Current advisees

Post-doctoral:

• Egoitz Laparra

Doctoral:

• Gaurav Sharma, co-advised with Eungjoo Lee
• Jeremiah Gaiser, co-advised with Travis Wheeler
• Kadir Bulut Özler
• Sarah Stueve
• Jiacheng Zhang
• Yeaeun Kwon
• Ayesha Khatun
• Yanyan Dong

Masters:

• Sai Laasya Gorantla
• Shreemithra Naveen

Graduated students

• Abhyuday Singh, B.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2025
  Thesis: Comparing Pretrained Llms Across Transformer, State-Space And Hybrid Architectures
• Xin Su, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2024
  Dissertation: Structured Information Extraction and Applications in Complex Reasoning
• Sarah Hyunju Song, M.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2024
  Thesis: Metadata Enhancement Using Large Language Models: Improving the Quality of Aggregated Records in the iSamples Project
• Tugay Bilgis, B.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2024
  Thesis: Revisiting Medical Concept Normalization: a Comparative Analysis of Transformer-based Models and Search Engine Approaches
• Zeyu Zhang, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2023
  Dissertation: Improving Geocoding by Incorporating Geographical Hierarchy and Attributes Into Transformer Networks
• Winston Zeng, B.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2023
  Thesis: Fine-tuning Transformer-based Natural Language Generation Algorithms for USDA Grains Reports for Farmers, Producers, and Small Businesses
• Yiyun Zhao, Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2022
  Dissertation: How to probe linguistic knowledge and bias
• Amanda Bertsch, B.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2021
  Thesis: Deep Learning for Bias Detection on the English Wikipedia
• Dongfang Xu, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2021
  Dissertation: Neural Network Algorithms for Ontology Informed Information Extraction
• Jiacheng Zhang, M.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2021
  Thesis: General Benefits of Mono-Lingual Pre-Training in Transformers
• Vikas Yadav, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2020
  Dissertation: Evidence Retrieval for Explainable Question Answering
• Farig Sadeque, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2019
  Dissertation: User behavior in social media: engagement, incivility, and depression
• John Osborne, Ph.D., Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2016
  Dissertation: Machine Learning of Composite Concepts and the Alleviation of The Content Completeness Problem in Text Mention Normalization
• Upendra Sapkota, Ph.D., Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2015
  Dissertation: Improving the performance of cross-domain authorship attribution