Mentorship

Interested in joining my group?
Please check out some of my papers, talk to my current and former students, and then send me an e-mail!

Current Research Students

  • Md Dilshadur Rahman, PhD Student, Utah, expected Dec. 2025
  • Nicolas Baret, BS/REU Student, Utah, expected May 2026
  • Md Rahat Zaman, PhD Student, Utah, expected Dec. 2026
  • Rifat Ara Proma, PhD Student, Utah, expected May 2026
  • Sefat E Rahman, PhD Student, Utah, expected Dec. 2026
  • Sudhanva Athreya, MS Thesis Student, Utah, expected May 2026

    Current Student Committees

    • Sayef Azad Sakin, PhD Committee Member, expected Aug. 2025 (Utah, advisor Kate Isaacs)
    • Mingzhe Li, PhD Committee Member, expected Aug. 2025 (Utah, advisor Bei Wang)
    • Tara Nourivandi, PhD Committee Member, expected Dec. 2025 (USF, advisor Shaun Canavan)
    • Tark Patel, PhD Committee Member, expected Dec. 2025 (Utah, advisor Chris Johnson)
    • Farhan Rasheed, PhD Committee Member, expected Dec. 2025 (Link{\”{o}}ping University, advisor Ingrid Hotz)
    • Weiran “Nancy” Lyu, PhD Committee Member, expected Dec. 2025 (Utah, advisor Bei Wang)
    • James Youngblood, MS Thesis Committee Member, expected Dec. 2025 (Utah, advisor Rogelio Cardona-Rivera)
    • Long Dang, PhD Committee Member, expected May 2026 (USF, advisor Kaiqi Xiong)
    • Shadmaan Hye, PhD Committee Member, expected May 2026 (Utah, advisor Kate Isaacs)
    • Alper Sahıstan, PhD Committee Member, expected May 2026 (Utah, advisor Valerio Pascucci)
    • Anis Elebiary, PhD Committee Member, expected May 2026 (USF, advisor Shaun Canavan)
    • Hunter Finney, PhD Committee Member, expected May 2026 (Utah, advisor Luis Garcia)
    • Rupal Agarwal, PhD Committee Member, expected May 2026 (USF, advisor Marvin Andujar)

    Former Advisees

    • Annabelle Warner, BS/REU Student, Utah, May 2025
    • Bhavana Doppalapudi, PhD Student, USF, Dec. 2024
      • Thesis: Balancing Clarity and Context Through Visualizations for Better Decision-Making
    • Francis Hahn, BS/REU Student, USF, Dec. 2022
    • Bryan Triana, BS/REU Student, USF, May 2022
      • Last Known Position: Software Engineer at Google
    • Ghulam Jilani Quadri, PhD Student, USF, Dec. 2021
      • Thesis: Constructing Frameworks for Task-Optimized Visualizations
      • Last Known Position: CIFellow Postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill
    • Curtis Davis, MS Thesis Student, USF, Dec. 2021
      • Thesis: Using Hyper-Dimensional Spanning Trees to Improve Structure Preservation During Dimensionality Reduction
      • Last Known Position: Software Engineer at Meta (Facebook)
    • Hamza Elhamdadi, MS Thesis Student, USF, Aug. 2021
      • Thesis: AffectiveTDA: Using Topological Data Analysis to Improve Analysis and Explainability in Affective Computing
      • Last Known Position: PhD Student at UMass Amherst
    • Collin Chimbwanda, BS/REU Student, USF, May 2021
    • Raquel Garcia, BS/REU Student, USF, May 2021
      • Last Known Position: Software Engineer at Microsoft
    • TJ Kotha, MS Thesis Student, USF, Dec. 2020
      • Thesis: Establishing Topological Data Analysis: A Comparison of Visualization Techniques
      • Last Known Position: Software Engineer at Amazon
    • Junyi Tu, PhD Student, USF, Dec. 2019
      • Thesis: Efficient Algorithms and Applications in Topological Data Analysis
      • Last Known Position: Assistant Professor at Salisbury University
    • Chukwubuikem Umeugwa, BS/REU Student, USF, Dec. 2019
      • Last Known Position: MS Student at the University of Michigan
    • Alejandro Robles, BS/REU Student, USF, May 2018
      • Last Known Position: PhD Student at University of South Florida Dept.\ of Elec.\ Eng.
    • Ashley Suh, BS/REU Student, USF, May 2018
      • Last Known Position: PhD Student at Tufts
    • Christopher Salgado, BS/REU Student, USF, May 2018
    • Christopher Chen, BS/REU Student, USF, Dec. 2017
    • Hoa Nguyen, PhD Student, Utah, Jan. 2017
      • Thesis: Data Scalable Approach for Identifying Correlation in Large and Multidimensional Data
      • Last Known Position: Software Engineer at Microsoft
    • Dhaval Shah, MS Thesis Student, USF, Mar. 2016
    • Mustafa Hajij, Postdoc, Louisiana State University, May 2015
      • Last Known Position: Assistant Professor at University of San Fransisco
    • Harsha Gadiraju, MS Project Student, Utah, May 2015
    • Prudhvi Sampara, MS Project Student, Utah, May 2015
    • Yihao Jiang, MS Project Student, Utah, May 2015
    • Kazuhiro Nagai, BS Thesis Student, Utah, Dec. 2014
      • Thesis: A Quantitative Error Analysis in Volume Rendering
    • Christopher P. Johnson, BS Thesis Student, Utah, May 2014
      • Thesis: Uncertainty Visualization for Hypothesis Testing
    • Teng Lu, MS Project Student, Utah, Dec. 2013
    • Sam Pradeep Gnanasundaram, BS Thesis Student, Utah, Dec. 2013
      • Thesis: Visualization of Unsteady Vector Fields
    • Chao Yang, MS Project Student, Utah, May 2013
      • Last Known Position: Software Developer at Bazaarvoice
    • Kathryn Rodgers, BS Thesis Student, Utah, May 2013
      • Thesis: Parallel Compression of Time-Variant Scientific Data for Collaborative Visualizations
      • Last Known Position: Instructor at Boise State University
    • A.N.M. Imroz Choudhury, PhD Student (co-advised by Steve Parker), Utah, May 2012
      • Thesis: Visualizing program memory behavior using memory reference traces
      • Last Known Position: Technical Leader at Kitware Inc.
    • Hushel Roberts, BS Thesis Student, Utah, Dec. 2011
      • Thesis: High Order Trajectory Approximation of Time Varying Datasets
      • Last Known Position: Senior Software Engineer at 3M

    Graduated Student Committees

    • Saandeep Aathreya, PhD Committee Member, May 2025 (USF, advisor Shaun Canavan)
      • Thesis: Context and Interpretability in Affective Computing Applications
    • Tianze Chen, PhD Committee Member, Dec. 2024 (USF, advisor Yu Sun)
      • Thesis: Robotic Multi-Object Grasping from a Pile: Techniques and Algorithms for Enhanced Dexterity
    • Fangfei (Fei) Lan, PhD Committee Member, Dec. 2024 (Utah, advisor Bei Wang)
      • Thesis: Ensemble Analysis and Uncertainty Visualization with Graphical Descriptors: From Theory to Application
    • Devin Lange, PhD Committee Member, Aug. 2024 (Utah, advisor Alex Lex)
      • Thesis: Is That Right? Data Visualizations for Scientific Quality Control
    • Jennifer Adorno Nieves, PhD Committee Member, Dec. 2023 (USF, advisor Jay Ligatti)
      • Thesis: Refining the Machine Learning Pipeline for US-based Public Transit Systems
    • Ashley Suh, PhD Committee Member, May 2023 (Tufts, advisor Remco Chang)
      • Thesis: From Exploratory to Hypothesis-Driven Visual Data Analysis
    • Sarah Garcia, PhD Committee Member, May 2023 (USF, advisor Marvin Andujar)
      • Thesis: Exploring Scalability of Multimodal User Interface Design in Virtual and Augmented Reality
    • Utkarsh Tamrakar, MS Thesis Committee Member, May 2022 (USF, advisor Yu Sun)
      • Thesis: Predicting the Number of Objects in a Robotic Grasp
    • Chengcheng Mou, PhD Committee Member, May 2022 (USF, advisor Yicheng Tu)
      • Thesis: Computing Group-By and Aggregate in Massively Parallel Systems
    • Steven Hernandez, PhD Committee Member, May 2022 (USF, advisor Tempestt Neal)
      • Thesis: On the Reliability of Wearable Sensors for Assessing Movement Disorder-Related Gait Quality and Imbalance: A Case Study of Multiple Sclerosis
    • Zhengping Luo, PhD Committee Chairman, June 2021 (USF, advisor Zhuo Lu)
      • Thesis: Security Attacks and Defenses in Cyber Systems: From an AI Perspective
    • Zachariah Beasley, PhD Committee Member, Aug. 2020 (USF, advisor Les Piegl)
      • Thesis: Sentiment Analysis in Peer Review
    • Rupal Agarwal, MS Thesis Committee Member, May 2020 (USF, advisor Marvin Andujar)
    • Upama Nakarmi, PhD Committee Chairman, May 2020 (USF, advisor Mahshid Naeini)
      • Thesis: Reliability Analysis of Power Grids and its Interdependent Infrastructures: An Interaction Graph-based Approach
    • David Paulius, PhD Committee Member, May 2020 (USF, advisor Yu Sun)
      • Thesis: From Manipulation Learning to Task Planning: Functional Object-Oriented Network for Service Robotics
    • Diego Fabiano Santalices, MS Thesis Committee Member, Dec. 2019 (USF, advisor Shaun Canavan)
    • Jaleel Ahmed, MS Thesis Committee Member, May 2019 (USF, advisor Simon Ou)
    • Essa Alhazmi, PhD Committee Member, May 2019 (USF, advisor Adriana Iamnitchi)
      • Thesis: Phenomena of Social Dynamics in Online Games
    • Astha Sharma, MS Thesis Committee Member, Dec. 2018 (USF, advisor Shaun Canavan)
    • Elsayed Ahmed, PhD Committee Chairman, Dec. 2018 (USF, advisor Dmytro Savchuk)
      • Thesis: Groups Generated by Automata Arising from Transformations of the Boundaries of Rooted Trees
    • Pratool Bharti, PhD Committee Member, Dec. 2017 (USF, advisor Sriram Chellappan)
      • Thesis: Context-based Human Activity Recognition Using Multimodal Wearable Sensors
    • Jinghan Meng, MS Thesis Committee Member, Aug. 2017 (USF, advisor Yicheng Tu)
    • Wathsala Widanagamaachchi, PhD Committee Member, May 2017 (Utah, advisor Valerio Pascucci)
      • Thesis: Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Feature Evolution in Dynamic Data
      • Researcher at Veterans Affairs
    • Evren Bozgeyikli, PhD Committee Member, October 2016 (USF, advisor Andrew Raij)
      • Thesis: Evaluating Virtual Reality Locomotion Techniques for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
      • Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
    • Lal Bozgeyikli, PhD Committee Member, October 2016 (USF, advisor Andrew Raij)
      • Thesis: Virtual Reality for Training Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Design Considerations
      • Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
    • Anurag Panwar, MS Thesis Committee Member, Mar. 2016 (USF, advisor Sriram Chellappan)
    • Mavin Martin, MS Project Committee Member, Dec. 2014 (Utah, advisor Chris Johnson)
    • Sridhar Vukkadapu, MS Thesis Committee Member, May 2013
    • Suraj Kumar Sahu, MS Thesis Committee Member, May 2013
    • Brian Summa, PhD Committee Member, Dec. 2012 (Utah, advisor Valerio Pascucci)
      • Thesis: Interactive Digital Photography at Scale
      • Assistant Professor at Tulane