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Current Members

Name	Background (in BS)	Study Progress	Project
Tanqiu Jiang (Co-advised by Ting Wang)	Comp. Eng. (2020)	2022 (Graham Endowment Scholarship) →
Wooyong Jung	Dev. Studies (2011)	2021 (FEGR Scholarship) → 2022 (IJCAI, Qual-Exam, Intern@Washington Post)	DS/AI for Social Good
Dongwon Lee	Comp. Sci. (1993)	Comp. Sci. (2002)
Jooyoung Lee	Comp. Sci. (2018)	2020 → 2021 (PoPETS, Qual-Exam) → 2022 (ACL, Intern@Microsoft)
Jason Lucas	Info. Tech. (2010)	2021 (FEGR Scholarship) → 2022 (ACL-W, NSF NRT LinDiv Traineeship, Qual-Exam)
Aashish Ramakrishnan (Co-advised by Sharon Huang)	Comp. Sci. & Eng. (2021)	2021 (Jordan Rednor Scholarship) → 2022 (Qual-Exam)
Haeseung Seo (Co-advised by Aiping Xiong)	Poli. Sci. (2012)	2017 → 2018 (Qual-Exam) → 2019 (WebSci) → 2020 (CHI, KDD) → 2021 (TMS, Comp-Exam) → 2022 (ICWSM, JEP)
Tracy Shen	English (2008)	2018 → 2019 (WebSci, GHC Scholarship, Qual-Exam) → 2021 (AIED, NeurIPS-W, Comp-Exam)
Maryam Tabar (Co-advised by Amulya Yadav)	Comp. Eng. (2016)	2019 → 2020 (KDD_a, KDD_b, Qual-Exam) → 2021 (KDD, ACM Tapia Scholarship, GHC Scholarship, Google CSRMP, Intern@Washington Post) → 2022 (IAAI, IJCAI, Comp-Exam, Intern@Microsoft)	DS/AI for Social Good
Nafis Irtiza Tripto	Comp. Sci. & Eng. (2017)	2022 (University Graduate Fellowship) →
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, Comp-Exam) → 2022 (Intern@PNNL)
Michiharu Yamashita	Management Sci. & Eng. (2015)	2020 (FEGR Scholarship) → 2021 (AIED, NeurIPS-W, Qual-Exam) → 2022 (WSDM-W, Intern@Indeed)	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. 2022, Limeng Cui (IST)
  - Progress: 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) → 2022 (WWW, SIGIR, Defense)
  - Thesis: Understanding and Detecting Online Misinformation with Auxiliary Data
  - Employment: Applied Scientist, Amazon
2. 2022, Thai Le (IST)
  - Progress: 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) → 2022 (WWW, AAMAS, ACL_a, ACL_b, IST Research Excellence Award, Defense)
  - Thesis: Trustworthy Machine Learning: Learning under Security, Explainability, and Uncertainty Constraints
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, USA
3. 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, Defense)
  - Thesis: Modeling and Influencing Online User Behavior with Machine Learning
  - Employment: Research Scientist, Facebook AI, USA
4. 2020, Yiming Liao (IST)
  - Progress: 2015 → 2016 (Qual-Exam) → 2017 (WebSci) → 2018 (CIKM, Comp-Exam, Intern@Washington Post) → 2019 (ICDM, ECML-PKDD, Intern@Facebook) → 2020 (Defense) → 2021 (EDBT)
  - Thesis: Characterization, Understanding, and Prediction of Temporal Dynamics of Web Contents
  - Employment: Research Scientist, Facebook AI, USA
5. 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
6. 2014, Haibin Liu (IST)
  - Thesis: Exploiting User-Generated Data for Knowledge Discovery and Recommendation
  - Employment: Research Staff, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
7. 2014, Tao Yang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining Texts and Social Users Using Time Series and Latent Topics
  - Employment: Research Staff, Penn State University
8. 2013, Shu Huang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining User Generated Contents on the Web and Social Networks
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Microsoft, USA
9. 2011, Bi Chen (IST)
  - Thesis: Topic Oriented Evolution and Sentiment Analysis
  - Employment: Start-Up, China
10. 2010, Hyunyoung Kil (CSE)
  - Thesis: Efficient Web Service Composition: from Signature-Level to Behavioral Description-Level
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, Korea Aerospace University, Korea
11. 2010, Su Yan (IST)
  - Thesis: Semi-Supervised Clustering for High Dimensional and Sparse Features
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Apple, USA
12. 2010, Hung-sik Kim (CSE)
  - Thesis: High-Performance Record Linkage
  - Employment: Executive Director, Dongsung Co. Ltd., Korea
13. 2008, Robert Luo (IST)
  - Thesis: XML Access Control in Native and RDBMS-Supported XML Databases
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas, USA
14. 2008, Ergin Elmacioglu (CSE)
  - Thesis: Effective Solutions for Name Linkage and Their Applications
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Yahoo, USA
15. 2007, Byung-Won On (CSE)
  - Thesis: Data Cleaning Techniques by means of Entity Resolution
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, Kunsan National University, Korea
16. 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 → Pearson
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
9. 2004, Yoojin Hong → Samsung Electronics
10. 2003, Hashal Haridas → Honeywell Inc.
11. 2003, Yi-Hsuan Lu
12. 2003, Jinesh Varia → Amazon
B.S.
1. 2020, Elijah David Robert, Millennium Scholar → UT Austin
2. 2019, Robert Cowell, Schreyer Honors Scholar → Capital One
3. 2006, Justin Fisher → Booz Allen Hamilton
4. 2005, Eric J. Larson → Quadralay Co.
NSF REU
1. 2022, Eric Xing, Western Kentucky University
2. 2021, Tanner Waltz, University of Notre Dame → Purdue
3. 2021, Joseph McCalmon, Wake Forrest University → Start-Up
4. 2020, Sophia Hager, Smith College → Johns Hopkins University
5. 2019, Terrence Li, UC Berkeley → Amazon
6. 2019, Andrew Yang, Penn State, Schreyer Honors Scholar → Qualtrics
7. 2019, Weiqin Wang, Penn State, Schreyer Honors Scholar → CMU
Summer Intern
1. 2022, Ziyao Wang, Wuhan University, China
2. 2022, Jayesh Khandelwal, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India
3. 2020, Shangwen Sun, Peking University, China → Baruch College, CUNY
4. 2019, Jingtao Han, Peking University, China → Penn State
5. 2019, Tianyi Xie, Shanghai Jia Tong University, China → UCLA
6. 2018, Jialin Shao, Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China → UIUC
7. 2017, Xinyue Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China → CMU
8. 2017, Huanshen Wei, Beihang University (BUAA), China → USC
9. 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