Team
Principal investigator
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Shashank Srivastava
Assistant Professor, since 2020
Shashank is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill. Before joining UNC he was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond. He received his PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, working with Tom Mitchell. His work explores the connection between natural language and machine intelligence, with a focus on explainability, alignment, and interactive learning.
PhD students
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Kerem Zaman
PhD Student, since 2022
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Rajeev Ambati
PhD Student, since 2024
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Scott Merrill
PhD Student, since 2025
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MS students
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Yuvraj Jain
MS Student, since 2024
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Rishabhdev Potti
MS Student, since 2026
Undergraduates
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Anika Sharma
BS Student, since 2023
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Hengli Wang
BS Student, since 2026
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Jahnavi Kari
BS Student, since 2026
Alumni
- PhD Rakesh R Menon 2020–2025→ Applied Scientist, Adobe
- PhD Sayan Ghosh 2019–2024→ AWS
- BS Wisdom Okwen 2024–2026→ Microsoft
- MS Chidaksh Ravuru 2024–2026
- MS Grace Wang 2025–2026→ PhD student, UNC
- BS Jane Xing 2024–2025→ Microsoft
- BS Aum Kendapadi 2023–2025→ MS in CS, Yale
- MS Tianyi Niu 2023–2025→ Capital One
- BS Akshan Sameullah 2024–2026→ MS in CS, UMD
- BS Zheng Qi 2020→ MS in CS, UPenn
- Intern Ayush Jain 2020–2021→ Quadeye
- BS Graham Caron 2022→ Oracle
- BS/MS Kangda Wei 2021–2023→ PhD student, Texas A&M
- BS/MS Matthew Byrd 2020–2022→ Epic
- BS Mason Laney 2022–2023→ CS PhD student, UNC
- BS Pradyun Ramesh from 2022→ MS in CS, Columbia
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