Faculty

Chengkai Li

Dr. Chengkai Li

Postdoctoral Researchers

Nasim Shirvani Mahdavi

Nasim Shirvani Mahdavi

Zeyu Zhang

Zeyu Zhang

Ph.D. Students

Josue Caraballo

Josue Caraballo

Jacob Devasier

Jacob Devasier

Internship: Amazon, Toyota

Amin Mohammad Ghasemi

Amin Ghasemi

Israa Jaradat

Israa Jaradat

Internship: Apple, Microsoft

Damian Jimenez

Damian Jimenez

Jack Pankaj

Jack Pankaj

Samiul Saeef

Samiul Saeef

Internship: Microsoft

Qing Wang

Qing Wang

Haiqi Zhang

Haiqi Zhang

M.S. Students

Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar Rayapet Madhusudhan

Internship: Adobe

Alankrit Moses

Alankrit Jacinth Moses

Pranav Pujar

Pranav Pujar

Internship: Adobe

Naresh Rachuri

Naresh Rachuri

Huy Tran

Huy Tran

Internship: USDA ARS

B.S. Students

Prakhyat Chaube

Prakhyat Chaube

Harrison Gregory Cornwell

Harrison Gregory Cornwell

Juan Gustavo Guajardo Gutierrez

Juan Gustavo Guajardo Gutierrez

Jeremiah Pitts

Jeremiah Pitts

Cong Tran

Cong Tran

Devin Wingfield

Devin Wingfield

High-School Students

Akshith Putta

Akshith Putta

Coppell High School

Former Postdoctoral Researchers

Farahnaz Akrami

Farahnaz Akrami

Graduated Ph.D. Students

Nasim Shirvani Mahdavi

Nasim Shirvani Mahdavi

Ph.D., Aug. 2025

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

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

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

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

Theodora Toutountzi

Ph.D., May 2024

Ph.D. dissertation: Identifying Fact-Checks Helpful for Vetting Factual Claims, May 2024.

Fatma Dogan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abhishek Divakar Goudar

M.S., May 2025

M.S. capstone project: LLM-Based Recommendations in Knowledge Graph Query Formulation, May 2025.

Sai Sandeep Naraparaju

Sai Sandeep Naraparaju

M.S., Dec. 2024

M.S. capstone project: Claimbuster for Tweets, December 2024.

Joswin Valerian Concessao

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.

Internship: Amazon

First-employment: Software Engineer, Amazon, Seattle, Washington.

Alishbah Fahad

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

Patrick Hennecke

M.S., Data Science, December 2023

Foram Pankajbhai Patel

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.

Internship: Paycom

First-employment: Software Engineer, Paycom, Grapevine, Texas.

Yogesh Gurjar

Yogesh Gurjar

M.S., May 2023

M.S. Independent Study Project: Hydra: A Multi-headed Approach to Frame-Semantic Parsing, May 2023.

First-employment: Data Scientist, Blue Yonder, Coppell, Texas.

Daniel Obembe

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: o9 Solutions, Inc., Farmers Branch, Texas.

Sarthak Majithia

Sarthak Majithia

M.S., May 2019

M.S. thesis: ClaimPortal: Building a social media analytics system for assisting fact-checking, May 2019.

First-employment: Software Developer, Paycom, Dallas, Texas.

Sarbajit Roy

Sarbajit Roy

M.S., May 2019

M.S. thesis: FrameAnnotator: A Web-based frame semantic annotation tool, May 2019.

First-employment: Data Scientist, Data245/WL, Chicago, Illinois.

Ankit Shingavi

Ankit Shingavi

M.S., Aug. 2018

M.S. thesis: Finding Representative Entities from Entity Graph by Using Neighborhood Based Entity Similarity, August 2018.

Internship: Amazon

First-employment: Software Engineer, Amazon A9, Palo Alto, California.

Tulsi Chandwani

Tulsi Chandwani

M.S., Dec. 2017

M.S. thesis: Maximizing Code Coverage in Database Applications, December 2017.

First-employment: Red Hat, Westford, MA.

Abu Ayub Ansari Syed

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: Data Analytics Engineer, CirrusLabs, Atlanta, GA.

Ishwor Timilsina

Ishwor Timilsina

M.S., May 2017

M.S. thesis: Crowdsourcing for Decision Making with Analytic Hierarchy Process, May 2017.

First-employment: Fidelity Investments.

Nigesh Shakya

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

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: Akamai, Boston, MA.

Fatma Dogan

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

Minumol Joseph

M.S., Dec. 2015

M.S. thesis: Speaker Identification in Live Events Using Twitter, December 2015.

First-employment: Capital One, Plano, TX

Ramesh Venkataraman

Ramesh Venkataraman

M.S., Aug. 2014

M.S. thesis: Linking Entity Profiles, August 2014.

First-employment: Amazon, Irving, TX.

Mahesh Gupta

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: Electronic Arts (EA), Los Angeles, CA.

Jijo Philip

Jijo Philip

M.S., Dec. 2012

M.S. thesis: Prominent Streaks Discovery on Blog Articles, December 2012.

First-employment: Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO.

Avinash Bharadwaj

Avinash Bharadwaj

M.S., Dec. 2011

M.S. thesis: Automatic Discovery of Significant Events from Databases, December 2011.

First-employment: Copper Labs, Irving, TX.

Quazi Hasan

Quazi (Sunny) Hasan

M.S., Dec. 2010

M.S. thesis: Typifying Wikipedia Articles, December 2010.

First-employment: Dematic, Madison, WI.

Jared Ashman

Jared Ashman

M.S., Dec. 2010

M.S. thesis: Measuring Named Entity Similarity Through Wikipedia Category Hierarchies, December 2010.

First-employment: Ambit Energy, Dallas, TX.

Muhammad Safiullah

Assad Safiullah

M.S., Aug. 2008

M.S. thesis: Efficient Processing of Set Queries Using Bitmap Indexes, August 2008.

First-employment: Microsoft, Seattle, WA.

Graduated B.S. Students

Rishabh Mediratta

Rishabh Mediratta

B.S., May 2025

Jack Pankaj

Jack Pankaj

B.S., May 2025

Huy Tran

Huy Tran

B.S., December 2024

Pranav Pujar

Pranav Pujar

B.S., December 2024

Abbas Zaidi

Abbas Zaidi

B.S., December 2024

Ishan Poudel

Ishan Poudel

B.S., May 2024

Phuong Anh Le

Phuong Anh Le

B.S., May 2024

Prabin Lamichhan

Prabin Lamichhan

B.S., May 2023

Nelmin Mehmedovic

Nelmin Mehmedovic

B.S., May 2023

Sujan Dumaru

Sujan Dumaru

B.S., August 2021

Dung Pham

Dung Pham

B.S., December 2020

Paras Pathak

Paras Pathak

B.S., December 2020

Jacob Devasier

Jacob Devasier

B.S., Spring 2019

Josue Caraballo

Josue Caraballo

B.S., December 2017

Damian Jimenez

Damian Jimenez

B.S., May 2017

Long Ly

Long Ly

B.S., May 2015

Sidharth Goyal

Sidharth Goyal

B.S., May 2015

Huadong Feng

Huadong Feng

B.S., May 2014

Raju Karki

Raju Karki

B.S., August 2012

Aakash Tuli

Aakash Tuli

BS, May 2010

Former High-school students who participated in projects:

Jacob Devasier

Kevin Meng

UTA affiliate, 2018-2020

Plano West Senior High

David Huang

David Huang

A. L.

A. L.

Other students who participated in projects:

Salem Iranloye

Salem Iranloye

Asmin Pothula

Asmin Pothula

Linh Nguyen

Linh Nguyen

Aviral Saxena

Aviral Saxena

Sathwik Reddy Gowda Krishnareddy

Sathwik Reddy Gowda Krishnareddy

Yen Duyen Le

Yen Duyen Le

Kevin Ouyang

Kevin Ouyang

Rachit Agarwal

Rachit Agarwal

Priyank Arora

Priyank Arora

Sri Subhash Pathuri

Sri Subhash Pathuri

Mohit Jeste

Mohit Jeste

Haojin Liao

Haojin Liao

Sumeet Lubal

Sumeet Lubal

Heet Madhu

Heet Madhu

Shadekur Rahman

Shadekur Rahman


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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