Congratulations to Our 2025 Graduates

As the fields of data science and AI enter a period of rapid and often unpredictable change, our 2025 graduates leave CDS with both the flexibility to adapt and the depth to lead. They’ve worked through a time of enormous expansion in the capabilities of machine learning, and they’ve done so with rigor, imagination, and care.

This year, CDS celebrates the work of students across every level of study. From applied projects to theoretical contributions, our graduates have helped push forward the conversation around what it means to build intelligent systems. Their research spans areas such as machine learning theory, generative modeling, algorithmic fairness, scientific computing, large-scale inference, and language understanding. Many of them collaborated across disciplines, applying these methods to domains including healthcare, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

The class of 2025 now joins a growing global network of CDS alumni. As they go on to shape research labs, startups, policy teams, and classrooms, they carry with them not just technical skill, but a way of thinking — careful, critical, and grounded in the realities of data.

CDS is proud to introduce our 2025 graduates:

PhD Graduates

Lucius Bynum, Angelica Chen, Guy Davidson, Katrina Drozdov, Zahra Kadkhodaie, Sanyam Kapoor, Sanae Lotfi, Taro Makino, William Merrill, Vishakh Padmakumar, Aram Alexandre Pooladian, Uladzislau Sobal, Boyang Yu, Jianyu Zhang, Lily Zhang, Yanli Zhou, and Weicheng Zhu.

Master of Data Science Graduates

Mariam Abdullah, Juan Roberto Alvarado, Manasvin Anand, Aarya Abhijit Bagde, Tanvi Bansal, Cheng Bi, William Calandra, Qingyi Cao, Zhiwen Cao, Gordon Chan, Runhan Chen, Shuling Chen, Ziyi Chen, Fanqi Cheng, Ojasa Anand Chitre, Fiona Chow, Muqiao Cui, Hui Dai, Anusha Dasgupta, Andrew Deur, Jai Doshi, Jenna Ellis, Jiayue Fan, Jinrui Fang, Junwen Fang, Alon Florentin, Mario Garrido Czacki, Zhiyu Guo, Arunav Gupta, Ariel Haberman, Jianchao He, Chen Kai Hu, Kunkun Hu, Shiyi Hu, Chen Hua, Jingru Hua, Hao Huang, Juhua Huang, Lu Huang, Yuzhuo Huang, Marina Castano Ishizaka, Ruijie Jia, Dian Jin, John Paul Jones, II, Sophia Maya Juco, Oliver Kafka, Linghang Kong, Abhinav Krishnan, Akshitha Kumbam, Junchen Lai, Fangru Li, Chenxing Li, Qingyang Li, Ruishi Li, Cindy Yawei Lin, Lucy Lin, Yuxi Liu, Ziqi Liu, Zirui Liu, Sichen Lu, Garvit Luhadia, Julia Manasson, Devaditya Mohanty, Sung Joon Moon, Muhammad Haris Naveed, Jiasheng Ni, Hannah Hyejin Park, Qi Ouyang, Einstein Oyewole, Junlin Pan, HaoHai Pang, Manan Prakashkumar Patel, Jiaran Peng, Ziqing Peng, Tyler Eladio Perez, Ji Qi, Jiali Qian, Zhouheng Qian, Mukundraj Raman Sudarshan, Natasha P Recoder, Simone Gabrielle Rittenhouse, Manan Bimal Shah, Wangze Shen, Pei Shi, Musonda Kasongo Sinkala, Isha Slavin, Hongxin Song, Zhihao Su, Qihang Tang, Yining Tang, Keyue Tong, Zheng Tong, Melina Tsotras, Jiateng Wang, Ruilin Wang, Ruoxin Wang, Siyi Wang, Yixuan Wang, Yizhou Wang, Yuxian Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Sijun Wei, Zhuojian Wei, Qing Wen, Harrison Wolff, Oona Wood, Jingyi Wu, Tianyu Wu, Wiley Wu, Yujia Wu, Zeshi Wu, Mingyan Xia, Zihang Xia, Qianyi Xiao, Zehao Xiao, Xintong Xie, Ao Xu, Jiahui Xu, Tianyi Xu, Xiaofeng Xu, Xingyin Xu, Yifan Xue, Qingyuan Yan, Haoyan Yang, Sunny Yang, Xinyi Yang, Yichao Yang, Yushu Yang, Yuyan Yang, Zexuan Yang, Bochen Yin, Haomin Yu, Siyun Yu, Haiyi Yue, Arlen Yu Ye, Niu Zeng, Weicheng Zeng, Chendai Zhang, Erchi Zhang, Hanzhi Zhang, Jia Zhang, Jingsheng Zhang, Jingwen Zhang, Kexin Zhang, Xin Chen Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yuanxin Zhang, Yueyang Zhang, Anni Zheng, Ruxi Zheng, Tongyu Zhao, Yujiao Zhao, Tong Zhao, Tom Zhou, Yitian Zhou, Zhitong Zhou, Zijie Zhou, George Zhou, and Hongjin Zhu.

Undergraduate Graduates — Data Science Major

Julius Balbus, Kristen Campbell, Guimeng Cao, Andrea Cardiel, Boyu Chen, Serena Chen, Zexin Chen, Yiru Chen, Ryan Cho, Qian Dai, Yakun Du, Xu Fang, Qixin Fu, Han Gao, Sheng Gao, Runji Gao, Sereena Gill, Jordan Groth, Eugene Han, Salam Haroun, Zuyang He, Zhixuan Hu, Naufil Bin Imran, Jack Iorio, Shiwei Jiang, Zijian Ju, Natalie Juric, Sparsh Kabra, Theodore Kwon Kim, Jun Kwon, Lana Lee, Langrun Li, Rongrong Li, Xiaoxin Liu, Tingwu Liu, Richa Malhotra, Lavina Mitel, Chloe Ye-Eun Nam, Xiaoqin Ni, Michelle Ning, Obinna Nwaokoro, Anavi Parikh, Uma Pendkar, Qi Qi, JiaYu Qiu, Rohan Sanghrajka, Hafsa Safdar, Uday Sapra, Sahil Sen, Arina Shah, Ximei Shi, Megan Stratton, Niketh Surya, Joshua Torres, Xinkun Wang, Chen Zhao Wang, George Wu, Jenny Wu, Jiatong Wu, Yuchun Wu, Zhaoyang Xu, Xipu Yu, Jiahe Yu, Shuo Zeng, Zhi Zeng, Jiaxin Zhang, Yingshi Zhang, and Hairong Zhang.

Undergraduate Graduates — Data Science & Computer Science Joint Major

Oluwatomisin Toluwani Adeyemi, Khushi Agarwal, Michael Amiri, Harini Buddaluru, Langning Chen, Feng Chen, Ashley Chen, Yishan Chen, Sungyoon Cho, Finn Eskeland, Yukang Fan, Aidan Fasano, Oscar Hou, Emily Huang, Thitipat Iamvuthipreecha, Olivia Lewandowski, Jiaming Liu, James Lu, Alexander Manko, Advey Mishra, Finn Neher, Chidera Okechukwu, Daphne Ozkan, Alexandra Przysucha, Brian Rabinowitz, Swagnik Roychoudhury, Anastasiia Samoilova, Unce Shahid, Hongjia Su, Mingyang Wang, Rongjian Wang, Xuyang Wang, Alex Wu, Adrian Yan, Kelly Zeng, Tyler Zhang, Zichao Zhang, Richie Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Ziqi Zhao, Xuanfeng Zhou, Zihan Zhou, and Max Zhuang.

Undergraduate Graduates — Data Science & Math Joint Major

Yuanda Cui, Zhengze Dai, Yijun Dai, Vedant Desai, Xinjie Ding, Jun Du, Yuanzou Gao, Boyoon Han, Jialuo Huang, Xuan Lin, Yixuan Liu, Caitlin Marshall, Xiaoheng Shen, Xinyu Wang, Ruoda Wang, Edward Wu, Yiyun Yao, Leyan Yu, Zhenhuang Zeng, Zhiyu Zhao, and Tianyu Zhao.

To every member of the class of 2025: you sharpened your skills during the hottest stretch AI has seen in decades. As you head into the workplace, remember that CDS remains your home base for ideas, collaborators, and the occasional debugging session. Stay in touch! We’ll be following your work with pride.

By Stephen Thomas