Research Group
Group Pictures
I am grateful to work with a group of talented students and top researchers.
Sina's graduation party, May 16, 2021:
Sina's virtual defense, Decembe 14, 2020:
Group picture after Hoang's defense, July 15, 2019:
Group picture on Memorial Day, May 26, 2019:
Group picture in Summer 2019 (after group dinner):
Group picture after Yanhui's defense, December 14, 2017:
Group picture on Halloween, 2014:
Farewell lunch picture for Ablimit on March 28, 2014:
Ph.D. Students
Current Ph.D. Students
| Dejun Teng | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | 2019-present |
| Kayley Abell-Hart | Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University | 2019-present |
| Jianyuan Deng | Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University | 2019-present |
| Xinyu Dong | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | 2018-present |
| Hongyi Duanmu | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | 2018-present |
| Mousumi Roy | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | 2017-present |
Graduated
| Furqan Baig, Ph.D. | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | Graduation: January 2021 |
| First employment: PostDoc fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research area: Big Data Management Systems for Multi-dimensional Data |
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| Yu Wang, Ph.D. | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | Graduation: December 2020 |
| First employment: Google Research area: AI for Healthcare |
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| Sina Rashidian, Ph.D. | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | Graduation: December 2020 |
| First employment: Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; Verily Life Sciences Research area: AI for Healthcare |
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| Hoang Vo, Ph.D. | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | Graduation: July 2019 |
| Research area: Optimization for Spatial and Spatio-temporal Query Processing First employment: Pitney Bowes |
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| Pengyue Zhang, Ph.D. | Computer Science, Stony Brook University | Graduation: July 2019 |
| Research area: Intelligent Biomedical Imaging and Analysis with Deep Learning First employment: Xpeng Motors |
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| Xin Chen, Ph.D. | Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University | Graduation: December 2018 |
| Research area: Integrative Big Data Analytics for Public Health Studies First employment: New York, NY |
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| Yanhui Liang, Ph.D. | Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University | Graduation: December 2017 |
| Research area: Integrative Image and Spatial Analytics for Three-Dimensional Digital Pathology First employment: Google Brain |
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| Shuai Zheng, Ph.D. (co-advisor, with Dr. James Lu) | Computer Science, Emory University | Graduation: May 2015 |
| Research area: Biomedical data natural language processing First employment: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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| Ablimit Aji, Ph.D. | Computer Science, Emory University | Graduation: October 2014 |
| Research area: Spatial Big Data First employment: HP Labs |
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M.S. Students
Current M.S students
- To be updated
Graduated
- Khadija Chowdhry, M.S., 2019
- Aditya Deshpande, M.S., 2019
- Nitesh Idnani, M.S., 2019
- Md Majid Jahangir, M.S., 2019
- Urmil Kadakia, M.S., 2019
- Rahul Rajesh Lachhani, M.S., 2019
- Wei-Cheng Li, M.S., 2019
- Rushikesh Nalla, M.S., 2019
- Ananya Palit, M.S., 2019
- Purvik Hiteshbhai Shah, M.S., 2019
- Arun Swaminathan, M.S., 2019
- Praitayini Kanakaraj (BMI M.S., 2019)
- Ayush Agarwal (M.S., 2018)
- Vishwatej Reddy Anugu (M.S., 2018)
- Mohit Lekhraj Khemchandani (M.S., 2018)
- Shukla,Rohit (M.S., 2018)
- Yunqing Yang (M.S., 2018)
- Pratik Sushil Zambani (M.S., 2018)
- Chenjun Feng (M.S., 2018)
- Jay Sharadchandra Lohokare (M.S., 2018)
- Shubham Kumar Jain (M.S., 2018)
- Amogh Avadhani (M.S., 2017)
- Gaurav Badur Gopalkrishna (M.S., 2017)
- Anusha Muthyampeta (M.S., 2017)
- Sudeshna Pal (M.S., 2017)
- Prachi Poddar (M.S., 2017)
- Poojitha Ponakala (M.S., 2017)
- Manish Kumar Valakonda (M.S., 2017)
- Aviral Nigam (M.S., 2017)
- Xinyu Dong (MS., SUNY Korea, 2017)
- Qingjiang Yin (MS., SUNY Korea, 2017)
- Zhiqian Liu (MS 2017)
- Sheetal Mangesh Pandrekar (MS 2016).
- Abhinav Agshikar (MS 2016). First employment: Amazon |
- Yangyang Zhu (MS 2015). First employment: VMWare |
- Jiaqi Chen (MS 2015). First employment: VMWare |
- Kaushik Devarajaiah (MS 2015). First employment: Google
- Mudit Mehrotra (MS 2015). First employment: Trulia
B.S. and High School Students
B.S. Students
- Anthony Xiang (2019, Stony Brook University, funded by NSF REU)
- Hannah Yao (2018, Stony Brook University, funded by NSF REU)
- Rishi Paras Shah (2017, Columbia University, funded by NSF REU)
- Nicholas Cataldo (2016, Stony Brook University, funded by NSF REU)
- Carolyn Kiriakos (2015, Stony Brook University, funded by NSF REU)
- Priscila Souza (2015, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; visiting student at Stony Brook University)
High School Students
- Joshua Li (CSIRE 2019)
- Amy Feng (CSIRE 2019)
- Jamie Fu (Simons 2018)
- Katherine Kim, Jericho High School, New York (CSIRE 2018)
- John Joshua, Ward Melville High School, New York (CSIRE 2018)
- Andrew Wang, Murphy Jr. High, Stony Brook, New York (CSIRE program, 2017)
- Kevin Zhou, Commack High school, Commack, New York (CSIRE program, 2017)
- Flynn Bridget, Commack High school, Commack, New York (CSIRE program, 2017)
- Sean Pak, Commack High school, Commack, New York (CSIRE program, 2017)
- Samuel Steiger, Commack Shoreham Wading River, Shoreham, New York (CSIRE program, 2017)
- Daniel Kim, Randolph High School, Randolph, New Jersey (Simons Summer Research Program, 2017)
- Kavya Kopparapu (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Virginia, funded by Simons Summer Research Program, 2017)
- Niranjan Kumar (Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York, 2015)
Visiting Scholars
| Ping Fan | Associate professor, Hubei University of Sci. & Tech., China | April, 2016-March, 2017 |
| Dubovitskaya Alevtina | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland | 2016 |
| Na Tang | Associate Professor, South Normal University, China | August 2015-August 2016 |
| Ming Zhong | Associate Professor, Wuhan University, China | September 2015-September 2016 |
| Wei Zhang | Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China | January 2013-January 2014 |
Other Students & Visitors
- Siddharth Jain, Summer 2014, M.S., Computer Science, BITS-Pilani, India
- Work on Medical vocabulary generation tool, funded by Google Summer of Code.
- First employment: Oracle India.
- Dejun Teng, M.S., Computer Science, Emory University
- Research area: Spatial databases and NoSQL databases
- Current employment: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University
- Xiling Sun, Summer 2013, M.S., Computer Science, Northwestern University
- Work on Hadoop-GIS, funded by Google Summer of Code.
- First employment: Samsung Semiconductor.
- Tunan Wu, November 2011 - January 2013, M.S., Computer Science, Emory University
- Current employment: Fuhu, Inc
- Zhengwen Zhou, Decmeber 2011 - December 2012, M.S., Computer Science, Emory University
- Current employment: MathWorks
- Bryan Katigbak, January 2012 - July 2012, M.S., Computer Science, Singapore
- Current employment: Citi
- Tae Wook Oh, November 2010 - December 2011, M.S., Management Information Systems, Georgia State University
- Current employment: SK C&C, Korea
- Cristobal Vergara Niedermayr, January 2009 - July 2010, M.S., Free University of Berlin, Germany
- Current employment: Oracle
Other Students
I am grateful to work with following students in the past:
- Yijian Bai (current employer: Google)
- Shaorong Liu (IBM)
- Nikolay Sapov
- Patrick Kling (Facebook)
- Cornelius Rabsch (eBay)
- Tian Xia (Amazon)
- Pierre-Emmanuel Bourgué (Logica)
- Georg Hackenberg (Technical University Munich)
- Mo Wang (Microsoft)
- David Kaltschmidt (Acme Packet)
- Daniel Furrer (Google)
- Florian Thiel (tarent)
- Cristobal Vergara Niedermayr (Oracle)
- Jasmin Opitz (National Genetics Reference Lab)
- Philipp Hussels (Amazon)
- Chen Qin (Amazon)
- Xiang Li (Google)
- André Freitas (National University of Ireland).
