Postdoctoral Fellows

Ben Armstrong | Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., 2025, University of Waterloo
Research Interests: Social Choice, Preference Aggregation, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Machine Learning

Breno Dantas Cruz | Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., 2021, Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Programmability, Efficiency, and Privacy in the Development of Edge/Mobile and IoT Applications.

Erfan Hosseini Sereshgi | Murphy Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science
Ph.D., 2025, Tulane University
Research Interests: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Computational Sociology.

Side Liu | Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., 2025, Wuhan University
Research Interests: Software and Systems Security, AI for Security, and AI Safety.

Syed Rameez Naqvi | Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., 2013, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Research Interests: Digital Systems Design; Computer Organization and Architecture; VLSI/ Asynchronous Logic, Fault-Tolerance; Applied Optimization; Machine Learning.
 

Predoctoral Fellows

Leonardo Matone | AI Innovation Fellow
M.S. Candidate, 2026, Tulane University
Research Interests: NLP, Text Annotation, Political Analytics, Big Data Analytics.

Chanuka Algama
Research Interests: Computer Vision
Advisor: Prof. Carola Wenk
Email: calgama@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Mah Noor Asad
Research Interests: HCI, Human-centered application of AI
Advisor: Prof. Saad Hassan
Email: sasad1@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309

Fraol Batole
Advisor: Prof. Hridesh Rajan
Email: fbatole@tulane.edu
Office: TBA

Yongbo Chen
Research Interests: Data Visualization, Software Visualization, Software Analysis & Software Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Faust
Email: ychen88@tulane.edu
Office: STH 309

Yunsung Chung
Research Interests: Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Advisor: Prof. Jihun Hamm and Prof. Zhengming (Allan) Ding
Email: ychung3@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Arjun Dadhwal
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Topological data analysis, Super-resolution imaging
Advisor: Prof. Brian Summa
Email: adadhwal@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309

Aaron Dumont
Research Interests: AI for optimizing brain health and wellness
Advisor: Prof. Ram Mettu
Email: adumont2@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309

Cristian Garces
Research Interests: Information and Systems Security, Software Reverse Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Jiang Ming
Email: cgarces1@tulane.edu
Office: ST 411

Ahsan Habib
Research Interests: Blockchain, Quantum Computing
Advisor: Prof. Lu Peng
Email: mhabib@tulane.edu
Office: ST 411

S Mahmudul Hasan
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Edge Devices
Advisor: Prof. Lu Peng
Email: shasan1@tulane.edu
Office: ST 411

Xin Hu
Research Interests: Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Advisor: Prof. Zhengming (Allan) Ding
Email: xhu13@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Yibin Hu
Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, AI safety and alignment
Advisor: Prof. Zizhan Zheng
Email: yhu20@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Nazmun Nahar Khanom
Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Assistive Technology, Accessibility, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Data Science
Advisor: Prof. Saad Hassan
Email: nkhanom@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Chaelin Kim
Research Interests: Human-Computer interaction (HCI), Assistive Technology, Accessibility, Computer Vision and Machine Learning 
Advisor: Prof. Saad Hassan
Email: ckim13@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Jiarui Li
Research Interests: Immunoinformatics (T Cell) and Machine Learning
Advisor: Prof. Ramgopal Mettu
Email: jli78@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309

Linsen Li
Research Interests: Machine Learning, NLP,Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Prof. Aron Culotta
Email: lli23@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Zechen Li
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Advisor: Prof. Zhengming Ding
Email: zli48@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Jiangpeng Liu
Research Interests: Security
Advisor: Prof. Jiang Ming
Email: jliu58@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309

Kun Liu
Research Interests: Software and Systems Security
Advisor: Prof. Jiang Ming
Email: kliu14@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Zixuan Liu
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence Safety, Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Prof. Zizhan Zheng
Email: zliu41@tulane.edu
Office: ST 411

Harper Lyon
Research Interests: Social Choice, Multi-Agent System, Artificial Intelligence Ethics
Advisor: Prof. Nicholas Mattei
Email: hlyon@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Cooper Maira
Research Interests: Data visualization
Advisor: Prof. Brian Summa
Email: cmaira@tulane.edu

Ruchira Manke
Research Interests: Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Prof. Hridesh Rajan
Email: rmanke@tulane.edu
Office: PH 518

Leonardo Matone
Research Interests: NLP, Public Policy, Computational Social Choice
Advisor: Prof. Nicholas Mattei
Email: lmatone@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Amin Mirfakhar
Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, Optimization, Robotics
Advisor: Prof. Ram Mettu
Email: smirfakhar@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309

Keith Mitchell
Research Interests: Cybersecurity and Networking
Advisor: Prof. Jiang Ming
Email: kmitchell2@tulane.edu
Office: ST 411

Abby Ortego
Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence  
Advisor: Prof. Nicholas Mattei
Email: aortego1@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Disa Sariola
Research Interests: Causal Inference and Attributing Bias Source, Fairness and Ethics in Algorithmic Systems, Audit Studies and Algorithms 
Advisor: Prof. Nicholas Mattei
Email: dsariola@tulane.edu

Yifei Sun
Research Interests: AI agent, Explainable AI
Advisor: Prof. Aron Culotta
Email: ysun33@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309 

Deepak Thomas
Advisor: Prof. Hridesh Rajan
Email: dthomas23@.tulane.edu

Janet Wang
Advisor: Prof. Jihun Hamm
Email: swang47@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Fangzheng Wu
Research Interests: Computer Vision and Visualization
Advisor: Prof. Ram Mettu and Prof. Brian Summa
Email: fwu6@tulane.edu
Office: ST 411

Zach Yin
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Interpretable Brain Decoding
Advisor: Prof. Zhengming (Allan) Ding
Email: zyin@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Yunbei Zhang
Research Interests: Adversarial machine learning and optimization
Advisor: Prof. Jihun Hamm
Email: yzhang111@tulane.edu
Office: ST 411

Yilun Zhou
Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI privacy
Advisor: Prof. Jihun Hamm
Email: yzhou42@tulane.edu
Office: ST 309

Ziyu Zhou
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Multimodal Data Fusion, Medical Image Analysis
Advisor: Prof. Zhengming (Allan) Ding, Prof. Yu-ping Wang
Email: zzhou11@tulane.edu
Office: ST 416

Yan Zhu
Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Faust
Email: yzhu27@tulane.edu
Office: PH 309