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Julia Gonski
Columbia postdoc Jul 2019 - Oct 2023
(Moved to Associate Staff Scientist at SLAC)

Konie Al Khoury
Columbia postdoc Nov 2020 - Sep 2023
(Moved to Data Consultant at Argusa)

Ines Ochoa
Columbia postdoc July 2015 - June 2020
(Moved to La Caixa Fellowship position at LIP, Portugal)

Kalliopi Iordanidou
Columbia postdoc Feb. 2015 - Feb. 2019
(Moved to Research Associate position at TRIUMF)

Tim Andeen
Columbia postdoc July 2010 - Aug. 2015
(Moved to Asst. Professor position at the University of Texas, Austin)

Emily Thompson
Columbia postdoc Aug. 2011 - Dec. 2014
(Moved to position with Insight Data Science)

Jun Guo
Columbia postdoc Oct. 2009 - Sept. 2014
(Moved to Asst. Professor position at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Max Scherzer
Columbia postdoc Oct. 2011 - Oct. 2013
(Moved to position with Goldman-Sachs)

Kathy Copic
Columbia postdoc Apr. 2007 - Aug. 2011
(Moved to LBNL Staff position)

Valeria Perez Reale
Columbia postdoc Mar. 2008 - Mar. 2011
(Moved to CERN Staff position)

Francesco Spano
Columbia postdoc June 2006 - May 2011
(Moved to Research Assistant position, RHUL)

Thomas Gadfort
Coumbia postdoc May 2007 - Oct 2009
(Moved to Goldhaber Fellowship at BNL)

Andy Haas
Columbia postdoc July 2004 - Nov 2008
(Moved to Panofsky Fellowship at SLAC;
since Sept. 2011 a Prof. at NYU)

Andrew Smith
Graduated 2024
(Now ML engineer at Cadent)

Elena Busch
Graduated 2024
(Moved to Control Systems Engineer at Xcimer Energy)

Daniel Williams
Graduated May 2024
(Now postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University)

Alan Kahn
Graduated August 2022
(Moved to Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies)

Kiley Kennedy
Graduated August 2022
(Moved to Dicke Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University)

Alex Emerman
Graduated August 2021
(Moved to postdoc position at Transportation Security Laboratory)

Devin Mahon
Graduated August 2021
(Moved to postdoc position at U. Minnesota)

Jue Chen
Graduated March 2020

Ryne Carbone
Graduated September 2017
(Moved to position with Unified)

Steve Alkire
Graduated May 2017

Russell Smith
Graduated February 2017

Matt Smith
Graduated December 2016

Matt Klein
Graduated December 2016
(Moved to postdoc position at U Michigan; Since Sept 2024, Asst. Prof. at SMU)

Lei Zhou
Graduated April 2015
(Moved to position with Morgan Stanley)

Diedi Hu
Graduated February 2015
(Moved to position with Yahoo)

Nikiforos Nikiforou
Graduated February 2014
(Moved to CERN Fellow position)

Andrew Altheimer
Graduated June 2014
(Moved to position with Jane Street)

Feng Tian
Graduated December 2013
(Moved to position with Credit Suisse)

Dustin Urbaniec
Graduated May 2013
(Moved to software engineer position with Portfolio 360)

Eric Williams
Graduated July 2012
(Moved to postdoc in radiotherapy
at Memorial Sloan Kettering)

Alex Penson
Graduated April 2012
(Moved to postdoc in Biomedical Informatics
at Columbia University)

David Lopez Mateos
Graduated May 2011
(Now Research Associate at Harvard University)

Kerstin Perez
Graduated May 2011
(Since July 2016, Asst. Prof. at MIT; Since Sept 2024, Associate Prof. at Columbia University)

Heather Gray
Graduated Nov. 2010
(Since Sept 2024, Associate Prof. at UC Berkeley)

Zach Marshall
Graduated Nov. 2010
(Now permanent staff at LBNL)

Seth Caughron
Graduated Oct. 2010
(Moved to postdoc position at MSU)

Mark Cooke
Graduated Sept. 2010
(Moved to postdoc position at LBNL)

Ning Zhou
Graduated Mar. 2010
(Now Asst. Professor at Tsinghua University)

Talia Benioff-White
(Moved to graduate student at UC Santa Barbara)

Alden Beck
(Moved to graduate student at Columbia University)

Gabriel Matos
(Moved to graduate student at Columbia University)