Mentee placement updates — for your verification
Mentee placement updates — for your verification
Researched against public sources only (university/faculty pages, Google Scholar, DBLP, LLNL/ANL profiles, personal academic sites, company/org pages, VT News). LinkedIn was not used as primary evidence. Nothing below is applied yet — tell me which to apply.
Already applied (your two confirmed corrections):
- Emadeldin Abdrabou → Assistant Professor, Sohag University ✅
- Ioannis Tsiokanos → Senior Digital Design Engineer, Smart Silicon ✅
A. Proposed updates (sourced — recommend applying)
| # | Name | Current text | Proposed text | Conf. | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ishaan Gulati | Research Intern, Visa | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Visa | Med | role progression since 2023 MS; VT-linked |
| 2 | Paul Harvey | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), School of Computer Science, University of Glasgow | Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Autonomy, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow | High | gla.ac.uk staff page |
| 3 | Kiril Dichev | Principal Engineer, Huawei Switzerland | Research Engineer, Huawei Zurich Research Center | Med | ResearchGate; title “Principal” unverified |
| 4 | Nan Wang | Manager at mindtrace.ai | Head of Asset Inspection Solutions, Mindtrace | Med | theorg.com / mindtrace.ai |
| 5 | Esha Barlaskar | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Queen’s University Belfast | Lecturer (Education), School of EEECS, Queen’s University Belfast | High | QUB Pure page (teaching-track role) |
| 6 | Scott Schneider | Software Engineer and Team Lead at Meta | Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure, Meta | High | scott-a-s.com (no longer states “Team Lead”) |
B. Optional refinements (current text is fine; these add detail)
| # | Name | Current text | Optional richer text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | John Christian Linford | Head of Product, NVIDIA | Head of Product, CAE/EDA, NVIDIA | NVIDIA dev blog / SC bios |
| 8 | Anastasios Papagiannis | Software Engineer, Isovalent | Software Engineer, Isovalent (now part of Cisco) | tpapagian.github.io |
C. Needs your input — flags
| # | Name | Issue |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Ahmed Sayed (postdoc) | Current “VP of Engineering, WASIELA” could not be verified, and there’s a same-name collision with a QMUL academic who has no clear tie to your group. Which Ahmed Sayed is this / what’s his current role? |
| 10 | Yuze Li (listed PhD graduate, 2026) | His VT page (updated late 2025) shows him as an active 5th-year PhD student, not yet graduated. Confirm: has he defended/graduated, or should he move to Current Students? Also his page lists co-advising by K. Sundararajah — keep “co-advised with Ali R. Butt”? |
| 11 | Vassilis Papaefstathiou (PhD) | Current “Assistant Professor, University of Crete.” His own 2025 bio emphasizes FORTH-ICS and doesn’t assert the Assistant Professor title. Confirm his exact current rank. |
| 12 | Blank, couldn’t verify employer | Abdullahi Abubakar, Hemant Kumar Mehta, Mary (Katelyn) Crumpacker, Matthew Jackson — no reliable public current-employer source found. Provide if you know them; otherwise leave blank. |
D. Explicitly confirmed UNCHANGED (no action — verified accurate)
Dong Li (still Associate Prof, UC Merced — not Full), M. Mustafa Rafique, Richard Tran Mills, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Jae-Seung Yeom, Matthew Curtis-Maury, Aleksandr Khasymski, Konstantinos Tovletoglou, Spyros Lyberis, Sakil Barbhuiya, Blesson Varghese (Professor, St Andrews), Cheol-ho Hong, Christos Antonopoulos, Hans Vandierendonck, Lev Mukhanov, Yun Wu, Junkyu Lee, Dimitris Spatharakis, Melissa Cameron, Ioannis Manousakis, Dimitris Chassapis (BSC), Kallia Chronaki (FORTH), Alexandros Lamprineas (Arm), Konstantinos Koukos (IAR), Michail Zampetakis (ZEDEDA), Shreya Bhandare, Timothy Coyne, Max Fisher, Manthan Shah, Christi Symeonidou, Jyotirmaya Tripathi, and others.
Lower-confidence rows above rely partly on aggregator data because the authoritative source is behind LinkedIn; treat Med/Low rows as “best public evidence,” and overrule any you know firsthand.