Our Team

The people behind the DeCoDE Lab

Current Members

Hongrui Chen

Postdoctoral Associate

Zhen Wei

Postdoctoral Associate

Peerasait (Jeffrey) Prachaseree

Postdoctoral Associate

Amin Heyrani Nobari

Postdoctoral Associate

Shrenik Vijaykumar Zinage

Postdoctoral Associate

Kristen M. Edwards

Ph.D. Candidate

Noah Joseph Bagazinski

Ph.D. Candidate

Manideep Rebbagondla

Ph.D. Candidate

Ghadi Nehme

Ph.D. Candidate

Myles Wortham

Ph.D. Candidate

Rosen Yu

Ph.D. Candidate

Annie Clare Doris

Ph.D. Candidate

Nicholas Wei Yong Sung

Graduate Student

Mohamed Elrefaie

Graduate Student

Jacob Thomas Sony

Graduate Student

Kittipong Thiamchaiboonthawee

Graduate Student

Bella Stewart

Ph.D. Candidate

Anushka Tahiliani

Ph.D. Candidate

Mary Foxen

Ph.D. Candidate

Thara Konduri

Graduate Student (LGO)

Christophe Hatterer

Visiting Graduate Student

Joseph Michael Gaken

Administrative Assistant

Alumni

Staff — Postdocs & Scientists

Kang Hyun Lee

Postdoctoral Associate

Now: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Soongsil University (updated Aug 2026)

Ferdous Alam

Postdoctoral Associate

Now: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Georgia Tech (updated Aug 2026)

Cyril Picard

Research Scientist

Now: Head of Intelligence Engineering, P-1 AI (updated Aug 2026)

Francis Ogoke

Postdoctoral Associate (co-advised with Prof. John Hart)

Now: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Carnegie Mellon University (updated Aug 2026)

Qian Chen

Postdoctoral Associate

Now: Co-founder, stealth startup (updated Aug 2026)

Binyang Song

Postdoctoral Associate

Now: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (updated Aug 2026)

Ph.D.

Amin Heyrani Nobari

Ph.D. 2026

Now: Postdoctoral Associate, MIT DeCoDE Lab (updated Aug 2026)

Lyle Regenwetter

Ph.D. 2026

Now: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (updated Aug 2026)

Graduate Students

Era Syla

Graduate Student

Now: Software Engineer, Plaid (updated Aug 2026)

Aditya Palaparthi

Graduate Student (Harvard)

Now: Engineer, Google (updated Aug 2026)

Nomi Yu

Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. John Hart)

Now: Research Scientist, Spectral Labs (updated Aug 2026)

Brandon Man

Graduate Student

Now: Engineering, Applied Intuition (updated Aug 2026)

Kaira M. Samuel

Graduate Student

Now: U.S. Air Force (updated Jul 2025)

Rui Zhou

Graduate Student

Janet Qian

Graduate Student

Now: Machine Learning Engineer, Backflip AI (updated Aug 2026)

Rachel Putnam

Graduate Student

Zoe Lynne Hinton

Graduate Student (LGO)

Visitors

Joao Paulo Alves Ribeiro

Visiting Graduate Student

Alejandro Pradas Gomez

Visiting Graduate Student

Ismail Nejjar

Visiting Graduate Student

Giorgio Giannone

Visiting Graduate Student

François Mazé

Visiting Graduate Student

UROPs & Others

Harrison X. Liang

SuperUROP

Merlin Gogolin

UROP

Xin Qi Liu

UROP

Alex P. Mendez

UROP

Kevin Shen

UROP

Tyler Butler

Administrative Assistant

Elizabeth Yoon

UROP

Elise C. Echarte

UROP

Yuanxi Li

UROP

Advika Namasivayam

UROP

Hugo B. Sanchez

UROP

Kailey M. Epstein

UROP

Raina T. Wu

UROP

Unyime C. Usua

UROP

Samiksha Singh

UROP

Kizito M. Nsanzya

UROP

Ashley Margetts

SuperUROP

Hanqi Su

UROP

Nicholas J Cerone

UROP

Noah J Wiley

UROP

Eric Zhou

UROP

Alexandra Valdepenas Ramirez

UROP

Kimberley C. Wang

UROP

Sebastian I. Rodriguez

UROP

Spencer D Yandrofski

UROP

Adnan Abbas

Remote collaborator

Colin M Weaver

UROP

Jinha Kim

UROP

Sarah A. Zhao

UROP

Angelina Zhang

UROP

Muhammad Fathy Rashad

Remote collaborator

Vaishnavi L Addala

UROP

Mojolaoluwa O Oke

UROP

Sabiyyah Ali

UROP

Kristopher L Vu

UROP

Melory So

UROP