PhD Students
Amy Babay
Group(s): Systems Group
Lab(s): Distributed Systems and Networks Lab
Adviser(s): Yair Amir
Research Interests: Structured overlay networks, next-generation internet services, intrusion tolerance, resilient critical infrastructure, intrusion-tolerant SCADA for the power grid, high performance messaging
Rohit Bhattacharya
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Karchin Lab, Institute for Computational Medicine
Adviser(s): Rachel Karchin
Research Interests: cancer immunotherapy, protein design, deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative models, stochastic approximation
Preetham Chalasani
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR)
Adviser(s): Dr.Russell H Taylor
Research Interests: Robotic Telemanipulation, Virtual fixtures, Haptics
Alishah Chator
Group(s): Information Security Group
Lab(s): Information Security, Cryptography
Adviser(s): Matthew Green
Research Interests: Applied Cryptography, Security, Privacy, Technology Policy
Tongfei Chen
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Blab
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Natural language processing, question answering, information extraction, information retrieval.
Kuan Cheng
Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group
Adviser(s): Xin Li
Research Interests: Randomness, Pseudo-randomness, Computational Complexity, Cryptography
Arka Rai Choudhuri
Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group Information Security Group
Lab(s): Cryptography
Adviser(s): Abhishek Jain
Research Interests: Theoretical Cryptography
Charlotte Darby
Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Langmead, Schatz
Adviser(s): Ben Langmead,Michael Schatz
Research Interests: Computational Genomics, Sequencing Technologies
Robert DiPietro
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Computational Interaction and Robotics Laboratory, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare
Adviser(s): Gregory D. Hager
Research Interests: Modeling sequential data, recurrent neural networks, long-term dependencies
Leandro Facchinetti
Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group
Lab(s): The Programming Languages Laboratory
Adviser(s): Scott F. Smith
Research Interests: Program Analysis, Programming-Language Design, Type Systems, Education
Yixin Gao
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): LCSR, Malone Center for Engineering in Heathcare
Adviser(s): Sanjeev Khudanpur, Greg Hager
Research Interests: Machine Learning
Aarushi Goel
Group(s): Information Security Group
Lab(s): Information Security and Cryptography
Adviser(s): Dr. Abhishek Jain
Research Interests: Cryptography, Security
Robert Grupp
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR),Computer Integrated Interventional Systems Laboratory (CIIS),Biomechanical and Image Guided Surgical Systems (BIGSS)
Adviser(s): Russell Taylor
Research Interests: Medical image registration, statistical models of anatomy, medical robotics, computer integrated surgery
Katherine Henry
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare
Adviser(s): Suchi Saria
Research Interests: Machine-learning, Time-series Analysis, Medicine, Computational Health, Biostatistics
Kapil Katyal
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CIRL
Adviser(s): Greg Hager
Research Interests: Robotics, perception, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Huda Khayrallah
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Philipp Koehn
Research Interests: Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Low-Resource Languages
TaeSoo Kim
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Computational Interaction and Robotics Laboratory
Adviser(s): Austin Reiter
Research Interests: My recent work focuses on computer vision methods for learning interpretable representation from time-series data. I am also interested in learning transferable representation between synthetic and real data. I work towards applying such models to activity recognition, skill assessment in surgery and robotics.
Younsu Kim
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Computational Biology & Medicine Group Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): MUSIIC
Adviser(s): Emad M. Boctor
Research Interests: Ultrasound thermal monitoring, ultrasound-guided techniques
Sam Kovaka
Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Adviser(s): Michael Schatz, Mihaela Pertea
Research Interests: Genomics, transcriptomics
Gaurav Kumar
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser(s): Philipp Koehn, Sanjeev Khudanpur
Research Interests: Machine Translation, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Connor Lane
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): JHU Vision Lab
Adviser(s): René Vidal
Research Interests: Non-convex Optimization, Theory of Deep Learning, Statistical Machine Learning
Sing Chun Lee
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CAMP
Adviser(s): Nassir Navab
Research Interests: Medical Augmented Reality, Perceptual Visualization
Chi Li
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CIRL
Adviser(s): Gregory Hager
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, object recognition, pose estimation, vision robotics and scene understanding
Kunal Lillaney
Group(s): Systems Group
Lab(s): Hopkins Storage Systems Lab
Adviser(s): Randal Burns
Research Interests: Hierarchical Storage Management Systems in the cloud, Spatial Databases, Data Intensive Computing
Chenxi Liu
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Qing Liu
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning Research Group
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille, Alexis Battle, Ilya Shpitser, Suchi Saria
Research Interests: Probabilistic graphical models, human plausible vision models.
Xingtong Liu
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): LCSR, CIRL
Adviser(s): Austin Reiter, Russell H. Taylor
Research Interests: Deep learning, Computer Vision, Robotics
Rebecca Marvin
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Philipp Koehn
Research Interests: Machine translation, natural language processing, linguistics, interpretability of neural networks
Chandler May
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Topic models, fairness, gender
Hongyuan Mei
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Argo, Blab
Adviser(s): Jason Eisner, Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, continuous time sequential modelling, natural language processing
Poorya Mianjy
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group
Adviser(s): Raman Arora
Research Interests: Machine learning, representation learning, statistical learning theory, stochastic optimization, non-convex optimization
Taher Mun
Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Langmead Lab
Adviser(s): Benjamin Langmead
Research Interests: Computational Biology, Genomics, Algorithms
Courtney Napoles
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser(s): Chris Callison-Burch, Ben Van Durme
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing
Yasamin Nazari
Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group
Adviser(s): Micheal Dinitz
Research Interests: Approximation Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Combinatorial Optimization
Molly O'Brien
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Lab for Computational Sensing and Robotics
Adviser(s): Austin Reiter, Russell Taylor
Research Interests: Integrating computer vision and robotics. Tool tracking through the microscope. Reinforcement learning.
Vishwa Parekh
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Division of Cancer Imaging Research
Adviser(s): Michael A. Jacobs, Russell H. Taylor, Jerry L. Prince
Research Interests: Medical Image Analysis, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Precision medicine
Princy Parsana
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Adviser(s): Alexis Battle and Kenneth Pienta (Department of Urology)
Nanyun Peng
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Language & Speech Processing Group
Siyuan Qiao
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning Lab
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Weichao Qiu
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics. Train and diagnose vision algorithms using synthetic images
Pushpendre Rastogi
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme
Rachel Rudinger
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Inference, Computational Semantics, Semantic Representation, Discourse Understanding, Knowledge Acquisition from Text, Representation Learning
Keisuke Sakaguchi
Group(s): Benjamin Van Durme, Matt Post
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme, Matt Post
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Psycholinguistics
Li Song
Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): The Center for Computational Biology
Adviser(s): Liliana Florea
Research Interests: Computational Biology, Algorithms
Ashis Saha
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Battle Lab
Adviser(s): Alexis Battle
Research Interests: Computational Biology, Single-cell RNA-seq analysis, Regulatory networks, eQTL
Peter Schulam
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Institute for Computational Medicine, and the Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser(s): Suchi Saria
Research Interests: I'm interested in the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and medicine. In particular, my research focuses on developing novel models and algorithms for supporting individualized healthcare.
Pamela Shapiro
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Kevin Duh
Research Interests: Natural language processing, computational linguistics, morphology, Semitic languages, low-resource settings.
Matthew Sheckells
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Autonomous Systems, Control, and Optimization Lab
Adviser(s): Marin Kobilarov, Greg Hager
Research Interests: Policy Search, Nonlinear Control, Aerial Manipulation, Autonomous Systems, Mobile Robotics
Rachel Sherman
Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Center for Computational Biology
Adviser(s): Steven Salzberg
Research Interests: Genome assembly and alignment algorithms, population genomics, structural variant detection and phasing
Ayushi Sinha
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, LCSR
Adviser(s): Russ Taylor, Greg Hager
Research Interests: Registration, Statistical Shape Modeling, Shape Estimation
Teodor Vanislavov Marinov
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Raman Arora
Research Interests: Online Learning, Convex and Non-convex optimization, Stochastic optimization, Representation Learning, Theory of Deep Networks
Dingquan Wang
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Argo
Adviser(s): Jason Eisner
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Grammar Induction, Neural Network
Yiming Wang
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser(s): Sanjeev Khudanpur, Daniel Povey
Research Interests: Speech Recognition, Machine Learning
Travis Wolfe
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Blab
Research Interests: Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Semantic Role Labeling, Relation Extraction, Structured Prediction, Coreference Resolution, and Data Mining
Xiang Xiang
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): DSP Lab (ECE), CIRL, LCSR, MCEH, CCVL, CIS
Adviser(s): Trac D. Tran, Gregory D. Hager
Research Interests: Image and Video Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, 3D Visualization, Affective Computing.
Cihang Xie
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision
Hainan Xu
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Dan Povey's speech lab
Adviser(s): Dan Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur
Research Interests: Speech recognition, language modeling, deep learning
Guangyu Yang
Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Florea Lab
Adviser(s): Liliana Florea
Research Interests: Machine learning, Deep learning, Gene and alternative splicing, Next generation sequencing
Andong Zhan
Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Systems Group
Lab(s): Hopkins InterNetworking Research Lab, Suchi Saria's Lab
Adviser(s): Andreas Terzis, Suchi Saria
Research Interests: My current research interests include mobile health and machine learning systems for healthcare.
Haichong (Kai) Zhang
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Medical UltraSound Imaging and Intervention Collaboration
Adviser(s): Emad M. Boctor, Russel H. Taylor
Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Photoacoustic Imaging, Medical Ultrasound
Sheng Zhang
Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme, Kevin Duh
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Zeyu Zhang
Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group
Adviser(s): Michael Dinitz
Research Interests: Algorithms
Yuyin Zhou
Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Medical Images
