Apurba Das

Apurba earned his Bachelor of Engineering from BESU, Shibpur, India in Computer Science, and his Masters of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He is working on his PhD, on Dense Substructure Detection from Dynamic Graphs.

Hooman Hashemi (jointly with Goce Trajcevski)

Hooman is working on spatial and graphical data processing.

Trong Nguyen

Trong earned his B.Eng degree in Software Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology. He is working on random sampling from large data warehouses, and has also worked on graph embeddings.

Sai Sree Parvathaneni

Sai Sree is working on random sampling from large data.

Vahid Sanei

Vahid earned both his B.S. and M.Sc. in Information Technology at Azad University, Iran. His research interests are in large-scale and streaming graph processing.

Minghung Shih

Minghung (Danny) Shih received his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2011, and earned his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2008. He is working on random sampling from large data warehouses.

Ashraf Tahmasbi

Ashraf is working on machine learning from streaming data.

Yu Zhang

Yu Zhang earned his Master degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Central Florida, and completed his undergraduate study in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests are in streaming machine learning.

Alumni

Yung-Yu Chung

Yung-Yu Chung completed his PhD in Fall 2016, working on data stream mining methods applied to cyber security, in particular the problem of detecting “insider threats”. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Information Technology from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 2006, and his M.S., in Computer Engineering, from Iowa State University in 2013. His broader research interests are in Distributed and Parallel Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Cyber Security.

Currently: LinkedIn, as a software engineer. He has received a Research Excellence Award from Iowa State U in Fall 2016, and has previously received the Teaching Excellence Award from Iowa State U.

Sneha Aman Singh

(PhD completed in Fall 2015)
During her PhD, she worked in multiple companies as an intern including Technicolor Research Labs, Paris, IBM Software Group, MN, US and most recently Interdigital, PA, US where she is working on developing protocols to standardize large scale data analytics in Internet of Things. She has received a Research Excellence Award from ISU, as well as an IBM PhD Fellowship.

Arko Mukherjee

(PhD completed in Spring 2015)

Arko Provo Mukherjee is a Software Engineer at the Windows and Devices Group, Microsoft. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in 2015 and wrote his thesis on graph mining. He received his Baccalaureate Degree from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, and worked for 3 years as a SAP consultant at IBM. His technical interests are in algorithms for large graph mining and tools for large-scale data analytics. He comes from Kolkata, the city of joy! He received a Research Excellence Award from ISU.

Bibudh Lahiri

(Ph.D. Completed Summer 2011)
Thesis: Data Stream Algorithms for Network Monitoring
First Employment: Kikin Inc. (a Data Analytics Startup in New York City)
Currently working at Impetus Technologies as a Data Scientist

Bojian Xu

(Ph.D. completed Nov 2009).
Thesis: Time-decayed data aggregation in streams
Currently an Associate Professor and Department Chair at Eastern Washington University
First Employment: Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department.
Winner of Research Excellence Award from ISU. Nominated for the Karas Distinguished Ph.D. thesis award (For every two years, only one nominee is selected from among all the computer engineering PhDs at Iowa State University).

Zhenhui Shen

(Ph.D. completed April 2007)
Thesis Title: Techniques for Building a Scalable and Reliable Publish-Subscribe System
Current Employment: Akamai Technologies
Winner of Research Excellence Award from ISU.

Yesdaulet Izenov

MS completed in Spring 2018
Thesis: “Reducing Labeling Complexity in Streaming Data Mining”
Currently a PhD student at UC Merced

Minh Truong

(MS completed in Spring 2016)

Undergraduate degree: Bachelor in Computer Science, Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam

Currently: Software Engineer at Google

Michael Svendsen

(M.S. Completed Summer 2012)
Project: Mining Maximal Cliques from a Large Graph Using Mapreduce
First Employment: Software Engineer at Pearson

Puvi Pandian

(M.S. completed Apr 2009)
Project: Sensor Networks for Indoor Monitoring.
First Employment: Software Engineer at Microsoft