Current Members
Kuangshi (Leo) Ai, PhD Student
Delin An, PhD Student
Honors: Scientific Artificial Intelligence (SAI) Graduate Fellowship, Spring 2025; Zahm Professional Development Fund, Spring 2025
Xiaojing Duan, PhD Candidate
Dissertation Topic: Human-Centered AI in Education
Patrick Do, PhD Student
Kaiyuan Tang, PhD Student
Honors: IEEE VIS Travel Grant, 2024; Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2024
Siyuan Yao, PhD Candidate
Dissertation Topic: Deep Learning for Scientific Visualization: Data Generation and Visualization Synthesis
Honor: Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2024; Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2025
Melayi Banda, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program)
Daniel Burke, Undergraduate Student
Darwin Estrella Vicente, Undergraduate Student
Hannah Huston, Undergraduate Student (iTREDS Scholars Program)
Dao Wei Lim, Undergraduate Student
Melany Morales-Garibay, Undergraduate Student, Saint Mary’s College (iTREDS Scholars Program)
Andres Perez, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program)
Anna Pham, Undergraduate Student
Elizabeth Rhee, Undergraduate Student (iTREDS Scholars Program)
Jackson Vonderhorst, Undergraduate Student
Maizhe (Michael) Yang, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program)
Graduated Students
Yikai Lu, PhD, Jul 2025 (co-advised with Dr. Ying Cheng, Psychology/CSE Joint PhD Program)
Dissertation: Multiple-Attempt Procedures: Models, Computerized Adaptive Testing, and Differential Item Functioning [URL]
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Yunfei Lu, MS, May 2025
Projects: FCNR: Fast Compressive Neural Representation of Visualization Images [URL]; ViSNeRF: Efficient Multidimensional Neural Radiance Field Representation for Visualization Synthesis of Dynamic Volumetric Scenes [URL]
Honor: Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2024
Pengfei Gu, PhD, May 2024 (co-advised with Dr. Danny Chen)
Dissertation: New Deep Learning Methods for Medical Image Analysis and Scientific Data Generation and Compression [URL]
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
Zeyuan Li, MS, Dec 2023
Project: ArcheryVis: A Tool for Analyzing and Visualizing Archery Performance Data [URL]
Zhiyuan Cheng, MS, Aug 2023
Project: ArcheryVis: A Tool for Analyzing and Visualizing Archery Performance Data [URL]
Brendan O’Handley, MS, May 2022
Projects: TreeVisual: Design and Evaluation of a Web-Based Visualization Tool for Teaching and Learning Tree Visualization [URL]; CoursePathVis: Course Path Visualization Using Flexible Grouping and Funnel-Augmented Sankey Diagram [URL]
Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Jun Han, PhD, Mar 2022
Dissertation: Deep Learning for Scientific Data Representation and Generation [URL]
Honors: IEEE VIS Travel Grant, 2019; CSE Outstanding Research Assistant Award, 2019-2020
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hao Zheng, PhD, Dec 2021 (co-advised with Dr. Danny Chen)
Dissertation: Data-Efficient and Robust Deep Learning Based Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation and Related Problems [URL]
Honor: CSE Outstanding Research Assistant Award, 2020-2021
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Martin Imre, PhD, Apr 2020
Dissertation: GPU-Accelerated Summarization and Reconstruction Techniques for Big Data Analysis and Visualization [URL]
Honors: CSE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2017-2018; Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2018
Current Position: Head of Software Development, Raicoon
Man Wang, PhD, Michigan Tech, Apr 2019 (co-advised with Dr. Jean Mayo)
Dissertation: Accessible Access Control: A Visualization System for Access Control Policy Management [URL]
Honors: House Fellowship, 2012-2013; Finishing Fellowship, Fall 2018
Current Position: Research Scientist, Facebook
Samuel Bailey, MS, Aug 2017
Project: CNVis: A Web-Based Visual Analytics Tool for Exploring Conference Navigator Data [URL]
Current Position: Business System Analyst, Medpace
Yi Gu, PhD, May 2016
Dissertation: Big Data Visualization Using Graph-Based Representations [URL]
Honors: IEEE VisWeek Travel Grant, 2011; IEEE VIS Travel Grant, 2015; CSE Outstanding Research Assistant Award, 2015-2016
Current Position: Software Engineer, Microsoft
Yifei Li, PhD, Michigan Tech, Nov 2015 (co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)
Dissertation: Extracting Flow Features Using Bag-of-Features and Supervised Learning Techniques [URL]
Current Position: Software Engineer, Facebook
Jun Tao, PhD, Michigan Tech, Oct 2015 (co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)
Dissertation: Enabling Techniques for Expressive Flow Field Visualization and Exploration [URL]
Honors: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Spring 2015; Finishing Fellowship, Summer 2015
Current Position: Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
Jun Ma, PhD, Michigan Tech, Dec 2014 (co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)
Dissertation: Analysis and Visualization of Flow Fields Using Information-Theoretic Techniques and Graph-Based Representations [URL]
Honor: Finishing Fellowship, Spring 2014
Current Position: Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm
Huan Zhang, MS, Michigan Tech, Apr 2012
Thesis: Animated Transition in Similarity-Based Tiled Image Layout [URL]
Current Position: Software Development Manager, Amazon
Visiting Scholars
Dr. Lei Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jan-Jul 2016
Dr. Denis Parra, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Jan-Feb 2016
Other Former Members
Yunhao Xing, PhD Student, 2022-2023
Jun Zhang, PhD Student, 2020-2021
Xueyi Bao, PhD Student, 2019-2020
Zhichun Guo, MS Student, 2019
Dr. Jun Tao, Postdoctoral Researcher (co-advised with Dr. Nitesh Chawla), 2015-2018
Yang Shen, PhD Student, 2014-2015
Ronald Lin, Undergraduate Student, 2024-2025
Beatriz Ribeiro Soares, Undergraduate Student, 2024-2025
Alexander Rweyemamu, Undergraduate Student, 2025
Zihui Yang, Undergraduate Student, 2025
Chad Brown, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024
John Caven, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024
Kara Clouse, Undergraduate Student, 2023-2024
Jonathan D’Alonzo, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024
Mariam Jafri, Undergraduate Student, 2024
Weixi Song, iSURE Student, Wuhan University, 2023-2024
DeVante Brooks, Undergraduate Student, 2023
Mayleen Liu, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2023
Yifei Shao, iSURE Student, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2023
Ziang Tong, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2023
Tram Trinh, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2023
Joel Bell, HS Student, Penn High School, Mishawaka, IN, 2022
Chase Brown, Undergraduate Student, 2021-2022
Crystal Colon, Undergraduate Student, 2022
Ana Gonzalez, Undergraduate Student, 2021-2022
Patrick Hsiao, Undergraduate Student, 2021-2022
Yunfei Lu, iSURE Student, Xidian University, 2022
Zhepeng Luo, MS Student, Columbia University, 2022
Janet Meng, HS Student, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA, 2022
Conor Murphy, Undergraduate Student, 2020-2022
William Porter, Undergraduate Student (Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program), 2018-2022
Jozef Porubcin, Undergraduate Student, 2022
Dane Williams, Undergraduate Student, 2020-2022
Annie Zhao, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program), 2021-2022
Gefei Zhao, iSURE Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022
James Clabby, Undergraduate Student, 2021
Adeniyi Emiabata, Undergraduate Student, 2020-2021
Yang Luo, iSURE Student, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2021
Kaiyuan Tang, iSURE Student, Xidian University, 2021
Yuheng Wu, iSURE Student, Peking University, 2021
Zhuoyi Yang, iSURE Student, Tianjin University, 2021
Shen Zheng, iSURE Student, Wenzhou-Kean University, 2021
Haobin Duan, iSURE Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2020
Megan Lulley, Undergraduate Student, 2020
John Masciopinto, Undergraduate Student, 2020
Ashley Yeung, Undergraduate Student, (Building Bridges Mentoring Program), 2019-2020
Wanru Zhao, iSURE Student, Beihang University, 2020
Zijian Zhou, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2020
Wenqing Chang, iSURE Student, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, 2019
Haozhang Deng, REU Student, University of Rochester, 2019
Ahmed Farag, Undergraduate Student (Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program), 2018-2019
Li Guo, iSURE Student, Nankai University, 2019
Zhichun Guo, REU Student, Fudan University, 2018-2019
Zhiyi Guo, iSURE Student, Fudan University, 2019
Yihong Ma, Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2019
Fabio Soares, Undergraduate Student, 2019
Blaise von Ohlen, Undergraduate Student (Stinson Scholars Program), 2019
Shuzhan Wang, iSURE Student, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2019
Xuemeng Wang, REU Student, University of Rochester, 2019
Kyle Weingartner, Undergraduate Student, 2019
Kekoa Wong, Undergraduate Student, 2019
Yunhao Xing, Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2019
Shaojie Ye, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2019
Joshua Cepeda, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program), 2018
Maggie Goulden, Naughton REU Student, Trinity College Dublin, 2018 [URL]
Eric Gronda, NSF DISC REU Student, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2018 [URL]
Tianxiao Hu, iSURE Student, Fudan University, 2017-2018
Sichen Jin, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2018
Alexander Mascoli, Undergraduate Student, 2018
Yurou Yang, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2018
Zihang Zhang, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2018
Chen Liang, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2017
Justin Wei, NSF DISC REU Student, University of North Texas, 2017 [URL]
Sirou Zhu, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2017
Lucas Barbosa, Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2016
Yike Ma, REU Student, University of Science and Technology of China, 2016
Ian Turk, NSF DISC REU Student, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2016 [URL]
Xin’an Zhou, iSURE Student, Fudan University, 2016
Can Li, Michigan Tech PhD Student, 2013-2014
Fan Shen, Michigan Tech MS Student, 2012
Fang Ruan, Michigan Tech MS Student, 2011
Scott Bos, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011
Stephen Goetz, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011
Yanliang Gu, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011
John Reese, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2010-2011
GuFeng Pan, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2010