Our PhD Students

PhD students graduated from the Computer and Information Science Department have been recruited as faculty members in universities including University of Chicago, Rochester Institute of Technology, DePaul University, University of Michigan - Flint, Central Michigan University, Kuwait University, and King Faisal University as well as technology leaders in industrial companies/centers including Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, Ford, GM, and Quicken Loans.

CIS PhD Student A. Amich

• Program: Ph.D. Computer and Information Science 
• Status: Ph.D. Student
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor/Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Adversarial Machine Learning for Malware Detectors
• Career Focus: Academia and Industry
• E-mail: [email protected]

Research Projects

I'm currently working on adversarial machine learning for Malware detectors. In order to evade very accurate Malware detectors,  attackers can make changes on test samples using different Adversarial Sample Generation (ASG) approaches. One of the main challenges for an ASG approach is to maintain the behavior of the Malware and its executability. Some related works have contributed to this topic, however, it is still a relatively fresh field with much room for research and additional findings.

CIS PhD Student Md Abul Kalam Azad

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate 
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor / Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Computing Systems and Software Engineering
• Career Focus: Academia or Indsutry Research
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Ouael Ben Amara

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate 
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor / Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Machine Learning, Probabilistic Programming, ExplainableAI
• Career Focus: Research, Entrepreneurship
• E-mail: [email protected] 

CIS PhD Student Firas Ben Hmida

• Program: Ph.D  in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D Student
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor/Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Trustworthy Machine Learning
• Career Focus:  Industrial Research
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Avishak Chakroborty

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. pre-candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Software Engineering, Continuous Deployment
• Career Focus: Mobile DevOps, Machine Learning, Code Analysis
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Kapotaksha Das

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor
• Research Focus: Multimodal Deep Learning for detecting Human States
• Career Focus: Building models and systems to improve medical processes
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Houyi Du

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor / Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus:  Universal approximation theorem, Reinforcement Learning
• Career Focus: Academia/industrial
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Zaid Ghazal

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. pre-candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Failure Reasoning for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Career Focus: Autonomous Driving Systems + Machine Learning  + Validation Testing
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Sami Hadouaj

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate 
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant/Graduate Student Instructor
• Research Focus: Databases/ Probabilistic reasoning/ Machine learning 
• Career Focus: Research
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Philemon Hailemariam

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: PhD Student
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant/Graduate Student Instructor
• Research Focus: Trustworthy machine learning 
• Career Focus: AI Security 
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Zhengquan Li

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Edge Computing and Distributed Systems 
• Career Focus: Industry or Academia 
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Khairul Mottakin

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science 
•  Status: Ph.D. Candidate 
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor and Graduate Research Assistant 
• Research Focus: WiFi Sensing, Indoor Localization  
• Career Focus: Aspiring to advance research and development in wireless sensing technologies, with a particular focus on indoor localization and surveillance systems. Interested in applying WiFi sensing techniques to smart cities, smart homes, smart roads, and IoT applications. Passionate about both academic research and industry-driven innovation in the field of wireless communication and sensing. 
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Sambathchatovong Na

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science 
• Status: PhD Student
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor
• Research Focus: Data Security, Data Privacy, and Public Policy
• Career Focus: Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Consultant, Professor, and Researcher 
• E-mail: [email protected] 

CIS PhD Student Ziba Parsons

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science 
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate 
• Position: Graduate Student Instructor 
• Research Focus: Federated Learning 
• Career Focus: Machine Learning, Data Science 
• Email: [email protected] 

CIS PhD Student Kais Riani

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant / Graduate Student Instructor
• Research Focus: Facial Thermal Regions Mapping for Human State Recognition
• Career Focus: Academia and Industrial Research
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Dhia Rzig

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate 
• Position: Graduate Student Instructor/ Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: DevOps for ML Projects
• Career Focus: Applying research innovations to large scale production environments. 
• Email: [email protected] 

CIS PhD Student Soham Saha

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences
• Status: PhD Student
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant 
• Research Focus: Reinforcement Learning 
• Career Focus: Applied RL, Human-Centered AI, Machine Learning Solutions 
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Salem Sharak

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor
• Research Focus: Multimodal Machine Learning, NLP
• Career Focus: Academia
•  E-mail: [email protected]
  
   

CIS PhD Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor / Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: HPC, Program Analysis and Cloud Computing
• Career Focus: Industry and Academia
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Boshen Wang

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Instructor/Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Computational Game Theory, Multi-Agent Systems, Machine Learning
• Career Focus: Teaching or Industry
• E-mail: [email protected]

CIS PhD Student Hadiza Yusuf

• Program: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science
• Status: Ph.D Student
• Position / Appointment: Graduate Student Research Assistant
• Research Focus: Falsification of AI-enabled Cyber-Physical-Systems
• Career Focus: Academia/Industrial Research
• E-mail: [email protected]