Graduate Students
![Fahim - Mohammad Fahim Abrar Photo of Chanaka Thushitha Bandara Gane Achchillage](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fahim-Mohammad-Fahim-Abrar-400x400-1.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Mohammad Fahim Abrar
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning
Research Adviser: Roghayeh Barmaki
Email: fahim@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahim-abrar/
![wahid - Wahiduzzaman Akanda University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wahid-Wahiduzzaman-Akanda-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Wahiduzzaman Akanda
Program: PhD
Research Area: Software Design and Analysis, Software Engineering, Software Quality and Maintainence, Machine Learning
Research Adviser: James Clause
Email: wahid@udel.edu
![6-UDcircle_blue-Converted-01-2f8hhrx-1024x1024-1907mea-e1466166433637 University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6-UDcircle_blue-Converted-01-2f8hhrx-1024x1024-1907mea-e1711036342562.png?resize=394%2C394&ssl=1)
Fatimah Alhassan
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Research Adviser: Matthew Mauriello
Email: alhassan@udel.edu
![sultan_alrowili - Sultan Alrowili University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sultan_alrowili-Sultan-Alrowili-400x400-1.png?resize=695%2C695&ssl=1)
Sultan Alrowili
Program: PhD
Research Area: NLP
Research Advisor: Vijay Shanker
Email: alrowili@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sultan-alrowili-058069105/
![Syed-Ali-Asif - Syed Ali Asif University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Syed-Ali-Asif-Syed-Ali-Asif-400x400-1.jpg?resize=512%2C512&ssl=1)
Syed Ali Asif
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human Computer Interaction; Application of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Cybersecurity Education; Virtual Reality in Psychological Studies
Research Advisor: Chien-Chung Shen
Email: asifrabi@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/syed-ali-asif-016705a1/
![ARPAN-headshot 1 - Arpan Bhattacharjee University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ARPAN-headshot-1-Arpan-Bhattacharjee-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Arpan Bhattacharjee
Program: PhD
Research Area: Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAVs), Edge Computing, Blockchain, Data Privacy Preservation
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: arpan@udel.edu
![ashuta_centered - Ashuta Bhattarai University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ashuta_centered-Ashuta-Bhattarai-400x400-1.jpg?resize=548%2C548&ssl=1)
Ashuta Bhattarai
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Research Advisor: Chandra Kambhamettu
Email: ashutab@udel.edu
Website: http://ashuta03.github.io
![Shovan Bhowmik University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Shovan-Bhowmik-400x400-1.png?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Shovan Bhowmik
Program: PhD
Research Area: Biomedical Relation Extraction using Large Language Models; Biomedical Literature Mining with Natural Language Processing; Sentiment Analysis; Computational Biology
Research Advisor: Cathy Wu, Vijay Shanker
Email: shovan@udel.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/shovanbhowmik
![Mirza Farhan Bin Tarek University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mirza-Farhan-Bin-Tarek.jpg?resize=400%2C400&ssl=1)
Mirza Farhan Bin Tarek
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning, Health Data Science, Electronic Health Records
Research Advisor: Rahmat Beheshti
Email: mfarhan@udel.edu
Website: https://mirzafarhan7.github.io/
![aish - Aishwarya C University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/aish-Aishwarya-C-400x400-1.jpg?resize=724%2C724&ssl=1)
Aishwarya Chandrasekaran
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human-centered Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, Ubiquitous Computing
Research Advisor: Matthew Mauriello
Email: aishc@udel.edu
![Hang Chen University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Hang-Chen-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Hang Chen
Program: PhD
Research Area: Design Distributed Machine Learning Consensus on Blockchain, Enabling Robust, Reliable and Trustworthy Future AI System
Research Advisor: Chien-Chung Shen
Email: chenhang@udel.edu
Website: https://udel.edu/~chenhang
![GWWS 18 - Matthew Frazier University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GWWS-18-Matthew-Frazier-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Matthew Frazier
Program: PhD
Research Area: Conversational Agents, Software Engineering, Computing Education
Research Advisor: Lori Pollock
Email: matthew@udel.edu
![profile_patrick - Patrick Geneva University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/profile_patrick-Patrick-Geneva-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Patrick Geneva
Program: PhD
Research Area: Visual-Inertial State Estimation; Robotics; Localization and Mapping
Research Advisor: Guoquan (Paul) Huang
Email: pgeneva@udel.edu
Website: https://pgeneva.com/
![vineethg - Vineeth Gutta University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/vineethg-Vineeth-Gutta-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Vineeth Gutta
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, High Performance Computing, Scalable ML Training
Research Advisor: Sunita Chandrasekaran
Email: vineethg@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineethgutta/
![1553356626335 - Yuankai He University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1553356626335-Yuankai-He.jpeg?resize=400%2C400&ssl=1)
Yuankai (William) He
Program: PhD
Research Area: Autonomous Driving; Simulation; V2X
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: willhe@udel.edu
![ziyang_portrait - Ziyang Jia University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ziyang_portrait-Ziyang-Jia-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Ziyang Jia
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision; Video Presentation; Human Pose; Fall Actions
Research Advisor: Xi Peng
Email: zyjia@udel.edu
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6orRn6QAAAAJ&hl=en
![mehmetef_photo - Mehmet Efruz Karabulut University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mehmetef_photo-Mehmet-Efruz-Karabulut-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Mehmet Efruz Karabulut
Program: PhD
Research Area: Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Named Entity Recognition, Deep Learning
Research Advisor: Vijay Shanker
Email: mehmetef@udel.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/udel.edu/mehmetef/
![KatragaddaPhoto - Saimouli Katragadda University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KatragaddaPhoto-Saimouli-Katragadda-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Saimouli Katragadda
Program: PhD
Research Area: Visual Inertial Perception, SLAM, Deep Learning
Research Advisor: Guoquan (Paul) Huang
Email: saimouli@udel.edu
Website: https://saimouli.github.io/
![IMG_6724 - Prerana Khatiwada University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6724-Prerana-Khatiwada-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Prerana Khatiwada
Program: PhD
Research Area: Mixed-Methods UX & HCI Research, NLP for Misinformation and Language Detection, Socio-technical Systems for Mitigating Online Misinformation
Research Advisor: Matthew Mauriello
Email: preranak@udel.edu
Website: https://preranakh.github.io/
![tangli - Tang Li University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tangli-Tang-Li-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Tang Li
Program: PhD
Research Area: Explainable Machine Learning; Out-of-distribution Generalization; Large Foundation Models
Research Advisor: Xi Peng
Email: tangli@udel.edu
Website: https://tangli0305.github.io/
![IMG_3421 - Jicheng Li University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_3421-Jicheng-Li-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Jicheng Li
Program: PhD
Research Area: Multimodal Machine Learning, AIGC, Behavior Analysis
Research Advisor: Roghayeh Leila Barmaki
Email: lijichen@udel.edu
Website: https://li-jicheng.github.io/
![profile - Fudong Lin University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/profile-Fudong-Lin.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Fudong Lin
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision, Trustworthy AI, and AI for Science
Research Advisor: Xu Yuan
Email: fudong@udel.edu
Website: https://fudong03.github.io/
![20240220_160712(1) - Jiadong Lou University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20240220_1607121-Jiadong-Lou-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Jiadong Lou
Program: PhD
Research Area: Cybersecurity; Data privacy; Machine Learning
Research Advisor: Xu Yuan
Email: loujd@udel.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/jiadong-lou
![Tianye - Tianye Ma University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tianye-Tianye-Ma-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Tianye Ma
Program: PhD
Research Area: Connected Vehicles; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Network Security; Data Privacy
Research Advisor: Rui Zhang
Email: matianye@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matianye/
![mengma - Mengmeng Ma University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mengma-Mengmeng-Ma-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Mengmeng Ma
Program: PhD
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Research Advisor: Xi Peng
Email: mengma@udel.edu
Website: https://www.mengmenm.top/
![IMG_0328_1 - Daniela Martin University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_0328_1-Daniela-Martin-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Daniela Martin
Program: PhD
Research Area: Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Remote Sensing; Astrophysics.
Research Advisor: Chandra Kambhamettu
Email: dmartinv@udel.edu
![cropped career fair headshot - Austin Meek University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cropped-career-fair-headshot-Austin-Meek-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Austin Meek
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Computational Neuroscience
Research Advisor: Austin Brockmeier
Email: ajmeek@udel.edu
![nate2 - Nathaniel Merrill University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/nate2-Nathaniel-Merrill-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Nathaniel Merrill
Program: PhD
Research Area: Localization; Mapping; Deep Learning
Research Advisor: Guoquan Huang
Email: nmerrill@udel.edu
Website: https://udel.edu/~nmerrill/
![Mozaharul Mottalib University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mozaharul-Mottalib-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Md Mozaharul Mottalib
Program: PhD
Research Area: Applied Machine Learning; Computational Epidemiology; Artificial Intelligence; Data Analytics
Research Advisor: Rahmat Beheshti
Email: mmmdip@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmmdip/
![Headshot_Liza - Fahmida Liza Piya University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Headshot_Liza-Fahmida-Liza-Piya-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Fahmida Liza Piya
Program: PhD
Research Area: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Analytics
Research Advisor: Rahmat Beheshti
Email: lizapiya@udel.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/fahmida-liza-piya/home?pli=1
![raphPhoto - Raphael Poulain University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/raphPhoto-Raphael-Poulain-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Raphael Poulain
Program: PhD
Research Area: Applied Machine Learning; Health Data Science
Research Advisor: Rahmat Beheshti
Email: rpoulain@udel.edu
Website: https://rpoulain.github.io/
![Image_20240307184537 - Chu Qiao University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Image_20240307184537-Chu-Qiao-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Chu Qiao
Program: PhD
Research Area: Systems and Security
Research Advisor: Xing Gao
Email: qiaochu@udel.edu
Website: https://mrjackqiao.github.io/
![Tanvir Rahman Photo - Tanvir Rahman University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tanvir-Rahman-Photo-Tanvir-Rahman-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Tanvir Rahman
Program: PhD
Research Area: Multi-Agent Systems
Research Advisor: Keith Decker
Email: rtanvir@udel.edu
![DSC_0070 - Rifat Sadik University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_0070-Rifat-Sadik-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Rifat Sadik
Program: PhD
Research Area: Edge Computing; Machine Learning; Edge Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision
Research Advisor: Lena Mashayekhy
Email: rifatsdk@udel.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rifatsadik/
![6-UDcircle_blue-Converted-01-2f8hhrx-1024x1024-1907mea-e1466166433637 University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6-UDcircle_blue-Converted-01-2f8hhrx-1024x1024-1907mea-e1466166433637-400x400-1.png?resize=394%2C394&ssl=1)
Shayla Sharmin
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Research Advisor: Roghayeh Barmaki
Email: shayla@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shayla-sharmin-ba4762281/
![bipul - Bipul Thapa University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bipul-Bipul-Thapa-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Bipul Bikram Thapa
Program: PhD
Research Area: Edge Computing; Edge Intelligence; Distributed Systems; and Generative AI
Research Advisor: Lena Mashayekhy
Email: bipul@udel.edu
![formal_photo - Boyang Tian University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/formal_photo-Boyang-Tian-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Boyang Tian
Program: PhD
Research Area: Autonomous Vehicles; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Remote Sensing
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: tby@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyangtian/
![DSC_4248 - Saeideh Valipour University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_4248-Saeideh-Valipour-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Saeideh Valipour
Program: PhD
Research Area: Natural Language Programming; Graph Theory; Large Language Model
Research Advisor: Ilya Safro
Email: svalipou@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saeideh-valipour-05ab626b/
![LinkedIn Profile - Kyle Wang University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/LinkedIn-Profile-Kyle-Wang-400x400-1.jpeg?resize=699%2C699&ssl=1)
Kyle Wang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction; Machine Learning; Large Language Models
Research Advisor: Matthew Mauriello
Email: kylewang@udel.edu
Website: https://kyleearth.github.io/
![IMG_5353 - Qiren Wang University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_5353-Qiren-Wang-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Qiren Wang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Edge Computing and Machine Leaning; Autonomous Driving
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: qirenw@udel.edu
![Yufan_selfie - Yufan Wang University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Yufan_selfie-Yufan-Wang-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Yufan Wang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision
Research Advisor: Chandra Kambhamettu
Email: leeff@udel.edu
![Yuxin Wang University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Yuxin-Wang-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Yuxin Wang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Design and Analysis of AV’s Storage and System
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: yuxw@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuxin-wang-4b8800229/
https://github.com/ariiees
![AlexHeadshot - Alexander Wilton University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AlexHeadshot-Alexander-Wilton-400x400-1.jpg?resize=690%2C690&ssl=1)
Alexander Wilton
Program: PhD
Research Area: Model Checking; Symbolic Execution; Formal Methods; Software Engineering
Research Advisor: Stephen Siegel
Email: awilton@udel.edu
![yangwu photo - Yang Wu University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/yangwu-photo-Yang-Wu-400x400-1.jpg?resize=602%2C602&ssl=1)
Yang Wu
Program: PhD
Research Area: Autonomous Vehicle; QUIC protocol; Machine Learning
Research Advisor: Chien-Chung Shen
Email: wuyang@udel.edu
![Jiahao - Jiahao Xie University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jiahao-Jiahao-Xie-400x400-1.png?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Jiahao Xie
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning
Research Advisor: Amo Tong
Email: jiahaox@udel.edu
![RongXu_white - Abby Xu University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/RongXu_white-Abby-Xu-400x400-1.png?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Rong Xu
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning; AI Security
Research Advisor: Xu Yuan
Email: abbyx@udel.edu
Website: http://abbyxr.com/about.html
![6-UDcircle_blue-Converted-01-2f8hhrx-1024x1024-1907mea-e1466166433637 University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6-UDcircle_blue-Converted-01-2f8hhrx-1024x1024-1907mea-e1466166433637-400x400-1.png?resize=394%2C394&ssl=1)
Dianshi Yang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Metaverse Security; Web 3 Security; Mobile Security; Wireless Security; IoT Security
Research Advisor: Xing Gao
Email: cyberfox@udel.edu
Website: https://infosec.exchange/@cyberfox
![WechatIMG353 - Huixiang Ye University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WechatIMG353-Huixiang-Ye-400x400-1.jpg?resize=602%2C602&ssl=1)
Huixiang Ye
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning; Explainable AI
Research Advisor: Xu Yuan
Email: huixiang@udel.edu
![profile-pic - Yifan Zhang University of Delaware](https://i0.wp.com/www.cis.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/profile-pic-Yifan-Zhang-400x400-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Yifan Zhang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computing Education, Specifically in Integrating Computational Thinking into Subjects in K-12
Research Advisor: Lori Pollock
Email: ericzh@udel.edu
Website: http://www.yifanzhang.site/research