{"id":21,"date":"2021-02-03T20:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:24:22","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Faculty<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span>\n\t<div class=\"profile-listing\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/191\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"121\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2021\/03\/vasia2-1-636x515.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Vasiliki (Vasia) Kalavri<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Assistant Professor<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/john-liagouris\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2021\/02\/john_liagouris-636x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">John Liagouris<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Assistant Professor<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div><!--\/.profile-listing-->\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PhD Students<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span>\n\t<div class=\"profile-listing\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/naima-abrar-shami\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"89\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2023\/09\/picture-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Naima Abrar<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/eli-baum\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2023\/09\/000089110017-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Eli Baum<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/sam-buxbaum\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"129\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2023\/09\/pic-547x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Sam Buxbaum<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/muhammad-faisal\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"117\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2021\/02\/Faisal-636x495.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Muhammad Faisal<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD Candidate<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/lei-huang\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2024\/03\/IMG_0167.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Lei Huang<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/sakshi-sharma\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2025\/03\/1000000522-636x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Sakshi Sharma<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/yuhang-song\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2023\/11\/yuhang-profile-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Yuhang Song<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/yuanli-wang\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2021\/07\/\u7167\u7247-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Yuanli Wang<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">PhD student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div><!--\/.profile-listing-->\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Undergraduates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span>\n\t<div class=\"profile-listing\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/adam-godel\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2026\/01\/headshot-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Godel\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Adam Godel<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Undergraduate Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/arnav-kulkarni\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-13-at-12.20.40\u202fPM-451x636.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Arnav Kulkarni<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Undergraduate Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/alessandra-lanz\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"121\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_8786-514x636.jpg\" alt=\"Alessandra Lanz\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Alessandra Mar\u00eda Lanz<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Undergraduate Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div><!--\/.profile-listing-->\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Collaborators<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span>\n\t<div class=\"profile-listing\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/ankush-das\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2025\/09\/profile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Ankush Das<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Assistant Professor<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/mayank-varia\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/casp\/files\/2023\/09\/photo-423x636-423x636-240x360-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Mayank Varia<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Associate Professor<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div><!--\/.profile-listing-->\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Alumni<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Nitin Mathai (next: PhD student at UT Austin)<\/li>\n<li>Talia Chen (next: PhD student at UT Austin)<\/li>\n<li>Zikun Wang (next: PhD student at NEU)<\/li>\n<li>Melissa Martinez<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/yuchen-lu\/\">Yuchen Lu<\/a> (next: PhD student at Brown)<\/li>\n<li>Emmanouil Kritharakis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/po-hao-chen\/\">Po Hao Chen<\/a> (next: PhD student at Brown)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/yizheng-xie\/\">Yizheng Xie<\/a> (next: PhD student at Brown)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/iman-attia\/\">Iman Attia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/vivek-unnikrishnan\/\">Vivek Unnikrishnan<\/a> &#8212; MS Researcher (next: Senior Software Engineer at Amazon)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/ian-saucy\/\">Ian Saucy<\/a> &#8212; MS Researcher\u00a0(next: Solutions Engineer at BU Spark!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/eric-chen\/\">Eric Chen<\/a> &#8212; MS Researcher (next: Software Engineer at InterSystems)<\/li>\n<li>Hsin-Hung Wu &#8212; BA Researcher (next: Master student at the Stevens Institute of Technology)<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/shekhar-sharma\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/jingyu-su\/\">Jingyu Su<\/a> &#8211; (next: Software Engineer at Qualcomm)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/baiqing-lyu\/\">Baiqing Lyu<\/a> &#8212; (next: Software Engineer at TikTok)<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/xavier-ruiz\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/jerry-zhang\/\">Jerry Zhang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/derek-ewers\/\">Derek Ewers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h4>Interested in joining us?<\/h4>\n<p>We are always looking for motivated students and postdocs to join our lab.<br \/>\nIf you are an <strong>undergraduate<\/strong> or <strong>Master&#8217;s<\/strong> student at BU, you can work with us (1) through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/current-students\/undergraduate\/special-opportunities\/directed-study\/\">Directed Study<\/a>, (2) through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/\">UROP program<\/a>, or as a Research Assistant. Please contact Prof. Kalavri or Prof. Liagouris with your CV and research interests.<br \/>\nFor <strong>PhD admissions<\/strong>, check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/phd-program\/phd\/\">application instructions and deadlines<\/a> of the Graduate School of Arts &amp; Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty PhD Students Undergraduates Collaborators Alumni Nitin Mathai (next: PhD student at UT Austin) Talia Chen (next: PhD student at UT Austin) Zikun Wang (next: PhD student at NEU) Melissa Martinez Yuchen Lu (next: PhD student at Brown) Emmanouil Kritharakis Po Hao Chen (next: PhD student at Brown) Yizheng Xie (next: PhD student at Brown) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18854,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}