Master's and Doctoral Celebration 2021

Master's & Doctoral Celebration 2021

Congratulations and welcome to graduating students, family, and friends!

In honor of our 248 master's degree recipients and 15 doctoral degree recipients this year, we have created this collection of celebrations and reflections looking back at everyone's accomplishments.

We're glad you are here to join in the celebration.

Dean's Message

Dean Laura Haas begins our celebration with a look back at what our students have achieved, a shout-out to family and friends, and some thoughts about how our newest alumni can use their advanced superpowers for good.
Watch on YouTube »

Faculty & Staff Congratulations

Graduates—before you go, we want to tell you how extraordinary you are.

Class of 2021 Slideshow

We hope you'll take a moment to celebrate our graduates as their names appear on screen.
Slides are arranged by degree, then alphabetically by last name.

Class Presentation

Hello, world! We proudly present the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences class of 2021.

Master's Graduates

Aniketh Lingachar Acharya
Rachana Narayan Acharya
Aaditya Acharya
Nikita Agarwal
Aditya Vikram Agarwal
Karnika Agarwal
Prerna Agarwal
Rishabh Agrawal
Abhishek Ahuja
Amrit Alok
Michael Andrews
Rico Angell
Pradhiksha Ashok Kumar
Akanksha Atrey
Swan Htet Aung
Alireza Bahramali
Ahsaas Bajaj
Vishnu Balakrishnan
Sangeetha Balasubramanian
Supreetha Bangalore Somasundar
Alexander Behr
Nikita Bhalla
Nikita Bhalla
Apurva Bhandari
Daivat Prakash Bhatt
Srimoyee Bhattacharyya
Vivek Rajesh Bhave
Jeel Prakash Bhavsar
Sayantan Bhowmik
Pankaj Bishnoi
Alexander S Bobronnikov
Pavan Reddy Bommana
Sarah Lynn Brockman
Jacob Brown
Koushik Reddy Bukkasamudram
Joseph Charles Rollins Canning
Rui Cao
Simar Chadda
Yash Chandak
Gayathri Venu Madhuri Chandu
Bhabesh Chanduka
Shruti Chanumolu
Umang Chaudhary
Sihua Chen
Yen-Sung Chen
Yuwei Chen
Zezhou Cheng
Sri Satya Sai Bhargav Chippada
Yaswanth Chittepu
Ming Hay Chung
Sai Pavitra Madhurima Dangati
Thu Anh Dao
Bidya Binayam Dash
Nidhi Devang Davawala
Meet Kirankumar Dave
Mitali Hemant Dave
Abhik Deb
Peter J Delmastro
Ratnadeep Dey
Arun Dunna
Andre N Dvorak
Emily Jean Dzwil
Chih-Che Fang
Zaid Ahmed Farooq
Kriti Faujdar
Arthur Patrick Feeney
Dylan M Finkbeiner
Erina Fukuda
Aarshvi Gajjar
Luke Cote Gamelin
Ryan Taylor Gandolfi
Shreyas Ganesh
Hao Gao
Sreekar Garlapati
Shibin George
Ajinkya Suresh Ghadge
Benjamin George Glickenhaus
Kyle Januario Godinho
Chirag Goel
Xia Gong
Arvind Govindarajan
Purujit Goyal
Reilly Noonan Grant
Sahil Grover
Karthick Gunasekaran
Ananya Gupta
Somil Gupta
Aayush Gupta
Parul Gupta
Jennifer Halbleib
Samuel James Harris
Zachary Preston Harrison
Emily Herbert
Vinita Hissaria
Hoang Nguyen Ho
Trevor Maddin Hubbard
Chuu Hsiang Hung
Eunjeong Hwang
Hee Hwang
Ji Hun Hwang
Nikita Jaiman
Karishma Jain
Mayank Kumar Jha
Shravya Kadur
Abdul Hannan Kanji
Siddarth Karuppusamy Muthukumar
Amey Kasar
Sumeha Kashyap
Rohith Reddy Katikireddy
Gursimran Kaur
Vishal Keshav
Nilesh Khade
Mohammad Omar Khursheed
Young Se Kim
Vaishnavi Kommaraju
Shubhankar Ajit Kothari
Zhiyi Lai
Khoa Gia Le
Russell Lee
Joshua G Levine
Chao Li
Dong Li
Hanqing Li
Tianshu Li
Xinlu Li
Qianlin Liang
Xin Miao Lin
Danyang Liu
Xiao Liu
Elita Lobo
Chenghao Lyu
Harsh Hemant Malara
Venkata Sri Lalitha Megha Malladi
Nikhil Maryala
Kanchi Masalia
Kshiti Dinesh Mehta
Shezan Rohinton Mirzan
Aarshee Mishra
Anshuman Mishra
Kartik Mittal
Evan R Moore
Surya Deekshith Gupta Mudiyanur
Smriti Murali
Anirudh Muthukumar
Kenneth Myers
John Britto Edinburgh Nadar
Ravi Kiran Reddy Nagandla
Minori Narita
Kaartikey Natrajan
Vasile Negrescu
Max A Nelson
Sanchit Nevgi
Christopher Nota
Parag Pachpute
Sai Sumanth Palakurthy
Rohit Palivela
Kunjal Shantibhai Panchal
Jay Panchal
Deepanshu Pariyani
Aditya Parmar
Shaurya Kamlesh Patel
Dhrutiben Patel
Gustavo Perez Sarabia
John Robert Peterson
Soumya Polisetty
Nicholas Polosky
Siddhant Sameer Pradhan
Prafull Prakash
Varun Anantha Prasad
Purva Pruthi
Chi Ho Pun
Kushagra Pundeer
Sudarshan Raghavan
Aishwarya Rajasekaran
Kautilya Rajbhara
Soubhik Rakshit
Anjali Ramaprasad
Sharath Ramkumar
Prashant Ranjan
Jaideep Raghunath Rao
Kathryn Ricci
Ranjan Rohit
Aditya Roy
Nicholas William Samoray
Ayanava Sarkar
Rik Sengupta
Kaivankumar Ketankumar Shah
Neeraj Sharma
Pulkit Sharma
Sahil Sharma
Saurabh Kumar Shashidhar
Kollengode Subramanyam Mayur Shastri
Zhejun Shen
Prabodh Prabhakar Shetty
Saurabh Shirodkar
Harshul Shukla
Phillip G Sifferlen
Niraj Kumar Singh
Shashwat Singh
Abhik Singla
Cole Smith
Samuel Smith
Joseph Spitzer
Nitin Srinivasan
Videsh Suman
Ruei-Yao Sun
Apurva Swarnakar
Krishnkant Swarnkar
Daivik Swarup Oggu Venkata
John Sweeney
Weihao Tan
Dung Thai
Chaitanya Manish Thakkar
Raghuveer Thirukovalluru
Kajal Tiwari
Kyle Joseph Toohey
Trang M Tran
Shivam Utreja
Sourish Sanjay Vaghulade
Chaitanya Varma
Aparna Vijayakumar
Tu Vu
Somin Wadhwa
John Mbari Wamburu
Li Wang
Bin Wang
Buqin Wang
Huan Wang
Yuan-Jar Wang
Zheng Wang
Fubao Wu
Haoyang Wu
Binbin Xie
Wenbo Xie
Binbin Xie
Zhiyang Xu
Zhou Xu
Anupam Yadav
Ritu Yadav
Qifan Yang
Zonghai Yao
Zhihan Ying
Boming Zhang
Wenxuan Zhang
Sidong Zhang
Yucheng Zhang
Wenlong Zhao
Jason Zhuo

Doctoral Graduates

Su Lin Blodgett
Advisor: Brendan O'Connor
Sociolinguistically Driven Approaches for Just Natural Language Processing
Daniel Cohen
Advisor: W. Bruce Croft
Neural Methods for Answer Passage Retrieval over Sparse Collections
Stefan Dernbach
Advisor: Donald Towsley
Utilizing Graph Structure for Machine Learning
Amanda Gentzel
Advisor: David Jensen
Improving Evaluation Methods for Causal Modeling Algorithms
Stephen Giguere
Advisors: Philip Thomas, Yuriy Brun
Safe and Practical Machine Learning
Craig Stuart Greenberg
Advisor: Andrew McCallum
Compact Representations of Uncertainty in Clustering
Ariel Kobren
Advisors: Andrew McCallum
Reasoning About User Feedback Under Identity Uncertainty in Knowledge Base Construction
A. Pinar Ozisik
Advisor: Brian Levine
Concentration Inequalities in the Wild: Case Studies in Blockchain & Reinforcement Learning
Rachee Singh
Advisor: Phillipa Gill
Traffic Engineering in Planet-Scale Cloud Networks
Kevin Spiteri
Advisor: Ramesh Sitamaran
Video Adaptation for High-Quality Content Delivery
David Tench
Advisor: Andrew McGregor
Algorithms for Massive, Expensive, or Otherwise Inconvenient Graphs
Emma Tosch
Advisor: David Jensen
System Design for Digital Experimentation and Explanation Generation
Gayane Vardoyan
Advisor: Donald Towsley
Performance Evaluation of Classical and Quantum Communication Systems
Luke Vilnis
Advisor: Andrew McCallum
Geometric Representation Learning
Dan Zhang
Advisor: Gerome Miklau
Towards Practical Differentially Private Mechanism Design and Deployment