Degree Recipients

Name: Ahmadvand, Ali
Advisor: Eugene Agichtein

Name: Gero, Zelalem
Advisor: Joyce C Ho

Name: Karisani, Payam
Advisor: Li Xiong

Name: Katebijahromi, Nasim
Advisor: Gari D Clifford
Dissertation:Detection of Adverse Events in Pregnancy Using a Low-Cost 1D Doppler Ultrasound Signal

Name: Ma, Jing
Advisor: Joyce C Ho
Dissertation:Federated Tensor Factorization for Collaborative Health Data Analytics

Name: Mobadersany, Pooya
Advisor: Lee Cooper
Dissertation:Predicting Time-to-Event and Clinical Outcomes from High-Dimensional Unstructured Data

Name: Onken, Derek
Advisor: Lars Ruthotto
Dissertation:Optimal Control Approaches for Designing Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Name: Ren, Yifei
Advisor: Li Xiong

Name: Sotoodeh, Mani
Advisor: Joyce C Ho
Dissertation:Crowdsourcing and Semi Supervised Learning for Detection and Prediction of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer Injury

Name: Su, Kenong
Advisor: Hao Wu
Dissertation:Statistical Modeling and Learning in Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data

Name: Tabaie, Azade
Advisor: Rishi Kamaleswaran

Name: Tageldin, Mohamed Amgad Elsayed Ahmed
Advisor: Lee Cooper

Name: Tahmasebian, Farnaz
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Robust Crowdsourcing and Federated Learning under Poisoning Attacks

Name: Tang, Pengfei
Advisor: Li Xiong

Name: Zhang ,Lei
Advisor: Ymir Vigfusson

Name: Zhang, Qiuchen
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Differentially Private Deep Learning

Name: Dias Lima Gramacho, Sergio Luis
Advisor: Avani Wildani
Dissertation:Autonomic Formation of Large Scale Wireless Mesh Networks

Name: Nasiri Ghosheh Bolagh, Samaneh
Advisor: Gari D Clifford
Dissertation:Generalizable Machine Learning Methods for Electrophysiology

Name: Shin, Bonggun
Advisor: Joyce C Ho
Dissertation:Deep Learning Approaches Towards Computerized Drug Discovery

Name: Valderrama Cuadros, Camilo Ernesto
Advisor: Gari D Clifford
Dissertation:A framework for gestational development tracking using 1D-Doppler ultrasound signals in rural Guatemal

Name: Harati, Sahar
Advisor: Shamim Nemati
Dissertation:Machine Learning Methods for Quantification of Depression Severity and Prediction of Recovery Trajectory using Longitudinal Video and Audio Data, with Applications to Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment

Name: Rossetti, Blair
Advisor: James Nagy
Dissertation:Bioimage Informatics in the Big Data Era: Algorithms for High-Dimensional Spectral, Volumetric, and Temporal Image

Name: Yousefi, Safoora
Advisor: Lee Cooper
Dissertation:Neural Networks for Cancer Survival Analysis Using High-Dimensional Data

Name: Garvey, Clarissa
Advisor: James Nagy
Dissertation:Truncated Singular Value Decomposition Approximation for Structured Matrices via Kronecker Product Summation Decomposition

Name: Sun, Xiaobo
Advisor: Zhaohui Qin
Dissertation:The Applications of Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Managing, Processing and Analyzing Big Omics Data

Name: Xu, Tianlei
Advisor: Zhaohui Qin and Hao Wu
Dissertation:Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in the Studies of Epigenetics Regulation

Name: Chen, Li
Advisor: Zhaohui Qin and Hao Wu
Dissertation:Statistical and Informatics Methods for Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data

Name: Chien, Jung-Ting
Advisor: Mary Galinski and Zhaohui Qin
Dissertation:An application of DIKW Model in Malaria Systems Biology Study: From NGS Data to Disease Progression Insight

Name: Garcia Ulloa, Daniel
Advisor: Li Xiong and Vaidy Sunderam
Dissertation:Task Recommendation and Information Fusion in Spatial Crowdsourcing

Name: Jurczyk, Tomasz
Advisor: Jinho Choi
Dissertation:Improving Question Answering by Bridging Linguistics: Structures and Statistical Learning

Name: Li, Haoran
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Differentially Private Data Release and Analytics

Name: Liu, Jinfei
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Fast and Adaptive Algorithms for Skyline Computation

Name: Nalisnik, Michael
Advisor: Lee Cooper
Dissertation:Scalable Computational Pathology: From Interactive to Deep Learning

Name: Pournajaf, Layla
Advisor: Li Xiong and Vaidy Sunderam
Dissertation:Privacy-Aware task Management for Mobile Crowd Sensing

Name: Savenkov, Denis
Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
Dissertation:Question Answering with User-Generated Content

Name: Xiao, Yonghui
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Protecting Locations of Individual Movement under Temporal Correlations

Name: Solomon, Michael
Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam and Li Xiong
Dissertation:Efficient Search and Computation on Encrypted Data with Access Control

Name: Xu, Xiaofeng
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Indexing Moving Objects for Predictive Spatio-Temporal Queries

Name: Agravat, Sanjay
Advisor: Lee Cooper and Richard Cummings
Dissertation:Bioinformatics Methods and Tools for Glycomics

Name: Bonomi, Luca
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Big Data goes Personal: Privacy and Social Challenges

Name: Lagun, Dmitry
Advisor: Eugene Atichtein
Dissertation:Modeling User Attention and Interaction on the Web

Name: Liu, Qiaoling
Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
Dissertation:Improving Usefulness of Community Question Answering Services towards Better Searcher Satisfaction and Question Recommendation

Name: Przybylinski, Thomas
Advisor: James Lu
Dissertation:New Insights Into the Similarity and Difference of Propositional Models Via Symmetry

Name: Zheng, Shuai
Advisor: James Lu
Dissertation:Online Learning Based Clinical Information Extraction and Classification

Name: Aji, Ablimit
Advisor: Fusheng Wang
Dissertation:High Performance Spatial Query Processing for Large Scale Spatial Data Warehousing

Name: Berisha, Sebastian
Advisor: James Nagy
Dissertation:Inverse Problems in Hyperspectral Imaging

Name: Denas, Olgert
Advisor: James Taylor
Dissertation:Deep Models for Gene Regulation

Name: Fan, Liyue
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Preserving Individual Privacy in Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics

Name: Goryczka, Slawek
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Secure and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Data Release

Name: Slawinski, Jaroslaw
Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
Dissertation:Adaptive approaches to Utility Computing for Scientific Applications

Name: Wang, Yu
Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
Dissertation:Modeling Temporal Dynamics in User Generated Content

Name: Yuan, Shuai
Advisor: Zhaohui Qin
Dissertation:Applying Diploid Method to Improve Read-mapping and Analysis Based on NGS Data

Name: Gardner, James
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Privacy Preserving Medical Data Publishing

Name: Guo, Qi
Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
Dissertation:Modeling Rich Interactions for Web Search Intent Inference, Ranking and Evaluation

Name: Knepper, Sarah
Advisor: James Nagy
Dissertation:Large-Scale Inverse Problems in Imaging: Two Case Studies

Name: Siva, Sebastien
Advisor: James J. Lu
Dissertation:Enabling Relational Databases for Effective CSP Solving

Name: Horesh, Raya
Advisor: Eldad Haber
Dissertation:Numerical Optimization for Transport and Registration Problems

Name: Jurczyk, Pawel
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation:Towards Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Integration of Distributed Heterogeneous Data