QUANTUM YEARS (2004 - 2010, University of Southern California)
- Todd A. Brun
- Dave Bacon
- Igor Devetak
- Aram Harrow
- Min-Hsiu Hsieh
- Stephen Jordan
- Hari Krovi
- Daniel Lidar
- Ognyan Oreshkov
- Shesha Raghunathan
- Martin Varbanov
- Mark M. Wilde
DNA YEARS (2001 - 2004, University of Southern California)
- Leonard M. Adleman (DNA self-assembly, DNA computation)
- Ravi Braich (Taught me many molecular biology protocols)
- Yuriy Brun
- Nickolas Chelyapov (Taught me lab techniques in molecular biology)
- Manoj Gopalkrishnan
- Dustin Dale Reishus
- Paul Wilhelm Karl Rothemund
WHITTIER COLLEGE YEARS (1997 - 2000, Whittier College Poets!)
- Tony Barnstone (Taught me how to nurture a poet's heart.)
- Abi Fattahi (Taught me that one could make room for computers in mathematics.)
- Stephen Gothold (Made me see the sweat and hard work behind the applause.)
- Sharad Keny (Taught me that mathematics can only be learned with pencil and paper.)
- Howard Lukefahr (Taught me that one could do amazing research at a small school.)
- Jeff Lutgen (Taught me how to critique my own proofs.)
- Susanne Weil (With whom I discovered that geniuses also exist outside science and mathematics.)