Students advised

Ph.D. committees (not key advisor):


Mostafa El Gamal, WPI, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016-2017 (graduated Spring 2017)

Paulo Ferreria, WPI, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016-2017 (graduated Spring 2017)

Aaron Birt, WPI, Material Science and Engineering, 2016-2017 (graduated Spring 2017)

Jaroslaw Glowacki , 6-26-2016 Laboratory for Computation and Visualization in Mathematics and Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnic Federal Lausanne, Trip funded by LCVMM.

Kakar Tabassum, WPI, Data Science, 2016-2017

Suhas, Srinivasan, WPI, Data Science, 2016-2017


Masters committees (not key advisor):

Xinyuan Sun, WPI, Data Science, 2016

Viseth Sean, WPI Data Science, 2016

MQP projects:

Kevin Guth, Aura Ramirez, Erik Sola (with Lane Harrison), Cyber Data Analytics, Fall 2017/Spring 2018

Luke Buquicchio, Juan Louis Estrada, Everett Harding (with Stephan Sturm), Collaboration with Zurich University of Applied Sciences on Deep Learning, Fall 2017/Spring 2018

Emily Bigwood, Owen Chace, Ranier Gran, Stephanie Martin, WPI Career Development Center collaboration, Fall 2017/Spring 2018

Michael Giancola (with Jacob Whitehill), Doubly Stochastic Matrices for Style Analysis in Mechanical Turk Data, Fall 2017/Spring 2018

Casidy Litch (with Lane Harrison), Cyber Data Analytics, Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Ian Jacoway, Gina Rios, Shannon Feeley (with Stephan Sturm), Process Mining for Credit Suisse, Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Sadie Gauthier, Zachery Peters, Emily Weber, Robert Vigeant, WPI Career Development Center collaboration, Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Yao Yuan Chow (with George Heineman), “Application of Data Analytics to Cyber Forensic Data”, Fall 2016

Kathleen Kay, “Inverse Methods for Manifold Learning”, Spring 2016

IQP projects:

Maryann VanValkendburg (with Gu Wang), Data for Improving Mathematical Sciences Education, Fall 2017/Spring 2018

Graduate students (key advisor):

Fall 2017:

Bahadur, Nitish, Applications of non-linear dimension reduction to finance, Ph.D. advisor

Baker, Lauren, Machine Learning for Carbon Nano-tube sheets

Gajamannage, Kelum, Non-linear dimension reduction, Postdoctoral mentor

Jutras, Melanie, Anomaly Detection in the Domain Name Service, Master’s thesis

Li, Wenjing, Ensemble methods in machine learning, Ph.D. advisor

Liu, Haitao (co-advisor with Jian Zou), Graphical Models, Ph.D. advisor

Lui, Yingnan, Deep Learning for Financial Time-series, Ph.D. advisor

Medina, Patricia, Deep Learning for LIDAR Processing, Postdoctoral mentor

Reese, Tyler Michael (co-advisor with Joseph D. Fehribach and Brigitte Servatius), Kirchhoff Graphs, Ph.D. advisor

Weiss, Matt, Supervised Machine Learning for Chemical Sensors, Ph.D. advisor

Sun, Fangzheng, Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis, Master’s thesis

Zhou, Chong, Robust Auto-encoders, Ph.D. advisor

Zou, Xiaozhou, Adversarial Neural Networks, Master’s thesis

Spring 2017:

Bahadur, Nitish, Applications of non-linear dimension reduction to finance, Ph.D. advisor

Cinelli, Forrest, Balanced Matrices are Adjacency Matrices for d-regular Graphs, Undergraduate ISP

Gajamannage, Kelum, Non-linear dimension reduction, Postdoctoral mentor

Keller, Josh, Applying Robust Principal Component Analysis to Anomaly Detection in Car Networks, Masters Capstone

Li, Wenjing, Ensemble methods in machine learning, Ph.D. advisor

Liu, Haitao (co-advisor with Jian Zou), Graphical Models, Ph.D. advisor

Reese, Tyler Michael (co-advisor with Joseph D. Fehribach and Brigitte Servatius), Kirchhoff Graphs, Ph.D. advisor

Weiss, Matt, Supervised Machine Learning for Chemical Sensors, Ph.D. advisor

Zhong, Lu, Truncated norms for compressed sensing, Master’s thesis

Zhou, Chong, Robust Auto-encodes, Ph.D. advisor

Zou, Xiaozhou, Adversarial Neural Networks, Master’s thesis

Fall 2016:

Ali Benamara (co-advised with Mohamed Eltabakh <meltabakh@WPI.EDU>) Exabyte Scale Robust PCA

Bahadur, Nitish, Applications of non-linear dimension reduction to finance, Ph.D. advisor

Gajamannage, Kelum, Non-linear dimension reduction, Postdoctoral mentor

Li, Wenjing, Ensemble methods in machine learning, Ph.D. advisor

Liu, Haitao (co-advisor with Jian Zou), Graphical Models, Ph.D. advisor

Mukne, Neehar Clustering of Internet Nodes Using Latencies, Directed Research

Reese, Tyler Michael (co-advisor with Joseph D. Fehribach and Brigitte Servatius), Kirchhoff Graphs, Ph.D. advisor

Weiss, Matt, Supervised Machine Learning for Chemical Sensors, Ph.D. advisor

Zhong, Lu, Truncated norms for compressed sensing, Master’s thesis

Zhou, Chong, Robust Auto-encodes, Ph.D. advisor

Zou, Xiaozhou, Adversarial Neural Networks, Master’s thesis

Zou, Chen, Robust non-linear dimension reduction, Directed Research

Spring 2016:

Holmes, Andrew, Steps Toward Constructing Matrices that Satisfy the Restricted Isometry Property, Master's Capstone

El Gamal, Mostafa, Non-linear Dimension Reduction, Research Collaboration (non-credit)

Lama, Suman, Large Scale Processing of PCAP Datga, Directed Research

Li, Nan, Hypothesis Testing for Graphical Models, Master's thesis.

Li, Wenjing, Geolocation of Internets Nodes Using Robust PCA, Research Collaboration (non-credit)

Liu, Haitao (co-advisor with Jian Zou), Graphical Models, Ph.D. advisor

Kay, Kathleen, Inverse Methods for Non-linear Dimension Reduction, MQP.

Mukne, Neehar Clustering of Internet Nodes Using Latencies, Research Collaboration (non-credit)

Orr, Jonathan, Quality Control for Nano-tube Yarns, Master's Capstone (Funded by Nanocomp).

Reese, Tyler Michael (co-advisor with Joseph D. Fehribach and Brigitte Servatius), Kirchhoff Graphs, Ph.D. advisor

Yang, Fan, Using ADMM to Detect K-Sparse Vector, Directed research. (non-credit)

Zhou, Chong, Kernel Based Deep Learning, Master's thesis.

Data Science GQP Advisor, Seceon Corp.

Fall 2015:

Biradar, Rakesh Nagendra, eRPCA for robust prediction in graph communities. Master's thesis. (GRADUATED)

Holmes, Andrew. Steps Toward Constructing Matrices that Satisfy the Restricted Isometry Property, Master's Capstone

Li, Nan, Hypothesis Testing for Graphical Models, Master's thesis.

Pandey, Shivangi, Statistical Methods in Data Science, ISP.

Li, Wenjing, Geolocation of Internets Nodes Using Robust PCA (with Mukne, Neehar) Master's capstone.

Reese, Tyler Michael, Kirchhoff Graphs, Ph.D. advisor (co-advisor with Joseph D. Fehribach and Brigitte Servatius)

Yang, Fan, Using ADMM to Detect K-Sparse Vectors, Master's capstone.

Zhou, Chong, Kernel Based Deep Learning, Master's thesis (and entering Data Science Ph.D. program)

Summer 2015:

Amadeo, Lily Large Scale Matrix Completion and Recommender Systems, Master's thesis. (GRADUATED)

Biradar, Rakesh Nagendra, eRPCA for robust prediction in graph communities. Master's thesis.

Li, Nan, Hypothesis Testing for Graphical Models, Master's thesis.

Liu, Yingnan, Detecting Anomalies in Border Gateway Protocol Data, Master's capstone

Yang, Fan. Using ADMM to Detect K-Sparse Vectors, Directed research (non-credit)

Zhou, Chong. , Kernel Based Deep Learning, Master's thesis)

Spring 2015:

Biradar, Rakesh Nagendra, eRPCA for robust prediction in graph communities. Directed research.

Reese, Tyler Michael, Kirchhoff Graphs, Ph.D. advisor (co-advisor with Joseph D. Fehribach and Brigitte Servatius)

Rosales, Elisa R , Random Forests for prediction in healthcare data. Masters in Applied Statistics capstone project.