Students

At LIACS

Laurens Arp, Postdoctoral Researcher — Co-supervisor (May 2025 – present)
Khashayar Fathinejad, PhD Candidate — Co-supervisor (Feb. 2024 – present)
Ana Letícia Garcez Vicente, PhD Candidate — Daily supervisor (Oct. 2025 – present)
Gijs van Seeventer, PhD Candidate — Daily supervisor (July 2025 – present)

Kacper Kądziołka — Master’s thesis (Cum Laude); graduated Oct. 2025
Syed Ahmed Numan — Master’s thesis; graduated Oct. 2025
Ritesh Sharma — Master’s thesis (in collaboration with ASML); work presented at ASML conference; graduated Oct. 2025

Yaroslav Kivva (EPFL) — Published our work in NeurIPS 2023, ICML 2024, ICML 2025, UAI 2025
Saeed Masiha (EPFL) — Published our work in NeurIPS 2022
Sadegh Khorasani (EPFL) — Published our work in TMLR 2024, ICML 2025, UAI 2025
Ehsan Mokhtarian (EPFL) — Published our work in JMLR 2023
Ehsan Sharifian (EPFL) - Published our work in NeurIPS 2025
Yuqin Yang (Georgia Tech) — Published our work in AISTATS 2024

Ramin Safaeian — Co-supervised PhD thesis; published in Journal of Approximate Reasoning; Current: Technical Team Lead at HexoSys Group
Soheil Shahrooz — Supervised master’s thesis; published in IEEE TPDS; Current: Graduate student at University of Toronto
Amirhossein Shahbazinia — Supervised master’s thesis; published in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing; Current: PhD student at EPFL
Mohammad Reza Heydari - Supervised bachelor thesis; our work published at Neural Network; Current: PhD student at John Hopkins University
Sina Akbari — Supervised bachelor thesis; PhD graduate from EPFL
Ali Teshnizi — Supervised bachelor project; our work published at ICML 2020; Current: PhD student at Stanford University
Amir Kasra Jalaldoust — Supervised bachelor thesis; Current: PhD student at Columbia University
Behrooz Zarebavani — Supervised master’s thesis; work published in IEEE TPDS; Current: PhD student at University of Toronto
Benyamin Ghojogh — Supervised research project; published in Signal Processing; Current: Lecturer at University of Waterloo