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

Alam's Website

PhD Student in Computer Science
tahmid.awal@tufts.edu

Research Areas: High Performance and Parallel Computing, Neural Operators, AI Agents, AI4Science
Advisor: Ada Lovelace Associate Professor Hari Sundar

Awal's Website 

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

Research Area: Deep Learning, Generative Models
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 Areas: Human in the Loop Reinforcement Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Educational Robotics
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 Areas: AI and Robotics, Foundational Models, Vision-Language-Action Models
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

Duggan's Website

PhD Student in Computer Science
richard.dzeng@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Computational Biology, AI/ML, Bioinformatics
Advisors: Professor Lenore Cowen, Professor Donna Slonim

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

Edippuliarachchi's Website

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
maria.fanelle@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Privacy-preserving Databases, 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
cynthia.feeney@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Data Equity and Machine Learning for Healthcare
Advisor: Wittich Family Assistant Professor Michael Hughes

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: Wittich Family Assistant Professor Michael Hughes

Harvey's Website 

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

Research Area: Machine Learning for Health
Advisor: Wittich Family 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: Cognitive Science
linnea.hultman@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Professor JP de Ruiter

​​​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
skhosh02@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Multi-Agent Systems
Advisor: Assistant Professor Reuth Mirsky

Khoshdel's Website 

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
katharine.kowalyshyn@tufts.edu

Research Areas: LLM Interpretability, LLM Multilingualism, LLM Fairness and Biases
Advisor: Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

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

Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch

PhD Student in Computer Science
suyang.li@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Visualization, Visual Analytics
Advisor: Professor Remco Chang

Li's Website 

​​​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
Advisor: 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
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
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
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
ronald.thompson@tufts.edu

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

Thompson's Website 

PhD Student in Computer Science
saurabh.totey@tufts.edu

Research Area: Quantum Computing
Advisors: Assistant Professor Saeed Mehraban, Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii

Totey's Website 

PhD Student in Computer Science
paulina.trifonova@tufts.edu

Research Area: Computational Geometry
Advisor: Professor Diane Souvaine

PhD Student in Computer Science
danelle.tuchman@tufts.edu

Research Areas: Swarming Robotics, Machine Learning, Human Robot Interaction
Advisors: Assistant Professor Markus Nemitz, Karol Family Applied Technology Professor Matthias Scheutz

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
madeleine.van_zuylen@tufts.edu

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

van Zuylen's Website 

PhD Student in Computer Science
tien.vu@tufts.edu

Research Area: Deep Learning
Advisor: Professor Mai Vu

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
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