Former Students

• Yaling Zheng (PhD, December 2011)
  Dissertation: "Machine Learning with Incomplete Information" (pdf)
• Yuji Mo (MS, December 2011)
  Thesis: "A Study of Correlations Between the Definition and Application of the Gene Ontology" (pdf)
• Cory Strope (PhD, December 2009), now a postdoc at the University of Nebraska
  Dissertation: "Evaluating Indels as Characters of Biological Informativeness"
• Kun Deng (PhD, August 2009), now at the University of Arizona
• Julie Sunderman (BS, May 2009), now at Union Pacific
• Matt Culver (MS, August 2006), now at Design Data
  Thesis: "Active Learning to Maximize Area Under the ROC Curve" (pdf)
• Timothy Perrin (MS, August 2006), now at General Dynamics
  Thesis: "BIT: Bug Identification Tool Learning and Detecting Common Mistakes in Simple Programming Exercises" (pdf)
• Brandon Mueller (BS, August 2005)
• Thomas Osugi (MS, August 2005)
  Thesis: "Exploration-Based Active Machine Learning" (pdf)
• Qingping Tao (PhD, December 2004), now at GC Image
  Thesis: "Making Efficient Learning Algorithms with Exponentially Many Features" (pdf)
• Pooja Khati (MS, December 2004), now a PhD student in UNL's School of Biological Sciences
  Thesis: "Comparative Analysis of Protein Classification Methods" (pdf)
• Skanth Ganesan (MS, December 2004)
  Thesis: "Comparative Analysis of Gene Prediction Methods and Development of a Fungal Genome Database System" (pdf)
• Jason Lee (MS, Summer 2004)
  Thesis: "Protein Function Classification with Generalized Multiple-Instance Learning" (pdf)
• Lin Li (PhD, Summer 2004) now at Prairie View A&M University
  Thesis: "Design and Optimization of Packet Switching and Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks" (pdf)
• Jed Pedersen (MS, Summer 2004)
  Thesis: "Modular Mobile Robotics Platform Design and Application" (pdf)
• Chang Wang (PhD), now a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts
• Chris Hammack (MS, Fall 2003), now at Raytheon Space and Mission Systems
  Thesis: "LASSO: A Learning Architecture for Semantic Web Ontologies" (pdf)
• Cory Strope (MS, Fall 2003), now a PhD student at the University of Nebraska
  Thesis: "Parameterization of Cosmic Ray Showers" (pdf)
• Jun Zhang (MS, Fall 2003)
  Thesis: "A Fast Algorithm for Generalized Multiple-Instance Learning and its Application to Protein Superfamily Identification" (pdf)
• Manimozhiyan Arumugam (MS, Summer 2003), now at Washington University in St. Louis
  Thesis: "EMPRR: A High-dimensional EM-Based Piecewise Regression Algorithm" (pdf)
• Xiaoping (Peggy) Wen (MS, Fall 2002)
  Thesis: "Identification of Thioredoxin-Fold Proteins with Low Primary Structure Conservation" (pdf)
• Haifeng Ji (MS, Summer 2002), now at Oklahoma City Community College
  Thesis: "On Modeling Protein Superfamilies with Low Primary Sequence Conservation" (pdf)
• Ruiju Yang (MS, Spring 2002), now at Heritage Warranty Insurance Company's IT Department
  Project: "Bioinformatics Visualization Tools" (pdf)
• Deepak Chawla (MS, Fall 2001)
  Thesis: "Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for the Ensemble Pruning Problem"
• Josh Brown (BS, Summer 2001), now in UNL's PhD program in Mathematics
• Yixin Guo (BS, Spring 2001)
• Brad Kratochvil (BS, Spring 2001), now PhD student in Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
  (see our Windows CE-based robotics page for more info)
• Taotao Yu (MS, Fall 2000)
  Thesis: "Machine Learning Applications in Microbial Population Dynamics Analysis" (gzipped ps, pdf)
• Mingzhuang Jia (MS, Fall 2000)
  Project: "Bioinformatics Tools for Detecting Gene Transmission in Foodborne Pathogens" (gzipped ps, pdf)
• Huiqin Liu (MS, Fall 2000), now at Cisco Systems in San Jose
  Project: "The Application of Multiple-Instance Learning to Content-Based Image Retrieval" (gzipped ps, pdf)
• William Q. (QingFeng) Lin (MS, Spring 2000), now at J.D. Edwards in Denver
  Thesis: "A Machine Learning Framework for Automatically Annotating Web Pages with Simple HTML Ontology Extension (SHOE)" (gzipped ps, pdf)
  (also see our conference paper and web site)
• Travis Fisher (BS, Spring 1999), now in Penn State's PhD program in Mathematics
  Thesis: "Probabilistic Checks for the Equivalence of Mathematical Expressions" (gzipped ps, pdf)

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