"ISP provides me much flexibility and the resources to incorporate other techniques such as machine learning into my field of Human-Computer Interaction."
Lanfei Shi, student
Alumni List
| Name | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Degree | Year | |
| Jonathan Young |
Deep Learning for Causal Structure Learning Applied to Cancer Pathway Discovery | Ph.D. | 2020 |   |
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| Jaromir Savelka |
Data Scientist with Reed Smith | Discovering Sentences for Argumentation About Meaning of Statutory Terms | Ph.D. | 2020 | |
| Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian |
Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health | Bayesian rule learning for knowledge discovery | Ph.D. | 2019 | |
| Zahra Rahimi |
Scientist at Pandora Media | Linguistic Entrainment in Multi-party Spoken Dialogues | Ph.D. | 2019 | |
| Gaurav Trivedi |
Sr. Software Engineer, Advanced Innovations Group, Philips | Interactive Natural Language Processing for Clinical Text | Ph.D. | 2019 | |
| Ye Ye |
Postdoc associate in Department of biomedical informatics, University of Pittsburgh | Transfer Learning for Bayesian Case Detection Systems. | Ph.D. | 2018 | |
| Roya Hosseini |
- | Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology. | Ph.D. | 2018 | |
| Yun Huang |
Postdoc, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; Visiting researcher, Institute of Informatics, Austral University of Chile |
Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming. | Ph.D. | 2018 | |
| Saman Amirpour Amraii |
Co-Founder of xSeer.io | Human-data Interaction In Large And High-dimensional Data. | Ph.D. | 2018 | |
| Homa Baradaran Hashemi | Applied Scientist at Microsoft |
Robust Parsing for Ungrammatical Sentences. | Ph.D. | 2018 | |
| Mahdi Pakdaman Naeini | Applied Scientists at Microsoft | Obtaining Accurate Probabilities using Classifier Calibration. | Ph.D. | 2017 | |
| Phillip Walker | Researcher at Smart Information Flow Technologies | Improving Operator Recognition and Prediction of Emergent Swarm Behaviors. | Ph.D. | 2017 | |
| Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi | Assistant Professor, University at Albany | Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation. | Ph.D. | 2017 | |
| Ian (An Kwok) Wong | Internal Medicine Resident, Emory Healthcare | Biomarker Discovery in Exome Data. | Ph.D. | 2016 | |
| Lingjia Deng | NLP Research Scientist, Bloomberg | Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection And Inference. | Ph.D. | 2016 | |
| Matthias Grabmair | Systems Scientist, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Modeling Purposive Legal Argumentation and Case Outcome Prediction using Argument Schemes�in the Value Judgment Formalism. | Ph.D. | 2016 | |
| Cem Akkaya | Sr. Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs, San Francisco | SUBJECTIVITY WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION: A METHOD FOR SENSE-AWARE SUBJECTIVITY ANALYSIS. | Ph.D. | 2014 | |
| Collin Lynch | Assistant Professor, Computer Science NC State University | The Diagnosticity of Argument Diagrams. | Ph.D. | 2014 | |
| Matthew Stokes | Computational Biology Scientist for Celgene, CITRE | Novel Extensions of Label Propagation for Biomarker Discovery in Genomic Data. | Ph.D. | 2014 | |
| Yuriy Sverchkov | CIBM Postdoctoral Trainee at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Detection and Explanation of Statistical Differences Across a Pair of Groups. | Ph.D. | 2014 | |
| Eric Williams | Automated Detection of Anomalous Patterns in Validation Scores for Protein X-Ray Structure Models. | Ph.D. | 2013 | |
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| Lanfei Shi | Phd Student at Smith Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland | M.S. | 2013 | |
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| Saeed Amizadeh | Machine Learning Scientist at Microsoft | NON-PARAMETRIC GRAPH-BASED METHODS FOR LARGE SCALE PROBLEMS. | Ph.D. | 2013 | |
| Jeremy Espino | Biomedical Informatician | M.S. | 2012 | |
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| Jialan Que | Lead Analytical Scientist at FICO | RANK-BASED TEMPO-SPATIAL CLUSTERING: A FRAMEWORK FOR RAPID OUTBREAK DETECTION USING SINGLE OR MULTIPLE DATA STREAMS. | Ph.D. | 2012 | |
| Seshan Ananthasubramanian | Quantitative Analyst at Google | M.S. | 2012 | |
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| Ilya Goldin | Director of Data Science, 2U, Inc. | A FOCUS ON CONTENT: THE USE OF RUBRICS IN PEER REVIEW TO GUIDE STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS. | Ph.D. | 2011 | |
| Richard Pelikan | Bioinformatics Scientist at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | Analytical Techniques for the Improvement of Mass Spectrometry Protein Profiling. | Ph.D. | 2011 | |
| Sung-Young Jung | Using Natural Language as Knowledge Representation in an Intelligent Tutoring System. | Ph.D. | 2011 | |
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| Arthur Ward | Postdoctoral Scholar at Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh | Reflection and Learning Robustness in a Natural Language Conceptual Physics Tutoring System. | Ph.D. | 2010 | |
| Behrang Mohit | Data Scientist at Apple Siri-Search | LOCATING AND REDUCING TRANSLATIONDIFFICULTY. | Ph.D. | 2010 | |
| Michael Ringenberg | Senior Research Programmer at Carnegie Mellon University | Scaffolding Problem Solving with Embedded Examples to Promote Deep Learning. | M.S. | 2010 | |
| Philip Ganchev | Software Engineer at Hulu | Transfer rule learning for biomarker discovery and verification from related data sets. | Ph.D. | 2010 | |
| Thahir P. Mohamed | Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com | M.S. | 2010 | |
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| Hua Ai | Consultant at Slalom Consulting | User Simulation for Spoken Dialog System Development. | Ph.D. | 2009 | |
| Min Chi | Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science | Do Micro-Level Tutorial Decisions Matter: Applying Reinforcement Learning To Induce Pedagogical Tutorial Tactics. | Ph.D. | 2009 | |
| Rosta Farzan | Assistant Professor, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh | A STUDY OF SOCIAL NAVIGATION SUPPORT UNDER DIFFERENT SITUATIONAL AND PERSONAL FACTORS. | Ph.D. | 2009 | |
| Xiaohui (Javy) Kong | Founder, Cognitive AI Technologies Inc. | ROLES OF VISUAL WORKING MEMORY, GLOBAL PERCEPTION AND EYE-MOVEMENT IN VISUAL COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING. | Ph.D. | 2009 | |
| Yanna Shen | Fellow, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Department of Health and Human Services | BAYESIAN MODELING OF ANOMALIES DUE TO KNOWN AND UNKNOWN CAUSES. | Ph.D. | 2009 | |
| Theresa Wilson | Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Hanover College, IN | Fine-grained Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis: Recognizing the intensity, polarity, and attitudes of private states. | Ph.D. | 2008 | |
| Aditya Nemlekar | Senior Research Engineer at National Robotics Engineering Center | M.S. | 2007 | |
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| Shyam Visweswaran | Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh | Learning Patient-Specific Models From Clinical Data. | Ph.D. | 2007 | |
| Branislav Kveton | Senior Scientist at Adobe Research | Planning in Hybrid Structured Stochastic Domains. | Ph.D. | 2006 | |
| Paul Hoffmann | Compunetix in Pittsburgh | M.S. | 2006 | |
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| Yuan, Changhe | Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of New York | Importance Sampling for Bayesian Networks: Principles, Algorithms, and Performance. | Ph.D. | 2006 | |
| Chas Murray | Cognitive Scientist at Carnegie Learning | An evaluation of decision-theoretic tutorial action selection. | Ph.D. | 2005 | |
| Subramani Mani | Associate Professor, Clinical and Translational Science, University of New Mexico | A Bayesian Local Causal Discovery Framework. | Ph.D. | 2005 | |
| Gil Citro | Psychiatrist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA | Ph.D. | 2004 | |
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| Haiqin Wang | Advanced Computing Technologist at Boeing Phantom Works Seattle, WA | Building Bayesian Networks: Elicitation, Evaluation, and Learning. | Ph.D. | 2004 | |
| Noboru Matsuda | Department of Computer Science, NC State University | THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT PROOF STRATEGIES ON LEARNING GEOMETRY THEOREM PROVING. | Ph.D. | 2004 | |
| Wei Wang | Research Scientist at Apixio | M.S. | 2004 | |
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| Changwon Yoo | Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Florida International University | Ph.D. | 2003 | |
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| Daniel Hennessy | System Architect at MDT Software | Ph.D. | 2003 | |
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| Denver Dash | Principal Machine Learning Engineer @ Magic Leap | Ph.D. | 2003 | |
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| Jun Zhang | Senior Developer, Nome Holdings LLC | M.S. | 2003 | |
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| Lili Ma | Sr. Software Developer at SAS | M.S. | 2003 | |
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| Mehmet Kayaalp | Staff scientist, U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. | Ph.D. | 2003 | |
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| Tsai-Ching Lu | Senior Research Staff Scientist at HRL Laboratories | Construction and Utilization of Mechanism-based Causal Models. | Ph.D. | 2003 | |
| Amy Soller | Manager for science and technology in the public interest | Ph.D. | 2002 | |
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| Ravi Desai | Manager, Oleoline | M.S. | 2002 | |
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| Gerardina Hernandez | Ph.D. | 2001 | |
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| Ioannis Tsamardinos | Associate Professor at Computer Science Department, University of Crete | Ph.D. | 2001 | |
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| Giuseppe Carenini | Associate Professor in Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia. | Generating and Evaluating Evaluative Arguments | PhD | 2000 | |
| Pam Jordan | Research Associate, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh | Intentional Influences on Object Redescriptions in Dialogue: Evidence from an Empirical Study | Ph.D. | 2000 | |
| Richard Ambrosino | Medical Director, Clinical Decision Support and Reporting, eRecord, UPMC | Ph.D. | 2000 | |
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| Sailesh Ramakrishnan | Investment Professional at Milliways LLC; CTO & VP Engineering at LocBox | M.S. | 2000 | |
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| Benoit Desjardins | Associate Professor of Radiology | M.S. | 1999 | |
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| Bruce McLaren | Associate Research Professor at HCII, Carnegie Mellon University | Assessing the Relevance of Cases and Principles Using Operationalization Techniques | Ph.D. | 1999 | |
| Cristina Conati | Professor, University of British Columbia. | Ph.D. | 1999 | |
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| Patricia Albacete | Research Associate, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. | Ph.D. | 1999 | |
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| Stefano Monti | Associate Professor, Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University | Ph.D. | 1999 | |
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| William Hogan | Professor in the College of Medicine, University of Florida | M.S. | 1999 | |
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| Constantin Aliferis | Director of Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota | Ph.D. | 1998 | |
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| Massimo Paolucci | Manager of the Technology, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories | M.S. | 1998 | |
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| Violetta Cavalli-Sforza | Assistant Professor, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, Department of Computer Science | Constructed vs. Received Graphical Representations For Learning About Scientific Controversy: Implications For Learning And Coaching | Ph.D. | 1998 | |
| Anthony Harris | Physician specializing in Neurological Surgery, MultiCare | Ph.D. | 1997 | |
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| R. Michael Young | Professor and Director, Liquid Narrative Group, School of Computing
Deputy Director, Entertainment Arts and Engineering |
Ph.D. | 1997 | |
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| Vincent Aleven | Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Ph.D. | 1997 | |
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| David Joslin | Ph.D. | 1996 | |
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| Thomas Spalthoff | Senior Sales Manager at Amdocs | M.S. | 1996 | |
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| Jonathan Rubin | Software Developer | M.S. | 1995 | |
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| Michael Wagner | Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh | Ph.D. | 1995 | |
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| Yagil Ronen | M.S. | 1995 | |
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| Anandeep Pannu (Pannu) | Sr Principal Product Manager | M.S. | 1994 | |
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| Arthur DeCillis | VP Medical Affairs at Exelixis | M.S. | 1994 | |
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| Anoosh (Anooshiravan) Katibshahidi | Ph.D. | 1993 | |
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| John Aronis | Post Doctoral Scholar | Ph.D. | 1993 | |
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| Sigalit Ur | Educational staff at Galilee Foundation for Value Education, IBM | M.S. | 1993 | |
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| Steve Casner | Research Psychologist at NASA, Human Systems Integration Division | Ph.D. | 1990 | |
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| Jeffrey Sullivan | Internet and Technology-Driven Business Executive, Minute Menu Systems | M.S. | 1989 | |
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| Barry Blumenfeld | Senior Physician Informaticist at RTI International | M.S. | 1989 | |
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| Charles Webster | President at EHR Workflow Inc. | M.S. | |
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| Donald Freeman | |
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| han Teng | Ph.D student at the UoM HCI lab | M.S. | |
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| Jozsef Toth | |
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| Wang, Shuguang | Lead Data Scientist | M.S. | |