People

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Current Members

Name	Major / Degree	Project
Limeng Cui	IST / PhD (since 2018)
Thai Le	IST / PhD (since 2017)
Dongwon Lee	Faculty (since 2002)
Yiming Liao	IST / PhD (since 2015)
Haeseung Seo	IST / PhD (since 2017)
Tracy Shen	IST / PhD (since 2018)
Maryam Tabar (Co-advised by Amulya Yadav)	IST / PhD (since 2019)	AI for Social Good
Adaku Uchendu	IST / PhD (since 2018)	Reverse Turing Test
Stephanie Winkler	IST / PhD (since 2016)
Jason (Jiasheng) Zhang	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: Assistant Professor at Korea Aerospace University, 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. 2019, Spyke Krepshaw, faculty at Pennsylvania College of Technology
2. 2019, Mukund Srinath, Ph.D. student at Penn State
3. 2016, Carter Wenxiang Zheng, data analyst at DHG LLP
4. 2016, Jin Yea Jang, data scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
5. 2014, Aishwarya Tadikonda, software analyst at Blue Mountain Quality Resources
6. 2005, Ali Al-Lawati, software engineer at TriTek Solutions
7. 2004, Yan Xiao, product manager at Amazon.com
8. 2004, Yoojin Hong, software engineer at Samsung, Korea
9. 2003, Hashal Haridas, software engineer at Honeywell Inc.
10. 2003, Yi-Hsuan Lu
11. 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.
Summer Intern
1. 2018, Jialin Shao, Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China → UIUC
2. 2017, Xinyue Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China → CMU
3. 2017, Huanshen Wei, Beihang University (BUAA), China → USC
4. 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