Graduating PhD Students
Graduating PhD students may add themselves to this page by completing this form.
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computational Economics
- Algorithms for Noisy Data
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Limited-Information Problems in Computational Economics
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Prof. Ruta Mehta
- Areas of Expertise:
- Optimization
- Computational Biology
- Algorithms
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Algorithms for Phylogenetic Tree Correction in Species and Cancer Evolution
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2020
- Advisor: Advisor
- Mohammed El-Kebir and Tandy Warnow
- Areas of Expertise:
- Economics
- Applied Machine Learning
- Data Science
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Modeling the Successes and Failures of Content Based Platforms
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Prof. Hari Sundaram
- Areas of Expertise:
- Deep Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Methods for Efficient Imitation and Exploration in Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Jian Peng
- Areas of Expertise:
- Data Provenance
- Intrusion Detection
- Forensic Analysis
- System Security
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Towards Effective Threat Detection and Investigation with Provenance Analytics
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Adam Bates
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computer Systems and Architecture
- Hardware Resiliency
- Approximate Computing
- Machine Learning
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Towards Scalable and Specialized Application Error Analysis
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2020
- Advisor: Advisor
- Sarita Adve
- Areas of Expertise:
- Classification, Ranking, Recommendation
- Metric Elicitation
- Statistical Machine Learning
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Classification Performance Metric Elicitation
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Prof. Sanmi Koyejo
- Areas of Expertise:
- Randomized & approximation algorithms
- Computational geometry
- Theoretical computer science
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- On the Search for Geometric Orders, Centers, and Separation
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Sariel Har-Peled
- Areas of Expertise:
- Graph Mining, User Modeling, NLP
- Recommendation Systems, Info Retrieval
- Deep Learning and Neural Networks
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- User-Centric Deep Learning Methods and Applications
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Hari Sundaram
- Areas of Expertise:
- Software engineering
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Software Testing in a Nondeterministic World
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Darko Marinov and Tao Xie
- Areas of Expertise:
- CSCW
- Conversational AI
- Social computing
- Human-centered AI
- Human-computer interaction
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Designing Conversational Agents to Promote Self-disclosure and Behavior Change
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Yun Huang
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computational Topology
- Computational Geometry
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Equilibrium Graphs on Flat Tori
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Teaching
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Jeff Erickson
- Areas of Expertise:
- motion planning
- robotics
- mobile robotics
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Designing Boundary Interactions for Simple Mobile Robots
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2020
- Advisor: Advisor
- Steven M. LaValle
- Areas of Expertise:
- Predictability and Fault-Tolerance
- Real-Time and Safe AI
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Real Time and Embedded Systems
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- DESIGNING SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS USING COTS BASED HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Marco Caccamo
- Areas of Expertise:
- High Performance Computing
- Scientific Computing
- Parallel Computing
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- A Virtualized MPI Implementation Optimized for Shared Memory Systems
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale
- Areas of Expertise:
- Federated Learning
- Distributed System
- Machine Learning
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Toward Communication-Efficient and Secure Distributed Machine Learning
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Indranil Gupta
- Areas of Expertise:
- Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Elastic Techniques Mitigating Dynamism In Distributed Systems
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Indranil Gupta
- Areas of Expertise:
- Applied machine learning
- Network data science
- Graph data mining
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Multi-Facet Graph Mining with Contextualized Projections
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2020
- Advisor: Advisor
- Jiawei Han
- Areas of Expertise:
- Rare Category Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
Research Interests - Dissertation Topic: Thesis Title
- Harnessing Rare Category Trinity for Complex Data
- Preferred Employment: Preferred Employment
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Advisor: Advisor
- Jingrui He