Prospective students
I am not taking on any additional students at this time, as I am on sabbatical.
Current students
Graduated students
- Zeyu Zhang, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2023
Thesis: Improving Geocoding by Incorporating Geographical Hierarchy and Attributes Into Transformer Networks - Yiyun Zhao, Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2022
Thesis: How to probe linguistic knowledge and bias - Dongfang Xu, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2021
Thesis: Neural Network Algorithms for Ontology Informed Information Extraction - Vikas Yadav, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2020
Thesis: Evidence Retrieval for Explainable Question Answering - Farig Sadeque, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2019
Thesis: User behavior in social media: engagement, incivility, and depression - John Osborne, Ph.D., Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2016
Thesis: 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
Thesis: Improving the performance of cross-domain authorship attribution