Ph.D. Students

Current Ph.D. Students:

• Debashish Das
  • Research: Spatial and Temporal Data Mining.


• Solomon Jones
  • Research: Bioinformatics.


• Joseph Jupin
  • Research: Spatial Data Mining in Social Science.


• Qiang Lou
  • Research: Spatial and Temporal Data Mining.


• Uros Midic
  • Research: Bioinformatics.


• Vladimir Ouzienko
  • Research: Analysis of Social Science Data.


• Ping Zhang
  • Research: Bioinformatics.


• Yilian Qin
  • Research: Spatial and Temporal Data Mining.


• Vladan Radosavljevic
  • Research: Spatial and Temporal Data Mining.


• Kosta Ristovski
  • Research: Spatial and Temporal Data Mining.

Graduated Ph.D. Students:

• Qifang Xu
  • Dissertation: "Statistical Analysis of Biological Interactions of Homologous Proteins," Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2008.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Fox Chase Cancer Institute, Philadelphia.


• Michael Hongbo Xie
  • Dissertation: "Functional Characterization of Large Scale Biological Data," Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2007.
  • First Ph.D. position: Bioinformatics Specialist, IDF Research Department of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.


• Bo Han
  • Dissertation: "Knowledge Discovery by Fusion of Information," Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2007.
  • First Ph.D. position: .


• Kang Peng
  • Dissertation: "Learning from Protein Structure Related Data," Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2006.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, School of Informatics, Indiana University.


• Predrag Radivojac
  • Dissertation: "Classification and Knowledge Discovery in Protein Databases," Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2003.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, School of Medicine, Indiana University.


• Dragoljub Pokrajac
  • Dissertation: "Knowledge Discovery in Spatial-Temporal Databases," Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2002.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dpt., Delaware State University.


• Aleksandar Lazarevic
  • Dissertation: "Distributed Inductive Learning for Time/Space Data Analysis," Computerand Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2001.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Computer Science Dpt., University of Minnesota.


• Slobodan Vucetic
  • Dissertation: "On-line Systems for Non-stationary Data Analysis and Modeling, ", Electrical Engineering Ph.D., WSU, Summer 2001.
  • First Ph.D. position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Information Sciences and technology and Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.


• Pedro Romero
  • Dissertation: "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Protein Databases," Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Spring 1999.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Laboratories, Stanford Research Institute International, Menlo Park, CA.


• Radu Drossu
  • Dissertation: "Efficient Design of Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction," Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1997.
  • First Ph.D. position: Staff Scientist, Financial Engineering Group, HNC Software Inc., San Diego, CA.


• Tim Chenoweth
  • Dissertation: "A Neural Network Based System for Predicting Future Returns for the S&P 500 Stock Index," Interdisciplinary Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1996.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Accountancy, Arizona State University.


• Srdjan Milenkovic
  • Dissertation: "Higher-Order Dynamic Learning Through Nondeterministic Global Optimization," Electrical Eng. Ph.D., University of Nis, Yugoslavia, co-advised with Prof. Vanco Litovski from Univ. of Nis, Summer 1996.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Microelectronics Centre, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom.


• Justin Fletcher
  • Dissertation: "A Constructive Approach to Hybrid Architectures for Machine Learning," Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1994.
  • First Ph.D. position: Principal Engineer, Itron Corp., Spokane, WA.