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Alumni and Past Research Collaborators

TWC Masters and Ph.D. Graduates

Shruthi Defense
Ph.D. 2024
An Ontology-Enabled Approach for User-Centered and Knowledge-Enabled Explanations of AI Systems
Advisor: Deborah L. McGuiness
Matt Johnson defense
Ph.D. 2024
A Data Dictionary Based Approach to Semantic Tabular Mapping
Advisor: Deborah L. McGuinness
Sola Shirai, Ph.D. Mar 2024
Ph.D. 2024
Incorporating Context into Knowledge Graph Completion Methods
Advisor: Deborah L. McGuinness
Neha Keshan
Ph.D. 2023
Persona Aware Strategy Towards Building A Comprehensive Semantic Data Layer: A resource for marginalized us stem graduate students
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Emily Klein
Ph.D. 2023
Loaded Language and Conspiracy Theorizing
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Bingsheng Yao
Ph.D. 2023
Enhancing Machine Reasoning via Active Learning (AL) with Human Rationales
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Nkechinyere Agu
Ph.D. 2022
Semantically Enabled Medical Image Understanding
Advisor: Jim Hendler and Pingkun Yan
Ahmed Eleish
Ph.D. 2022
An informaton Theoretic Approach to Graph Representations, Graph Embedding and Evaluation
Advisor: Richard Plotka and Jim Hendler
Zhicheng (Jason) Liang
Ph.D. 2022
Natural Language Understanding with Semantic Parsing
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
FeiFei Pan
Ph.D. 2022
End-to-End Question Answering on Semi-Structured Tabular Data
Advisor: Peter Fox and Jim Hendler
Sharma
Ph.D. 2022
Comprehensive, Explainable, ML-based Molecular Toxicity and Protein-ligand Binding Predictions
Advisor: Jim Hendler and Jonathan Dordick
Dr. Anirudh Prabhu
Ph.D. 2021
Towards Automated Axiom Generation: A Semi-Automated Approach to Generating “Knowledge and Rule Base” Corpora from Text Narratives
Advisor: Peter Fox and Deborah McGuinness
Rahul Divekar
Ph.D. 2020
AI Enabled Foreign Language Immersion: Technology and method to acquire foreign languages with AI in immersive virtual worlds
Advisor: Hui Su and Jim Hendler
Ph.D. 2020
Exploring Social Discrimination with Artificial Life
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Ph.D. 2019
Combining Supervised Machine Learning and Structured Knowledge for Difficult Perceptual Tasks
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Ph.D. 2019
Innovations Using Squence to Sequence Model in Chatbot, Information Retrieval and Mergers and Acquisitions
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Robin
Ph.D. 2019
Enhancing Ontology Learning with Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Techniques
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Eric
Ph.D. 2018
Reducing The Cognitive Load of Visual Analytics of Networks Using Concentrically Arranged Multi-Surface Projections Focusing Immersive Real-Time Exploration
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Ph.D. 2018
Data Set Versioning through Linked Data Models
Advisor: Peter Fox
Bassem Makni
Ph.D. 2018
Deep Learning for Noise-tolerant RDFs Reasoning
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Nidhi
Ph.D. 2018
An Intrusion Detection System based on Information Centrality to identify systemic anomalies in large networked systems
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Amar
Ph.D. 2018
A Schema- and Data- Aware Query Reformulation Methodology for Knowledge Graphs
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Rui
Ph.D. 2018
Enhancing Stream Reasoning By Modeling the Importance of Streaming Data
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Simon Ellis
Ph.D. 2016
Cognitive Gameplaying: Playing Games with Cognitive Computing
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Kristine Gloria
Ph.D. 2016
Imprudence of Reason: An Examination of Privacy Expectations
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Tim Lebo
Ph.D. 2016
Towards Sustainable Analytics in Geo-Socially Distributed Environments
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Evan Patton
Ph.D. 2016
Toward Energy-Aware Mobile Reasoning Agents for the Mobile Semantic Web
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Han Wang
Ph.D. 2016
Knowledge Base Construction from Scientific Literature
Advisor: Peter Fox
Yu Chen
Ph.D. 2015
Context Modeling with Inertia Mobile Sensor
Advisor: Peter Fox
Dominic DiFranzo
Ph.D. 2015
The Semantic eHumanties Methodology: Same but Different
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Linyun Fu
Ph.D. 2015
Automatic Provenance Capturing for Research Publications
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Joshua Shinavier
Ph.D. 2015
Light, Sound, and Semantics: The Web of Data as a New Sensory Modality
Advisor: Jim Hendler
James Michaelis
Ph.D. 2014
A Methodology for Evaluation of Provenance-Based User Interfaces
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Jin Zheng
Ph.D. 2014
Semantic Similarity Computation on the Web of Data
Advisor: Peter Fox
Alvaro Graves
Ph.D. 2013
Improving the Use of Open Government Data Using Visualizations
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Ankesh Khandelwal
Ph.D. 2013
Furthering the Continuous-Change Event Calculus: Providing for Efficient Description of Additive Effects and an Automated Reasoner
Advisor: Peter Fox
Xian Li
Ph.D. 2013
Dynamics of Investor Attention on the Social Web
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Jesse Weaver
Ph.D. 2013
Toward Webscale, Rule-based Inference on the Semantic Web via Data Parallelism
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Gregory Todd Williams
Ph.D. 2013
Planning and Evaluation of Federated Queries on the Web
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Jiao Tao
Ph.D. 2012
Integrity Constraints for the Semantic Web: An OWL 2 Description Logic Extension
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Ph.D. 2012
Semantically Enabling Next Generation Environmental Informatics Portals
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness
Medha Atre
Ph.D. 2011
Bit-by-Bit: Indexing and Querying RDF data using Compressed Bit-Vectors
Advisor: Jim Hendler
M.S. 2021
A Hybrid Approach for Describing Radio Spectrum Usage Policies
M.S. 2019
Feature Assessment Model for Data Portal Evaluation
M.S. 2019
Evaluating an Elastic search-backed Triplestore
M.S. 2018
Generation and Evaluation of Linked Data Derived From Information Extraction Methodologies
M.S. 2015
Automating Semantic Metadata Collection in the Field

TWC Alumni

Ph.D. 2024
FOLKTALE STORY GENERATION AND AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF GENERATED TEXT
Advisor: Tomek Strzalkowski
Alexander Lutsevich
Ph.D. 2024
THE LOGIC OF BIAS: USING COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE TO EXPLORE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COGNITIVE ABILITIES AND DECISION ERRORS
Advisor: Jim Hendler
Brenda Thomson
Ph.D. 2024
People, Science, and Pathways: A Framework Integrating Natural Language Processing with Bibliometrics
Advisor: Karyn Rogers
Neha Upadhya
Ph.D. 2024
Breaking Bad Habits: Uncertainty and Behavior Change
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness

Past Research Collaborators