CIIR lists 17 graduate students; 11 are corroborated current PhD students, 1 has a date conflict, 5 are unverified on degree level

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“current ciir phd students”

This covers all 17 of 17 people on the official CIIR Graduate Students directory as of 2026-09-19. Independent advisor pages and personal profiles corroborate current PhD status for 11 of them; the five uncorroborated rows rely only on the official CIIR directory.

Roster by verification status

Current PhD corroborated by an independent page Status conflict — timing in doubt CIIR graduate student; degree level unverified

Flag: Nazanin Jafari appears in the current directory as a final-year PhD candidate, but her CV gives a PhD end date of April 2026 — conflicting with being clearly current in September 2026.

All 17 people hold the same official status, “Graduate Student”, on the CIIR directory — the page itself never says PhD. ciir.cs.umass.edu

Hamed Zamani advises both Alireza Salemi and Christos Samarinas among the corroborated PhD students. alirezasalemi7.github.io

Kyle Whitecross states he is a second-year PhD student at UMass Amherst under Prof. Negin Rahimi. kswhitecross.github.io

Atharva Nijasure, Chang Zeng, Debrup Das, Nguyen Luong Tran and Vishal G appear only on the directory, with no page stating PhD or master’s. ciir.cs.umass.edu

All 17 rows

Name	Status	Corroborating statement	Advisor	Source	Directory

Data: the 17-row roster from the official CIIR Graduate Students directory (ciir.cs.umass.edu), captured 2026-09-19, enriched via a web scan of eight diverse search queries across advisor-group pages and student personal profiles. Status counts what an independent page states about current PhD enrollment; blank advisor and research cells mean no independent statement was found, not absence. Nothing was cut.

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