DATA Lab

Lab Members

Faculty Members
  • Xia "Ben" Hu, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Postdoctoral Researcher
Graduate Students
  • Ruixiang Tang, PhD student, Fall 2019 -
  • Zirui Liu, PhD student, Fall 2019 -
  • Xiaotian Han, PhD student, Fall 2019 -
  • Qizhang Feng, PhD student, Fall 2020 -
  • Sirui Ding, PhD student, Fall 2020 -
  • Guanchu Wang, PhD student, Fall 2020 -
  • Yicheng Wang, PhD student, Fall 2020 -
  • Hongye Jin, PhD student, Fall 2020 -
  • Yu-Neng (Allen) Chuang, PhD student, Fall 2021 -
  • Chia-Yuan (Scott) Chang, PhD student, Fall 2021 -
  • Hongyi Liu, PhD student, Fall 2021 -
  • Leisheng Yu, PhD student, Fall 2022 -
  • Henry Zhong, PhD student, Fall 2022 -
  • Songyuan Sui, PhD student, Fall 2022 -
  • Jeff Wang, PhD student, Fall 2022 -
  • Jiayi Yuan, PhD student, Fall 2022 -
  • Khushbu Pahwa, PhD student, Fall 2023 -
Alumni
  • Zhimeng Jiang, PhD, Fall 2019 - Fall 2023. Dissertation Title: Algorithmic Fairness in Machine Learning: Metrics and Algorithms. First Employment: Staff Research Scientist, Visa Research.
  • Kaixiong Zhou, PhD, Fall 2018 - Spring 2023. Dissertation Title: Deep Graph Representation Learning: Scalability and Applications. First Employment: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University.
  • Qiaoyu Tan, PhD, Fall 2018 - Spring 2023. Dissertation Title: Towards Efficient Self-Supervised Learning on Graphs. First Employment: Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai.
  • Daochen Zha, PhD, Fall 2018 - Spring 2023. Dissertation Title: Efficient Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning: Algorithms and Applications. First Employment: Airbnb.
  • Kwei-Herng (Henry) Lai , PhD, Fall 2018 - Spring 2023. Dissertation Title: Toward Data-centric Automated Machine Learning. First Employment: Apple.
  • Fan Yang, PhD, Fall 2017 - Spring 2023. Dissertation Title: Counterfactuals for Interpretable Machine Learning: Model Reasoning from “What” to “How”. First Employment: Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University.
  • Yi-Wei Chen , PhD, Fall 2018 - Spring 2022. Dissertation Title: Automated Machine Learning with Constraints and Imperfect Data. First Employment: Microsoft.
  • Mengnan Du, PhD, Fall 2017 - Spring 2022. Dissertation Title: Deep Neural Networks Explainability: Algorithms and Applications. First Employment: Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
  • Diego Martinez Garcia, PhD, Fall 2016 - Spring 2022. Dissertation Title: Automated Machine Learning Systems: Evaluation, Ease of Use, Data Transformation. First Employment: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • Yuening Li, PhD, Fall 2017 - Fall 2021. Dissertation Title: Anomaly Detection with Complex Data Structures. First Employment: Software Engineer, Google.
  • Haifeng Jin, PhD, Fall 2015 - Spring 2021. Dissertation Title: Efficient Neural Architecture Search for Automated Deep Learning. First Employment: Keras team, Google.
  • Ninghao Liu, PhD, Spring 2016 - Spring 2021. Dissertation Title: Extracting and Harnessing Interpretation in Data Mining. First Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia.
  • Qingquan Song, PhD, Fall 2016 - Spring 2021. Dissertation Title: Automated Recommender Systems. First Employment: Machine Learning and Relevance Engineer, LinkedIn.
  • Yan Zhong, PhD (Statistics, co-advised with Jianhua Huang), Spring 2021. Dissertation Title: Structure Regularized Dimensionality Reduction on Two Real Applications. First Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, East China Normal University.
  • Sina Mohseni, PhD (Co-advised with Eric Ragan), Fall 2017 - Fall 2020. Dissertation Title: A Multidisciplinary Design and Evaluation Framework for XAI Systems. First Employment: NVidia.
  • Nur Hafieza Ismail, PhD, Summer 2016 - Spring 2020. Dissertation Title: Deep Learning with Multimodal Data for Healthcare. First Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University Malaysia Pahang.
  • Xiao Huang, PhD, Fall 2015 - Spring 2020. Dissertation Title: Learning from Attributed Networks. First Employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

  • Wangyang He, MS student, Fall 2021 - Fall 2022. First Employment: Lockheed Martin.
  • Praveen Venugopal, MS, 2018 - 2020. Thesis Title: Automated Machine Learning for Outlier Detection. First Employment: Novartis.
  • Cheng Cheng, MS, 2018 - 2020. Thesis Title: Deep Feature Fusion for Video-based Action Recognition. First Employment: Amazon.
  • Tsung-Lin Yang, MS, 2018 - 2020. First Employment: Amazon.
  • Shiva Kumar Pentyala, MS, 2017 - 2019. Thesis Title: Interpretable Fake News Detection. Outstanding Engineering Graduate Student Award. First Employment: Salesforce.
  • Anurag Kapale, MS, Summer 2018 - Fall 2019. Thesis Title: An Automated Framework to generate end-to-end machine learning pipelines. First Employment: Amazon.
  • Donghwa Shin, MS, 2016 - 2018. Thesis Title: An Anomaly Detection Framework For Heterogeneous And Streaming Data. First Employment: KakaoBank.
  • Mragank Yadav, MSC, 2016 - Spring 2018. First employment: Microsoft.
  • Jun Gao, MS, Spring 2016 - Fall 2017. Thesis Title: An Interpretable Classification Framework for Information Extraction from Online Healthcare Forums. First employment: Google.
  • Zepeng Huo, MS, Spring 2016 - Fall 2017. Thesis Title: Link Prediction with Personalized Social Influence.
  • Chuong Trinh, MSC, 2015 - 2016. First employment: Veeva Systems.
  • Yu Zong, Visiting Scholar, Professor, West Anhui University, 2016