Mentoring
I enjoy working with undergraduate and graduate students across institutions. My mentoring connects a concrete physics question with hands-on work in machine learning and scientific software, with an emphasis on understanding the methods and communicating the results.
This record includes 32 students: 5 listed as ongoing and 27 with completed projects. Publications and subsequent positions are linked where recorded.
Student records last reviewed February 17, 2026; positions and project status reflect that record.
Ongoing students
| # | Name | Research | Start date | End date | Position in record | Paper | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Hillary Puhan Tian UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
HEP TREASURE | Feb 2026 | URAP | |||
| 4 | Matthew Ian Noel UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Tracking in Muon Collider | Apr 2025 | URAP | |||
| 3 | Arihant Avinash Kaul UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
AI Explainability and Interpretability | Feb 2025 | URAP | |||
| 2 | Debu Antonio Ratnam UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Software Optimization for HEP | Jan 2025 | URAP | |||
| 1 | Eshwary Mishra UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
LLM for HEP | Sep 2024 | URAP |
Former students
| # | Name | Research | Start date | End date | Position in record | Paper | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Yuta Roy Ioriya UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
LLM for HEP | Feb 2025 | May 2025 | URAP | ||
| 26 | Haoming Chen UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
LLM for HEP | Feb 2025 | Sep 2025 | URAP | ||
| 25 | Pranav Subbarayan UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
ML for Gaia data | Apr 2024 | Jan 2025 | SEED | ||
| 24 | Chenning (Annette) Huang UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Language model for HEP | Jan 2024 | Nov 2024 | CMU Master student | URAP | |
| 23 | Eric Ju UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Language model for HEP | Jan 2024 | May 2024 | URAP | ||
| 22 | Megan Ho UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Tracless B-tagging | Aug 2023 | Dec 2023 | DS Discovery 2023 | ||
| 21 | Tanay Appannagari UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Tracless B-tagging | Aug 2023 | Dec 2023 | DS Discovery 2023 | ||
| 20 | Heaven Klair UC, Berkeley · graduate student |
Tracless B-tagging | Aug 2023 | Dec 2023 | DS Discovery 2023 | ||
| 19 | Curtis Hu UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Deep generative model for hadronic interactions | Aug 2023 | Jan 2024 | URAP | ||
| 18 | Elizabeth Weaver UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Language model for HEP | Jul 2023 | Jan 2024 | N/A | ||
| 17 | Yash Melkani UC, Berkeley · undergraduate student |
Language model for HEP | Nov 2022 | Dec 2024 | arXiv:2402.10239, arXiv:2407.21290 | N/A | |
| 16 | Har Vey Yuen UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
development of jax based MC Tuner
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Sep 2022 | May 2023 | URAP | ||
| 15 | Allen Chen UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
development of jax based MC Tuner, hadronic interactions simulation
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Aug 2022 | Jan 2024 | URAP | ||
| 14 | Tuan Minh Pham University of Wisconsin-Madison · Graduate Student |
Deep Generative Models for Hadronic Interactions | Feb 2022 | Nov 2022 | arXiv:2310.07553 | Co-supervised | |
| 13 | Allison Xu UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
GNN for Top physics and Generative Models for HEP | Jan 2022 | May 2023 | Graduate Student @ Stanford | arXiv:2303.10148 | Co-supervised with Prof. Haichen Wang |
| 12 | Jeffae Schroff UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
MC Tuning with MC Uncertainties, jax based MC Tuner
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Sep 2021 | May 2023 | arXiv:2310.07566 | URAP | |
| 11 | Ian Wang National Tsing Hua University |
Apply ExaTrkX pipeline to Large Radius Tracking (LRT) | Jul 2021 | Sep 2022 | Industry | J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 2438 (2023) 012117 | Co-supervision with Prof. Shih-Chieh Hsu |
| 10 | Landon Reed University of Minnesota-Duluth · Undergraduate Student |
Graph Neural Network for Tau identification | Jun 2021 | Jun 2022 | Cisive | JINST 18 (2023) P07001 | Exchange |
| 9 | Andris Huang UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
Heterogeneous GNN and Language Models for HEP | Apr 2021 | Jun 2023 | physics Ph.D candidate @ UC, Berkeley | JINST 18 (2023) P07001, arXiv:2402.10239 | URAP |
| 8 | David Lin UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
Development of root_gnn software package
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Feb 2021 | Aug 2021 | URAP | ||
| 7 | Anthony Ding UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
Development of root_gnn software package
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Feb 2021 | Aug 2021 | MS in CS @ Columbia University | URAP | |
| 6 | Adeel Akram Uppasala University · Graduate Student |
GNN for particle trackin in PANDA experiment | Nov 2020 | Jun 2023 | arXiv:2208.12178 | Exchange | |
| 5 | Yaoyuan Xu UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
Accelerate ExaTrkX Inference with GPUs | Oct 2020 | Aug 2021 | Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 876 | Co-supervised with Kesheng Wu | |
| 4 | Alex Ballow Yongstown State University · Undergraduate Student |
Accelerate ExaTrkX Inference with GPUs | Oct 2020 | Aug 2021 | CS Graduate Student @ Montana State U. | Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 876 | Co-supervised with Prof. Alina Lazar |
| 3 | Aditi Chauhan University of Washington · Undergraduate Student |
Robustness of the Exa.TrkX Tracking pipeline to noise hits | Aug 2020 | Aug 2021 | Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 876 | Co-supervised with Prof. Shih-Chieh Hsu | |
| 2 | Shangqing Huang UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
Cluster Shape for Tracking Reconstruction | Mar 2020 | Nov 2021 | JINST 16 (2021) P05001 | URAP | |
| 1 | Jacob Lyons UC, Berkeley · Undergraduate Student |
Machine Learning for High Energy Physics | Aug 2018 | Aug 2022 | Graduate Student @ UC Santa Barbara | JINST 18 (2023) P07001 | URAP |
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