Doctoral Graduates

December 2024

Tao Cui (Dr. Naveen Bansal)
Dissertation: Determining the Differentially Expressed Genes by Bayesian Decision Rule

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August 2024

Yue Zhao (Dr. Maadooliat and Dr. Haghbin)
Dissertation: Regularized Multivariate Functional Principal Component Analysis
First position: Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN

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March 2024

Chase Sakitis (Dr. Rowe)
Dissertation: Formal Bayesian Approaches to the SENSE and GRAPPA Parallel FMRI Reconstruction Techniques Along with Their Combination
First position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Fridley Research Lab for Cancer Research, Children’s Mercy Research Institute, Kansas City, MO

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December 2023

Paromita Nitu (Dr. Madiraju)

Dissertation: Predictive Analytics with Class Imbalance: In Personalized Travel Recommendation and Automotive Crash Injury Research

First position: Data Scientist, General Motors, Warren, MI

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August 2023

Sunil Mathew (Dr. Rowe)

Dissertation: Generation of Cardiac Chamber Models Using Interpretable Generative Neural Networks For Electrophysical Studies

First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rey Lab for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

December 2022

William Herzberg (Drs. Hamilton and Rowe)

Dissertation: Graph Neural Networks For Inverse Problems With Sample Specific Meshes

First position: Signal Processing Engineer, Advanced Global Clinical Solutions, Inc., New Berlin, WI

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August 2022

Jiachen Ma (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Temporal Sentiment Mapping System for Time-Synchronized Data

First position: Senior Data Scientist, Direct Supply, Inc., Milwaukee, WI

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May 2022

Lin He (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Quantitative Multidimensional Stress Assessment from Facial Videos

First position: Senior Data Scientist, Direct Supply, Inc., Milwaukee, WI

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Fitrat Hossain (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Defining And Predicting Mental Health Crisis Events For Veterans Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Approaches

First position: Data Scientist, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

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Haochen Sun (Dr. Perouli)

Dissertation: All Pairs Routing Path Enumeration Using Latin Multiplication and Julia

First Position: Faculty, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China

July 2021

Heather Bort (Dr. Brylow)

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Nazmus Sakib (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: A Data-driven System for Sepsis Monitoring and Intervention using Contextually-tailored Bayesian Online Change Point Detection

First position: Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University of Buffalo, NY

Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA (Fall 2022)

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April 2021

Banbithi Bose (Dr. Bozdag)

Dissertation: Integration of Multi-Omics Data to Compute Gene Regulatory Networks and to Predict Personalized Drug Response in Cancer

First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

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Jordan Trinka (Dr. Maadooliat)

Dissertation: Functional Singular Spectrum Analysis: Nonparametric Decomposition and Forecasting Approaches for Functional Time Series

First position: Postdoctorate Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA

Current position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Feb 2021

Manzur Farazi (Dr. Bansal)

Dissertation: Predictive Analysis on Knee X-ray Image and Mosquito Spectral Data

First position: Biostatistician, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Currently: Statistical Research Scientist II, Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin

April 2020

Zhou Wu (Dr. Perouli)

Dissertation: Dependence and Scalable Public Ledger for Policy Compliance, a Blockchain Based Approach

First position: Blockchain Researcher, Bank of China

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Feb 2020

Masabho Peter Milali (Dr. Corliss)

Dissertation: Machine Learning and Data Mining Methods to Estimate Parity Status and Age of Wild Mosquito Vectors of Infectious Diseases from Near-infrared Spectra

First position: Information Specialist Contractor at AbbVie Inc.

Currently: Associate Research Scientist, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY (Fall 2020)

May 2019

Md Kamrul Hasan (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: BEst (Biomarker Estimation): Health Biomarker Estimation Non-invasively and Ubiquitously

First position: Northwestern Mutual Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Marquette University

Currently: Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (Fall 2022)

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Feb 2019

Xuyong Yu (Dr. Merrill)

Dissertation: Evaluating Electrode-tissue Contact Force Using the Moving Pattern of the Catheter Tip and Electrogram Characteristics

First position: Senior AI Engineer, Fii USA, Milwaukee, WI

Currently: Senior Algorithm Engineer, AccuPulse Medical Inc

March 2018

Benjamin Rizzo (Dr. Clough) 

Dissertation: Compressed Sensing for Few-view Multi-pinhole SPECT with Applications to Preclinical Imaging

First position: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (Fall 2019)

Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (Spring 2020)

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June 2018

Duc Do (Dr. Bozdag) 

Dissertation: Inference and Analysis of Multilayered miRNA-mediated Networks in Cancer

First position: Data Scientist at Elynx Technologies LLC

Currently: Senior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer, Persefoni (Fall 2022)

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November 2018

Drew Williams (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Developing Accessible Collection and Presentation Methods for Observational Data

Currently: Software Engineer II at Rover.com (Fall 2020)

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December 2018

Kehinde Irabor (Dr. Merrill)

Dissertation: Bifurcation in Weighted Digraphs and their Applications in Ecology

First position: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Marquette University (Fall 2019)

Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Concordia University, Wisconsin. (Fall 2020)

March 2017

Brittany Baur (Dr. Bozdag)

Dissertation: Identifying Regulators from Multiple Types of Biological Data in Cancer 
First position: Postdoc in the Sushmita Roy's lab at Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at University of Wisconsin - Madison (Fall 2017)

Currently: Senior Data Engineer, University of Michigan Medical School (Fall 2022)

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April 2017

Md Osman Gani (Dr. Ahamed) 

Dissertation: A Novel Approach to Complex Human Activity Recognition 

First position: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University

Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County (Fall 2020)

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August 2017

Regis Rutarindwa (Dr. Spiller) 

Dissertation: Computational Strategies in Uncertainty Quantification for Hazard Mapping

First position: Support Engineer at SAP SE in Philadelphia

Currently: Data & Applied Scientist II, Microsoft (Spring 2021)

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Piyush Rai Saxena (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Feature Space Augmentation: Improving Prediction Accuracy of Classical Problems in Cognitive Science and Computer Vision

First position: Data Scientist at Direct Supply

Currently: Director of Data Science, Direct Supply (Fall 2021)

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October 2017

Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan (Dr. Ahamed) 

Dissertation: Motivational and Intervention Systems and Monitoring with mHealth Tools

First position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural and Applied Science at University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

Current position: Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

April 

Karl D. Stamm (Dr. Bozdag)

Dissertation: Gene Set Enrichment and Projection: A Computational Tool for Knowledge Discovery in Transcriptomes

First position: Research Scientist at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Director of Bioinformatics at TAI Diagnostics

Currently: Data Scientist, Kaiser Permanente (Fall 2022)

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AKM Jahangir Majumder (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Development of a Wireless Mobile Computing Platform Towards Fall Risk Prediction

First position: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Miami University, Ohio

Currently: Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of South Carolina Upstate

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Rizwana Rizia (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: A Mobile Health Approach to Assist Veterans Reintegrating into Civilian Life
First position: Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Currently: Software Development Engineer II, Amazon (Fall 2018)

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June 

Ivor D. Addo (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Designing Human-centered Collective Intelligence

First position: Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department at University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

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July 

Mary Kociuba (Dr. Rowe)

Dissertation: A Fourier Description of Covariance and Separation of Simultaneously Encoded Slices with In-plane Acceleration in fMRI

First position: Senior Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics Division of Neonatology (Biomedical Image Computing Group) at the University of Washington School of Medicine

Currently: Research Scientist, Amazon, Seattle, WA (Fall 2017)

April 

Mohammad Adibuzzaman (Dr. Ahamed and Dr. Merrill)

Dissertation: Computational Approaches for Monitoring of Health Parameters and Their Evaluation in Clinical Setting

First position: Assistant Research Scientist, Purdue University

Currently: Assistant Professor & Co-Director of Clinical Informatics. Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR (Fall 2022)

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August 

Ferdaus Kawsar (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Computational Approaches for Remote Monitoring of Symptoms and Activities
First position: Research Scientist II in the Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Currently: Software Developer at Investment Cash Management, Wilmington, DE (Fall 2022)

March

Iain Bruce (Dr. Rowe)

Dissertation: Determination of Correlations Induced by the SENSE and GRAPPA PMRI Models with an Application to MRI RF Coil Design

First position: Postdoctoral Associate within the Duke/UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (BIAC) at Duke University in Durham, NC

Currently: MR Imaging and Applications Scientist, Polarean Imaging, Durham, NC

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April 

Samson Kiware (Dr. Corliss)

Dissertation: Bioinformatics Systems and Mathematical Models for Improved Understanding of Malaria Transmission, Control, and Elimination

First position: Research Scientist, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania

Currently: Research Scientist, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania

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May 

Mohammad Tanviruzzaman (Dr. Ahamad and Dr. Merrill)

Dissertation: Towards Usable End-user Authentication

First position: SDE Intern, Microsoft

Currently: Software Engineer at Facebook, Bothell, Washington (Spring 2021)

 

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July 

M. Muge Karaman (Dr. Rowe)

Dissertation: Improving fMRI Analysis and MR Reconstruction with the Incorporation of MR Relaxivities and Correlation Effect Examination

First position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for MR Research –
3T Program (CMRR-3T), University of Illinois at Chicago

Currently: Assistant Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (Fall 2022)

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December 

Prachi Pradeep (Dr. Merrill)

Dissertation: Hybrid Computational Toxicology Models for Regulatory Risk Assessment

First position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Currently: Scientific Officer, Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, Germany (Fall 2022)

January

Farzana Rahman (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Ensuring Application Specific Security, Privacy and Performance Goals in RFID System

First position: Assistant Professor, James Madison University

Currently: Associate (Teaching) Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University. (Fall 2019)

December

Md. Manirul Haque (Dr. Ahamed)

Dissertation: Mobile Based Symptom Management for Palliative Care

First position: Postdoctoral Associate at UAB

Currently: Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering at Butler University