To Graduate in Summer 2013

	Neela Sawant nks125 (at) psu.edu Ph.D. Program in Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, Summer 2013 Thesis: Statistical Modeling of Image Semantics from Imperfectly Labeled Datasets Committee: J. Z. Wang, Jia Li (Co-chairs), C. Lee Giles, John M. Carroll, Reka Albert
	Lei Yao luy112 (at) psu.edu Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, Summer 2013 Thesis: Automated Analysis of Composition and Style of Photographs and Paintings Committee: J. Z. Wang, Jia Li (Co-chairs), David L. Hall, Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Patrick J. McGrady

Graduated Ph.D. Advisees

	Mu Qiao, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. (g-scholar) mqiao (at) us.ibm.com Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Fall 2012 Thesis: Mixture Modeling for Complex and Large-Scale Data with Applications (Download) Committee: J. Li (Advisor), J. Z. Wang (Co-advisor), D. Kifer (Co-Chair), J. Barlow, L. Zhang
	Professor Brian A. Canada, tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Beaufort, SC. (g-scholar) bcanada (at) uscb.edu Ph.D. in Integrative Biosciences, Penn State, Fall 2010 Thesis: Augmentation of the Zebrafish Phenomic Landscape by Histological Analysis and Content-based Image Retrieval Committee: J. Z. Wang, K. Cheng, K. Weiss (Co-chairs), J. Richtsmeier, W. Miller (Computational Science Minor)
	Ritendra Datta, Senior Engineer, Google, Pittsburgh, PA. (g-scholar) ritendra.datta (at) gmail.com Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Spring 2009 Thesis: Semantics and Aesthetics Inference for Image Search: Statistical Learning Approaches (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), J. Li (Co-Chair), R. Collins, C. L. Giles, D. Miller, B. Urgaonkar
	Xiaonan Lu, Engineer, Mobile Service Division, Microsoft, Seattle, WA. (g-scholar) xlu (at) cse.psu.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Fall 2008 Thesis: Image Analysis and Metadata Extraction for Document Retrieval (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), L. Giles (Co-Chair), W.-C. Lee, D. Miller, C. Zhu
	Dhiraj Joshi, Senior Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. (FXPAL), Palo Alto, CA. (g-scholar) dhirajjoshi16 (at) gmail.com Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Summer 2007 Thesis: Image Analysis and Retrieval by Spatial Models and Information Integration (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), J. Li (Co-Chair), R. Collins, D. Hunter, W.-C. Lee
	Professor Yixin Chen, Associate Professor with tenure, University of Mississippi, Oxford. (g-scholar) ychen (at) cs.olemiss.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Summer 2003 Thesis: A Machine Learning Approach to Content-based Image Indexing and Retrieval (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), C. L. Giles, J. Yen, J. Li, D. Richards

Graduated Ph.D. Advisees (committee)

• Anuj Jaiswal,
  Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2012. (Advisor: Prasenjit Mitra)
  Thesis: On Statistical Schema Matching with Embedded Value Mappings (Download)
  
• Pucktada Treeratpituk, Officer, Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand.
  Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2012. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
  Thesis: People Disambiguation in the Multicultural and Online Setting (Download)
  
• Yaman Aksu,
  Electrical Engineering, Penn State, 2010. (Advisors: David J. Miller and George Kesidis)
  Thesis: Feature Selection Methods and Classification with Support Vector Machines, with Applications to the Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease and Its Onset, using MRI Brain Image Processing (Download)
  
• Yang Sun, Engineer, AOL / Advertising.com
  Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2008. (Advisor: Lee Giles)
  Thesis: A Comprehensive Study of the Regulation and Behavior of Web Crawlers (Download)
  
• Professor Daeyoung Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  daeyoung (at) math.umass.edu, Ph.D. in Statistics, Penn State, 2008. (Advisor: Bruce G. Lindsay)
  Thesis: Mixture Inference at the Edge of Identifiability (Link)
  
• Isaac Councill, Engineer, Google, New York
  icouncill (at) almaden.ibm.com, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2006. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
  Thesis: Characterizing Scientific Contributions Through Automatic Acknowledgement Indexing and Citation Analysis (Download)
  
• Professor Long Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
  chenlong (at) math.uci.edu, Ph.D. in Mathematics, Penn State, 2005. (Advisor: J. Xu)
  Thesis: Robust and Accurate Algorithm for Solving Anisotropic Singularities (Download)
  
• Professor Anne Ya Zhang, Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
  ya_zhang (at) sjtu.edu.cn, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2005. (Advisor: C. Chu. Co-advisor: H. Zha)
  Thesis: Towards Inferring Biologically Informative Protein-Protein Interactions (Download)
  
• Hui Han, Engineer, Yahoo!
  hhan (at) cse.psu.edu, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2004. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
  Thesis: Creating a Syntactic Document Ontology (Download)
  

Ph.D. Advisees (non-PSU)

• Professor Xirong Li, Remin University, Beijing, China.
  xirong.li (at) gmail.com, University of Amsterdam, March 2012. (Advisor: A. Smeulders)
  Thesis: Content-Based Visual Search Learned from Social Media
• Wei Wang, Software Development Manager, MediaNet Digital, LLC.
  wei.wang (at) motorola.com, Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, August 2004. (Advisor: A. Zhang)
  Thesis: Automatic Semantic Indexing in Multimedia Information Retrieval

Graduated M.S.

• Poonam Suryanarayan, Software Engineer, Google
  pzs126 (at) psu.edu, Electrical Engineering, Penn State, graduated in 2011
  Thesis: A Compputational Approach for Understanding the Aesthetics of Gray Scale Images
  
• AdityaGiri Valluri, Engineer, NetApp, Sunnyvale, CA
  azv114 (at) psu.edu, Electrical Engineering, Penn State, graduated in May 2009
  Thesis: Navigation Through Automated Image Understanding and Retrieval
  
• Ashish Parulekar, Capital One
  Electrical Engineering, Penn State, graduated in December 2005
  Thesis: Large-scale Satellite Image Browsing using Automatic Semantic Categorization and Content-based Retrieval

Graduated Honors Undergraduates
(Penn State's Schreyer Honors College)

• John Schleicher
  Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, May 2011
  Thesis: Applied Crowdsourcing: Zebrafish Phenotyping and Brushstroke Extraction
  after graduation: Microsoft, Redmond, WA
• Aaron Coble
  Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, August 2005
  Thesis: JIN: A Java-based Image Navigation System
  after graduation: Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar
• Allison Deal
  Statistics, Penn State, May 2005
  after graduation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Advisor: Jia Li)
  
• Sui Ching Teresa Lin
  Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, December 2003
  Thesis: Semantic Relation Network and Evaluation Methods on Machine Learning Based Indexing of Images
  now in Hong Kong
• Kurt Grieb
  Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, December 2003
  Thesis: Learning-Based Indexing of Works of Art
  after graduation: Lockheed Martin Corp. and US Air Force
  
• Bryan T. Schnittjer
  Computer Science, Penn State, May 2002
  Thesis: The Application of Support Vector Machines for Content-based Image Retrieval
  after graduation: General Electric

Past Visitors

	Jose San Pedro Visiting Scholar from Telefonica, Spain; 2011-2012
	Qingyong Li Visiting Faculty from Beijing Jiaotong University, China; 2010-2011
	Yen-Wei Chen Visiting Professor from Ritsumeikan University, Japan; 2010-2011
	José Antonio Piedra Fernández Visiting Faculty from University of Almeria, Spain; 2008-2009

Main Collaborators

• Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College
• Yixin Chen, CS Dept, University of Mississippi
• Keith Cheng, Pathology, Penn State University
• C. Lee Giles, IST, Penn State University
• C. Richard Johnson, ECE, Cornell University
• Takeo Kanade, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Jia Li, Statistics, Penn State University
• Z. Lin, Peking University, China
• R. Lu, Chinese National Academy of Sciences, China
• J. Shi, University of Pennsylvania
• K.-Y. Whang, Korea Adv. Inst. of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
• G. Wiederhold, Stanford University (student tree)
• Stephen T.C. Wong, Texas Medical Center

Past Research Project Staff

• David Zhang, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2010-2012
• Razvan Orendovici, Information Sciences and Technology and Computer Science and Engineering, IUG Program, Penn State, 2007-2010
• Haifeng Wu, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2010.
• Andrew Duffey, Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis, 2009.
• Saad Ali, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, 2008-2009. Now with Sarnoff Corp.
• Kelsey Marie Bauer, College of Science, Penn State, 2009.
• Daniel Sandberg, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2007-2008
• Angela Yen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2007
• Walter Weiss, IST, Penn State, 2006-2007, after graduation: the U.S. Department of State
• Gulsah Tumuklu Ozyer, Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2007
• Christopher L. Dancy II, Computer Science, MURE program, Penn State, 2006-2007
• Weina Ge, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2005-2007
• Catriona Cornett, IST, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: Vanguard Group (student marshal)
• Jason Scott, IST, Honors College, Penn State, 2004-2006
• Robert D. Shedd Jr. , IST, Honors College, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: IBM
• Diane Flowers, IST, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Junjia Zhu, Statistics, Penn State, 2004
• Claire Luo, Penn State, 2004
• Yin Yang, IST, Penn State, 2002
• Priya Unnikrishnan, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2000-2001
• Yanping Du, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Penn State, January 2001, after graduation: Cisco