Faculty


Chengkai Li

Dr. Chengkai Li


Postdoctoral Researchers


Zeyu Zhang

Zeyu Zhang


Ph.D. Students


Josue Caraballo

Josue Caraballo



Jacob Devasier

Jacob Devasier



Israa Jaradat

Israa Jaradat



Damian Jimenez

Damian Jimenez



Nasim Shirvani Mahdavi

Nasim Shirvani Mahdavi



Samiul Saeef

Samiul Saeef



Qing Wang

Qing Wang



Haiqi Zhang

Haiqi Zhang



Zhengyuan Zhu

Zhengyuan Zhu


M.S. Students



Abhishek Divakar Goudar

Abhishek Divakar Goudar



Akshay Mediratta

Akshay Kumar Rayapet Madhusudhan



Sai Sandeep Naraparaju

Sai Sandeep Naraparaju



Linh Nguyen

Linh Nguyen


B.S. Students


Prakhyat Chaube

Prakhyat Chaube



Juan Gustavo Guajardo Gutierrez

Juan Gustavo Guajardo Gutierrez



Salem Iranloye

Salem Iranloye



Rishabh Mediratta

Rishabh Mediratta



Asmin Pothula

Asmin Pothula



Jack Pankaj

Jack Pankaj



Pranav Pujar

Pranav Pujar



Aviral Saxena

Aviral Saxena



Huy Tran

Huy Tran



Devin Wingfield

Devin Wingfield



Abbas Zaidi

Abbas Zaidi


High-School Students


Akshith Putta

A. P.

Coppell High School


Former Postdoctoral Researchers



Farahnaz Akrami

Farahnaz Akrami


Graduated Ph.D. Students


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 after graduation: Post Doc, 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.

First-employment after graduation: Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, California.


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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: Post Doc, 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 after graduation: 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.

Interned at NEC Labs and Google; first-employment after graduation: 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.

Interned at AT&T and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI); first-employment after graduation: 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.

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

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

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


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.

First-employment after graduation: 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.

First-employment after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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.

First-employment after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: Capital One, Plano, TX


Ramesh Venkataraman

Ramesh Venkataraman

M.S., Aug. 2014

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

First-employment after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: Copper Labs, Irving, TX.


Quazi Hasan

Quazi (Sunny) Hasan

M.S., Dec. 2010

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

First-employment after graduation: 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 after graduation: 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 after graduation: Microsoft, Seattle, WA.

Graduated B.S. Students


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:


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



  • 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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