We are proud that the following researchers and scholars were members of the ALPACAS research group in the past. Many of them are still here!

Postdocs:

1. VP Abidha (HKUST, 2023, co-supervised with Mordecai Golin) ⟶ Assistant Professor at Amrita University

MPhil Graduates:

1. Soroush Farokhnia (HKUST, 2021-23) ⟶ PhD in our own group

   • Thesis: "Lazy Contracts: Alleviating High Gas Costs by Secure and Trustless Off-chain Execution of Smart Contracts"

2. Zhuo Cai (HKUST, 2021-23) ⟶ PhD in our own group

   • Thesis: "A Game-theoretic Approach for Provably-Uniform Random Number Generation in Decentralized Networks"

3. Ahmed Zaher (HKUST, 2021-23) ⟶ PhD in our own group

   • Thesis: "Parameterized Algorithms for Scalable Interprocedural Data-flow Analysis"

BSc/BEng Thesis Graduates:

1. Tamzid Morshed Rubab (HKUST, 2022-23) ⟶ SWE at Eclipse Trading

   • Thesis: "Faster Algorithms for Computing All Prime Implicants of a Boolean Expression"

2. Jonas Ballweg (TU München, 2023-24) ⟶ PhD in our own group

   • Thesis: "PureLottery: Fair and Bias-Resistant Leader Election with a Novel Single-Elimination Tournament Algorithm"

Interns:

1. Guillermo Gómez (Tecnun, University of Navarra, 2023-24)

2. Juan Pestano (Tecnun, University of Navarra, 2023-24)

3. Ali Ansari (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

4. Kianoush Arshi (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023) ⟶ PhD at UC San Diego

5. Mohammad Amin Aryan (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

6. Mojan Bahadorinejad (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

7. Tingting Duan (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

8. Amirali Ebrahimzadeh (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

9. Hamza Hasan Ellahie (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

10. Karaneh Keypoor (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

11. Rishabh Kumar (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

12. Mahdi Qaempanah (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

13. Abolfazl Soltani (HKUST, UG Intern, 2023)

14. Pouria Fatemi (HKUST, PG Intern, 2022-23)

15. Shayan Chashm Jahan (HKUST, UG Intern, 2022-23) ⟶ PhD at U Maryland

16. Mohammad Seyed Javadi (HKUST, UG Intern, 2022-23) ⟶ MSc at York U

17. Harshit Motwani (HKUST, PG Intern, 2021-23) ⟶ Postdoc in our own group

18. Pouria Omidi (HKUST, RA, 2021-23) ⟶ MPhil at HKUST

19. Yun Chen Tsai (HKUST, UROP, 2022) ⟶ PhD at NII

20. Tien-chun Cheng (HKUST, UROP, 2022)

21. Yi-feng Huang (HKUST, UROP, 2022) ⟶ SWE at Google

22. Zherui Zhu (HKUST, UROP, 2022)

23. Roodabeh Safavi (HKUST, UG Intern, 2021-22) ⟶ PhD at ISTA

24. Sanzhar Bidaibek (HKUST, UROP, 2021) ⟶ SWE at Delivery Hero

25. Chun Kit Lam (HKUST, UROP, 2021) ⟶ PhD in our own group

26. Zhiang Wu (HKUST, UROP, 2021) ⟶ PhD at U Waterloo

27. Ali Ahmadi (HKUST, UG Intern, 2021) ⟶ PhD at U Maryland

28. Majid Daliri (HKUST, UG Intern, 2021) ⟶ PhD at NYU

29. Mehrdad Karrabi (ISTA, UG Intern, 2020-21) ⟶ PhD at ISTA

30. Mohammad Mahdavi (ISTA, UG Intern, 2020) ⟶ PhD at U Maryland

31. Parsa Mirtaheri (ISTA, UG Intern, 2020) ⟶ PhD at UC San Diego

32. Ali Asadi (ISTA, UG Intern, 2019-20) ⟶ PhD at ISTA

33. Kiarash Mohammadi (ISTA, UG Intern, 2019-20) ⟶ MSc at U Montreal

34. Ehsan Goharshady (ISTA, UG Intern, 2019) ⟶ PhD at ISTA

35. Arash Pourdamghani (ISTA, UG Intern, 2018-19) ⟶ PhD at TU Berlin

36. Ali Behrouz (ISTA, UG Intern, 2018) ⟶ MSc at UBC

37. Nastaran Okati (ISTA, UG Intern, 2017-18) ⟶ PhD at MPI-SWS