Mentorship
I work closely with students at all levels — undergraduates, master's, and doctoral students — on problems in foundation models, evaluation science, and agents for real-world decision-making. I care about giving mentees real ownership of research questions and helping them build the judgment to tackle open problems independently. If you're interested in working together, reach out.
Current Mentees
Malgorzata Gwiazda
2025 – Present
Ph.D. Student, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Time series reasoning benchmarks and evaluation of foundation models
Michal Wilinski
2024 – Present
Ph.D. Student, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Representations, interventions, and long-context modeling in time series foundation models
Past Mentees
Willa Potosnak
2024 – 2025
Ph.D. Student, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Compositional reasoning and long-context attention in time series foundation models
Now: Ph.D. student at CMU RI
Nina Zukowska
2024 – 2025
Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS), Carnegie Mellon University
Long-context time series foundation models and representation analysis
Now: Research Intern at Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Konrad Szafer
2023 – 2024
Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS), Carnegie Mellon University
MOMENT: open time series foundation models (ICML 2024)
Now: Research Assistant at ETH Zurich
Arjun Choudhry
2023 – 2025
Research Mentee, Carnegie Mellon University
Time series foundation models, evaluation benchmarks, and federated learning
Now: Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech
Yifu Cai
2023 – 2025
Research Mentee, Carnegie Mellon University
Time series reasoning, clinical AI, and ML engineering agents
Now: Quant Researcher at Millennium
Eric Enouen
2023
Research Mentee, Carnegie Mellon University
Federated learning with cross-silo routing (AAAI 2024)
Now: Ph.D. student at Cornell
Chalisa Udompanyawit
2022 – 2023
CIT Honors Research Program, Carnegie Mellon University
Label quality assessment and benchmarking (NeurIPS 2023)
Now: Software Engineer
Arnab Dey
2021 – 2022
Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS), Carnegie Mellon University
Weakly supervised classification of clinical vital sign alerts (AMIA 2022)
Now: MD candidate at UPenn
Committee Service
- Willa Potosnak — Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Xinyu (Rachel) Li — Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ambareesh Revanur — MSR Thesis, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (now Sr. MLE at Adobe)