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Teaching Prof. Samuel Madden Professor, MIT Hao Feng Professor, U Illinois Robert Jensen Army Research Laboratory PhD Students Luke Buquicchio Kathleen Cachel Lei Ma Nicholas Josselyn Kevin Hickey Peter VanNostrand Dennis Hofmann Avantika Shrestha Ruofan Hu Lichun Gao Oluseun Olulana Maksim Xiaoshuai Joshua DeOliveira Rebecca Lopez Harriet Sibitenda (Visiting) Recent Master Thesis Students Dennis Hofmann Avantika Shrestha Peter VanNostrand Nicholas Josselyn Prathyush Parvatharaju Allison Rozet Luke Buquicchio Muzammil Bashir Tom Hartvigsen ML Tlachac PhD Alumni Dongyu Zhang PhD 2024 LLM Eng/Researcher Bytedance Biao Yin PhD 2024 Walter Gerych PhD 2023 Postdoc. Researcher MIT CSAIL Ricardo Flores PhD 2023 Postdoc. Researcher Sanofi Pharmaceutical Jidapa Thadajarassiri PhD 2023 Lecturer Srinakharinwirot Univ. 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Virginia (Postdoc, MIT CSAIL) Ermal Toto PhD 2021 Director, Academic and Research Comp, WPI Maryam Hasan PhD 2021 Faculty San Francisco State Tabassum Kakar PhD 2021 Data Scientist Wells(startup) Susmitha Wunnava PhD 2020 Research Fellow Harvard Medical School Yizhou Yan PhD 2020 Research Scientist Facebook Cansu Sen PhD 2020 Data Scientist Codametrix Caitlin Kuhlman PhD 2020 ML Engineer Apple Zhongfang Zhuang PhD 2019 Research Scientist Visa Research More Alumni Projects All Projects Ongoing Projects Finished Projects Supported by NSF DatabasesXML DatabasesBig Data Systems Query ProcessingData MiningStream Processing Data Mining & Machine Learning Data Integration Visual Exploration MQPPI.Hao Feng co-PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner Dr.Elke Rundensteiner Dr.Mohamed Eltabakh PI.Elke Rundensteiner co-PI.Lane Harrison Dr.Elke Rundensteiner Dr.Emmanuel Agu Dr.Elke Rundensteiner Dr.Xiangnan Kong PI.Elke Rundensteiner co-PI.Fatemeh Emdad PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner co-PI.Neil Heffernan PI.Elke Rundensteiner co-PI.Murali Mani PI.Elke Rundensteiner co-PI.Neil Heffernan PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner co-PI.Chun-Kit Ngan PI.Emmanuel Agu co-PI.Elke Rundensteiner PI.Elke Rundensteiner Latest News Congratulations to our many members who got papers accepted at FAccT 2024! Read More. member Kathleen Cachel wins 1st place in WPI’s 3 Minute Thesis Competition for her work ’Technologies for Fair Consensus Decision-Making’. Congratulations Kathleen! Professor Rundensteiner speaks as a panelist at the presidential event Beyond These Towers: Data Science & AI in Our Lives. Read More. members win Best Paper award at IEEE CompSAC 2023 for paper titled ’Adversarial Human Context Recognition: Evasion Attacks and Defenses.’ Congratulations! Read More. Professor Elke Rundensteiner receives the prestigious IEEE Test-of-Time Award for her groundbreaking and durable contributions to visual data analytics! Read More. Congratulations to our many members who got papers accepted at IEEE 2023! Read More. Congratulations to member Walter Gerych for passing his PhD Dissertation Defense "Working With What You’ve Got: Leveraging Mislabeled Datasets And Improving Imperfect Pretrained Models"! Walter is now starting a position as a postdoc at MIT CSAIL. Congratulations to member Ricardo Flores for passing his PhD Dissertation Defense "Multi-modal Models for Depression Screening"! Ricardo has accepted a postdoctoral research position at Sanofi Pharmaceutical Company focusing on AI for pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Congratulations to member Jidapa Thadajarassiri for passing her PhD Dissertation Defense "Knowledge Amalgamation from Heterogeneous Pre-Trained Models"! Congratulations Dr. Jida! On April 17th Professor Rundensteiner spoke with the Worcester Business Journal about the power and risks of using AI in healthcare applications. Read More Congratulations to students for winning in the Data Science finals of GRIE 2023! Ricardo Flores took home 2nd place with Yao Su, Joshua DeOliveira, and Peter VanNostrand tied for 3rd! Great job all! Congratulations to students Joshua DeOliveira, Ricardo Fores, Nicholas Josselyn, and Peter VanNostrand for advancing to the finals of GRIE 2023! Congratulations to member Xika Lin for passing her PhD Dissertation Defense "Frequent Pattern Mining Analytics"! Congratulations Dr. Lin! On November 16th 2022, member Oluseun Olulana received the prestigious American Association of University Women’s International Doctoral Degree Fellowship. Congratulations Olu! Read More On August 10th 2022, Noura Alghamdi successfully completed her PhD dissertation defense, congratulations Dr. Alghamdi! WPI features research into AI depression screening of voice recordings Read More Congratulations to Walter Gerych and Jadipa Thadajarassiri for winning first and third place at WPI’s Graduate Resesearch Innovation Exchange! See their award photo in the carousel below! WPI features member Kathleen Cachel’s work to make AI more fair through addressing bias in automated rankings Read More Congratulations to member Walter Gerych for being selected to present his work in an oral presentation at AAAI 2022! Professor Elke Rundensteiner is named WILLIAM B. SMITH PROFESSOR! WPI wins $3 Million Award To Launch Graduate Program Preparing Data-Driven Leaders To Build A More Sustainable And Just Future Read More More News! IN ACTION PhD graduate Dr. Susmitha Wunnava was the featured speaker at WPI’s Class of 2021 commencement. Susmitha now moves on with her career as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School pursuing her dream of working in medical analytics. Congratulations, Susmitha! Former student Dr. Manasi Vartak is now founder and CEO of AI start-up Verta which aims to bring the latest in data science research into the business world by estabilishing best practices for deploying machine learning. Verta has just secured a $10 million Series A round of funding, Read More. Open positions We are always looking for bright, motivated, and hard-working graduate and undergraduate students to join our group and work on projects with us to develop data-centric solutions and systems that solve pressing problems in healthcare, medicine, science, or engineering with societal impact. If you are interested, please contact Elke Rundensteiner at rundenst [at] wpi [dot] edu. Contact Us! Awards Our group has been recognized many times over the years from best papers/posters to competitions to TA awards. For a full list, please click the following link. List of Awards Funding We are grateful to have been supported by many funding agencies over the years. In addition to our ongoing projects, please refer to the following full list of funding sources. NSF HP Microsoft IBM Verizon MIT Lincoln Lab Funding sources Publications Selected Recent Publications. Lei Ma. Lei Cao, Peter Van NoStrand, Dennis Hofmann, Su Yao, and Elke Rundensteiner. Pluto: Sample Selection for Robust Anomaly Detection on Polluted Log Data. ACM SIGMOD 2025 Mallak Alkhathlan, Kathleen Cachel, Hilson Shrestha, Lane Harrison, and Elke Rundensteiner....