Current graduate students

(In order of the degree program and the time joining our lab)

  • Erick Draayer (PhD candidate, 01/2019 – present)
  • Huiying Chen (PhD student, 08/2020 – present)
  • Trung Le Hoang (PhD student, 01/2021 – present)
  • Jiefei Liu (PhD student, 08/2022- present)
  • Shahriar Rahman Dipon (MSc student, 01/2022- present)
  • Sajidur Rahman (MSc student, 01/2022- present)
  • Yuxi Wang (MSc student, 01/2023- present)

Postdoc

  • Milan Biswal (Postdoctoral research associate, 08/2014 – 08/2016)

PhD students

(In reverse order of the graduation time)

  1. Qixu Gong (PhD, 08/2015 – 12/2021), graduated in 12/2021, at Cisco
    Thesis title: Processing Skyline Path Queries over Multi-dimensional Transportation Networks
  2. Edgar Ceh-Varela (PhD, 01/2017 – 05/2021), graduated in 05/2021, at Eastern New Mexico University.
    Thesis title: Modeling User Preferences and Item Characteristics to Improve Group and Multi- criteria Recommendations
  3. Yifan Hao (PhD, 08/2014 – 12/2020), graduated in 12/2020, at Google.
    Thesis title: Deep Learning Approaches to Extract Features from and Classify Multivariate Time Series Data
  4. Chuan Hu (PhD, 08/2012 – 05/2017), graduated in 05/2017, at Microsoft.
    Thesis title: Discovering Influence Relationships from Graph Structured Data

Master’s students

(In reverse order of the graduation time)

  1. Jiefei Liu (MSc, 08/2021 - 07/2022), graduated in 07/2022.
  2. Adetoye Abodunrin (Master’s in Computational Data Analytics, 08/2020-12/2020), graduated in 12/2020.
  3. Beepana Pokharel (MSc, 01/2020-12/2020), graduated in 12/2020.
  4. Ramin Zahedi Darshoori (MSc, 05/2019 – 06/2020), graduated in 06/2020.
  5. Ashley Michalenko (MSc, 08/2014 – 12/2018), graduated in 12/2018.
  6. Jacob Voldez (MSc, 08/2017 – 12/2018), graduated in 12/2018.
  7. Panika Valecha (MSc, 01/2017 – 07/2018), graduated in 07/2018.
  8. Raul Alvarado Garcia (MSc), graduated in 12/2016.
  9. Mitra Solgi (MSc), graduate in 12/2015.
  10. Mahmoud Sharifi (MSc), graduated in 05/2014, at Fast Enterprises at Alaska.
  11. Abdulwart Heshek (MSc), graduated in 12/2013.
  12. Yifan Hao (MSc), graduated in 05/2013.
  13. Aditya Madadi (MSc), graduated in 12/2012, at Corptax Inc, Deerfield, IL.