People

Faculty

Marc Riedel, Ph.D. Full Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Graduate Faculty, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology; Oracle Research Fellow; University of Minnesota

Current and Former Students & Postdocs

Current members are identified below; all other entries are former students or postdoctoral researchers.

Mustafa Altun Former Ph.D. Student Ph.D., 2012, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Professor, Istanbul Technical University	Thomas Karl Atkins Former Undergraduate Researcher B.Sc., 2024, Computer Science Current affiliation: Ph.D. Student, University of California, Berkeley LinkedIn	John Backes Former Ph.D. Student Ph.D., 2013, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services LinkedIn
Thee Chanyaswad Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2012, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: Chief Data Officer, KASIKORN LINE LinkedIn	Tonglin Chen Former M.S. Student M.S., 2021, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Design Verification Engineer, Apple LinkedIn	Bin Cheng Former M.S. Student M.S., 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Synopsys LinkedIn
Photo not available Andrew Decker Current M.S. Student Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota Current affiliation: University of Minnesota Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering LinkedIn	Vaibhav Desai Former M.S. Student M.S., 2016, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Lead Robotics Engineer, Aigen LinkedIn	Zoe Dormuth Former M.S. Student M.S., 2019, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Research Engineer, National Laboratory of the Rockies LinkedIn
Brian Fett Former M.S. Student M.S., 2010, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Senior Software Test Engineer, Inspire Medical Systems LinkedIn	Robby Friedlander Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2014, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory LinkedIn	Dillon Gustafson Former Undergraduate Researcher Computer Science & Engineering and Statistics, University of Minnesota Current affiliation: Student, University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering LinkedIn
Owen Hoffend Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2020, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan LinkedIn	Hua Jiang Former Ph.D. Student Ph.D., 2012, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: AI Platform, Harvey LinkedIn	Jake Kaslewicz Former M.S. Student M.S., 2024, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: HPC Applications Engineer II, Research Corporation of the University of Hawai‘i LinkedIn
Aleksandra Kharam Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2012, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: Principal Electrical Engineer, iVEAcare LinkedIn	Yadu Kiran Former Ph.D. Student Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Current affiliation: not publicly confirmed UMN ECE	Vishwesh Kulkarni Former Postdoctoral Researcher Postdoctoral Researcher, 2011–2013 Current affiliation: Senior Lecturer, King’s College London LinkedIn
Ajay Manicka Former Ph.D. Student Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Current affiliation: Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology LinkedIn	M. Hassan Najafi Former Ph.D. Student Ph.D., 2018, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University LinkedIn	Megha Parhi Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2015, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: not publicly confirmed LinkedIn · Professional page
Weikang Qian Former Ph.D. Student Ph.D., 2011, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University LinkedIn	Farzad Razi Current Postdoctoral Associate Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Current affiliation: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota LinkedIn · Google Scholar	Ahmad Salehi Former Ph.D. Student Ph.D., 2017, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Phil Senum Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2013, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: DFT Engineer, Marvell Technology LinkedIn	Adam Shea Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2009, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: not publicly confirmed Ph.D. dissertation	Arnav Solanki Former Postdoctoral Researcher Ph.D., 2023, Electrical and Computer Engineering Current affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, UTHealth Houston LinkedIn
Andrew Stephan Former Postdoctoral Researcher Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021–2022 Current affiliation: Senior Data Scientist, 3M LinkedIn	Julia Udell Former Ph.D. Student Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota Current affiliation: Data Compliance Automation Specialist & R Programmer, Medtronic LinkedIn	McKenzie van der Hagen Former Undergraduate Researcher B.S., 2017, Electrical Engineering Current affiliation: Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University LinkedIn