PhD Students
Sarah Abowitz
PhD Student in Computer Science
sarah.abowitz@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Systems, Security, Microservice Security
Advisors: Ankur and Mari Sahu Assistant Professor Raja Sambasivan, Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Gabriel Appleby
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Data Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Remco Chang
Ayca Aygun
PhD student in Computer Science
ayca.aygun@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Interested in studying cognitive state and team state estimation from various physiological signal modalities such as EEG and human gaze by leveraging different learning methodologies and statistical techniques.
Advisors: Professor and Benard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow Matthias Scheutz, Associate Professor Shuchin Aeron
Hafiz Mohsin Bashir
PhD student in Computer Science
hafiz_muhammad_mohsin.bashir@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Data Center Networking
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Nate Bragg
PhD student in Computer Science
nate@cs.tufts.edu
Research Areas: Programming languages, Specializing in Program Synthesis
Advisor: Professor and Chair of Computer Science Jeff Foster
Camelia D. Brumar
PhD student in Computer Science
camellia_daniela.brumar@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Data Visualization, Visual Analytics, Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Remco Chang
Ellery Buntel
PhD student in Computer Science
ellery.buntel@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Brain Computer Interaction and Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Rob Jacob
Tanushree Burman
PhD Student in Computer Science
tanushree.burman@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human in the Loop Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
Jared Chandler
PhD student in Computer Science
jared.chandler@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Security, Programming Languages, HCI
Advisor: Adjunct Professor Kathleen Fisher
Xiaohui Chen
PhD student in Computer Science
xiaohui.chen@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Kapil Devkota
PhD student in Computer Science
kapil.devkota@tufts.edu
Research area: Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Lenore Cowen
Gwen Edgar
PhD student in Computer Science
gwendolyn.edgar@tufts.edu
Research Areas: I work broadly on the logic and action side of human robot interaction. Currently, I am working on improving team efficiency in mixed human robot teams with shared tasks.
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz
Hiba Eltigani
PhD student in Computer Science
hiba.eltigani@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Abdullah Faisal
PhD student in Computer Science
abdullah_bin.faisal@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Cloud Computing, Machine Learning Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Sasha Fedchin
PhD student in Computer Science
aleksandr.fedchin@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Formal Verification, Test Automation
Advisor: Professor and Chair of Computer Science Jeff Foster
Patrick Feeney
PhD student in Computer Science
patrick.feeney@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes
Shivam Goel
PhD student in Computer Science
shivam.goel@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Symbolic Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
Andrew Gonczi
PhD student in Computer Science
andrei.gonczi@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computational Geometry
Advisors: Professor Diane Souvaine, Visiting Scholar Matias Korman, Adjunct Associate Professor Csaba Toth
Rukhshan Haroon
PhD Student in Computer Science
rukhshan.haroon@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Accessibility, Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Applied Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Ethan Harvey
PhD student in Computer Science
ethan.harvey@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Machine Learning for Healthcare, Clinical Informatics, and Bayesian Deep Learning
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes
Kyle Heuton
PhD Student in Computer Science
kyle.heuton@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning for Health
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes
Emily Holt
PhD student in Computer Science
emily.holt@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Data Science for Sustainability, Data Science, Applied Machine Learning
Advisors: Assistant Professor Deborah Sunter, Associate Professor Alva Couch
Jiajing Hu
PhD student in Computer Science
jiajing.hu@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Graph Neural Networks, Variational Inference
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Jindan Huang
PhD student in Computer Science
jindan.huang@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Zhe Huang
PhD Student in Computer Science
zhe.huang@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Semi/Self-Supervised Learning; Medical Imaging
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes
Fox Huston
PhD student in Computer Science
fox.huston@tufts.edu
Research Area: Programming Languages
Advisors: Professor and Chair of Computer Science Jeff Foster, Associate Professor Norman Ramsey
Darby Huye
PhD student in Computer Science
darby.huye@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Debugging Distributed Systems, Distributed Tracing & Observability, Microservices
Advisor: Ankur and Mari Sahu Assistant Professor Raja Sambasivan
Apurva Kalia
PhD student in Computer Science
apurva.kalia@tufts.edu
Research Area: Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Samantha Katcher
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Human Factors of Security and Privacy Design, Data Science
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka
Hifza Khalid
PhD student in Computer Science
hifza.khalid@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Operating Systems, Performance Analysis, Configuration Management, Machine Learning.
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch
Blessing Kolawole
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Data Science
Advisor: Professor Lenore Cowen
Chami Lamelas
PhD Student in Computer Science
swaminathan.lamelas@tufts.edu
Research Area: Systems and Machine Learning
Advisors: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Theresa Law
PhD student in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
theresa.law@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Human-Robot Interaction, Trust in Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robots
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz
Sipei Li
PhD student in Computer Science
sipei.li@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch
Yukun Li
PhD student in Computer Science
yukun.li@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Max Liu
PhD student in Computer Science
lan.liu@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Interested in debugging and improving performance of distributed systems, especially ones built with microservices.
Advisor: Ankur and Mari Sahu Assistant Professor Raja Sambasivan
Panagiotis Lymperopoulos
PhD student in Computer Science
panagiotis.lymperopoulos@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Advisors: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Margaret Martin
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Noah Martin
PhD student in Computer Science
noah.martin@tufts.edu
Research Area: Networking and systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
James Mattei
PhD student in Computer Science
james.mattei@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human factors of computer security
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka
Mavis Murdock
PhD Student in Computer Science
mavis.murdock@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Jeanne-Marie Musca
PhD student in Computer Science
jmusca@cs.tufts.edu
Research Area: Programming Languages
Advisor: Adjunct Professor Kathleen Fisher
Woojoo Na
PhD student in Computer Science
woojoo.na@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Shuchin Aeron
Carson Powers
PhD student in Computer Science
carson.powers@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Human Factors, Threat Modeling, Reverse Engineering
Advisors: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka, Professor and Chair of Computer Science Jeff Foster
Nicholas Rabb
PhD student in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
nicholas.rabb@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computation and Social Systems, Disinformation, Computational Modeling
Advisors: Professor Lenore Cowen, Professor J.P. de Ruiter
Preetish Rath
PhD student in Computer Science
preetish.rath@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes
Sarah Schneider
PhD student in Computer Science
sarah.schneider@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz
Isaac Sheidlower
PhD student in Computer Science
isaac.sheidlower@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Human Robot Interaction, Human Robot Collaboration
Advisor: Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Polina Shpilker
PhD student in Computer Science
polina.shpilker@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Scientific Metadata and FAIR Research, Coral Genomics
Advisors: Professor Lenore Cowen, Professor Donna Slonim
Yash Shukla
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Curriculum Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Sim2Real Transfer
Advisor: James Schmolze Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
Christopher Thierauf
PhD student in Computer Science and Human-Robot Interaction
christopher.thierauf@tufts.edu
Research Area: Robot Algorithms and Designs for Long-term Autonomy in Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz
Ron Thompson
PhD student in Computer Science
ronald.thompson@tufts.edu
Research Area: Medical Device Security
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka
Muhammad Umair
PhD student in Computer Science and Human-Robot Interaction
muammad.umair@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Conversational AI, Dialogue Systems, Language in Human Robot Interaction
Advisors: Professor J.P. de Ruiter, Schwartz Family Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Liang Wang
PhD student in Computer Science
leonwang@cs.tufts.edu
Research Area: BCI
Advisors: Professor Rob Jacob
Yinkai Wang
PhD Student in Computer Science
yinkai.wang@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Matthew Werenski
PhD student in Computer Science
matthew.werenski@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Optimal Transport, Machine Learning, High-Dimensional Probability
Advisors: Associate Professor Shuchin Aeron, Assistant Professor James Murphy
Hang Yu
PhD student in Computer Science
hang.yu625917@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Interactive Reinforcement Learning, Human-Robot Interaction
Advisors: Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Tomislav Zabcic-Matic
PhD Student in Computer Science
tomislav.zabcic_matic@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Distributed Systems, Distributed Tracing, Cloud Debugging
Advisor: Ankur and Mari Sahu Assistant Professor Raja Sambasivan
Zhaoqi Zhang
PhD student in Computer Science
zhaoqi.zhang@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Distributed System, Distributed Tracing, Debugging
Advisors: Ankur and Mari Sahu Assistant Professor Raja Sambasivan
Frederick Zhang
PhD student in Computer Science
frederick.zhang@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning for Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Yan Zhou Chen
PhD student in Computer Science
yan.zhou_chen@tufts.edu
Research Area: Application of Machine Learning for Systems Biology and Metabolomics
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Hao Zhu
PhD student in Computer Science
hao.zhu@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Donna Slonim