Over the years, Tine has held research assistant positions at Intel Labs, Microsoft Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Most recently, he worked with the High-Performance Computing Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington, where he focused on advancing graph neural networks for custom GPU accelerators.

Interested in democratizing scientific knowledge, Tine was an Intel Corporation GEM Fellow in 2016 as part of a national program to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering.

Prior to his graduate studies, Tine spent 11 years with Microsoft — first as a software design engineer in Visual Studio, then as a senior software design engineer with Windows. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Clarkson University in New York and a certificate in game development from the University of Washington.

Tine’s appointment is part of a UCLA-wide “Rising to the Challenge” initiative spearheaded by the Ralph J. Bunche Center and the Department of African American Studies to expand the scope and depth of scholarship that address racial equity issues. Announced in June 2020 by Chancellor Gene Block and then-Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter, the program was established to help UCLA advance diversity, equity and inclusion. The plan includes recruiting 10 new faculty members over five years whose scholarly work addresses issues of Black experiences.

Gabriel’s research is in social commonsense reasoning and fairness in natural language processing, with a focus on qualifying the intent and factuality of human-written language. She aims to design models tailored to a person’s or computer’s underlying and overlying goals.  

Author of 11 publications including five as first author, Gabriel has held research internships with Microsoft; the Allen Institute for AI in Seattle, Washington and SRI International in Menlo Park, California. 

She received both her master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

Gabriel’s appointment is part of a UCLA-wide “Rising to the Challenge” initiative spearheaded by the Ralph J. Bunche Center and the Department of African American Studies to expand the scope and depth of scholarship that address racial equity issues. Announced in June 2020 by Chancellor Gene Block and then-Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter, the program was established to help UCLA advance diversity, equity and inclusion. The plan includes recruiting 10 new faculty members over five years whose scholarly work addresses issues of Black experiences.

Author of 10 papers including five as lead author, Kumar’s publications have received multiple awards, including the 2022 Applied Networking Research Prize from the Internet Engineering Task Force/Internet Research Task Force. He is also a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Outside of his academic pursuits, Kumar has consulted for the nonprofit industry alliance Thread Group and has interned at Apple and Google.

In addition to his upcoming Ph.D., Kumar also received from UC Berkeley both his master’s degree in computer science and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences. 

Kumar’s appointment is part of the UCLA Samueli Mentor Professor Program, an initiative designed to hire faculty who are not only excellent in their fields but also have a demonstrated record of, or show exceptional promise for, mentorship of students from underrepresented and underserved populations.

At University of Washington, Wang is a member of two research groups — the Programming Languages and Software Engineering group and the Database Group. He has also been active as a mentor to computer science undergraduate and master’s students. 

In addition to his academic work, Wang has held research internships at RelationalAI in Berkeley, California; VMWare Research in Palo Alto, California and Aarhus University in Denmark. He received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tufts University in Massachusetts. 

Wang’s appointment is part of the UCLA Samueli Mentor Professor Program, an initiative designed to hire faculty who are not only excellent in their fields but also have a demonstrated record of, or show exceptional promise for, mentorship of students from underrepresented and underserved populations.

Her accolades include a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the University of Washington’s Wilma Bradley Fellowship, a Barry Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention and being named a Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has authored 14 publications, including eight as first author and three of which have received honors. Many have downloaded and used the software Tea and Tisane for data analysis, which she developed while pursuing her doctorate.

She has mentored two doctoral, two master’s, eight bachelor’s and two high school students in research. Jun has also volunteered for the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and held research internships with Microsoft’s Human Understanding and Empathy and Research in Software Engineering teams. 

Jun’s appointment is part of the UCLA Samueli Mentor Professor Program, an initiative designed to hire faculty who are not only excellent in their fields but also have a demonstrated record of, or show exceptional promise for, mentorship of students from underrepresented and underserved populations.