Alumni

MBZUAI Students & RAs & Postdocs:

(I've only listed the papers completed within my lab. Many students have more papers, but those published before or after joining the lab are not included.)

• Aidar Myrzakhan (Master@MBZUAI, 2023-2025. Co-first author ACL25 Main. Now PhD at MBZUAI in the lab.)
• Rusiru Thushara (Master@MBZUAI, 2023-2025. Co-first author NeurIPS24 D&B. Now PhD at Johns Hopkins University.)
• Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat (Research Assistant@MBZUAI, 2023-2024. Principled Instructions, Open-LLM-Leaderboard, Jais. Now master student in the lab.)
• Shitong Shao (Research Assistant@MBZUAI, 2023-2024. First author NeurIPS24, CVPR24 highlight and several other papers in submission. Now PhD at HKUST (GZ).)
• Zeyuan Yin (Master@MBZUAI, 2022-2024. First author NeurIPS23 Spotlight, TMLR24, coauthored CVPR24 highlight and other several other papers in submission. Now PhD at Michigan State University.)
• Sheng Zhang (Master@MBZUAI, 2021-2023. First author CVPR23, AAAI24 Oral. Now PhD at University of Maryland College Park.)
• Kirill Vishniakov (Master and research assistant@MBZUAI, 2021-2023. First author ICML24, BMVC24, coauthored ICLR24 Spotlight. Now researcher at M42, will apply for his PhD this year.
• Mohammad Qazim Bhat (Research Assistant@MBZUAI, 2023-2024, Co-first author NeurIPS24 Datasets and Benchmarks. Now Master at University of Colorado Boulder.)
• Arnav Chavan (IIT Dhanbad, Research Assistant (twice) @MBZUAI, 2021 and 2023. First author CVPR22 and GLoRA. Now co-founder of startup NyunAI.)
• Ammar Sherif (Visiting Student, 2023-2024, CVPR 2025)
• Yayue Deng (Research Assistant, July, 2024-Nov, 2024)
• Jinlong Xue (Research Assistant, July, 2024-Nov, 2024)
• Dong-Dong Wu (Research Assistant, 2024-2025)
• Liang Chen (Postdoc, 2023-2025)
• Jennifer Chen (Undergraduate Summer Intern, 2024-2025, ACL 2025 Main)
• Hassaan Muhammad Khan (Undergraduate Summer Intern, 2024-2025, ACL 2025 Main)
• Mingda Chen (Undergraduate Summer Intern, 2025)
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Students before I joined MBZUAI:



• Hai Phan (Ph.D.@CMU)
• Zechun Liu (Ph.D.@HKUST, visiting student@CMU)
• Kai Hu (Ph.D.@CMU)
• Harsh Maheshwari (IIT Kharagpur, visiting student@CMU)
• Devesh Walawalkar (Master@CMU)
• Weichen Yao (Master@CMU)
• Ellen Yi-Ge (Master@CMU)
• Xijie Huang (Ph.D.@HKUST)
• Jingye Chen (Ph.D.@HKUST)
• Jiajun Zha (Ph.D.@HKUST)
• Dejia Xu (Undergraduate@Peking University, visiting student@CMU)
• Zhankui He (Undergraduate@Fudan University, visiting student@UIUC)
• Omar Ali Ahmed Alsuwaidi (Master@MBZUAI, co-advised with Prof Eric Xing)
• Akbobek Abilkaiyrkyzy (Master@MBZUAI, co-advised with Prof Eric Xing)
• Juwayni Macadato Lucman (Master@MBZUAI, co-advised with Prof Eric Xing)
• Shentong Mo (Master@CMU, visiting student@MBZUAI)
• Tanmay Jain (Undergraduate@Delhi Technological University)
• Kevin Zhang (Undergraduate@Peking University)
• Guiming Chen (Undergraduate@CUHK, Shenzhen)
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