Mentoring

Mentoring students and junior faculty

I mentor students and junior faculty through programs at CU Denver and UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, I also founded Oski Lab, where more than one hundred undergraduates worked with me on data-intensive social science research.

Mentoring Programs

  • Junior Faculty Mentoring, CU Denver — Co-Organizer2025–
  • Statistics Mentoring, CU Denver — Mentor2022
  • Diverse Doctorates, CU Denver — Mentor2020–2022
  • Data Science Discovery, UC Berkeley — Mentor2016–2022
  • Berkeley Connect Mentoring, UC Berkeley — Mentor2015–2016
  • URAP / Oski Lab, UC Berkeley — Founder & Mentor2013–2018

Mentoring · 2014–2022

Oski Lab

I started Oski Lab at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science so undergraduates could learn research by doing it. Students worked in small teams on the messy parts of empirical social science: scraping cannabis marketplaces, turning press releases and employee reviews into usable text data, and building computer-vision pipelines. Their work contributed to datasets used in published research on markets and organizations. From 2014 to 2022, more than one hundred students worked across 115 repositories. The roster below shows where many of them went next.

Use the arrows to view alumni by current sector, movement from lab cohort to destination, or time in the lab.

Selected outcomes

Siddharth Karamcheti

Brown University → Stanford CS Ph.D. → Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech; Autonomy Research Lead, Walden Robotics

Ashvin Nair

UC Berkeley CS Ph.D. (BAIR) → Research Scientist, OpenAI → RL research lead, Cursor

Daniel Geng

Research Scientist, OpenAI (Sora team)

Tianhe Yu

AI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs

YiDing Jiang

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Andrew Liu

AI Research Engineer, Google DeepMind

Wilson Yan

Co-founder, Embo (robotics world models)

Yuchen Jiang

Co-founder & CEO, Sixpence

Vaibhav Agrawal

Co-founder & CTO, BaseFrame (YC W26)

Dilip Ravindran

Columbia Economics Ph.D. → Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin

Other alumni are now doctoral students at Cambridge, Penn, Northwestern, and the University of Washington.

Alumni

  • Abrar Rahman — Engineering AI-powered public-benefits infrastructure at Promise; founder and former CEO of Dorsal (acquired) Oski Lab 2020
  • Adithi Loka — Software Engineer, Sam's Club Oski Lab 2020
  • Ajay Ramesh — Camera Engineer, Apple Oski Lab 2016–2017
  • Alex Lin — Software Engineer, Alto Pharmacy Oski Lab 2015
  • Alex Romano — Founding Software Engineer, Finch Oski Lab 2016
  • Allen Tang — Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Oski Lab 2014–2015
  • Amit Hulandageri — Machine Learning Scientist, Entanglement, Inc. Oski Lab 2019
  • Andrew Liu — AI Research Software Engineer, Google DeepMind Oski Lab 2015
  • Andrew Tan — Founding Partner, Humans (AI venture studio) Oski Lab 2016
  • Andrew Zhao — Amazon Oski Lab 2021
  • Apurv Gandhi — Stripe Oski Lab 2016
  • Asha Anoosheh — Deep Learning Software Engineer, NVIDIA Oski Lab 2015
  • Ashvin Nair — Research scientist leading RL foundations, Cursor (Anysphere) Oski Lab 2014
  • Bhavana Srinivasan — Software Engineer 2, Microsoft Oski Lab 2018
  • Brian Chen — Software Engineer, Alchemy Oski Lab 2014
  • Caryn Tran — PhD student / Graduate Research Assistant (Computer Science & Learning Sciences), Northwestern University Oski Lab 2016–2017
  • Chandrakanth Gudavalli — Research Engineer (Computer Vision / MLOps), UC Santa Barbara Oski Lab 2018–2019
  • Christopher Coale — Visa Oski Lab 2015
  • Daniel Chin — Software Engineer, Google Oski Lab 2015
  • Daniel Geng — Research Scientist, Sora team, OpenAI Oski Lab 2016
  • Daniel Kim — Data Scientist, Contxts.ai Oski Lab 2016
  • Daniel Koohmarey — Software Engineer, Apple Oski Lab 2014–2015
  • Debajit Sandilya — Machine Learning Engineer, Central AI, Atlassian Oski Lab 2019
  • Devish Mundra — Senior Data Engineer, Absolute Security (Absolute Software) Oski Lab 2019
  • Dilip Ravindran — Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin Oski Lab 2015
  • Emma Toon — Data Analyst, Bright Power Oski Lab 2020
  • Franklin Ye — Machine Learning Engineer, Coinbase Oski Lab 2021
  • Garrett Thomas — Machine Learning Research Scientist, Nuro Oski Lab 2014
  • Gavin Hackeling — Engineering and Data Science Manager, Kalepa Oski Lab 2014
  • Haolin Zhu — Viasat Oski Lab 2020
  • Harish Shanker — Engineering Manager II, Uber
  • Harrison Wang — Senior Staff Software Engineer, Turo Oski Lab 2014–2015
  • Hiroto Udagawa — Machine Learning Engineer, Nubank Oski Lab 2014
  • Hongjian (Luke) Zhang — Co-founder (world models; ex-Brex), Stealth AI startup Oski Lab 2015
  • Hsiao-Yu "Joy" Chiang — Senior Data Analyst, Zscaler Oski Lab 2020
  • Hugo Azevedo — Senior (Enterprise) Solutions Architect, GitLab Oski Lab 2021
  • Huiyi Zhang — Software Engineer, Snowflake Oski Lab 2019–2020
  • Jacqueline Liu — Data Scientist, Meta Oski Lab 2016
  • James Fang — Software Engineer (Starlink User Terminal), SpaceX Oski Lab 2019
  • Jared Wilber — Senior Software Engineer (also founder of a YC S23 startup; lecturer at UC San Diego), NVIDIA Oski Lab 2016–2017
  • Jeff Huang — Software Engineer, Google (Firebase/Genkit team) Oski Lab 2015
  • Jessie Salas — Engineering leader (AI); also Lecturer, UC Berkeley College of Engineering, Stealth startup Oski Lab 2016
  • JiaHang(Tak) Li — Software Engineer, Perception, Waymo Oski Lab 2016
  • Jimmy Kim — Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Oski Lab 2020–2021
  • Jonathan Luo — Google Oski Lab 2019–2020
  • Juhwan Kim — Software Engineer, Snowflake Oski Lab 2014–2015
  • Kanstantsin Kastsevich — Parachain Lead, Composable Foundation Oski Lab 2016
  • Kendall Kikkawa — Data Scientist (Product Engineering), Micron Technology Oski Lab 2020–2021
  • Kevin Chian — Software Engineer, Glean Oski Lab 2015
  • Kevin So — BlackRock Oski Lab 2014–2016
  • Keyan Nasseri — Google Oski Lab 2020–2021
  • Khoa Tran — Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Surescripts Oski Lab 2014
  • Kushal Singh — Software Engineer, Glean Oski Lab 2016
  • Lance Mathias — Research Engineer, Eragon Oski Lab 2022
  • Lingtian Cheng — Software Engineer, Privacy, Meta Oski Lab 2015–2016
  • Liuxiao Zhang — Software engineering manager, Google Oski Lab 2015
  • Luba Buyankhuu — Lead Software Engineer, Unity Technologies Oski Lab 2015
  • Marco Gallardo — Sorenson (Sorenson Vision) Oski Lab 2016
  • Michael Deng — Co-Founder, Hypercars Oski Lab 2014
  • Mike Cheng — Haus Oski Lab 2016
  • Min Jo — Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Oski Lab 2016
  • Mingjian Lu — Graduate student (Math/ML), UCLA Oski Lab 2016
  • Mukund Chillakanti — Technical Solutions, Moxo Oski Lab 2014
  • Nabeel Hingun — Machine Learning Engineer, Moveworks Oski Lab 2020–2021
  • Neha Hudait — Senior Security Product Manager, NVIDIA Oski Lab 2020
  • Nopphon Siranart — Data Scientist, Meta (Facebook) Oski Lab 2015
  • Rithvik Sunku — Software Engineer, Palantir Technologies Oski Lab 2020
  • Ryan Jiang — Software Engineer, Google Oski Lab 2015
  • Sidd Karamcheti — Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech; Autonomy Research Lead, Walden Robotics Oski Lab 2014
  • Swayanshu Shanti Pragnya — Application Analyst, Strategic Analysis Research & Reporting, Washburn University Oski Lab 2019
  • Tianhe Yu — AI Research Scientist, Meta (Superintelligence Labs) Oski Lab 2016
  • Tu Trinh — AI researcher (RL, human-AI collaboration); Berkeley EECS 5th-yr M.S. 2024, thesis advised by Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley Oski Lab 2019
  • Vaibhav Agrawal — Co-Founder, BaseFrame (YC W26) Oski Lab 2021
  • Vincent Liu — Software Engineer, Search NLP, Google Oski Lab 2015
  • Wenhao Pan — PhD student, Statistics (part-time Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon SCOT Forecasting), University of Washington Oski Lab 2021–2022
  • Wilson Yan — Co-founder, Embo Oski Lab 2016–2019
  • Xuting Liu — CS PhD student, Distributed Systems Lab (advised by Vincent Liu), University of Pennsylvania Oski Lab 2020–2021
  • YiDing Jiang — Research Scientist, Google DeepMind Oski Lab 2016
  • Yizhou Chi — PhD candidate, Computer Science & Technology (St Catharine's College, Harding Scholar), University of Cambridge Oski Lab 2021
  • Yuchen Jiang — Co-Founder & CEO, Sixpence Oski Lab 2016
  • Zhaoqin (Jack) Ye — Software Engineer (Apache Iceberg / Apache Polaris PMC member), LanceDB Oski Lab 2016
  • Zhiqiang (Charles) Wang — Software Engineer (backend), Instacart

Also part of the lab: Alexander Yang · Allen Yu · Andrew Wang · Chaya Bakshi · Grace Zhao · Jeffrey Lin · Jerry Zhang · Kevin Huynh · Myoung-Jun Kang · Peng Xue · Xiaoqin Zhou · Yijia Mao · Zheng (Merlin) Shi.

Graduate affiliate: Jaren Haber (UC Berkeley Sociology Ph.D.). Technical advisor: Stéfan van der Walt (Berkeley Institute for Data Science; lead of the scikit-image open-source project).

Roles were checked against public profiles in mid-2026. Corrections are welcome.