Distributed Multimedia Database Systems, Database Management, Data Mining, GIS, Bioinformatics, Digital Library.
GA openings available!
Current and Past Ph.D. Students
Xinpeng Liao
Ligaj Pradhan (Data Scientist at Equifax)
Song Gao (co-advised with Dr. Nitesh Saxena, Software Engineer at Google)
Wei-Bang Chen (Associate Professor at Virginia State University)
Lin Yang (Founding Engineer at DeepMap Inc.)
Xin Chen (Assistant Professor at Governors State Univeristy)
Current and Past MS Students
Pradip Chitrakar (Software Engineer at Priceline)
Niju Shrestha (Senior Software Engineer at IHS Markit)
Rajan Kharel (Senior Software Engineer at BD Medical)
Hua Zhong (Senior Software Engineer at Google)
Liping Zhou (SDE at Amazon)
Richa Tiwari
Ph.D. Thesis Supervision Completed (5, including 1 women student)
Dr. Xin Chen (Aug. 2008, now with Morningstar)
o Thesis title: Human-Centered Semantic Retrieval IN Multimedia Databases
o Deans Award (Ph.D. category) in the School of Natural Science and Mathematics, 2008.
o Outstanding Graduate Student (Ph.D. category) in the Department of Computer Sciences, 2008.
Dr. Lin Yang (2007-2011, co-advised with Dr. John Johnstone, now with Google)
o Thesis title: Mining Canonical Views from Internet Image Collections
Dr. Wei-Bang Chen (2005-2012, Assistant Professor in Computer Sciences at Virginia State University)
o Thesis title: Multiple Object Retrieval in Image Databases Using Hierarchical Segmentation Tree
o Outstanding Graduate Student (Ph.D. category) in the Department of Computer Sciences, 2008.
Dr. Song Gao (2009-2014)
o Thesis title: An Evolutionary Study of Dynamic Cognitive Game CAPTCHAs: Automated Attacks and Defenses
o Deans Award (Ph.D. category) in the College of Arts and Sciences, 2014.
o Outstanding Graduate Student (Ph.D. category) in the Department of Computer Sciences, 2014.
Dr. Ligaj Pradhan (2012-2017)
o Thesis title: Enhancing Collaborative Filtering-based Rating-Prediction by Discovering and Incorporating User Concerns from User Reviews
