CIEL - Computational Intelligence for Engineering Lab
The Team

People

The researchers behind the Computational Intelligence for Engineering Lab — current members and alumni.

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Hadi Meidani

Hadi Meidani

Principal Investigator, Associate Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read full bio →

Current Group

Current Members

VZ
Vincent Zhong
PhD Student
Neural operators, physics-informed learning
MY
Mingyue Yu
PhD Student
Scientific machine learning
MK
Mohammad Hossein Kazemi
PhD Student
Uncertainty quantification
AT
Ashish Thapa
PhD Student
Graph neural networks
YZ
Yufan Zhang
MS Student
Machine learning for engineering
WJ
Warren Jidjana
Undergraduate Researcher
Design intelligence
LH
Luke Hower
Undergraduate Researcher
Network intelligence
Where They Are Now

Alumni

Former members of the lab and their current positions.

Former Graduate Students

  • Rini Jasmine Gladstone (Now at Bayer)
  • Tong Liu (Now at Uber)
  • Vitor Ferreira Grizzi (Now at Argonne National Lab)
  • Mohammad Amin Nabian (PhD, 2015–2020. Senior Software Engineer, AI-HPC, NVIDIA)
  • Negin Alemazkoor (PhD, 2014–2019. Assistant Professor at University of Virginia)
  • Xu Wu (PhD co-advisee, 2015–2017. Assistant Professor at NCSU)
  • Xiyue Li (MS, 2018–2019. Transportation Engineering, Champaign County Regional Planning Commission)
  • JayaPraneeth Rangamudri (MS, 2025)
  • Yiyuan Lei (MS, 2018–2019. PhD Student at NYU)
  • Shiyu Wang (MS, 2017–2018. Industry in China)
  • Yogesh Bhandari (MS co-advisee, 2017)
  • Neelotpal Shukla (MS, 2015–2017. Senior Software Engineer at Morningstar)
  • Shengliang Dai (MS co-advisee, 2016)

Former Undergraduate Students

  • Bora Ozaltun
  • Aliaa Taha
  • Jamil Jamil
  • Radha Avudaiappan
  • Deepak Katariya
  • Nina Trousdale