🙋 Staff
See the Office Hours page for the office hours schedule. If you’d like to meet with someone and can’t 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
🧑🏫 Visiting Professor, HDSI, UCSD. Professor, CSE - IIT Bombay
🎓 Ph.D., ECE, Syracuse University
💭 Large Scale Distributed systems, Big Data, Distributed Ledgers, Serverless Clouds
🧠 Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems
Office Hours 🙋
Mondays 3-4pm, HDSI 242
Personal Life
🏠 Whereever I am.
🙋 Hiking, kayaking
Foodie🍞
Teaching Assistants
Benjamin TenWoldeHe/HimA14, A15, A16, A17, B02, B04, B06, B13
Academic Background and Expertise
🧑🏫 PhD Student, Data Science & Research Scientist at NAVWAR
🎓 BS Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester; MS Computer Science, Georgia Tech
💭 Computer Vision, Robust ML, Human-AI Alignment, Neural Computation
🧠 Next-Gen Computer Vision and Human-Aligned AI Systems
Office Hours 🙋
Mondays 9.30am - 10.30am over Zoom
Personal Life
🏠 Poway, CA
🙋 Beach Volleyball, Tennis, Startups
Can Chenshe/herA06, A11, B08, B16, B18, B24, B25, B26
Academic Background and Expertise
🧑🏫 Ph.D. Student, HDSI, UCSD
🎓 MS HDSI UCSD
💭 Trustworthy Machine Learning, Online Optimization, Online Learning
🧠 ML algorithms, optimization, modeling
Office Hours 🙋
Mondays 9-10am HDSI 255
Personal Life
🏠 China
🙋 Badminton, Hiking, Photography, Painting, Yoga, and my cat 🐱
🍲 🍣 🍛 🍰
Lucas Venetouliashe/him/hisA01, A02, A07, B03, B07, B11, B12, B20
Academic Background and Expertise
🧑🏫 Ph.D. Student, Data Science
🎓 BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, UCSD
💭 Statistics, Deep Learning, Surrogate Modeling (in Physics), Data Analysis, Time Series
🧠 Statistics + Surrogate Modeling
Office Hours 🙋
Fridays, 3pm-4pm in HDSI 336 and on Zoom (https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/2218072641)
Personal Life
🏠 New York City
🙋 soccer, skiing, movies
Greek, Italian
Masfiqur Rahamanhe/himB01, A08, B15, A10, B05, A09, A13, B21, A03
Academic Background and Expertise
🧑🏫 Ph.D. Student, Data Science, UCSD
🎓 M.Sc. in CSE, BUET; B.Sc. in CSE, BUET
💭 Wearable Sensing, Ubiquitous Computing
🧠 Human-Centered Study Design, Causal Modeling
Office Hours 🙋
Mondays 11am-12pm, FAH 2101
Personal Life
🏠 Dhaka, Bangladesh
🙋 Hiking, Cooking
Any Good Food
Zimo WangHe/His/HimB19, B14, B23, A04, B10, A12, B22, A05, B09
Academic Background and Expertise
🧑🏫 PhD Student, Data Science
🎓 BS in GIS and Stats, Zhejiang University
💭 Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Statistical Learning
🧠 Geometric Reconstruction
Office Hours 🙋
Mon 9-10am, Fri 9-10am. HDSI 443 // https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/6946393883?pwd=MG1tUFNwWFo4K1FGNyszYjg3ZFVNZz09
Personal Life
🏠 Wenzhou, China
🙋 Table tennis, stargazing
Learning to enjoy fresh salad 🥬