Group

My research group on a group outing by the water at USC

The group on a recent outing.

I work with a wonderful group of students. If what we do sounds interesting, I'd love to hear from you.

Recruiting · PhD, Masters & Undergraduate students

I'm looking for students excited about:

(a) AI safety and privacy — building trustworthy AI;   (b) multi-agent LLMs — understanding AI ecosystems.

I'm glad to work with undergraduate and master's students too — especially those already at USC. Ideally you'll have some prior relevant research experience, or be taking one of my courses. Interested in a summer internship? See the IUSSTF–Viterbi program (for students in India), the USC–Tsinghua program (for students in China), and USC JumpStart for undergrads.

If you're a prospective PhD student, apply to the PhD program in either CS or ECE at USC and mention me as a potential advisor in your application.

If any of this is you, reach out — especially if your background is different from mine. :)

I'm lucky to work with a lot of wonderful students, including those below.

PhD Students

Michael Duan (co-advised with Xiang Ren)
Skyler Hallinan (co-advised with Xiang Ren)
Duygu Nur Yaldiz (co-advised with Salman Avestimehr)
Yavuz Faruk Bakman (co-advised with Salman Avestimehr)

Masters & Undergraduate Students

Dhruv Tarsadiya (co-advised with Swabha Swayamdipta)
Sungmin Kang (co-advised with Salman Avestimehr)
Danny Dong (co-advised with Swabha Swayamdipta)