PhD

CUNY Grad Center: Ph.D.  Defense Committee Member, April 21, 2021, Yiming Tang,  Topic: “Towards Automated Software Evolution of Data-intensive Applications”, Chair: Raffi Khatchadourian.

Columbia University: Ph.D.   Defense Committee Member, June 29, 2016,  Faiza Khattak, Topic: “Toward a Robust and Universal Crowd Labeling Framework”, Chair: Dr. Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi.

UNCC: Ph.D. Defense Chair, June 26, 2014, Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, Title: Topology-aware Approach to Emergence of Social Norms in Multiagent Systems” Ph.D. Proposal Defense Committee Chair, November 5, 2013, Title: “Towards a Generalized Theory of Communication Convention in Multiagent Systems”; Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Chair, April 2013, Mohammad Hasan, Areas of Concentration: Multiagent Systems, Network Science, Application Security.  (Graduation date August 2014) [Won Department of Software and Information Systems Chair’s Best Poster Award in SIS 2013 Ph.D. Poster Competition for poster on Coalition in Complex Networks]

UNCC: Ph.D. Defense Chair, August 15, 2012, Ph.D. Proposal Defense Committee Chair, June 14, 2011, and Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Chair, December 2009, Shanjun Cheng, Topic: “Coordinating Meta-level Control Across Agent Boundaries”

UNCC: Ph.D. Proposal Defense Committee Member, November 12, 2014, Saeed Al-Haj, Topic: “Using Formal Methods Towards Improving Cloud IAAS Environments”.

UNCC: Ph.D. Proposal Defense Committee Member, December 2013 and Ph.D. Defense Committee Member, April 6, 2015, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Topic: “Automated Formal Analytics for Smart Grid Security and Resiliency”.

UNCC: Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee Member, May 2012, Osarieme Omokaro, Area of Concentration: Networks.

UNCC: Ph.D. Proposal Defense Committee Member, December 2, 2011 and Ph.D. Defense Committee Member, February 18, 2015, Nadia Najjar, College of Computing and Information Systems, Topic: “Group Modeling, Recommendation and Evaluation in Collaborative Filtering Group-based Recommender Systems”.

UNCC: Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Chair, December 2008, George Alexander, Area of Concentration: Artificial Intelligence.

2006 TIAA-CREF fellowship recipient.

UNCC: Ph.D. Proposal Committee Member, December 2007 and Ph.D. Defense Committee Number, September 2008, Gautam Singaraju, College of Computing, “Toward Sender Accountability on Email Infrastructure Using Sender Identity and Reputation Management”.

Masters

Hunter College: M.S. Thesis Defense Committee Chair, Daniel Mallia, Dec 2022, Department of Computer Science, “Towards an Unsupervised Bayesian Network Pipeline for Explainable Prediction, Decision Making and Discovery”.

Hunter College: M.S. Thesis Defense Committee Member, Manal Zneit, May 2022, Department of Computer Science, “A Tool Supported Metamodel for program BugFix Analysis in Empirical Software Engineering” Chair : Raffi Khatchadourian

UNCC: M.S. Thesis Defense Committee Chair, Shalini Rajanna, November 2013, Department of Software and Information Systems, “Text and Image Analysis of Defense Reports”.

UNCC: M.S. Thesis Defense Committee Chair, Jia Yue, November 2009, Department of Software and Information Systems, “Controlling resource-bounded reasoning for visual analytics in a blackboard-based  agent”.

UNCC: M.S. Thesis Defense Committee Member, Keonsu Kim, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, June 2008,  “Wireless LAN Traffic prediction based on the Support Vector Machine”.

UNCC: M.S. Thesis Defense Committee Member, April 2008, Jason Whaley, Department of Software and Information Systems, “Improving Recommendation Quality in Large-Scale Online Systems”.

UNCC: M.S. Independent Study Project Supervisor, August 2006, Niraj Mehta, Department of Software and Information Systems, “Managing Uncertainty Propagation Using a Numerical Approach”.

UNCC: M.S. Thesis Defense Committee Member, December 2005, Vikram Sharma, Department of Software and Information Systems, “Centralized Registry Framework for Windows Based Information Infrastructure System Management and Configuration Diagnostics