Sheng is currently working as a Sr.Software Engineer at LinkedIn. His PhD thesis was titled “Using Dependency Parses to Augment Feature Construction for Text Mining”.

Samah is currently the CTO and co-founder of Transpose.

Alex is currently an Assistant professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech. His PhD Thesis was titled “Semantic Interaction for Visual Analytics: Inferring Analytical Reasoning for Model Steering”

Shahriar is currently an Assistant professor of the Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at El Paso. His PhD Thesis was titled “Exploratory Data Analysis using Clusters and Stories”

Pejman Khadivi was a DAC Ph.D. student and research assistant in the department of computer science. His field of research was in data analytics, he was working on the prediction of Influenza outbreaks. He earned a masters in computer engineering (computer architecture) in 1998 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (software) in 2006, both from Isfahan […]

Saurav Ghosh was a DAC Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science advised by Naren Ramakrishnan, director of DAC. His primary research interests are data analytics, machine learning, forecasting and their applications in public health and education. He studied whether disease reporting trends in news media can be used to monitor and possibly predict […]

K S M Tozammel Hossain was a DAC Ph.D. student in the department of computer science. His primary research interests broadly lie in applications of data mining and algorithmic techniques in computational biology and social networks. He was working on two projects: Protein Constraints Modeling and Modeling User States from Social Network data. The goal […]

Rupinder Paul Khandpur  was a DAC Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  His research interests include data mining, predictive analytics, geolocation in multimedia, and social network analysis.  He is also interested in using multiple open source data to forecast civil unrest events like protests and strikes, as well as mining financial networks, coalitions, […]

Yue Ning was a DAC Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  Her main research interest lies in data mining.

Fang Jin was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  She has a broad interest in data mining; information propagation of social networks; misinformation propagation detection; finance market prediction with social media; and using big data to discover more insights for social good.