Alumni

Ph. D. Graduates

Adrian Silvescu (Honavar). Ph.D., Computer Science, 2008 (Expected). Thesis: Inductive Learning Via Abstraction and Superstructuring. Adrian has been supported through a teaching assistantship from the Department of Computer Science and research assistantships funded by Pioneer Hi-Bred and the National Science Foundation. Current Position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Inc.

Carson Andorf (Honavar). Ph.D., Computer Science, 2008 (Expected). Carson was supported in part by an IGERT fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation and a research assistantship funded by the National Institutes of Health. Current position: Bioinformatics Lead, Newlink Genetics.

Kent Vander Velden (Reilley and Honavar). Ph.D., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2008 (Expected). Interests: Systems Biology, Metabolic Networks, Computational Biology. Kent is an NSF IGERT fellow. Current Position: Research Scientist, Pioneer Hi-Bred.

Jie Bao (Honavar). Ph.D., Computer Science, 2007. Thesis: Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies. Jie Bao was supported by a research assistantship in Computer Science funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Iowa State University Center for Integrative Animal Genomics, and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery. Current Position: Research Associate, Research Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

Tyra Dunn (Greenlee, Honavar). Ph.D., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2007. Thesis: Characterizing and Influencing Differentiation of Retinal Progenitor Cells. Tyra was supported in part by an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Jyotishman Pathak (Honavar). Ph.D., Computer Science, 2007. Thesis: Interactive and Verifiable Web Service Composition, Reformulation, and Adaptation. Jyotish was supported by a graduate research assistantship in Computer Science funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation. Initial Employment: Research Scientist, Informatics, Mayo Clinic.

Facundo Bromberg (Margaritis). Ph.D., Computer Science, 2007. Thesis: Efficient and Robust Independence-Based Markov Network Structure Discovery. Facundo was supported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Current Position: Faculty member, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.

Natalia Stakhanova (Wong). Ph.D., Computer Science, 2007. Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Dae-Ki Kang (Honavar). Ph.D. 2006. Thesis: Abstraction, Aggregation and Recursion for Generating Accurate and Simple Classifiers . Dae-Ki was supported in part by a Teaching assistantship from the Department of Computer Science and a Research assistantship funded by the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery. Initial Employment: Research Scientist, National Security Research Institute, Korea.

Jun Zhang (Honavar). Ph.D. 2005. Thesis: Learning Ontology Aware Classifiers. Jun was supported by research assistantships funded by the Iowa State University Graduate College and a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF IIS 0219699). Initial Employment: Data Mining Research Scientist, Fair Isaacs, San Diego.

Changhui Yan (Honavar and Dobbs). Ph.D. 2005. Thesis: Identification of interface residues involved in protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions from sequence using machine learning approaches. Changhui was supported by a Plant Sciences Fellowship and a research assistantships funded by the ISU Graduate College and a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Initial Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University.

Doina Caragea (Honavar). Ph.D. 2004. Thesis: Learning Classifiers From Distributed, Semantically Heterogeneous, Autonomous Data Sources. Doina was supported through research assistantships funded by the ISU Graduate College and the National Science Foundation. Doina also received the IBM Research Fellowship during 2002-2003 and 2003-2004. Initial Employment: Research Fellow, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, Iowa State University. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Kansas State University.

Jihoon Yang (Honavar) Ph.D. 1999. Thesis: Intelligent Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery Agents.. Jihoon has been supported by a CS Teaching Assistantship and Research Assistantships funded by the ISU Graduate College and the John Deere Foundation. Initial Employment: Research Scientist, Information Sciences Laboratory, Hughes Research Laboratory, Malibu, CA. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Sogang University, Korea.

Karthik Balakrishnan, Ph.D. 1998. Thesis: Biologically Inspired Information Processing Structures for Autonomous Agents and Robots. Karthik was supported through CS Teaching assistantship, Research assistantships funded by the National Science Foundation and the John Deere Foundation. Karthik received an IBM Research Fellowship during 1997-1998, and a Research Excellence Award from the Iowa State University Graduate College. Initial Employment: Research Scientist, Allstate Research and Planning Center, Menlo Park, CA. Current Position: Director of Analytics, Fireman's Fund Insurance, Novato, CA.

Rajesh Parekh, 1998. Constructive Learning Algorithms: Inducing Grammars and Neural Networks. Rajesh was supported by a CS teaching assistantship, and a research assistantship funded by the National Science Foundation. . Rajesh received a Graduate Research Excellence award from the Iowa State University graduate college. Initial Employment: Research Scientist, Allstate Research and Planning Center, Menlo Park. Current Position: Director of Data Mining and Research, Yahoo!

Chun-Hsien Chen, 1997. Thesis: Neural Architectures for Associative Memory, Syntax Analysis, Knowledge Representation, and Inference. Chun-Hsien was funded by a project assistantship at the Division of Extended and Continuing Education. Initial Employment: Research Scientist, Computer and Communications Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Information Management, Chang Gung University, Taiwan.

Armin Mikler, 1995. (Co-advised with Johnny Wong). Thesis: Quo-Vadis - A Framework for Intelligent Routing in Large Communication Networks. Armin was supported by a CS teaching assistantship and a project assistantship at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development. Initial Employment: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Scalable Computation Laboratory, DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA. Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, Denton.

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M.S. Graduates

 

Flavian Vasile (Honavar). M.S. 2008. Thesis: Uncovering the structure of hypergraphs through tensor decomposition: An application to folksonomy analysis. Flavian was supported in part by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Current Employment: Researcher, Yahoo! Inc.

Oksana Kohutyuk (Honavar). M.S. 2007. Thesis: The Retina Workbench. Oksana was supported by a research assistantship funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and a teaching assistantship in Computer Science.

Charles Giesler (Honavar and Tesfatsion). M.S. 2005. Thesis: A Java Reinforcement Learning Module for the Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit: Facilitating study and experimentation with reinforcement learning in social science multi-agent simulations. Current Position: Lawrence Livermore Labs.

Kyongryun Lee (Margaritis). Thesis: A Mixture Model of Bayesian Networks. Current position: Graduate student in HCI, Iowa State University.

Sandeep Yaramakala (Margaritis). Thesis: Fast Markov blanket discovery. Sandeep was funded by a Teaching Assistantship in Computer Science. Initial Employment: OPNET Technologies at Bethesda, MD

Anna Atramentov (Honavar). Thesis: Multi-Relational Decision Tree Learning Algorithm - Implementation and Experiments. Anna was supported by a Teaching Assistantship in Computer Science and Research Assistantship funded by the Graduate College. Current position: Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Zhong Gao (Honavar and Ho). Thesis: Genome wide recognition of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) like ligands in human and Arabidopsis genomes: A structural Threading Approach. Current position: Post-doctoral Associate, The Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling, Johns Hopkins University.

Hector Leiva (Honavar). 2002. Thesis: Multi-Relational Decision Tree Learning. Hector was supported by a Fullbright Fellowship and a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Computer Science. Current Position: Research Scientist, Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Argentina.

Jaime Reinoso-Castillo (Honavar). Thesis: Ontolgy-Driven Information Extraction and Integration from Autonomous, Heterogeneous, Distributed Data Sources -- A Federated Query-Centric Approach. Thesis. Jaime was supported by a Fullbright Scholarship and a research assistantship funded by the National Science Foundation. Current Position: Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.

Xiaosi Zhang. 2002. Interests: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Gene Expression Analysis. Xiaosi was supported by a graduate assistantship funded by a grant from the Carver Foundation. Current Position: Papajohn Center for Entreprenuership.

Xiangyun Wang (Honavar). 2002. Interests: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Gene Expression Analysis. Macromolecular Structure-Function Prediction from Sequence Data. Xiangyun was supported by a fellowship from the ISU graduate college and a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Current Position: Research Scientist, Astra Zeneca, Inc.

Kent Vander Velden 2002. (Gavin Naylor's lab). Interests: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Characterization of Molecular Structure-Function relationships, Phylogenetics. Kent was supported by an NSF IGERT Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology. Current Status: Member of Research Staff, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Inc.

Neeraj Koul. 2001. Thesis: Clustering with Semi-Metrics. Neeraj was supported by a research assistantship in Computer Science funded by the Carver Foundation and a Teaching Assistantship in Computer Science. Current Position: Motorola.

Rushi Bhatt. 2001. Thesis: Spatial Learning and Localization. Rushi was supported by the ISU Neuroscience Graduate Fellowship and a Teaching Assistantship in Computer Science. Current Status: Ph.D. Student, Boston University.

Dake Wang. 2001. Dake was supported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science and a research assistantship funded by the Carver Foundation. Initial Employment: Lumicyte Inc.

Asok Tiyyagura. Project: Mutual Information Based Association Rule Mining. Asok has been supported through a research assistantship funded by the ISU Council on International Programs and EPRI and a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Initial Employment: Cisco Systems.

Fajun Chen. 2000. Thesis: Learning Information Extraction Patterns. Fajun has been supported through a research assistantship funded by the ISU Graduate College and a Teaching Assistantship in Computer Science. Initial Employment: Ericsson.

Tarkeshwari (Taru) Trivedi. 2000. Thesis: An Agent Toolkit for Distributed Knowledge Networks. Taru was supported through a teaching assistantship in Computer Science and a research assistantship funded by the John Deere Foundation. Initial Employment: Motorola.

Di Wang, 1998. Project: Mobile Agents for Information Retrieval. Initial Employment: Consultant, Canada.

Shane Konsella, 1997. Thesis: Trie Compaction Using Genetic Algorithms. Shane was supported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Initial Employment: Hewlett-Packard.

Karthik Balakrishnan, 1993. Project: Faster Learning Approximations of Backpropagation by Handling Flat-Spots. Karthik was supported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science and a research assistantship funded by the ISU graduate College. (Stayed on as a Ph.D. Student).

Rajesh Parekh, 1993. Project: Efficient Learning of Regular Languages Using Teacher-Supplied Positive Examples and Learner-Generated Queries. Rajesh was suported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. (Stayed on as a Ph.D. Student).

Jayathi Janakiraman, 1993. Project: Adaptive Learning Rate for Increasing Learning Speed in Backpropagation Networks. Jayathi was supported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Initial Employment: Motorola.

Priyamvadha Thambu, 1993. Thesis: Automated Knowledge-Base Consistency Maintenan ce in an Evolving Intelligent Advisory System. Priya was supported by a research assistantship funded by Iowa Department of Housing and Urban Development. Initial Employment: Inference Corporation.

Richard Spartz, 1992. Project: Speeding Up Backpropagation Using Expected Source Values. Rich was supported by a teaching assistantship in Computer Science. Initial Employment: IBM Rochester.

 

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