Ten Graduate Students in the College Named Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellows
September 8, 2025 • by
Christine Sinatra
UT Austin had 16 Ph.D. candidates selected as fellows campus-wide, with most based in the College of Natural Sciences.
Ten graduate students studying artificial intelligence in the College of Natural Sciences were announced as winners of Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowships for the 2025–2026 academic year. Nominated by their faculty for the fellowships, the students each will receive support for pursuit of their doctoral degrees this year.
The winners from UT Austin include:
- Rohit Dwivedul, a computer science graduate student advised by Professor Aditya Akella
- Siddhartha Jain, a computer science graduate student advised by Professor Scott Aaronson
- Sateesh Kumar, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Georgios Pavlakos
- Syamantak Kumar, a statistics and data sciences graduate student advised by Associate Professor Purnamrita Sarkar
- Haoyu Li, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Venkat Arun
- Junbo Li, a computer science graduate student advised by a faculty member in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Atlas Wang
- Kaizhao Liang, a computer science graduate student advised by Associate Professor Qiang Liu
- Chutong Yang, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Kevin Tian
- Xiao Zhang, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Daehyeok Kim
- Parikshit Bansal, a computer science graduate student advised by a faculty member in ECE, Sujay Sanghavi
