Lab

• Brain Networks Laboratory (BNL)
• Neural Intelligence Laboratory (NIL)
• Lab Seminar Archive

• Lab members:
• Ph.D.
• M.S.
• Undergraduate
• Visiting Scholars

Brain Networks Laboratory (BNL)

• Knife-Edge Scanning Microscopy (KESM) research: KESM Brain Atlas
• Lab web site: Link

Neural Intelligence Laboratory (NIL; Choe Lab)

• Topographica cortical simulator: Link
• Facebook group: Choe Lab (private): Public mirror: Blog

Lab seminar archive

• Lab seminar archive: Link

Ph.D. Students

Link: Dissertations

1. Yingwei Yu: PhD (CS). Graduated, 8/2006. Seismic Micro-technology, Houston, TX -> Schlumberger -> Amazon.
2. Heejin Lim: PhD (CS).Graduated, 8/2006. University of Texas Medical School at Houston (post doc) -> Instructor, Prairie View A&M University.
3. Hao Xiong: PhD (CS). Graduated 12/2008. UCSF medical school (post doc) -> UC Berkeley (post doc).
4. Choon Seog Park: PhD (CE). Graduated 8/2009. Republic of Korea Army (Retired).
5. Jae Rock Kwon: PhD (CE). Graduated 8/2009. Associate professor at Kettering University -> Associate professor at University of Michigan, Dearborn.
6. Donghyeop Han: PhD (CS). Graduated 8/2009. Samsung Electronics.
7. Heeyoul “Henry” Choi: PhD (CS). Graduated 5/2010. Postdoc at Indiana University, Bloomington (Dr. Chen Yu’s lab). Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. At present: Assistant professor, Handong University, Korea.
8. Huei-Fang Yang: PhD student (CS). Graduated 8/2011. INRIA Sophia Antipolis (Postdoc). Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Postdoc). At present: Assistant professor, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
9. Ji Ryang Chung: PhD (CS). Graduated 12/2011. Samsung Electronics. -> CEO, Tilda Corp, Korea.
10. Timothy Mann: PhD student (CS). Graduated 12/2012. Postdoc at Technion (Prof. Shie Mannor’s lab). Google DeepMind (2015-2022). Facebook/Meta (2022-2023). Google DeepMind (2023-).
11. Chul Sung: PhD student (CS). Graduated 5/2014. IBM Research, Austin, TX -> NLP Research Scientist, Pryon Inc.
12. Jaewook Yoo: PhD student (CS). 2012 Fall - 2018 Summer. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea. Now at Samsung System LSI.
13. Junseok Lee (CS): PhD student. 2013 Fall - 2018 Summer. Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon.
14. Michael Nowak: PhD student (CS). 2013 Fall - 2019 Fall. Visiting Professor, Texas A&M University. At present: Teaching assistant professor, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (Fall 2020-)
15. Khuong Nguyen (CS): PhD student. 2016 Spring - 2019 Fall. Samsung Research America, Dallas.
16. Han Wang (CS): PhD student. 2013 Spring - 2020 Spring. Samsung Research America, Dallas.
17. Qinbo Li (CS): PhD student. 2018 Fall - 2022 Spring. Facebook (Meta).
18. Qing Wan (CS): PhD student. 2016 Fall - 2022 Spring. Samsung Research America, Dallas (2022). Assistant Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University (9/2022-).
19. Maryam Savari (CS): PhD student. 2020 Spring - 2022 Summer. BMW Group (2023-).

Current Ph.D. students

1. Jin Hyun Park (CS): PhD student. 2022 Fall - present.

M.S. Students

Link: Theses

1. S. Kumar Bhamidipati (CE): graduated 5/2004. Microsoft.
2. Sejong Oh (CS): graduated 8/2004. the Republic of Korea Air Force.
3. Subramonia P. Sarma (CS): graduated 12/2004. Amazon. Now at Microsoft.
4. Navendu Misra (CS): graduated 8/2005. Visa/Paypal.
5. Hari Shankar Muddana (CS; Co-advised by Bruce H. McCormick): graduated 8/2006. Penn State U. (Ph.D.). UCSD (postdoc).
6. Bumsoon Jang (CS): graduated 8/2007. Republic of Korea Army.
7. Jyothi Swaroop Guntupalli (CS; Co-advised by Bruce H. McCormick): graduated 12/2007. Ph.D., Dartmouth (2013), Postdoc, Dartmouth (current).
8. Yoon H. Bai (CS): graduated 8/2008. University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D. program in psychology).
9. Daniel C.-Y. Eng (CS): graduated 12/2008. PDX, Inc.
10. Dongkun Kim (CS): graduated 8/2011. Republic of Korea Army.
11. Jinho Choi (CS): graduated 8/2013. Republic of Korea Army.
12. Ananth Dileepkumar (CS): graduated 8/2014. Cisco
13. Raj Shah (CS): MS student. 2012 Fall - 2014 Fall. FactSet.
14. Wenjie Yang (CS): MS student. 2013 Spring - 2014 Fall. Yahoo.
15. Wencong Zhang (CS): MS student. 2013 Spring - 2014 Fall. Google.
16. Shashwat Lal Das (CS): MS student. 2013 Spring - 2014 Fall. Google.
17. Manisha Srivastava (CS): MS student. 2013 Spring - 2015 Summer. Tripadvisor.
18. Ankur Singhal (CS): MS student. 2013 Fall - 2015 Summer. Bloomberg.
19. Amey Parulkar (CS): MS student. 2014 Fall - 2015 Summer. Microsoft.
20. Sungjune Lim (CS): MS student. 2014 Spring - 2015 Summer. Samsung Research.
21. Qinbo Li (CS): MS student. 2014 Spring - 2016 Summer. Texas A&M Ph.D. program
22. Wookyung An (CS): MS student. 2014 Spring - 2016 Summer. Hyundai Motor Co.
23. Raghav Hari Kris Vembu (CS): MS student. 2019 Fall - 2020 Spring. SharkNinja. (co-advised by Prof. Hangue Park, TAMU ECE).
24. Shivashriganesh Prasad Mahato (CS): MS student. 2023 Spring - 2023 Spring. Georgia Tech Phd program.
25. Tanu Shree (CS): MS student. 2022 Fall - 2024 Spring.
26. Vinodheni Ramasrinivasan (CS): MS student. 2024 Fall.
27. Visiting student: Michael Freitag (University of Passau, Germany. Fullbright scholar: 2015-2016).
28. Others (MCS): Helga Kocurek (CS/Philosophy: graduated 12/2007); Noah Smith (CS: graduated 8/2007) ; Randall Reams (CS): 2014 Fall - 2017 summer; Jiyoon Hwang (CS): Spring 2023; Rohith Kadivendi (CS): Spring 2023; Venkata Bhanu Teja Pallakonda (CS): Spring 2023.

Undergraduate Students

1. Brad Busse (CS): Summer 2003.
2. Jeff Cheak (CS): Summer 2003.
3. Josh Elkin (CE): Spring 2004.
4. Gabriel Marquez (UT El Paso, CS): Summer 2003 Undergraduate Summer Research Grant program (TAMU College of Engineering sponsored).
5. J. Perry Evans (Rose-Hulman Inst. Tech., CS): Summer 2004, NSF REU.
6. Maritza Johnson (U of San Diego, CS): Summer 2004, CRA-W DMP (co-supervisor: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna).
7. Stuart Heinrich (U of Vermont, CS): Summer 2005, NSF REU.
8. Andrew Jones (CE): Summer 2005, TAMU COE USRG.
9. Tim Mann (SUNY Potsdam, CS): Summer 2006, NSF REU.
10. Erica Bolan (Carlton U, CS): Summer 2006, CRA-W DMP.
11. Daniel Eng (CS): Fall 2006, CPSC 485
12. Steven Snyder (CS): Summer 2007, NSF REU
13. Gen Kazama (McGill, CS): Summer 2008, NSF REU (co-advised with John Keyser)
14. Kasra Manavi (U of NM, CS): Summer 2008, NSF REU (co-advised with John Keyser)
15. Sam Anzaroot (CUNY, CS): Summer 2009, NSF REU (co-advised with John Keyser)
16. Aaron Panchal (Westmont U, CS): Summer 2010, NSF REU (co-advised with John Keyser).
17. Janelle Fawver (TAMU, Biochem): Summer 2010, NSF REU (co-advised with John Keyser).
18. Christopher Sinks (U of MO, Biomedical Engineering): Summer 2011, TAMU COE USRG.
19. Jonathan Garcia (TAMU, Biomedical Engineering): Summer 2011, NSF REU.
20. Jinsoo Kim (TAMU, Computer Science): Spring 2013. Summer 2013 TAMU COE USRG.
21. Mitchell Priour (TAMU, Psychology/Neuroscience): Spring 2013. Summer 2013 NSF REU
22. Marco Antonio Blanco Cocom (Instituto Technológico Superior Progreso, Mexico; Computer Science ): Summer 2014.
23. Rachel Dorn (TAMU, Psychology/Neuroscience): Spring 2013-Spring 2014.
24. Jeff Harrison (TAMU, Computer Science): Summer 2014-Fall 2014.
25. Andrew Laramore (TAMU, Computer Science): Spring 2015.
26. Dimitri Dobroskok (TAMU, Biomedical Engineering): Summer 2015.
27. Cassandra Bub (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2016. Thesis
28. Juliang Li (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2016.
29. Aolin Yang (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2021-Spring 2022. Thesis
30. Thomas Goodwin (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2021-Spring 2022. Thesis
31. Lance Ondrej (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2021-Spring 2022. Thesis
32. Christian Smith (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2021-Spring 2022. Thesis
33. Richard Liu (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2021-Spring 2022. Thesis
34. Ryan Spruell (TAMU, Computer Science): Spring 2022
35. Zhan Lan (TAMU, Computer Science): Spring 2022
36. Yasin Alam (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2021-Fall 2022. Thesis
37. Hanbit Kang (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2022.
38. Shreyes Kaliyur (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2022-Spring 2023. Thesis
39. William Kang (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2022-Fall 2023. Thesis
40. Christopher Anand (TAMU, Computer Science): Spring 2023-Fall 2023. Thesis
41. Vijay Seetharam (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2023
42. Jason Xie (TAMU, Computer Science): Spring 2023-present
43. Stephen Johnson (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2023-Spring 2024. Thesis
44. John Powell (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2023-Spring 2024. Thesis
45. Varun Somarouthu (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2023-Spring 2024. Thesis
46. Anish Karthik (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2023-Spring 2024. Thesis

Current undergrad students

1. Alex Alvarez (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2024-present.
2. Seo Hyeon Beom (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2024-present.
3. Cyril John (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2024-present.
4. Vijay Seetharam (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2024-present.
5. Arjun Madana (TAMU, Computer Science): Fall 2024-present. Thesis

Visiting Scholars

1. Suhan Ree (Kongju National University, Korea: 2006-2007)
2. Heung Shik Kim (Inje University, Korea: 2006-2007)
3. Changhee Han (Korea Military Academy, Korea: 2009-2010)
4. Kwanyong Lee (Korea Open University, Korea: 2009-2010)
5. Hyeyoung Park (Kyungpook National University, Korea: 2009-2010)
6. Eunkyeong Kwon (Kyewon School of Art and Design, Korea: 2011-2012)
7. Danhee Yang (Pyeongtaek University, Korea: 2012-2013)
8. Sang Heon Lee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea: 2014)
9. Namhoon Kim (Dongyang Mirae University, Korea: 2016).
10. Changyeol Yum (National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Korea: 2016-2017).
11. Jin Wook Kim (Korea Open University, Korea: 2017-2018).
12. Sang Heon Lee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea: 2021-2022)
13. Jinwoo Bae (Inha University, Korea: 2022)
14. Yunsik Son (Dongguk University, Korea: 2024-2025)

Short-term visitors

1. Kooseung (Bryan) Chung (McLean High School, McLean, VA: July 2016)
2. Jin Park (Korean Army: 12/2010)
3. Soyeon Park (Yonsei University: 12/2007-1/2008)