Faculty

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor at School of Computing
Assistant Professor at Institute for AI
email: Yu.Wang6@uga.edu


PhDs

Ph.D. Students at UGA

Zhisheng Qi

2026 Computer Science Ph.D. at UGA
email: Zhisheng.Qi@uga.edu

  • Direction: Agentic Reasoning on Structured Knowledge, Agentic Privacy and Security
  • 1st Author Research Outcomes:
  • Achievements:
    • KDD 2026 Benchmark Oral Presentation (4.5%)
    • SDM 2026 Doctoral Forum
    • UO Student OpenHouse 2026 Poster Runner-up
    • WSDM 2026 GraphRAG Tutorial Presented
    • WSDM 2026 Student Travel Award

Yifan Zhang

Computer Science Ph.D. student at UGA

  • Direction: LLM Agents, Self-Distillation, Reinforcement Learning
  • First-Authored Papers Before UGA:

Previous Ph.D. Students at UO

Utkarsh Sahu

2026 Computer Science PhD at UO
co-advised with Professor Daniel Lowd
email: utkarsh@uoregon.edu

  • Direction: Multi-Modal Social Network Learning, Agentic Privacy
  • 1st Author Research Outcomes:
  • Achievements:
    • UO Student OpenHouse 2026 Poster Honorable Mention
    • NAIRR Pilot Project Award for this research
    • NAIRR Pilot Student Travel Award
    • WSDM 2026 GraphRAG Tutorial Presented
    • WSDM 2026 Student Travel Award

Riya Ponraj

2024 Computer Science PhD at UO
co-advised with Professor Ram Durairajan
email: ripo@uoregon.edu

  • Direction: Graph Machine Learning for Networking Management
  • 1st Author Research Outcomes:
  • Achievements:

Yongjia Lei

2024 Computer Science PhD at UO
email: yongjia@uoregon.edu

  • Direction: LLM Reasoning, Knowledge Retrieval
  • 1st Author Research Outcomes:
  • Achievements:
    • SDM 2025 Doctoral Forum Honorable Mention
    • SDM 2025 GraphRAG Tutorial Presented
    • UO Student OpenHouse 2025 Poster Honorable Mention
    • Adobe Research Summer Internship 2025



Masters

Ruimin Zhang

2024 Computer Science Master at UO
email: ruiminz@uoregon.edu

  • Direction: Spatial Temporal Economic Analysis
  • Next Position: Amazon Software Engineering

Kushal Devgun

2024 Computer Science Master at UO
email: devgun@uoregon.edu

  • Direction: Social Surpriseness Mining



Undergraduates

Ethan Reinhart

2021 Computer Science + Math BS

  • Direction: Graph Recommendation and GraphRAG
  • Achievements:
    • Dean's List at UO
    • 3rd Place: QuickHacks 2024
    • AI System Engineer Intern at FarmGPU
  • Next Position: AI System Engineer at FarmGPU



High School Students

Amelie Wei

High School Student, South Eugene High School