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Current Members

Name (SORT BY)	Background (in BS)	Research Progress
Abolfazl Ansari	Comp. Sci. (2023)	2025 (PhD Student) →
Meruyert Aristombayeva	Info. Sys. (2014)	2024 (Visiting Professor) →
Suhan Cui	Software. Eng. (2021)	2021 (PhD Student, CIKM, WWW) → 2022 (ICDM, BIBM, Qual-Exam, Intern@IQVIA) → 2023 (Comp-Exam) → 2024 (SDM, Intern@Microsoft Research Asia)
Becky Guillen	EE (2007)	2024 (D.Eng Student @ Engineering) →
Wooyong Jung	Dev. Studies (2011)	2021 (PhD Student, FEGR Scholarship) → 2022 (IJCAI, CIKM, Qual-Exam, Intern@Washington Post) → 2023 (SICSS-Korea@KAIST) → 2024 (ICWSM, BigData, Comp-Exam)
Dongwon Lee	Comp. Sci. (1993)	2002 (Principal Investigator)
Jason Lucas	Info. Tech. (2010)	2021 (PhD Student, FEGR Scholarship) → 2022 (ACL-W, NSF NRT-LinDiv Fellowship, Qual-Exam) → 2023 (EMNLP_a, EMNLP_b, Intern@Coalfire) → 2024 (IEEE-Comp, IEEE-IS, Intern@Interactions)
Mahjabin Naher	Comp. Sci. & Eng. (2017)	2022 (PhD Student) → 2023 (Qual-Exam) → 2024 (COLM, 2nd@CSRAI Fake-a-thon, NSF NRT-LinDiv Fellowship, Comp-Exam)
Aashish Ramakrishnan (Co-advised by Sharon Huang)	Comp. Sci. & Eng. (2021)	2021 (PhD Student, Jordan Rednor Scholarship) → 2022 (Qual-Exam) → 2023 (Intern@Washington Post) → 2024 (ACL-W, Comp-Exam, FutureBAProf@U-Iowa, Intern@Optum Labs)
Ryskhan Satybaldiyeva	Applied Mathmatics (1990)	2024 (Visiting Professor) →
Nafis Tripto	Comp. Sci. & Eng. (2017)	2022 (PhD Student, University Graduate Fellowship) → 2023 (EMNLP, Qual-Exam) → 2024 (ACL, NSF NRT-LinDiv Fellowship, Intern@HomeDepot, Comp-Exam)
Saranya Venkatraman	Comp. Sci. & Eng. (2016)	2018 (PhD Student, Intern@Samsung Research) → 2019 (Qual-Exam) → 2020 (Intern@Google) → 2022 (Comp-Exam) → 2023 (EACL, EMNLP) → 2024 (AAAI, NAACL, NAACL-T, ACL, IST Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching Support, Defense)
Michiharu Yamashita	Management Sci. & Eng. (2015)	2020 (PhD Student, FEGR Scholarship) → 2021 (AIED, NeurIPS-W, Qual-Exam) → 2022 (WSDM-W, Intern@Indeed) → 2023 (AAAI-W, DSAA, EMNLP_a, EMNLP_b, Comp-Exam) → 2024 (WWW, BigData, Intern@Visa Research) → 2025 (KDD)
Delvin Ce Zhang	Comp. Sci. (2018)	2024 (PostDoc) →
Xianren Zhang (Co-advised by Suhang Wang)	Elec. Eng. (2023)	2023 (PhD Student) → 2024 (ECCV, Qual-Exam)

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. 2025, Jooyoung Lee (IST)
  - Progress: 2020 → 2021 (PoPETS, Qual-Exam) → 2022 (ACL, Intern@Microsoft) → 2023 (WWW, HCOMP, Comp-Exam, Intern@Amazon, Visit@UniCambridge) → 2024 (on-hold)
  - Thesis: A Comprehensive Investigation of Emerging Challenges in Large Language Models (TBD)
  - Employment: Applied Scientist, Amazon, USA
2. 2023, Haeseung Seo (IST; co-advised by Aiping Xiong)
  - Progress: 2017 → 2018 (Qual-Exam) → 2019 (WebSci) → 2020 (CHI, KDD) → 2021 (TMS, Comp-Exam) → 2022 (ICWSM, JEP) → 2023 (ICWSM, Defense) → 2024 (ICWSM_a, ICWSM_b)
  - Thesis: Empirical Studies on Platform-driven and User-initiated Methods for Misinformation Correction
3. 2023, Adaku Uchendu (IST)
  - Progress: 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) → 2023 (KDD-Exp, WWW-T, HCOMP, EMNLP_a, EMNLP_b, EMNLP_c, Defense) → 2024 (Heidelberg Laureate Forum)
  - Thesis: Reverse Turing Test in the Age of Deepfake Texts
  - Employment: Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
4. 2023, Maryam Tabar (IST; co-advised by Amulya Yadav)
  - Progress: 2019 → 2020 (KDD_a, KDD_b, Qual-Exam) → 2021 (KDD, ACM Tapia Scholarship, GHC Scholarship, Google CSRMP, Intern@Washington Post) → 2022 (IAAI, IJCAI, CIKM, Comp-Exam, Intern@Microsoft) → 2023 (IST Research Excellence Award Runner-Up, Defense)
  - Thesis: Mitigating Social Challenges among Vulnerable Communities with Machine Learning
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
5. 2023, Tracy Shen (IST)
  - Progress: 2018 → 2019 (WebSci, GHC Scholarship, Qual-Exam) → 2021 (AIED, NeurIPS-W, Comp-Exam) → 2023 (AAAI-W, L@S, DSAA, Defense)
  - Thesis: AI in Education: Effective Machine Learning Methods to Improve Data Scarcity and Knowledge Generalization
  - Employment: Research Scientist, K12.com, USA
6. 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, USA
7. 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, Indiana University, USA
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 2014, Haibin Liu (IST)
  - Thesis: Exploiting User-Generated Data for Knowledge Discovery and Recommendation
  - Employment: Research Staff, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
12. 2014, Tao Yang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining Texts and Social Users Using Time Series and Latent Topics
  - Employment: Research Staff, Penn State University, USA
13. 2013, Shu Huang (IST)
  - Thesis: Mining User Generated Contents on the Web and Social Networks
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Microsoft, USA
14. 2011, Bi Chen (IST)
  - Thesis: Topic Oriented Evolution and Sentiment Analysis
  - Employment: Start-Up, China
15. 2010, Hyunyoung Kil (CSE)
  - Thesis: Efficient Web Service Composition: from Signature-Level to Behavioral Description-Level
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, Korea Aerospace University, Korea
16. 2010, Su Yan (IST)
  - Thesis: Semi-Supervised Clustering for High Dimensional and Sparse Features
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Apple, USA
17. 2010, Hung-sik Kim (CSE)
  - Thesis: High-Performance Record Linkage
  - Employment: Executive Director, Dongsung Co. Ltd., Korea
18. 2008, Robert Luo (IST)
  - Thesis: XML Access Control in Native and RDBMS-Supported XML Databases
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas, USA
19. 2008, Ergin Elmacioglu (CSE)
  - Thesis: Effective Solutions for Name Linkage and Their Applications
  - Employment: Software Engineer, Yahoo, USA
20. 2007, Byung-Won On (CSE)
  - Thesis: Data Cleaning Techniques by means of Entity Resolution
  - Employment: Assistant Professor, Kunsan National University, Korea
21. 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. 2023, Yiran Ye → Minitab
2. 2022, Maya Merhi → Axis
3. 2021, Stephanie Winkler → Pearson
4. 2019, Spyke Krepshaw → Pennsylvania College of Technology
5. 2019, Mukund Srinath → Penn State
6. 2016, Carter Wenxiang Zheng → DHG LLP
7. 2016, Jin Yea Jang → Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
8. 2014, Aishwarya Tadikonda → Blue Mountain Quality Resources
9. 2005, Ali Al-Lawati → TriTek Solutions
10. 2004, Yan Xiao → Amazon
11. 2004, Yoojin Hong → Samsung Electronics
12. 2003, Hashal Haridas → Honeywell Inc.
13. 2003, Yi-Hsuan Lu
14. 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. 2023, Matthew Iceland, U. Rochester
2. 2023, Nick Abegg, Saint Vincent College → Indiana U.
3. 2023, Christian Classen, UIUC → U. Wisconsin
4. 2022, Eric Xing, Western Kentucky U. → WashU
5. 2021, Tanner Waltz, U. of Notre Dame → Purdue U.
6. 2021, Joseph McCalmon, Wake Forrest U. → Start-Up
7. 2020, Sophia Hager, Smith College → Johns Hopkins U.
8. 2019, Terrence Li, UC Berkeley → Amazon
9. 2019, Andrew Yang, Penn State, Schreyer Honors Scholar → Qualtrics
10. 2019, Weiqin Wang, Penn State, Schreyer Honors Scholar → CMU
Summer Intern
1. 2022, Ziyao Wang, Wuhan University, China → UMD
2. 2022, Jayesh Khandelwal, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India → NYU
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