PhD Students

Sarah Abowitz

Sarah Abowitz

PhD Student in Computer Science
sarah.abowitz@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
Advisors: Professor and Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship Gregory Crane

Personal Website 

Headshot placeholder image

Mitchell Abrams

PhD Student in Computer Science
mitchell.abrams@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Reference Resolution, Normative Reasoning
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

Sara Alam

Sara Alam

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
sara.alam@tufts.edu

Research Area: Database Systems and Privacy
Advisor: Assistant Professor Johes Bater

Headshot placeholder image

Gabriel Appleby

PhD student in Computer Science

Research Areas: Data Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Remco Chang

Ayca Aygun

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

Personal Website

Headshot placeholder image

Jacob Boerma

PhD student in Computer Science
jacob.boerma@tufts.edu

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu

Nate Bragg

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

Personal Website 

Camelia Brumar

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

Personal Website 

Ellery Buntel

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

Tanushree Burman

PhD Student in Computer Science
tanushree.burman@tufts.edu

Research Area: Human in the Loop Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov

Personal Website

Headshot placeholder image

Xiaohui Chen

PhD student in Computer Science
xiaohui.chen@tufts.edu

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu

 Personal Website

Hiba Eltigani

Hiba Eltigani

PhD student in Computer Science
hiba.eltigani@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar

Headshot placeholder image

Abdullah Faisal

​​​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
abdullah_bin.faisal@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Cloud Computing, Machine Learning Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar

Personal Website 

Maria Fanelle

Maria Fanelle

PhD student in Computer Science
maria.fanelle@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Database Systems, Differential Privacy
Advisor: Assistant Professor Johes Bater

Sasha Fedchin

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

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

Shivam Goel

PhD student in Computer Science
shivam.goel@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Neurosymbolic AI, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov

Personal Website 

Howard Goldowsky

Howard Goldowsky

PhD student in Cognitive Science
howard.goldowsky@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Analogical Reasoning, Hyperdimensional Computing, Neurally-plausible AI
Advisors: Research Assistant Professor Vasanth Sarathy, Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

Personal Website
 

Rukhshan Haroon

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

 Personal Website

Ethan Harvey

Ethan Harvey

PhD student in Computer Science
ethan.harvey@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Machine Learning for Healthcare, Probabilistic Machine Learning, and Bayesian Deep Learning
Advisor: Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor Michael Hughes

Personal Website 

Kyle Heuton

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

Jiajing Hu

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

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

Darby Huye

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

Headshot placeholder image

Dale Jacobs

PhD student in Computer Science
dale.jacobs@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Quantum Information, Complexity Theory
Advisors: Assistant Professor Saeed Mehraban, Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii

John Jeang

John Jeang

PhD student in Computer Science
jjeang01@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Quantum Computing and Computational Complexity
Advisor: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii

Personal Website

Headshot placeholder image

Michael U. Joseph

PhD student in Computer Science
michael.joseph@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Computational Complexity, Quantum Information Science
Advisor: Assistant Professor Saeed Mehraban

Personal Website

Apurva Kalia

Apurva Kalia

PhD student in Computer Science
apurva.kalia@tufts.edu

Research Area: Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

Headshot placeholder image

Samantha Katcher

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
samantha.katcher@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Human Factors of Security and Privacy Design, Data Science
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka

Hifza Khalid

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

Blessing Kolawole

​​​PhD student in Computer Science

Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Health Equity
Advisor: Associate Professor Valencia Koomson

Chami Lamelas

Chami Lamelas

PhD Student in Computer Science
swaminathan.lamelas@tufts.edu

Research Area: Systems and Machine Learning
Advisors: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar

Personal Website 

Headshot placeholder image

Sipei Li

​​​PhD student in Computer Science
sipei.li@tufts.edu

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch

Headshot placeholder image

Yukun Li

​​​PhD student in Computer Science
yukun.li@tufts.edu

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu

Max 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

Headshot placeholder image

Weiwei Lou

PhD student in Computer Science
weiwei.lou@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Drug Discovery, Disease Gene Discovery, and Machine Learning in Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Lenore Cowen

Headshot placeholder image

Helen Lu

PhD student in Computer Science
hlu07@tufts.edu

Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

Panagiotis Lymperopoulos

Panagiotis Lymperopoulos

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
panagiotis.lymperopoulos@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Advisors: Assistant Professor Liping Liu

Margaret Martin

Margaret Martin

PhD student in Computer Science

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

Noah Martin

Noah Martin

PhD student in Computer Science
noah.martin@tufts.edu

Research Area: Networking and systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar

James Mattei

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

Mavis Murdock

PhD Student in Computer Science
mavis.murdock@tufts.edu

Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short

Alberto Naveira Montalvo

Alberto Naveira Montalvo

PhD Student in Computer Science
alberto.naveira@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

Carson Powers

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

Personal Website 

Headshot placeholder image

Morgan Prior

PhD student in Computer Science
morgan.prior@tufts.edu

Research Area: Computational Complexity
Advisor: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii

Headshot placeholder image

Matthew Russell

PhD student in Computer Science
mrussell@cs.tufts.edu

Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Brain-Computer Interfaces
Advisor: Professor Robert Jacob

Personal Website

Julia Santaniello

Julia Santaniello

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
julia.santaniello@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Cognitive Science (Brain-Computer Interfaces), Robotics
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov, Professor Robert Jacob

Sarah Schneider

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

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

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

Personal Website

Yash Shukla

Yash Shukla

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science

Research Areas: Curriculum Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Sim2Real Transfer
Advisor: James Schmolze Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov

Personal Website

Alexey Slizkiv

Alexey Slizkov

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
aleksei.slizkov@tufts.edu

Research Area: Theoretical Computer Science
Advisors: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii, Assistant Professor Saeed Mehraban

Personal Website

Headshot placeholder image

James Staley

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
james.staley625703@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Human-Robot Interaction, Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Advisors: Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor Elaine Short

Headshot placeholder image

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

Personal Webpage 

Ronald Thompson

Ron Thompson

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
ronald.thompson@tufts.edu

Research Area: Medical Device Security
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka

Personal Website 

Muhammad Umair

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

Personal Website 

Headshot placeholder image

Liang Wang

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
leonwang@cs.tufts.edu

Research Area: BCI 
Advisors: Professor Rob Jacob

Yinkai Wang

Yinkai Wang

PhD Student in Computer Science
yinkai.wang@tufts.edu

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

Personal Website

Headshot placeholder image

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

Personal Website 

Hang Yu

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

Headshot placeholder image

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
 

Headshot placeholder image

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

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

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

Hao Zhu

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
hao.zhu@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Donna Slonim