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2025<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Nathan Bartley<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Sabyasachee Baruah<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Alex Bisberg<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Modeling Competitive and Social Success in Multiplayer Online Games
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Assistant Professor at Cal Poly SLO\n

Ming Chang-Chiu<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> From Subgroup Discrepancy to Agentic Learning: A Data-Driven Approach to Building Robust and Contextually Aligned Vision-Language Models
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Xuezhe Ma\n

Emily Chen<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Understanding Online Human Behavior in Sociotechnical Systems that Undergo Change
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Santa Cruz\n

Mehrnoosh Sadat Mirtaheri Feijani<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Toward Learning and Forecasting with Temporal Knowledge Graphs”
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Aram Galstyan
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Research Scientist \/ Machine Learning Engineer at Meta\n

Mozhdeh Gheini<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Inductive Biases for Data- and Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Jonathan May
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Machine Learning Research Engineer at Apple\n

Fiona Guo<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Zihao He<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Yuzhong Huang<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Hsien-Te Kao<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Cold Start Prediction in Personalized mHealth
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Research Engineer, Aptima\n

Dong Ho Lee<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Jiazhi Li<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Ranga Sai Shreyas Manchikanti<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Elan Markowitz<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models to Improve Factuality and Reasoning
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Aram Galstyan and Greg Ver Steeg
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> AI\/ML Software Engineer @ Google\n

Mehrnoosh Sadat Mirtaheri Feijani<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Negar Mokhberian<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Soumyaroop Nandi<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Kyle Reing<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Shbita Basel<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Alexander Spangher<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Emulation Learning: A Roadmap to Achieving Human-Like Planning\nAdvisor(s):<\/strong> Jonathan May, Emilio Ferrara, and Nanyun Peng\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Post-Doc with Stanford SAIL\n

Kexuan Sun<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Avijit Thawani<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Binh Vu<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Fei Wang<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Towards Robust and Controllable (Multimodal) Large Language Models
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Muhao Chen and Aram Galstyan\n

Nan Xu<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Building Trustworthy LLMs: Ensuring Inference-Time Coherence and Factuality
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Muhao Chen and Xuezhe Ma\n

Pei Zhou<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n

Jiageng Zhu<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> –
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> –
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> –\n
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2024<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Shushan Arakelyan<\/h3>\nThesis Title<\/strong>: “Building Generalizable Language Models for Code Processing”
\nAdvisor<\/strong>: Xiang Ren
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Research Scientist at Microsoft\n

Yuzhong Huang<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Semantic Structure in Understanding and Generation of the 3D World
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Fred Morstatter
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Senior Computer Vision Engineer at Hover Inc\n

Julie Jiang<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Socially-Informed Content Analysis of Online Human Behavior
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Machine Learning Research Scientist\u00a0@ Meta\n

Neal Lawton<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Learning at the Local Level
\nAdvisor(s):<\/strong> Aram Galstyan and Greg Ver Steeg
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Applied Researcher at Capital One\n

Meryem M’hamdi<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Towards More Human-Like Cross-lingual Transfer Learning
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Jonathan May
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Applied and Data Scientist II at Microsoft\n

Myrl Marmarelis<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Robust Causal Inference with Machine Learning on Observational Data
\nAdvisors:<\/strong> Aram Galstyan and Greg Ver Steeg
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Post Doc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)\n

Ehsan Qasemi<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Multi-Modal Preconditioned Inference of Commonsense Knowledge
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Muhao Chen
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle ML\n

Kexuan Sun<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Advances in Understanding and Leveraging Structured Data for Knowledge-intensive Tasks
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Jay Pujara
\nCurrent position:<\/strong> Applied Scientist\n

Avijit Thawani<\/h3>\nThesis title:<\/strong> Aggregating Symbols in Language Models
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Jay Pujara
\nCurrent position:<\/strong> Research Assistant\n

Yilei Zeng<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Learning Social Sequential Decision Making in Online Games
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Senior Scientist @ Tencent\n
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2023<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Umang Gupta<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Controlling Information in Neural Networks for Fairness and Privacy
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Greg Ver Steeg
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong> Software Engineer at Google\n

Sarik Ghazarian\u00a0Ghalemaleki<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
\nAdvisors:<\/strong> Aram Galstyan and Nanyun Peng
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Post Doctoral Scientist at Amazon\n

Hrayr Harutyunyan<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> On Information Captured by Neural Networks: Connections With Memorization and Generalization
\nAdvisors:<\/strong> Aram Galstyan and Greg Ver Steeg
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Research Scientist at Google\n

Serban Stan<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Unsupervised Domain Adaption with Private Data
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Mohammad Rostami
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Machine Learning Scientist at Beyond Limits AI\n
\n

2022<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Sami Abu-El-Haija<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Fast and Label-Efficient Graph Representation Learing
\nAdvisors:<\/strong>\u00a0Aram Galstyan and Greg Ver Steeg
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Sr. Research Scientist at Google Research\n

Nada Aldarrab<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Automatic Decipherment of Historical Manuscripts
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Jonathan May
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Assistant Professor at King Abdulaziz University\n

Robert Brekelmans<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Information Geometry of Annealing Paths for Inference and Estimation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Greg Ver Steeg
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Post Doc at Vector Institute, Toronto\n

Nikolaos\u00a0Flemotomos<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Extracting and Using Speaker Role Information in Speech Processing Applications
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Shrikanth Narayanan
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Machine Learning\u00a0Researcher at Apple\n

Thamme Gowda<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> The Inevitable Problem of Rare Phenomena Learning in Machine Translation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Jon May
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Research Programmer at USC\/ISI\n

Rujun Han<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Improve Machine Event-Centric Reasoning with Neuro-Symbolic Networks, QA and Language Generation
\nAdvisors:<\/strong>: Aram Galstyan and Nanyun Peng
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Applied Scientist at AWS AI Lab\n

Akira Matsui<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Mining and Modeling Temporal Stuctures of Human Behavior in Digital Platforms
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Asst Professor at Yokohama National University\n

Ninareh Mehrabi<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Responsible Artificial Intelligence For A Complex World
\nAdvisors:<\/strong>:Aram Galstyan and Fred Morstatter
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Post Doc\u00a0at Amazon\n

Raghuveer Peri<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Neural Representation Learning for Robust and Fair Speaker Recognition
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Shrikanth Narayanan
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Applied Scientist at Amazon\n

Shen Yan<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Fair Machine Learning for Human Behavor Understanding
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Researcher for Meta Research\n

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2021<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Xusen Yin<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong> Generalized Sequential Decision-Making via Language
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Jonanthan May
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Applied Scientist at\u00a0Amazon\n
\n

2020<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Ashok Deb<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Modeling Information Operations and Diffusion on Social Media Networks
\nAdvisor:<\/strong> Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Operations Analysis Branch, US Forces-Korea, Camp Humphreys, South Korea\n

Adam Badawy<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Analysis and Prediction of Malicious Users on Online Social Networks: Applications of Machine Learning and Network Analysis in Social Science
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>:\u00a0Principal Data Scientist at Capital One\n
\n

2019<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Sahil Garg<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Hashcode Representations of Natural Language for Relation Extraction
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Aram Galstyan
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>:\u00a0Vice President at Machine Learning Center of Excellence, Morgan Stanley\n

Palash Goyal<\/b><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Graph Embedding Algorithms for Attributed and Temporal Graphs
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Emilio Ferrara
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Senior Research Scientist and Project Lead, Samsung Research America\n
\n

2017<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Hao Wu<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Building a Knowledgebase for Deep Lexical Semantics
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry R. Hobbs
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Machine Learing Scientist\/Engineer at Apple\n
\n

2016<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Niloofar Montezeri<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Building a Knowledgebase for Deep Lexical Semantics
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry R. Hobbs
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Lecturer at UC,\u00a0Riverside\n
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2015<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Mohsen Taheriyan<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Learning the Semantics of Structured Data Sources
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Software Engineer, Google\n

Qing Dou<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Beyond Parallel Data: Decipherment for Better Quality Machine Translation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>:\u00a0Research Scientist, Facebook\n

George Konstantinedes<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Scalable Data Integration Under Constraints
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Jose Luis
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>:\u00a0Oxford University\n

Jeon-Hyung Kang<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Modeling Social and Cognitive Aspects of User Behavior in Social Media
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kristina Lerman
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Research Scientist, Google\n
\n

2014<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Yoon-sik Cho<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Modeling and predicting with spatial-temporal networks
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Aram Galstyan
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0For this summer, Academic Mentor at UCLA\n

Ashish Vaswani<\/strong><\/h3>\nTitle:<\/strong>\u00a0Smaller, Faster and Accurate Models for Statistical Machine Translation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0David Chaing
\nCo-Advisor:\u00a0<\/strong>Liang Huang
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Computer Scientist, USC-ISI\n
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2013<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Dirk Hovy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Learning semantic types and relations from text\u00a0<\/em>
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry Hobbs
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark\n

Ardeshir Kianercy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title<\/strong>:\u00a0Adaptive agents on evolving network: An evolutionary game theory approach<\/em>
\nAdvisor<\/strong>: Aram Galstyan
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Post Doctorate fellow, Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital\n
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2012<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Nadeesha Ranasinghe<\/h3>\nThesis Title<\/strong>:\u00a0Learning to Detect and Adapt to Unpredicted Changes<\/em>
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Wei-min Shen
\nCurrent Position:\u00a0<\/strong>Senior Researcher at Epiphany Science and Systems (EpiSci), San Diego, CA\n

Jason Riesa<\/h3>\nThesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Syntactic Alignment Models for Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation<\/em>
\nAdvisor:\u00a0<\/strong>Daniel Marcu
\nCurrent Position:\u00a0<\/strong>Google Translate Team, Fall 2012\n

Rumi Ghosh<\/h3>\nThesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Disentangling the Network: Understanding the Interplay of Topology and Synamics in Network Analysis<\/em>
\nAdvisor:\u00a0<\/strong>Kristina Lerman
\nCurrent Position:\u00a0<\/strong>HP Labs, Post Doctoral\n
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2011<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Steve DeNeefe<\/h3>\nThesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Tree-adjoining Machine Translation<\/em>
\nAdvisor:\u00a0<\/strong>Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:\u00a0<\/strong>Research Scientist, SDL Language Weaver\n

Rutu Mulkar-Mehta<\/strong><\/h3>\nThesis Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Granular Causality for Learning by Reading
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry Hobbs and Eduard Hovy
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0NLP Research Scientist at Precyse Advanced Technologies\n

Sujith Ravi<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Deciphering Natural Language
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research Scientist, Google\n
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2010<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Anon Plangprasopchok<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Statistical Approaches for Inferring Category Knowledge from Social Annotation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kristina Lerman
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Bangkok, Thailand\n

Jonathan May<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Weighted Tree Automata and Transducers for Syntactic Natural Language Processing
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research Scientist, Language Weaver\n

Victoria Fossum<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Integrating Parsing and Word Alignment in Syntax-Based Machine Translation
\nAdvisors::\u00a0<\/strong>Steven Abney and Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Post-doctoral researcher at ISI\n
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2009<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Michael Rubenstein<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Self-Assembly and Self-Healing for Robotic Collectives
\nAdvisor<\/strong>: Wei-Min Shen
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Harvard University, Post Doctorate Researcher\n

Rahul Bhagat<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Learning Paraphrases from Text
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Ed Hovy
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Amazon\n

Matthew Michelson<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0A Reference-Set Approach to Information Extraction from Unstructured, Ungrammatical Data Sources
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Fetch Technologies\n
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2008<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Brent Lance<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Procedural Animation of Emotionally Expressive Gaze Shifts in Virtual Embodied Characters
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Stacy Marsella
\nCurrent Position<\/strong>: Institute for Creative Technologies\/Army Research Laboratory-HRED\n

Martin Michalowski<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0A General Approach to Using Problem Instance Data for Model Refinement in Constraint Satisfaction Problem
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Adventium Labs\n

Rattapoom Tuchinda<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Building Mashups by Example
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock\n
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2007<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Snehal Thakkar<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0A Data Integration Approach to Dynamically Fusing Geospatial Sources
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research Scientist, Google Research\n

Feng Pan<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Representing Complex Temporal Phenomena for the Semantic Web and Natural Language
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry Hobbs
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Natural Language Scientist at Powerset Inc.\n

Donghui Feng<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Factorizing Information Extraction from Text Corpora
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Eduard Hovy
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0AT&T Yellow Pages Research\n

Alexander M. Fraser<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Improved Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Daniel Marcu
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research SCientist, University of Stuttgart, Germany\n

Namhee Kwon<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Text Understanding via Semantic Structure Analysis
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Eduard Hovy\n
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2006<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Mark Carman<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Learning Semantic Definitions of Information Sources on the Internet
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock and Paolo Traverso (PhD degree from the University of Trento)
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.\n

Dragos Stefan Munteanu<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0“Exploiting Comparable Corpora”
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Daniel Marcu
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research scientist at Language Weaver, Inc.\n

Soo-Min Kim<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0“Identification, Classification, and Analysis of Opinions”
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Eduard Hovy
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Postdoctoral research associate at USC\/ISI\n

Shou-de Lin<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Modeling, Searching, and Explaining Abnormal Instances In Multi-Relational Networks
\nAdvisors:<\/strong>: Hans Chalupsky and Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor at the National Taiwan University\n

Radu Soricut<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Natural Language Generation for Text-to-Text Applications using an Information-Slim Representation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Daniel Marcu
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research scientist at Language Weaver, Inc.\n

Hal Daume III<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Practical Structured Learning for Natural Language Processing
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Daniel Marcu
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor at the University of Utah\n

Liang Zhou<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0The Importance of Using Domain Knowledge in Solving Information Distillation Problems.
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Eduard Hovy
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Postdoctoral research associate at USC\/ISI\n
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2005<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Ching-Chien Chen<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Automatically and Accurately Conflating Road Vector Data, Street Maps, and Orthoimagery
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Cyrus Shahabi and Craig Knoblock\n

Deepak Ravichandran<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Terascale Knowledge Acquisition
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Ed Hovy
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research scientist at Google Research\n
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2003<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Philipp Koehn<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Noun Phrase Translation
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh\n

Jay Modi<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Distributed Constraint Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Wei-Min Shen
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor at Drexel University\n

Greg Barish<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Speculative Plan Execution for Information Agents
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Scientist at Fetch Technologies\n

Benham Salemi<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Distributed Control for Chain-Type Self-Reconfigurable Robots
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Wei-Min Shen
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research scientist at USC\/ISI\n
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2002<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Ion Muslea<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Active learning with multiple views
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Researcher Scientist at SRI International\n

Sheila Tejada<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Learning object identification rules for information integration
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock\/Steve Minton
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor at Tulane University\n

Jafar Adibi<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Self-Similarity Models for Data Mining
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Wei-Min Shen
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research scientist at USC\/ISI\n

Irene Langkilde-Geary<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Automatic Sentence Generation Using a Hybrid Statistical Model of Lexical Collocations and Syntactic Relations
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University\n

Kenji Yamada<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0A Syntax-Based Statistical Translation Model
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research scientist at Language Weaver, Inc.\n

Yaser Al-Onaizan<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Translating Named Entities Using Bilingual and Monolingual Resources
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research Scientist at IBM Watson Laboratory\n
\n

2001<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Rogelio Adobbati<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Automated synthesis of software explanations
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0W. Lewis Johnson
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0AssistMed\n
\n

2000<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Gal Kaminka<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Execution Monitoring in Multi-agent Environments
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Milind Tambe
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor at Bar-Ilan University\n

Marcelo Tallis<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0A Script-Based Approach to Modifying Knowledge-Based Systems
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Yolanda Gil
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research Scientist at Teknowledge\n

Naveen Ashish<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Optimizing informationmediatorsby selectively materializing data
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0NASA\/Ames Research Center\n
\n

1998<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Jose Luis Ambite<\/a><\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Planning by Rewriting
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research Scientist at USC\/ISI\n
\n

1997<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Chin-Yew Lin<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Natural Language Summarization
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Eduard Hovy
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Lead Researcher at Microsoft Research in Beijing\n
\n

1996<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Chunnan Hsu<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Learning effective and robust semantic knowledge for database query optimization
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Craig Knoblock
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan\n

Jihie Kim<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Bounding the Cost of Learned Rules: A Transformational Approach
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Paul Rosenbloom
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research Scientist at USC\/ISI\n
\n

1995<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Ben Smith<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Induction as Knowledge Integration
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Paul Rosenbloom
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Research staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\n
\n

Others<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\t

Richard Angros<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Learning What to Instruct: Acquiring knowledge from demonstrations
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0W. Lewis Johnson\n

Ishuar Chander<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Automatic Postediting of Documents
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Knight
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Northrup Gruman\n

Ali Erdem<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Task orientation and tailoring of interactive software explanations
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0W. Lewis Johnson
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Medical informatics company in San Diego\n

Randall W. Hill Jr.<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Impasse-Driven Tutoring for Reactive Skill Acquisition
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0W. Lewis Johnson
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Current Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Director of USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)\n

Lorna Zorman<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Requirements Envisaging by Utilizing Scenarios
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0W. Lewis Johnson
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0mother (formerly HP Labs)\n

Kevin Benner<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Software Specification via Scenarios
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0W. Lewis Johnson
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0CTO at a Minneapolis medical informatics company\n

Vibhu Mittal (1993)<\/h3>\nThesis Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Generating Natural Language Descriptions with Integrated Text and Examples
\nAdvisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Cecile Paris
\nCurrent Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Senior Scientist at Google, Inc. and Adjunct Faculty at CMU LTI\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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