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.
π Ph.D., ECE, Syracuse University
π Large Scale Distributed systems, Big Data, Distributed Ledgers, Serverless Clouds
π§ Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems
Office Hours π
Mondays 3-4pm, HDSI 242
Personal Life
π Whereever I am.
π Hiking, kayaking
Foodieπ
Teaching Assistants

Amirhossein PanahiHe/HimD02, D05, D06, D09, D10, D14, D15, D35, D36, D38, D39, D43
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« PhD Student, Data Science
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π Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine learning, Deep Learning
π§ Diffusion Model, Video/image Generation Model
Office Hours π
Tuesdays 11.30am - 12.30am over Zoom (https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/9332742877)
Personal Life
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π Volleyball, Swimming, Pickleball
Nate SheibleyHe/HimD03, D04, D07, D08, D13, D16, D17, D18, D19, D20, D40, D41
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« MS Student, Data Science & Physiological Research Scientist
π BS Chemistry, University of British Columbia
π Time-series analysis, peak-qualia and frequency-domain features in biomedical data
π§ Machine learning, statistical modeling, causal inference, experimental design, and applied data science
Office Hours π
1030-1130 Tu Zoom
Personal Life
π Santa Cruz, CA
π Chemistry, Cycling, StarCraft

Benjamin TenWoldeHe/HimD11, D23, D26, D27, D29, D30, D32, D33, D42, D45
Academic Background and Expertise
π§βπ« PhD Student, Data Science & Research Scientist at NAVWAR
π BS Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester; MS Computer Science, Georgia Tech
π Computer Vision, Robust ML, Human-AI Alignment, Neural Computation
π§ Next-Gen Computer Vision and Human-Aligned AI Systems
Office Hours π
Mondays 9.30am - 10.30am over Zoom
Personal Life
π Poway, CA
π Beach Volleyball, Tennis, Startups

Zimo WangHe/His/HimD01, D12, D21, D25, D28, D31, D37, D44
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
Office Hours π
Mon 9-10am, Fri 9-10am. HDSI 443 // https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/6946393883?pwd=MG1tUFNwWFo4K1FGNyszYjg3ZFVNZz09
Personal Life
π Wenzhou, China
π Table tennis, stargazing
Learning to enjoy fresh salad π₯¬