Students

Current PhD Students

• Sabit Ahmed (2025-now) is working on social media analytics using both large-scale public data and small-scale donated data.
• Nadia Mejabin (2025-now) is jointly supervised by Subgiya Nepal and is exploring research in sensing and well-being.

Past PhD Students

• Anis Zaman (2021) studied how online behavior reveals users' mental health. He is now a research scientist at eBay.
• Nabil Hossain (2020) worked on computational models of humor and other kinds of creative language. He now a research scientist at Roku in Austin.
• Brian Dickinson analyzed the structure of cities using human mobilit flows. He is now an assistant professor at Grove City College.
• Phyo Thiha (2019) (co-supervised by Anthony Pisani) created web apps to help students in high-risk environments create and communicate socially-positive messages.
• Tim Kopp (2017) developed exact inference algorithms for Markov Logic that leverage evidence symmetries. He now works at VMWare - Pivotal Labs.
• Anna Loparev (2016) (co-supervised by Chris Egert) studied teaching cooperation through computer games. She now works at Waters.
• Young Song Chol's work on human activity recognition was co-supervised by Jiebo Luo and Daniel Gildea, and he now works at Noodle AI.
• Iftekahar Naim (2015)'s thesis on joint models of language and vision learning was co-supervised by Jiebo Luo and Daniel Gildea, and he now works at Google.
• Yi Chu (2013) completed her PhD on optimal prompting strategies for persons with cognitive disabilities, and is working at Workhuman.
• Tivadar Pápai (2013) developed methods for inference and learning in Markov logic. He is working at Google.
• Chetan Bhole (2013) completed a PhD thesis on image segmentation and is employed in the product search and relevance group at A9.
• Adam Sadilek (2012) completed his PhD on understanding behavior from GPS data. After working at Google, he founded AIM Intelligent Machines.
• Alan Liu (2010) worked with Gaetano Borriello and me on the ACCESS project for his PhD. He now works at A.R.O. Inc. in Seattle.
• Tian Sang (2008) (co-supervised by Paul Beame) earned his PhD for work on model counting and constraint satisfaction algorithms, and now works at Apple.
• Lin Liao (2006) (co-supervised by Dieter Fox) completed his PhD thesis on location-based activity recognition. He is employed at Google.
• Don Patterson (2005) (co-supervised by Dieter Fox) worked on activity tracking and guidance as part of the Assisted Cognition project. He is now a Professor at Westmont College.
• Ashish Sabharwal (2005) (co-supervised by Paul Beame) worked on proof complexity and clause-learning. He is now a researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
• Yongshao Ruan (2004) worked on learning restart strategies. He is now employed at Sourcelabs.

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