James Anderson – group

Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Students

Yiqian Wu (PhD student; Fall 2021- present)
BS Building, Environment and Energy Eng, HUST
MS EE, Tsinghua

Donglin Zhan (PhD student; Fall 2021- present)
BS Applied Math, Sichuan University
MS EE, Columbia

Leonardo Felipe Toso (PhD student; Fall 2022- present)
BS EE, University of Campinas
MEng Control Eng., CentraleSupelec
MS Control, Signal and Image Processing, University of Paris-Saclay

Ariana Haghighi (MS/PhD student; Fall 2024- present)
BS ECE, Cornell
Co-advised with Matthias Preindl

Kasra Fallah (PhD student; Fall 2024- present)
BS EE, Sharif University of Technology
MS ECE, Waterloo

Jun Zhou (PhD student; Incoming Fall’26)
BS Math, Anhui University
MS Control Science & Eng., HUST

Longling (Gloria) Geng (PhD student; Incoming Fall’26)
BS CS & Applied Math, Hong Kong Polytechnic
MS ECE, Stanford

Alumni

Ishaan Mahajan (MS student)
Next stop: CMU, Mechanical Engineering PhD program

Davit Shadunts (MS Student)
Next stop: Perceptron, ML engineer

Quiankun Li (MS Student)
Next stop: NUS Singapore, The Institute of Operations Research and Analytics PhD program

Han Wang (PhD, 2024)
Thesis: Federated Learning for Reinforcement Learning and Control
Next stop: LinkedIn, ML Engineer

Chenyu Zhang (MS Student)
Next stop: MIT, IDSS PhD program

Abdullah Alhadlaq (MS Student)
Next stop: UC Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD program

Jip Kim (Postdoc)
Co-advised with Gil Zussman
Next stop: Korea Institute of Energy Technology, Assistant Professor