Ph.D. Students (2006-Present)
1.
Illhoi Yoo (graduated in 2006,
tenured associate professor a Univ. of Missouri-Columbia)
Dissertation Title: Semantic Text Mining and its Application in Biomedical Domain
2.
Davis Zhou (graduated in 2008, Financial Analyst at J.P.Morgan)
Dissertation Title: Semantic-based Language Models for Information Retrieval and
Text Mining
3.
Xiaodan Zhang (graduate in 2009,
Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals)
Dissertation Title: Exploiting External/Domain Knowledge to Enhance Traditional
Text Data Mining using Graph-Based Methods
4.
Palakorn Achananuparp (graduated
in 2010, research scientist at the SMU-CMU Living Analytics Research
Centre)
Dissertation Title: Similarity Measures and Diversity Rankings for Query-Focused
Sentence Extraction
5.
Daniel Wu
(graduated in 2010, Software Engineer at Affiliated Distributors Inc)
Dissertation Title: The Structure and Function of
Biological Networks
6.
Xugeng (George) Xu, (graduated in 2011, Business manager at
Verizon)
Dissertation
Title: Cluster-based Query Expansion Using Language
Modeling
for
Biomedical Literature Retrieval
7.
Deima Elnatour
(graduated in 2011, Program Manager at Amazon.com)
Dissertation Title: Recreating Popular User-Generated Tags Effectively and
Efficiently by
Utilizing Crowdsourcing
8.
Caimei Lu (graduated in 2011,
Data Mining Scientist at MARITZ)
Dissertation Title: Exploiting Social Tagging Network for Web Mining and Search
9.
Kaushal Desal
(graduated in May 2012, Information Scientist at AstraZenica
R&D)
Dissertation Title: Systems Toxicology: mining chemical-toxicity paths to
enable network medicine
10. Xin Chen (graduated in Dec 2012, Senior Engineer at Google, )
Dissertation Title: Generative Topic Models for Image Data Mining and
Bioinformatics
Study
11. Lifan Guo (graduated in Oct 2013, Research Scientist, Alibaba.com)
Disertation
Title: Semantically Enhanced Topic Modeling and its
Applications in Social Media
12. Zhong
Huang (graduated in Feb., 2014, Information Scientist at Thermo Fisher
Scientific Inc.)
Dissertation Title: Biomedical Information
Extraction: Mining Disease
Associated Genes from Literature
13. Jia Huang (graduated in May 2014, Research Scientist at XiaoMi, China)
Dissertation Title: Recommendation with Contextual Information
14. Anton
Slutsky (graduated in May 2015, Microsoft, USA)
Dissertation Title: Towards Effective Knowledge
Discovery in Social
Media Stream
15. Zunyan
Xiong (graduated in May 2015, Virezon, Data
Scientist)
Dissertation Title: Towards Effective Data Clustering based on Non-
Negative Matrix Factorization Model
16. Haozhen
Zhao (graduated in September 2015, Meta, USA)
Dissertation Title: The Role of Document Structure and Citation Analysis
in
Literature Information Retrieval
17. Luis Ahumada
(graduated in May 2016, Principal Information Scientist, John Hopkins)
Dissertation Title: Hybrid Recommender Framework for the Design of Intelligent
Clinical
Decision Support Tools
18.
Xiaoli Song
(graduated in Dec 2016, Sr Engineer, Zoom Inc)
Dissertation Title: Word Pair based Topic Model for Text Understanding
19. Yuan Ling
(graduated in Feb, 2017, Research Scientist,
Amazon.com)
Dissertation Title: Methods and Techniques for
Clinical Text Modeling and
Analytics
20. Ji Wang (graduated
in June 2017, Research Scientist at Huawei America)
Dissertation Title: Data Fusion in Non-Stationary Environment
21. Wanyign Ding (graduated
in November 2017, DoorDash, USA)
Dissertation Title: Aspect Level Public Opinion
Detection, Tracking and
Visualization on Social Media
22. Yue Shang
(graduated in December 2017, TikTock, USA)
Dissertation Title: Studies on User Intent
Analysis and Mining
23. Mengwen Liu
(graduated in December 2017, Research Scientist, Amazon.com)
Dissertation Title: Question-based Text Summarization
24. Alex Felmeister
(graduated in April 2019, Research Scientist, CHOP)
Dissertation Title: A Unified Framework for Collecting,
Annotating, Modeling and
Prediction from
Phenotypes in Multi-Institutional Pediatric Data Resources
25. Zheng Chen (graduated in May 2020, Research
Scientist, Meta, USA)
Dissertation Title: Community-based
Methods for Large-scale Relational
Data Analysis
26. Wei Quan
(graduated in May 2020, Data Scientist, Marrioit Data
Center)
Dissertation Title: Opinion Mining on Digital Media Data: Advancing State-
of-the-art Methods with Deep Learning
27. Yizhou Zang
(graduated in May 2020, Research Scientist, Philips Research North America)
Dissertation Title: Incorporating Domain
Information with Collaborative Filtering
28. Bo Song (Graduated
in July 2020, Teaching Assistant Professor, Drexel University)
Dissertation Title: Knowledge Discovery from
Multi-Source Homogeneous
& Heterogeneous Large-Scale Data Sets in
Biomedical Research
29. Yue Zhang
(Graduated in March 2022, Research Scientist, Amazon.com, USA)
Dissertation Title: Studies on Visual Emotion
Understanding
30. Xintong Zhao
(Graduated in Dec., 2024, Data Scientist, FDR Credit
Union, USA
Dissertation Title: Large-Scale Materials
Knowledge Extraction Using LLMs
and Human-in-the-Loop
31. Xiaoyao Long, (graduated in
Aug, 2025)
Dissertation Title: Rigorous Curation in
Practice: High-Fidelity Protein Side-
Chain Modeling, Benchmarking, and
Cross-Assay Affinity Normalization
Visiting Scholars
1. Huiru Zeng (PhD Student,
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sept 2019-Sept 2022)
2. Prof. Jin
Zhao (Visiting Professor, Zhengzhou University, Feb 2018-Feb 2019)
3. Jinli Zhang (Ph.D Student, Beijing University of Technology, Nov 2018-Nov
2019)
4. Prof
.
Xiandi Yang (Visiting Professor, Wuhan University,
Nov 2017 -Nov 2018)
5. Prof. Huaxing Yao (Visiting Professor, Central China Normal
University, Ag 2018-Aug 2019)
6. Prof. Hong
Song (Visiting Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, Dec. 2017-June 2018)
7. Prof. Dongbo Zhou (Visiting Professor, Central China Normal
University, Sept 2016-Sept 2017)
8. Prof.
Jianliang Gao, (Visiting Professor, Central South University, March 2015-March
2017)
9. Prof. Xiwei Tang (Visiting Professor, Hunan First Normal
University, Oct 2015-Oct 216)
10. Dr. Yong
Zhang (Visiting Professor, Central China Normal University, Oct 2014-Sept.
2015)
11. Mr. Yetian Fan (Ph.D. Student, Dalian University of Technology, Nov 2014-Sept. 2016)
12. Ms. Wen Lou
(Ph.D. Student, Wuhan University, Dec 2014-Dec 2015)
13. Prof. Zhihao Yang (Visiting Professor, Dalian
University of Technology, Dec 2013-Nov 2014)
14. Prof. Yuanyuan Sun (Visiting Professor, Dalian
University of Technology, Dec 2013-Nov 2014)
15. Xuelian Pan (Ph.D. student, Nanjing University, Oct.
2013-Oct. 2015)
16. WeiWei Xu (Ph.D. student, Wuhan University, Sept. 2012-Nov.
2014)
17. Prof. Xianjun Shen (Visiting
Professor, Central China Normal University, Jan 2013-Dec 2013)
18. Prof. Guo-Zheng Li (Visiting Professor, Tongji
University, May 2012-Sept. 2012)
19. Prof. Yongli Wang (Visiting
Professor, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Oct 2011-Oct 2012)
20. Yanpeng Li (Ph.D. student, Dalian University of Technology,
Oct 2009-Oct 2010)
21. Prof. Liu Wei (Visiting Professor, Shanghai Maritime
University, Aug 2010-Aug 2011)
22. Prof. Zhixiong Wu (Visiting
Professor, Shanghai Maritime University, July-Oct 2010)
23. Lihua Wei (Ph.D. student, Nanjing University of
Science & Technology, May-Oct. 2009)
24. Ming Xu (Ph.D. student, Fudan University, Jan 2008-Dec
2009)
25. Yayao Zuo (Ph.D. student, Sun Yat-Sen university, March
2008-Jan 2009)
26. Prof. Wu Chen (Visiting Professor, Zhengjiang
University of Technology , March, 2006-Feb., 2007)
27. Dr. JiangTao Ren (Visiting
Professor, Sun Yat-Sen university, June, 2006-Nov., 2006)
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