Professor Yi Ma's Group

PhD Students

• Tianzhe Chu (IDS, HKU)
• Feng Chen (IDS, HKU)
• Chun-Hsiao (Daniel) Yeh (Vision Science, Berkeley)
• Druv Pai (EECS, Berkeley)
• Brent Yi (CS, Berkeley)
• Simon Zhai (EE, Berkeley)
• Haozhi Qi (CS, Berkeley)

Postdocs & Visiting Researchers

• Sam Buchanan (PhD, Columbia University, now at TTIC)
• Chong You (PhD, Johns Hopkins University, now at Google Research)
• Jason Chou (PhD, HTC)
• Benjamin Haeffele (PhD, Johns Hopkins Unversity)

Master or Undergraduate Researchers

• Peter Tong (EECS, Berkeley) now PhD at NYU
• Druv Pai (EECS, Berkeley) now PhD at Berkeley
• Bill Zhai (EECS, Berkeley) now PhD at Harvard
• Christina Baek (EECS, Berkeley) now PhD at CMU
• Ryan Chan (CS, Math, Berkeley) now PhD at UPenn
• Zitong Yang (CS, Math, Physics, Berkeley) now PhD at Stanford
• Jackson Gao (EECS, Berkeley)
• Hermish Mehta (EECS, Berkeley)

Co-supervised Students

• Xili Dai (PhD student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guang Zhou, China)

Former PhD Students

• Yaodong Yu (Ph.D. CS, Berkeley), now at OpenAI and an assistant professor at the University of Maryland.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: 

  Reliable Representation Learning: Theory and Practice

  , May 2024.

• Yichao Zhou (Ph.D. CS, Berkeley), now a Researcher at Apple Inc.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Learning to Detect Geometric Structures from Images for 3D Parsing, December 2020.

• Mingyang Li (Ph.D. CS, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute), now at Alibaba Inc.

  - Ph.D Thesis: Learning the Interpretable and Semantic Structured Features from the High-dimensional and Multi-modal Data, October 2022.

• Chaobing Song (Ph.D. CS, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute), now at Huawei Inc.

  - Ph.D Thesis: Optimization Algorithm Acceleration for Large Scale Machine Learning, December 2020.

• Kerui Min (Ph.D. ECE, ABT), now CEO of MetaSOTA, former Chief Scientist of Cheetah Mobiel Inc. and cofounder and CTO of BosonData.
• Zihan Zhou (Ph.D. ECE, 2012), now an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University.

  - Ph.D Thesis: Exploring Structural Regularities for Robust 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes, December 2012.

• Hossein Mobahi (Ph.D. CS, 2012), now a senior researcher at Google, California.

  - Ph.D Thesis: Optimization by Gaussian Smoothing with Applications to Geometric Alignment, December 2012.

• Arvind Ganesh Balasubramanian (Ph.D. ECE, 2012), founded Baazor.com which was purchased by Google in 2014.

  - Ph.D Thesis: Low-rank Matrix Recovery and Its Applications in Computer Vision, 2012.

• Andrew Wagner (Ph.D. ECE, August 2011), now a researcher in Belgium.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Fast and Robust Face Recognition via Parallelized L1 Minimization, 2011.

• Yoav Sharon (Ph.D. ECE, May 2010), S&C Electric Company in Chicago.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Vision Based Control with Limited and Quantized Information, 2010.

• John Wright (Ph.D. ECE, May 2009), now an Associate Professor of EE Department, Columbia University.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Error Correction for High-Dimensional Data via Convex Optimization, 2009.

• Shankar Ramamohan Rao (Ph.D. ECE, May 2009), now a senior researcher at HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Harnessing Sparse and Low-Dimensional Structures for Robust Clustering of Imagery Data, 2009.

• Wei Hong (Ph.D. ECE, October 2006), now a senior researcher at Google, California.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Hybrid Models for Representation of Imagery Data, 2006.

• Allen Yang Yang (Ph.D. ECE, October 2006), now Director of the VR Center at EECS Dept. of UC Berkeley.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Estimation of Subspace Arrangements: Its Algebra and Statistics, 2006.

• Kun Huang (Ph.D. ECE, August 2004), now a Professor of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine.

  - Ph.D. Thesis: Geometric Principles of Multiple Visual Sensors, 2004.

Former Master Students

• Kshama Dwarakanath (EECS, Berkeley, 2020).

  - M.S. Thesis: Learning to Play Collaborative-Competitive Games, Fall 2020.

• Zihan Zhou (M.S. ECE, 2010).

  - M.S. Thesis: Robust Face Recognition, Spring 2010.

• John Wright (M.S. ECE, October 2006).

  - M.S. Thesis: Mixed Data Segmentation via Lossy Data Compression, October 2006.

• Andrew Wagner (M.S. ECE, October 2006).

  - M.S. Thesis: Identification of Hybrid Linear Dynamical Systems, October 2006.

• Shankar Ramamohan Rao (M.S. ECE, December 2004).

  - M.S. Thesis: Robust Extensions to Generalized Principal Component Analysis, December 2004.

• Wei Hong (M.S. ECE, August 2003).

  - M.S. Thesis: Geometry and Reconstruction from Spatial Symmetry, August 2003.

• Allen Yang Yang (M.S. ECE, August 2003).

  - M.S. Thesis: Geometric Segmentation of Perspective Images Based on Symmetry Groups, August 2003.

• James Matthew Geis (M.S. ECE, August 2002), now at ANSYS Inc.

  - M.S. Thesis: Intersection Traffic Surveillance Using Region Based Object Tracking, August 2002.

• Jie Lai (M.S. ECE), non-thesis option, now at General Electric, May 2002.

Past Visiting Students and Interns

• Guangcan Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Postdoc at UIUC, 2012 - 2013).
• Xin Zhang (Tsinghua, Visiting Scholar at UIUC, 2012 - 2013).
• Xiao Liang (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, August 2010 - 2014).
• Zhengdong Zhang (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, August 2010 - 2012).
• Xiaocheng Hu (University of Science and Technology, Intern at MSRA, February 2012 - 2014).
• Xiaojie Guo (Tianjin University, Intern at MSRA, February 2012 - 2013).
• Lun Wu (Beijing Institute of Technology, visiting scholar at UIUC, 2008 - 2010).
• Yigang Peng (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, June - December 2009).
• Kerui Min (Fudan University, Intern at MSRA, June - December 2009).
• Ruofeng Wuen (Intern at MSRA, June - August 2009).
• Wenxuan Liang (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, August 2010 - June 2010).
• Huan Sun (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, January - June 2010).
• Geng Quan (UIUC, Intern at MSRA, June - August 2010).
• Xin Zhang (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, October 2010 - December 2011).
• Cyril Lan (MIT, Intern at MSRA, June 2011 - February 2012).

Others

• Students mentored at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China, Summer & Fall 2006.