The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Postdoctoral Researchers

The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science offers many opportunities to support our Postdoctoral Research Fellows. Learn more about our Future Faculty Fellows program and explore Open Postdoctoral Positions.

To be added to this page, please complete the Postdoctoral Researcher Form.

Amnon David Attali
  • Areas of Expertise:
  • Dissertation Topic:
  • Preferred Employment:
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • /
  • Postdoc Advisor:
Xiusi Chen
he/him/his
  • Areas of Expertise:
    • LLM Alignment
    • Reasoning and Planning
    • Neuro-Symbolic AI
    • Language Models
  • Dissertation Topic:
    • One Step towards Autonomous AI Agent: Reasoning, Alignment and Planning
  • Preferred Employment:
    • Academia - Research
    • Industry - Research
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • 8/2026
  • Postdoc Advisor:
    • Heng Ji
Maryam Dehghan
  • Areas of Expertise:
  • Dissertation Topic:
  • Preferred Employment:
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • /
  • Postdoc Advisor:
    • Dr. Edgar Solomonik
Katherine June Mimnaugh
she/her/hers
  • Areas of Expertise:
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Virtual Reality
  • Dissertation Topic:
    • Investigating the Human Impact of Perceptually Optimized Motions for Immersive Telepresence Robots
  • Preferred Employment:
    • Academia - Teaching
    • Academia - Research
    • Industry - Research
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • /2025
  • Postdoc Advisor:
    • Nancy Amato
James Motes
  • Areas of Expertise:
    • Multi-robot Systems
    • Task and Motion Planning
  • Dissertation Topic:
    • Multi-robot Task and Motion Planning in Hybrid State Spaces
  • Preferred Employment:
    • Academia - Research
    • Industry - Research
    • Industry - Development
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • 8/2025
  • Postdoc Advisor:
    • Nancy M. Amato
Swati Pandita
she/her/hers
  • Areas of Expertise:
  • Dissertation Topic:
  • Preferred Employment:
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • /
  • Postdoc Advisor:
Nico Ritschel
he/him/his
  • Areas of Expertise:
    • Software Engineering
    • Computer Science Education
  • Dissertation Topic:
    • Enriching block-based end-user programming with visual features
  • Preferred Employment:
    • Academia - Teaching
    • Academia - Research
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • /
  • Postdoc Advisor:
    • Geoffrey Herman
Irving Solis Vidana
he/him/his
  • Areas of Expertise:
  • Dissertation Topic:
  • Preferred Employment:
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • /
  • Postdoc Advisor:
Bogdan Stoica
  • Areas of Expertise:
    • AI-for-Systems
    • Programming Languages
    • Software Engineering
    • Systems
  • Dissertation Topic:
  • Preferred Employment:
    • Academia - Teaching
    • Academia - Research
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • 8/2025
  • Postdoc Advisor:
    • Prof. Tianyin Xu
Wilfredo Torres Calderon
  • Areas of Expertise:
    • Image and video understanding
    • Computer Vision
  • Dissertation Topic:
    • Video representation learning for vision-driven activity analysis in construction
  • Preferred Employment:
    • Academia - Research
    • Industry - Research
    • Industry - Development
  • Anticipated Employment Start Date:
    • 8/2025
  • Postdoc Advisor:
    • Derek Hoiem