STMI Lab - Team

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !

Table of Contents
Staff and PhDs
Selected Master and Bachelor Students
Alumni

Staff and PhDs

Bobak J. Mortazavi, Ph.D.

Lab Director, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, started Aug 2017
email: bobakm{at}tamu{dot}edu

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
Ph.D. in Computer Science, UCLA
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Irvine
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.A. in Applied Mathematics, UC Berkeley

Ryan King

Ph.D. Student, started on Aug 2021
email: kingrc15{at}tamu{dot}edu

B.S. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Virginia Military Institute

Sicong Huang

Ph.D. Student, started on Jun 2021
email: siconghuang{at}tamu{dot}edu

B.S. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University

Yichen Tao

Ph.D. Student, started on Aug 2024
email: yichentao[at]tamu[dot]edu

B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Texas A&M University

Gefei Shen

Ph.D. Student, started on Aug 2025
email: gshen[at]tamu[dot]edu

B.S. in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Selected Master and Bachelor Students

Julian Ezra Samuel

Master student in computer science, started Aug 2024
email: julian_ezra[at]tamu[dot]edu

B.S. in Physics, Loyola College, Chennai, India
M.S. in Physics, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India

Barry Liu

Master student in computer science, started Aug 2024
email: barryliu34[at]tamu[dot]edu

B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Allen Thomas

Bachelor student in computer science, started Mar 2025
email: allen.t_a28[at]tamu[dot]edu

Alumni

PhD Graduates

Nathan C. Hurley, MD, PhD - 2022 - Anesthesiology Resident at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Anesthesiology

Zepeng Huo, PhD - 2022 - Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine and Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM)

Lida Zhang, PhD - 2023 - Staff ML Scientist at Visa Inc.

Arash Pakbin, PhD - 2025 - MTS Software Engineer at AMD Inc.

Zhale Nowroozilarki, PhD - 2025 - Applied Machine Learning Scientist at Apple Inc.