RESEARCH AREAS

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS and AWARDS (LAST 5 YEARS ONLY)

Teaching

People

See the Article (in Page 3) about Big Data Lab and Dr. Sunnie Chung !

BIG DATA LAB RESEARCH PEOPLE (Since 2016)

PHD DISSERTATION STUDENTS

  • Asanka Mananayaka, (Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Defense), Title: “Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection for Network Intrusion Detection Systems in IoT Networks”, Spring 2021 - Present
  • Abhinav Abhishek, Title: “Patient Centric Time Sequenced Knowledge Graph for Medical Question Answering System on Clinical Data”, Spring 2023 - Present
  • Sam Quarcoo, “Query Language for Knowledge Graph for Medical Question Answering System”, Fall 2024 - Present
  • Abay Suleimenov, "Knowledge Graph Based Context Information Retrieval for Prompting Training of Large Language Models”, Fall 2024 - Present
  • Collin Simpson, "GraphRAG: Knowledge Graph Based Patient Centric Time Sequenced Clinical Data Retrieval for RAG with Large Language Models”, Spring 2025 - Present


  • MASTER THESIS STUDENTS (GRADUATED)

  • Aya Aqeel, (Master Thesis MSSE) Title: “Evidence Based Medical Question Answering System Using Knowledge Graph Paradigm”, May 2022
  • Joe Marser, (Master Thesis MSSE) “Large Scale e-Commerce Recommendation System with Concept Net”, Fall 21 – Fall 22
  • Sean Riehl, (Master Thesis MSSE) Title: “Property Recommendation System with Geospatial Data Analytics and Natural Language Processing for Urban Land Use”, May 2020
  • Labhesh Popoli (Master Thesis MSSE), Thesis Title: “An Attention Based Deep Neural Network for Visual Question Answering System”, December 2019
  • Danielle Aring (Master Thesis MSCS), thesis title: “Integrated Real-time Social Media Sentiment Analysis using a Big Data Analytic Ecosystem”, May 2016
  • Andrew Yu (Master Thesis MSCS), thesis title: "Automatic Identification and Analysis of Basketball Plays: NBA On-Ball Screens", May 2016


  • CURRENT MASTER THESIS STUDENTS

  • Dennis Risch, “Medical Question Answering System with Knowledge Graph Integrated with Patient Centric Time Sequenced Data Warehouse”, Fall 2023 – Present
  • Husan A. Almusawi, “Domain specific Language Model for Medical Question Answering System with Knowledge Graph and Concept Net”, Spring 2023 – Present


  • PHD DEFENSE (COMPLETED)

  • Izdehar Aldyaflah, (Ph.D.), Dissertation Proposal: “Blockchain-Based Secure Sensing Data and Logging”, May 2023
  • JAFAR POURBEMANY, (Ph.D.), Dissertation Proposal: “AUTOMATIC CARDIAC SIGNALS ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION OF BIOMETRICS IN WEARABLES SECURITY”, March 2023
  • Qing Wu, (Ph.D.), Dissertation Proposal Defense: “QipNet: Quick in Process Deep Learning Neural Networks in Electroencephalography (EEG) Signals”, Oct 2021
  • JingYuan Liang (Ph.D.), Dissertation Proposal Defense: “Tail Timeout Defense Mechanism to Website Censorships in Fingerprinting Methods”, Dec 2019


  • ADDITIONAL MASTER THESIS STUDENTS (COMPLETED AS THEIR THESIS COMMITTEE)

  • SRAVYA BETHU (MSCS Thesis), Thesis Title: “Compromising Random Linear Network Coding as A Cipher”, May 2022
  • Mrunal Dipakkumar Bhatt (MSCS Thesis), “INTELLIGNET VOICE ACTIVATED HOME AUTOMATION”, May 2016

  • 47 GRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS / INDEPENDENT STUDY STUDENTS

    4 HONOR THESIS STUENTS (COMPLETED)

  • Dennis Risch, “Intelligent Real Estate Recommendation System with Geospatial Analysis and Natural Language Processing”, Spring 2023
  • Geri Bakushi, “Machine Learning Based Identification of Food Desert Defection and Public Health Disparity Areas for a Property Recommendation System”, Spring 2023
  • Jimmy Popoola, “Automated Machine Learning Based Intrusion Detection System”, Spring 2023
  • Yiyuan Dorothy Zhao (Honor Thesis), Thesis Title: “Machine Learning Based Identification of Food Desert Defect in Urban Development”, May 2020


  • UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH STUDENTS (COMPLETED)

  • Mike D’Arcy, Utkarsh Patel on “Semantic Document Search with Machine Learning” Summer 2017 Funded by College of Engineering, CSU
  • Mike D’Arcy on “Semantic Document Search with Machine Learning” Summer 2018 Funded by College of Engineering, CSU
  • Ryan Reynolds, “Topic Modeling for Text Analytics with Natural Language Processing Method: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)”, Summer 2019


  • 53 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT STUDENTS in DATA SCIENCE


    AWARD WINNING SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • Cerebro: Real Time Security Service (The First Prize Winner of 2016 Senior Design in College of Engineering) by Nick White, et al
  • Semantic Document Search with Machine Learning: Sharesci (The Best CS Senior Project Winner of 2018) by Mike D'Arcy and Utkarsh Patel
  • : Document Search Engine for Collaborative Content Management by Nick McCoy, Benjamin Mckinsey, et al
  • Urban Real Estate Analytic Service (The Candidate of Best Senior Project 2019 in College of Engineering) by Joel Stell et. al.
  • 2020 Presidential Election Prediction from SocialMedia Opinion Analysis(The Best CS Senior Project Winner of 2021) by Hayden Ferencz and at. el


  • SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT SUPERVISIONS (47)


    MASTER PROJECT STUDENTS
    40 Master Research Project Students in Independent Study During Last 5 Years


    SENIOR DESIGN STUDENTS in DATA SCIENCE

    53 Senior Students in the 8 Prize Winning CS Senior Project Teams

    2023-2024:

  • Project: Mute and Deaf Sign Language Translating Glove
  • Members:
    Carmen Villalobos Garcia
    Salvador Murillo
    Leonid Negomedzyanov
    Fabio Hinojosa Jimenez


    2022-2023:

  • Project: Intelligent Real Estate Recommendation System
  • Research Members:
    Dennis Risch
    Geri Bakushi
    Gabriel Phillips
    Troy Reid

  • Project: Infectious Disease Risk Predictor
  • Research Members:
    Nathanael Ahiagbedey
    Connor Van Etten
    Danny De Jesus
    Zavier Romano


    2021-2022:

    Project: Social Media Opinion Analysis System on Legislative Congress Bills
    Research Members:
    Nicholas E. Cleary
    Nathan Dixon
    Ian Wu
    Aidan Zapotechne

    Post Graduate Student Success from Big Data Lab (During Last 5 Years Only)

    Selective List of the Prestigious Industry and Academia Where Our Big Data Lab Students Landed After Graduation

  • Mr. Michael D’Arcy (Now Ph.D at North Western University)
  • Mr. Utkarsh Patel (Now Master at University of Southern California (USC))
  • Mr. Nick White (FaceBook)
  • Ms. Suhua Wei (Amazon)
  • Mr. Durga P Dasepalli (Amazon)
  • Mr. Srinivas Tejomurthula (Oracle)
  • Ms. Danielle Aring (First Energy) She was the First CSU Graduated Data Scientist.
  • Mr. Andrew Yu (now in PhD at Case Western Reserve University)

    List Of Prestigious Local Industry Where Countless Big Data Graduates Are Currently With

  • MicroSoft
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Rockwell Automation
  • Progressive
  • Sherwin Williams
  • Parker Hannifin
  • Metro Health
  • Yelp
  • Medical Mutual
  • Hyland Software
  • First Energy
  • IBM Health
  • PNC Bank
  • Key Bank
  • JP Morgan Chase Bank
  • Young & Earnst Accounting Firm
  • Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
  • So Many More in this List...
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    In the IEEE International Conference 2019 on Big Data at Hawaii

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    Team for Cerbro: Real-Time Campus Security Monitoring System

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    Senior Design First Prize Winner Award

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    Intelligent Property Recommendation System Research Team

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    Intelligent Property Recommendation System at Symposium 2023

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    Deep Learing with NLP for Text Analysis Research Team 2018

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    Big Data Processing and Machine Learning for Text Analysis: Senior Design Team 2018

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    Big Data Analytic Research Members 2019

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    Urban Real Estate Project Team: Senior Design Team 2019

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    Big Data Lab Workshop 2019 at CSU

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    Big Data Lab Workshop 2024 at CSU

    You can start taking the courses in the Teaching Section to learn !! I can only select the students who took those related Graduate courses with A for research. (Average GPA of RAs/TAs in the Big Data Lab: 3.75)