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Spatial Lab Director (Statement)
- Dr. Chang-Tien Lu

Ph.D. Students (CS GPC)

	Admission	Qualifier	Qualified	Prelim	Research	Final
		Exam		Proposal	Defense	Defense
Aktas, Melike	8/2023	1/25
Almutairi, Mariam	8/2023	1/25
Alsalamah, Sara	8/2021	(Exempt)	11/1/2022	12/11/2025
Chen, Fanglan (Spotlight)	1/2020	1/2020	2/28/2020	3/27/2024	11/21/2025
Chen, Siji	8/2022	1/2024
Ravi, Meenu	1/2025
Simsek, Seyma	8/2025
Wang, Linhan	8/2023	1/25
Wang, Shengkun	1/2024	1/25
Zhang, Min	8/2023	1/25

M.S. Students
- Chang, Chen-Wei (Wilson)
- Chang, Hsuan-Chi (Kevin)
- Chen, Guann-Luen (Brian)
- Dai, Chen
- Tang, Xiangxin
- Zou, Ganyu

Ph.D. Graduated
- Sarkar, Shailik (Spotlight)
  - Thesis topic: Explainable AI for Social Good: Applications in Mental Health, Public Health Risk, and Environmental Traceability
  - Admission: 1/2021; Qualifier: Exempt; Qualified: 12/1/2022; Prelim: 5/6/2025; FD: 12/16/2025.
  - Initial Position: Assistant Profess, CS Dept., Florida Polytechnic University
- Sun, Yanshen
  - Thesis topic: Anomaly Detection, Domain Adaptation, and Causal Discovery - Advancing Spatiotemporal Data Analysis beyond Classification and Prediction
  - Admission: 8/2020; Qualifier: 1/2022; Qualified: 7/20/2022; Prelim: 3/11/2024; RD: 3/12/2025; FD: 5/2/2025
  - Initial Position: Meta
- He, Jianfeng (Spotlight) - PhD Research Award
  - Thesis topic: Uncertainty Estimation on Natural Language Processing
  - Admission: 1/2019; Qualifier: Exempt; Qualified: 12/11/2020; Prelim: 10/10/2023; RD: 1/24/2024; FD: 4/25/2024
  - Initial Position: Research Scientist, Amazon
- Alhamadani, Abdulaziz (Spotlight)
  - Thesis topic: Integrated Predictive Modeling and Analytics for Crisis Management
  - Admission: 1/2019; Qualifier: 1/2021; Qualified: 2/16/2021; Prelim: 10/2/2023; RD: 1/25/2024; FD: 4/24/2024
  - Initial Position: Assistant Professor, CS Dept., Florida Polytechnic University
- Alkulaib, Lulwah (Spotlight)
  - Thesis topic: Analyzing Networks with Hypergraphs: Detection, Classification, and Prediction
  - Admission: 8/2018; Qualifier: 1/2020; Qualified: 5/23/2022; Prelim: 6/15/2023; RD: 1/18/2024; FD: 2/16/2024
  - Initial Position: Assistant Professor, CS Dept., Kuwait University
- Zhang, Lei (Spotlight)
  - Thesis topic: Bilevel Optimization in the Deep Learning Era: Methods and Applications
  - Admission: 1/2016; Qualifier: 1/2019; Qualified: 5/7/2019; Prelim: 11/15/2022; RD: 6/5/2023; FD: 11/2/2023
  - Initial Position: Assistant Professor, CS Dept., Northern Illinois University
- Lei, Shuo (Spotlight)
  - Thesis topic: Learning with Limited Labeled Data: Techniques and Applications
  - Admission: 8/2018; Qualifier: 1/2020; Qualified: 5/2/2020; Prelim: 11/14/2022; RD: 5/2/2023; FD: 9/18/2023
  - Initial Position: Research Scientist, Sony Research
- Ji, Taoran (Spotlight)
  - Thesis topic: On Modeling Dependency Dynamics of Sequential Data: Methods and Applications
  - Admission: 8/2015; Qualifier: Exempt; Qualified: 9/12/2018; Prelim: 11/20/2020; RD: 11/23/2021; FD: 1/18/2022
  - Initial Position: Director, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Moody's Analytics
  - Current Position: Assistant Professor, CS Dept., Texas A&M U. Corpus Christi
- Lu, Yencheng (Kevin) (Part-time, MS+PhD)
  - Thesis topic: Relational Outlier Detection: Techniques and Applications
  - Admission: 1/2010; Qualifier: 2/2012; Qualified: 5/2012; Prelim: 3/17/2017; RD: 6/16/2020; FD:5/5/2021
  - Current Employer: Amazon
- Fu, Kaiqun (Spotlight) (MS+PhD)
  - Thesis topic: Spatiotemporal Event Forecasting and Analysis with Ubiquitous Urban Sensors
  - Admission: 8/2012; Qualifier: Exempt; Qualified: 11/2014; Prelim: 9/5/2019; RD: 2/25/2021; FD:4/28/2021
  - Initial Position: Assistant Professor, CS Dept., South Dakota State University
- Shukla, Manu (part-time)
  - Thesis topic: Algorithmic Distribution of Applied Learning on Big Data
  - Admission: 8/2005; Qualifier: 2/2006; Qualified: 8/2007; Prelim: 9/12/2017; RD: 4/23/20; FD: 7/30/20
  - Cofounder, Omniscience Corporation
- Chen, Zhiqian (Spotlight)
  - Thesis topic: Graph Neural Networks: Techniques and Applications
  - Admission: 8/14; Qualifier: 1/16; Qualified: 10/4/17; Prelim: 5/6/19; RD: 3/31/20; FD: 6/30/20
  - Initial Position: Assistant Professor, CS Dept., Mississippi State University
- Xuchao Zhang
  - Thesis topic: Scalable Robust Models Under Adversarial Data Corruption
  - Admission: 1/15; Qualifier: (Exempt); Qualified: 9/20/17; Prelim: 5/8/18; RD: 11/2/18; FD: 2/21/19
  - Initial Employer: Research Scientist, NEC Labs America
  - Current Position: Research Scientist, Microsoft Research
- Rupinder Paul Khandpur (Co-advised with Prof. Naren Ramakrishnan)
  - Thesis topic: Augmenting Dynamic Query Expansion in Microblog Texts
  - FD: 6/15/2018
  - Initial Position: Director, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Moody's Analytics
- Ting Hua
  - Admission: 8/12; Qualifier: (Exempt); Qualified: 6/15; Prelim: 12/9/16; RD: 11/1/17; FD: 12/15/17.
  - Thesis Title: Topics, Events, Stories in Social Media
  - Initial Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Johns Hopkins University
  - Current Position: Research Scientist, Samsung Research America AI Center
- Liang Zhao (Top 20 New Stars in Data Mining) - PhD Thesis Award
  - Admission: 8/12; Qualifier: (Exempt); Qualified: 6/15; Prelim: 10/15; RD: 4/16; FD: 6/29/16.
  - Thesis Title: Spatio-temporal Event Detection and Forecasting in Social Media
  - Initial Position
    - Assistant Professor, George Mason University
    - NSF Career Award, 2020
  - Current Position
    - Assistant Professor, Emory University
- Raimundo Dos Santos (part-time)
  - Admission: 8/05; Qualifier: 2/06; Qualified: 2/10; Prelim: 9/12; RD: 2/14; FD: 5/19/2014.
  - Thesis Title: Effective Methods of Semantic Analysis in Spatial Contexts
  - Initial Employer
    - Army Corps of Engineers - Engineering Research and Development Center
    - Geospatial Research and Engineering Division at Army Geospatial Center
- Xutong, Liu
  - Admission: 1/07; Qualifier: 2/09; Qualified: 11/09; Prelim: 11/11; RD:1/13; FD: 5/7/2013.
  - Thesis Title: Prediction and Anomaly Detection Techniques for Spatial Data
  - Initial Employer
    - eBay - Applied Researcher, Traffic Science
- Chen, Feng
  - Admission: 1/06; Qualifier: 2/07; Prelim: 10/10; RD: 5/12; FD: 11/30/2012.
  - Thesis Title: Efficient Algorithms for Mining Large Spatio-Temporal Data
  - Initial Position
    - Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University (2013)
    - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Albany (2014-2019)
    - NSF CAREER Award, 2018
  - Current Position
    - Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
- Boedijardjo, Arnold
  - Admission: 1/05; Qualifier: 2/06; Prelim: 1/09; RD: 1/10; FD: 8/10/2010. (part-time)
  - Thesis Title: Efficient Algorithms for Mining Data Streams
  - Initial Employer
    - Army Corps of Engineers - Engineering Research and Development Center
    - Geospatial Research and Engineering Division at Army Geospatial Center
- Dai, Jing (David) (Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3)
  - Admission: 1/05; Qualifier: 2/06; Prelim: 10/06; RD: 12/08; FD: 9/09.
  - Thesis Topic: Efficient Concurrent Operations in Spatial Databases
  - Initial Employer: IBM Watson Research Center
  - Current Employer: Google
- Kou, Yufeng (Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3)
  - Admission: 8/02; Qualifier: 2/03; Prelim: 2/05; RD: 2/06; FD: 11/06.
  - Thesis Topic: Abnormal Pattern Recognition in Spatial Data
  - Initial Employer: Bloomberg
  - Current Employer: Deloitte
MS Students (2025)
- Jianger Yu
MS Students (2022)
- Sun, Wei-Hao (Stephen)
- Cheng, Kai-Hsiang
- Chen, Chih-Fang (Jimmy)
- Basso, Larissa
MS Students (2021)
- Wang, Hao-Hsuan
- Zulfiqar, Omer
- Chen, Po-Han
- Chang, Yi-Chun
MS Students (2019)
- Alex Cambell
- Joshua Southward
- Mohannad Al Ameedi
MS Students (2016)
- Ou, Yangling
- Li, Yeze
- Patel, Sweetuben
- Sistrunk, Virginia
- Ananth, Manasa
- Herald, Brad
MS Students (2015)
- Herald, Brad
- Matarazzo, Michael
MS Students (2014)
- Grosvenor, Douglas
MS Students (2013)
- Montgomery, Stuart
- Solano, Cristian
MS Students (2012)
- Brewer, John: Global Terrorism Database Mobile Application
MS Students (2011)
- Jian, Changshu: GIR and Ensemble Relevance Ranking
- Peng, Yao-Ching: Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse
MS Students (2010)
- Miao, Shuo: Spatial-Temporal Data Ming on Crime Datasets
- Franklin, Eric: CIRAS: A Crime Information Retrieval & Analysis System Using A New Combined-Ranking Scheme
- Shah, Sumit: Washington DC Metro Mobile Crime Search
MS Students (2009)
- Deshpande, Shailesh, Freeway Performance Evaluation Systems
- Mitchell, Mark: Performance Evaluation of Web-based Traffic Mapping System
- Everline, Mark: Multivariate Kernel Density Estimate: Data Streams, and Concept Drift

MS Students (2008)
- Brennan, Elizabeth: Developing a Crime Exploration System.
- Liu, Xutong: An Entropy-based Method for Assessing the Number of Spatial Outliers.
- Keppel, David: System Evaluation with Spatial-Temporal Data Visualization Tools.
- Kolas, David: A Benchmark for Spatial Semantic Web Systems.
- Nithianandan, Amit: Estimating Speed from Low Frame Rate Images using Road Coverage.
Sehar Sohail (Summer Intern, 2006)
MS Students (2006)
- Bogomolov, Arseny: Location-Sensitive Traffic Information GIS WebService: Utilizing Non-standard Data Througha Standard Interface.
- Joyner, Jeffrey: Advanced Interactive Traffic Visualization System - An Extension for HOV Analysis.
- Nehring, Kenneth: Traffic Comparison System.
- Wu, Yamin: Desktop Search Engine Evaluation Study.
- Zhang, Hui (Jack): Advanced Traffic Visualization and Mining System - The Traffic Patterns of I-95.

MS Students (2005)
- Subramanya, Siri: Security in Sensor Networks.

MS Students (2004)
- Manalwar, Prajwal: Web Services for Geographic Information Systems.
- Mathuria, Janak: A Database-centric View of Sensor Network.
- Nambiar, Seema: M-Payment Solutions and M-Commerce Fraud Management.
- Sripada, Lakshmi: A Specification of a Query Language over GML.
- Zheng, Jinping: Spatial Data Mining and Visualization Tool: MapCube.

MS Students (2003)
- Lu, Lei: Spatial-Temporal Clustering for Crime Hot Sport Detection.
- Sirwongwattana, Sirirat: Credit Card Fraud Detection.
- Wang, Hongjun: Spatial Data Visualization and Outlier Detection of Census Data.
- Zhao, Jiang: Region Outlier Detection in Meteorological Data.