RUGS -- Russell's Unusual Group of Students

Current members

• Stuart Russell
• Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
• Erik Sudderth
• Norm Aleks
• Nimar Arora
• Kevin Canini
• Shaunak Chatterjee
• Greg Lawrence
• Jason Wolfe
• Andy Zimdars

Current members residing elsewhere, and former members

• Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli, postdoc, 2005-2007, now at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
• Bhaskara Marthi (PhD 2006), now a postdoc at MIT
• Brian Milch (PhD 2006), now a postdoc at MIT
• Mark Pearson (MS 2006), now at Google
• David Latham
• Arnab Nilim, postdoc, 2004-2005, now a member of the Credit Derivatives Group at Citigroup
• Mark Paskin (PhD 2004), now at Google
• Eric Xing (PhD 2004), now Asst. Prof. at CMU
• Eyal Amir, postdoc, 2001-2003, now Asst. Prof. at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Vassilis Papavassiliou (PhD 2003), now at Teracent
• Hanna Pasula (PhD 2003), now a postdoc at MIT
• David Andre (PhD 2003), now at Bodymedia Inc.
• Daishi Harada
• Kevin Murphy (PhD 2002), now Asst. Prof. at University of British Columbia
• Jeffrey Forbes (PhD 2002), now a lecturer at Duke University
• Nikunj Oza (PhD 2001), now a Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center
• Joao de Freitas ("Nando"), postdoc, 1999-2001, now Asst. Prof. at University of British Columbia
• Nir Friedman, postdoc 1996-98, now Senior Lecturer at Hebrew U.
• Geoff Zweig (PhD, 1998), now member of technical staff at IBM T.J. Watson Labs
• Ronald Parr (PhD, 1998), now Assistant Professor at Duke University
• Othar Hansson (PhD, 1998}, now at Google
• Timothy Huang (PhD, 1997), now Asst. Prof. at Middlebury College, VT
• Archie Russell
• Magnus Stensmo, postdoc 1996-7, now at IBM Almaden
• Lewis Stiller, now at Brightware
• W. Sean Owen
• Huma Dar
• Vandana Agarwal
• Jonathan Tash (PhD, 1996), now at Kontiki Inc.
• Keiji Kanazawa (postdoc, 1994-5), now at Microsoft Network
• Avi Pfeffer, BS, 1996, now Associate Professor at Harvard University
• Daphne Koller (UC Presidential Fellow, 1993-5), Associate Professor at Stanford
• Scott Schmidler (BS, 1995), now Assistant Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University
• Andrew Mayer (PhD, 1994), founder of Heuristicrats Research Inc.
• Sabine Glesner (MS, 1994), now Assistant Professor at Karlsruhe
• Ron Musick (PhD, 1994), now at Ikuni Inc.
• Scott Davies (BS, 1994; PhD, CMU, 1995), now at Google
• Gary Ogasawara (PhD, 1994), Director of Engineering at Gemini Mobile
• Shlomo Zilberstein (PhD, 1993), Professor at UMass Amherst
• Marie desJardins (PhD, 1992), research scientist at SRI, now Associate Professor at Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Sonia Marx (MS, 1991)
• Jeffrey Conroy (MS, 1991)
• Sudeshna Sarkar (MS, 1991), IIT PhD 1996, now Associate Professor at IIT Kharagpur
• Sven Koenig (MS, 1991), now Associate Professor at USC
• Lise Getoor (MS, 1989), now Assistant Professor at Univ. of Maryland
• Lonnie Chrisman (BS, 1987), PhD, CMU, 1996, now Research Scientist at the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise and CTO of Lumina Decision Systems
• Christopher Malone (MS, 1988)
• Eric Wefald (MS, 1988), died August 1989
• Sampath Srinivas (MS, 1988), Stanford PhD 1994, now CEO, DanaStreet Internet Inc.
• Brenda Barbour (MS, 1987), AT&T Bell Labs
• Ramanathan Guha (MS, 1987), Stanford PhD 1991, former Chief Engineer at Netscape; founder, ePinions; now at Google
• Soumitra Dutta, (MS, 1987), now Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology at INSEAD, France