People

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Current Members

Photo		Name (email@psu.edu)		Major / Degree		Project
		Ijaz Hussain (ixh56)		Visiting PhD Student (since 2017)
		Robert "Spyke" Krepshaw (rmk66)		IST / PhD (since 2017)
		Thai Le (tql3)		IST / PhD (since 2017)
		Dongwon Lee (dongwon)		Faculty (since 2002)
		Yiming Liao (yfl5119)		IST / PhD (since 2015)
		Elijah David Reber (edr3)		Millennium Scholars / BS (since 2016)
		Haeseung Seo (hxs378)		IST / PhD (since 2017)
		Stephanie Winkler (sxw96)		IST / PhD (since 2016)
		Jason (Jiasheng) Zhang (jpz5181)		IST / PhD (since 2015)

Former Members

PostDoc
1. 2012--2014, Jongwuk Lee (Ph.D. from POSTECH, Korea, 2012)
  - Topic: Crowdsourcing (HULC Project)
  - Employment: Assistant Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
2. 2011--2013, Woo-Cheol Kim (Ph.D. from Yonsei U., Korea, 2011)
  - Topic: Hadoop Optimization
  - Employment: Research Staff at Samsung S1, Korea
3. 2007--2009, Wonhong Nam (Ph.D. from U. Pennsylvania, 2007)
  - Topic: Web Services (Atherton project)
  - Employment: Assistant Professor at KonKuk University, Korea
Ph.D.
1. 2015, "Max" Hau-Wen Chang (CSE)
  - Thesis: Improving Prediction, Recommendation, and Classification using User Generated Contents and Relationships
  - Employment: Research Staff at IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
2. 2014, Haibin Liu (IST)
  - Thesis: Exploiting User-Generated Data for Knowledge Discovery and Recommendation
  - Employment: Research Staff at IBM Almaden Research Center, "USA
3. 2014, Tao Yang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining Texts and Social Users Using Time Series and Latent Topics
  - Employment: Research Staff at ITS, Penn State University
4. 2013, Shu Huang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining User Generated Contents on the Web and Social Networks
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Microsoft, USA
5. 2011, Bi Chen (IST)
  - Thesis: Topic Oriented Evolution and Sentiment Analysis
  - Employment: Start-Up, China
6. 2010, Hyunyoung Kil (CSE)
  - Thesis: Efficient Web Service Composition: from Signature-Level to Behavioral Description-Level
  - Employment: Research Staff at Software Policy & Research Institute (SPRi), Korea
7. 2010, Su Yan (IST)
  - Thesis: Semi-Supervised Clustering for High Dimensional and Sparse Features
  - Employment: Software Engineer at Apple, USA
8. 2010, Hung-sik Kim (CSE)
  - Thesis: High-Performance Record Linkage
  - Employment: Executive Director at Dongsung Co. Ltd., Korea
9. 2008, Robert Luo (IST)
  - Thesis: XML Access Control in Native and RDBMS-Supported XML Databases
  - Employment: Assistant Professor at The University of Kansas, USA
10. 2008, Ergin Elmacioglu (CSE)
  - Thesis: Effective Solutions for Name Linkage and Their Applications
  - Employment: Software Engineer at Yahoo, USA
11. 2007, Byung-Won On (CSE)
  - Thesis: Data Cleaning Techniques by means of Entity Resolution
  - Employment: Assistant Professor at Kunsan National University, Korea
12. 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 at GM Research, USA
M.S.
1. 2016, Carter Wenxiang Zheng, data analyst at DHG LLP
2. 2016, Jin Yea Jang, data scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
3. 2014, Aishwarya Tadikonda, software analyst at Blue Mountain Quality Resources
4. 2005, Ali Al-Lawati, software engineer at TriTek Solutions
5. 2004, Yan Xiao, product manager at Amazon.com
6. 2004, Yoojin Hong, software engineer at Samsung, Korea
7. 2003, Hashal Haridas, software engineer at Honeywell Inc.
8. 2003, Yi-Hsuan Lu
9. 2003, Jinesh Varia, web services evangelist at Amazon.com
B.S.
1. 2006, Justin Fisher, programmer at Booz Allen Hamilton
2. 2005, Eric J. Larson, programmer at Quadralay Co.
Visitor
1. 2017--2018, Ijaz Hussain, Ph.D. student from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan (6-months visiting student)
2. 2017, Xinyue Cao, B.S. student from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China (summer intern)
3. 2017, Huanshen Wei, B.S. student from Beihang University (BUAA), China (summer intern)
4. 2016, Justin Suh, Highschool student from Woodson High School, VA, USA (summer intern)
5. 2010--2011, Wei Jiang, Ph.D. student from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (1-year visiting student)