Social AI Laboratory

PhD Students

Listing only those who have passed at least one research exam under my supervision.

Samuel Christie

(coadvisor: Amit Chopra)

Information-Based Decentralized Systems, proposed July 2021

Mu Zhu

Advanced Honeyfile System for Insider Attacker Detection, proposed August 2021

Sz-Ting Tzeng

Norm Emergence in Systems of Cognitive Agents with Emotions and Values, proposed October 2021

Vaibhav Garg

Unexpected-Catch: Identifying Unexpected Information Access from App Reviews, qualified May 2021

Amanul Haque

Pixie: Preferences in Implicit and Explicit Comparisons, qualified November 2021

Jiaqing Yuan

Predicting When a Conversation Derails, qualified January 2022

Ruijie Xi

Cognitive Linguistic Influences on Moral Blame Assignment, qualified January 2022

PhD Graduates

[29] Hui Guo

Extraction and Analysis of Stories: Natural Language Processing for Software Engineering, defended May 2021

[28] Zhen Guo

Understanding Interaction and Persuasion in Online Argumentative Discussions, defended April 2021

[27] Karthik Sheshadri

Toward a Unified Model of News Influence on Public Interest and Legislation, defended June 2019

[26] Nirav Ajmeri

Engineering Multiagent Systems for Ethics and Privacy-Aware Social Computing, defended December 2018

[25] Mehdi Mashayekhi

(coadvisor: George List)

Regulation of Open Normative Multiagent Systems, defended November 2016

[24] Adel Elmessiry

Natural Language Techniques for Decision Support
Based on Patient Complaints, defended October 2016

[23] Anup Kumar Kalia

Understanding Human Communication to Estimate Trust, Hierarchy, and Performance, defended May 2016

[22] Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah

Engineering Personal Agents Toward Personalized, Context-Aware, and Privacy-Preserving Applications, defended March 2016

[21] Guangchao Yuan

Investigating Sentiment, Homophily, and Location for Understanding User Interactions in Social Media, defended March 2016

[20] Zhe Zhang

Text Mining for Sentiment Analysis, defended November 2014

[19] Pankaj R. Telang

Multiagent Business Modeling, defended April 2013

[18] Scott N. Gerard

Designing, Verifying, and Evolving Commitment-Based Business Protocols, defended April 2013

[17] Xibin Gao

Knowledge Discovery from Business Contracts, defended July 2012

[16] Chung-Wei Hang

Probabilistic Trust Models for Social and Service Networks, defended April 2011

[15] Derek J. Sollenberger

Engineering Personal and Social Affective Applications, defended November 2010

[14] Christopher J. Hazard

Trust and Reputation in Multiagent Systems: Strategies and Dynamics with Reference to Electronic Commerce, defended May 2010

[13] Yonghong Wang

Evidence-Based Trust in Distributed Agent Systems, defended December 2008

[12] Amit K. Chopra

Commitment Alignment: Semantics, Patterns, and Decision Procedures for Distributed Computing, defended November 2008

[11] Yathiraj B. Udupi

Modeling Service Engagements in Dynamic Organizations: Multiagent Model and Architecture for Policy-Based Governance, defended March 2008

[10] Qing Zhang

(coadvisor: Ting Yu)

Microdata Privacy Protection Through Permutation-Based Approaches, defended March 2008

[9] A. Soydan Bilgin

(coadvisor: Rada Y. Chirkova)

Deriving Efficient SQL Sequences Via Prefetching, defended December 2007

[8] Nirmit Desai

Interorganizational Business Interactions: Contracts, Processes, Evolution, defended November 2007

[7] Zhengang Cheng

(coadvisor: Mladen A. Vouk)

Verifying Commitment Based Business Protocols and their Compositions: Model Checking using Promela and Spin, defended August 2006

[6] Ashok U. Mallya

Modeling and Enacting Business Processes via Commitment Protocols Among Agents, defended November 2005

[5] E. Michael Maximilien

Toward Autonomic Web Services Trust and Selection, defended December 2004

[4] Feng Wan

Commitment-Based Business Process Modelling and Enactment, defended November 2004

[3] Pınar Yolum

Properties of Referral Networks: Emergence of Authority and Trust, defended June 2003

[2] Bin Yu

Emergence and Evolution of Agent-Based Referral Networks, defended December 2001

[1] Jie Xing

Commitment-Based Interoperation for E-Commerce, defended May 2001

Past Postdocs

Özgür Kafalı

Rahul Pandita

Hongying Du

Adrián Fernández Martinez

Chung-Wei Hang

Christopher Hazard

Nirmit Desai

Bin Yu

MS Graduates

[39] Rishabh Agrawal

(coadvisor: Nirav Ajmeri)

Using Explanations for Norm Emergence in Normative Multiagent Systems, defended August 2021

[38] Suma Kasa

(coadvisor: Anup Kalia)

Parametric Neural Adaptor Grammar for Unsupervised Entity Recognition, defended April 2021

[37] Arvind Sastha Kumar

(coadvisor: Pradeep Murukannaiah)

Federated Inverse Averaging: Toward Pareto-Optimal Minima in Human Activity Recognition, defended April 2021

[36] Bhavana Balraj

(coadvisor: Pradeep Murukannaiah)

Multilabel Active Learning for User Context Recognition in the Wild, defended April 2021

[35] Aditya Parkhi

(coadvisor: Pradeep Murukannaiah)

Novelty Detection in Textual Data using Document Encoders and Self Attention, defended April 2021

[34] Vinayak Dubey

(coadvisor: Tianfu Wu)

Learning Attention to Prune Convolutional Neural Networks , defended March 2021

[33] Shrey Anand

Content-Based Creative Suggestions for User Queries, defended June 2019

[32] Zhen Guo

Predicting View Changes in Online Argumentative Discussions, based on PhD written prelim, defended November 2018

[31] Nirav Ajmeri

Creating and Maintaining Firewall Policies: An Approach Based on Argumentation and its Empirical Evaluation, based on PhD written prelim, defended November 2014

[30] Shubham Goyal

Exploring Sanctions in CyberSecurity Compliance, defended April 2018

[29] Samuel Christie

Atomicity in Declarative Multiagent Communication Protocols, based on PhD written prelim, defended December 2016

[28] Guangchao Yuan

A Mechanism for Cooperative Demand-Side Management, based on PhD written prelim, defended December 2012

[27] Anup Kumar Kalia

Muon: Designing Multiagent Communication Protocols from Interaction Scenarios, defended August 2013

[26] Zhe Zhang

Trader Behavior Prediction Using Interpersonal Communication, based on PhD written prelim, defended May 2012

[25] Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah

Platys Social: Relating Shared Places and Private Social Circles, based on PhD written prelim, defended April 2011

[24] Pankaj R. Telang

Specifying and Verifying Business Models, based on PhD written prelim, defended May 2010

[23] Koushik Narayanan Rajagopalan

Tools for Business Protocols, defended May 2010

[22] Derek J. Sollenberger

Architecture and Methodology for Affective Social Applications, based on PhD written prelim, defended September 2009

[21] Narendran Ranjit

Multiagent Referral Systems: Maintaining and Applying Trust and Expertise Models, defended May 2007

[20] Arvind Batalagundu Viswanathan

Bootstrapping Referral Systems with Social Network Information, defended May 2007

[19] Payal Chakravarty

An Event-Driven Approach to Agent-Based Business Process Enactment, defended February 2007

[18] Yathiraj B. Udupi

Trust in Knowledge Sharing, based on PhD written prelim, (defended October 2003), graduated December 2005

[17] Leena V. Wagle

Incorporating Business Policies into Business Protocols, defended August 2005

[16] Amit K. Chopra

Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines, defended October 2003

[15] A. Soydan Bilgin

Semantic Web Services Query and Manipulation Language for Quality Attributes of Web Services, defended August 2003

[14] Srivatsa V. Chivukula

Evolution of Trust in Anonymous Interactions, defended May 2003

[13] Ashok U. Mallya

Specifying and Resolving Temporal Commitments, defended November 2002

[12] Raghuram M. Sreenath

A Community-Based Rating System for Selecting among Web Services, defended November 2002

[11] Subhayu S. Chatterjee

Instant Messaging Interface and Transport for the Multiagent Referral System, defended November 2002

[10] Paul J. Palathingal

Integrating Information Retrieval in a Referral System for Knowledge Management, defended May 2002

[9] E. Michael Maximilien

Web Services Reputation, based on PhD written prelim, defended April 2002

[8] Wentao Mo

A Referral-Based Recommender System for E-Commerce, defended May 2001

[7] Mahmoud S. Elhaddad

Adaptive Multipath Traffic Allocation in TCP/IP Networks, defended August 2001

[6] Pınar Yolum

Flexible Execution of E-Commerce Protocols: A Commitment-Based Approach, defended June 2000

[5] Mahadevan Venkatraman

Specifying and Verifying Compliance with Commitment Protocols Among Autonomous Agents, defended September 1999

[4] Sudhir K. Rustogi

Empirical Studies of Coordination in Decentralized Multiagent Systems, defended August 1999

[3] Jiejun Kong

Constructing Multiagent Systems: The MEP Project, defended August 1998

[2] Anuj K. Jain

Maintaining Process Coherence in Heterogeneous Information Environments, defended May 1998

[1] Chubin Lin

Design and Implementation of a Distributed Workflow Scheduler, defended April 1998

Other Past Students

Bennett Narron

Prashant C. Kediyal, passed written prelims

Ricard López Fogués, visitor from Spain

Qanita Ahmad

Moin Ayazifar

Dhanwant Kang

Srinath Anantharaju

Priya Paul Manavalan, undergrad

Yu Lei

Joel Rucker, undergrad

Chris L. Grove, undergrad

Upendra Padmonkar

Neerja Bhatt

Hong Han