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.