CSE 446 Staff Info

Instructors

Pang Wei Koh (website):
Background: I'm an assistant professor at the Allen School. My research is in machine learning and natural language processing; recently, I have also been working on biomedical applications of LLMs.
Conversation Starter: I'm from Singapore; before grad school, I spent a few years working at an online education startup and then a year doing research in a genomics lab.
Sewoong Oh (website):
Background: I'm a professor at the Allen School. My research is in machine learning, foundation models, secure AI, and anything open-source.
Conversation Starter: In Seattle, I like Chi Mac, ma'ono Fried Chicken, and Sodam Chicken. Email me if you know a good fried chicken place.

Teaching Assistants

Varun Ananth (email):
Background: I am wrapping up my BS/MS this quarter, and completed my undergrad in CS last year. My related interests span computational biology, systems neuroscience, and core ML.
Conversation Starter: Talk to me (no, seriously please do) about Gongfu tea or guitar (my favorite band is Polyphia!)
Donovan Clay (email):
Background: I am a first-quarter BS/MS student. For my undergraduate, I double majored in Computer Engineering and Comparative History of Ideas. I do research in AI/ML.
Conversation Starter: I like to play pool and rock climb in my free time. You might find me at SBP!
Yichuan Deng (email):
Background: I am a third-year PhD in CSE department. I do research in computer vision and have some background in theoretical computer science.
Conversation Starter: I like paddleboarding in summer and snowboarding in winter.
Cynthia Dong (email):
Background: I am a 2nd year PhD student in the ICTD lab. I did my undergrad at UNC-CH (go heels) with a focus on computational neuroscience and my master's thesis at cambridge, on test-time adaptation for on-device models.
Conversation Starter: The US flag should be symmetrical!
Sankar Vaishnav Harilal (email):
Background: I'm a fourth year undergrad in CSE. Some of my research interests include domain adversarial learning, time series forecasting, and predictive modeling.
Conversation Starter: Some of my hobbies are snowboarding, watching soccer, and exploring new places!
Claudia Gyonjyan (email):
Background: Hi, I'm a junior at the Allen School and am currently doing research at the intersection of AI/ML and genomics.
Conversation Starter: I love baking, hiking, and playing black ops zombies! My personal record in black ops 2 zombies is round 58 :)
Ariel Kao (email):
Background: I'm a 4th year computer engineering undergraduate student. I love working at the intersection of software and hardware and have been involved in research on applying LLM to embedded systems.
Conversation Starter: I love music and art. And I enjoy handcrafting and playing the piano in my free time!
Leo Maynard-Zhang (email):
Background: I am a BS/MS student in CSE. I do research in learning theory.
Conversation Starter: I really like fried chicken.
Emmanuel Azuh Mensah (email):
Background: I am a PhD student in the ICT for Development Lab within the Allen school. My research mainly focuses on developing data conditional subnetworks as an efficiency approach for on-device single-tower multimodal mobile vision transformers, and applied to ecological wildlife monitoring.
Conversation Starter: I am initially from Ghana and into international development and Afro-carribean music.
Anthony Xing (email):
Background: I am a 4th-year undergrad double majoring in CS and MATH. I like watching interesting history/science videos and anime/movies, and I play a few video games. I swim from time to time and I've been doing more weightlifting recently.
Conversation Starter: I find interest in many things!!
Yufei Zhang (email):
Background: I'm a BS/MS student in Computer Science. I like working on challenging problems in computer vision and natural language processing, particularly those that involve reasoning and understanding.
Conversation Starter: I love endurance sports! I've run three half-marathons and am training for my first Ironman 70.3. I also enjoy reading and exploring poke places.