Our team

Faculty

Elke Rundensteiner

WILLIAM B. SMITH

Professor

Select Faculty Collaborators

(Jointly mentoring Phd students and/or collaborating on shared projects)

Emmanuel
Agu

Professor

Mohamed
Eltabakh

Associate Professor

Xiangnan
Kong

Associate Professor

Lane
Harrison

Assistant Professor

Kyumin
Lee

Associate Professor

Randy
Paffenroth

Associate Professor

Yanhua
Li

Assistant Professor

Fatemeh
Emdad

Assoc. Teaching Prof.

Chun-Kit
Ngan

Asst. Teaching Prof.

Samuel
Madden

Professor, MIT

Hao
Feng

Professor, U Illinois

Robert
Jensen

Army Research Laboratory

PhD Students

Tom
Hartvigsen

ML
Tlachac

Walter
Gerych

Luke
Buquicchio

Noura
Alghamdi

Dongyu
Zhang

Ricardo
Flores

Biao
Yin

Jidapa
Thadajarassiri

Huayi
Zhang

Kathleen
Cachel

Lei
Ma

Nicholas
Josselyn

Kevin
Hickey

Peter
VanNostrand

Recent Master Thesis Students

Prathyush
Parvatharaju

Allison
Rozet

Luke
Buquicchio

Walter
Gerych

Muzammil
Bashir

Tom
Hartvigsen

ML
Tlachac

PhD Alumni

Ermal
Toto

PhD 2021

Data Scientist, WPI

Maryam
Hasan

PhD 2021

Faculty, San Francisco State U

Tabassum
Kakar

PhD 2021

Data Scientist, Wells(startup)

Susmitha
Wunnava

PhD 2020

Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Yizhou
Yan

PhD 2020

Research Scientist, Facebook

Cansu
Sen

PhD 2020

Data Scientist, Codametrix

Caitlin
Kuhlman

PhD 2020

Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

Zhongfang
Zhuang

PhD 2019

Research Scientist, Visa Research

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Projects

All Projects Ongoing Projects Finished Projects Supported by NSF Big Data Systems Stream Processing Data Mining & Machine Learning Data Integration Visual Exploration
matters

PI.Hao Feng

co-PI.Elke Rundensteiner

matters

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Time Series Analytics

Dr.Elke Rundensteiner

Dr.Mohamed Eltabakh

matters

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

co-PI.Lane Harrison

matters

Dr.Elke Rundensteiner

Dr.Emmanuel Agu

matters

Dr.Elke Rundensteiner

Dr.Xiangnan Kong

matters

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

co-PI.Fatemeh Emdad

matters

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Complex Event Analytics

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Hierarchical Instantiating Timed automaton

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

A Novel Paradigm for Query Processing

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Research Experience for K12.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

co-PI.Neil Heffernan

XQueries Over XML Streams .jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

co-PI.Murali Mani

Continuous Adaptive Processing Engine.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

co-PI.Neil Heffernan

Personalized Annotation Management in RDB.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Supporting Annotations Beyond Propagation In RDB.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Analyzing Text Data Streams in Social Microblogging Networks.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Visual Exploration Support for Data Mining and Discovery .jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

XQuery Processing.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

XML Indexing.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Information Integration under Dynamic Distributed Data Sources.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Information Integration over Heterogeneous Data Sources.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Information Integration By Discovery of Data Source Relationships.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Model-Management Driven Integration of Heterogeneous Sources.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Object-Oriented Database Systems.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Spatial and Multimedia Query Processing.jpg

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

REU Program

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

co-PI.Chun-Kit Ngan

wash

PI.Emmanuel Agu

co-PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Anomaly Detection

PI.Elke Rundensteiner

Latest News

Congratulations to Huayi Zhang and their collaborators for getting their paper accpeted to VLDB 2021!

Congratulations to ML Tlach and their team of MQP students for getting two papers accpeted to the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI'21)!

DAISY PhD graduate Dr. Susmitha Wunnava is featured speaker at WPI's Class of 2021 commencement. Congratulations, Susmitha!

Huayi Zhang had a paper accepted to SIGKDD'2021. Congratulations, Huayi!

Professor Elke Rundensteiner is named WILLIAM B. SMITH PROFESSOR!

Congrats to DAISY Students win awards in GRIE'2021 ! First Place: Walter Gerych, Second Place: Jidapa Thadajarassiri, Peter VanNostrand

Dr. Tabassum Kakar will join Well as a Data Visualization and Reporting Specialist.

WPI WINS $3 MILLION AWARD TO LAUNCH GRADUATE PROGRAM PREPARING DATA-DRIVEN LEADERS TO BUILD A MORE SUSTAINABLE AND JUST FUTURE

Allison Rozet and her collaborators had won the BEST Research Track Short Paper Award at CIKM 2020!. Congratulations, Allison!

Jida Thadajarassiri had a paper accepted to AAAI'2021. Congratulations, Jida!

More News!

DAISY IN ACTION

DAISY PhD graduate Dr. Susmitha Wunnava was the featured speaker at WPI's Class of 2021 commencement. Susmitha now moves on with her career as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School pursuing her dream of working in medical analytics. Congratulations, Susmitha!

Open positions


We are always looking for bright, motivated, and hard-working graduate and undergraduate students to join our group and work on projects with us to develop data-centric solutions and systems that solve pressing problems in healthcare, medicine, science, or engineering with societal impact. If you are interested, please contact Elke Rundensteiner at rundenst [at] wpi [dot] edu.

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Awards

Our group has been recognized many times over the years from best papers/posters to competitions to TA awards. For a full list, please click the following link.

List of Awards

Funding

We are grateful to have been supported by many funding agencies over the years. In addition to our ongoing projects, please refer to the following full list of funding sources.

NSF

HP

Microsoft


IBM

Verizon

MIT Lincoln Lab

Funding sources

Publications

Selected Recent Publications.

  • Huayi Zhang, Lei Cao, Samuel Madden, Elke Rundensteiner. LANCET: Labeling Complex Data at Scale, VLDB 2021.
  • ML Tlachac, Katherine Dixon-Gordon, and Elke Rundensteiner. Screening for Suicidal Ideation with Text Messages, IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2021 (BHI'21).
  • ML Tlachac, Veronica R. Melican, Miranda Hernandez-Reisch, and Elke Rundensteiner. Mobile Depression Screening with Time Series of Text Logs and Call Logs, IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2021 (BHI'21).
  • Huayi Zhang, Lei Cao, Peter VanNostrand, Sam Madden, and Elke Rundensteiner, ELITE: Robust Deep Anomaly Detection with Meta Gradient ACM SIGKDD 2021
  • Caitlin Kuhlman, Walter Gerych and Elke Rundensteiner, Measuring Group Advantage: A Comparative Study of Fair Ranking Metrics AAAI ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES-2021). 19-21 May 2021.
  • Olga Poppe, Chuan Lei, Lei Ma, Allison Rozet and Elke Rundensteiner To Share, or not to Share Online Event Trend Aggregation Over Bursty Event Streams ACM SIGMOD 2021.
  • Jidapa Thadajarassiri, Thomas Hartvigsen, Xiangnan Kong, and Elke Rundensteiner. Semi-Supervised Knowledge Amalgamation for Sequence Classification. AAAI, 2021
All Publications

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