PhD Students
![Sarah Abowitz](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-sarah-abowitz.png?itok=1pV7fp8c)
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
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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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2024-07/people-sara-alam.png?itok=pvpjndcw)
Sara Alam
PhD student in Computer Science
sara.alam@tufts.edu
Research Area: Database Systems and Privacy
Advisor: Assistant Professor Johes Bater
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Gabriel Appleby
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Data Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Remco Chang
![Ayca Aygun](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-ayca-aygun.png?itok=olQpEef5)
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
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Jacob Boerma
PhD student in Computer Science
jacob.boerma@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
![Nate Bragg](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-nate-bragg.png?itok=L4iuM482)
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 Brumar](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-camelia-brumar.png?itok=vSa62VWc)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-ellery-buntel.png?itok=OZ3WZe2x)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2024-05/people-tanushree-burman01.png?itok=OMy6MCDv)
Tanushree Burman
PhD Student in Computer Science
tanushree.burman@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human in the Loop Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
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Xiaohui Chen
PhD student in Computer Science
xiaohui.chen@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
![Hiba Eltigani](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-hiba-eltigani.png?itok=e0XVx1YF)
Hiba Eltigani
PhD student in Computer Science
hiba.eltigani@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
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Abdullah Faisal
PhD student in Computer Science
abdullah_bin.faisal@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Cloud Computing, Machine Learning Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
![Maria Fanelle](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2024-05/people-maria-fanelle.png?itok=itQjKdiD)
Maria Fanelle
PhD student in Computer Science
maria.fanelle@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Database Systems, Differential Privacy
Advisor: Assistant Professor Johes Bater
![Sasha Fedchin](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-sasha-fedchin.png?itok=P2vN-aVC)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-patrick-feeney.png?itok=K9zFIq_C)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-shivam-goel.png?itok=UbCn0miT)
Shivam Goel
PhD student in Computer Science
shivam.goel@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Neurosymbolic AI, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
![Howard Goldowsky](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2024-07/people-howard-goldowsky.png?itok=BgWr9lZa)
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
![Rukhshan Haroon](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-12/people-rukhshan-haroon.png?itok=Cxi45T7G)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2024-05/people-ethan-harvey01.png?itok=84yg4XQj)
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
![Kyle Heuton](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2023-08/people-kyle-heuton.png?itok=ZQEEGwY6)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-jiajing-hu.png?itok=kqxr-8Q9)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-jindan-huang.png?itok=AiYYl5RF)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-darby-huye.png?itok=8ruSQXVM)
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
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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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2024-07/people-john-jeang.png?itok=3DwlH-o_)
John Jeang
PhD student in Computer Science
jjeang01@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Quantum Computing and Computational Complexity
Advisor: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii
![Apurva Kalia](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-apurva-kalia.png?itok=7F0Xyv03)
Apurva Kalia
PhD student in Computer Science
apurva.kalia@tufts.edu
Research Area: Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
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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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-hifza-khalid.png?itok=qTONPC44)
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
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Blessing Kolawole
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Health Equity
Advisor: Associate Professor Valencia Koomson
![Chami Lamelas](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-12/people-swaminathan-lamelas.png?itok=367ZkKP0)
Chami Lamelas
PhD Student in Computer Science
swaminathan.lamelas@tufts.edu
Research Area: Systems and Machine Learning
Advisors: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
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Sipei Li
PhD student in Computer Science
sipei.li@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch
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Yukun Li
PhD student in Computer Science
yukun.li@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
![Max Liu](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-max-liu.png?itok=OdmcaJsh)
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
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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
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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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-panagiotis-lymperopoulos.png?itok=sqkmp1hv)
Panagiotis Lymperopoulos
PhD student in Computer Science
panagiotis.lymperopoulos@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Advisors: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
![Margaret Martin](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-margaret-martin.png?itok=Fyb4pi2L)
Margaret Martin
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
![Noah Martin](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-noah-martin.png?itok=jBgl5fFx)
Noah Martin
PhD student in Computer Science
noah.martin@tufts.edu
Research Area: Networking and systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
![James Mattei](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-james-mattei.png?itok=OuQZL-_o)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-12/people-mavis-murdock.png?itok=coLfVDhK)
Mavis Murdock
PhD Student in Computer Science
mavis.murdock@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
![Carson Powers](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-carson-powers.png?itok=pLBR8g4A)
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
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Morgan Prior
PhD student in Computer Science
morgan.prior@tufts.edu
Research Area: Computational Complexity
Advisor: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii
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Matthew Russell
PhD student in Computer Science
mrussell@cs.tufts.edu
Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Brain-Computer Interfaces
Advisor: Professor Robert Jacob
![Julia Santaniello](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2024-07/people-julia-santaniello.png?itok=NXbjoTeP)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-sarah-schneider.png?itok=ON-Gdea8)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-isaac-sheidlower.png?itok=3DbQ2iOy)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2023-08/people-polina-shpilker.png?itok=dTVFjuDc)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-yash-shukla.png?itok=9yZ_UIY5)
Yash Shukla
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Curriculum Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Sim2Real Transfer
Advisor: James Schmolze Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
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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
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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
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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
![Ronald Thompson](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-ronald-thompson.png?itok=Z0rXE8aW)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-muhammad-umair.png?itok=lA3nXeEk)
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
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Liang Wang
PhD student in Computer Science
leonwang@cs.tufts.edu
Research Area: BCI
Advisors: Professor Rob Jacob
![Yinkai Wang](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2023-08/people-yinkai-wang.png?itok=BpdYTTSL)
Yinkai Wang
PhD Student in Computer Science
yinkai.wang@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
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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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-hang-yu.png?itok=sODq49q5)
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
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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
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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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-frederick-zhang.png?itok=gkWWPgDf)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-yan-zhou-chen.png?itok=Fr7AqFNe)
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](/cs/sites/g/files/lrezom576/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/people-hao-zhu.png?itok=6ufVykKA)
Hao Zhu
PhD student in Computer Science
hao.zhu@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Donna Slonim