People

We are a computer vision research group developing multimodal representation learning, geospatial AI, and generative methods, with applications in biodiversity, environmental sensing, and healthcare. We welcome postdocs, students, research staff, and visitors—see our openings and FAQ page to learn more about joining the lab.

Current Members

Staff

Nathan Jacobs
Director, Professor of Computer Science
Subash Khanal
Postdoc · PhD in Computer Science, WashU
Jonathan Lin
Jonathan Lin
Research Assistant · MS in Computer Science, WashU
Hamza Iqbal
Research Associate · MS in Computer Science, WashU

Undergraduate Researchers

Rowan Sandvig
Rowan Sandvig
Undergraduate Researcher
Ice Cui
Ice Cui
Undergraduate Researcher
Phoenix Jarosz
Phoenix Jarosz
Undergraduate Researcher
Kexing (Ariana) Li
Kexing (Ariana) Li
Undergraduate Researcher

Alumni

Postdocs

2020-2022
Benjamin Brodie PhD in Mathematics, University of Kentucky

PhD

2019-2025
Subash Khanal PhD, Computer Science
2023
Xin Xing PhD, Computer Science
Yu Zhang PhD, Computer Science
2022
Connor Greenwell PhD, Computer Science
2021
Hunter Blanton PhD, Computer Science
M. Usman Rafique PhD, Electrical Engineering
2020
Gongbo "Tony" Liang PhD, Computer Science
2019
Tawfiq Salem PhD, Computer Science
2018
Menghua "Ted" Zhai PhD, Computer Science
Zach Bessinger PhD, Computer Science
Scott Workman PhD, Computer Science
Hamid Hamraz PhD, Computer Science
2016
Mohammad T. Islam PhD, Computer Science
2014
R. Paul Mihail PhD, Computer Science

Master's

2026
Mohammad Rouie Miab MS, Computer Science
2025
Haris Naveed MS, Computer Science
Vinh Pham MS, Engineering Data Analytics & Statistics
Jack McCall MS, Computer Science
Ethan Weilheimer MS, Computer Science
Jingyun Ma MS, Computer Science
Lunchi Guo MS, Computer Science
Shuhan Zhang MS, Computer Science
Myan Sudharsanan MS, Computer Science
2024
Wanzhou Liu MS, Computer Science
2023
Hongzhang Wang MS, Computer Science
Alex Greene MS, Computer Science
2022
Zachary Pulliam MS, Data Science
2021
Jacob Birge MS, Computer Science
David T. Jones MS, Computer Science
2020
Armin Hadzic MS, Computer Science
2019
Weilian "William" Song MS, Computer Science
2018
William "Derek" Jones MS, Computer Science
2016
Ryan Baltenberger MS, Computer Science
2013
Feiyu Shi MS, Electrical Engineering

Research Staff

2024
Eddie Choi Post-Bacc Research Assistant

Undergraduate Researchers + REU

2025
Dev Gupta Undergraduate Researcher, Computer Science
Nick Haisler REU · Drake
2024
Daniel Khen Undergraduate Researcher
John Lim REU · Northwestern U.
Gabriella Ramirez REU · Univ. of Missouri
Brian Song REU · Vanderbilt Univ.
2023
Josh Liu REU
Sam Schwartz REU
2022
Cohen Archbold Undergraduate Researcher
2019-2022
Shashank Bhatt Undergraduate Research
2021
Julia Stekardis Undergraduate Research
Evan Bolton Undergraduate Researcher
2018-2021
Nicole Wong Undergraduate Researcher, Computer Science
2020
Sean Grate Undergraduate Researcher
2019
Thomas Barber REU
Evan Yang Undergraduate Researcher
Yuhan Long REU
2018
Aaron Mueller Undergraduate Researcher
2017
Samuel Davidson REU
Angelo Stekardis Undergraduate Researcher · Chellgren Fellow
2015
David Smith Undergraduate Researcher
2012
Jim Knochelman Undergraduate Researcher

Visiting Researchers

2025-2026
Abby Stylianou Visiting Associate Professor
2025
Clemens Mosig Visiting PhD student · Leipzig University
2024
José Nascimento Visiting PhD student · UNICAMP
2023
Alex Levering Visiting PhD student · Wageningen University
2020
Rafael Padilha Visiting PhD student · University of Campinas
2019
Raian Vargas Maretto Visiting PhD student · INPE
2017
Patrick Tutzauer Visiting PhD student · Institute for Photogrammetry

High School Mentees

2021-2022
Krishna Bhatraju High School Mentee
2021
Chris Wang High School Mentee
2019
Whitney Dawson High School Mentee
2018
Ryan Landry High School Mentee
2017
Andrew Albrecht High School Mentee
C.J. Labianca High School Mentee
2015
Andrew Tapia High School Mentee
2013
Alex Lucas High School Mentee