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Aktas, Melike |
8/2023 |
(Exempt) |
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(2/2027) |
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Almutairi, Mariam |
8/2023 |
1/25 |
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Chen, Dai |
8/2026 |
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Chen, Siji |
8/2022 |
1/2024 |
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Ravi, Meenu |
1/2025 |
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Simsek, Seyma |
8/2025 |
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Wang, Linhan |
8/2023 |
1/25 |
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Wang, Shengkun |
1/2024 |
1/25 |
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Zou, Ganyu |
8/2026 |
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- M.S. Students
- Chang, Chen-Wei (Wilson)
- Chang, Hsuan-Chi (Kevin)
- Chen, Guann-Luen (Brian)
- Ph.D. Graduated
- Alsalamah, Sara
- Thesis topics: VHealth Suite: A Unified, Secure, and Intelligent Patient-Centered Framework for Legacy System Integration in Virtual Hospital Ecosystems
- Admission: 8/2021; Qualifier: Exempt; Qualified: 11/1/2022; Prelim: 12/11/2025; RD: 4/2/2026; FD: 4/30/2026
- Initial Position: Assistant Professor, Information Technology Dept., Al-Imam University (IMAMU)
- Chen, Fanglan (Spotlight)
- Thesis topic: Graph Learning for Urban Computing: Techniques and Applications
- Admission: 1/2020; Qualifier: 1/2020; Qualified: 2/8/2020; Prelim: 3/27/2024; RD: 11/21/2025; FD: 2/25/2026
- 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 Professor, 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: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
- 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)
- MS Students (2022)
- Sun, Wei-Hao (Stephen)
- Cheng, Kai-Hsiang
- Chen, Chih-Fang (Jimmy)
- Basso, Larissa
- MS Students (2021)
- 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)
- 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.
