Graduate Students and Visitng Scholars

Current PhD students and Research Assistants at GT:

· Sihao Hu

· TianSheng Huang

· Fatih Ilhan

· Selim Furkan Tekin

· Yichang Xu

· Zachary R. Yahn

On-leave Graduate Students

· Connor Guerin

· Matt Weber

· Kipp Jones

· Anand Murugappan

Advices to Graduate Students

· Be persistent, hard working, and creative. Be happy, confident, and honest.

· Read all the relevant papers from major journals and conferences on any subject you choose to work on. Reading is an important part of your learning.

· Thinking is more important than reading. Reading with a specific problem in mind is a good way of thinking.

· Articles I recommend you to read:

o Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research by Professor H.T. Kung, Harvard.

o Follow your heart by Andrew Mattews.

PhD Students Graduated from Georgia Tech (37)

• Dr. Ka Ho Chow

• Dissertation: Robust Learning Frameworks and Algorithms for Scalable Data Systems
• Graduated May, 2023 (defended on April 21, 2023)
• Currently with IBM Almaden Research, USA

• Dr. Wenqi Wei

• Dissertation: Adversarial Resilient and Privacy Preserving Deep learning
• Graduated May, 2022 (defended on April 12, 2022)
• Currently a tenure track assistant professor with Fordham University, NYC, USA.

• Dr. Yanzhao Wu

• Dissertation: Towards Deep Learning System and Algorithm Co-design
• Graduated May, 2022 (defended on April 8, 2022)
• Currently A tenure track assistant professor with FIU USA.

• Dr. James Bae

• Dissertation: Distributed Services and Elastic Container Memory Abstractions for Big Data Analytic Clouds
• Graduated May, 2022 (defended on April 22, 2022)
• Currently with IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA

• Dr. Stacey Truex

• Dissertation: Data Privacy in the Modern Machine Learning Ecosystem
• Graduated May, 2021
• A tenure track assistant professor with Denison University, Ohio.

• Dr. Mehmet Emre Gursoy

• Dissertation: Privacy-Preserving Data Collection and Sharing in Modern Mobile Internet Systems
• Graduated May, 2020 (defended on May 7, 2020)
• A tenure track assistant professor with Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Dr. Lei Yu

• Dissertation: Reconciling Data Privacy and Utility in the Era of Big Data
• Graduated May, 2019 (defended in March 2019)
• Currently a tenure-track assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

• Dr. Semih Sahin

• Dissertation: Memory Optimizations for Distributed Executors in Cloud
• Graduated May, 2019 (defended in March 2019)
• Currently with Google Seattle, USA

• Dr. Wenqi Cao

• Dissertation: Dynamic and Elastic Memory Management in Virtualized Clouds
• Graduated May, 2019 (defended in March 2019)
• Currently with Facebook, Seattle, USA

• Dr. Emre Yigitoglu

• Dissertation: Privacy-Aware Big Data Systems and Services in the Internet of Things Era
• Graduated April, 2017
• Currently with Lyft, USA

• Dr. Qi Zhang

• Dissertation: Dynamic Shared Memory Architecture, Systems, and Optimizations for High Performance and Secure Virtualized Cloud
• Graduated April, 2017
• Currently research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

• Dr. Yang Zhou

• Dissertation: Innovative Minging, Processing, and Application of Big Graphs
• Graduated Dec., 2016
• Currently a tenure track assistant prof. in the CS department, Auburn Univ.

• Dr. Kisung Lee

• Dissertation: Scalable Big Data Systems: Architectures and Optimizations
• Graduated May, 2015
• Currently tenure track associate prof. with LSU

• Dr. Yuzhe Tang

• Dissertation: Scalable and secure cloud services in big data systems
• Graduated May, 2014
• Currently tenure track assistant prof. with Syracuse Univ.

• Dr. Binh Han

• Dissertation: Mining Mobile Object Trajectories: Frameworks and Algorithms
• Graduated Dec., 2013
• Currently with ADATAO. Inc.

• Dr. Balaji Palanisamy

• Dissertation: Cost-effective and Privacy-conscious Cloud Service Provisioning: Architectures and Algorithms
• Graduated May, 2013
• Currently tenured associate prof. with Pittsburg Univ.

• Dr. Peter Pesti

• Dissertation: Novel Spatial Query Processing Techniques for Scaling Location Based Services
• Graduated Sept. 2012
• Currently the president Private Foundation

• Dr. Shicong Meng

• Dissertation: Monitoring-as-a-Service in the Cloud
• Graduated March 2012, Received SPEC 2012 PhD Dissertation Award
• was with with IBM T.J. Watson, USA, Facebook, USA and now with Brex

• Dr. Myungcheol Doo

• Dissertation: Spatial and Social Diffusion of Information and Influence: Models and Algorithms
• Graduated April 2012
• Was with Motorola, Chicago, USA, and now with Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc.

• Dr. Sankaran Sivathanu

• Dissertation: Enhancing Storage Performance in Virtualized Environments: A Pro-active Approach
• Graduated March 2011
• Was with VMWare, USA, and currently with AWS

• Dr. Gong Zhang

• Dissertation: Data and Application Migration in Cloud based Data Centers: Architectures and techniques
• Graduated May 2011
• Currently with Oracel, USA

• Dr. Ting Wang

• Dissertation: Data Analytics for Networked and Possibly Private Data Sources
• Graduated April 2011
• was with with IBM TJ Watson, USA, and currently with Penn State, iSchool

• Dr. Bhuvan Bamba

• Dissertation: Scaling Location-based Services with Location Privacy Constraints: Architecture and Algorithms
• Graduated June 2010
• Currently with Google, USA

• Dr. Sangeetha Seshadri

• Dissertation: Enhancing Availability in Large Scale Storage Systems and Services: Architectures and Techniques
• Graduated March 2009
• Currently a second line manager in Scalable Setorage Systems in IBM Almaden

• Prof. Dr. James Buchanan Caverlee

• Dissertation: Tamper-Resilient Methods for Intelligent Information Systems
• Graduated June 2007
• Currently a tenured professor in the department of computer science, Texas A&M.

• Dr. Aameek Singh

• Dissertation: Secure Management of Networked Storage Services: Models and Techniques
• Graduated April 2007
• Currently VP Engineering, IBM Watson.

• Dr. Mudhakar Srivatsa

• Dissertation: Security Architectures and Protocols for Overlay Network Services
• Graduated April 2007
• Currently with IBM T. J. Watson, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager (Distributed AI).

• Prof. Dr. Bugra Gedik

• Dissertation: Scaling Continuous Query Services for Future Computing Platforms and Applications.
• Graduated August 2006
• Currently with Facebook, USA

• Prof. Dr. Keke Chen

• Dissertation: Geometric Methods for Mining Large and Possibly Private Datasets.
• Graduated August 2006
• Currently with Wright State University as a tenureTenured Associate professor with Marquette University.

• Dr. Jeremy (Jianjun) Zhang

• Dissertation: Efficient Information Dissemination in Wide Area Overlay Networks.
• Graduated August 2006
• Currently VP Products and Business Development, U.S.Xpress, Inc.

• Prof. Dr. Lakshmish Macheeri Ramaswamy

• Dissertation: Towards Efficient Delivery of Dynamic Web Content
• Graduated August 2005
• Currently with University of Georgia, as a tenured full professor and vice chair in the CS department.

• Prof. Dr. Li Xiong

• Dissertation: Resilient Reputation and Trust Management: Models and Techniques
• Graduated August 2005
• Currently with Emory University, as a tenured full Professor in the CS and Math Department.

• Prof. Dr. Lonnie Harvel

• Dissertation: Using Student Generated Notes as an Interface to a Digital Repository
• Graduated Oct. 2005 (co-advised with Gregory Abowd as co-advisor)
• Currently Vice President of Educational Technology for Georgia Gwinnett College.

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Rocco

• Dissertation: Discovering and Tracking Interesting Web Services
• Graduated Oct. 2004
• was a tenured associate Professor at the State University of West Georgia.

• Dr. David Buttler

• Dissertation: Building Blocks for Composable Web Services
• Graduated August 2003
• Currently a manager and research staff at LLNL, CA.

• Dr. Wei Han

• Dissertation: Wrapper Application Generation for the Semantic Web
• Graduated Oct. 2003
• Joined IBM Almaden upon graduation.

• Dr. Henrique Paques

• Dissertation: The Ginda Approach to Adaptive Query Processing in Large Distributed Systems
• Graduated Oct. 2003
• Currently a manger at IBM Atlanta Office.

• Dr. Wei Tang

• Dissertation: Internet-Scale Information Monitoring: A Continual Query Approach
• Graduated Nov. 2003
• was a a manager at Teradata.com, CA, and then LinkedIn, USA

External PhD Students Co-Advised.

· Prof. Dr. Renato Fileto

· Dissertation: A POESIA Approach for Data and Service Integration in the Semantic Web

· Graduated December 2003

· Currently with Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Current and Past Visiting PhD Students or Postdocs (not up to date)

· Pei Ren

· Kevin (Zongwei) Xie

· Junyan Hu

· Dr. Xianqiang Bao

· Dr. Cui Bin

· Dr. Xinxin Fan

· Dr. Qinyuan Feng

· Dr. Renato Fileto

· Prof. Dr. Hui Li

· Dr. Bruce (Zhiling) Luo, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

· Dr. Yiduo Mei

· Dr. Zhiyuan Su

· Dr. Pu Xing

· Dr. Hua Yan

· Dr. Yuehua Wang

· Dr. Rui Zhang

· Dr. Xu Zhao

· Dr. Mingdong Zhu

Current and Past Faculty Visitors (not up to date)

· Prof. Dr. Hyerim Bae Pusan Univ., South Korea

· Prof. Dr. Joonsoo Bae (Chonbuk National Univ., South Korea)

· Dr. Haopeng Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

· Prof. Dr. Wonik Choi (Inha University, Incheon, Korea)

· Prof. Dr. Yon Dohn Chung (Korea University, Soul, Korea)

· Dr. Jingpei Dan, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

· Prof. Dr. Zhengtao Jiang (Communication University, Peking, China)

· Dr. Yun Li (ShangHai Jiaotong University)

· Prof. Dr. Yinglong Ma (North China Electric Power University, Beijing, P.R.China)

· Dr. Eladio Martin (Spain)

· Dr. Oleksii Molchanovskyi, Fulbright Scholar from Ukraine

· Dr. Yonghun Park, Chungbuk National University, Korea

· Prof. Dr. Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina)

· Prof. Dr. Jiangchun Ren, NUDT, China

· Prof. Dr. Yi Ren (NUDT, China)

· Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Rong (Xi'an Technological University)

· Prof. Dr. Duncan Ruiz (The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil)

· Prof. Dr. Jun Shen (University of Wollongong, Australia)

· Prof. Dr. Yunpeng Xiao, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

· Dr. Ling Xu, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

· Dr. Ming Xu, Shanghai Maritime Univ, P.R. China

· Dr. Yuming Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

· Dr. Chiemi Watanabe (Ochanomizu University, Japan).

· Prof. Dr. Kaidong Wang (Xidian University, China).

· Prof. Dr. Jenq-Foung (J.F.) Yao (Georgia College and State Univ.)

· Prof. Dr. Pingpeng Yuan (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R. China)

· Prof. Dr. Rui Zhang (Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China).

· Prof. Dr. Rui Zhang , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

PhD Students at OGI

· Tong Zhou, Currently with Oracle. (co-supervised with Calton Pu)

PhD Graduate students:

· Garry Froehlich (co-supervised (during 1995-1997) with Paul Sorenson and Jim Hoover)

o Topic: Hooks: An Aid to the Use of Object-Oriented Frameworks

o Graduated August 2000

· LingLing Yan (co-supervised (during 1994-1997) with Tamer Ozsu)

o Topic: AURORA

o Graduated Jan. 2000

o Currently with IBM Almaden.

Past Msc students at University of Alberta:

· Scott Fortin (co-supervised with Randy Goebel)

o Topic: Data Minig in Bio-engineering applications.

o Currently the president and CEO of Biotools Incorporated (biotool.com).

· Dheeraj Madadi

o Topic: A Performance Study of Internet Search Engines.

o Graduated April 1998

o Currently with a Software Company at Texas.

· Wei Tang

o Topic: A Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit Using Continual Queries.

o Graduated June 1998

· Kirill Richine

o Topic: Distributed Query Scheduling in the Context of DIOM.

o Graduated April 1997

o Currently with RADDS technologies, Calgary.

· Henry Yuk-Kuen Chan.

o Topic: Extended Transaction Models in Non-traditional database systems.

o Graduated Jan 1996

o Currently with IBM Canada -- DB2 group

· Yooshin Lee

o Topic: A Prototype of the DIOM Query Mediation Methodology.

o Graduated July 1996

o currently with IBM Canada -- Internet Service Group

· Balwinder Purewal.

o Topic: Security and Authorization in OODB Systems.

o Graduated July 1996

o Currently with a software company in Edmonton

· Alice Tong.

o Topic: Index Techniques for OODBs.

o Graduated April 1997

o Currently with a software company in HK

· James Cheung Lam.

o Topic: Content-based Indexing Techniques for Image Databases

o Graduated April 1997

o Currently with Nortel, Ottawa

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Last updated April 15, 2014. Ling Liu (lingliu at cc dot gatech dot edu)