PhD Students
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Computer Science
Tazin Afrin
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning; data mining; and natural language processing
Rakan Alseghayer
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Big data; time series analysis; database management systems; HPC; reliability; and information security
Tahereh Arabghalizi
PhD in Computer Science
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Matthew Barren
PhD in Computer Science
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Maximillian Bender
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Logic; functional analysis; and algorithmic analysis and complexity theory
Santiago Bock Garcia
PhD in Computer Science
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Kadie Clancy
PhD in Computer Science
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Karin Cox
PhD in Computer Science
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Debarun Das
PhD in Computer Science
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Ekaterina Dimitrova
PhD in Computer Science
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Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh Torbati
PhD in Computer Science
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Zhenjiang Fan
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Statistical machine learning; data analytics; causal discovery and inference; and data analysis applications.
Kenrick Fernandes
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Parallel and distributed graph data analytics
Debashis Ganguly
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Operating Systems and Runtime; High-Performance Computing; and Distributed Computing
Xiaoyu Ge
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Data management and data exploration
Wei Guo
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction and design theory
Mohammad Hasanzadeh Mofrad
PhD in Computer Science
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Narges Honarvar Nazari
PhD in Computer Science
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Charmgil Hong
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Statistical machine learning and its application to real-world data
Zaeem Hussain
PhD in Computer Science
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Marian Iskander
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Security, and distributed systems and designing secure and fault tolerant distributed systems
Pranut Jain
PhD in Computer Science
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Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis
PhD in Computer Science
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In Jung Kim
PhD in Computer Science
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Brian Kocoloski
PhD in Computer Science
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Jeongmin Lee
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Models and algorithms in machine learning and disease surveillance, event detection, and uncovering hidden structures and patterns
Xiaoting Li
PhD in Computer Science
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Longhao Li
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Remote healthcare; context-aware; artificial intelligence; and machine learning
Xiaoyu Liang
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning and network security
Changsheng Liu
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning; artificial intelligence; and natural language processing
Siqi Liu
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Data mining; big data; social media analysis; machine learning; and computer vision
Luca Lugini
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning; data mining; artificial intelligence; and biometrics
Wencan Luo
PhD in Computer Science
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Zhipeng Luo
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer and society; artificial intelligence; and algorithms
Ahmed Magooda
PhD in Computer Science
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Seyedsalim Malakouti
PhD in Computer Science
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Nils Ever Murragarra Llerena
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer vision; machine learning; and natural language processing
Huy Nguyen
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Natural language processing; machine learning; and data mining with an emphasis on educational data
Long Nguyen
PhD in Computer Science
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Nathan Ong
PhD in Computer Science
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Daniel Petrov
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Big data; data streams; time series and multi-dimensional time series analysis; database management systems; privacy and security
Phuong Pham
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction (HCI); mobile interfaces; intelligent user interfaces; machine learning and its applications in user interfaces and education
Henrique Potter
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Information systems (business informatics); software engineering; and information science
Vineet Raghu
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; machine learning; computational biology
Mehrnoosh Raoufi
PhD in Computer Science
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Alireza Samadian Zakaria
PhD in Computer Science
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Sanchayan Sarkar
PhD in Computer Science
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Anatoli Shein
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Database and data stream management systems; data intensive systems; self-managing systems; distributed systems; and cloud computing
Sumadha Singla
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Medical image processing; pattern recognition; and computational geometry
Amin Sobhani
PhD in Computer Science
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Cory Thoma
PhD in Computer Science
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Christopher Thomas
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Confidential elastic processing of data streams
Wenchen Wang
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Real-time systems; fault-tolerant systems; and wireless sensor networks
Nannan Wen
PhD in Computer Science
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Yanbing Xue
PhD in Computer Science
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Keren Ye
PhD in Computer Science
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Mingzhi Yu
PhD in Computer Science
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Ka Wai Yung
PhD in Computer Science
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Chi Zhang
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Code update strategies on IoT devices
Haoran Zhang
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Natural language processing; machine learning and its applications in natural language processing and education
Fan Zhang
PhD in Computer Science
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Mingda Zhang
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer vision; natural language processing; and machine learning
Xianwei Zhang
PhD in Computer Science
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Ziaozhong Zhang
PhD in Computer Science
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Ziyu Zhang
PhD in Computer Science
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Lei Zhao
PhD in Computer Science
Research Interests: Emerging memory technology and accelerators for neural networks
Hanzhong Zheng
PhD in Computer Science
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Angen Zheng
PhD in Computer Science
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Jingpeng Zhou
PhD in Computer Science
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Yuyu Zhou
PhD in Computer Science
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Computer Engineering
Judicael Briand Djoko Takougue
PhD in Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Systems and security
Guy Gadola
Phd in Computer Engineering
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Joseph Jezak
PhD in Computer Engineering
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Seyedmohammad Seyedzadehdelcheh
PhD in Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Information systems (Business Informatics); computer communications (networks); and computer security and reliability
Information Science
Kamil Akhuseyinoglu
PhD in Information Science
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Maryam Aldairi
PhD in Information Science
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Turki Alenezi
PhD in Information Science
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Shadi Al-Khateeb
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Heterogeneous information integration and data fusion; parallel and distributed computing; and computer networks
Faris Alotibi
PhD in Information Science
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Yongsu An
PhD in Information Science
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Dmitriy Babichenko
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Decision support in medical diagnostic systems and educational simulations/serious games
Nuray Baltaci Akhuseyinoglu
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests:Access Control; malware detection; machine learning; and data mining
Jordan Barria-Pineda
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Information visualization; adaptive information systems; and human-computer interaction
Kim Chau
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Intelligent tutoring systems; personalized e-learning; educational data mining; user modeling; and information retrieval
Sara Daraei
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Social computing; online communities; health informatics; and crowdsourcing
Pedram Gharani
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Geoinformatics; location based services; image processing and computer Vision; spatial statistics
Lorin Grieve
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Educational Technology; instructional design; game-based learning; and LGBTQIA+ health
Julio Guerra Hollstein
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Educational technologies; adaptive educational systems; educational data mining; learning analytics and visualization; and open student modeling
Qiulei Guo
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Big data and spatial-temporal data mining
Hadi Hajari
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Spatial databases; spatio-temporal data mining; GIS; and natural language processing
Seyed Saeed Haji Seyed Javadi
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Social network analysis; spatial-temporal data mining; data visualization; and machine learning
Shuguang Han
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Information Retrieval with implicit feedbacks; recommender system; people search; collaborative web search
Mahdi Hashemi
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Spatial data engineering and machine learning
Lei Jin
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Online social networks; location-based social networks; usable privacy and security; and mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Leila Karimi
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Information assurance; information security; access control; and privacy
Marcin Kozniewski
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Bayesian networks; decision support systems; machine learning; and ensemble learning
Jidapa Kraisangka
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Data analytics and data mining; clinical decision support system; and data visualization
Leon Lai
PhD in Information Science
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Ang Li
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Online communities and social computing
Di Lu
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Social computing; online communities; health informatics; crowdsourcing; and local information systems
Rui Meng
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Natural language processing; data mining; and information retrieval
Yue Qin
PhD in Information Science
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Kuheli Sai
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Distributed Systems with a focus on Blockchain.
Meirman Syzdykbayev
PhD in Information Science
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Xian Teng
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Anomaly detection; social network analysis; data science; and network science
Chun-Hua Tsai
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Data mining; data visualization; link prediction for social networks; social media analysis; and recommender systems
Tiantong Wang
PhD in Information Science
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Runhua Xu
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Information assurance; access control; data security and privacy; insider threat.
Xidao Wen
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Data science; recommendation system; and social network analysis
Jiawei Xu
PhD in Information Science
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Jinlai Xu
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Distributed systems; fog/edge and cloud computing; and computer vision and robotics
Fan Yang
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Databases; data management and integration; and data fusion
Danchen Zhang
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Information retrieval; expert finding; exploratory search; relevance feedback; and hash indexing
Sanqiang Zhao
PhD in Information Science
Research Interests: Information retrieval; recommender system; natural language processing; data mining; and machine learning
Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunications
Ayman Abdel-Hamid
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunications
Research Interests: Wireless network virtualization; dynamic spectrum access; and spectrum fungibility
Khalid Alkobayer
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Smart Grid communication; reliability and survivability
Abdulaziz Alqahtani
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interest: New generation of the LTE and smart cities
Usman Anjum
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: 5G cellular network and the development of cellular standard
Pedro Bustamante
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
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Maryam Karimi
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Software Defined Networks; wireless networks; network security; artificial intelligence; and machine learning
Chao Li
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Data security and privacy; location privacy; IoT privacy; social network privacy; and differential privacy
Xin Liu
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
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Xiao Ma
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
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Amer Malki
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Wireless Networks; dynamic spectrum access (DSA); and the policy enforcement and economics of spectrum in the telecommunication industry
J Stephanie Rose
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Wireless networks; network analysis; radio spectrum policy development; and automated enforcement for radio spectrum.
Alekhya Velagapudi
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
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Xerandy
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Communication engineering; electrical engineering; and telecommunications engineering
Qun Yu
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Energy-efficient networking
Abhishek Viswanathan
PhD in Information Science with a concentration in Telecommunication
Research Interests: Energy usage in IoT Networks and Optimization of Remote Sensing Systems
Intelligent Systems Program
Saman Amirpour Amraii
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Cognitive Science; consciousness social systems; memetics and emergence evolutionary algorithms; genetic algorithms robotics and multi-agent systems; and cooperation
Bryan Andrews
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Machine Learning and causal discovery
Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Biomedical informatics
Homa Baradaran Hashemi
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Natural language processing; information retrieval; and data mining
Saba Dadsetan
PhD in Intelligent Systems
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Mohammad Falakmasir
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence in education; adaptive educational hypermedia; student and user modeling; intelligent tutoring systems; and social computing
Roya Hosseini
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Adaptive systems; educational data mining; and intelligent tutoring systems
Yun Huang
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: User modeling; educational data mining; intelligent tutoring system; and the application of machine learning in computer education
Fattaneh Jabbari
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Machine learning and pattern recognition; speech technology; and statistical natural language processing
Omid Kashefi
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Natural language processing; multi-lingual and cross-Lingual NLP; and high performance distributed computing
Giacomo Nebbia
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: AI applied to the clinical practice and clinical decision support systems
Zahra Rahimi
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Natural language processing; spoken dialogue systems; and machine learning
Javad Rahimikollu
PhD in Intelligent Systems
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Jaromir Savelka
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and law; legal information retrieval; automatic legal documents drafting; and knowledge representation
Daniel Steinberg
PhD in Intelligent Systems
<Research Interests: Machine learning; data mining; and cognitive science.
Mohammadamin Tajgardoon
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Ontology-based information retrieval
Khushboo Thaker
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Biomedical informatics and translational bioinformatics
Gaurav Trivedi
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Intelligent interfaces; human-computer interaction; and biomedical informatics
Mengdi Wang
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Social network and data mining
Diyang Xue
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Medical informatics; clinical decision support; and machine learning
Ye Ye
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Public health informatics; outbreak detection; and decision support systems
Jonathan Young
PhD in Intelligent Systems
Research Interests: Deep learning and bioinformatics
Library and Information Science
Yu Chi
PhD in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: Information seeking behavior; exploratory search; and web analytics
Ashleigh Faith
PhD in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: Taxonomy/ontology creation and management (including multilingual); natural language processing (NLP), linguistics, and automated classification/tagging; and interoperability, linked data, and semantic web
Chelsea Gunn
PhD in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: Archives and collective memory; critical computing; diaries and personal record-keeping practices; digital humanities; and digital preservation
S.E. Hackney
PhD in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: Digital humanities; replication of identity through documentation and best practices; online communities; knowledge creation; and pseudo-academic communities
James King
PhD in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: Archives and issues of memory and social justice; archives and oral history; and information ethics
Rongqian Ma
PhD in Library and Information Science
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Jane Nelson Thaler
PhD in Library and Information Science
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Zoe Pickard
PhD in Library and Information Science
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Aisling Quigley
PhD in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: Digital humanities; mobile technologies within museums; and narrative construction in exhibition structure
Fanghui Xiao
PhD in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: Information seeking; problem solving; knowledge management; and data management
Ning Zou
PhD in Library and Information Science
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