Multimodal Vision Research Laboratory
MVRL
People
We are a diverse team of researchers dedicated to advancing multimodal vision and machine learning. We are always interested in hard-working students with strong technical abilities who want to solve challenging problems.
Interested in joining? Please see our openings page for current positions and application instructions.
Current Members
Director, Professor of Computer SciencePhD CS
Visiting Associate ProfessorPhD CS
Postdoc (PhD, WashU Computer Science)PhD in Computer Science
PhD student in Computer Science
Michael Lanier
PhD student in Computer Science
Co-Advisor: Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
PhD student in Computer Science
PhD student in Imaging Science
PhD student in Computational & Data Sciences
Co-Advisor: Ross Hammond
Nia Hodges
PhD student in Systems Science and Mathematics
PhD student in Computer Science
PhD student in Computer Science
PhD student in Computer Science
PhD student in Computational & Data Sciences
Tong Li
PhD student in Computational & Data Sciences
PhD student in Computer Science
Jonathan Lin
Post-Bacc Research Assistant
PhD student in Computational & Data Sciences
Co-Advisor: Jacob Montgomery
Danni Beaulieu
PhD student in Computer Science
Brian Wei
REU/Undergraduate Researcher
Rowan Sandvig
REU/Undergraduate Researcher
Ice Cui
Undergraduate Researcher
Alumni
Phoenix Jarosz
REU/Undergraduate Researcher 2024 - 2025
BS student in Computer Science 2025
Visiting student (Leipzig University)
Nick Haisler
REU (Drake) Summer 2025
Haris Naveed
BS + MS Computer Science 2025
Vinh Pham
Jack McCall
MS student in Computer Science 2025
Ethan Weilheimer
MS student in Computer Science 2025
Jingyun Ma
MS student in Computer Science 2025
Co-Advisor: Allan Thomas
Lunchi Guo
MS student in Computer Science 2025
Co-Advisor: Allan Thomas
MS Computer Science 2024
Shuhan Zhang
MS Computer Science 2025
Myan Sudharsanan
MS Computer Science 2025
Postdoc (PhD Geomatics)
Daniel Khen
Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2024
John Lim
REU (Northwestern U.) Summer 2024
Gabriella Ramirez
REU (Univ. of Missouri) Summer 2024
Brian Song
REU (Vanderbilt Univ.) Summer 2024
Eddie Choi
Post-Bacc Research Assistant 2024
Visiting student (UNICAMP) 2024
Hongzhang Wang
MS Computer Science Dec 2023
PhD CS Fall 2023
Now at Assitant Professor at University of Nebraska-Omaha
Josh Liu
REU Summer 2023
Sam Schwartz
REU Summer 2023
Alex Greene
MS CS May 2023
Now at Bridgewater Associates
PhD CS May 2023
Now at Assistant Professor at Boise State University
Krishna Bhatraju
High School Mentee 2021-2022
Now at Stanford
Visiting PhD Student from Wageningen University 2023
Now at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Zachary Pulliam
MS Data Science 2022
Now at Capgemini
PhD CS 2022
Now at Kitware
Benjamin Brodie
Postdoc (PhD Math) 2020-2022
Now at BlueHalo
Cohen Archbold
BS CS May 2022
Now at PhD program in CS at the University of Kentucky
Julia Stekardis
Undergraduate Research 2021
Now at Expedia Group
Jacob Birge
MS CS 2021
Now at UPS
Evan Bolton
BS CS Summer 2021
Now at Badger Technologies
Nicole Wong
Visiting BS student in CS (was High School Mentee) 2018-2021
Now at MIT
Shashank Bhatt
Undergraduate Research 2019 - 2022
Now at TBD
Adib Mosharrof
Visiting PhD Student 2021 - 2022
Now at Siddique Lab
PhD CS Summer 2021
Now at yembo.ai
Chris Wang
High School Mentee 2021
Now at University of Missouri
David T. Jones
MS CS 2021
Now at Kinetic Vision
Visiting PhD student from University of Campinas, Brazil Dec 2020
Now at Research Software Engineer at Microsoft Research
PhD in CS May 2020
Now at Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-San Antonio
BS Math May 2020
Now at PhD program in Math at Auburn University
MS CS 2020
Now at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Visiting student from INPE, Brazil 2019
Now at Assistant Professor at University of Twente
Thomas Barber
REU Summer 2019
Evan Yang
BS CS 2019
PhD CS Summer 2019
Now at Assistant Professor of Practice at Purdue University, Department of Computer and Information Technology
Yuhan Long
REU Summer 2019
Now at PhD program at University of Minnesota
Whitney Dawson
High School Mentee Summer 2019
MS CS May 2019
Now at PhD program at Simon Fraser University
PhD CS Fall 2018
Now at MatrixSense Inc., Shanghai
PhD CS Fall 2018
Now at Data Scientist at Zillow
PhD CS May 2018
Now at Dzyne Technologies
BS CS May 2018
Now at PhD program at Johns Hopkins University
MS CS 2018
Co-Advisor: Sally Ellingson
Now at Data Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PhD program at UCSD
Hamid Hamraz
PhD CS 2018
Now at Data Scientist at Microsoft
Ryan Landry
High School Mentee 2018
Now at Virginia Tech
Patrick Tutzauer
Visiting student from Institute for Photogrammetry, University of Stuttgart Fall 2017
Now at nFrames (Esri Research and Development Center Stuttgart)
Samuel Davidson
REU 2017
Now at Firmware Engineer at Lexmark
Angelo Stekardis
BS CS (Chellgren Fellow) 2017
Now at Computer Vision Software Engineer at Iris Automation
Andrew Albrecht
High School Mentee 2017
Now at University of Louisville
C.J. Labianca
High School Mentee 2017
Now at Purdue University
PhD CS 2016
Now at Associate Professor at Southern Connecticut State University
MS CS 2016
Now at Badger Technologies (was Software Developer at airSpring Software)
BS CS 2015
Now at PhD program in CS at University of Florida
Andrew Tapia
High School Mentee 2015
Now at University of Kentucky
Feiyu Shi
MS EE 2013
Now at MS program in CS at Boston University, then Microsoft
Alex Lucas
High School Mentee 2013
Jim Knochelman
BS CS 2012
Now at IBM (was Software Developer at airSpring Software)