PhD Students

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

Abowitz's Website 

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

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

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

PhD student in Computer Science

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

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: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz, Associate Professor Shuchin Aeron

Aygun's Website

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

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Liping Liu

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

Bragg's Website 

PhD student in Computer Science
camellia_daniela.brumar@tufts.edu

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

Brumar's Website 

PhD student in Computer Science
ellery.buntel@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Brain Computer Interaction and Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Rob Jacob

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

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

Burman's Website

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

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Liping Liu

 Chen's Website

PhD student in Computer Science: Human-Robot Interaction
timothy.duggan@tufts.edu

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

PhD student in Computer Science
Budvin.Edippuliarachchi@tufts.edu

Research Areas: High Performance Computing, Compilers for Scientific Computing
Advisor: Ada Lovelace Associate Professor Hari Sundar

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

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

PhD student in Computer Science
emily.ertle@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Modeling Diverse Intelligence, Developing Bio-Inspired Polycomputing Frameworks
Advisors: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz, Vannevar Bush Professor Michael Levin

PhD student in Computer Science
kaveh.eskandari_miandoab@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, AI Safety, AI Fairness
Advisor: Research Assistant Professor Vasanth Sarathy, Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

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

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

Faisal's Website 

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

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

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

PhD student in Computer Science
patrick.feeney@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Michael Hughes

Feeney's Website 

PhD Student in Computer Science
jocelyn.garcia@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Lenore Cowen

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

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

Goel's Website 

PhD student in Computer Science: 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

Goldowsky's Website
 

PhD Student in Computer Science
rukhshan.haroon@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Accessibility, Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Applied Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar

 Haroon's Website

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

Research Areas: Machine Learning for Healthcare, Probabilistic Machine Learning, and Bayesian Deep Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Michael Hughes

Harvey's Website 

PhD Student in Computer Science
kyle.heuton@tufts.edu

Research Area: Machine Learning for Health
Advisor: Assistant Professor Michael Hughes

PhD student in Computer Science
jiajing.hu@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Graph Neural Networks, Variational Inference
Advisor: Associate Professor Liping Liu

​PhD student in Computer Science
jindan.huang@tufts.edu

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

​​​PhD student in Computer Science
tian.huang@tufts.edu

Research Area: Anonymous Communication
Advisor: Minnie McNeal Kenny Assistant Professor Megumi Ando

​​​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

PhD student in Computer Science
oluwatomilola.idowu@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Human Factors of Security and Privacy
Advisors: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka , Assistant Professor Johes Bater

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

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

Jacobs' Website

PhD student in Computer Science
jjeang01@tufts.edu

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

Jeang's Website

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

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

Joseph's Website

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

Research Area: Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

​​​​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

PhD student in Computer Science
hifza.khalid@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Operating Systems, Performance Analysis, Configuration Management, Machine Learning.
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch

PhD Student in Computer Science: Cognitive Science 
anes.kim@tufts.edu

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

​​​PhD student in Computer Science

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

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

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

Lamelas' Website 

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

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch

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

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Liping Liu

​​​PhD student in Computer Science
daniel.little@tufts.edu

Research Area: Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

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

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

PhD student in Computer Science
hlu07@tufts.edu

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

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

Research Areas: Deep Learning, Neurosymbolic AI
Advisors: Associate Professor Liping Liu

Lymperopoulos' Website

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

Research Areas: Anonymous Communication Protocols, Computational Geometry
Advisors: Professor Diane Souvaine and Minnie McNeal Kenny Assistant Professor Megumi Ando

Marsh's Website

PhD student in Computer Science

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

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

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

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

Research Area: Human factors of computer security
Advisor: Lin Family Assistant Professor Daniel Votipka

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

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

Murdock's Website

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

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

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

Powers' Website 

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

Research Area: Computational Complexity
Advisor: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii

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

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

Russell's Website

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

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

​​PhD student in Computer Science
sarah.schneider@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

PhD student in Computer Science: Cognitive Science
anna.sheaffer@tufts.edu

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

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

​​​​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

Shpilker's Website

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science

Research Areas: Curriculum Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Sim2Real Transfer
Advisor: Associate Professor Jivko Sinapov

Shukla's Website

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

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

Slizkov's Website

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
sasha.spala@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Computational Linguistics, Data Visualization, HCI, Document Intelligence
Advisor: Professor Remco Chang

​​​​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

​​​​PhD student in Computer Science
ash.sze@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Biological Databases, Large Language Models
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

​​​PhD student in Computer Science: 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

Thierauf's Webpage 

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

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

Thompson's Website 

PhD student in Computer Science: Human-Robot Interaction
muammad.umair@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Conversational AI, Dialogue Systems, Language in Human Robot Interaction
Advisors: Professor J.P. de Ruiter, Associate Professor Liping Liu

Umair's Website 

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

Research Area: BCI 
Advisors: Professor Rob Jacob

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

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

Wang's Website

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

Werenski's Website 

PhD student in Computer Science
xiaoyu.xia@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Data Science and Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Abani Patra

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

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
 

​​​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

​​​PhD student in Computer Science
frederick.zhang@tufts.edu

Research Area: Machine Learning for Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun

​​​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

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

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