PhD received May 2020
Thesis Title: New Parallel Algorithms for Support Vector Machines and Neural Architecture Search
Advisor: Suely Oliveira
Employment: Software Engineer at Salesforce; Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Iowa
PhD received December 2019
Thesis Title: TSCH Policies for Industrial Wireless Networks
Advisor: Octav Chipara
Employment: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Computer Science, University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa
PhD received December 2019
Thesis Title: Understanding the Roles of Humans, Algorithms, and Cyborgs in Political Polarization
Advisor: Zubair Shafiq
Employment: Pending information
PhD received August 2019
Thesis Title: Speeding up Complex Genetic Mutations Detection in Large Human Genome Data
Advisor: Suely Oliveira
Employment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa
PhD received August 2019
Thesis Title: Lazy Exact Real Arithmetic Using Floating Point Operations
Advisor: Aaron Stump
Employment: Assistant Professor, Grandview University - Des Moines, Iowa
PhD received August 2019
Thesis Title: Symmetry Breaking: Upper and Lower Bounds
Advisor: Sriram Pemmaraju
Employment: Software Engineer, Yelp - San Francisco Bay Area
PhD received August 2019
Thesis Title: Accelerating Convex Optimization in Machine Learning by Leveraging Functional Growth Conditions
Advisor: Tianbao Yang
Employment: Senior Algorithm Engineer, Alibaba Group (U.S.) Inc. - Greater Seattle Area
PhD received May 2019
Thesis Title: The Effect of Latency on Steering Behavior in Virtual Reality
Advisor: Joe Kearney
Employment: Seeking full-time employment
PhD received May 2019
Thesis Title: Digging Deeper into Clustering and Covering Problems
Advisor: Kasturi Varadarajan
Employment: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Bergen - Bergen, Norway
PhD received December 2018
Thesis Title: Locally Self-Adjusting Distributed Algorithms
Advisor: Sukumar Ghosh
Employment: Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington. Prior: Lead Software Engineer, Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA; Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa.
PhD received December 2018
Thesis Title: Optimizing Outcomes via Inverse Classification
Advisors: Alberto Segre | Nick Street
Employment: Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas
PhD received December 2018
Thesis Title: Satisfiability Modulo Relations: Theory and Applications
Advisor: Cesare Tinelli
Employment: Formal Verification Research Engineer, General Electric Global Research Center - Niskayuna, New York
PhD received August 2018
Thesis Title: Full-Body Joint Action in Pedestrian Road Crossing Virtual Environment
Advisor: Joe Kearney
Employment: Assistant Professor, California State University - San Marcos, California
PhD received August 2018
Thesis Title: Optimizing Neural Network Structures: Faster Speed, Smaller Size and Less Tuning
Advisor: Tianbao Yang
Employment: Machine Learning/Computer Vision Engineer, Apple, Cupertino, California
PhD received August 2018
Thesis Title: Online Learning for Imbalance Data: Optimizing the Asymmetric Measures
Advisor: Tianbao Yang
Employment: Data Scientist, Ancestry, San Francisco Bay Area
PhD received August 2017
Thesis Title: Stream Processing Optimizations for Mobile Sensing Applications
Advisor: Octav Chipara
Employment: Senior Associate Researcher, NEC Labs America, Princeton, New Jersey
PhD received May 2017
Thesis Title: Multi-Covering Problems and Their Variants
Advisor: Kasturi R. Varadarajan
Employment: Software Engineer - Maps, Apple, Cupertino, California
PhD received May 2017
Thesis Title: Mobile Ecological Momentary Assessment based Hearing Aid Evaluations
Advisor: Octav Chipara
Employment: Senior Director: IoT & Wearable Research, Delos Living LLC, Greater New York City Area
PhD received December 2016
Thesis Title: Shared and Distributed Memory Parallel Algorithms to Solve Big Data Problems in Biological, Social Networks, and Spatial Domain Applications
Advisor: Suely Oliveira
Employment: Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Xilinx, San Jose, California (Formerly Principal Software Engineer, Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, California; Sr. R&D Engineer, Synopsys, Mountain View, California)
PhD received December 2016
Thesis Title: Efficient Graph Computing on the Congested Clique
Advisor: Sriram Pemmaraju
Employment: Principal Software Engineer, Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, California
PhD received May 2016
Thesis Title: Coresets, Complexity of Shapes, and Total Sensitivity
Advisor: Kasturi Varadarajan
Employment: Senior Software Engineer, Mathworks, Natick, Massachusetts
PhD received August 2015
Thesis Title: Modeling Words for Online Sexual Behavior Surveillance and Clinical Text Information Extraction
Advisor: Alberto Segre
Employment: Research Scientist (Formerly Postdoctoral Scholar), Stanford, University, Stanford, California
PhD received August 2015
Thesis Title: Automatic Recognition of Healthcare Worker Hand Hygiene
Advisor: Ted Herman
Employment: Applied Scientist, Amazon, Seattle, Washington. Prior: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
PhD received August 2015
Thesis Title: Computational Applications to Hospital Epidemiology
Advisor: Sriram Pemmaraju
Employment: Postdoctoral Scholar, Centro Nacional de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada de Desastres Naturales (CIGIDEN), Santiago de Chile
PhD received May 2015
Thesis Title: From Surveys to Surveillance Strategies: a Case Study of Life Satisfaction
Advisor: Padmini Srinivasan
Employment: Applied Scientist II, Amazon, Seattle, Washington area
PhD received December 2014
Thesis Title: Improving Disease Surveillance: Sentinel Surveillance Network Design and Novel Uses of Wikipedia
Advisor: Alberto Segre
Employment: Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
PhD received December 2014
Thesis Title: Automated Reasoning over String Constraints
Advisor: Cesare Tinelli
Employment: Quantitative Software Engineer, Two Sigma, New York City area
PhD received December 2014
Thesis Title: Use of Social Media to Monitor and Predict Outbreaks and Public Opinion on Health Topics
Advisor: Alberto Segre
Employment: Director of Research, Evidation Health, Menlo Park, California
PhD received December 2014
Thesis Title: Effective and Efficient Algorithms for Simulating Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Advisor: Alberto Segre
Employment: Senior Data Scientist, Dotdash, New York City area Prior: Computer & Data Scientist, Mashable, New York City area