People

I am fortunate to work with several bright students:


Ph.D. Students


Sourabh Yadav
Ph.D. student (2022 Spring --)

Data privacy, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Blockchain

Email: Sourabh.Yadav AT unt.edu
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Sourabh received his MS degree in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and have been an active researcher in the subject since 2018. Currently, he is working on location privacy protection in time-sensitive spatial crowdsourcing and cooperative perception of autonomous vehicles. He is leading the project "SpatialAgent" in MCLab.


Xinpeng Xie
Ph.D. student (2023 Fall --)

Machine learning, vehicle information systems

Email: TBD
Xinpeng received his BS degree in Automation from Sichuan University, P. R. China. His research primarily focuses on synthetic data geneartion, deep generative models. Currently, he is working on the cross-city vehicle trajectory genertion problem.


Gaoyi Chen
Ph.D. student (2023 Fall --)

Machine learning, differential privacy

Email: TBD
Gaoyi received his BS degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Zhengzhou University, P. R. China. His research interests primarily focus on metric differential privacy, with emphasis on context-aware threat models and data privacy protection problems.


Ruiyao Liu
Ph.D. student (2023 Fall --)

Machine learning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems

Email: TBD
Ruiyao received his BS degree in Automation from Sichuan University, P. R. China. His research interests include metric differential privacy and multi-agent systems. Currently, he is working on enhancing the computation efficiency of large-scale data perturbation algorithms.


Michael Oluwole
Ph.D. student (2024 Fall --)

Metric differential privacy, computer vision

Email: TBD
Michael received his BS degree in Physics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He worked as a graduate assistant at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and a Full Stack Web Developer at SGL Technologies.


Fatema Khatun Mou
Ph.D. student (2024 Fall --)

Large language models (LLMs), metric differential privacy, machine learning, artificial intelligence

Email: fatemakhatun AT my DOT unt DOT edu
Fatema Khatun holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. She served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Daffodil International University, Dhaka Bangladesh. Additionally, she has held the position of Head of Research and Development at a multinational company in Bangladesh.




Master Students


Padma Priya Dirisala
Master student (2022 Spring --)

Machine Learning, automata theory, computer networks

Email: padmapriyadirisala AT my.unt.edu.
Priya received her BS degree in Computer Science and Engineering in India from JNTUK. She worked on a project in her undergrad namely Institutional Digital Locker - a cloud-based platform verification of documents and certificates digitally. The service is aimed at reducing the students' need to carry physical documents.


Sheetal Reddy Gaddam
Master student (2022 Fall --)

Networking, machine Learning, AWS, data Migration, Software Engineering

Email: SheetalGaddam AT my.unt.edu.
Sheetal received Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. She worked as General support in Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt Ltd in the Enterprise cybersecurity services.



Undergraduate Students


Eichelle Turner
Undergraduate student (2023 Fall --)

Data privacy

Eichelle Turner is a junior computer science student with an interest in Data Science. Her research is centered around Data Privacy when it comes to patient data in the medical field. She wants to show transparency in what user data is used for and see if the current techniques really are the best and most efficient options especially as machine learning and AI become more prevalent.


Tyler Hampton
Undergraduate student (2023 Fall --)

Data structure, algorithms, and simulation of physical processes

Tyler Hampton is a computer science major in their senior year. His research interests include data structures, algorithms and the simulation of physical processes.


  • Kelsey Nichols (2023 Fall –)

High School Students

  • Harini X Champooranan, Coppell High School (2024 Spring –)

Alumni

  • Ervin Centeno (B.S. at Rowan University, 2019) First employment: Digital Associate at Wal Mart
  • Shangwen Ma (B.S. at Rowan University, 2019) Transferred to University of Colorado Boulder
  • Ce Pang (B.S. at Rowan University, 2020) First employment: Software Engineer at Barclays Bank US.
  • Pinal Mehta (M.S. at Rowan University, 2020) First employment: Software Engineer at IBM.
  • Tanuja Polineni (M.S. at UNT, 2022) First employment: Software Engineer at Tricentis.
  • Harshitha Gorrepati (M.S. at UNT, 2022) First employment: Associate Consultant at Red-Shift.
  • Bharath Datta Chary Vadla (M.S. at UNT, 2022) First employment: TBD.