Ph.D. dissertation: Claim Sensing: A Study Linking Factual Claims to Human
Behaviors on Social Media, August 2024.
First-employment after graduation: Post Doc, 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.
First-employment after graduation: Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn, Sunnyvale,
California.
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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: Post Doc, 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 after graduation: 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.
Interned at NEC Labs and Google; first-employment after graduation: Software
Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA.
Naeemul Hassan
Ph.D., Aug. 2016
Ph.D. dissertation: Toward Automated Fact Monitoring And Checking, August
2016.
Interned at AT&T and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI); first-employment
after graduation: 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.
Co-advisor: Ramez Elmasri; interned at IBM Research India and HP Labs;
first-employment after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation:
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.
First-employment after graduation: Software Engineer, Amazon, Seattle, Washington.
Alishbah Fahad
M.S., Data Science, December 2023
M.S. capstone project: Developing a Machine Learning Based Classifier for
Identifying Exceptional Facts in Text, December 2023.
Patrick Hennecke
M.S., Data Science, December 2023
Foram Pankajbhai Patel
M.S., May 2023
M.S. thesis: Enhancing Health-Related Tweet Classification: An Evaluation of
Transformer-Based Models for Comprehensive Analysis, May 2023.
First-employment after graduation: Software Engineer, Paycom, Grapevine, Texas.
Yogesh Gurjar
M.S., May 2023
M.S. Independent Study Project: Hydra: A Multi-headed Approach to
Frame-Semantic Parsing, May 2023.
First-employment after graduation: Data Scientist, Blue Yonder, Coppell, Texas.
Daniel Obembe
M.S., Aug. 2020
M.S. thesis: Classification of Factual and Non-Factual Statements Using
Adversarially Trained LSTM Networks, August 2020.
First-employment after graduation: o9 Solutions, Inc., Farmers Branch, Texas.
Sarthak Majithia
M.S., May 2019
M.S. thesis: ClaimPortal: Building a social media analytics system for
assisting fact-checking, May 2019.
First-employment after graduation: Software Developer, Paycom, Dallas, Texas.
Sarbajit Roy
M.S., May 2019
M.S. thesis: FrameAnnotator: A Web-based frame semantic annotation tool,
May 2019.
First-employment after graduation: Data Scientist, Data245/WL, Chicago,
Illinois.
Ankit Shingavi
M.S., Aug. 2018
M.S. thesis: Finding Representative Entities from Entity Graph by Using
Neighborhood Based Entity Similarity, August 2018.
First-employment after graduation: Software Engineer, Amazon A9, Palo Alto,
California.
Tulsi Chandwani
M.S., Dec. 2017
M.S. thesis: Maximizing Code Coverage in Database Applications, December
2017.
First-employment after graduation: Red Hat, Westford, MA.
Abu Ayub Ansari Syed
M.S., Aug. 2017
M.S. thesis: Evaluation of a Factual Claim Classifier with and without
Using Entities as Features, August 2017.
First-employment after graduation: Data Analytics Engineer, CirrusLabs, Atlanta,
GA.
Ishwor Timilsina
M.S., May 2017
M.S. thesis: Crowdsourcing for Decision Making with Analytic Hierarchy
Process, May 2017.
First-employment after graduation: Fidelity Investments.
Nigesh Shakya
M.S., May 2017
M.S. thesis: A Probabilistic Approach to Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal
Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons, May 2017.
Rohit Bhoopalam
M.S., May 2016
M.S. thesis: Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms in Suggesting
Candidate Edges to Construct a Query on Heterogeneous Graphs, May 2016.
First-employment after graduation: Akamai, Boston, MA.
Fatma Arslan
M.S., Dec. 2015
M.S. thesis: Detecting Real-time Check-worthy Factual Claims in Tweets
Related to U.S. Politics, December 2015.
Minumol Joseph
M.S., Dec. 2015
M.S. thesis: Speaker Identification in Live Events Using Twitter,
December 2015.
First-employment after graduation: Capital One, Plano, TX
Ramesh Venkataraman
M.S., Aug. 2014
M.S. thesis: Linking Entity Profiles, August 2014.
First-employment after graduation: Amazon, Irving, TX.
Mahesh Gupta
M.S., Dec. 2012
M.S. thesis: Querying Entity-relationship Graphs by Example Tuples:
Experimental Evaluation and User Study, December 2012.
First-employment after graduation: Electronic Arts (EA), Los Angeles, CA.
Jijo Philip
M.S., Dec. 2012
M.S. thesis: Prominent Streaks Discovery on Blog Articles, December 2012.
First-employment after graduation: Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO.
Avinash Bharadwaj
M.S., Dec. 2011
M.S. thesis: Automatic Discovery of Significant Events from Databases,
December 2011.
First-employment after graduation: Copper Labs, Irving, TX.
Quazi (Sunny) Hasan
M.S., Dec. 2010
M.S. thesis: Typifying Wikipedia Articles, December 2010.
First-employment after graduation: Dematic, Madison, WI.
Jared Ashman
M.S., Dec. 2010
M.S. thesis: Measuring Named Entity Similarity Through Wikipedia Category
Hierarchies, December 2010.
First-employment after graduation: Ambit Energy, Dallas, TX.
Assad Safiullah
M.S., Aug. 2008
M.S. thesis: Efficient Processing of Set Queries Using Bitmap Indexes,
August 2008.
First-employment after graduation: Microsoft, Seattle, WA.
Graduated B.S. Students
Rishabh Mediratta
B.S., May 2025
Jack Pankaj
B.S., May 2025
Huy Tran
B.S., December 2024
Pranav Pujar
B.S., December 2024
Abbas Zaidi
B.S., December 2024
Ishan Poudel
B.S., May 2024
Phuong Anh Le
B.S., May 2024
Prabin Lamichhan
B.S., May 2023
Nelmin Mehmedovic
B.S., May 2023
Sujan Dumaru
B.S., August 2021
Dung Pham
B.S., December 2020
Paras Pathak
B.S., December 2020
Jacob Devasier
B.S., Spring 2019
Josue Caraballo
B.S., December 2017
Damian Jimenez
B.S., May 2017
Long Ly
B.S., May 2015
Sidharth Goyal
B.S., May 2015
Huadong Feng
B.S., May 2014
Raju Karki
B.S., August 2012
Aakash Tuli
BS, May 2010
Former High-school students who participated in
projects:
Kevin Meng
UTA affiliate, 2018-2020
Plano West Senior High
David Huang
A. L.
Other students who participated in projects:
Asmin Pothula
Linh Nguyen
Aviral Saxena
Sathwik Reddy Gowda Krishnareddy
Yen Duyen Le
Kevin Ouyang
Rachit Agarwal
Priyank Arora
Sri Subhash Pathuri
Mohit Jeste
Haojin Liao
Sumeet Lubal
Heet Madhu
Shadekur Rahman
Bhavana Sajja
Rudresh Ajgaonkar
Abolfazl Asudeh
Vikas Sable
Ebrahim Cutlerywala
Maithili Deshpande
Feifan Meng
Katherine Baumann
Ogenna Esimai
Siddhant Gawsane
Xiaonan Li
Angus Helm
Sona Hasani
Aaditya Kulkarni
Rakesh Ramegowda
Visiting scholars:
Wei Hu (2017, Nanjing University)
Haifang Zhou (2015, National University of Defense Technology)
Shanqing Guo (2012, Shandong University)
Visiting/intern students:
Guanyue Bian (2019, Renmin University)
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