PhD Alumni

Ayca Aygun 

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Assessment of Human Cognitive States via Physiological Signals in a Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction

Abdullah Bin Faisal 

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Toward Intent-Aware, Adaptive Systems for AI Workloads

Apurva Kalia

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Advancing Machine Learning Methods for Small and Large Biological Datasets: Applications in Redox Potential Prediction, Enzyme Interaction Prediction, and Spectra Annotation

Hifza Khalid

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Leveraging Machine Learning for Improved Distributed System Performance

James Mattei

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Improving Vulnerability Discovery Tools and Training through a Human Factors Lens

Sos Oganessian

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: The Constraints Inherited from Locality on Quantum Optimization

Matt Russell

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Beyond Workload: Paving the Road for the Next Generation of Implicit Prefrontal Cortex Based Brain-Computer Interfaces

Isaac Sheidlower

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Empowering Approaches for Creative, Intentional, and Informed Use of Robots

Polina Shpilker

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Developing Tools to Support Metadata Authorship, Capture, and Analysis

Yash Shukla

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Enhancing Sample-Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning Agents through Symbolic Reasoning

Christopher Thierauf

• PhD in Human-Robot Interaction
• Dissertation title: Interpret, Innovate, Interact: Resilient Robot Strategies in Human Domains

Liang (Leon) Wang

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Towards Real-world Applicability of BCIS: Improving Calibration, Generalization, and Adaptive Learning with FNIRS

Hao Zhu

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Scalable Network Inference through Noise for Genes and Beyond

Gabriel Appleby

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Towards the Usability of Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Analytics

Hafiz Mohsin Bashir

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Improving the Performance of Cloud Applications: A Multi-layered Approach 

Jared Chandler

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: A Semantic Approach to Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering

Emily Holt

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Data-Driven, Multidisciplinary Strategies to Evaluating Impacts of Renewable Energy Policies

Zhe Huang

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Deep Learning with Limited Labeled Data: New Methods and Applications to Echocardiography

Nicholas Rabb

• PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
• Dissertation Title: Modeling Media Influence on the Formation of Misinformed Attitudes

Preetish Rath

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Time Series Machine Learning for Hospitalized Patient Monitoring: Addressing Missing Data, Missing Labels, And High False Alarm Rates

Gyan Tatiya

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Learning and Transferring Implicit Knowledge of Object Properties Across Robots via Interactive Perception

Tooba Ahsen

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Exploring the Use of Augmented Reality Technology in Challenging Scenarios

David Buckingham

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Multiagent Epistemic Cooperation-Agnostic Planning

Kapil Devkota

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Computational Methods for the Prediction and Analysis of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks 

Theresa Law

• PhD in Computer Science: Cognitive Science
• Dissertation Title: Examining Trust in Human-Robot Interaction

Jeanne-Marie Musca

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Match-Reference Regular Expressions and Match-Reference Bijective Lenses

Monsurat Olaosebikan

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Designing Immersive Tools for Supporting Remote Scientific Collaboration and Learning

Ashley Suh

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: From Exploratory to Hypothesis-Driven Visual Data Analysis (April 2023)

Matthew Ahrens

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Teaching with Student Agency for Self-efficacy to Learn PL Concepts Across Experience Levels

Tyler Frasca

• PhD in Computer Science: Human-Robot Interaction
• Dissertation Title: Designing Versatile Robots that Learn, Assess, and Modify Tasks

Evana Gizzi

• PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
• Dissertation Title: Creative Problem Solving in Intelligent Agents: Domain-Agnostic Methods for Novelty

Daniel Kasenberg

• PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
• Dissertation Title: Planning and Explanatory Dialogue with Temporal Logic Norms

Samuel Lasser

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Formal Verification of Top-Down Parser Interpreters

Xinmeng Li

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Developing Machine Learning Models with Heterogeneous Data for Biological Engineering Applications

Linfeng Liu

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Learning from Relational Data via Graph Neural Networks

Karl Cronburg

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: DSLs, Annotations, and Dynamic Instrumentation: Specifying the Memory Layout of a Memory Manager to Detect Bugs with Typestate

Osama Haq

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Rethinking Network Qualify of Service in the Cloud Era

Ab Mosca

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Communicating with Visualization: The Importance of Simplicity

Marianne Procopio

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Progressive Visualization for Big Data Exploratory Analysis

Sophia Sklaviadis

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Modeling Ancient Greek Syntax with an Unsupervised RNNG

Zhaokun Xue

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Discovery and Recommendation Systems for Scientific Data

Dylan Cashman

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Bridging the Human-Machine Gap in Applied Machine Learning with Visual Analytics

Diogenes Nunez

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Reducing Garbage Collection Costs using Application-Specific Information

Christopher Michael Pietras

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Characterizing Pathway-Specific Anomalies in Temporal Patterns of Gene Expression

Vasanth Sarathy

• PhD in Computer Science: Cognitive Science
• Dissertation Title: Creative Problem Solving

Sara Amr Amin

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Advancing the Prediction of Unexpected Cellular Behavior due to Enzyme Promiscuity and Enzyme Solubility

Hao Cui

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Aggregate Simulation for Efficient Planning and Inference

Giordano Ferreira

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Spatial Interactive Agent-based Models at Multiple Levels of Biological Organization

Samuel Hincks

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: The Physical Paradigm for Bidirectional Brain-Computer Interfaces

Hu Huang

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Detecting Semantic Bugs in Autopilots by Monitoring Relevant Variables via Machine Learning

Sepideh Sadeghi

• PhD in Computer Science: Cognitive Science
• Dissertation Title: Incremental and Memory-Limited Probabilistic Generative Models of Early Word Learning

Rishit Sheth

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Algorithms and Theory for Variational Inference in Two-level Non-conjugate Models

Hugo Alves Akitaya

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Recognizing Weak Embeddings

Neda Hassanpour

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Computational Methods to Advance Directed Evolution of Enzymes and Metabolomics Data Analysis

Melissa Iori

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Behavior-Based Cognitive Trait Modeling Via Node-Link Diagram Interactions

Bilal Ahmed

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Decrypting Cryptogenic Epilepsy: Machine Learning Methods for Detecting Malformations

Gordon Briggs

• PhD in Computer Science: Cognitive Science
• Dissertation Title: Toward Dialogue and Reasoning Mechanisms to Enable More Natural and Socially-Appropriate Human-Robot Interactions

Mengfei Cao

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: New Graph Metrics Improve Network-Based Protein Function Prediction

Evan Peck

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Designing Brain-Computer Interfaces for Intelligent Information Delivery Systems

Ehsan Ullah

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Pathway Analysis of Metabolic Networks using Graph Theoretical Approaches

Andrew Winslow

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Staged Self-Assembly and Polyomino Context-Free Grammars

R. Jordan Crouser

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Toward Theoretical Measures for Systems Involving Human Computation

Noah Manus Daniels

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Remote Homology Detection in Proteins using Graphical Models

Edward Aftandilian

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Finding High-Level Bugs Using Low-Overhead Dynamic Analysis Tools

Erin Solovey

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Real-time fNIRS Brain Input for Enhancing Interactive System

Amelio A Vazquez-Reina

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Segmentation Strategies for Connectomics

Byron Wallace

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Machine Learning in Health Informatics: Making Better use of Domain Experts

Marc Chiarini

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Finding Indicators of Load on a Simple Web Server via Analysis of Black-Box Performance Measurements

Andrew Fox

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Structure and Evolution of Biological Networks: A Systems Biology Approach to Understanding Protein Function

Mashhood Ishaque

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Geometric Data Structures

Saket Joshi

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: First Order Decision Diagrams for Decision Theoretic Planning

Nauman Hussain Khan

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Through-Silicon via Analysis for the Design of 3-D Integrated Circuits

Audrey Girouard

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Towards Adaptive User Interfaces Using Real Time FNIRS

Leanne Hirshfield

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Enhancing Usability Testing with Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Anoop Kumar

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Augmented Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models for the Detection of Remote Protein Homologs

Alexandra Lauric

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Automated Detection and Classification of Intracranial Aneurysms Based on 3D Surface Analysis

Rachel Lomasky

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Active Acquisition of Informative Training Data

Umaa Rebbapragada

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Strategic Targeting of Outliers for Expert Review

Gabriel Wachman

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Kernel Methods and their Application to Structured Data

Xintao Wei

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Computational Approaches for Biological Data Analysis

Michael Horn

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Tangible Computer Programming

Elena Jakubiak

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: An Improved Representation for Stroke-Based Typefaces and a Method for their Creation

G. Michael Poor

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: The Effects of Varying Levels of Reality Based Interaction Styles on a Subjects Ability to Perform a 3D Construction Task

Arthur Brady

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Detecting High-Level Gene Function and Inferring Genetic Pathways

David W. Sculley II

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Advances in Online Learning-Based Spam Filtering

Orit Shaer

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: A Visual Language for Specifying and Programming Tangible User Interfaces

Ning Wu

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation title: Minimizing the Cost of Configuration Changes in Self-Managing Systems Via Closures, Matchings, and Marriages

Georgios Christou

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: CoDeIn - A Knowledge-Based Framework for the Description and Evaluation of Reality-Based Interaction

Chenggang Wang

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: First Order Markov Decision Processes

Yizhan Sun

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Complexity of System Configuration Management

Eynat Krav-Ami Rafalin

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Algorithms and Analysis of Depth Functions using Computation Geometry

Marta Arias

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Exact Learning of First-Order Expressions from Queries

Michael Jonas

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Modeling Speech using a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process

Horn-yeu Shiaw

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: New Interaction Techniques for the Digital Library: 3D Focus+Context Interactive Visualization

Karina Assiter

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Projective Mapping; a faithful mapping algorithm for the layout of multidimensional data

Sanpawat Kantabutra

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Efficient Representation of Cluster Structure in Large Data Sets

Harold Gregory Andrews II

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: An Object Description Language for Distributed Discrete Event Simulations

Vildan Tanriverdi

• PhD in Computer Science
• Advisor: Rob Jacob
• Dissertation Title: A Virtual Reality Interface Design (VRID) Model and Methodology

Tamara Babaian

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: Knowledge Representation and Open World Planning Using v-forms

Leonidas Deligiannidis

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: DLoVe - A specification paradigm for designing distributed VR applications for single or multiple users

Stephen A Morrison

• PhD in Computer Science
• Dissertation Title: A Specification Paradigm for Design and Implementation of non-WIMP Human-Computer Interactions