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!

Research Students

  • Bhavana Doppalapudi, PhD Student, expected May 2024
  • Rifat Ara Proma, PhD Student, expected May 2025
  • Md Dilshadur Rahman, PhD Student, expected May 2025
  • Sefat E Rahman, PhD Student, expected May 2026
  • Md Rahat Zaman, PhD Student, expected May 2026

Student Committees

  • Gilbert Rotich, PhD Committee, expected May 2023 (advisor Sudeep Sarkar)
  • Zihe Ye, MS Committee, expected May 2023 (USF, advisor Yu Sun)
  • Sarah Garcia, PhD Committee, expected May 2023 (USF, advisor Marvin Andujar)
  • Tianze Chen, PhD Committee, expected May 2023 (USF, advisor Yu Sun)
  • Jennifer Adorno Nieves, PhD Committee, expected May 2023 (USF, advisor Miguel Labrador)
  • Gilbert Rotich, PhD Committee, expected May 2023 (USF, advisor Sudeep Sarkar)
  • Saandeep Aathreya, PhD Committee, expected May 2023 (USF, advisor Shaun Canavan)
  • Ashley Suh, PhD Committee, expected May 2024 (Tufts University, advisor Remco Chang)
  • Fangfei (Fei) Lan, PhD Committee, expected May 2024 (Utah, advisor Bei Wang)
  • Long Dang, PhD Committee, expected May 2025 (USF, advisor Kaiqi Xiong)
  • Tara Nourivandi, PhD Committee, expected May 2025 (USF, advisor Shaun Canavan)
  • Sayef Azad Sakin, PhD Committee, expected May 2025 (Utah, advisor Kate Isaacs)

Former Postdocs

  • Mustafa Hajij (PhD 2015, Louisiana State University) → Assistant Professor at University of San Fransisco

Former Students

  • Curtis Davis, MS Student, expected Fall 2021
  • Ghulam Jilani Quadri, PhD Student, expected Fall 2021 → CI Postdoc at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Bryan Triana, BS/REU Student, expected Spring 2022 → Google
  • Francis Hahn, BS/REU Student, expected Fall 2022
  • Hamza Elhamdadi, MS Student, Summer 2021 → PhD Student at UMass Amherst
    • Thesis: AffectiveTDA: Using Topological Data Analysis to Improve Analysis and Explainability in Affective Computing
  • Raquel Garcia, BS/REU Student, Spring 2021 → Software Engineer at Microsoft
  • Collin Chimbwanda, BS/REU Student, Spring 2021
  • TJ Kotha, MS Student, Fall 2020 → Software Engineer at Amazon
    • Thesis: Establishing Topological Data Analysis: A Comparison of Visualization Techniques
  • Junyi Tu, PhD Dec 2019 → Assistant Professor at Salisbury University
    • Thesis: Efficient Algorithms and Applications in Topological Data Analysis
  • Chukwubuikem Umeugwa, Fall 2020 (BS/REU Student)
  • Ashley Suh, Spring 2018 (BS/REU Student) → PhD Student at Tufts
  • Christopher Chen, Fall 2017 (BS Student)
  • Christopher Salgado, Spring 2018 (BS/REU Student)
  • Hoa Nguyen, PhD Jan 2017 → Software Engineer at Microsoft
    • Thesis: Data Scalable Approach for Identifying Correlation in Large and Multidimensional Data
  • Dhaval Shah MS, March 2016 (Thesis Advisor)
  • Yihao Jiang, MS May 2015 (Project Advisor)
  • Prudhvi Sampara, MS May 2015 (Project Advisor)
  • Harsha Gadiraju, MS May 2015 (Project Advisor)
  • Christopher P. Johnson, BS, May 2014
    • Thesis: Uncertainty Visualization for Hypothesis Testing
  • Teng Lu, MS, Dec. 2013 (MS Project Advisor)
  • Sam Pradeep Gnanasundaram, BS, Dec. 2013
    • Thesis: Visualization of Unsteady Vector Fields
  • Chao Yang, MS, May 2013 (MS Project Advisor)
  • Suraj Kumar Sahu, MS, May 2013 (MS Committee Member)
  • Sridhar Vukkadapu, MS, May 2013 (MS Committee Member)
  • Kathryn Rodgers, BS, May 2013 (MS UC Irvine)
    • Thesis: Parallel Compression of Time-Variant Scientific Data for Collaborative Visualizations
    • Instructor at Orange Coast College
  • A.N.M. Imroz Choudhury, PhD, May 2012 (co-advised by Steve Parker) → Visualization Engineer at Kitware Inc.
    • Thesis: Visualization and Analysis of Memory Reference Traces
  • Hushel Roberts, BS, Dec. 2011
    • Thesis: High Order Trajectory Approximation of Time Varying Datasets

Graduated Student Committees

  • Utkarsh Tamrakar, MS Committee, May 2022 (advisor Yu Sun)
  • Steven Hernandez, PhD Committee, Spring 2022 (advisor Tempestt Neal)
  • Chengcheng Mou, PhD Committee, expected Spring 2022 (advisor Yicheng Tu)
  • Zhengping Luo, PhD Committee Chairman, June 2021 (advisor Zhou Lu)
  • Zach Beasley, PhD Committee, Aug 2020 (advisor Les Piegl)
  • Upama Nakarmi, PhD Committee Chairman, May 2020 (advisor Mahshid Naeini)
  • David Paulius, PhD Committee, May 2020 (advisor Yu Sun)
  • Rupal Agarwal, MS Committee, May 2020 (advisor Marvin Andujar)
  • Diego Fabiano, MS Thesis Committee, December 2018 (advisor Shaun Canavan)
  • Essa Alhazmi, PhD Committee, May 2019 (advisor Adriana Iamnitchi)
  • Jaleel Ahmed, MS Thesis Committee, May 2019 (advisor Simon Ou)
  • Astha Sharma, MS Thesis Committee, December 2018 (advisor Shaun Canavan)
  • Elsayed Ahmed, PhD Committee Chairman, December 2018 (advisor Dmytro Savchuk)
  • Pratool Bharti, December 2017 (PhD Committee; advisor Sriram Chellappan)
  • Jinghan Meng, August 2017 (MS Thesis Committee, advisor Yicheng Tu)
  • Wathsala Widanagamaachchi, May 2017 (PhD Committee, advisor Valerio Pascucci)
  • Evren Bozgeyikli, Oct. 2016 (PhD Committee, advisor Andrew Raij → Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
  • Lal Bozgeyikli, Oct. 2016 (PhD Committee, advisor Andrew Raij) → Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
  • Anurag Panwar, March 2016 (MS Thesis Committee, advisor Sriram Chellappan)
  • Mavin Martin, Dec. 2014 (MS Project Committee, Advisor: Chris Johnson)
  • Brian Summa, Dec. 2012 (PhD Committee Member; advisor: Valerio Pascucci) → Assistant Professor at Tulane