👩‍🏫 Staff

Lucy Lai (Instructor)

lai@ucsd.edu

🎓 B.A. in CogSci @ Rice → Ph.D. in Neuroscience @ Harvard → Visiting Scholar @ OIST (Japan) → COGS prof @ UCSD

🏠 Houston, TX 🤠

💬 Grad school, living in Japan 🇯🇵, anime, latin dancing 💃

Jiesen Zhang (TA)

jiz147@ucsd.edu

🎓 B.S. in Data Science @ UCSD → 1st-year MSCS student

🏠 China 🇨🇳

💬 machine learning, film and music (especially Asian and European ones!), photography 📸, and travel ✈️

Fuling Sun (TA)

fusun@ucsd.edu

🎓 4th-year Cogs Ph.D. student (human-computer interaction)

🏠 China 🇨🇳

💬 pingu, musical, indie games, things you feel comfortable sharing with me :)

Tony Li (TA)

toli@ucsd.edu

🎓 3rd-year CSE PhD Student (HCI)

🏠 Fayetteville, AR 🐗

💬 movies, video games, orchestral music, disc sports 🥏

Alex Nieto (PLA)

alnieto@ucsd.edu

🎓 4th-year Cogs ML + Neural Computation

🏠 Garden Grove, CA

💬 (K)pop music, Pokémon, Stardew Valley

Michael Yang (PLA)

miy012@ucsd.edu

🎓 4th-year COGS ML

🏠 Bay Area, CA

💬 Basketball and baking!

Gabriel Lopes (PLA)

glopes@ucsd.edu

🎓 5th-Year COGS ML

🏠 Brazil 🇧🇷

💬 predictive modeling, sports, travel

Tanvi Vidyala (PLA)

tvidyala@ucsd.edu

🎓 3rd-Year COGS ML+ Data Science Minor

🏠 Fremont, CA

💬 cafe recs, music, personality tests, journaling

Amelia Oo (PLA)

aoo@ucsd.edu

🎓 3rd-year Data Science

🏠 Mandalay, Burma 🇲🇲

💬 transfer student experience, travel, content creation, food 🥘

Yash Date (PLA)

ydate@ucsd.edu

🎓 2nd-year Data Science

🏠 Austin, TX 🤠

💬 undergrad research, COGS and DSC clubs, how to pick a specialization

Pradyumna Sripada (Grader)

psripada@ucsd.edu

🎓 1st-year MSDS student

🏠 Bangalore, India 🇮🇳

💬 machine learning, climate modeling, hackathons, hiking