Haym Hirsh's PhD Advisees
(and their students when relevant and known
(16 PhD Advisees, 62 Descendants)

1. Arunava Banerjee (2001):
   Dissertation: The Phase-Space Dynamics of Systems of Spiking Neurons.
   Committee: Doug DeCarlo, Haym Hirsh, Peter Rowat (UC San Diego), Eduardo Sontag
   First position: Postdoc, Alexandre Pouget, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
   Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
   Students:
   1. Nicholas Fisher (PhD 2010: "A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Model of a Spiking Neuron")
      Current position: Senior Data Scientist, SAIC
   2. Ami Gates (PhD 2008: "State-of-the-Art Protein Secondary-Structure Prediction Using a Novel Two-Stage Alignment and Machine-Learning Method")
      Current position: Director of the Analytics Program and Associate Teaching Professor, Georgetown University
   3. Karthik S. Gurumoorthy (PhD 2011: "A Schodinger wave mechanics formalism for the eikonal problem and its associated gradient density computation")
      Current position: Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon
   4. Santhosh Kodipaka (PhD 2009: "A Novel Conic Section Classifier with Tractable Geometric Learning Algorithm")
      Current position: Principle Software Engineer, Bing Ads, Microsoft
   5. Ritwik Kumar (PhD 2009: "Relighting, Pose Change and Recognition of Faces")
      Current position: Director, Machine Learning, Netflix
   6. Hailong Meng (PhD 2006: "A novel methodology for identifying conserved regulatory modules at the binding site level")
      Current position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Yale School of Medicine
   7. Ajit V. Rajwade (PhD 2010: "Probabilistic Approaches to Image Registration and Denoising")
      Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
      1. Preeti Gopal (PhD 2020: "Tomographic Reconstruction: A Radiation Reduction Approach")
         Current position: Associate Research Fellow, Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University
   8. Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy (PhD 2011: "The Transformational Complexity of Acyclic Networks of Neurons")
      Current position: Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology & Science; Simons Fellow, Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
   9. Subhajit Sengupta (PhD 2013: "Two Models Involving Bayesian Nonparametric Techniques")
      Current position: Research Scientist, NorthShore University HealthSystem
   10. Nathan VanderKraats (PhD 2009: "A novel probabilistic lower bound on mutual information applied to a category-based framework for spike train discrimination")
       Current position: Head, IT Decision Science Predictive Pipeline, Bayer Crop Science
2. Chumki Basu (2002):
   Dissertation: Recommendation as Classification and Recommendation as Matching: Two Information-Centered Approaches to Recommendation
   Committee: William Cohen (AT&T Bell Labs), Haym Hirsh, Craig Nevill-Manning, Matthew Stone
   Current position: Senior Research Scientist, Perspecta Labs
3. Brian Davison (2002):
   Dissertation: The Design and Evaluation of Web Prefetching and Caching Techniques
   Committee: Ricardo Bianchini, Haym Hirsh, Thu Nguyen, Craig Wills (WPI)
   Current position: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, PA
   Students:
   1. Na Dai (PhD 2014: "Mining Web Dynamics for Search")
      Current position: Software Engineer, Google AI
   2. Ovidiu Dan (PhD 2019: IP Geolocation):
      Current position: Principal Software Engineering Manager - Marketplace & TakeLessons.com @Microsoft
   3. LiangJie Hong (PhD 2013: "Mining and Understanding Online Conversational Media")
      Current position: Director of Engineering - AI, LinkedIn
   4. Sicong Kuang (PhD 2020: "Improving Semantic Representation in Bias Detection")
      Current position: Software Engineer - Artificial Intelligence, Linkedin
   5. Lan Nie (PhD 2008: "Mining the Hyperlinks of the Web Graph")
      Current position: Staff Software Engineer, Google
   6. Xiaoguang Qi (PhD 2012: "Web Page Classification and Hierarchy Adaptation")
      Current position: Engineering Manager, Apple Siri Knowledge
   7. Baoning Wu (PhD 2007: "Finding and Fighting Search Engine Spam")
      Current position: Principal Data Scientist, Symantec
   8. Zaihan Yang (PhD 2014: "Mining and Analyzing the Academic Network")
      Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College
   9. Dawei Yin (PhD 2013: "Prediction and Recommendation in Online Media")
      Current position: Senior Director, Head of Search Science, Baidu, Inc.
   10. Youshan Zhang (PhD 2021: "Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Visual Recognition")
       Current position: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
4. Molly Feldman (2020):
   Dissertation: Realizing the Human Potential of Program Synthesis and Crowdsourcing.
   Committee: Francois Guimbretiere, Haym Hirsh, Ross Tate
   Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Oberlin College
5. Sergiu Goschin (2014): (with Michael Littman)
   Dissertation: Stochastic Dilemmas: Foundations and Applications.
   Current position: Software Engineer, Google
6. Vipul Kashyap (1997): (with Amit Sheth)
   Dissertation: Information Brokering over Heterogeneous Digital Data - A Metadata-based Approach.
   Committee: Alex Borgida, Haym Hirsh, Badri Nath, Amit Sheth
   Current position: SVP, Head of Clinical Informatics and Product Strategy, BUDDI.AI
7. Daniel Kudenko (1998):
   Dissertation: Feature Generation for Sequence Categorization.
   First position: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of York, U.K.
   Current position>:Research Group Leader, L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Students:
   1. Ali Abusnina (PhD 2014: "Gaussian Process Adaptive Soft Sensors and their Applications in Inferential Control Systems.")
      Current position: Chief Data Scientist at Aramco
   2. Abdullah Algarni (PhD 2017: A Machine Learning Framework for Optimising File Distribution Across Multiple Cloud Storage Services)
      Current position: Director of Information Technology, The Saudi Fund for Development
   3. Heather Barber (PhD 2008: "Generator of Adaptive Dilemma-based Interactive Narratives")
      Current position: CICS Explorer FV Engineer, IBM - Southampton, UK
   4. Sam Devlin (PhD 2014: "Potential-Based Reward Shaping for Knowledge-Based, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.")
      Current position: Principal Researcher (Games + AI), Microsoft Research
   5. Kyriakos Efthymiadis (PhD 2015: ")
      Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
   6. Matthew Grounds (PhD 2007: "Scaling-up Reinforcement Learning using Parallelization and Symbolic Planning")
      Current position: Staff Software Engineer, Reddit
   7. Marek Grzes (PhD 2010: "Improving Exploration in Reinforcement Learning through Domain Knowledge and Parameter Analysis")
      Current position: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Kent
   8. Rania Hodhod (PhD 2010: "Interactive Narrative for Adaptive Educational Games: Architecture and an Application to Character Education")
      Current position: Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, TSYS School of Computer Science, Columbus State University
   9. Spiros Kapetanakis (PhD 2004: "Independent Learning of Coordination in Cooperative Single-Stage Games")
      Current position: Vice President, JPMorgan Chase
   10. Zoe Webster (Lock) (PhD 2005, "Performance and Flexibility of Stereotype-based User Models")
       Current position: Director - Data and AI Solutions, BT
   11. Kleanthis Malialis (PhD 2014: "Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Network Intrusion Response")
       Current position: Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
   12. George Mason (PhD 2018: "Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Formally Verified Abstract Policies")
       
   13. Enda Ridge (PhD 2008: "Design of Experiments for the Tuning of Optimisation Algorithms")
       Current position: Marketplaces Analytics Lead, Google Commerce
   14. Peter Scopes (PhD 2016: "Automated Mixed Resolution Acyclic Tiling in Reinforcement Learning")
       Current position: Senior Software Engineer, NCC Group
   15. Arturo Servin (PhD 2009: "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Intrusion Detection")
       Current position: Content Delivery and Interconnection Strategy, Google
   16. I-Hsien (Derrick) Ting (PhD 2007: "Closing the KDD loop to Improve Website Design")
       Current position: Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Information Management, National University of Kaohsiung
   17. Hanting Xie (PhD 2018: "A generic data representation for predicting player behaviours")
       Current position: Applied Scientist II, Amazon, UK
   18. David Zendle (PhD 2016: "Priming and Negative Priming in Violent Video Games")
       Current position: Lecturer, Computer Science Department, University of York, UK
8. David Loewenstern (1999): (with Peter Yianilos)
   Dissertation: Sequence Classification Learning using Methods Derived from Entropy Estimation.
   Committee: Helen Berman (Chemistry), Haym Hirsh, Casimir Kulikowski, Peter Yianilos (NEC Research) Current position: Senior Applied ML Engineer, EvolutionIQ
9. David Lubinsky (1993): (with Sholom Weiss)
   Dissertation: Analysis of Bivariate Splits and Consistent Split Criteria in Dichotomous Classification Trees.
   Current position: Owner, OPSI Systems
   Students:
   1. Mohamed Aboulgasem Arteimi (PhD, 2000)
      Current position: Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Libyan Academy of Graduate Studies; President, Libyan Association for Artificial Intelligence,
10. Sofus Macskassy (2003):
    Dissertation: New Techniques in Information Filtering.
    Committee: Haym Hirsh, Michael Littman, Craig Nevill-Manning, Foster Provost (NYU)
    Current position: Head of Data Science Research and Productivity, Linkedin
11. Chris Mesterharm (2007):
    Dissertation: Improving On-Line Learning.
    Committee: Haym Hirsh, Michael Littman, Robert Schapire (Princeton), Bill Steiger
    Current Position: Senior Research Scientist,Perspecta Labs
12. Steve Norton (1995):
    Dissertation: Exploiting knowledge of uncertainty: induction of classifiers by the incremental combination of probabilistic evidence.
    Current position: Developer, Lightkeeper LLC
13. Lorien Pratt (1993): (with Jack Mostow)
    Dissertation: Transferring Previously Learned Back-Propagation Neural Networks to New Learning Tasks.
    Committee: Steve Hanson (NEC), Haym Hirsh, Casimir Kulikowski, Jack Mostow, Michiel Noordewier
    Current position: CTO, Quatellia
14. Khaled Rasheed (1998): (with Andrew Gelsey)
    Dissertation: GADO: A Genetic Algorithm for Continuous Design Optimization.
    Committee: Andrew Gelsey, Haym Hirsh, Doyle Knight (Mechanical Engineering), Don Smith
    Current position: Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
    Students:
    1. Amna Basharat (PhD 2016: "Semantics Driven Human-Machine Computation Framework for Linked Islamic Knowledge Engineering")
       Current position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
    2. Boseon Byeon (PhD 2009: "Enhancing the Quality of High Dimensional Noisy Data for Classification and Regression Problems") Current position: Assistant professor, Computer Science Department, SUNY Oswego
    3. Tomasz Oliwa (PhD 2013: "Learning, Exploiting and Benchmarking Problem Structures in Real-Valued Evolutionary Optimization")
       Current position: Senior Scientific Software Engineer, Center for Research Informatics, University of Chicago
    4. Bo Qian (PhD 2006: "Intelligent Financial Market Prediction")
       Current position: Strategic Analytic Developer, Deutsche Bank
    5. Liang Shi (PhD 2008: "Adaptive Surrogate-Assisted Evolution")
       Current position: Senior Director, Tongdun Technology
    6. Man Chon (Kevin) U (PhD 2008: "Improving learning outcomes by using clustering validity analysis to reduce label uncertainty")
       Current position: Vice President (Unit CIO), Head of Enterprise Data Technology & Augmented Intelligence, American Express
    7. Hamed Yaghoobian (PhD 2021: "Structure- and Context-aware NLP Approaches to Emotion and Subjectivity" Current position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Muhlenberg College
15. Gary Weiss (2003): (with Foster Provost)
    Dissertation: The Effect of Small Disjuncts and Class Distribution on Decision Tree Learning.
    Committee: Haym Hirsh, Casimir Kulikowski, Foster Provost (NYU), Lou Steinberg
    Current position: Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University
16. Sarah Zelikovitz (2002):
    Dissertation: Using Background Knowledge to Improve Text Classification.
    Committee: Haym Hirsh, Tom Mitchell (CMU), Craig Nevill-Manning, Lou Steinberg
    Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Staten Island