Former Members

Students

  • Jeff Wu (MEng, EECS) -> Software Engineer #1 at Terminal.com (2012)
  • Yura Perov (visiting student) -> Visiting Undergraduate at Oxford (2013)
  • Jay Baxter (MEng, EECS) -> Data Scientist at Twitter (2014)
  • Daniel Selsam (research assistant) -> Graduate Student at Stanford (2014)
  • David Wadden (research assistant) -> Pre-medical Program in Philadelphia (2015)
  • Lena Lu (MEng, EECS) -> Software Developer at Jane Street (2016)
  • Dr. Owain Evans (PhD, Philosophy) -> Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford (2015)
  • Dr. Tejas Kulkarni (PhD, BCS) -> Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (2016)
  • Belhal Karimi (visiting student) -> Postdoctoral Researcher at Baidu Research (2016)
  • Leo Casarsa (visiting student) -> Analytics Consultant at McKinsey (2017)
  • Christina Curlette (MEng, EECS) -> Product Manager at Microsoft (2017)
  • Iris Seaman (visiting student) -> Master’s Student at Brigham Young University (2017)
  • Nick Charchut (MEng, EECS) -> Zoox (2020)
  • Jordyn Mann (MEng, EECS) (2021) -> OM1
  • Austin Garrett (MEng, EECS) (2021) -> IBM
  • Sharan Yalburgi (visiting student) -> Julia Computing (2021)
  • Matin Ghavami (visiting student) -> University of Cambridge (2021)
  • Marco Cusumano-Towner (PhD, EECS) -> Research Scientist at Apple (2022)
  • Feras Saad (MEng/PhD, EECS) -> Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (2022)
  • Sam Witty (visiting student) -> Research Scientist at Basis (2022)
  • Alex Lew (PhD, EECS) -> Assistant Professor, Yale University (2025)
  • João Loula (PhD, EECS) -> researcher, stealth startup
  • Nishad Gothoskar (PhD, EECS) -> co-founder, stealth startup
  • Tan Zhi-Xuan (PhD, EECS) -> Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (2025)

Engineering

  • Dan Lovell (research engineer) -> Software Engineer at Continuum Analytics (2013)
  • Baxter Eaves (research engineer) -> Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University (2015)
  • Gregory Marton (research engineer) -> Data Science Adviser at x.ai (2016)
  • Joshua Thayer (software engineer) -> Software Engineer at Stripe (2019)
  • Tim Trautman (field engineer) -> Software Engineer at Canix (2019)
  • Jameson Quinn (research engineer) -> Senior Data Scientist at xCures (2021)

Researchers

  • Frank Wood (visiting researcher) -> Faculty Member at Oxford (2013)
  • Richard Tibbetts (visiting researcher) -> CEO at Empirical Systems (2016)
  • Taylor R. Campbell (research engineer) -> Software Engineer at Brave (2017)
  • Alexey Radul (research engineer) -> Software Engineer at Google (2017)
  • Sara Rendtorff-Smith (researcher) -> Policy Advisor, Technology, Peace & Security at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (2020)
  • Veronica Weiner (researcher) (2021)
  • Harish Tella (research engineer/UX designer) (2021)
  • Ben Zinberg (research engineer) (2022)
  • Ulrich Shaechtle (researcher) (2022) -> Digital Garage
  • Zane Shelby (software engineer) (2022) -> Digital Garage
  • Wiktor Phillips (postdoc) (2025) -> Flavell Lab, MIT
  • Andrew Bolton (research scientist) (2025) -> research scientist, stealth startup
  • Mathieu Huot (research scientist) (2025) -> research scientist, stealth startup
  • Tiffany Luong (research scientist) (2025) -> research scientist, stealth startup

Program Staff

  • Erin Bartuska (program assistant) -> Program Manager at Empirical Systems (2017)
  • Desiree Dudley (program director, special projects) -> Community Biotech Initiative at MIT (2019)
  • Julian K. Jarboe (executive assistant) (2020)

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