Alumni and Past Research Collaborators
TWC Masters and Ph.D. Graduates
![Shruthi Defense](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/ShruthiDefense.png?itok=qdPhm1xy)
An Ontology-Enabled Approach for User-Centered and Knowledge-Enabled Explanations of AI Systems
Advisor: Deborah L. McGuiness![Matt Johnson defense](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/MattJohnson.png?itok=tjGPgd1e)
A Data Dictionary Based Approach to Semantic Tabular Mapping
Advisor: Deborah L. McGuinness![Sola Shirai, Ph.D. Mar 2024](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/SolaShirai_Mar2024.png?itok=BF3Jva2v)
Incorporating Context into Knowledge Graph Completion Methods
Advisor: Deborah L. McGuinness ![Neha Keshan](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-02/Neha_keshan_headshot.jpeg?itok=kIw6509T)
Persona Aware Strategy Towards Building A Comprehensive Semantic Data Layer: A resource for marginalized us stem graduate students
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Bingsheng Yao](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-01/bingshengYao.jpeg?itok=Npc9qC4p)
Enhancing Machine Reasoning via Active Learning (AL) with Human Rationales
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Nkechinyere Agu](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-01/bio-agu.png?itok=2cK9RL5a)
Semantically Enabled Medical Image Understanding
Advisor: Jim Hendler and Pingkun Yan![Ahmed Eleish](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-01/ahmedE.jpeg?itok=GDNlFZsu)
An informaton Theoretic Approach to Graph Representations, Graph Embedding and Evaluation
Advisor: Richard Plotka and Jim Hendler![Zhicheng (Jason) Liang](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-01/Zhicheng%20%28Jason%29%20Liang.jpeg?itok=aBTHADpX)
Natural Language Understanding with Semantic Parsing
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![FeiFei Pan](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-11/feifei_IMG_1151.png?itok=X2VR9_Zn)
End-to-End Question Answering on Semi-Structured Tabular Data
Advisor: Peter Fox and Jim Hendler![Sharma](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/Sharma.png?itok=xogb-nzb)
Comprehensive, Explainable, ML-based Molecular Toxicity and Protein-ligand Binding Predictions
Advisor: Jim Hendler and Jonathan Dordick![Dr. Anirudh Prabhu](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-11/anirudh_IMG_0229.png?itok=rK63IdWO)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/Rahul-Divekar-3.jpg?itok=8B_gir-f)
AI Enabled Foreign Language Immersion: Technology and method to acquire foreign languages with AI in immersive virtual worlds
Advisor: Hui Su and Jim HendlerPh.D. 2019
Combining Supervised Machine Learning and Structured Knowledge for Difficult Perceptual Tasks
Advisor: Jim HendlerPh.D. 2019
Innovations Using Squence to Sequence Model in Chatbot, Information Retrieval and Mergers and Acquisitions
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Robin](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-11/Robin.png?itok=3ye03SzN)
Enhancing Ontology Learning with Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Techniques
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Eric](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-11/ezgif.com-gif-maker.jpg?itok=zxbcHJRt)
Reducing The Cognitive Load of Visual Analytics of Networks Using Concentrically Arranged Multi-Surface Projections Focusing Immersive Real-Time Exploration
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Nidhi](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-11/NidhiRastogiThesisDefense.jpg?itok=rE_UtMoH)
An Intrusion Detection System based on Information Centrality to identify systemic anomalies in large networked systems
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Amar](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-11/AmarViswanathanThesisDefense.jpg?itok=1omxW6S_)
A Schema- and Data- Aware Query Reformulation Methodology for Knowledge Graphs
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Rui](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-11/RuiYanThesisDefense.jpg?itok=dflSm4yl)
Enhancing Stream Reasoning By Modeling the Importance of Streaming Data
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Simon Ellis](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/SEllis500.jpg?itok=MnhbLPDI)
Cognitive Gameplaying: Playing Games with Cognitive Computing
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Kristine Gloria](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/Kristine_Gloria.jpeg?itok=DvSgmp-B)
Imprudence of Reason: An Examination of Privacy Expectations
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Tim Lebo](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/timLebo.jpeg?itok=dmgvj1fi)
Towards Sustainable Analytics in Geo-Socially Distributed Environments
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Evan Patton](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/Evan%20Patton500.jpg?itok=MZawPBwY)
Toward Energy-Aware Mobile Reasoning Agents for the Mobile Semantic Web
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Dominic DiFranzo](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/Dominic%20DiFranzo.jpeg?itok=gWfKPdYV)
The Semantic eHumanties Methodology: Same but Different
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Linyun Fu](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/Linyun%20Fu500.jpg?itok=gzvYtfZk)
Automatic Provenance Capturing for Research Publications
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Joshua Shinavier](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/jShinavier.jpeg?itok=0oLsdpVl)
Light, Sound, and Semantics: The Web of Data as a New Sensory Modality
Advisor: Jim Hendler![James Michaelis](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/JamesMichaelisThesesDefense.jpeg?itok=G7d8gkeJ)
A Methodology for Evaluation of Provenance-Based User Interfaces
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Alvaro Graves](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/AlvaroAndXianSuccessfulDefense.jpeg?itok=xTDhgNK6)
Improving the Use of Open Government Data Using Visualizations
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Ankesh Khandelwal](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/Ankesh20130329_cake.jpeg?itok=nVTeCTJY)
Furthering the Continuous-Change Event Calculus: Providing for Efficient Description of Additive Effects and an Automated Reasoner
Advisor: Peter Fox![Jesse Weaver](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/JesseWeaver.jpeg?itok=SM6ycsKc)
Toward Webscale, Rule-based Inference on the Semantic Web via Data Parallelism
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Gregory Todd Williams](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/GregWilliamsPhDDefense.png?itok=bX6_F115)
Planning and Evaluation of Federated Queries on the Web
Advisor: Jim Hendler![Jiao Tao](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/JiaoTao.jpeg?itok=8dA-DVfi)
Integrity Constraints for the Semantic Web: An OWL 2 Description Logic Extension
Advisor: Deborah McGuinnessPh.D. 2012
Semantically Enabling Next Generation Environmental Informatics Portals
Advisor: Deborah McGuinness![Medha Atre](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-03/MedhaAtre.png?itok=Yun0EGN-)
Bit-by-Bit: Indexing and Querying RDF data using Compressed Bit-Vectors
Advisor: Jim HendlerM.S. 2018
Generation and Evaluation of Linked Data Derived From Information Extraction Methodologies