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I am grateful to work with a group of talented students and researchers.

Kayley's farewll dinner, January 27, 2023:
Hongyi's graduation party, May 21, 2022:
Sina's graduation party, May 16, 2021:
Sina's virtual defense, Decembe 14, 2020:
Group picture after Hoang's defense, July 15, 2019:
Group picture on Memorial Day, May 26, 2019:
Group picture after Yanhui's defense, December 14, 2017:
Group picture on Halloween, 2014:
Farewell lunch picture for Ablimit on March 28, 2014:
Current Ph.D. Students
  • Yinan Liu, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: AI for Healthcare

  • Lu Chen, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Big Data Management and Analytics

  • Shi Zhan, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Medical Imaging

  • Xinyu Dong, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: AI Driven Opioid Epidemic Research

  • Kimon Stathakos, Ph.D. student, Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Data Quality in Healthcare

  • Yifan Qi, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Medical Imaging Informatics

  • Rui Liu, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Human Computer Interaction and Machine Learning

Graduated Ph.D. Students
  • Jianyuan Deng, Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University
    Research area: AI Driven Drug Discovery
    First employment: Scientist at Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (formerly Janssen Pharmaceuticals)

  • Kayley Abell-Hart, Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Clinical Informatics and Population Health
    First employment: Data Scientist at Verily Life Sciences

  • Mousumi Roy, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Medical Image Analysis and Computer Vision
    First employment: Postdoctoral Associate at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Hongyi Duanmu, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Medical Image Analytics, Computer Vision
    First employment: Xsense.ai(XPeng)

  • Dejun Teng, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Big Data Management Systems and High Performance Computing
    First employment: Faculty member at Shandong University, China

  • Furqan Baig, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: Big Data Management Systems for Multi-dimensional Data
    First employment: PostDoc fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Yu Wang, Ph.D.in Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: AI for Healthcare
    First employment: Google

  • Sina Rashidian, Ph.D., Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    Research area: AI for Healthcare
    First employment: Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; Verily Life Sciences

  • Hoang Vo, Ph.D., Computer Science, Stony Brook University, 2019
    Research area: Spatial and Temporal Big Data Systems
    First employment: Pitney Bowes

  • Pengyue Zhang, Ph.D., Computer Science, Stony Brook University, 2019
    Research area: Biomedical Imaging Analytics
    First employment: Xsense.ai(XPeng)

  • Xin Chen, Ph.D., Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, 2018
    Research area: Healthcare and Public Health Data Analytics
    Employment: Cambia Health Solutions

  • Yanhui Liang, Ph.D., Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, 2017
    Research area: 3D Pathology Imaging and Spatial Databases
    First employment: Google (Google Brain Team)

  • Shuai Zheng, Ph.D., Computer Science, Emory University
    Research area: Biomedical data natural language processing
    First employment: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Ablimit Aji, Ph.D., Computer Science, Emory University
    Research area: Spatial big data
    First employment: HP Labs

Past Visiting Scholars
  • Na Tang, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, South China Normal University
    Research area: Data Management

  • Ming Zhong, Associate Professor, School of Computer, Wuhan University
    Research area: Data Management

  • Ping Fan, Associate Professor, Hubei University of Science and Technology
    Research area: Data Management