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More information on my students can be found at the
IDIR Lab page.
Current Students
- Ph.D. students:
Farahnaz Akrami
Fatma Arslan
Israa Jaradat
Damian Jimenez (First Runner-Up Award in the SIGMOD17 Student Research Competition, undergraduate category)
Shadekur Rahman
Samiul Saeef
Xiao Shi
Theodora Toutountzi
Zeyu Zhang
- M.S. students:
Priyank Arora
Sumeet Lubal
Sarthak Majithia
Daniel Obembe
Sarbajit Roy
- B.S. students:
Sameer Chaulagain
Kyrell Dixon
Graduated Students
- Ph.D. students:
Afroza Sultana
(Ph.D. dissertation: Efficient Evaluation of Contextual and Reverse Pareto-Optimality Queries, May 2018;
first-employment after graduation: Software Engineer, Teradata Lab, Los Angeles, CA)
Gensheng Zhang
(Ph.D. dissertation: Frameworks, Algorithms, and Systems for Efficient Discovery of Data-backed Facts, December 2017;
interned at NEC Labs and Google;
first-employment after graduation: Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA)
Naeemul Hassan
(Ph.D. dissertation: Toward Automated Fact Monitoring And Checking, August 2016;
interned at AT&T and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI);
first-employment after graduation: Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS)
Nandish Jayaram
(Ph.D. dissertation: Toward Better Usability of Query Systems for Massive Ultra-Heterogeneous Graphs: Novel Approaches of Query Formulation and Query Specification, May 2016;
co-advisor: Ramez Elmasri;
interned at IBM Research India and HP Labs;
first-employment after graduation: Member of Technical Staff, Pivotal, Palo Alto, CA)
Ning Yan
(Ph.D. dissertation: Novel Methods for Entity-centric Information Exploration, December 2013;
first-employment after graduation: Research Scientist, Huawei R&D Center, Santa Clara, CA)
Aditya Telang
(Ph.D. dissertation: A Holistic, Similarity-based Approach for Personalized Ranking in Web Databases, August 2011;
co-advised with Sharma Chakravarthy;
first-employment after graduation: Researcher, IBM Research India)
- M.S. thesis students:
Ankit Shingavi
(M.S. thesis: Finding Representative Entities from Entity Graph by Using Neighborhood Based Entity Similarity, August 2018; first-employment after graduation: Software Engineer, Amazon A9, Palo Alto, California)
Tulsi Chandwani
(M.S. thesis: Maximizing Code Coverage in Database Applications, December 2017; first-employment after graduation: Red Hat, Westford, MA)
Abu Ayub Ansari Syed
(M.S. thesis: Evaluation of a Factual Claim Classifier with and without Using Entities as Features, August 2017; first-employment after graduation: Data Analytics Engineer, CirrusLabs, Atlanta, GA)
Ishwor Timilsina
(M.S. thesis: Crowdsourcing for Decision Making with Analytic Hierarchy Process, May 2017; first-employment after graduation: Fidelity Investments)
Nigesh Shakya
(M.S. thesis: A Probabilistic Approach to Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons, May 2017)
Rohit Bhoopalam
(M.S. thesis: Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms in Suggesting Candidate Edges to Construct a Query on Heterogeneous Graphs, May 2016; first-employment after graduation: Akamai, Boston, MA)
Fatma Dogan
(M.S. thesis: Detecting Real-time Check-worthy Factual Claims in Tweets Related to U.S. Politics, December 2015, UTA Ph.D. program)
Minumol Joseph
(M.S. thesis: Speaker Identification in Live Events Using Twitter, December 2015;
first-employment after graduation: Capital One, Plano, TX)
Ramesh Venkataraman
(M.S. thesis: Linking Entity Profiles, August 2014; first-employment after graduation: Amazon, Irving, TX)
Mahesh Gupta
(M.S. thesis: Querying Entity-relationship Graphs by Example Tuples: Experimental Evaluation and User Study, December 2012; first-employment after graduation: Electronic Arts (EA), Los Angeles, CA)
Jijo Philip
(M.S. thesis: Prominent Streaks Discovery on Blog Articles, December 2012; first-employment after graduation: Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO)
Avinash Bharadwaj
(M.S. thesis: Automatic Discovery of Significant Events from Databases, December 2011; first-employment after graduation: Copper Labs, Irving, TX)
Quazi (Sunny) Hasan
(M.S. thesis: Typifying Wikipedia Articles, December 2010; first-employment after graduation: Dematic, Madison, WI)
Jared Ashman
(M.S. thesis: Measuring Named Entity Similarity Through Wikipedia Category Hierarchies, December 2010; employment after graduation: Ambit Energy, Dallas, TX)
Muhammad Safiullah
(M.S. thesis: Efficient Processing of Set Queries Using Bitmap Indexes, August 2008; first-employment after graduation: Microsoft, Seattle, WA)
- B.S. students:
Josue Caraballo (B.S., December 2017)
Damian Jimenez (B.S., May 2017, UTA Ph.D. program)
Long Ly (B.S., May 2015)
Sidharth Goyal (B.S., May 2015)
Huadong Feng (B.S., May 2014)
Raju Karki (B.S., August 2012)
Aakash Tuli (BS, May 2010)
Other Students and Alumni
- Other students who participated in projects:
Rudresh Ajgaonkar, Abolfazl Asudeh, Ebrahim Cutlerywala, Maithili Deshpande, Ogenna Esimai, Siddhant Gawsane, Sona Hasani, Angus Helm, Aaditya Kulkarni, Xiaonan Li, Feifan Meng, Rakesh Ramegowda, Vikas Sable, Bhavana Sajja
- Visiting scholars:
Wei Hu (2017, Nanjing University),
Haifang Zhou (2015, National University of Defense Technology),
Shanqing Guo (2012, Shandong University)
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