STUDENTS

Current Ph.D.  Students

• Jingkai Yu, completed prospectus in November 2004, Research in progress.
• Lisa Tan, in progress
• Mark Pettovello, in progress
• Manjeet Rege, in progress
• Rajeev Agrawal, in progress
• Farhad Karimi-Mostowfi, in progress
• Youngju Son, in progress
• Kourosh Jafari, completed prospectus in September 2004, Research in progress  (Co-Advisor: Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Henry Ford Health System)
• Hua Yan, "Techniques on Improving LSI Text Retrieval", completed prospectus in January 2003, (Co-Advisor: William Grosky, University of Michigan, Dearborn)
• Jinsong Wang, in progress (CoAdvisor: William Grosky, University of Michigan, Dearborn)

Graduated Ph.D. Students

• Xin Li, "Negotiating the Semantic Gap in an MPEG-7 Aerial Image Database," (Co-Advisor: William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn), July 2005.

• Mohammadreza Siadat, "Human Brain Multi-Modality Image Data Analysis," (Co-Advisor: Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Henery Ford Health System), January 2005.
• Marius Truta, "Adaptive Disclosure Control for Healthcare Microdata," (Co-Advisor: Daniel Barth-Jones, Center for Health Effectiveness Research, School of Medicine, Wayne State University), May 2004.
• DV Sreenath, "Deriving Emergent Semantics from Web Browsing Paths," (Co-Advisor: William Grosky, University of Michigan, Dearborn), December, 2003
• Michael Johnson, "Discovering Document Semantics - QBYS: A System for Querying the WWW by Semantics," March 2003. 
• Dooseoung, Hwang, "Computational Meta-Analysis of Protein Interaction Data," January 2003.
• George Schleis, "The Reference Neuron Model of Memory:  Explorations of its Capabilities ", December 2001.
• Augustine Ikeji, "The Optimal Computation of Partial Query Results (PQR)," December 1999.
• Amer F. Al-Badarneh, " The SBS: An Efficient Index Structure for Spatial Database Applications," December 1999.
• Rahul Tikekar, "Query Optimization in Tertiary Storage-Based Systems Using A Generalized Storage Model," January 1997.
• Azzam Ibrahim, "The SB+-Tree: An Index Structure for Spatial Data," March 1995.
• Andrew Johnson, "SANDBOX: A Virtual Reality Interface to Scientific Databases," August 1994. 
• Abad A. Shah, "TOS: A Temporal Object System," August, 1992.          
• Tae-Gong Lee, "Generalized Index for Query Optimization in Object-Oriented Database Systems," March 1991.

Master Theses 

• Yan Jin, "Internet Information Retrieval by Personalized Information Discovery - Two-Stage Model," December 2003.
• Yelena Grishpun, "Query Optimization for Mediators," May 2003.
• Yan Sun, "A Probabilistic Algorithm to Detect Sequence Motifs in Genomic Sequences," April 2003.
• Wu Ding, "Web Querying on Geographical Information Systems," June 2001.
• Colette Jacobsen, "Developing Web3D-Database Interfaces Using an Architectural-Based Design Method," April 2001.
• Susan Kaugher, "Data Visualization Utilizing IQ-VRI and IDL," December 1999.
• Karthekeyan Ramachandren, "3D Interface to Databases with an Iconic Querying Interface," May 1999.
• Aashima Narula, "A Distributed Web-Based Virtual Reality Interface to Relational Database Systems," July 1997.
• Nitan Jadhav, "VToD: VRMLto Database Link," June 1997.
• Ronald J. Jachim Jr., "A Graphical User Interface for Expressing Fuzzy Queries," August 1996.
• Michael Bernardo, "Optimizing Cyclic Queries in Object-Oriented Databases," April 1996.
• Jason Tung, "DRS - A Dynamic Reporting System for Federated Databases," March 1996.
• Mahesh K. Jain, "Fuzzy Query Processing Using Neural Networks," April 1996.
• Rana Chander, "An Efficient Restructuring of Hypertext Graphs Using Dynamic Construction of Links," December 1995.    
• Syed Fawad Hasan, "Real-Time Error Detection in the Automated Vehicle Weighing System," December 1994.
• Chandramouli Vasudevan, "Comparison of Physical Storage Models for Object-Oriented Databases," March 1993.
• Paul Anye Tuma, "Implementing Historical Aggregates in TEMPIS," November 1992.
• Qian Yang, "Algorithms for Temporal Union Joins in Temporal Databases," April 1992.
• Terry Niner, "An Intelligent Hypertext Interface to Database Systems," March 1991.
• David Chen, "A Dynamic Hash-Based Join Algorithm for a Hypercube Multicomputer," March 1991.
• Carlos E. Galarce, "Adaptive Systems and the Search for Optimal Index Selection," October 1990. 
• Rahul V. Tikekar, "Optimal Ordering of Integrity Assertions for Maintaining Semantic Integrity of Databases," August 1990. 
• Jason Leigh, "Optimal Parallel Scheduling of M-Way Join Queries," July 1990. 
• Kyusuk Chung,  "High Availability and Consistency of Data in a Partitioned Distributed Database System," April 1990. 
• Andrew Johnson, "A Parallel Hash-Based Algorithm for Computing the Transitive Closure of Database Relations," February 1990.

Essays

• Kyoung-Hee Lee, "Data Allocation in Distributed Database Systems," March 1991.   
• Se-Young Chen, " A Classification of The Semantic Query Optimization Techniques," May 1990.   
• Mong-Tzu Lian,  "Issues and Approaches in Designing Main Memory Database Systems," April 1990.
• Tzekwang Wu, "Optimal File Distribution for Partial Match Retrieval Queries," February 1990.