View Our Gallery
Faculty
Daisy Zhe Wangdaisyw@ufl.edu
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
Collaborators
Joseph N. Wilsonjnw@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 Dobraadobra@cise.ufl.edu
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Approximate processing of database queries, foundations of data-mining/machine learning
Milenko Petrovicmpetrovic@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
Visiting Professor
Douglas W. Oard (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
Postdoc
Giacomo Bergami (2018-2019)gbergami@ufl.edu
Research Areas: Graph Database Management Systems, Graph Query Languages and Optimizations, Data Uncertainty, Data Mining
Current Students
Jayetri Bardhanjayetri.bardhan@ufl.edu
PhD Student
Research Areas: Question Answering, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Database Systems
Tinghui Zhangtinghui.zhang@ufl.edu
PhD student
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graph, Large Language Models, Vision Language Models
Dzmitry Kasinetsdkasinets@ufl.edu
PhD student
Research Areas: Large Language Models, Computer Vision, Music Information Retrieval, and Multimodal Data Fusion.
Bushi Xiaoxiaobushi@ufl.edu
PhD student
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Multimodality, Computational Social Science.
Aashish Dhawanaashish.dhawan@ufl.edu
PhD student
Research Areas: Natural language processing, Computer vision, Large language models, Explainable AI.
Sean Goldbergsean@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student (on-leave to work for Microsoft Corporation)
Research Areas: Machine learning, crowdsourcing, information extraction, knowledge base active learning
Ph.D. Alumni
Haodi Ma — First employment: Research Scientist at SINOPEC Research Institution of Petroleum Engineering Co., Ltdma.haodi@ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2025
Research Areas: Knowledge graphs, Databases, Data management systems, Question answering
Yang Bai — First employment: Research Scientist at Meta Platforms, Inc.baiyang94@ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2024
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graph, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Mining
Ira Harmon — First employment: Data Scientist at University of Florida College of Medicineiharmon1@ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2024
Research Areas: Machine learning, ecological analytics, computer vision
Yifan Wang — First employment: Assistant Professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa wangyifan@ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2024
Research Areas: Database, Data analytics system, Graph computing, Knowledge graph
Anthony Colas — First employment: JPMorgan Chase & Co. acolas1@ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2023
Research Areas: Question Answering, Knowledge bases, and Machine Learning
Mehrdad Alvandipour — First employment: Motorola Solutionsm.alvandipour@ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2022
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Knowledge Bases, Optimization
Ali Sadeghian — Co-Founder & CTO at Astrocadeasadeghian@ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2020
Research Areas: Machine Learning, knowledge bases, probabilistic graphical models, Data science
Miguel E. RodrÃguez — First employment: Google LLCmer@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2019
Research Areas: Data Science, Database Systems, Probabilistic Knowledge Fusion
Xiaofeng Zhou — First employment: Google LLCxiaofeng@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2018
Research Areas: Database Systems, Knowledge Base, probabilistic graphical models
Dihong Gong — First employment: Tencent Researchdihong@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2018
Research Areas: Machine learning, information extraction, computer vision, data mining
Yang Peng — First employment: Walmart Labsypeng@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2017
Research Areas: Data Science, Machine Learning, Multimodal Fusion, Knowledge Bases
Yang Chen — First employment: Google LLCyang@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2016
Research Areas: Large-scale knowledge bases, probabilistic graphical models
Morteza Shahriari Nia — First employment: Twitter Incmsnia@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 Goacgeorge@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2015
Research Areas: Machine learning, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, graphical models
Kun Li — First employment: Google LLCkli@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2015
Research Areas: Information extraction, part of speech tagging
Christan Grant — First employment: Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahomacgrant@cise.ufl.edu
PhD Student, 2015
Research Areas: Databases, data mining, large-scale machine learning, query-driven analytics
Masters and Undergraduate Alumni
Vyom Pathak— First employment: Chronograph
v.pathak@ufl.edu
Master Student
Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Reasoning, Knowledge Graph, Automatic Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, and Conversational Agents
Rishabh Khanna— First employment: Microsoft, Inc
rishabh.khanna@ufl.edu
Master Student
Research Areas: Web development, Databases, Data Science, and Clinical NLP
Hyun Choi— First employment: Amazon.com, Inc.
hchyun@ufl.edu
Undergraduate Student
Research Areas: Data Science, Ecological Analytics
Caleb Bryant— First employment: Facebook, Inc.
cal2u@ufl.edu
Undergraduate Student
Research Areas: Dialogue, Natural Language Understanding
Sourav Dutta — First employment: Globality, Inc.duttasourav@ufl.edu
Master Student
Research Areas: Data mining, hypothesis generation on knowledge bases, data science
Harish Balaji — First employment: MicroStrategybharish94@ufl.edu
Master Student
Research Areas: Data Science, Knowledge Bases, Healthcare Informatics
Sarvesh Soni — Current education: University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston), Biomedical Informatics Ph.D.sarveshsoni@ufl.edu
Master Student
Research Areas: Clinical Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
Auon Haidar Kazmi — First employment: Amazonakazmi@ufl.edu
Master Student, 2017
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Consumer Behaviour Analytics, Text Analytics and Recommender Systems
Jayson Salkey — Current education: Cornell University, Computer Science Ph.D.jayson.salkey@ufl.edu
Undergraduate Student, 2017
Research Areas: Biomedical Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning
Mebin Jacob — First employment: Microsoftmebinjacob@ufl.edu
Master Student, 2016
Research Areas: Distributed systems, Semantic Web Mining, Big Data
Siva Sainath Tallapragada — First employment: Applesiva92@ufl.edu
Master Student, 2016
Research Areas: Distributed systems, Cloud Technologies, Data Science
Jeremy Jay Bakerjbaker920@ufl.edu
Undergraduate, 2015
Research Areas: User Interface Design, Web Development, SigmaKB UI
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: Bloombergsoumitra.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: Microsoftipatwa@ufl.edu
Master Student, 2015
Research Areas: Pattern Recognition, Information Retrieval.
Sahil Puri — First employment: Amazonsahil@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2014
Research Areas: Databases, Data Mining, Electronic Health Records Analytics
Shuang Lin — First employment: PayPalslin@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2014
Research Areas: Data visualization, Data Mining
Abhiram Jagarlapudi — First employment: Amazonabhiram@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2013
Research Areas: Machine learning, Distributed systems
Jordan Gumbs — First employment: IBMjgumbs@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2012
Research Areas: Text analytics, machine learning and intelligent systems
Nilu Nalini — First employment: Qualcommnilu@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2012
Research Areas: Machine learning, crowdsourcing and knowledge bases
Sunny Khatri — First employment: Greenplum/EMCskhatri@cise.ufl.edu
Master Student, 2012
Research Areas: Machine learning, text analytics and information extraction