Text Information Management and Analysis Group

Faculty ChengXiang Zhai PhD Students Assma Boughoula (Assistant Prof., Univ. of Prince Mugrin, Saudi Arabia) Bhavya Adam Davies Liliang Ren Kevin Ros Kowshika Sarker Chenkai Sun (Co-Advised with Prof. Heng Ji) Ke Yang Master Students Jize Jiang (MS in CS) Uday Kanth Reddy Kakarla (MS in CS) Shradha Sehgal (MS in CS) Mu-Chun Wang (MS in CS) Yufeng Zhang (MS in CS) Sharath Chandra Etagi Suresh (Master of CS) Varun Goyal (Master of CS) Rakshana Jayaprakash (Master of CS) Dhyey Pandya (Master of CS) Ashwin Patil (Master of CS) Prathamesh Sonawane (Master of CS) Kedar Takwane (Master of CS) Undergraduate Students Jacob Levine (Computer Science) Sarnabh Mukhopadhyay (Statistics, Computer Science) Vishruth Raj (BSLAS, Computer Science, Linguistics) Alexander Wang (Math & Computer Science, Statistics) Alvin Zhang (Statistics & Computer Science)

Picture of some TIMAN group members at Lake of the Woods (Spring 2023) (see also those taken in 2019, 2018, 2017 , 2014 in front of Siebel Center, 2013 at Allerton Park, 2011 at Weldon Springs State Park , 2010 at Kickapoo State Park, 2009 at Lake of the Woods, 2008 at Moraine View State Park and 2007 at Clinton Lake State Park)

Alumni

Ph.D. Alumni

1. Yiren Wang (PhD., 2023, Microsoft Research)
2. Daniel Campos (PhD., 2023, Snowflake)
3. Sahiti Labhishetty(PhD., 2023, Target)
4. Saar Kuzi (PhD., 2021, Amazon)
5. Dominic Seyler (PhD., 2021, eBay)
6. Alex Morales (Ph.D., 2020, Twitter)
7. Ismini Lourentzou (Ph.D., 2019, IBM Research->Virginia Tech)
8. Xueqing Liu (Ph.D., 2019, Stevens Inst. of Technology)
9. Edward Huang (Ph.D. 2019, Amazon)
10. Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu (Ph.D., 2019, MIT->Auburn Univ.)
11. Chase Geigle (Ph.D. 2018, Google)
12. Shan Jiang (Ph.D. 2018, Facebook)
13. Sheng Wang (Ph.D. 2017, Stanford)
14. Yinan Zhang (Ph.D, 2017, Facebook)
15. Xiaolong Wang (Ph.D., 2017, Facebook)
16. Sean Massung (Ph.D., 2017, Jump Trading)
17. Rongda Zhu (Ph.D., 2017, Facebook)
18. Dae Hoon Park (Ph.D., 2016, Yahoo Research)
19. Mingjie Qian (Ph.D., 2015, Yahoo Labs)
20. Hongning Wang (Ph.D., 2014, Univ. of Virginia)
21. Yanen Li (Ph.D., 2014, LinkedIn)
22. Huizhong Duan (Ph.D., 2013, WalmartLabs)
23. Parikshit Sondhi (Ph.D., 2013, WalmartLabs)
24. Kavita Ganesan (Ph.D.,2013, 3M)
25. Hyun Duk Kim (Ph.D., 2013, Twitter)
26. V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran (Ph.D., 2012, University of Michigan)
27. Duo Zhang (Ph.D., 2012, Twitter)
28. Yuanhua Lv (Ph.D., 2012, Microsoft Research)
29. Maryam Karimzadehgan (Ph.D., 2012, Google Research)
30. Yue Lu (Ph.D., 2011, Twitter)
31. Alexander Kotov (Ph.D., 2011, Wayne State University)
32. Younhee Ko (Ph.D., 2010, Chemical Engineering, UIUC)
33. Xu Ling (Ph.D., 2009, Google)
34. Bin Tan (Ph.D., 2009, Amazon)
35. Xuanhui Wang (Ph.D.,2009,Yahoo!)
36. Qiaozhu Mei (Ph.D.,2009, University of Michigan)
37. Jing Jiang (Ph.D., 2008, Singapore Management University)
38. Azadeh Shakery (Ph.D., 2008, University of Tehran)
39. Xuehua Shen (Ph.D., 2007, Google)
40. Hui Fang (Ph.D., 2007, Ohio State University, now University of Delaware)
41. Tao Tao (Ph.D., 2007, Microsoft)

Master Alumni

1. Yunqian Bao (BS+MS in CS, 2023)
2. Priyanka Dey (MS in CS, 2023)
3. Qiao Jiang (MCS, 2022)
4. Yunan Zhang (MS in CS, 2022)
5. Xiaoxuan (Mandy) Wang (MS in CS, 2022)
6. Jialong Yin (MCS in CS, 2022)
7. Aaron Green (MS in CS, 2020)
8. Xiaoyan Wang (MS in CS, 2020)
9. Jishnu Dey (MS in CS, 2020)
10. Chinny Emeka (MS in CS, 2019)
11. Bingjie Jiang (MS, 2018)
12. Xiaofo Yu (BS+MS, 2018)
13. Shengliang Dai (MS, 2017)
14. Bofan Sun (BS+MS, 2017)
15. Sonia Mohanlal (BS+MCS, 2017)
16. Guoqiao Li (BS+MS, 2017)
17. Xin Wei (MS, 2017)
18. Pramod Srinivasan (MS, 2017)
19. Shilpa Subrahmanyam (MS, 2017)
20. Chaoqun Liu (MS, 2017)
21. Vishaal Mohen (MS, 2017)
22. Jinda Han (MS, 2016, PhD student at UIUC)
23. Hussein Hazimeh (MS, 2016, PhD student at MIT)
24. Vignesh Raja (MCS, 2015)
25. Xiaodan Zhang (MS, 2015)
26. Zheng Kang (MS, 2015)
27. Parimal Singh (MS, 2015)
28. Jinyao Xu (MS, 2015)
29. Thomas Zhang (MS, 2014)
30. Gong Chen (MS, 2014, Startup)
31. Rui Wang (MS, 2014, Yelp)
32. Joe Di Febo (MS, 2013)
33. Gurmeet Singh (MS, 2013, WalmartLabs)
34. Curtis Wang (MS, 2013, LinkedIn)
35. Han-Wen Yeh (MS, 2013)
36. Hyun Duk (Jason) Cho (MS, 2012, Ph.D. UIUC)
37. Nipun Sehrawat (MS, 2012, Google)
38. Jing Zou (BS/MS, 2012, Facebook)
39. Preeyaa Rawlani (M.S., 2011)
40. Hang Chen (M.S., 2010)
41. Samson Hauguel (M.S., 2010, Amazon)
42. Hsiang-Yeh Hwang (M.S., 2010, Cisco)
43. Hyun Duk Kim (MS, 2009, Ph.D. Program at UIUC)
44. Kumaresh Pattabiraman (M.S., 2009, Microsoft)
45. Kamal Kant Gupta (MS, 2008, Amazon)
46. Yue Lu (MS, 2008, Ph.D. program at UIUC)
47. Manish Agrawal (MS, 2008, Microsoft)
48. Shailesh Kochhar (MS, 2006, Amazon)
49. Alex Kotov (Ms, 2006, Ph.D. program at UIUC)
50. Aditya Ramani (MS, 2006)
51. Xuanhui Wang (MS, 2006, Ph.D. program at UIUC)
52. Pouya Kheradpour (MS, 2005, Ph.D. program at MIT)
53. William Lee (MS, 2005)
54. Ryan Fellers (MS,2005)
55. Hui Fang (MS, 2004, Ph.D. program at UIUC)
56. Stanley Yong (MS, 2004)
57. Peng Zang (MS, 2004, Ph.D.program at Georgia Tech)
58. Smitha Sriram (MS, 2003)

Undergraduate Alumni

1. Akhil Kodumuri (BS,Computer Engineering, 2023)
2. Chirag Rastogi (BS, Computer Engineering, 2023)
3. Matthew Jin (BS, Computer Engineering, 2023)
4. Jize Jiang (BS, Math, Computer Science, and Statistics, 2023)
5. Hyunjun (Andrew) Ko (BS, Computer Engineering, 2022)
7. Zach Cacini (BS, Bioengineering, 2022)
8. Gene Wang (BS, 2021)
9. Nitish Poddar (BS, 2021)
10. Victor Szabo (BS, 2021)
11. Aidan Jabbarzadeh(BS, 2020)
12. Rishabh Rajagopalan (BS, 2020)
13. Arkin Dharawat (BS, 2020)
14. Nupoor Gandhi (BS, 2020)
15. Luyu Gao (BS, 2019)
16. Zecheng Zhang (BS, 2019)
17. Zhuoyue Wang(BS, 2019)
18. Brendan Flanagan-Rosario (BS, 2018)
19. Ran Li (BS, 2018)
20. Byung Il Choi (BS, 2018)
21. Ivy Dan (BS, 2018)
22. Yuqi Zhang (BS, 2017)
23. Hao Zheng (BS, 2017)
24. Rodney Shaghoulian (BS, 2016)
25. Guangzhe Gao (BS, 2016)
26. Xuefei Ning (BS, 2015)
27. Xiaomin Xu (BS, 2015)
28. Ruilin Xu (BS, 2014)
29. Mohd F. Irtefa (BS, 2014)
30. Chunyang Li (BS, 2014, Graduate School, Columbia)
31. Fan Fu (BS, 2014, Facebook)
32. Zhuyi Li (BS, 2013, Graduate School, Columbia)
33. Chen Wang (BS, 2013)
34. Chi (Ben) Zheng (BS, 2013, Graduate School, Stanford)
35. Danila Nikitin (BS, 2012, Google)
36. Gabriel Akintayo (BS, 2011)
37. Charith Jayasinghe (BS, 2011)
38. Nasiba Alrawi (BS,2010)
39. Juan Alonso (BS, 2010)
40. Sean Dunagan (BS, 2010)
41. Paul Dovydaitis (BS, 2009)
42. Dae Hoon Park (BS, 2009)
43. Dong Lee (BS, 2005)

High School Alumni

• Dev Singh (IMSA)

Past Visitors

1. Xiaomu Luo (Visiting Scholar, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, 2018-2019)
2. Zhenya Huang(Visiting PhD student, University of Science and Technology of China, 2018-2019)
3. Jun-Wen Duan (Visiting PhD student, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2017-2018)
4. Yiping Song (Visiting PhD student, Peking University, 2017-2018)
5. Xiusi Chen (Visiting MS student, Peking University, 2017)
6. Peng Bao (Visiting Scholar, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2016-2017)
7. Qingchun Hu (Visiting Scholar, East China University of Science and Technology, 2016-2017)
8. Yue Peng (Visiting PhD student, Nanjing University, 2017-2018)
9. Atsushi Kukuu (Visiting Scholar, Japan Patent Office, 2016-2017)
10. Sendong Zhao (visiting PhD student, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2015-2016)
11. Jingwei Xu (visiting PhD student, Nanjing University, 2014-2015)
12. Yiren Wang (visiting PhD student, Tsinghua Univerity, 2015)
13. Martin Leginus (visiting PhD student, Aalborg University, 2014)
14. Shanfeng Zhu (Visiting Scholar, Fudan University, 2013-2014)
15. Shima Gerani (visiting Ph.D. student, University of Lugano, 2011)
16. Yangsheng Ji (visiting Ph.D. student, Nanjing University, 2009-2010)
17. Jing He (visiting Ph.D. student, Peking University, 2008-2009)
18. Lixin Zhou (visiting scholar, Peking University, 2006-2007)
19. Hongfei Yan (Visiting scholar, Peking University, 2006-2007)