π Staff
See the Office Hours page for the office hours schedule. If youβd like to meet with someone and canβt make it to their office hours, feel free to send them an email to schedule an appointment.
Coordinator and Methodology Instructor

Umesh Bellurhe/him
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« Visiting Professor, HDSI, UCSD. Professor, CSE - IIT Bombay
π Ph.D., ECE, Syracuse University
π Large Scale Distributed systems, Big Data, Distributed Ledgers, Serverless Clouds
π§ Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems
Personal Life
π Whereever I am.
π Hiking, kayaking
Foodieπ
Teaching Assistants

Amirhossein PanahiHe/His/himA07, B03, B20, A02, B12, A01, B11, B07
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« Ph.D. Student, Data Science
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π Deep Learning, Large Language Models, Data Analysis, Generative AI, Time Series Analysis, Image and Video Processing, AI in Healthcare
π§ Video Generation
Personal Life
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Green salad (fresh & light) π₯

Amitash NandaHe/His/himA06, A11, B08, B16, B18, B24, B25, B26
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering (MLDS), UCSD
π MS ECE UCSD, B.Tech CET Bhubaneswar
π Distributed Machine Learning, Generative-AI, Vision-AI, DNN/LLM Optimization, Software & Systems, AI/ML Systems, Bioinformatics
π§ ML algorithms, optimization, modeling
Personal Life
π India
π San Diego cricket league player, Acting, Poetry, Gaming, Youtube/Twitch Streaming
Indian, Japanese, Chinese π

Shriniwas Kulkarnihe/himB01, A08, B15, A10, B05, A09, A13, B21, A03
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« MSCS UCSD
π B.Tech EE IIT Bombay
π ML Compression, Applied ML, Edge AI
π§ ML Compression, Applied ML, Edge AI
Personal Life
π Nashik, Maharashtra, India
π my recipes
Indian, Italian, Fusionπ

Teresa LeeShe/HersA14, A15, A16, A17, B02, B04, B06, B13
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« MS Student, Data Science
π BS in Data Science, UCSDπ±
π Data Visualization, Intersection of Data Science and Biomedicine, NLP, Spatial Data
π§ Data Science in Biomedicine
Personal Life
π San Francisco, California
π Baking, swimming, hiking
Any delicious food π

Zimo WangHe/His/HimB19, B14, B23, A04, B10, A12, B22, A05, B09
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« PhD Student, Data Science
π BS in GIS and Stats, Zhejiang University
π Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Statistical Learning
π§ Geometric Reconstruction
Personal Life
π Wenzhou, China
π Table tennis, stargazing
Learning to enjoy fresh salad π₯¬