas Oruganti

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Surabhi Kuchibhotla

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Vihan Patil

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Vik Dhillon

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Vinh

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Zhonghui Li

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ziyuan

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ashwin Nagarajan

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Jonathan Morris

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Karthik

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ameyaa Biwalkar

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Poonam Deshpande

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Sidharth Babu

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Vishrut Shah

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Akashleena

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Anish

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Janvi Rochlani

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ashwin Pazhoor

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Bill Zhang

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Daniel Hsieh

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Dennis

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Gene Park

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Hugo

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ivan Del Rio

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Janvi

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Jason Wu

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Jason Wu is an undergraduate student advised by Prof. Leilani Gilpin in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on developing full stack web applications and exploring the utility of large language models (LLMs).

Jihang Li

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Krithik Dhandapani

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Krystal

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Macklin

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Mahyar Vahabi

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Pratik Doshi

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Priyesh Vakharia

PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz

Rithesh

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Sabrina

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Samuel Cheng

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Shiyuan Huang

PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz

Siddarth Mamidanna

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Tavleen Kaur

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Tommy Chen

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ujwala

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Vaishnavi Jaligama

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

William Self

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Yilun Zhou

Collaborator, UC Santa Cruz

Rushil Nagpal

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Rohith Krish

High School Intern, UC Santa Cruz

Daksh Shah

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Aishwarya Rajur

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Advait Sharma

High School Intern, UC Santa Cruz

Aaja Ouellette

Masters Student, UC Santa Cruz

Shanay Gaitonde

High School Intern, UC Santa Cruz

Arnav Kartikeya

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Shoto

Undergrad Student, UC Santa Cruz

Batuhan Salih

Master's Student, UC Santa Cruz

Batuhan is a first-year Master’s Student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests include applying deep reinforcement learning to Pacman and integrating explainable AI into the autograder system to provide real-time, detailed feedback to students.

Ivan Del Rio

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Ivan is a second-year undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz, pursuing a B.S. in Computer Engineering. He is passionate about AI and machine learning, and is actively involved in developing applications to enhance student life on campus.

Shreyan Mitra

Project Lead, AIEA Lab

I am a student researcher and software developer focused on making machine learning more robust, accessible, and sustainable.

Nikhil Wani

Research Scientist, AIEA Lab

Auditors

Auditors are incoming AIEA lab students that work in the lab for credit for a quarter (10 weeks).

Johnathan Harding

Nataniel Jayaseelan

Nihal Ernest

Pragya Maruwada

Sahil Konjarla

Varsana Ilango

Vihan Patil

Alex Santiago

Anirudh Sivakumar

Njeri Gachoka

Parsh Gandhi

Abhita

Annika

Arnav

Ashton Liu

Ayush Ranjan

Dan Pham

Denise Ataei

Jaskaran Singh

Kevin Korukonda

Laurena Chen

Levi Laden

Maharshi Mandapati

Mahyar Vahabi

Nathan Nguyen

RAGHAV SINGH

Rahul Punji

Raviteja Pillalamarri

Reva Agarwal

Saachi Binani

Sai Pisupati

Surabhi Kuchibhotla

Tanvi Jambhale

Tejas

Varnit Balivada

Vijay Arvind Ramamoorthy

Xuan Jia

Anish

Kendrick Ng

Aidan Au-Yeung

Aiven Jerel Desiderio

Ameek Singh

Anshika

Calvin Stephano

Daniel

Dominick Rangel

Harsh

Ian

Krishna Dua

Lily Faris

Nathan

Neha Suresh

Prathik Kallepalli

Rajat

Sahib Ajmani

Sahil Nale

Samiyah

Sanya Murdeshwar

Satwik Pandey

Saumit Vedula

Sean S.

Sebastian

Selam

Sidharth Babu

Sophie Han

Sri

Srinidhi

Suhas

Tanishq Patil

Tanvi

Tavleen Kaur

Thomas

Umair

Vik Dhillon

Interns

Interns are high school students that work in the lab for at least 10 weeks.

Mahika Goswami

Sahiel Bose

Ethan Huang

Swara Mulagari

Arush Garg

Justin Shen

Shlok Madhekar

Tanisha Patil

Abhay Polavajram

Adarsh Menon

Adithya Gnanasundar

Aditi Chhawacharia

Aiden Huang

Akshat Bora

Ashmit Sethi

Ava Tolentino

Ayush Bheemaiah

Bhargav Eranki

Devansh Gulati

Diyan Shah

Jaivin Phabiani

Justin Shen

Jyotiraditya Suryawanshi

Krish Sav

Lucas Choi

Mahika Pandit

Nitin Janath

Prisha Singh

Ritvik Rustagi

Shiven Eltepu

Shlok Madhekar

Shri Charan Sriram

Sumedha Kumar

Tanvi Pothireddy

Tito Shreyansh Bandari

Vera Faith Del Rio

Yannis Sudek

Yuhaendan Bhaskaran

Tanisha Patil

Alumni

Clayton
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Mahika Pandit
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Dhanishtha Patel
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Kendrick Ng
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Michael Soebroto
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Yuan Jia
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Yuhaendan Bhaskaran
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Abby
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Meenal
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Rohan Ghosalkar
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Andrew Susanto
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Brendon Chen
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Jaivin Phabiani
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Max Meyers
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Olivia Anastassov
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Alex Feghhi
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Amos Lin
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Anthony
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Anuj Kamat
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Arka Pal
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Betsy
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Bo Yang
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Coen Adler
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Daniel Sarni
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Erick Hernandez
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Harshini Venkataraman
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Jacob Low
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John Yu
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Kajal Patil
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Keely Whelan
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Maithili
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Michael McAllister
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Oliver Lokhandwala
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Owen Shi
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Raj Singh
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Rangasri Chakravarthy
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Ritvik Rustagi
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Roger Li
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Rohit Das
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Ryan Ahrari
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Ryan Leung
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Ryan Wang
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Sahil Gupta
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Samuel Trujillo
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Sebastian
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Sela
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Shashwat
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Shayan Salsabilian
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Supriya Paulose
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Vaibhav
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Vid
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Vidya
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Yanwen
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Raj (Rajdeep) Singh , BS at UCSC
CTO - Forge Rewards (YC W24)

Rangasri Chakravarthy , MS at UCSC
SDE in the E-Commerce Foundations Org at Amazon

Nick Wang
Now at Undergraduate

John Yu
Now at Masters

Shengjie Xu , MS at UCSC
PhD student at University of Maryland

Tong Jia
Now at Undergraduate student