2021

• Name: Ahmadvand, Ali
  Advisor: Eugene Agichtein

• Name: Gero, Zelalem
  Advisor: Joyce C Ho

• Name: Karisani, Payam
  Advisor: Li Xiong

• Name: Katebijahromi, Nasim
  Advisor: Gari D Clifford
  Dissertation: Detection of Adverse Events in Pregnancy Using a Low-Cost 1D Doppler Ultrasound Signal

• Name: Ma, Jing
  Advisor: Joyce C Ho
  Dissertation: Federated Tensor Factorization for Collaborative Health Data Analytics

• Name: Mobadersany, Pooya
  Advisor: Lee Cooper
  Dissertation: Predicting Time-to-Event and Clinical Outcomes from High-Dimensional Unstructured Data

• Name: Onken, Derek
  Advisor: Lars Ruthotto
  Dissertation: Optimal Control Approaches for Designing Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

• Name: Ren, Yifei
  Advisor: Li Xiong

• Name: Sotoodeh, Mani
  Advisor: Joyce C Ho
  Dissertation: Crowdsourcing and Semi Supervised Learning for Detection and Prediction of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer Injury

• Name: Su, Kenong
  Advisor: Hao Wu
  Dissertation: Statistical Modeling and Learning in Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data

• Name: Tabaie, Azade
  Advisor: Rishi Kamaleswaran

• Name: Tageldin, Mohamed Amgad Elsayed Ahmed
  Advisor: Lee Cooper

• Name: Tahmasebian, Farnaz
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Robust Crowdsourcing and Federated Learning under Poisoning Attacks

• Name: Tang, Pengfei
  Advisor: Li Xiong

• Name: Zhang ,Lei
  Advisor: Ymir Vigfusson

• Name: Zhang, Qiuchen
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Differentially Private Deep Learning

2020

• Name: Dias Lima Gramacho, Sergio Luis
  Advisor: Avani Wildani
  Dissertation: Autonomic Formation of Large Scale Wireless Mesh Networks

• Name: Nasiri Ghosheh Bolagh, Samaneh
  Advisor: Gari D Clifford
  Dissertation: Generalizable Machine Learning Methods for Electrophysiology

• Name: Shin, Bonggun
  Advisor: Joyce C Ho
  Dissertation: Deep Learning Approaches Towards Computerized Drug Discovery

• Name: Valderrama Cuadros, Camilo Ernesto
  Advisor: Gari D Clifford
  Dissertation: A framework for gestational development tracking using 1D-Doppler ultrasound signals in rural Guatemala

2019

• Name: Harati, Sahar
  Advisor: Shamim Nemati
  Dissertation: Machine Learning Methods for Quantification of Depression Severity and Prediction of Recovery Trajectory using Longitudinal Video and Audio Data, with Applications to Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment

• Name: Rossetti, Blair
  Advisor: James Nagy
  Dissertation: Bioimage Informatics in the Big Data Era: Algorithms for High-Dimensional Spectral, Volumetric, and Temporal Image

• Name: Yousefi, Safoora
  Advisor: Lee Cooper
  Dissertation: Neural Networks for Cancer Survival Analysis Using High-Dimensional Data

2018

• Name: Garvey, Clarissa
  Advisor: James Nagy
  Dissertation: Truncated Singular Value Decomposition Approximation for Structured Matrices via Kronecker Product Summation Decomposition

• Name: Sun, Xiaobo
  Advisor: Zhaohui Qin
  Dissertation: The Applications of Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Managing, Processing and Analyzing Big Omics Data

• Name: Xu, Tianlei
  Advisor: Zhaohui Qin and Hao Wu
  Dissertation: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in the Studies of Epigenetics Regulation

2017

• Name: Chen, Li
  Advisor: Zhaohui Qin and Hao Wu
  Dissertation: Statistical and Informatics Methods for Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data

• Name: Chien, Jung-Ting
  Advisor: Mary Galinski and Zhaohui Qin
  Dissertation: An application of DIKW Model in Malaria Systems Biology Study: From NGS Data to Disease Progression Insight

• Name: Garcia Ulloa, Daniel
  Advisor: Li Xiong and Vaidy Sunderam
  Dissertation: Task Recommendation and Information Fusion in Spatial Crowdsourcing

• Name: Jurczyk, Tomasz
  Advisor: Jinho Choi
  Dissertation: Improving Question Answering by Bridging Linguistics: Structures and Statistical Learning

• Name: Li, Haoran
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Differentially Private Data Release and Analytics

• Name: Liu, Jinfei
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Fast and Adaptive Algorithms for Skyline Computation

• Name: Nalisnik, Michael
  Advisor: Lee Cooper
  Dissertation: Scalable Computational Pathology: From Interactive to Deep Learning

• Name: Pournajaf, Layla
  Advisor: Li Xiong and Vaidy Sunderam
  Dissertation: Privacy-Aware task Management for Mobile Crowd Sensing

• Name: Savenkov, Denis
  Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
  Dissertation: Question Answering with User-Generated Content

• Name: Xiao, Yonghui
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Protecting Locations of Individual Movement under Temporal Correlations

2016

• Name: Solomon, Michael
  Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam and Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Efficient Search and Computation on Encrypted Data with Access Control

• Name: Xu, Xiaofeng
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Indexing Moving Objects for Predictive Spatio-Temporal Queries

2015

• Name: Agravat, Sanjay
  Advisor: Lee Cooper and Richard Cummings
  Dissertation: Bioinformatics Methods and Tools for Glycomics

• Name: Bonomi, Luca
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Big Data goes Personal: Privacy and Social Challenges

• Name: Lagun, Dmitry
  Advisor: Eugene Atichtein
  Dissertation: Modeling User Attention and Interaction on the Web

• Name: Liu, Qiaoling
  Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
  Dissertation: Improving Usefulness of Community Question Answering Services towards Better Searcher Satisfaction and Question Recommendation

• Name: Przybylinski, Thomas
  Advisor: James Lu
  Dissertation: New Insights Into the Similarity and Difference of Propositional Models Via Symmetry

• Name: Zheng, Shuai
  Advisor: James Lu
  Dissertation: Online Learning Based Clinical Information Extraction and Classification

2014

• Name: Aji, Ablimit
  Advisor: Fusheng Wang
  Dissertation: High Performance Spatial Query Processing for Large Scale Spatial Data Warehousing

• Name: Berisha, Sebastian
  Advisor: James Nagy
  Dissertation: Inverse Problems in Hyperspectral Imaging

• Name: Denas, Olgert
  Advisor: James Taylor
  Dissertation: Deep Models for Gene Regulation

• Name: Fan, Liyue
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Preserving Individual Privacy in Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics

• Name: Goryczka, Slawek
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Secure and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Data Release

• Name: Slawinski, Jaroslaw
  Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
  Dissertation: Adaptive approaches to Utility Computing for Scientific Applications

• Name: Wang, Yu
  Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
  Dissertation: Modeling Temporal Dynamics in User Generated Content

• Name: Yuan, Shuai
  Advisor: Zhaohui Qin
  Dissertation: Applying Diploid Method to Improve Read-mapping and Analysis Based on NGS Data

2012

• Name: Gardner, James
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Privacy Preserving Medical Data Publishing

• Name: Guo, Qi
  Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
  Dissertation: Modeling Rich Interactions for Web Search Intent Inference, Ranking and Evaluation

2011

• Name: Knepper, Sarah
  Advisor: James Nagy
  Dissertation: Large-Scale Inverse Problems in Imaging: Two Case Studies

• Name: Siva, Sebastien
  Advisor: James J. Lu
  Dissertation: Enabling Relational Databases for Effective CSP Solving

2010

• Name: Horesh, Raya
  Advisor: Eldad Haber
  Dissertation: Numerical Optimization for Transport and Registration Problems

• Name: Jurczyk, Pawel
  Advisor: Li Xiong
  Dissertation: Towards Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Integration of Distributed Heterogeneous Data