Research group

I have been fortunate to work with a talented group of students from many departments across Stanford, including the OIT group at the GSB, Management Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Data Science.

Current students

William Overman Stanford GSB. AI alignment and oversight, conformal risk control, many-armed bandits. Defended in May 2026 and on the academic job market.
Jiayi (Joyee) Wang Management Science and Engineering. Multi-agent language model pipelines for clinical data.
Junze (Tony) Ye Stanford GSB. Sequential decision-making, data-centric AI, and post-training for agents.

Alumni

Home department and first position after graduating.

Erjie Ang Stanford GSB. Data scientist at Facebook. Co-advised with Erica Plambeck.
Hamsa Bastani Electrical Engineering. Faculty at the Wharton School after an IBM Goldstein postdoc; now Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions and co-director of the Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab.
Sonia Bhaskar Electrical Engineering. Data scientist at Netflix. Co-advised with Andrea Montanari.
Wanning Chen Stanford GSB. Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Washington Foster School of Business.
Murat A. Erdogdu Statistics. Faculty at the University of Toronto after a Microsoft Research postdoc; now Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistical Sciences and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Co-advised with Andrea Montanari.
Joel Goh Stanford GSB. Faculty at Harvard Business School; now Professor of Analytics and Operations at NUS Business School. Co-advised with Stefanos Zenios.
Nima Hamidi Statistics. Quantitative researcher at Jump Trading; now at OpenAI.
Khashayar Khosravi Electrical Engineering. AI Resident at Google Research, New York.
Carolyn Kim Computer Science. Research Scientist at Genesis Therapeutics.
Sara Kwasnick Stanford GSB. Data scientist at Airbnb. Co-advised with Erica Plambeck.
Danqi Luo Stanford GSB. Assistant Professor of Innovation, Technology and Operations, UC San Diego Rady School of Management. Co-advised with Erica Plambeck.
Yuwei Luo Stanford GSB. Google.
Sheng Qiang Stanford GSB. AI researcher and engineer.
Ali Reza Sharafat Electrical Engineering. Senior software engineer at TikTok.
Sadegh Shirani Stanford GSB. Assistant Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.
Erika Strandberg Biomedical Informatics. Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives at Stanford, leading programs across SAIL, the Center for AI Safety, the Stanford Data Science Initiative, and the AI for Health Initiative.
Jacqueline Vallon Management Science and Engineering. Consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
Ruoxuan Xiong Management Science and Engineering. Faculty in Data and Decision Sciences, Emory University. Co-supervised with Susan Athey during her postdoc at Stanford GSB.

Collaborators

Coauthors over the years, in alphabetical order.

Kathryn Adair, Erjie Ang, Michael Aratow, Susan Athey, Hilary P. Bagshaw, Nevin C. Baker, Hamsa Bastani, Neda Beheshti, José Bento, Sonia Bhaskar, Margrét Bjarnadóttir, Jose Blanchet, Christian Borgs, Cassandra Bragdon, Alfredo Braunstein, Mark Braverman, Cati Brown-Johnson, Mark K. Buyyounouski, Junyu Cao, Jennifer Chayes, Wanning Chen, Jiayi Cheng, Joe Cooprider, Dushyanta Dhyani, Lee Dicker, Nikolay Doudchenko, Murat A. Erdogdu, David Gamarnik, Margot Gerritsen, Michael Gillam, David Gleich, Joel Goh, Alex J. Goodell, Ramki Gummadi, Kapil Gupta, Vin Gupta, Nima Hamidi, J. Michael Harrison, Eric Horvitz, Guido Imbens, Roman Istomin, Laleh Jalali, Ramesh Johari, Satyen Kale, Thomas Kannampallil, Yash Kanoria, Dmitriy Katz, Raghu Keshavan, Abtin Keshavarzian, Khashayar Khosravi, Carolyn Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Nikhil V. Kotha, Neha Kumar, Sara Kwasnick, Marc Lelarge, John Leppert, Moyan Li, Xi Ling, Jeff Liu, Jessica Liu, Miao Lu, Danqi Luo, Yuwei Luo, Karen Mack, Yury Makarychev, Shervin Malmasi, Michal Mankowski, Andrea Montanari, David Moore, Shubha Nabar, Chandra Nair, Shima Nassiri, Liem Nguyen, James Nordlund, Sewoong Oh, Boris Oreshkin, William Overman, Cristobal Pais, Neil Panjwani, Erica Plambeck, Erqi Pollom, Balaji Prabhakar, Jochen Profit, Sheng Qiang, Zhaonan Qu, Abolfazl Ramezanpour, Hank Rappaport, Margaret Redfield, George Ruiz, Amin Saberi, Stefanie Sebok-Syer, J. Bryan Sexton, Devavrat Shah, Sumit Shah, Tait Shanafelt, Ali Reza Sharafat, Mayank Sharma, Kazem Shirani, Sadegh Shirani, Sundeep Singh, Amrita Sinha, Mark Smith, Geoffrey Sonn, Mark Squillante, Sandy Srinivas, Erika Strandberg, Albert Tan, Daniel Tawfik, Prasad Tetali, Rebecca Torguson, Jacqueline Vallon, Nikhita Vedula, Sushmita Vij, Robert Voigt, Elizabeth Wade, Ron Waksman, Bryan Wang, Jiayi Wang, Ying Wang, Marcy Winget, Ruoxuan Xiong, Shaoyuan Xu, Wanqiao Xu, Junze Ye, Riccardo Zecchina, Stefanos Zenios, Yilun Zhu, Yuan Zhuang