Coppell High School
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
M.S., May 2025
M.S. capstone project: Claimbuster for Tweets, December 2024.
M.S., Dec. 2024
M.S. capstone project: Claimbuster for Tweets, December 2024.
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.
M.S., Data Science, December 2023
M.S. capstone project: Developing a Machine Learning Based Classifier for Identifying Exceptional Facts in Text, December 2023.
M.S., Data Science, December 2023
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
M.S., Dec. 2017
M.S. thesis: Maximizing Code Coverage in Database Applications, December 2017.
First-employment after graduation: Red Hat, Westford, MA.
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.
M.S., May 2017
M.S. thesis: Crowdsourcing for Decision Making with Analytic Hierarchy Process, May 2017.
First-employment after graduation: Fidelity Investments.
M.S., May 2017
M.S. thesis: A Probabilistic Approach to Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons, May 2017.
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.
M.S., Dec. 2015
M.S. thesis: Detecting Real-time Check-worthy Factual Claims in Tweets Related to U.S. Politics, December 2015.
M.S., Dec. 2015
M.S. thesis: Speaker Identification in Live Events Using Twitter, December 2015.
First-employment after graduation: Capital One, Plano, TX
M.S., Aug. 2014
M.S. thesis: Linking Entity Profiles, August 2014.
First-employment after graduation: Amazon, Irving, TX.
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.
M.S., Dec. 2012
M.S. thesis: Prominent Streaks Discovery on Blog Articles, December 2012.
First-employment after graduation: Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO.
M.S., Dec. 2011
M.S. thesis: Automatic Discovery of Significant Events from Databases, December 2011.
First-employment after graduation: Copper Labs, Irving, TX.
M.S., Dec. 2010
M.S. thesis: Typifying Wikipedia Articles, December 2010.
First-employment after graduation: Dematic, Madison, WI.
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.
M.S., Aug. 2008
M.S. thesis: Efficient Processing of Set Queries Using Bitmap Indexes, August 2008.
First-employment after graduation: Microsoft, Seattle, WA.
B.S., May 2025
B.S., May 2025
B.S., December 2024
B.S., December 2024
B.S., May 2024
B.S., May 2024
B.S., May 2024
B.S., Spring 2019
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