Research Group

Current Students (PhD and Masters)

George Lyu (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2025 –)

Satush Parikh (MS student co-advised with Devavrat Shah, MIT ORC, 2025 –)

Jonathan Zhou (PhD student co-advised with Swati Gupta, MIT ORC, 2025 –)

Adam Deng (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2024 –)

Charlie Liu (PhD student co-advised with Haihao Lu, MIT ORC, 2024 –)

Mehdi Makni (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2023 –)

Ryan Lucas (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2023 –)

Peter Prastakos (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2023 –)

Gabriel Afriat (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2022 –)

Brian Liu (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2021 –)

Xiang Meng (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2021 –)

Former Students (PhD and Masters)

Kayhan Behdin (former PhD student, MIT ORC, 2019 – 2024. Next position: LinkedIn AI)

Shibal Ibrahim (fomer PhD student, MIT EECS, 2019 – 2024. Next position: Google)

Haoyue Wang (PhD student, MIT ORC, 2019 – 2024. Next position: hedge fund)

Riade Benbaki (former MS student, MIT ORC, 2021 – 2023. Next position: Jump Trading)

Max R. Tell (MEng student MIT EECS, 2021–2022. Next position: Squarepoint Capital)

Wenyu Chen (former PhD student, MIT ORC, 2018 – 2023. Next position: Citadel)

Hussein Hazimeh (former PhD student, MIT ORC, 2016 – 2021. Next position: Google Research)

Antoine Dedieu (former MS advisee, MIT ORC, 2016 – 2018. Next position: Vicarious AI-->Google Deepmind)

Zach Blanks (former MS co-advisee, MIT ORC, 2017 – 2019.)

Undergraduate Students

Nipun Dour (MIT SuperUROP) 2025-2026

Zion Hadley (MIT) 2020

Tiffany Chen (Wellesley) 2018

Bibek Pandit (MIT) 2018

Kliment Serafimov (MIT) 2017

Erica Chan (MIT) 2017

Suyash Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute 2015-2016, next Stanford University [Stats PhD])

Debarghya Mukherjee (Indian Statistical Institute 2016, next University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [Stats PhD])

Nabarun Deb (Indian Statistical Institute 2016, next Columbia University [Stats PhD])

Koulik Khamaru (Indian Statistical Institute 2013-2015, next UC Berkeley [Stats PhD])

Jonathan Goetz (Columbia University 2014-2015. next Facebook.)