Ph.D. dissertation: On Large-Scale Knowledge Graph Completion: Dataset Creation, Embedding
Model Evaluation, and Prediction Rule Explanation in Natural Language, August 2025.
Internship: LinkedIn
First-employment: Postdoc, IDIR Lab, Arlington, TX.
Zhengyuan Zhu
Ph.D., Aug. 2025
Ph.D. dissertation: Understanding Misinformation on Social Media Through Truthfulness Stance, August 2025.
Internship: Adobe
First-employment: Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe, San Jose, CA.
Zeyu Zhang
Ph.D., Aug. 2024
Ph.D. dissertation: Claim Sensing: A Study Linking Factual Claims to Human
Behaviors on Social Media, August 2024.
First-employment: Postdoc, IDIR Lab, Arlington, TX.
Xiao Shi
Ph.D., Aug. 2024
Ph.D. dissertation: Natural Language Generation from Large-Scale Open-Domain
Knowledge Graphs, August 2024.
Internship: LinkedIn
First-employment: Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn, Sunnyvale,
CA.
Theodora Toutountzi
Ph.D., May 2024
Ph.D. dissertation: Identifying Fact-Checks Helpful for Vetting Factual
Claims, May 2024.
Fatma Dogan
Ph.D., Aug. 2021
Ph.D. dissertation: Modeling Factual Claims with Semantic Frames:
Definitions, Datasets, Tools, and Fact-Checking Applications, August 2021.
First-employment: Neiman Marcus Group, Dallas, TX.
Farahnaz Akrami
Ph.D., Aug. 2021
Ph.D. dissertation: Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods,
August 2021.
First-employment: Postdoc, IDIR Lab, Arlington, TX.
Afroza Sultana
Ph.D., May 2018
Ph.D. dissertation: Efficient Evaluation of Contextual and Reverse
Pareto-Optimality Queries, May 2018.
First-employment: Software Engineer, Teradata Lab, Los Angeles,
CA.
Gensheng Zhang
Ph.D., Dec. 2017
Ph.D. dissertation: Frameworks, Algorithms, and Systems for Efficient
Discovery of Data-backed Facts, December 2017.
Internship: Google
First-employment: Software
Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA.
Naeemul Hassan
Ph.D., Aug. 2016
Ph.D. dissertation: Toward Automated Fact Monitoring And Checking, August
2016.
Internship: AT&T
First-employment: Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
Nandish Jayaram
Ph.D., May 2016
Ph.D. dissertation: Toward Better Usability of Query Systems for Massive
Ultra-Heterogeneous Graphs: Novel Approaches of Query Formulation and Query Specification,
May 2016.
Internship: HP
Co-advisor: Ramez Elmasri; First-employment: Member of Technical Staff, Pivotal, Palo Alto, CA.
Ning Yan
Ph.D., Dec. 2013
Ph.D. dissertation: Novel Methods for Entity-centric Information
Exploration, December 2013.
First-employment: Research Scientist, Huawei R&D Center, Santa
Clara, CA.
Aditya Telang
Ph.D., Aug. 2011
Ph.D. dissertation: A Holistic, Similarity-based Approach for
Personalized Ranking in Web Databases, August 2011.
Co-advised with: Sharma Chakravarthy; First-employment: Researcher, IBM Research India.
Graduated M.S. Thesis, Capstone Project, and
Independent Study Students
Abhishek Divakar Goudar
M.S., May 2025
M.S. capstone project: LLM-Based Recommendations in Knowledge Graph Query Formulation, May 2025.
Sai Sandeep Naraparaju
M.S., Dec. 2024
M.S. capstone project: Claimbuster for Tweets, December 2024.
Joswin Valerian Concessao
M.S., Aug. 2024
M.S. thesis: Resilience in the Wake of Storms: Unveiling Spatiotemporal
Mobility Dynamics of Gulf Coast Communities Through Crowd-Sourced Data, August 2024.