Alumni

It has been my pleasure to work with the following students, postdocs, and faculty.

PhD/Postdoc Alumni

@Mizzou

• Manas Jyoti Das (Postdoctoral fellow, July 2022 - Aug 2023); First employment: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)

• Arun Zachariah (PhD, July 2022, MU); First employment: NVIDIA, CA

  • Dissertation title: A System for Large-Scale Image and Video Retrieval on Everyday Scenes

@UMKC

• Nouf Alrasheed (PhD, July 2023, UMKC); First employment: Assistant Professor, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

  • Dissertation title: Deep Learning for Handwritten Text Recognition in Historical Documents

    • Co-advisor: Prof. Viviana Grieco, UMKC

• Srini Bhagavan (PhD, Dec 2021, UMKC); Current employment: IBM, CA

  • Dissertation title: FedSmarteum: Secure Federated Matrix Factorization Using Smart Contracts for Multi-Cloud Supply Chain

• Monica Senapati (PhD, Dec 2021, UMKC); First employment: Etsy, NY

  • Dissertation title: An Approach for Scalable First-Order Rule Learning on Twitter Data

• Khulud Alsultan (PhD, Aug 2021, UMKC); First employment: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

  • Dissertation title: Scalable Acceleration of the Characteristics Mode Analysis Toolbox Using Big Data Techniques

    • Co-advisor: Prof. Ahmed Hassan, UMKC

• Mohamed Gharibi (PhD, Dec 2020, UMKC); First employment: IBM, CA

  • Dissertation title: Enriching Knowledge Graphs Using Machine Learning Techniques

• Anas Katib (PhD, Dec 2018, UMKC); First employment: IBM, CA

  • Dissertation title: An Approach for Fast Score Computation in Bayesian Network Structure Learning Over Large-Scale Distributed Data

• Oswaldo Cuen Tellez (PhD, June 2016); Current employment: Faculty at Technological Institute of Culiacan, Mexico

  • Dissertation title: A Model for Signal Data Management and Processing

  • Primary advisor: Prof. Ines F. Vega Lopez (Autonomous Univ. of Sinaloa, Culiacan, MX)

• Vasil Slavov (PhD, May 2015, UMKC); First employment: Bloomberg, NY

  • Dissertation title: A New Approach for Fast Processing of SPARQL Queries on RDF Quadruples

MS Alumni

• Dig Vijay Kumar Yarlagadda (MS thesis, December 2017)

  • Thesis title: One-Shot Learning Model for Cancer Diagnosis from Histopatholoy Images

  • Ph.D. student at Tri-Institutional Program (Rockefeller University,  Weil Cornell Medicine, Sloan Kettering Institute)

• Brendan O'Connor (MS, Dec 2017)

• Pooja Shekhar (MS, Dec 2017)

• Vinutha Nuchimaniyanda (MS thesis, May 2016)

  • Thesis title: Enabling Large-scale Storage and Retrieval of Whole Slide Images: A Big Data Approach

  • Currently employed by Cerner Corporation

  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Scholarship recipient

• Hastimal Jangid (MS thesis, August 2016)

  • Thesis title: Parallel SPARQL Query Execution Using Apache Spark

  • Currently employed by Webbmason, Baltimore, MD

• Venubabu Kolla (MS thesis, December 2016)

  • Thesis title: Improving the Performance of Parallel SPARQL Query Processing on Apache Spark Using Bloom Filters

  • First employment: Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO

• Samaa Gazzaz (MS thesis, August 2017)

  • Thesis title: A Data Science Approach to Extracting Insights About Cities and Zones Using Open Government Data

  • First employment: Instructor, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia; currently Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz

  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Scholarship recipient

  • UMKC SUROP grant recipient

  • 3rd prize in the ACM Student Research Competition at 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

•  Vasil Slavov (MS thesis, August 2012) 

  • Thesis title: A Study of Gossip Algorithms for Internet-Scale Cardinality Estimation of Distributed XML Data

•  Srivenu Paturi (MS thesis, August 2013)

  • Thesis title: A New Filtering Index for Fast Processing of SPARQL Queries, currently employed by Groupon, New York

•  Dinesh Barenkala (MS thesis, August 2013)

  • Thesis title: A Study of Graph Partitioning Techniques for Fast Indexing and Query Processing of a Large RDF Graph, currently employed by DST Systems, Kansas City

•  Anas Katib (MS thesis, December 2013)

  • Thesis title: A Novel Cell Phone Based Application for Tracking the Vaccination Coverage in Rural Communities

•  Li Wang (MS thesis, December 2014)

  • Thesis title: Classification of Clinical Tweets using Apache Mahout, currently employed by Cerner Corporation

• Shambavi Varagurmuralidharan (MS thesis, August 2008) 

• • Thesis title: Dynamic graph mining

• Ayush Chaturvedi (MS thesis, April 2009) 

  • Thesis title: Automatic Paper-to-Reviewer Assignment (co-advised with Prof. E.K. Park), currently employed by NewsMax Media, Florida

• Bhavik Shah (MS thesis, December 2009) 

  • Thesis title: Parallel XML parsing, currently employed by Crunchy Roll, CA

• Tivakar Komara Swami (MS thesis, December 2011) 

  • Thesis title: Distributed Querying of Clinical Documents Modeled Using HL7 v3 Standard, currently employed by GE Software, CA

• Dipali Pal (MS, May 2012), currently employed by NAIC, Kansas City

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention