Darryl Cherian Jacob
PhD student, Fall 2024
MALT Lab
The Modern Artificial Intelligence and Learning Technologies Lab (MALT Lab) is led by Pan He in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. Our work spans machine learning, language and multimodal models, computer vision, and intelligent infrastructure.
Research directions · Publications · GitHub
Interested in joining us? We welcome prospective PhD, master’s, and undergraduate researchers. Explore research opportunities and how to apply.
Principal Investigator
Pan He
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Auburn University
Email · CV · Google Scholar
PhD Students
Stephen Cortez
PhD student, Spring 2025
Supported by the U.S. Air Force
Darahaas Nallagatla
PhD student, Spring 2025
Xinyu Liu
PhD student, Fall 2025
Selected work: RoadSafe365, COPRA
Chunkai Yin
PhD student, Fall 2026
Supported by Royal Caribbean Group
Undergraduate Researchers
Research Visitors and Interns
- Shijie Guo — Research intern, Tianjin University of Technology
- Beyza Elif Sılay — Summer research intern, Çankaya University, July 1–August 28, 2026
Past Student Mentoring
- Isaiah Gallardo — Auburn University, 2023–2024
- Xiao Li — University of Florida, 2022–2023; now at Google
- Ke Chen — University of Florida, 2021–2023
- Aotian Wu — University of Florida, 2019–2023; now at NVIDIA
- Christopher Moffitt — University of Florida, 2018–2019
- Caleb Bryant — University of Florida, 2017–2018; subsequently Meta, then Google