Daisy Zhe Wang
daisyw@ufl.edu
Associate Professor and Director of Data Science Research Lab
Research Areas: Probabilistic databases, Probabilistic knowledge bases, in-database information extraction, large-scale advanced data analysis, and query-driven interactive machine learning

Joseph N. Wilson
jnw@cise.ufl.edu
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Intelligent systems, machine learning, signal processing, computer vision, programming languages, and the boundaries where these diverse areas of study meet

Alin Dobra
adobra@cise.ufl.edu
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Approximate processing of database queries, foundations of data-mining/machine learning

Milenko Petrovic
mpetrovic@ihmc.us
Research Scientist, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
Research Areas: Big Data systems, streaming data processing, cloud computing, mobile and embedded systems, sensor networks, scalable data acquisition and storage, parallel processing algorithms, data visualization

Douglas W. Oard (Visiting 2016-2017)
oard@umd.edu
Professor
College of Information Studies and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
The University of Maryland
Research Areas: eDiscovery, cross-language information retrieval, speech retrieval

Giacomo Bergami
gbergami@ufl.edu
Research Areas: Graph Database Management Systems, Graph Query Languages and Optimizations, Data Uncertainty, Data Mining

Sean Goldberg
sean@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student
Research Areas: Machine learning, crowdsourcing, information extraction, knowledge base active learning

Miguel E. Rodríguez
mer@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student
Research Areas: Data Science, Database Systems, Probabilistic Knowledge Fusion

Ali Sadeghian
asadeghian@ufl.edu
PhD Student
Research Areas: Machine Learning, knowledge bases, probabilistic graphical models, Data science

Anthony Colas
anthonymcolas@gmail.com
PhD Student
Research Areas: Question Answering, Knowledge bases, and Machine Learning

Yang Bai
baiyang94@ufl.edu
PhD Student
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Graph Analytics, Data Science

Caleb Bryant
cal2u@ufl.edu
Undergraduate Student
Research Areas: Dialogue, Natural Language Understanding

Sourav Dutta
duttasourav@ufl.edu
Master Student
Research Areas: Data mining, hypothesis generation on knowledge bases, data science

Hyun Choi
hchyun@ufl.edu
Undergraduate Student
Research Areas: Data Science, Ecological Analytics

Xiaofeng Zhou — First employment: Google
xiaofeng@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2018
Research Areas: Database Systems, Knowledge Base, probabilistic graphical models

Dihong Gong — First employment: Tencent Research
dihong@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2018
Research Areas: Machine learning, information extraction, computer vision, data mining

Yang Peng — First employment: Walmart Labs
ypeng@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2017
Research Areas: Data Science, Machine Learning, Multimodal Fusion, Knowledge Bases

Yang Chen — First employment: Google Inc
yang@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2016
Research Areas: Large-scale knowledge bases, probabilistic graphical models

Morteza Shahriari Nia — First employment: Twitter Inc
msnia@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2016
Research Areas: Probabilistic graphical models, Knowledge bases, Array DBMS in-situ analytics

Clint P. George — First employment: Assistant Professor at IIT Goa
cgeorge@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2015
Research Areas: Machine learning, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, graphical models

Kun Li — First employment: Google Inc
kli@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2015
Research Areas: Information extraction, part of speech tagging

Christan Grant — First employment: Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma
cgrant@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2015
Research Areas: Databases, data mining, large-scale machine learning, query-driven analytics

Masters and Undergraduate Alumni

A V Shrinivas — First employment: Amazon
avshrinivass@gmail.com
Master Student, 2015
Research Areas: Knowledge Base Alignment, Rule learning, Information extraction and data mining

Soumitra Siddharth Johri — First employment: Bloomberg
soumitra.siddharth@gmail.com
Master Student, 2015
Research Areas: Data Science, Databases, Large Scale Knowledge Bases, Information extraction and Big Data Systems

Ishan Patwa — First employment: Microsoft
ipatwa@ufl.edu
Master Student, 2015
Research Areas: Pattern Recognition, Information Retrieval.

Sahil Puri — First employment: Amazon
sahil@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2014
Research Areas: Databases, Data Mining, Electronic Health Records Analytics

Shuang Lin  — First employment: PayPal
slin@cise.ufl.edu 
Master Student, 2014
Research Areas: Data visualization, Data Mining

Abhiram Jagarlapudi — First employment: Amazon
abhiram@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2013
Research Areas: Machine learning, Distributed systems

Ryan Cobb
rcobb@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2013
Research Areas: Databases, Data Mining

Jordan Gumbs — First employment: IBM
jgumbs@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2012
Research Areas: Text analytics, machine learning and intelligent systems

Nilu Nalini — First employment: Qualcomm
nilu@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2012
Research Areas: Machine learning, crowdsourcing and knowledge bases

Sunny Khatri — First employment: Greenplum/EMC
skhatri@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2012
Research Areas: Machine learning, text analytics and information extraction