Research Network
ASU Active Perception Group
– A New American Computing Research Group
Faculty Members:
‘YZ’ Yezhou Yang (Group Lead, Founding Principle Investigator)
Mohammad Farhadi (Adjunct Professor, SCAI ASU and Visiting Researcher from ARGOS Vision)
Bharatesh Chakravarthi (Assistant Teaching Professor))
Doctoral Students:
XiangRui Liu (Fulton PhD Fellow)
Agneet Chatterjee
Ethan Wisdom (Fulton Schools Dean’s Fellow)
Nilay Yilmaz (Turkish Presidential PhD Fellow)
Forouzan Fallah
Chi-Yao Huang (Fulton PhD Fellow)
Master Students:
Huiliang Shao
Shibin Zheng
Aadhavan Sadasivam
Fengyu Yan
Shivakshit Patri
Undergraduate Students:
The group is open to undergraduate students who want to do projects with us.
Visiting Scholars:
Emin Guney (visiting PhD student from Turkey (TÜBİTAK), 2024-25)
Zhe Wang (visiting PhD student from Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics(BUAA), 2018-2020)
Prof. Ming Wu, visiting from Beijing University of Posts and Communications (2017-2018)
The group is open to scholars who want to do a long-term (half year +) project with us.
Arizona High School Interns (STEM outreach):
Maverick Chung, from BASIS Peoria in Peoria, Arizona
Jerry Sun, from Hamilton High School, Arizona
Alumni:
Sheng Cheng (PhD 2025, Current: Amazon AGI)
Joshua Feinglass (PhD 2025, Current: Green Squirrel Research)
Changhoon Kim (PhD 2024. Current: Tenure track assistant Professor at Soongsil University, Korea)
Tejas Gokhale (PhD 2023 in Computer Science. Current: Tenure track assistant Professor at Uni. of Maryland Baltimore County)
Xin Ye (PostDoctoral Researcher 2021-2022, now research scientist at Bosch AI Research US)
Mohammad Farhadi (PhD 2022 in Computer Engineering. Current: PostDoctoral Researcher at SCAI ASU)
Zhiyuan (Jacob) Fang (PhD 2022 in Computer Science. Current: Research Scientist at Amazon)
Xin Ye (PhD 2021 in Computer Science. Current: PostDoctoral Researcher at SCAI ASU)
Mo Izady (PhD 2019 in Neuroscience, co-advising with Dr. Mark Preul, MD from the Barrow Neurological Institute, Current: Data Systems Program Manager, Stanford Children’s Health)
Anshul Rai (Master with Thesis 2019; Current; Enthought)
Kausic Gunasekar (Master with Thesis 2019; Current; Bright Machines)
Rudra Saha (Master with Thesis 2018; Current: Verisk AI lab)
Shashank Tadepalli Ravishankar (Master 2018; Current: Mathworks)
Srikrishna Yasaswi Tallavajhala (Master 2018; Current: Datalogic)
Divyanshu Bandil (Master 2018; Current: Logitech)
Aman Verma (Master 2018; Current: Nvidia)
Bachelor: Brandon Dubbs, Destiny Vidaure (Berret Honor Thesis), Roman Paolo Pascua (Berret Honor Thesis)
Stephen McAleer (Bidstrup Undergraduate Fellow for Spring 2017) (Graduation Year: 2017; Current: PhD student at UC Irvine)
Collaborators
Close Collaborators:
Somak Aditya (PhD student in CS, co-advising with Dr. Chitta Baral)
Mo Izady (PhD student in Neuroscience, co-advising with Dr. Mark Preul, MD from the Barrow Neurological Institute)
Chengxi Ye
Yi Li
Long-term Collaborators: