Current Students

  • Graduate Students

    • Lindong Liu (2024-) - Ph.D. Student in CEGE
      • Inverse Problem, Learning from sparse data, traffic state estimation
    • Christopher Cheong (2025-) - Ph.D. Student in CEGE
      • Traffic Forecasting, Neural networks for large-scale spatiotemporal data
    • Pouya Parsa (2024-) - Ph.D. Student in CEGE
      • Scalable Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Driving
    • Rammesh Adhav Saravanan (2024-) - Master student in Minnesota Robotics Institute (MnRI)
      • Cooperative Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Driving
    • Ross Volkov (2025-) - Master student in Data Science
      • 3D reconstruction
  • Undergraduate research assistant

    • Leo Curtis (2025- ) TMC-Agent
    • Ismail Yusuf (2026- ) Traffic Incident Detection using Vision Language Model

Alumni

  • Seunghee Ryu (2025) - Visiting Student from Korea University (co-supervised with Professor Seungmo Kang)
  • Donghoon Kwon (2025) - Visiting Student from Korea University (co-supervised with Professor Seungmo Kang)
  • Sicong Jiang - Ph.D. Student at McGill University, co-supervised with Professor Lijun Sun
  • Mithell Kosieradzki (2024-2025) - Master student in Data Science (Capstone project)
  • Dev Patel (2024)
  • Noah Hebeisen (2024)

Collaborators

Join Our Team!

I am looking for students who are excited about machine learning for urban transportation and mobility data. If you're interested, please send me an email at chois[at]umn.edu. Please include a CV, a research statement, and an academic transcript.
Please use “Prospective student [Your name]” as your email subject. Due to the large volume of emails, I apologize for not replying to individual inquiries I have received.