Graduate Students
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/
Farzana Islam Adiba
Research Area: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Health Informatics, Machine Learning
Research Adviser: Rahmat Beheshti
Email: fadiba@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farzana-islam-adiba-19695615a/
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
Mohammad Al Ratrout
Program: PhD
Research Area: Multimodal Large Language Models
Research Adviser: Roghayeh Barmaki
Email: mratrout@udel.edu
Fatimah Alhassan
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Research Adviser: Matthew Mauriello
Email: alhassan@udel.edu
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
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 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 Bhattarai
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Research Advisor: Chandra Kambhamettu
Email: ashutab@udel.edu
Website: http://ashuta03.github.io
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
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/
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
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
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/
Yuankai (William) He
Program: PhD
Research Area: Autonomous Driving; Simulation; V2X
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: willhe@udel.edu
Aaron Jarmusch
Program: PhD
Research Area: Optimizing HPC Application Performance Using Profilers; Compiler Validation and Verification
Research Advisor: Sunita Chandrasekaran
Email: jarmusch@udel.edu
Website: https://ajarmusch.github.io
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
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/
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/
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/
Behdokht Kiafar
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Quantitative Ethnography
Research Advisor: Roghayeh Barmaki
Email: kiafar@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/behdokht-kiafar-a4137027ahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/behdokht-kiafar-a4137027a/
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/
Xiaofan Li
Program: PhD
Research Area: Software Supply Chain Security
Research Advisor: Xing Gao
Email: xiaofan@udel.edu
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/
Abbey Liu
Program: PhD
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence
Research Advisor: Matthew Mauriello
Email: apliu@udel.edu
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
Mengmeng Ma
Program: PhD
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Research Advisor: Xi Peng
Email: mengma@udel.edu
Website: https://www.mengmenm.top/
Daniela Martin
Program: PhD
Research Area: Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Remote Sensing; Astrophysics.
Research Advisor: Chandra Kambhamettu
Email: dmartinv@udel.edu
Austin Meek
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Computational Neuroscience
Research Advisor: Austin Brockmeier
Email: ajmeek@udel.edu
Joyanta Mondal
Program: PhD
Research Area: Deep Learning; Computer Vision
Research Advisor: Ulf Schiller
Email: joyanta@udel.edu
Website: https://lepotatoguy.github.io
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/
Kien X. Nguyen
Program: PhD
Research Area: Robust and Explainable Machine Learning; Foundation Models for Marine Science
Research Advisor: Xi Peng
Email: kxnguyen@udel.edu
Website: https://nyquixt.github.io/profile/
Lauren Olson
Program: PhD
Research Area: accessible technology, applied machine learning
Research Advisor: Dr. Kathleen McCoy
Email: lolson@udel.edu
Website: https://lolson-ud.github.io/
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
Chu Qiao
Program: PhD
Research Area: Systems and Security
Research Advisor: Xing Gao
Email: qiaochu@udel.edu
Website: https://mrjackqiao.github.io/
Xihan Qin
Program: PhD
Research Area: Graph Machine Learning, Bioinformatics
Research Advisor: Li Liao
Email: xihan@udel.edu
Tanvir Rahman
Program: PhD
Research Area: Multi-Agent Systems
Research Advisor: Keith Decker
Email: rtanvir@udel.edu
Tyler Rust
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, 2D/3D Detection and Classification
Research Advisor: Chandra Kambhamettu
Email: trust@udel.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-tyler-rust/
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/
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/
Minqiu Sun
Program: PhD
Research Area: AI+System, High Performance Computing, Large Language Models
Research Advisor: Dong Dai
Email: mqsun@udel.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/udel.edu/dirlab/people/minqiu-sun?authuser=0
Bipul Bikram Thapa
Program: PhD
Research Area: Edge Computing; Edge Intelligence; Distributed Systems; and Generative AI
Research Advisor: Lena Mashayekhy
Email: bipul@udel.edu
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/
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/
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/
Qiren Wang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Edge Computing and Machine Leaning; Autonomous Driving
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: qirenw@udel.edu
Yufan Wang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision
Research Advisor: Chandra Kambhamettu
Email: leeff@udel.edu
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
Qitong Wang
Program: PhD
Research Area: Computer Vision, Machine Learning.
Research Advisor: Xi Peng
Email: wqtwjt@udel.edu
Website: https://wqtwjt1996.github.io/
Alexander Wilton
Program: PhD
Research Area: Model Checking; Symbolic Execution; Formal Methods; Software Engineering
Research Advisor: Stephen Siegel
Email: awilton@udel.edu
Yang Wu
Program: PhD
Research Area: Autonomous Vehicle; QUIC protocol; Machine Learning
Research Advisor: Chien-Chung Shen
Email: wuyang@udel.edu
Jiahao Xie
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning
Research Advisor: Amo Tong
Email: jiahaox@udel.edu
Rong Xu
Program: PhD
Research Area: Machine Learning; AI Security
Research Advisor: Xu Yuan
Email: abbyx@udel.edu
Website: http://abbyxr.com/about.html
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
Yongtao Yao
Program: PhD
Research Area: Edge Computing, Multi-Model Federated Learning, Distributed Task Offloading, and Fault Diagnosis in Electric Vehicle (EV) Batteries
Research Advisor: Weisong Shi
Email: yongtao@udel.edu
Website: https://yongtaoyao.github.io/
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