Students

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Our Research Group:

• Caio Davi, Ph.D. Student
• Sambandh Dhal, M.Sc. Student
• Parisa Ghane, Ph.D. Student
• Alireza Karbalayghareh, Ph.D. Student (co-advised with E. Dougherty)
• Levi McClenny, Ph.D. Student
• Yukun Tan, Ph.D. Student
• Shuilian Xie, Ph.D. Student

Graduated Ph.D. Students:

1. Mahdi Imani (Fall 2014-Spring 2019)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “Estimation, Inference and Learning in Nonlinear State-Space Models”
   Current Employment: Assistant Professor, George Washington University (from Fall 2019).

2. Emre Arslan (Fall 2014-Fall 2018)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “Analyzing High-Dimensional Biological Data Using Novel Bayesian Rank-Based Techniques”
   Current Employment: Research Scientist, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

3. Arghavan Bahadorinejad (Fall 2013-Spring 2017)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Gene Regulatory Network and Optimal Bayesian Classification of Metagenomic Data”
   Current Employment: Apple, Inc.

4. Xingde Jiang (Fall 2012-Fall 2016)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “Naive Bayes Bolstered Error Estimation, Model Selection and Identification of Stress Induced Pathways in Bananas.”Current Employment: Humana, Inc.

5. Esmaeil Atashpaz-Gargari (Fall 2011-Summer 2014)
   Committee Co-Chairs: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto and Edward R. Dougherty
   Thesis Title: “Biomarker Discovery and Validation for Proteomics and Genomics: Modeling and Systematic Analysis.”
   Current Employment: CEO of Online Educational Company FaraDars; Assistant Professor at National University, San Diego, CA

6. Ting Chen (Fall 2009-Fall 2013)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “Estimation and Detection of Multivariate Gene Regulatory Relationships.”
   Current Employment: Bioinformatician at Emmes Corporation, Rockville, MD

7. Youting Sun (Fall 2008-Spring 2011)
   Committee Co-Chairs: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto and Edward R. Dougherty
   Thesis Title: “Model-based Biomarker Detection and Systematic Analysis in Translational  Science.”
   Current Employment: Bioinformatician at Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, San Diego, CA

8. Thang Vu (Spring 2007-Spring 2011)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “The Bootstrap in Supervised Learning and Its Applications in Genomics/Proteomics.”
   Current Employment: Data Analyst at VinGroup, Vietnam.

9. Amin Zollanvari (Spring 2007-Fall 2010)
   Committee Co-Chairs: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto and Edward R. Dougherty
   Thesis Title: “Analytical Study of Performance of Error Estimators for Linear Discriminant Analysis with Applications in Genomics.”
   Current Employment: Assistant Professor at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

Graduated Master’s Students:

1. Kashyap Nagaraja (August 2016 – December 2018)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “Bayesian Classification Of Proteomics Biomarkers From Selected Reaction Monitoring Data Using An ABC-MCMC Approach”
   Current Employment: Data Scientist at IBM- Chief analytics, New York.

2. Ratanond Koonchanok (August 2016 – December 2017)
   Committee Co-Chairs: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto and Ivan Ivanov
   Thesis Title: “Computational Tool For Applications Of Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis on Biological Data”

3. Levi McCleney (May 2015 – June 2016)
   Committee Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto
   Thesis Title: “Optimal Estimation of Partially Observed Boolean Dynamical Systems in the Presence of Correlated Observation Noise.”
   Current Employment: U.S. Army and Texas A&M University (Ph.D. student).

4. Upamanyu Banerjee (Mar 2015 – May 2016)
   Advisor: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto (no-thesis option)
   Current Employment: Intel

Former Post-Doc Researcher:

1. Ting Chen (Oct 2013 – Apr 2014)

Former Undergraduate Students:

1. Pranati Chinthapenta (REU Fall 2017)

2. Gustavo Estrela (CNPq Internship Summer 2016)

3. Arthur do Nascimento (CNPq Internship Summer 2016)

4. Levi McClenny (NSF REU Spring 2015)

5. Elijah Rockers (NSF REU Spring 2015)