PhD Students
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
sara.alam@tufts.edu
Research Area: Database Systems and Privacy
Advisor: Assistant Professor Johes Bater
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
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
Jacob Boerma
PhD student in Computer Science
jacob.boerma@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
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 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
PhD student in Computer Science
ellery.buntel@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Brain Computer Interaction and Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Rob Jacob
Tanushree Burman
PhD Student in Computer Science
tanushree.burman@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human in the Loop Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
Xiaohui Chen
PhD student in Computer Science
xiaohui.chen@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
Hiba Eltigani
PhD student in Computer Science
hiba.eltigani@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
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
PhD student in Computer Science
maria.fanelle@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Database Systems, Differential Privacy
Advisor: Assistant Professor Johes Bater
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
shivam.goel@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Neurosymbolic AI, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics
Advisor: Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
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
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
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
jiajing.hu@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Graph Neural Networks, Variational Inference
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping Liu
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
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
jjeang01@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Quantum Computing and Computational Complexity
Advisor: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii
Michael U. Joseph
PhD student in Computer Science
michael.joseph@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Computational Complexity, Quantum Information Science
Advisor: Assistant Professor Saeed Mehraban
Apurva Kalia
PhD student in Computer Science
apurva.kalia@tufts.edu
Research Area: Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Health Equity
Advisor: Associate Professor Valencia Koomson
Chami Lamelas
PhD Student in Computer Science
swaminathan.lamelas@tufts.edu
Research Area: Systems and Machine Learning
Advisors: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
Sipei Li
PhD student in Computer Science
sipei.li@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Associate Professor Alva Couch
Yukun Li
PhD student in Computer Science
yukun.li@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Assistant Professor Liping 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
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
panagiotis.lymperopoulos@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Advisors: 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
noah.martin@tufts.edu
Research Area: Networking and systems
Advisor: Associate Professor Fahad Dogar
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
PhD Student in Computer Science
mavis.murdock@tufts.edu
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Advisor: Assistant Professor Elaine Schaertl Short
Alberto Naveira Montalvo
PhD Student in Computer Science
alberto.naveira@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
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
Morgan Prior
PhD student in Computer Science
morgan.prior@tufts.edu
Research Area: Computational Complexity
Advisor: Associate Professor Vladimir Podolskii
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
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
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
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
Research Areas: Curriculum Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Sim2Real Transfer
Advisor: James Schmolze Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov
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
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
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
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
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
Liang Wang
PhD student in Computer Science
leonwang@cs.tufts.edu
Research Area: BCI
Advisors: Professor Rob Jacob
Yinkai Wang
PhD Student in Computer Science
yinkai.wang@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
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
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
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
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
PhD student in Computer Science
frederick.zhang@tufts.edu
Research Area: Machine Learning for Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Soha Hassoun
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
PhD student in Computer Science
hao.zhu@tufts.edu
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology
Advisor: Professor Donna Slonim