Current PhD Students

Organized by last name.

Sepeher Abdous

Labs: Distributed Systems and Networks Lab
Research Interests: Computer networks, burst-tolerant data centers, cybersecurity

Carlos Aguirre

Advisor: Mark Drezde
Research Interests: Social media, fairness in health care, human-computer interaction

Omar Ahmed

Research Interests: Genomics, algorithms, transcriptomics

Gopika Ajaykumar

Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, end-user robot programming

Atheer Almogbil

Advisor: Aviel Rubin
Research Interests: Internet of Things security, digital forensics

Niyati Bafna

Research Interests: Low-resource natural language processing, multilinguality

Jin Bai

Advisor: Greg Hager
Research Interests: Computer vision

Gabrielle Beck

Advisor: Matthew Green
Research Interests: Applied/theoretical cryptography, applications security

Andrew Blair-Stanek

Research Interests: Natural language processing, tax law

Sahiti Bommareddy

Lab: Distributed Networks and Systems Lab
Advisor: Yair Amir

Ha Manh Bui

Research Interests: Machine learning, AI safety, uncertainty and robustness

Isabel Cachola

Kuan-Hao Chao

Advisors: Steven Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea
Research Interests: Computational genomics, transcriptomics

Alishah Chator

Advisor: Matthew Green
Research Interests: Applied cryptography, security, privacy, technology policy

Aditya Chattopadhyay

Advisor: René Vidal
Research Interests: Generative modeling

Jienan Chen

Lab: Advanced Networking Lab
Research Interests: Computer networks, V2X

Jieneng Chen

Yixiong Chen

Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Foundation models, medical image analysis, deep learning

Arun Das

Research Interests: Algorithms, computational genomics, deep learning, genomic privacy, cryptography and computer security

Alexandra DeLucia

Advisor: Mark Drezde
Research Interests: Natural language processing, social media

Tianjiao Ding

Advisor: René Vidal
Research Interests: Manifold learning and clustering, 3D vision, robotics

Noah Drakes

Research Interests: Embedded systems, machine learning, deep learning

Seth Ebner

Research Interests: Natural language understanding, computational semantics, semantic representation

Qingying Gao

Advisors: Rama Chellappa, Yingzi Xiong
Research Interests: Low vision, computer vision

Yuxiang Gao

Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, socially aware navigation

Sougol Gheissi

Lab: Advanced Networking Lab
Research Interests: Computer networks, software-defined networking, data center networks

Ayush Gupta

Advisor: Rama Chellappa
Research Interests: Computer vision, biometrics, gait recognition

Keith Harrigian

Advisor: Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Multi-view machine learning, longitudinal modeling, clinical decision support, mental health

Zitong He

Advisor: Liliana Florea
Research Interests: Machine learning, computational genomics

Aditya Hegde

Research Interests: Cryptography, security

Yigong Hu

Advisor: Peng “Ryan” Huang
Research Interests: Mobile systems, reliable systems, operating systems

Ruizhe Huang

Advisors: Sanjeev Khudanpur
Research Interests: Speech recognition, machine learning

Bo Hui

Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Security and privacy in machine learning

Hisashi Ishida

Zifeng Kang
Centers/Institutes: Information Security Institute
Lab: System Security Lab
Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Web security, system security, program analysis

Prakhar Kaushik

Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision, cognitive computing

Benjamin Killeen

Advisors: Mathias Unberath, Greg Hager
Research Interests: Computer vision, domain generalization, deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, medical imaging, surgical robotics, clinician-centric assistance systems

April Kim

Advisor: Alexis Battle
Research Interests: Computational genomics, machine learning

Irene Kim

Research Interests: Extended reality (AR/MR/VR), deep learning, protheses, human-robot interaction

Kaleab Kinfu

Advisor: René Vidal
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning

Ama Koranteng

Research Interests: Graph algorithms, approximation algorithms

Sing Chun Lee

Advisor: Misha Kazhdan
Research Interests: Geometry processing, perceptual visualization

Zhuowan Li

Advisor: Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning

Yihao Liu

Labs: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Laboratory of Biomechanical and Image-Guided Surgical Systems
Advisor: Mehran Armand
Research Interests: Robot-assisted medical procedures, augmented reality

Zhengyu Liu

Lab: Systems Security Lab
Advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Web security, browser security

Chang Lou

Advisor: Peng “Ryan” Huang
Research Interests: Distributed systems, operating systems, cloud service availability

Ariel Lubonja

Centers/Institutes: Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science
Advisor: Randal Burns
Research Interests: Scalable algorithms, graph machine learning, computer vision

Wufei Ma

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL (Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Meghana Madhyastha

Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group Systems Group
Lab(s): Hopkins Storage Systems Lab, NeuroData
Adviser(s): Randal Burns, Joshua Vogelstein
Research Interests: Scalable Machine Learning

Philip Mathew

Group(s): Information Security Institute (ISI)
Lab(s): System Security Lab
Adviser(s): Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Robustness

Kelly Marchisio

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Philipp Koehn
Research Interests: Machine Translation

Arya McCarthy

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): David Yarowsky
Research Interests: Machine translation, derivational morphology, complex networks, graph theory

Jieru Mei

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille

Sabrina Mielke

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Argo
Adviser(s): Jason Eisner
Research Interests: natural language, machine learning

Aayush Mishra

Adviser(s): Anqi Liu
Research Interests: OOD Generalization, Causal Representation Learning

David Mueller

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)
Adviser(s): Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Multi-task Learning, Natural Language Processing

Ramchandran Muthukumar

Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group
Adviser(s): Jeremias Sulam
Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning, Adversarial Robustness, Sparse Coding, Optimization

Kartik Narayan

Lab(s): VIU Lab
Adviser(s): Vishal Patel
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Deep Learning

Bohan Ni

Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
Lab(s): Michael Schatz Lab, Alexis Battle Lab
Adviser(s): Michael Schatz, Alexis Battle
Research Interests: Sequence alignment algorithms, genome assembly algorithms, machine learning, genomic structural variants, and biological graph and networks

Ambar Pal

Group(s): Mathematical Institute for Data Science, Machine Learning Group
Lab(s): JHU Vision Lab, Sulam Group
Adviser(s): René Vidal, Jeremias Sulam
Research Interests: Safety in Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Deep Learning, Non-Convex Optimization

Michael Peven

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Adviser(s): Greg Hager
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Statistics

Kaitlynn Pineda

Lab(s): Intuitive Computing Lab , CIRL
Adviser(s): Chien-Ming Huang, Greg Hager
Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, socially assistive robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning

Gwenyth Portillo Wightman

Lab(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Mark Drezde
Research Interests: Natural language processing, health informatics, NLP for social good, human-computer interaction

Shruthi Prusty

Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group
Lab(s): Algorithms and Complexity
Adviser(s): Michael Dinitz
Research Interests: Graph Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization

Desh Raj

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur
Research Interests: Speech Recognition, Language Modeling, and Deep Learning.

Krithika Ramesh

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Anjalie Field, Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Fairness and Interpretability in NLP, NLP for Social Good

Samuel Remedios

Lab(s): Image Analysis and Communications Laboratory
Adviser(s): Jerry L. Prince
Research Interests: medical image processing, super-resolution, signal processing, information theory

Nathaniel Robinson

Group(s): Language and Speech Processing Group
nrobin38@jhu.edu
Adviser(s): Kenton Murray, Sanjeev Khudanpur
Research Interests: Multilingual and Low-Resource Language and Speech Processing

Jamie Rosas-Smith

Group(s): Language and Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)
Adviser(s): Anjalie Field
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Computational Social Science

Aniket Roy

Group(s): Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Lab(s): AIEM
Adviser(s): Rama Chellappa
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine learning

Elizabeth Salesky

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Matt Post, Philipp Koehn
Research Interests: Machine Translation, Speech and Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Multilingual and Low-Resource NLP

Kate Sanders

Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme, Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Natural language processing, computer vision, cognitive science

Anshul Shah

Lab(s): AIEM Lab
Adviser(s):  Rama Chellappa
Research Interests:  Computer vision, machine learning

Erfan Sharafzadeh

Group(s): Systems Group
Adviser(s): Soudeh Ghorbani
Research Interests: Designing operating systems for latency-sensitive applications, optimizing the system software for datacenters

Suzanna 欣芸 Sia

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Kevin Duh
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Bayesian Statistics, Multi-lingual Information Retrieval

Elias Stengel-Eskin

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Low-resource NLP, cross-lingual NLP, computational semantics, language acquisition, unsupervised learning.

Hyunwoo Song

Group(s): Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR)
Lab(s): Medical UltraSound Imaging and Intervention Collaboration (MUSIIC)
Adviser(s): Emad Boctor
Research Interests: Functional intra-operative surgical guidance, Medical ultrasound & photoacoustic imaging

Hossein Souri

Group(s): Machine Learning, AI, and Data Science Group
Lab(s): AIEM – Artificial Intelligence for Engineering and Medicine Lab
Adviser(s): Rama Chellappa
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence

Kaiser Sun

Group(s): Language and Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Mark Dredze
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Interpretability, Evaluation

Jacopo Teneggi

Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group
Lab(s): Mathematical Institute for Data Science, Sulam Lab
Adviser(s): Jeremias Sulam
Research Interests: Explainability, Uncertainty Quantification

Darshan Thaker

Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group
Lab(s): Center for Imaging Science, Mathematical Institute for Data Science
Adviser(s): René Vidal
Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning, Theory of Deep Learning, Non-Convex Optimization, Learning Theory

Prasad Vagdargi

Groups: Robotics, Vision and Graphics
Lab(s): Imaging for Surgery, Therapy, and Radiology (I-STAR) Lab
Adviser(s): Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, Gregory D. Hager
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Medical Robotics.

Nethra Venkatayogi

Group(s): Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR)
Lab(s): Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Systems Engineering (PULSE) Lab
Adviser(s): Muyinatu Bell
Research Interests: Image-Guided Surgery, Machine Learning, Medical Ultrasound & Photoacoustic Imaging, Surgical Guidance

Neha Verma

Group(s): Language and Speech Processing
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser(s): Kevin Duh, Kenton Murray
Research Interests: Machine Translation, Multilingual Representation Learning

Tim Vieria

Group(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing
Lab(s): Argo Lab
Adviser(s): Jason Eisner
Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, machine learning, natural language processing, programming languages.

Jiahao Wang

Lab(s): Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning (CCVL) Group
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision

Xingrui Wang

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL (Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning)
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision

Yunjuan Wang

Group(s): Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Group
Adviser(s): Raman Arora
Research Interests: Machine learning, online learning, optimization

Miriam Wanner

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Lab(s): Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser(s): Mark Dredze
Research Interests: natural language processing

Austin Watkins

Adviser(s): Raman Arora
Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning, representation learning, robustness, implicit regularization, theory of deep networks

Chen Wei

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL (Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning)
Adviser(s): Alan L. Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Nathaniel Weir

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, representation learning, meta-learning, general linguistic intelligence .

Orion Weller

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Benjamin Van Durme
Research Interests: natural language processing, question answering, reasoning, multilinguality, natural language understanding

Shiwei Weng

Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group
Lab(s): The Programming Languages Laboratory
Adviser(s): Scott Smith
Research Interests: Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Symbolic Execution, Program Analysis

Brian Wheatman

Group(s): Systems Group
Lab(s): CNDS- Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Lab
Adviser(s): Yair Amir, Randal Burns
Research Interests: Big Data and Distributed Systems, Assured Machine Learning, Graph Analytics, Performance Engineering, Parallel Data Structures and Algorithms

Haoze Wu

Group(s): Systems Group
Adviser(s): Ryan Huang
Research Interests: Software Reliability, Distributed Systems

Yixuan Wu

Group(s): Robotics
Lab(s): Laboratory for Computational Sensing + Robotics (LCSR), Medical UltraSound Imaging and Intervention Collaboration (MUSiiC) Laboratory, Brad Wood’s Lab at NIH
Adviser(s): Emad M. Boctor, Russel H. Taylor
Research Interests: Photoacoustic Imaging, Ultrasound Tomography, Medical Robotics, Signal Processing

Zihao Xia

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision

Yuchen Yang

Group(s): Information Security Group
Lab(s): SecLab
Adviser(s): Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Machine Learning Privacy and Security

Haoran Xu

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
hxu64@jhu.edu
Adviser(s): Philipp Koehn, Kenton Murray
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Cross-Lingual Learning
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Farnaz Yousefi

Group(s): Theory & Programming Languages Group
Lab(s): The Programming Languages Lab
Adviser(s): Scott Smith
Research Interests: Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Symbolic Execution, Model Checking

Jianjia Yu

Group(s): Information Security Group
Labs: SecLab
Adviser(s): Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Web security and privacy

Haolin Yuan

Group(s): Information Security
Lab(s): SecLab
Adviser(s): Yinzhi Cao
Research Interests: Machine learning, Privacy and Security

Xiaoding Yuan

Lab(s): Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning (CCVL) Group
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision

Samantha Zarate

Group(s): Computational Biology & Medicine Group
slzarate@jhu.edu
Adviser(s): Michael Schatz
Research Interests: Computational Genomics

Han Zhang

Lab(s): Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LSCR), Advanced Robotics and Computationally AugmenteD Environments (ARCADE) Lab
Adviser(s): Mathias Unberath
Research Interests: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Surgical Robotics

Jiaming Zhang

Lab(s): Laboratory of Biomechanical and Image-Guided Surgical Systems (BIGSS)
Adviser(s): Mehran Armand, Alejandro Martin-Gomez
Research Interests: Image-Guided Surgery, Surgical Robotics

Xuan Zhang

Group(s): Language & Speech Processing Group
Adviser(s): Kevin Duh
Research Interests: Machine Translation, Hyper-parameter Optimization

Yi Zhang

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision

Yixiao Zhang

Group(s): Robotics, Vision & Graphics Group
Lab(s): CCVL
Adviser(s): Alan Yuille
Research Interests: Computer Vision

Yan Zhong

Lab(s): Algorithms & Complexity Group
Adviser(s): Xin Li
Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, Complexity Theory

Max Zinkus

Group(s): Cryptography and Security, Information Security Institute
Lab(s): ARC
Adviser(s): Matthew Green
Research Interests: Applied Cryptography, Privacy, Security