{"id":24,"date":"2018-12-13T19:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:35:11","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Information Fusion Lab is led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/about\/directory\/ina-fiterau-brostean\">Dr. Ina Fiterau<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in joining our group or collaborating with us, <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/join\/\">please see this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PhD Students<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ke.linkedin.com\/in\/purity-mugambi-3111b566\">Purity Mugambi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~sshankar\/\">Shiv Shankar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kexiao17.github.io\/\">Ke Xiao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edmond Cunningham (co-advised with Dan Sheldon)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stonezhng\">Sidong Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nguyentr17.github.io\/\">Trang Nguyen<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MS Students<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Undergraduates<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sneha Pullanoor<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Current<sup>*<\/sup> Collaborators (as of October 2023)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/engineering\/about\/directory\/joyita-dutta\">Joyita Dutta<\/a> (Biomedical Engineering)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/james-priest\">James Priest<\/a> (Stanford Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~elm\/\">Erik Learned-Miller<\/a> (UMass CICS, Computer Vision)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~kalo\/\">Vangelis Kalogerakis<\/a> (UMass CICS, Computer Vision)<\/p>\n<p>*) Current means working on active funded projects and\/or with joint publications within the last 3 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PhD Alumni<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~iman\/\">Iman Deznabi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also have senior students on the job market.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MS Alumni<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yunfeiluo.github.io\/\">Yunfei Luo<\/a> (MS 2023, PhD student at UCSD)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/npolosky.github.io\/\">Nicholas Polosky<\/a> (MS 2021, Meta)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abhishekshar\/\">Abhishek Sharma<\/a> (MS 2020, PhD student at Harvard)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/akhila-josyula\/\">Akhila Josyula<\/a> (MS 2020, Data Scientist at Cognistx)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nbharaths\/\">Bharath Narasimhan<\/a> (MS 2020, Amazon AWS)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chandlertayek\/\">Chandler Tayek<\/a> (MS 2020, Research Assistant)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/monicamunnangi\/\">Monica Munnangi<\/a> (MS 2020, Research Assistant at Yale School of Medicine)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/riteshkumar0001\/\">Ritesh Kumar<\/a> (MS 2020)<\/p>\n<p>Ritwik Anand (MS 2020, PhD student)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yrf1.github.io\/\">Yi Ren Fung<\/a> (MS 2020, PhD student at UIUC)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mr.zguan.me\/\">Ziqiang Guan<\/a> (MS 2020, Amazon Alexa AI)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abhinav-shaw\/\">Abhinav Shaw<\/a> (MS 2019, Lyft)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debasmitaghose.github.io\/Debasmita-Ghose\/\">Debasmita Ghose<\/a> (MS 2019, PhD student at Yale)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/natcha-simsiri-08a0315b\/\">Natcha Simsiri<\/a> (MS 2019, Lutron Electronics)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uppaal.github.io\/\">Rheeya Uppaal<\/a> (MS 2019, Goldman Sachs Core AI)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shasvat-desai\/\">Shasvat Desai<\/a> (MS 2019, Orbital Insight)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sneha-bhattacharya\/\">Sneha Bhattacharya<\/a> (MS 2019, Affectiva)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Undergraduate Alumni<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Evan Fellman<\/p>\n<p>Renos Zabounidis<\/p>\n<p>Genglin Liu<\/p>\n<p>Larry Tseng<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former Collaborators<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deepc94.github.io\/\">Deep Chakraborty<\/a> (PhD student, Computer Vision Lab)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bsinghpratap\">Bhanu Pratap Singh<\/a> (PhD Alumnus, BioNLP Lab)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/purvapruthi\">Purva Pruthi<\/a> (PhD student, Knowledge Discovery Lab)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meijiu.github.io\/\">Joie Wu<\/a> (MS graduat, Database Lab)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former Affiliates<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arghosh.github.io\/\">Aritra Ghosh<\/a>\u00a0(PhD student, working with Andrew Lan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elita-lobo-45882373\/\">Elita Lobo<\/a> (PhD student, working with Bruno da Silva)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~shivam\/\">Shivam Srivastava<\/a> (PhD student, UMass CICS)<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Information Fusion Lab is led by Dr. Ina Fiterau. If you are interested in joining our group or collaborating with us, please see this page. PhD Students Purity Mugambi Shiv Shankar Ke Xiao Edmond Cunningham (co-advised with Dan Sheldon) Sidong Zhang Trang Nguyen MS Students Undergraduates Sneha Pullanoor Current* Collaborators (as of October 2023) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","group-blog","no-sidebar","hfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/infofusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}