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Current Members

Name	Background (in BS)	Study Progress	Project
Limeng Cui	Comp. Sci. (2013)	2018 (R. W. Graham Endowed Graduate Fellowship) → 2019 (KDD, ASONAM, CIKM, Qual-Exam, Intern@IQVIA) → 2020 (AAAI, KDD, GHC Scholarship, Comp-Exam, Intern@Facebook) → 2021 (Intern@Amazon.com)
Wooyong Jung	Dev. Studies (2011)	2021 (FEGR Scholarship) →
Thai Le	Business Admin. (2015)	2017 (Intern@Knexus Research) → 2018 (ICDM, Qual-Exam, Intern@Schlumberger-Doll Research) → 2019 (ASONAM, ICDM, Intern@VMWare) → 2020 (KDD, ICDM, EMNLP, Comp-Exam) → 2021 (ACL, EMNLP, ECML-PKDD, DAAD Postdoc-NeT-AI Fellow, Intern@Yahoo)
Dongwon Lee	Comp. Sci. (1993)	Comp. Sci. (2002)
Jason Lucas	Info. Tech. (2010)	2021 (FEGR Scholarship) →
Maya Merhi (Co-advised by Sarah Rajtmajer)	Physics (2020)	2020 → 2021 (GHC Scholarship, Qual-Exam)	Network Science
Aashish Ramakrishnan (Co-advised by Sharon Huang)	Comp. Sci. & Eng. (2021)	2021 (Jordan Rednor Scholarship) →
Haeseung Seo (Co-advised by Aiping Xiong)	Poli. Sci. (2012)	2017 → 2018 (Qual-Exam) → 2019 (WebSci) → 2020 (CHI, KDD) → 2021 (TMS, Comp-Exam)
Tracy Shen	English (2008)	2018 → 2019 (WebSci, Qual-Exam) → 2021 (AIED)
Maryam Tabar (Co-advised by Amulya Yadav)	Comp. Eng. (2016)	2019 → 2020 (KDD, Qual-Exam) → 2021 (KDD, ACM Tapia Scholarship, GHC Scholarship, Intern@Washington Post)	AI for Social Good
Adaku Uchendu	Mathematics (2018)	2018 (Bunton Waller Scholarship) → 2019 (WebSci, TTO, Qual-Exam, Intern@AFRL) → 2020 (EMNLP, NSF SFS Scholarship, Intern@AFRL) → 2021 (EMNLP, Sloan MPHD Scholarship, ACM Tapia Scholarship, Intern@IBM)	Reverse Turing Test
Michiharu Yamashita	Management Sci. & Eng. (2015)	2020 (FEGR Scholarship) → 2021 (AIED, Qual-Exam)	Future of Work

Former Members

PostDoc
1. 2012--2014, Jongwuk Lee (Ph.D. from POSTECH, Korea, 2012)
  - Topic: Crowdsourcing (HULC Project)
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
2. 2011--2013, Woo-Cheol Kim (Ph.D. from Yonsei U., Korea, 2011)
  - Topic: Hadoop Optimization
  - Employment: Research Staff, Samsung Electronics, Korea
3. 2007--2009, Wonhong Nam (Ph.D. from U. Pennsylvania, 2007)
  - Topic: Web Services (Atherton project)
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, KonKuk University, Korea
Ph.D.
1. 2020, Jason (Jiasheng) Zhang (IST)
  - Progress: 2015 → 2016 (CIKM, Qual-Exam) → 2018 (AAAI, Comp-Exam, Intern@JD.com) → 2019 (ICDM, Intern@Facebook) → 2020 (CIKM, ECML-PKDD)
  - Thesis: Modeling and Influencing Online User Behavior with Machine Learning
  - Employment: Research Scientist, Facebook AI, USA
2. 2020, Yiming Liao (IST)
  - Progress: 2015 → 2016 (Qual-Exam) → 2017 (WebSci) → 2018 (CIKM, Comp-Exam, Intern@Washington Post) → 2019 (ICDM, ECML-PKDD, Intern@Facebook) → 2021 (EDBT)
  - Thesis: Characterization, Understanding, and Prediction of Temporal Dynamics of Web Contents
  - Employment: Research Scientist, Facebook AI, USA
3. 2015, "Max" Hau-Wen Chang (CSE)
  - Thesis: Improving Prediction, Recommendation, and Classification using User Generated Contents and Relationships
  - Employment: Research Staff, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
4. 2014, Haibin Liu (IST)
  - Thesis: Exploiting User-Generated Data for Knowledge Discovery and Recommendation
  - Employment: Research Staff, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
5. 2014, Tao Yang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining Texts and Social Users Using Time Series and Latent Topics
  - Employment: Research Staff, Penn State University
6. 2013, Shu Huang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining User Generated Contents on the Web and Social Networks
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Microsoft, USA
7. 2011, Bi Chen (IST)
  - Thesis: Topic Oriented Evolution and Sentiment Analysis
  - Employment: Start-Up, China
8. 2010, Hyunyoung Kil (CSE)
  - Thesis: Efficient Web Service Composition: from Signature-Level to Behavioral Description-Level
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, Korea Aerospace University, Korea
9. 2010, Su Yan (IST)
  - Thesis: Semi-Supervised Clustering for High Dimensional and Sparse Features
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Apple, USA
10. 2010, Hung-sik Kim (CSE)
  - Thesis: High-Performance Record Linkage
  - Employment: Executive Director, Dongsung Co. Ltd., Korea
11. 2008, Robert Luo (IST)
  - Thesis: XML Access Control in Native and RDBMS-Supported XML Databases
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas, USA
12. 2008, Ergin Elmacioglu (CSE)
  - Thesis: Effective Solutions for Name Linkage and Their Applications
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Yahoo, USA
13. 2007, Byung-Won On (CSE)
  - Thesis: Data Cleaning Techniques by means of Entity Resolution
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, Kunsan National University, Korea
14. 2006, Seog-Chan Oh (IE; co-advised by S. Kumara)
  - Thesis: Effective Web Service Composition in Diverse and Large Scale Service Networks
  - Employment: Research Scientist, GM Research, USA
M.S.
1. 2021, Stephanie Winkler
2. 2019, Spyke Krepshaw → Pennsylvania College of Technology
3. 2019, Mukund Srinath → Penn State
4. 2016, Carter Wenxiang Zheng → DHG LLP
5. 2016, Jin Yea Jang → Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
6. 2014, Aishwarya Tadikonda → Blue Mountain Quality Resources
7. 2005, Ali Al-Lawati → TriTek Solutions
8. 2004, Yan Xiao → Amazon.com
9. 2004, Yoojin Hong → Samsung Electronics
10. 2003, Hashal Haridas → Honeywell Inc.
11. 2003, Yi-Hsuan Lu
12. 2003, Jinesh Varia → Amazon.com
B.S.
1. 2020, Elijah David Robert, Millennium Scholar → UT Austin
2. 2019, Robert Cowell, Schreyer Honors Scholar
3. 2006, Justin Fisher → Booz Allen Hamilton
4. 2005, Eric J. Larson → Quadralay Co.
NSF REU
1. 2021, Tanner Waltz, University of Notre Dame
2. 2021, Joseph McCalmon, Wake Forrest University
3. 2020, Sophia Hager, Smith College
4. 2019, Terrence Li, UC Berkeley
5. 2019, Andrew Yang, Penn State, Schreyer Honors Scholar
6. 2019, Weiqin Wang, Penn State, Schreyer Honors Scholar → CMU
Summer Intern
1. 2020, Shangwen Sun, Peking University, China → Baruch College, CUNY
2. 2019, Jingtao Han, Peking University, China → Penn State
3. 2019, Tianyi Xie, Shanghai Jia Tong University, China → UCLA
4. 2018, Jialin Shao, Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China → UIUC
5. 2017, Xinyue Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China → CMU
6. 2017, Huanshen Wei, Beihang University (BUAA), China → USC
7. 2016, Justin Suh, Woodson High School, VA, USA → Duke
Visitor
1. 2017--2018, Ijaz Hussain, Ph.D. student from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
2. 2010--2011, Wei Jiang, Ph.D. student from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China