Iowa State University

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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Computer Science


Graduate students pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science or in an interdepartmental program with Computer Science as a home department. Interdepartmental programs are, but not limited to: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), Genetics Development & Cell Biology (GDCB), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Information Assurance.


Computer Science Ph.D. Students

Name Advisor (* = Temporary Advisor)
Al-Tarazi, Motassem Yasser Graduate Committee*
Atukorala, Nimanthi Graduate Committee*
Babar, Junaid (Basu, Samik & Miner, Andrew)
Babbitt, Ryan Michael (Wong, Johnny S.)
Bagherzadeh, Mehdi (Rajan, Hridesh)
Batinov, Georgi (Miller, Leslie)
Bui, Ngot Phu (Honavar, Vasant)
Case, Adam (Lutz, Jack)
Chang, Wen-Chieh (Eulenstein, Oliver & Dickerson, Julie)
Chaudhary, Ruchi (Fernández-Baca, David)
Chen, Yetian (Tian, Jin)
Cho, Kyoung Tak (Tian, Jin)
Darvish Darab, Mohammad Ali Graduate Committee*
Deepak, Akshay (Fernández-Baca, David)
Dong, Jeyoun (Chang, Carl K.)
Dong, Jianrong (Fernández-Baca, David)
Dyer, Robert (Rajan, Hridesh)
Galdames-Sepulveda, Patricio A. (Cai, Ying)
Guo, Feng (Jia, Yan-Bin)
Hanna, Youssef (Rajan, Hridesh)
He, Ru (Wu, Huaiqing &Tian, Jin)
Hong, Dong Ho (Tavanapong, Wallapak & Wong, Johnny)
Jiang, Chuan Graduate Committee*
Jing, Yaping (Miner, Andrew S.)
Jordan Osorio, Rafael (Honavar, Vasant)
Khanolkar, Neeraj (Chaudhuri, Soma)
Klinge, Titus (Lutz, Jack)
Krishnan, Sandeep (Lutz, Robyn R.)
Krishnasamy Sivaprak, Gopalakrishnan (Tian, Jin)
Lee, Sanghack (Honavar, Vasant)
Li, Zi (Zhang, Wensheng)
Lin, Harris Tzu-Hao (Honavar, Vasant)
Lin, Huan (Jia, Yan-Bin)
Lin, Tu-Liang (Song, Guang)
Liu, Danyu (Tavanapong, Wallapak)
Long, Yuheng (Rajan, Hridesh)
Lu, Kai-Shin (Chang, Carl K.)
Mandal, Debasis (Aduri, Pavan)
Ming, Hua (Chang, Carl K.)
Mooney, Sean (Rajan, Hridesh)
Na, Hyun Tae (Jia, Yan-Bin)
Natarajan, Ashwin (Wong, Johnny & Cai, Ying)
Oster, Zachary (Basu, Samik)
Peng, Yang (Zhang, Wensheng)
Qin, Hua (Zhang, Wensheng)
Rahman, Tanzil (Fernández-Baca, David)
Ruse, Michelle E. (Basu, Samik)
Sarkar, Tanmoy (Basu, Samik & Wong, Johnny)
Sharma, Sugam (Gadia, Shashi K.)
Shutters, Bradley (Lutz, Jack)
Sterling, Aaron (Chaudhuri, Soma)
Strasburg, Christopher (Wong, Johnny & Basu, Samik)
Stull, Donald (Lutz, Jack)
Tao, Jia (Slutzki, Giora & Honavar, Vasant)
Towfic, Fadi George (Honavr, Vasant & Greenlee, M. Heather West)
Tu, Kewei (Honavar, Vasant)
Vakati, Sudheer (Fernández-Baca, David)
Wang, Chuang (Zhang, Wensheng)
Wang, Heyong (Chang, Carl K. & Honavar, Vasant)
Wang, Wanwu (Zhang, Ting)
Wang, Yi (Chang, Carl K.)
Wehe, Andre (Eulenstein, Oliver & Luecke, Glenn)
Wu, Liping (Chang, Carl K.)
Xiao, Liyuan (Chang, Carl K.)
Xiao, Nan (Ruan, Lu)
Xie, Haihua (Chang, Carl K.)
Yang, Jingwei (Lutz, Robyn R.)
Zhang, Jinsheng (Zhang, Wensheng)
Zhao, Xinyuan (Gadia, Shashi K.)

Computer Science M.S. Students

Name Advisor (* = Temporary Advisor)
Babu, Deepan Graduate Committee*
Bai, Henri Graduate Committee*
Balakrishnan, Aravindh Kumar (Miller, Leslie)
Baskaran, Suganya (Miller, Leslie)
Chellappan, Saravana (Miller, Leslie)
Dhulpet, Swaroop Rajendra (Wong, Johnny S.)
Ellis, Sam Graduate Committee*
Galenko, Dmitry Graduate Committee*
Gopal, Munish (Honavar, Vasant)
Guo, Enruo (Gadia, Shashi K.)
Iwata, Katsuya (Weiss, David M.)
Joebert, Poorvi (Miller, Leslie & Gilbert, Stephen)
Kalyanasamy, Arun Graduate Committee*
Kar, Oliva (Fernández-Baca, David)
Khokale, Asha (Huang, Xiaoqiu & Smadi, Omar)
Koneru, Rachana Graduate Committee*
Krishna, Amar Graduate Committee*
Lim, Ha Jeong Graduate Commitee*
Madhavan, Arvind (Chang, Carl K.)
Negoita, Gianina Alina (Prabhu, Gurpur M.)
Patanasak Pinyo, Thitivatr Graduate Committee*
Peng, Lisen Graduate Committee*
Ramaswamy, Nandhini (Tian, Jin & Gilbert, Stephen)
Roberts, Michael (Lutz, Robyn R.)
Rodrigues, Cavell Graduate Committee*
Saraf, Archit (Chang, Carl K.)
Schenck, Connor (Stoytchev, Alexander T.)
Singh, Jasmeet Graduate Committee*
Susan Varghese, Jinu Graduate Committee*
Tadepalli, Ravikiran (Tavanapong, Wallapak & Grey, Joseph)
Upadhyaya, Ganesha Belle (Rajan, Hridesh)
Vasanth, Achyuthan (Fernandez-Baca, David & Wurtele, Eve S.)
Venugopalan, Rajeswari Graduate Committee*
Wang, Sen Graduate Committee*
Wang, Xiaofeng Graduate Committee*
Wang, Yanfei (Zhang, Wensheng)
Weeks, Nathan (Luecke, Glenn & Prabhu, Gurpur)

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Ph.D. Students
(with Computer Science as their Home Department)

Name Advisor (* = Temporary Advisor)
Walia, Rasna (Honavar, Vasant & Dobbs, Drena)
Xue, Li (Honavar, Vasant & Dobbs, Drena)

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology M.S. Students
(with Computer Science as their Home Department)

Name Advisor (* = Temporary Advisor)
Vammi, Vijay Graduate Committee**

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Ph.D. Students
(with Computer Science as their Home Department)

Name Advisor (* = Temporary Advisor)
Carlson, Patrick (Rajan, Hridesh & Vance, Judy)
Sinapov, Jivko (Stoytchev, Alexander T.)
Whitney, Kofi (Miller, Leslie)