PhD Students
Sarah Abowitz
PhD Student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Systems, Security, Microservice Security
Advisors: Ankur and Mari Sahu Assistant Professor Raja Sambasivan, Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Tooba Ahsen
PhD Student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Human Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality, Assistive & Educational Technology, Computer Networks
Advisor: 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
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
Research Areas: Cloud Computing and Data Center Networking
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Nate Bragg
PhD student in Computer Science
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
Research Areas: Data Visualization, Visual Analytics, Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Remco Chang
Ellery Buntel
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Brain Computer Interaction and Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Rob Jacob
Tanushree Burman
PhD Student in Computer Science
Research Area: Human in the Loop Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
Jared Chandler
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Security, Programming Languages, HCI
Advisor: Adjunct Professor Kathleen Fisher
Xiaohui Chen
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Schwartz Family Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Nate Davis
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Applications of machine learning within metabolomics
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Kapil Devkota
PhD student in Computer Science
Research area: Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Lenore Cowen
Gwen Edgar
PhD student in Computer Science
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: Professor and Benard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow Matthias Scheutz
Hiba Eltigani
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Abdullah Faisal
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Cloud computing, machine learning systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Sasha Fedchin
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Formal Verification, Test Automation
Advisor: Professor and Chair of Computer Science Jeff Foster
Patrick Feeney
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes
Tyler Frasca
PhD student in Computer Science and Human-Robot Interaction
Research Areas: Human-Robot Interaction for assessing and improving task performance
Advisor: Professor and Benard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow Matthias Scheutz
Shivam Goel
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Symbolic Learning
Advisor: James Schmolze Assistant Professor
Andrew Gonczi
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Computational Geometry
Advisors: Professor Diane Souvaine, Visiting Scholar Matias Korman, Adjunct Associate Professor Csaba Toth
Rukhshan Haroon
PhD Student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Assistive/Accessible Technologies, Networked Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Ethan Harvey
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Human-computer interaction, brain-computer interfaces, machine learning, data science
Advisor: Professor Rob Jacob
Emily Holt
PhD student in Computer Science
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
Research Areas: Graph Neural Networks, Variational Inference
Advisor: Schwartz Family Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Jindan Huang
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Fox Huston
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Programming Languages
Advisors: Professor and Chair of Computer Science Jeff Foster, Associate Professor Norman Ramsey
Darby Huye
PhD student in Computer Science
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
Research Area: Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Samantha Katcher
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Focusing on the human-centered intersections between cybersecurity, data science, and DEI.
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka
Hifza Khalid
PhD student in Computer Science
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
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisors: Assistant Professor Liping Liu, Assistant Professor Bert Huang
Sam Lasser
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Formal verification, Interactive theorem proving
Advisors: Adjunct Professor Kathleen Fisher
Theresa Law
PhD student in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Research Areas: Human-robot interaction, trust in human-robot interaction, social robots
Advisor: Professor and Benard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow Matthias Scheutz
Sipei Li
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Machine learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Bert Huang
Yukun Li
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Machine learning
Advisor: Schwartz Family Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Max Liu
PhD student in Computer Science
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
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Advisors: Schwartz Family 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
Research Area: Networking and systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
James Mattei
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Human factors of computer security
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka
Mavis Murdock
PhD Student in Computer Science
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Jeanne-Marie Musca
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Programming languages
Advisor: Adjunct Professor Kathleen Fisher
Woojoo Na
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Bert Huang
Monsurat Olaosebikan
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Human Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality
Advisors: Professor Lenore Cowen, Professor Orit Shaer
Carson Powers
PhD student in Computer Science
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
Research Areas: Computation and social systems, disinformation, computational modeling
Advisors: Professor Lenore Cowen, Professor J.P. de Ruiter
Sarah Radway
Interdisciplinary PhD student in Computer Science & Public Policy
Research Areas: Security and Privacy
Advisors: Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy Susan Landau
Preetish Rath
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes
Sarah Schneider
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor and Benard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow Matthias Scheutz
Isaac Sheidlower
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Human Robot Interaction, Human Robot Collaboration
Advisor: Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Polina Shpilker
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Computational Biology
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
Ashley Suh
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Visual analytics, Information visualization, Graph visualization & analytics
Advisor: Associate Professor Remco Chang
Tung Thai
PhD Student in Computer Science and Human-Robot Interaction
Research Areas: Human-Robot Interaction, Multi-Agent Systems, and Reinforcement Learning
Advisors: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov, Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz
Christopher Thierauf
PhD student in Computer Science and Human-Robot Interaction
Research Area: Robot algorithms and designs for long-term autonomy in human-robot interaction
Advisor: Professor and Benard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow Matthias Scheutz
Ron Thompson
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Medical Device Security
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka
Muhammad Umair
PhD student in Computer Science and Human-Robot Interaction
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
Research Area: BCI
Advisors: Professor Rob Jacob
Matthew Werenski
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Optimal Transport, Machine Learning, High-Dimensional Probability
Advisors: Associate Professor Shuchin Aeron, Assistant James Murphy
Hang Yu
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Interactive Reinforcement Learning, Human-Robot Interaction
Advisors: Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Zhaoqi Zhang
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Distributed System, Distributed Tracing, Debugging
Advisors: Ankur and Mari Sahu Assistant Professor Raja Sambasivan
Frederick Zhang
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: Machine Learning for Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Yan Zhou Chen
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Area: I am interested in developing tools to improve identification of metabolite from tandem mass spectrometry.
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
Hao Zhu
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Artificial intelligence, Computational biology
Advisor: Professor Donna Slonim