| UNDERGRADUATES |
| Robert DeLoatch |
Intelligent tutoring systems for introductory programming |
| Douglas Stull |
Regression learning for swarm system design |
| Kevin Winner |
Machine learning applications; engineering swarm systems |
Playing to Program |
Students: David Walser, Jennifer Adamschick,
Amy Ciavolino, Robert DeLoatch, Eliana Feasley, Iris Kwok, Mary Lewis, Chris Mai |
| ML Applications |
Students: James MacGlashan, Jennifer Adamschick, Alex Bassett, Taylor Evans, Kerry Luke, Teresa Oswald, Douglas Stull, Eric Wasser, Kevin Winner |
| ALUMNI |
| Michael Lombardi |
(B.S. expected May 2010) Visualization techniques for medical data |
Fusun Yaman |
(Postdoctoral researcher, 2007-2009) Learning in planning systems |
| Paul Guseman |
(B.S. May 2009; M.S. expected May 2011) School redistricting;
relational clustering |
| Gregory Handy |
(B.S. expected May 2010) Active Feature acquisition for supervised
learning
|
| Blazej Bulka |
(Ph.D. August 2009) Automated planning, analysis and learning
of
planning search spaces |
| Peter Hamilton |
(B.S. May 2009) Engineering swarm systems |
| Adam Anthony |
(Ph.D. May 2009; M.S. May 2007)
Relational data clustering. Currently an Assistant Professor at
Baldwin-Wallace College |
| Eric
Eaton |
(Ph.D. May 2009; M.S. May 2006) Transfer learning;
multiresolution learning. Currently a Senior Research Scientist at
Lockheed-Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratory and adjunct
faculty at Swarthmore College.
|
| Mike Smith |
(Ph.D. May 2009) Trust in multiagent systems.
Currently a Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer at MITRE. |
| Wesley Griffin |
(M.S. expected May 2010; Marc Olano, advisor)
School redistricting evaluation |
| Max Morawski |
(B.S. expected May 2010) School redistricting; multicriteria optimization |
| Peter Sterba |
(B.S. expected May 2010) Trust in multiagent systems |
| Steven Martin |
(B.S. May 2008) Relational clustering; teamwork simulation |
| Brandon Wilson |
(M.S. August 2008) Test-cost sensitive regression. Continued to the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
| Jake Tanenbaum |
(B.S. May 2008) Dimension reduction |
John Stevenson |
(B.S. May 2008) Multiresolution learning |
| JC Montminy |
(M.S. May 2008) Preference learning for text documents |
| Shivali Gupta |
(M.S. December 2007) Evolutionary multiattribute optimization |
| Kateryna Rohonyan |
(B.S. May 2007) Visualizing relational
data. |
| Ryan Carr |
(B.S. Honors May 2007) School redistricting,
evolutionary search. Continued to graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
| Jon Labin |
(M.S. May 2007) Multi-agent systems,
emergence, distributed sensor networks. |
| Patrick Geissel |
(B.S. December 2006) Planning. |
| Qianjun Xu |
(Ph.D. May 2006; M.S. May 2003) Machine learning,
feature selection, data visualization. |
| Natalie Podrazik |
(B.S. May 2006) Cost-sensitive
classification |
| Matt
Gaston |
(Ph.D. December 2005; M.S. May 2002) Complex networks,
artificial societies, cognitive systems. |
| Neeraj Kashyap (Math) |
(B.S. December 2003 / Applied Math
M.S. August 2005) Graph-based constraint satisfaction. |
| Craig Cambias |
(B.S. May 2005) Annotated constrained
clustering. Continued to graduate studies at Georgia
Tech. |
| Maria Vachino |
(B.S. May 2005) Visualization of
relational data; semantic interactive graph layout |
| Brandon Corfman |
(M.S. December 2004)
Dynamic constraint satisfaction |
| Mithun
Sheshagiri |
(M.S. August 2004). Thesis topic:
Service composition for the semantic web. |
| Yan Hao |
(M.S. August 2004). Thesis topic:
Multiattribute optimization of spatial partitioning
problems. |
| Priyang
Rathod |
(M.S. May 2004) Multiagent systems,
team formation. |
| John Simmons |
(M.S. May 2004). Project topic:
Team formation in multi-agent systems. |
| Sowmya
Ponuguti |
(M.S. May 2004). Project
topic: Value grouping for decision tree learning. |
| Mitch White |
(B.S. May 2004). Research
topic: Network structures and multi-agent systems. |
| Laurie Botto |
(B.S. December 2003) Research topic:
Genetic algorithms |
| Sohel Merchant |
(M.S. August 2003). Project topic:
Bioinformatics data management. Currently working
at Pragmatic Technology Solutions. |
| Csaba Rozgonyi |
(M.S. August 2003). Project topic:
Genetic learning of control rules in reactive systems. |
| Joshua Barczak |
(B.S. May 2003). Continued to
graduate studies at UMBC working with Prof. Marc
Olano. |
| Mike Furr |
(B.S. May 2003). Continued to graduate
studies at the University of Maryland, College
Park. |
| Joshua Solomon |
(B.S. May 2003). Research topic:
Temporal reasoning with non-controllable constraints. |
| Tom Walsh |
(B.S. May 2003). Undergraduate
research topic: The effects of graph density on
team formation in multi-agent systems.Continued
to graduate studies at Rutgers University. |
Xuanxuan Su |
(M.S. December 2002). Project title:
Multi-resolution image processing for physical
data. Current position (as of Spring 2003): Research
specialist, Department of Neurology, University
of Maryland School of Medicine. |
| Suryakant Sansare |
(M.S. August 2002). Thesis title:
Incorporating constraint checking costs in constraint
satisfaction problems. |
| Chad Sessions |
(former Ph.D. student). Moved to
Florida, where he will hopefully resume his studies! |
OTHER STUDENTS
(mentored students
and those whose thesis or project committees Dr.
desJardins has served or is serving on) |
| David Trimm |
(Ph.D. in progress; advisor Dr. Penny Rheingans).
Dissertation topic: Visualizing path data. |
Alark Joshi |
(Ph.D. in progress; advisor Dr. Penny Rheingans).
Dissertation topic: Visualizing time-varying data using
illustration-inspired techniques. |
|
Bill Krueger
|
(M.S. in progress; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis topic:
construction of theoretical entities.
|
| Yi Lu |
(Ph.D. December 2007; advisor
Dr. Steve Freeland, biology) |
| Ajay Joglekar |
(M.S. August 2007; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis title: Unsupervised
object category recognition in images. |
| Soumi Ray |
(M.S. May 2007; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis title: Transfer in
the context of reinforcement learning by mapping
Q-tables. |
| Indrajit Bhattacharya |
(Ph.D. UMCP May 2007; advisor Dr. Lise Getoor). Thesis topic: Relational
clustering for entity resolution. |
| Gang Wu |
(Ph.D. December 2006; advisor Dr.
Steve Freeland (biology)). Thesis topic: Increasing
heterologous gene expression by optimization of
codon usage. |
| Joe Catalano |
(M.S. August 2006; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis topic:
time series learning. |
| Balaji Viswanathan |
(M.S. May 2006; advisor Dr. Tim Finin). Thesis
title: MISSION: Multiagent institutions for sensor networks. |
| Suraj Amonkar |
(M.S. December 2005; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis
topic: clustering microarray data for bioinformatics. |
| Kamalika Das |
(M.S. December 2005; advisor Dr. Penny Rheingans).
Thesis topic: visualization of bioinformatics data. |
| Eleanor Chlan |
(Ph.D. May 2005; advisor Dr. Penny Rheingans). Dissertation title:
A botanically inspired information visualization
of hierarchical data sets. |
| Harry Chen |
(Ph.D. May 2005; advisor Dr. Tim Finin). Dissertation
title: A broker-centric agent architecture for building distributed
context-aware systems. |
| Srinivas Bhagavatula |
(M.S. December 2004; advisor Dr. Penny
Rheingans). Thesis title: Exploring the volume illustration
parameter space. |
| Poonam Shanbhag |
(M.S. August 2004; advisor Dr. Penny Rheingans).
Thesis topic: Visualization of time-varying data. |
| Mitesh Vasa |
(M.S. December 2004; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis
title: Image classification with8in the multiple instance learning
framework. |
| Youyong Zou |
(Ph.D. August 2004; advisor Dr. Tim Finin). Dissertation
title: Reasoning agents for the Semantic Web. |
| Kunal Punwani |
(M.S. May 2004; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). |
| Srinivas Bhagavatula |
(M.S. December 2004). Thesis topic:
Learning visualization parameters. |
| Poonam Shanbhag |
(M.S. December 2004). Thesis topic:
Temporal visualization of spatial partitioning
data. |
| Shailesh Doshi |
(Ph.D. in progress; M.S. December 2003; advisor
Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis topic: Probabilistic graph
grammars. |
| Shari Holstege |
(M.S. in progress).
Thesis topic: Interactive exploration of the space
of
possible visualizations. |
| Youyoung Zou |
(Ph.D. 2005; advisor Dr. Tim Finin).
Thesis title: Reasoning agents for the Semantic
Web. |
| Devina Desai |
(M.S. December 2002; advisor Dr. Tim Oates). Thesis
title: Predicting patterns in multivariant time series
using unsupervised learning. |
| Kiri Wagstaff |
(Ph.D. Cornell University August 2002; advisor
Dr. Claire Cardie). Thesis title: Intelligent clustering
with instance-level constraints. Current position
(as of Fall 2003): Research scientist, Space Systems,
Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory. |
| Russell Osborn |
(Mt. Hebron High School, June 2002). Research topic:
Communication in multi-agent systems. Currently (as
of Fall 2002) an undergraduate at Harvey Mudd College. |
| Pratik Phadke |
(M.S. August 2001; advisor Dr. Penny Rheingans) |
