People | CAIS++

EXECUTIVE BOARD

YIRUI SONG

Co-President

JAY CAMPANELL

Co-President

VIDUR MUSHRAN

Co-VP of Projects

ALVIN TAN

Co-VP of Projects

RIDA FARAZ

Co-VP of Curriculum

ANNIE GAO

Co-VP of Curriculum

JUSTIN YANG

VP of Fellowship

LEYAA GEORGE

VP of Operations

Pictured (left to right, top to bottom): Rida Faraz (Co-VP of Curriculum), Jay Campanell (Co-President), Justin Yang (VP of Fellowship), Alvin Tan (Co-VP of Projects), Leyaa George (VP of Operations), Yirui Song (Co-President), and Annie Gao (Co-VP of Curriculum). Vidur Mushran (Co-VP of Projects) is not pictured.

Pictured (left to right, back to front): Justin Yang (VP of Fellowship), Jay Campanell (Co-President), Leyaa George (VP of Operations), Yirui Song (Co-President), Annie Gao (Co-VP of Curriculum), Alvin Tan (Co-VP of Projects), and Rida Faraz (Co-VP of Curriculum). Vidur Mushran (Co-VP of Projects) is not pictured.

CURRENT MEMBERS

NAME	COHORT	CONTACT	LEADERSHIP	CAIS++ PROJECTS
Aarav Monga	F22	LinkedIn	`S24 Project Lead` `F23 Project Lead` `F25 Curriculum Lead`	GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0), GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0), AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (1.0)
Abhinav Gupta	F21	LinkedIn Github	`F23 Curriculum Lead`	INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (3.0), INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (2.0), INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (1.0)
Advait Variyar	F25	LinkedIn Github		VALUE OF LOCATION DATA
Advik Unni	F22	LinkedIn	`S23 Project Lead`	GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0), GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0), WILDFIRE DETECTION
Aidan Parris	F24	LinkedIn	`F25 Project Lead`	BIO-INDEXING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES, QUADRUPED NAVIGATION
Alice Jiang	F25	LinkedIn Github		SHADELA
Allison Lim	F24	LinkedIn Github	`F25 Curriculum Lead`	PRESERVED SCROLLS (2.0)
Alvin Tan	F24	LinkedIn Github	`E-Board` `S26 Project Lead` `F25 Project Lead` `S25 Project Lead`	SHAPE REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH MOMENTS, KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (2.0), KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0)
Andrew Choi	F23	Github		FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0), SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, CITYLEARN
Angela Zhuang	F24	Github	`F25 Curriculum Lead`	FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (2.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)
Anisha Chitta	F23	LinkedIn Github		NANOPORE (1.0), DEFORMABLE OBJECT GEN-AI
Annie Gao	F24	LinkedIn	`E-Board` `F25 Curriculum Lead`	MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (2.0), MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (1.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)
Anura Deshpande	F24	LinkedIn Github	`S26 Project Lead` `F25 Project Lead` `F25 Curriculum Lead`	MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (2.0), MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (1.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)
Aryan Trehan	F23	LinkedIn Github	`S24 Project Lead`	ASR RERANKING (1.0)
Brian Shi	F25	LinkedIn Github		FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0)
Brice Patchou	F22	LinkedIn		MULTI-AGENT RL WITH PHYSICS, BRAIN ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION, WILDFIRE DETECTION
Catherine He	F23	LinkedIn Github		DIGITAL WELL-BEING, HATE SPEECH DETECTION
Catherine Lu	F23	LinkedIn		ASR RERANKING (3.0), ASR RERANKING (2.0), HATE SPEECH DETECTION
Christina Abraham	F25	LinkedIn	`S26 Project Lead`	BIO-INDEXING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES
Claire Kiekhafer	F25	LinkedIn		VALUE OF LOCATION DATA
Claude Yoo	F22	LinkedIn Github	`F24 Project Lead` `S24 Project Lead` `F23 Project Lead` `F23 Curriculum Lead`	EAR DISEASE DETECTION (3.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (2.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (1.0), SLIDES GENERATION
Cole Sevier	F24	LinkedIn		QUADRUPED NAVIGATION
Daniel George	F25	LinkedIn Github	`S26 Project Lead`	VALUE OF LOCATION DATA
Daniel Yang	F23	LinkedIn Github		SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
Darius Mahjoob	F23	LinkedIn Github	`F24 Project Lead`	VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (2.0), DIGITAL WELL-BEING, HATE SPEECH DETECTION
Ethan Kellogg	F25	LinkedIn Github
Felix Chen	F25	LinkedIn Github
Freddie Liang	F24	LinkedIn Github	`F25 Curriculum Lead`	VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (2.0), VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (1.0), QUADRUPED NAVIGATION
Hilari Fan	F21	LinkedIn Github		CV FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE, SEPSIS
Jacques Vlok	F25
Jay Campanell	F23	LinkedIn Github	`E-Board` `S26 Project Lead` `F24 Project Lead`	SHADELA, KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (2.0), KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0), SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, AIR TURBULENCE (2.0)
Jayne Bottarini	F22	LinkedIn Github	`S24 Project Lead` `F23 Project Lead` `F23 Curriculum Lead`	AIR TURBULENCE (2.0), AIR TURBULENCE (1.0), SLIDES GENERATION
Jessica Fu	F22	LinkedIn Github	`S24 Project Lead` `S23 Project Lead` `F25 Curriculum Lead` `F23 Curriculum Lead`	KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (2.0), KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0), BRAIN ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION, EMOTE RECOMMENDER
Jessica Luna	F23	LinkedIn		LLM GENDER BIAS
Jimena Cantu	F23	LinkedIn Github		SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, CITYLEARN
Jonathan Aydin	F23	LinkedIn Github	`F24 Project Lead`	MISINFORMATION TOOLKIT, HATE SPEECH DETECTION
Joseph Gozon	F22	LinkedIn		EMOTE RECOMMENDER
Justin Yang	F24	LinkedIn	`E-Board` `S26 Project Lead` `F25 Project Lead`	VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (2.0), VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (1.0), MULTI-AGENT RL WITH PHYSICS
Kailin Xia	F23	LinkedIn		DIGITAL WELL-BEING, LLM GENDER BIAS
Kyle Macasilli-Tan	F24	LinkedIn Github	`S25 Project Lead`	QUADRUPED NAVIGATION
Lauren Sun	F23	LinkedIn Github		EAR DISEASE DETECTION (3.0), AIR TURBULENCE (2.0)
Leyaa George	F24		`E-Board` `S25 Project Lead`	SHADELA, QUADRUPED NAVIGATION
Lucia Zhang	F22		`F24 Project Lead` `S24 Project Lead` `F23 Project Lead`	EAR DISEASE DETECTION (3.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (2.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (1.0), EMOTE RECOMMENDER
Maddie Muller	F24	LinkedIn Github	`F25 Curriculum Lead`	INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)
Maia Piechocki	F24	LinkedIn Github	`F25 Project Lead` `S25 Project Lead`	FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0)
Malina Freeman	F23	LinkedIn		MISINFORMATION TOOLKIT, LLM GENDER BIAS
Maohe Jiang	F23		`F24 Curriculum Lead`	NANOPORE (2.0), NANOPORE (1.0), HATE SPEECH DETECTION
Maple Dang	F25	LinkedIn		VALUE OF LOCATION DATA
Marcus Au	F23	LinkedIn Github	`S25 Project Lead` `F24 Project Lead`	ASR RERANKING (3.0), ASR RERANKING (2.0), ASR RERANKING (1.0)
Matthew Rodriguez	F22		`F24 Curriculum Lead` `F23 Curriculum Lead`	INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (2.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (3.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (2.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (1.0), ROBOT DRONE NAVIGATION
Maymoona Khan	F25	LinkedIn		BIO-INDEXING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES
Michael Blumberg	F24	LinkedIn		MULTI-AGENT RL WITH PHYSICS
Naina Panjwani	F22	LinkedIn Github	`F24 Project Lead` `F25 Curriculum Lead` `F24 Curriculum Lead` `F23 Curriculum Lead`	KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (2.0), KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0), SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, AIR TURBULENCE (2.0), AIR TURBULENCE (1.0), SLIDES GENERATION
Natasha Thombre	F25	LinkedIn Github		VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (2.0)
Nathaniel Johnson	F22	LinkedIn Github	`S24 Project Lead`	HATE SPEECH DETECTION, ROBOT DRONE NAVIGATION
Nishant Doss	F25			SHAPE REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH MOMENTS
Pratyush Jaishanker	F22	LinkedIn	`F25 Curriculum Lead`	NANOPORE (3.0), NANOPORE (2.0), NANOPORE (1.0), AIR TURBULENCE (2.0), AIR TURBULENCE (1.0), ROBOT DRONE NAVIGATION
Rachita Jain	F23	LinkedIn	`F24 Project Lead` `S24 Project Lead`	DIGITAL WELL-BEING, LLM GENDER BIAS
Rajakrishnan Somou	F22	LinkedIn Github	`S25 Project Lead` `F25 Curriculum Lead`	MULTI-AGENT RL WITH PHYSICS, GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0), GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0), ROBOT DRONE NAVIGATION
Richa Misra	F24	LinkedIn		KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (2.0), KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0)
Rida Faraz	F23	LinkedIn Github	`E-Board` `F25 Curriculum Lead` `F24 Curriculum Lead`	VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (2.0), VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (1.0), KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0), DEFORMABLE OBJECT GEN-AI
Ruina Liu	F25	LinkedIn Github		SHADELA
Ruwan Thoumoung	F25	LinkedIn
Ryan Li	F25	LinkedIn Github		SHAPE REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH MOMENTS
Ryan Nene	F23	Github		NANOPORE (3.0), NANOPORE (2.0), NANOPORE (1.0), BRAIN ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION
Sally Hong	F24	LinkedIn
Samuel Shindich	F24	LinkedIn		MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (2.0), MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (1.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0)
Santiago Larretape	F22
Sascha Manalili	F24	LinkedIn		VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (1.0), MULTI-AGENT RL WITH PHYSICS
Seoho Ahn	F22	LinkedIn Github		AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (1.0)
Seohyeon Lee	F23	LinkedIn Github		SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, CITYLEARN
Shahzeb Lakhani	F23	LinkedIn Github		GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0), GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0)
Shreeya Chand	F24	LinkedIn Github	`F25 Project Lead` `S25 Project Lead` `F25 Curriculum Lead`	SHADELA, INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (2.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)
Siddarth Rudraraju	F23	LinkedIn	`F24 Project Lead`	MISINFORMATION TOOLKIT, DEFORMABLE OBJECT GEN-AI
Siya Arora	F25	LinkedIn Github		FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0)
Sonia Zhang	F22	LinkedIn Github	`S24 Project Lead` `F23 Project Lead`	GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0), GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0), WILDFIRE DETECTION
Sophie Shen	F25	LinkedIn Github		SHAPE REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH MOMENTS
Stan Loosmore	F23	LinkedIn Github		ASR RERANKING (1.0)
Taran Anand	F25	LinkedIn		BIO-INDEXING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES
Tikka Bedi	F23	Github		FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0), MISINFORMATION TOOLKIT, LLM GENDER BIAS
Vanessa Gonzalez	F24	LinkedIn
Vanya Shrivastava	F24	LinkedIn Github		VALUE OF LOCATION DATA, FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0)
Vayun Mathur	F23	LinkedIn Github		NANOPORE (3.0), NANOPORE (2.0), NANOPORE (1.0), BRAIN ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION
Vidur Mushran	F23	LinkedIn	`E-Board` `F25 Project Lead` `S25 Project Lead` `F24 Project Lead`	NANOPORE (3.0), NANOPORE (2.0), NANOPORE (1.0), CITYLEARN
Vijayganapatirajan Kumaravelrajan	F23	LinkedIn	`F24 Curriculum Lead`	DEFORMABLE OBJECT GEN-AI
Xiaoyuan Zhu	F22	LinkedIn Github		AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (1.0)
Yash Gupta	F24		`S26 Project Lead`	FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0)
Yirui Song	F23	LinkedIn	`E-Board` `F24 Curriculum Lead`	ASR RERANKING (3.0), ASR RERANKING (2.0), ASR RERANKING (1.0)
Youqi Huang	F23	LinkedIn Github	`S24 Project Lead`	MISINFORMATION TOOLKIT, ASR RERANKING (1.0)
Yufan Chen	F25	LinkedIn Github		SHAPE REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH MOMENTS
Yuhui Zhang	F25		`S26 Project Lead`	BIO-INDEXING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES
Zhan Shu	F23	LinkedIn	`S25 Project Lead` `F24 Project Lead` `F24 Curriculum Lead`	ASR RERANKING (3.0), ASR RERANKING (2.0), ASR RERANKING (1.0)
Zitong Huang	F23	LinkedIn Github	`S24 Project Lead`	ASR RERANKING (3.0), ASR RERANKING (2.0), DEFORMABLE OBJECT GEN-AI

ADVISORY BOARD

BISTRA DILKINA

CAIS Co-Director

Associate Professor

HAILEY WINTROBE

CAIS Center Operations Coordinator

DAVID JENG

Advisor to CAIS++

Wintec Industries CEO

ALUMNI ADVISORY BOARD

LUCAS HU

CAIS++ President, 2017-2019

BENJAMIN BROOKS

CAIS++ President, 2019-2020

LEENA MATHUR

CAIS++ President, 2020-2021

SHANNON BROWNLEE

CAIS++ Co-President, 2021-2022

ALLEN CHANG

CAIS++ Co-President, 2022-2023

JORDAN CAHOON

CAIS++ Co-President, 2022-2023

LESLIE MORENO

CAIS++ Co-President, 2023-2024

ARYAN GULATI

CAIS++ Co-President, 2023-2024

RAJAKRISHNAN (RAJA) SOMOU

CAIS++ Co-President, 2024-2025

JESSICA FU

CAIS++ Co-President, 2024-2025

THE ONES WHO MAKE IT HAPPEN

YIRUI SONG

Co-President

JAY CAMPANELL

Co-President

VIDUR MUSHRAN

Co-VP of Projects

ALVIN TAN

Co-VP of Projects

RIDA FARAZ

Co-VP of Curriculum

ANNIE GAO

Co-VP of Curriculum

JUSTIN YANG

VP of Fellowship

LEYAA GEORGE

VP of Operations

NAME

COHORT

CONTACT

LEADERSHIP

CAIS++ PROJECTS

Aarav Monga

F22

GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0), GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0), AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (1.0)

Abhinav Gupta

F21

INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (3.0), INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (2.0), INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (1.0)

Advait Variyar

F25

Advik Unni

F22

GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0), GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0), WILDFIRE DETECTION

Aidan Parris

F24

BIO-INDEXING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES, QUADRUPED NAVIGATION

Alice Jiang

F25

Allison Lim

F24

Alvin Tan

F24

SHAPE REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH MOMENTS, KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (2.0), KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0)

Andrew Choi

F23

FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0), FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0), SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, CITYLEARN

Angela Zhuang

F24

FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (2.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)

Anisha Chitta

F23

NANOPORE (1.0), DEFORMABLE OBJECT GEN-AI

Annie Gao

F24

MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (2.0), MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (1.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)

Anura Deshpande

F24

MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (2.0), MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (1.0), INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)

Aryan Trehan

F23

Brian Shi

F25

Brice Patchou

F22

MULTI-AGENT RL WITH PHYSICS, BRAIN ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION, WILDFIRE DETECTION

Catherine He

F23

DIGITAL WELL-BEING, HATE SPEECH DETECTION

Catherine Lu

F23

ASR RERANKING (3.0), ASR RERANKING (2.0), HATE SPEECH DETECTION

Christina Abraham

F25

Claire Kiekhafer

F25

Claude Yoo

F22

EAR DISEASE DETECTION (3.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (2.0), EAR DISEASE DETECTION (1.0), SLIDES GENERATION

Cole Sevier

F24

GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0),
GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0),
AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (1.0)

INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (3.0),
INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (2.0),
INDIGENOUS LINGUISTICS (1.0)

GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (2.0),
GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING (1.0),
WILDFIRE DETECTION

BIO-INDEXING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES,
QUADRUPED NAVIGATION

SHAPE REPRESENTATION LEARNING WITH MOMENTS,
KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (2.0),
KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR STORY GENERATION (1.0)

FIRE LOCALIZATION (2.0),
FIRE LOCALIZATION (1.0),
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT,
CITYLEARN

FIRE LOCALIZATION (3.0),
INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (2.0),
INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)

NANOPORE (1.0),
DEFORMABLE OBJECT GEN-AI

MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (2.0),
MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (1.0),
INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)

MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (2.0),
MULTIMODAL DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION (1.0),
INDEXING GLOBAL TESTIMONIES (1.0)

MULTI-AGENT RL WITH PHYSICS,
BRAIN ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION,
WILDFIRE DETECTION

DIGITAL WELL-BEING,
HATE SPEECH DETECTION

ASR RERANKING (3.0),
ASR RERANKING (2.0),
HATE SPEECH DETECTION

EAR DISEASE DETECTION (3.0),
EAR DISEASE DETECTION (2.0),
EAR DISEASE DETECTION (1.0),
SLIDES GENERATION

VLMS FOR ENGAGEMENT (2.0),
DIGITAL WELL-BEING,
HATE SPEECH DETECTION