Dissertations supervised
- Hakju Oh, Agile Lifecycle Management of Standards for Data
Exchange, May 2022
- Ramin Ayanzadeh, Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Advance Problem-Solving with Quantum Annealers, co-advised with M. Halem, 2020
- Taneeya Satyapanich, Modeling and Extracting Information about Cybersecurity Events from Text, December, 2019
- Ankur Padia, Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs, co-advised with Francis Ferraro, October 2019
- Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman, Understanding the Logical and Semantic Structure of Large Documents, 2018
- Abhay Lokesh Kashyap, Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation, September 2017
- Prajit Kumar Das, Learning and Executing Energy Efficient, Context-Dependent Rules for Privacy and Security Management on Mobile Devices, co-advised with Anupam Joshi, September 2017
- Jennifer Sleeman, Dynamic Data Assimilation for Topic Modeling, Heterogeneous Data, co-advised with Milton Halem, 2017
- Robert H. Holder, III, Rapid Plan Adaptation Through Offline Analysis of Potential Plan Disruptors, co-advised with Marie desJardins,
May 2016
- Varish Mulwad, TABEL - A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables, 2015
- Lushan Han, Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data, 2014
- Joel Sachs, Supporting citizen science and biodiversity informatics on the semantic web, 2013
- Karuna Joshi, Semantically Rich, Polcy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services, co-advised with Yelena
Yesha, 2012
- Justin Martineau, Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis, 2011
- Zareen Syed, Wikitology: A novel hybrid knowledge base derived from Wikipedia, 2010
- Akshay Java, Mining Social Media Communities and Content, October 2008
- Pranam Kolari, Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach, 2007
- Olga Ratsimore, Coordination by bartering electronic goods and services, 2007
- Li Ding, On Boosting Semantic Web Data Access, March 2006
- Harry Chen, An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive
Context-Aware Systems, 2004
- Lalana Kagal, A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous
Behavior in Distributed Environments, September 2004
- Xiaocheng Luan, Adaptive Middle Agent for Service Matching in
the Semantic Web: A Quantitative Approach, co-advised with Yun Peng,
2004
- Youyong Zou, Agent-Based Services for the Semantic Web, 2004
- Olga Streltchenko, Exploring Trading Dynamics in a Derivative
Securities Market of Heterogeneous Agents, co-advised with Charles
Nicholas, 2003
- R. Scott Cost, Conversations and Protocols for Software
Agents, 1999
- Muhammad Abdallah Rabi, Relationships Among Security and
Algebraic Properties of Cryptographic Objects, and a Security
Infrastructure for Agent Communication Languages,
co-advised with A. Sherman, 1998
- Ellis Clarke, Knowledge discovery in historical databases, 1998
- Michael Grasso, Speech Input in Multimodal Environments:
Effects of Perceptual Structure on Speed, Accuracy, and Acceptance,
co-advised with D. Ebert, 1997
- Yannis K. Labrou, The semantic specification of the KQML
agent communication language , 1996
- David Klein, A Framework for the Explanation and Refinement
of a Formal Choice Model, University of Pennsylvania, co-advised with T. Shortliff, 1989
- Robert Kass, Automatic Acquisition of User Models in Cooperative Advising Systems, University of Pennsylvania, 1988
M.S. Theses supervised
- Ratnadeep Gajanan Mangalvedhekar, 2016, User Interaction Framework for Tabel, a Domain Independent Framework for Inferring Semantics of Tables
- Swati Nandakishor Vyavahare, 2014, Schema Free Interface and the Analysis of Semantic Datasets
- Vikas Bansal, 2014, RecoloringWeb Pages for Color Vision Deficiency Users
- Manish Padmakar Chavan, 2014, Developing a Cybersecurity Text Corpus and its Application for Augmenting Semantic Text Similarity
- Adam J Shook, 2013, Nimbus: Scalable, Distributed, in-Memory Data Storage
- Arnav Prabodh Joshi, 2013, Linked Data for Software Security Concepts and Vulnerability Descriptions
- Ravendar Lal, 2013, Information Extraction of Cyber Security Related Terms and Concepts from Unstructured Text
- Nikhil Puranik, 2012, A Specialist Approach for the Classification of Column Data
- Amey Sane, 2012, Predicting the Activities of Mobile Phone Users with Hidden Markov Models
- Nagapradeep Chinnam, 2011, Group Recognition in Social Networks
- Radhika D Dharurkar, 2011, Context-Aware Middleware for Activity Recognition
- Akshaya Murali Iyengar, 2011, Estimating Temporal Boundaries for Events using Social Media Data
- Mohit Naresh Kewalramani, 2011, Community Detection in Twitter
- Amit Mahale, 2011, Group Centric Information Sharing using Hierarchical Models
- William Murnane, 2010, Improving Accuracy of Named Entity Recognition on Social Media Data
- Krishnamurthy Koduvayur Viswanathan„ 2010, Text Based Similarity Metrics and Delta for Semantic Web Graphs
- Tejas Vinay Lagvankar, 2010, Collaborative Data Gathering using Context-Aware Mobile Devices
- Anand Karandikar, 2010, Clustering Short Status Messages: A Topic Model Based Approach
- Varish Mulwad, 2010, T2LD - an Automatic Framework for Extracting, Interpreting and Representing Tables as Linked Data
- Mansi Radke, 2008, Geotagging for the Blogosphere
- Anubhav Kale, 2007, Modeling Trust and Influence on Blogosphere using Link Polarity
- Sandeep Balijepalli, 2007, Blogvox2: A Modular Domain Independent Sentiment Analysis System
- Andriy Parafiynyk, 2007, Using the Semantic Web to Support Knowledge Integration, Retrieval and Expansion for Ecoinformatics
- Pavan Reddivari, 2006, A policy-based system to determine access control in RDF stores
- Balaji Viswanathan, 2006, MISSION: Multiagent Insitutions for Sensor Networks
- Mohindersingh Chopra, 2005, Applying policy based access control and XML digital signatures for security in pervasive computing environments
- Payam Fard. 2003, Reasoning with DAMLJessKB for semantic web
- Urvi M. Shah, 2002, Information retrieval on the semantic web
- Mahesh Gandhe, 2002, SweetJess : DamlRuleML inference using Jess
- Naveen Srinivasan, 2002, Enabling peer-to-peer service discovery in agent environment
- Harry Lik Chen, 2000, Developing a dynamic distributed intelligent agent framework based on the Jini architecture
- James McGuire, A Hierarchical Database Model for a Logic Programming Language, 1988, University of Pennsylvania
- Donald Drager, GUMS 1 : A General User Modeling System, University of Pennsylvania
- Jeff Shrager, Invoking a Beginner's Aid Processor by Recognizing JCL Goals, 1981, University of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Computer Science I (CMSC201)
- Programming Languages (CMSC331)
- Database Management Systems (CMSC461)
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CMSC471)
- Basic Research Skills and Methods (CMSC 601)
- Principles of Database Systems (CMSC661)
- Principles of Artificial Intelligence (CMSC671)
- Communication Skills (CMSC692)
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence (CMSC771)
- Theory and practice of Knowledge Representation (CMSC771)
- Special topics in Computer Science (CMSC 491, 691 and/or 891) on Intelligent Agents, Semantic Web, Web of Data, Knowledge Graphs, Teaching CS1 in Python Intelligent Information Systems
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Introduction to Computing (undergraduate)
- Data Structures (undergraduate)
- Programming Languages and Techniques (undergraduate)
- Interactive Systems (undergraduate)
- Programming Languages and Techniques (graduate)
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (graduate)
- Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (graduate)
- Seminar on Natural Language Processing (graduate)
- Decision Support Systems (graduate, Dept. of Decision Sciences, Wharton School of Business)