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Current Members<\/h2>\n

Kuangshi (Leo) Ai<\/a>, PhD Student<\/p>\n

Xiaojing Duan, PhD Candidate
\nDissertation Topic: Human-Centered AI in Education<\/p>\n

Patrick Do, PhD Student<\/p>\n

Kaiyuan Tang<\/a>, PhD Student
\nHonors: IEEE VIS Travel Grant, 2024; Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2024<\/p>\n

Arnav Cherukuthota, MS Student<\/p>\n

Melayi Banda, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program)
\nDaniel Burke, Undergraduate Student
\nClair Green, Undergraduate Student
\nHannah Huston, Undergraduate Student (iTREDS Scholars Program)
\nDao Wei Lim, Undergraduate Student
\nYitong Luo, Undergraduate Student
\nMelany Morales-Garibay, Undergraduate Student, Saint Mary’s College (iTREDS Scholars Program)
\nAnna Pham, Undergraduate Student
\nElizabeth Rhee, Undergraduate Student (iTREDS Scholars Program)
\nChau Ta, Undergraduate Student
\nJackson Vonderhorst, Undergraduate Student
\nMaizhe (Michael) Yang, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program)<\/p>\n

Graduated Students<\/h2>\n

Delin An, PhD, Mar 2026
\nDissertation: AI-Driven Geometric Modeling and Analysis for Medical Imaging and Scientific Data [URL<\/a>]
\nHonors: Scientific Artificial Intelligence (SAI) Graduate Fellowship, Spring 2025; Zahm Professional Development Fund, Spring 2025<\/p>\n

Siyuan Yao, PhD, Nov 2025
\nDissertation: Deep Learning for Scientific Visualization: Data Generation and Visualization Synthesis [URL<\/a>]
\nHonors: Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2024; Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2025
\nCurrent Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Optum<\/p>\n

Yikai Lu, PhD, Jul 2025 (co-advised with Dr. Ying Cheng, Psychology\/CSE Joint PhD Program)
\nDissertation: Multiple-Attempt Procedures: Models, Computerized Adaptive Testing, and Differential Item Functioning [URL<\/a>]
\nCurrent Position: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Twin Cities<\/p>\n

Yunfei Lu, MS, May 2025
\nProjects: FCNR: Fast Compressive Neural Representation of Visualization Images [URL<\/a>]; ViSNeRF: Efficient Multidimensional Neural Radiance Field Representation for Visualization Synthesis of Dynamic Volumetric Scenes [URL<\/a>]
\nHonor: Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2024<\/p>\n

Pengfei Gu, PhD, May 2024 (co-advised with Dr. Danny Chen)
\nDissertation: New Deep Learning Methods for Medical Image Analysis and Scientific Data Generation and Compression [URL<\/a>]
\nCurrent Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley<\/p>\n

Zeyuan Li, MS, Dec 2023
\nProject: ArcheryVis: A Tool for Analyzing and Visualizing Archery Performance Data [URL<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Zhiyuan Cheng, MS, Aug 2023
\nProject: ArcheryVis: A Tool for Analyzing and Visualizing Archery Performance Data [URL<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Brendan O’Handley, MS, May 2022
\nProjects: TreeVisual: Design and Evaluation of a Web-Based Visualization Tool for Teaching and Learning Tree Visualization [URL<\/a>]; CoursePathVis: Course Path Visualization Using Flexible Grouping and Funnel-Augmented Sankey Diagram [URL<\/a>]
\nCurrent Position: Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs<\/p>\n

Jun Han, PhD, Mar 2022
\nDissertation: Deep Learning for Scientific Data Representation and Generation [URL<\/a>]
\nHonors: IEEE VIS Travel Grant, 2019; CSE Outstanding Research Assistant Award, 2019-2020
\nCurrent Position: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<\/p>\n

Hao Zheng, PhD, Dec 2021 (co-advised with Dr. Danny Chen)
\nDissertation: Data-Efficient and Robust Deep Learning Based Approaches for Biomedical Image Segmentation and Related Problems [URL<\/a>]
\nHonor: CSE Outstanding Research Assistant Award, 2020-2021
\nCurrent Position: Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/p>\n

Martin Imre, PhD, Apr 2020
\nDissertation: GPU-Accelerated Summarization and Reconstruction Techniques for Big Data Analysis and Visualization [URL<\/a>]
\nHonors: CSE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2017-2018; Notebaert Professional Development Fund, Fall 2018
\nCurrent Position: Head of Software Development, Raicoon<\/p>\n

Man Wang, PhD, Michigan Tech, Apr 2019 (co-advised with Dr. Jean Mayo)
\nDissertation: Accessible Access Control: A Visualization System for Access Control Policy Management [URL<\/a>]
\nHonors: House Fellowship, 2012-2013; Finishing Fellowship, Fall 2018
\nCurrent Position: Research Scientist, Facebook<\/p>\n

Samuel Bailey, MS, Aug 2017
\nProject: CNVis: A Web-Based Visual Analytics Tool for Exploring Conference Navigator Data [URL<\/a>]
\nCurrent Position: Business System Analyst, Medpace<\/p>\n

Yi Gu, PhD, May 2016
\nDissertation: Big Data Visualization Using Graph-Based Representations [URL<\/a>]
\nHonors: IEEE VisWeek Travel Grant, 2011; IEEE VIS Travel Grant, 2015; CSE Outstanding Research Assistant Award, 2015-2016
\nCurrent Position: Software Engineer, Microsoft<\/p>\n

Yifei Li, PhD, Michigan Tech, Nov 2015 (co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)
\nDissertation: Extracting Flow Features Using Bag-of-Features and Supervised Learning Techniques [URL<\/a>]
\nCurrent Position: Software Engineer, Facebook<\/p>\n

Jun Tao, PhD, Michigan Tech, Oct 2015 (co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)
\nDissertation: Enabling Techniques for Expressive Flow Field Visualization and Exploration [URL<\/a>]
\nHonors: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Spring 2015; Finishing Fellowship, Summer 2015
\nCurrent Position: Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University<\/p>\n

Jun Ma, PhD, Michigan Tech, Dec 2014 (co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)
\nDissertation: Analysis and Visualization of Flow Fields Using Information-Theoretic Techniques and Graph-Based Representations [URL<\/a>]
\nHonor: Finishing Fellowship, Spring 2014
\nCurrent Position: Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm<\/p>\n

Huan Zhang, MS, Michigan Tech, Apr 2012
\nThesis: Animated Transition in Similarity-Based Tiled Image Layout [URL<\/a>]
\nCurrent Position: Software Development Manager, Amazon<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholars<\/h2>\n

Dr. Lei Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jan-Jul 2016
\nDr. Denis Parra, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Jan-Feb 2016<\/p>\n

Other Former Members<\/h2>\n

Yunhao Xing, PhD Student, 2022-2023
\nJun Zhang, PhD Student, 2020-2021
\nXueyi Bao, PhD Student, 2019-2020
\nZhichun Guo, MS Student, 2019
\nDr. Jun Tao, Postdoctoral Researcher (co-advised with Dr. Nitesh Chawla), 2015-2018
\nYang Shen, PhD Student, 2014-2015<\/p>\n

Ronald Lin, Undergraduate Student, 2024-2025
\nAndres Perez, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program), 2024-2025
\nBeatriz Ribeiro Soares, Undergraduate Student, 2024-2025
\nAlexander Rweyemamu, Undergraduate Student, 2025
\nDarwin Estrella Vicente, Undergraduate Student, 2025
\nZihui Yang, Undergraduate Student, 2025<\/p>\n

Chad Brown, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024
\nJohn Caven, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024
\nKara Clouse, Undergraduate Student, 2023-2024
\nJonathan D\u2019Alonzo, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024
\nMariam Jafri, Undergraduate Student, 2024
\nWeixi Song, iSURE Student, Wuhan University, 2023-2024<\/p>\n

DeVante Brooks, Undergraduate Student, 2023
\nMayleen Liu, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2023
\nYifei Shao, iSURE Student, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2023
\nZiang Tong, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2023
\nTram Trinh, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2023<\/p>\n

Joel Bell, HS Student, Penn High School, Mishawaka, IN, 2022
\nChase Brown, Undergraduate Student, 2021-2022
\nCrystal Colon, Undergraduate Student, 2022
\nAna Gonzalez, Undergraduate Student, 2021-2022
\nPatrick Hsiao, Undergraduate Student, 2021-2022
\nYunfei Lu, iSURE Student, Xidian University, 2022
\nZhepeng Luo, MS Student, Columbia University, 2022
\nJanet Meng, HS Student, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA, 2022
\nConor Murphy, Undergraduate Student, 2020-2022
\nWilliam Porter, Undergraduate Student (Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program), 2018-2022
\nJozef Porubcin, Undergraduate Student, 2022
\nDane Williams, Undergraduate Student, 2020-2022
\nAnnie Zhao, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program), 2021-2022
\nGefei Zhao, iSURE Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022<\/p>\n

James Clabby, Undergraduate Student, 2021
\nAdeniyi Emiabata, Undergraduate Student, 2020-2021
\nYang Luo, iSURE Student, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2021
\nKaiyuan Tang, iSURE Student, Xidian University, 2021
\nYuheng Wu, iSURE Student, Peking University, 2021
\nZhuoyi Yang, iSURE Student, Tianjin University, 2021
\nShen Zheng, iSURE Student, Wenzhou-Kean University, 2021<\/p>\n

Haobin Duan, iSURE Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2020
\nMegan Lulley, Undergraduate Student, 2020
\nJohn Masciopinto, Undergraduate Student, 2020
\nAshley Yeung, Undergraduate Student, (Building Bridges Mentoring Program), 2019-2020
\nWanru Zhao, iSURE Student, Beihang University, 2020
\nZijian Zhou, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2020<\/p>\n

Wenqing Chang, iSURE Student, Xi\u2019an Jiao Tong University, 2019
\nHaozhang Deng, REU Student, University of Rochester, 2019
\nAhmed Farag, Undergraduate Student (Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program), 2018-2019
\nLi Guo, iSURE Student, Nankai University, 2019
\nZhichun Guo, REU Student, Fudan University, 2018-2019
\nZhiyi Guo, iSURE Student, Fudan University, 2019
\nYihong Ma, Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2019
\nFabio Soares, Undergraduate Student, 2019
\nBlaise von Ohlen, Undergraduate Student (Stinson Scholars Program), 2019
\nShuzhan Wang, iSURE Student, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2019
\nXuemeng Wang, REU Student, University of Rochester, 2019
\nKyle Weingartner, Undergraduate Student, 2019
\nKekoa Wong, Undergraduate Student, 2019
\nYunhao Xing, Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2019
\nShaojie Ye, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2019<\/p>\n

Joshua Cepeda, Undergraduate Student (Building Bridges Mentoring Program), 2018
\nMaggie Goulden, Naughton REU Student, Trinity College Dublin, 2018 [URL<\/a>]
\nEric Gronda, NSF DISC REU Student, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2018 [URL<\/a>]
\nTianxiao Hu, iSURE Student, Fudan University, 2017-2018
\nSichen Jin, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2018
\nAlexander Mascoli, Undergraduate Student, 2018
\nYurou Yang, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2018
\nZihang Zhang, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2018<\/p>\n

Chen Liang, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2017
\nJustin Wei, NSF DISC REU Student, University of North Texas, 2017 [URL<\/a>]
\nSirou Zhu, iSURE Student, Zhejiang University, 2017<\/p>\n

Lucas Barbosa, Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2016
\nYike Ma, REU Student, University of Science and Technology of China, 2016
\nIan Turk, NSF DISC REU Student, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2016 [URL<\/a>]
\nXin’an Zhou, iSURE Student, Fudan University, 2016<\/p>\n

Can Li, Michigan Tech PhD Student, 2013-2014
\nFan Shen, Michigan Tech MS Student, 2012
\nFang Ruan, Michigan Tech MS Student, 2011<\/p>\n

Scott Bos, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011
\nStephen Goetz, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011
\nYanliang Gu, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011
\nJohn Reese, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2010-2011
\nGuFeng Pan, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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