Graduating PhD Students
Graduating PhD students, use this form to add yourself to this page.
- Areas of Expertise:
- Formal Methods
- Software Engineering
- Dissertation Topic:
- Mining Specifications Modulo a Test Generator via Symbolic Analysis and Learning Algorithms
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Tao Xie
- Areas of Expertise:
- System Design
- Real Time Systems
- Safe use of AI
- Dissertation Topic:
- Safe and Secure Autonomous Vehicles
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Lui Sha
- Areas of Expertise:
- Numerical Methods
- High-Performance Computing
- Scientific Computing
- Dissertation Topic:
- Polynomial Reductiong with Full Domain Decomposition Preconditioner for Spectral Element Poisson Solvers
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Paul F. Fischer
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computational Economics
- Algorithms for Noisy Data
- Dissertation Topic:
- Limited-Information Problems in Computational Economics
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Prof. Ruta Mehta
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computer Science Education
- Collaborative Learning
- Testing and Debugging Education
- Dissertation Topic:
- Towards More Effective Testing and Debugging Education in Computer Science Courses
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2025
- Thesis Advisor:
- Geoffrey Herman
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computer Science Education
- Dissertation Topic:
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2026
- Thesis Advisor:
- Geoffrey Herman & Jeff Erickson
- Areas of Expertise:
- Programming Languages
- Formal Methods
- Dissertation Topic:
- Matching Logic
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Grigore Rosu
- Areas of Expertise:
- Optimization
- Computational Biology
- Algorithms
- Dissertation Topic:
- Algorithms for Phylogenetic Tree Correction in Species and Cancer Evolution
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2020
- Thesis Advisor:
- Mohammed El-Kebir and Tandy Warnow
- Areas of Expertise:
- Distributed Computing
- Applied Cryptography
- Security
- Dissertation Topic:
- Distributed Cryptographic Systems in the Modern Era
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2025
- Thesis Advisor:
- Ling Ren
- Areas of Expertise:
- Auditing and Threat Analytics
- Serverless Platform Security
- System Security and Privacy
- Dissertation Topic:
- Defending against Emerging Threats in Serverless Computing
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Adam Bates
- Areas of Expertise:
- Economics
- Applied Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Dissertation Topic:
- Modeling the Successes and Failures of Content Based Platforms
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Prof. Hari Sundaram
- Areas of Expertise:
- Testing Machine Learning Software
- Software Engineering
- Dissertation Topic:
- Testing Machine Learning Libraries in the Presence of Randomness
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Sasa Misailovic
- Areas of Expertise:
- Collaborative Learning
- Sense of Belonging
- Computer Science Education
- Dissertation Topic:
- Developing and Validating a Survey for Classroom-based Sense of Belonging in Computing
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2025
- Thesis Advisor:
- Geoffrey L. Herman
- Areas of Expertise:
- Network Science
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Dissertation Topic:
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jingrui He
- Areas of Expertise:
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- AI
- Dissertation Topic:
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Heng Ji
- Areas of Expertise:
- Natural Language Processing
- Large Language Models
- Information Retrieval and Reasoning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Towards Automated Information Seeking and Aggregation
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2025
- Thesis Advisor:
- Prof. Heng Ji
- Areas of Expertise:
- Deep Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Methods for Efficient Imitation and Exploration in Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jian Peng
- Areas of Expertise:
- Representation Understanding
- Large Language Models
- Natural Language Processing
- Dissertation Topic:
- Mindreading and Surpassing Limits for Large Language Models
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2026
- Thesis Advisor:
- Heng Ji
- Areas of Expertise:
- Data Provenance
- Intrusion Detection
- Forensic Analysis
- System Security
- Dissertation Topic:
- Towards Effective Threat Detection and Investigation with Provenance Analytics
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Adam Bates
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computer Systems and Architecture
- Hardware Resiliency
- Approximate Computing
- Machine Learning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Towards Scalable and Specialized Application Error Analysis
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2020
- Thesis Advisor:
- Sarita Adve
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Dissertation Topic:
- Supporting Instructor Decisions on Algorithmic Team Formation through Integrating Stakeholder Voices
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Brian Bailey
- Areas of Expertise:
- Classification, Ranking, Recommendation
- Metric Elicitation
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Classification Performance Metric Elicitation
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Prof. Sanmi Koyejo
- Areas of Expertise:
- Broadening Participation in Comptuing
- Computer Science Education
- Dissertation Topic:
- Broadening Participation in Computing Through Interventions to Overcome Cultural and Curricular Barriers
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2025
- Thesis Advisor:
- Colleen M. Lewis
- Areas of Expertise:
- Applied AI/ML for Wireless Networks
- IoT and Low Power WANs
- RF Sensing
- Wireless Networking
- Dissertation Topic:
- SCALABLE MILLIMETER WAVE WIRELESS NETWORKS
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2022
- Thesis Advisor:
- Prof. Haitham Hassanieh
- Areas of Expertise:
- Randomized & approximation algorithms
- Computational geometry
- Theoretical computer science
- Dissertation Topic:
- On the Search for Geometric Orders, Centers, and Separation
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Sariel Har-Peled
- Areas of Expertise:
- Compilers
- Formal Verification
- Testing
- Program Analysis
- Dissertation Topic:
- Compositional Analysis of the Effects of Uncertainty on Computations
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Sasa Misailovic
- Areas of Expertise:
- Graph Mining, User Modeling, NLP
- Recommendation Systems, Info Retrieval
- Deep Learning and Neural Networks
- Dissertation Topic:
- User-Centric Deep Learning Methods and Applications
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Hari Sundaram
- Areas of Expertise:
- logic learning
- program synthesis
- Dissertation Topic:
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Madhusudan Parthasarathy
- Areas of Expertise:
- System security
- Operating system
- Dissertation Topic:
- Attack Surface Reduction in Contemporary Operating Systems via Practical Kernel Debloating
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2022
- Thesis Advisor:
- Sibin Mohan
- Areas of Expertise:
- Software engineering
- Dissertation Topic:
- Software Testing in a Nondeterministic World
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Darko Marinov and Tao Xie
- Areas of Expertise:
- Abstract Interpretation
- Embedded Systems
- Static Analysis
- Probabilistic Programming
- Differentiable Programming
- Programming Languages
- Dissertation Topic:
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Sasa Misailovic
- Areas of Expertise:
- CSCW
- Conversational AI
- Social computing
- Human-centered AI
- Human-computer interaction
- Dissertation Topic:
- Designing Conversational Agents to Promote Self-disclosure and Behavior Change
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Yun Huang
- Areas of Expertise:
- Security
- Machine Learning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Enabling large-scale certifiably trustworthy deep learning systems
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Bo Li and Tao Xie
- Areas of Expertise:
- Computational Topology
- Computational Geometry
- Dissertation Topic:
- Equilibrium Graphs on Flat Tori
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jeff Erickson
- Areas of Expertise:
- High Performance Computing
- Scientific Computing
- Dissertation Topic:
- Reducing Communication Bottlenecks in Iterative Solvers
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Luke Olson
- Areas of Expertise:
- Algorithmic Game Theory
- Operations Research
- Theory & Algorithms
- Dissertation Topic:
- Graph Partitioning: Redistricting Games and the Spherical Zoning Problem
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Sheldon Jacobson
- Areas of Expertise:
- Human Factors in Security and Privacy
- Responsible ML
- Dissertation Topic:
- Human Factors in Secure and Non-Abusive AI
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Gang Wang
- Areas of Expertise:
- Logic Learning
- Program Synthesis
- Program Verification
- Dissertation Topic:
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Teaching
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Madhusudan Parthasarathy
- Areas of Expertise:
- ML for Systems
- Cloud Computing
- Distributed Systems
- Dissertation Topic:
- Efficient and Robust Online Learning in Cloud Datacenters
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Ravishankar K. Iyer
- Areas of Expertise:
- Geospatial Data
- Remote Sensing
- Machine Learning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Applications of Geospatial Deep Learning
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2023
- Thesis Advisor:
- Arindam Banerjee
- Areas of Expertise:
- Predictability and Fault-Tolerance
- Real-Time and Safe AI
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Real Time and Embedded Systems
- Dissertation Topic:
- DESIGNING SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS USING COTS BASED HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Marco Caccamo
- Areas of Expertise:
- Natural Language Processing
- AI for Science
- Dissertation Topic:
- AI Scientists: Toward Automated Literature Understanding and Scientific Discovery
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2025
- Thesis Advisor:
- Heng Ji
- Areas of Expertise:
- BioNLP
- Biomedical Text Mining
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Mining
- Dissertation Topic:
- Minimum Supervised Text Mining for Literature-based Scientific Discovery
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2022
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jiawei Han
- Areas of Expertise:
- High Performance Computing
- Scientific Computing
- Parallel Computing
- Dissertation Topic:
- A Virtualized MPI Implementation Optimized for Shared Memory Systems
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale
- Areas of Expertise:
- Data Mining
- Heterogeneous Machine Learning
- Trustworthy Transfer Learning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Trustworthy Transfer Learning
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jingrui He
- Areas of Expertise:
- Natural Language Processing
- Interactive Computing
- Behavioral Science Research
- Conversational AI
- Dissertation Topic:
- Improving Survey Methods with Conversational AI
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2022
- Thesis Advisor:
- Hari Sundaram; Karrie Karahalios
- Areas of Expertise:
- Federated Learning
- Distributed System
- Machine Learning
- Dissertation Topic:
- Toward Communication-Efficient and Secure Distributed Machine Learning
- Preferred Employment:
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Indranil Gupta
- Areas of Expertise:
- Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing
- Dissertation Topic:
- Elastic Techniques Mitigating Dynamism In Distributed Systems
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Industry - Development
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Indranil Gupta
- Areas of Expertise:
- Applied machine learning
- Network data science
- Graph data mining
- Dissertation Topic:
- Multi-Facet Graph Mining with Contextualized Projections
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 12/2020
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jiawei Han
- Areas of Expertise:
- AI for Science
- Structure-Enhanced Text Mining
- Data Mining
- Dissertation Topic:
- Structure-Enhanced Text Mining for Understanding and Augmenting Scientific Discovery
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jiawei Han
- Areas of Expertise:
- Cloud Computing
- System Security
- Computer Architecture
- Dissertation Topic:
- You Share, You Leak, Practical Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Modern Clouds
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Industry - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 5/2024
- Thesis Advisor:
- Josep Torrellas
- Areas of Expertise:
- Rare Category Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Dissertation Topic:
- Harnessing Rare Category Trinity for Complex Data
- Preferred Employment:
- Academia - Research
- Expected Graduation Date:
- 8/2021
- Thesis Advisor:
- Jingrui He