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EnglishWho Are the Members and Alumni of the Polo Club of Data Science?
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The Polo Club of Data Science at Georgia Tech lists its current members and recent alumni directly on its homepage, with a "See all alum" link for the full roster. Current members are identified by first name plus degree program and department (CS, ML, or CSE, at PhD, MS, or undergraduate level), while recent alumni are shown with their first name and current position or graduate program. If you want to know who works in the lab today or where its graduates have gone, the homepage is the authoritative starting point.
Current members
The site lists current Polo Club members alongside recent alumni in a single roster. Members are labeled by first name and program:
| Name | Program |
|---|---|
| Seongmin | CS PhD |
| Ben | ML PhD |
| Anthony | CS PhD |
| Matthew | ML PhD |
| Alec | ML PhD |
| Mansi | CS PhD |
| Aeree | ML PhD |
| Alex | CS PhD |
| Alex | CSE PhD |
| Sri | CS Undergrad |
| Aishwarya | CS Undergrad |
| Rahul | CS Undergrad |
| Kunal | CS MS |
| Elliott | CS Undergrad |
The roster spans PhD, MS, and undergraduate levels across CS, ML, and CSE. The lab is led by Polo (the faculty member referenced throughout the news items and talks).
Recent alumni and where they went
The same roster shows recent alumni with their destinations:
| Name | Destination |
|---|---|
| Haekyu | Machine Learning Engineer, Stripe |
| Jay | Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI |
| Austin | Professor, Cal Poly |
| Sivapriya | AI Research, JPMorgan Chase |
| Harsha | Deep Learning Engineer, Toyon Research Corporation |
| Omar | CS PhD, Stanford |
| Megan | CS MS, Stanford |
| Alexander | CS PhD |
| Kevin | ML PhD, CMU |
| Pratham | Software Engineer, Figma |
| David | Machine Learning Engineer, Apple |
| Justin | Software Engineer, Meta |
| Grace | CS PhD, MIT |
Destinations fall into three broad categories: industry roles (OpenAI, Stripe, Apple, Meta, Figma, JPMorgan Chase, Toyon Research), faculty positions (Cal Poly), and further graduate study (Stanford, CMU, MIT).
How to see the full alumni list
The homepage roster is a recent-members-and-alumni snapshot, not the complete history. A "See all alum" link sits next to the roster and leads to the full alumni list. Use that link if you need someone who graduated earlier than the names shown above.
What the news items add about members
The "Latest News" section ties specific members to recent research output, which is useful if you want to know what individual members work on:
- Alec — Flow Reasoning Models paper accepted to NeurIPS'26 DiffuLM Workshop; Time Conditioning Optional for Flow Matching accepted to NeurIPS'26
- Aeree — UNIPO won IEEE VIS'26 Best Short Paper, Honorable Mention
- Anthony — RECAP paper accepted to EMNLP'26 main conference
- Matthew — ComplicitSplat paper accepted to BMVC Main Conference
- Seongmin — defended her CS PhD thesis (May 2026)
- Austin — won the CoC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (April 2026)
- Grace and Sri — both won the Donald V. Jackson Fellowship for outstanding first-year MS (April 2026)
These entries confirm that members publish across venues including NeurIPS, IEEE VIS, EMNLP, and BMVC, and that the lab's research spans human-centered AI, LLM fine-tuning visualization, and 3D/vision topics.
Practical notes
- Names are given as first names only on the homepage, so match them against the full alumni page or individual project pages if you need full names or contact details.
- The roster mixes current members and alumni without a separate visual grouping in the excerpt, so read the program/position label to tell them apart: a degree program (e.g., "CS PhD") means current; a job title or another university means alumnus.
- For research-area context behind these names, the lab's stated thrusts are human-centered AI, large network visualization, scalable graph mining, and cybersecurity and fraud.