
Mary Wisell
PhD Student
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Research Interests: LLMs for OOD Detection and Domain Generalization
Affiliation: JDP SDSU-UCI
Summer Internship at IDEXX - Summer 2025

Aditi Naiknaware
Master Student
Research Interests: Domain Adaptation, Out-of-Distribution Detection, Temporal Shift, Robust Deep Learning for Brain Activation Patterns.
Affiliation: San Diego State University

Francis Fernandez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Research Interests: Vision-Language Models, Object Detection for Smart Transportation (Joint w/ STAR Lab)
Affiliation: San Diego State University

Thea Enache
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Research Interests: Transformers for biology, Domain Adaptation for Drug Discovery
Affiliation: San Diego State University

Sara Abhyankar
High School Student
Scripps Ranch High School (San Diego Unified School District)
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Research Interests: Neural Network (MLP), CNN
Alumni
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Graduate Students
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Josh Andel, PhD Thesis Title: Investigating Deep Neural Network Behavior During Continual Learning, April 2025
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Soheil Gharatappeh, PhD Thesis Title: Efficient Strategies for Learning Tasks Based on Information Transfer, April 2025
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Mahsa Mozafarinia, PhD Project Title: Generative Models for Continual Task Learning, September 20222-January 2025.
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Mary Wisell, PhD student at UCI-SDSU, Master Project Title: A Novel Framework for Sequential Multi-Source Transfer Learning: From Theory to Cancer Detection, April 2025
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Jovon Craig, Master Project Title: A Theoretical Perspective on Subnetwork Contributions to Adversarial Robustness, July 2023.
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Madan R. Ganesh, Bosch AI - Pittsburg, PhD Thesis Title: Compression and Curriculum Strategies for Efficient Learning in Deep Neural Networks, July 2022.
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Nicholas Soucy, IDEXX - Portland, Master Thesis Title: Performance Enhancement of Hyperspectral Semantic Segmentation Leveraging Ensemble Networks, November 2022.
Graduate Interns -
Aayush Manandhar, Ph.D. student, Summer 2023, Research: Transfer Learning
Undergraduate Students -
Rhiannon Gould: Undergraduate Research Assistant, March 2022-August 2024.
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Nicholas Jacobs: Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Maine, Next PhD student at University of Utah
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Jona Fejzoy: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Northeastern University, 2023-2024
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Daniel Shobayo: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Mass-Boston, 2023
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Aidan Dominian: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Northeastern University, 2023-2024
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Ian stebbins: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Bowdoin College, Summer 2022
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Thomas Gause: Undergraduate Research Assistant, February 2021 - December 2021
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Dawsin Blanchard: Undergraduate Research Assistant, February 2020 - August 2020
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Alex Feren, Undergraduate Research Assistant, January 2020 - March 2020
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Klei Bendo, Undergraduate Research Assistant, January 2020 - March 2020
High School Students -
Brianna Auspland: Portland High School (Upward Bound program), May 2024-August 2024
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Lana Friess, Bangor High School, March 2023 - September 2023
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Simon Socolow, Orono High School, May 2020 - January 2021​, Williams College.
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