School of Information Sciences

Current PhD Students: IST | LIS | TELE

Information Science and Technology

Shafiqul Abedin

Shafiqul Abedin

3D brain reconstruction; human-robot interaction; visualization; virtual environments and user performance evaluation

Alawya Alawami

Arabic NLP; Sentiment Analysis; Data mining; Online communities

Shadi Al-Khateeb

Shadi Al-Khateeb

Heterogeneous information integration and data fusion; Parallel and distributed computing; Computer networks​

Dmitriy Babichenko

Dmitriy Babichenko

Decision support in medical diagnostic systems; Educational simulations/serious games

Nathalie Baracaldo

Nathalie Baracaldo

Secure interoperability in distributed systems such as cloud environments;Privacy for pervasive systems; Risk management Mitigation of insider threats; Secure storage systems

Shih-Yi Chien

Shih-Yi Chien

Human factors; Usability; HCI/HRI; Trust in Automation; Supervisory control; Individual/Cultural differences in technology acceptance

Patrick Dudas

Patrick Dudas

Data Mining; Geoinformatics; Parallel and Distributing Computing; Visualizations; Social Networking

William Garrard

William Garrard

HCI; Web usability for individuals with cognitive disabilities

Pedram Gharani

Pedram Gharani

Geoinformatics; ​Location Based Services; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Spatial Statistics

Julio Guerra

Julio Guerra

Educational technologies; Adaptive educational systems; Educational data mining; Learning analytics and visualization; Open student modeling

Qiulei Guo

Qiulei Guo

Big Data; Spatial-Temporal Data Mining

Shuguang Han

Shuguang Han

Information Retrieval with Implicit feedbacks; Recommender System; People Search; Collaborative Web Search

Mahdi Hashemi

Mahdi Hashemi

GIS; Indoor/Outdoor navigation + Map-matching; Emergency evacuation of disabled people; Spatio-temporal trajectory databases, mining and prediction + Semantic trajectories; Spatial Simulation and Modeling

Ying-Feng Hsu

Ying-Feng Hsu

Machine learning; Data fusion; Pattern recognition; Time-series data analyzing

Lei Jin

Online Social Networks; Location-based Social Networks; Usable Privacy and Security; Mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous computing; Access Control Models; Trust Management; Web Security

Evgeny Karataev

Evgeny Karataev

Databases; Data Management and Integration; Crowdsourcing Systems; Recommender Systems; Machine Learning and Data Mining

Marcin Kozniewski

Marcin Kozniewski

Bayesian networks; Decision support systems; Machine learning; Ensemble learning

Jidapa Kraisangka

Jidapa Kraisangka

Data analysis and Data Mining; Clinical Decision Support System; Data Visualization

 

David Laird

David Laird

Data Mining; Machine Learning; IT Project Management; Analysis of Factors that Influence Success in Information Technology Projects

Pei-Ju Lee

 

Claudia Lopez Moncada

Claudia López

Social computing; Urban informatics; Information behavior; User-experience research methods

Di Lu

Di Lu

Social Computing; Online Communities; Health Informatics; Crowdsourcing; Local Information System

Michael Manojlovch

Michael Manojlovch

Social Networking and Trust Management; Data Mining/Data Visualization; Information Security; User Centered Design

Fatimah Radwan

Semantic data management; Reliability and quality assessment in heterogeneous environments; Data integration and fusion; Large scale data management and analytics; Network analysis

Cristina Robles

Cristina Robles

Spatial Information Processing; Spatial Cognition; HCI.

 

Carlos Sanchez Moreira

 

Monir H Sharker

Monir H. Sharker

Spatio-Temporal Big Data Analytics; Machine Learning and Data Mining; Algorithm design and analysis; HPC; Cloud Computing

 

Chun Hua Tsai

Chun Hua Tsai

Data Mining; Data Visualization; Link Prediction for Social Networks; Social Media Analysis

Jon Walker

Agent-based modeling

Xidao Wen

Xidao Wen

Data Science; Recommendation System; Social Network Analysis

Chirayu Wongchokprasitti

Chirayu Wongchokprasitti

Recommender Systems; User Modeling; Human-Computer Interaction; Social Network Analysis

Danchen Zhang

Danchen Zhang

Information Retrieval; Expert finding; Exploratory search; Relevance feedback; Hash indexing

Sanqiang Zhao

Sanqiang Zhao

Information Retrieval; Recommender System; Natural Language Processing; Data Mining; Machine Learning

Library and Information Science

Jessica Benner

Ryan Champagne

 

I-Ling Cheng

Ashleigh Faith

Wei Jeng

Research data sharing; Scholarly collaboration on social media; Academic social networking

Jiepu Jiang

Jiepu Jiang

Information retrieval; Web search; Computational social science

Lauren A Kilgour

Sung Min Kim

 

James King

James King

Archives and issues of memory and social justice; Archives and oral history; Information ethics

Jocelyn Monahan

Cloud computing; Social and environmental implications of data centers; Infrastructure studies; Science and technology studies

Aisling Quigley

 

Heather Soyka

Heather Soyka

Community recordkeeping behaviors and frameworks; Recordkeeping shaped by war, peace, and conflict; Preservation

Michael Widdersheim

Michael Widdersheim

Public and School Libraries; Social and Political Philosophy; Critical Theory; Media Ecologies; Gender and Sexuality in Information; Ethnographic Methods; Qualitative Content Analysis

 

 

Telecommunications and Networking

Ayman Abdel-Hamid

Ayman Abdel-Hamid

Wireless Network Virtualization; Dynamic Spectrum Access; Spectrum Fungibility

Sira Akavipat

 

Abdulaziz Alashaikh

Khalid Alkobayer

Usman Anjum

Liu Cui

Marcela Gomez

Marcela Gomez

Spectrum Trading; Secondary Markets for Spectrum; Wireless Networks Virtualization; Policy and Economics of Telecommunications

Luai Hasnawi

 

Velin Kounev

Velin Kounev

Smart Grid communication; Cybersecurity

Anh Le

Chao Li

 

Ce Liu

Xuelian Long

Xiao Ma

 

Amer Malki

Dong Wei

Xerandy Xerandy

 

Qun Yu

Ke Zhang

 

 

 

 

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