Alumni and Past Research Collaborators

TWC Masters and Ph.D. Graduates

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

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