People

Principal Investigator

Rahul Parhi
Assistant Professor of ECE

Rahul Parhi is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UCSD. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) from 2022 to 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2022 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research lies at the interface between functional and harmonic analysis and data science and their interactions with signal processing, machine learning, statistics, and information theory.


Jacobs Hall, Room 6406, 9736 Engineers Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093


Ph.D. Students

Anıl Kamber
Ph.D. Student

Anıl Kamber is an ECE Ph.D. student at UCSD. He earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is interested in understanding why gradient-based optimization performs so well for modern deep learning architectures.


Jacobs Hall, Room 4516, 9736 Engineers Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093


Tongtong Liang
Ph.D. Student

Tongtong Liang is a Mathematics Ph.D. student at UCSD. He earned his master's degree and bachelor's degree in Southern University of Technology and Science, China. His research interests focus on understanding how inductive bias of optimization algorithms and network architecture help generalization.


Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, Room 255, 3232 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093


Luke McDermott
Ph.D. Student

Luke McDermott is a Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning & Data Science track at UCSD's ECE department, starting in 2024. He previously worked as an ML Research Scientist at Modern Intelligence and earned a B.S. in Mathematics-Computer Science from UCSD in 2023.


Jacobs Hall, Room 4516, 9736 Engineers Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093


Soroush Mesforush
Ph.D. Student

Soroush is an ECE Ph.D. student at UCSD. He earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran. His research interests lie broadly in probability theory, universality, optimization, and signal processing.


Jacobs Hall, Room 4516, 9736 Engineers Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093


B.S./M.S. Students

Henry Pritchard
B.S./M.S. Student

Henry Pritchard is a B.S./M.S. student in the ECE department, with research interests in signal processing, optimization, and statistics. He has previously worked as a hardware engineer at a Bay Area startup.


Jacobs Hall, Room 4516, 9736 Engineers Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093