Activities

Former Doctoral Students:


Dr. Feng Luo,
Summer 2004
Dissertation Title : Mining Gene Microarray Expression Profiles
Employment: Assistant Professor,Clemson University (since January 2006)








Dr. Mamoun Awad,
Fall 2005
Dissertation Title : Effective Data Mining for Intrusion Detection and WWW Prediction
Employment: Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University (since Sept. 2006)








Dr. Lei Wang,
Fall 2006
Dissertation Title : Image Annotation and Classification
Employment: Microsoft at Redmond, Washington, USA








Dr. Mohammad Masud,
Fall 2009
Dissertation Title : Adaptive Classification of Scarcely Labeled and Evolving Data Streams
Employment: Post-Doc in UT Dallas.







Dr. Qing Chen,
Fall 2010
Dissertation Title : Data Stream Classifcation Techniques for Multiple Novel Classes and Dynamic Feature Spaces
Employment: Software Development Director, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), Richfit IT LLC, Beijing, China.







Dr. Arshad Ul Abedin (co-Advised with Dr. Vincent Ng.),
Spring 2011
Dissertation Title : Automatic Cause Identification From Aviation Safety Incident Reports
Employment: Member of Technical Staff, BloomReach, Inc., Mountain View, California








Dr. Mohmmmad Farhan Husain (co-advised with Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham) ,
Spring 2011
Dissertation Title : Data Intensive Query Processing for Semantic Web Data Using Hadoop and MapReduce
Employment: Amazon, Seattle, Washington, USA.







Current Doctoral Students Being Advised :











Salim Ahmed,
Jonsson School Distinguished Assistantship Scholar (Intern at Siemens)










Sunitha Ramanujam (Expected Graduation Date: Fall 2011),

Clay Woolam, (On leave)

James McGlothlin (Expected Graduation Date: Fall 2011),

Jeffrey L Partyka (Expected Graduation Date: Fall 2011),

Tahseen M Al-Khateeb(Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2012),

Satyen Abrol (Expected Graduation Date: Fall 2012),



Current Masters Student:


Raquibur Rahman (intern at CISCO, San Hose, California)











Former Masters Students (Thesis) Advised:


Korosh Golnabi,
(" Get-Doc " Student), Summer 2005
Title of Thesis : Updated Firewall Policy Rules using Association Rule Mining (UFARM)

Ahmed Bashir,
Spring 2004
Title of Thesis : A Framework for Image Annotation using the Semantic Web.

Manish Gupta,
Fall 2002
Title of Thesis : A Distributed For Handling Location Dependent Continuous Queries in Mobile Environment.
Employment: Shell, Houston, Tx.

Mohammad Mirza,
Spring 2002
Title of Thesis : Data Management in a Disaster Relief Scenario Using Bluetooth.
Employment: Verizon

Casey Breen,
Fall 2002
Title of Thesis :
Employment: Innovative Managed Care Systems, Dallas, TX

Arun Ponnusamy,
Spring 2003
Title of Thesis :
Employment: Credit Suisse First Boston.

Yan Rao,
Spring 2002
Title of Thesis :
Employment: American Airlines, Dallas, TX.

Greg Hellings,
Summer 2009
Employment: Startup at Southlake, TX.

Rajesh Bhairampally,
Spring 2002
Title of Thesis :
Employment: PetroTel, Inc., Plano, Texas

Nilesh Singhania

Sonia Chib

Anubha Gupta
Employment:Research in Motion (RIM)

Hannan Abdullah
Employment:Texas Instruments (TI), Dallas, Texas

Honors Thesis Supervision:


Mohammad Bayan,
Summer 2003
Honors thesis satisfies requirements for the highest two levels of University Honors, summa cum laude and magna cum laude.