People

Principal Investigator

• Daniel Acuña, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

Doctoral students

• Han Zhuang, Graduate Assistant, iSchool, since Fall 2017
• Lizhen Liang, Research Assistant, iSchool, Fall 2018-Spring 2020 as Master’s student, Ph.D. student starting Fall 2020

Master students

• Chao Zhou, Computer Science and Engineering, since Fall 2021

Research assistants

• Elizabeth Novoa, External consultant from Unika Analytics, since Summer 2018

Alumni

Postdoctoral researcher

• Qing Ke, since Fall 2020 - August 2021, now at City University of Hong Kong

Visiting scholar

• Tong Zeng (曾通), Doctoral student in Information Science, School of Information Management, Nanjing University (Fall 2017 - Spring 2021)

Ph.D. student practica

• LaRoyce Jermaine Covington Jr., iSchool, Fall 2021 - Summer 2022
• Jinfen Li, Teaching Practica, Spring 2022
• LaRoyce Jermaine Covington Jr., Research Practica, iSchool, Fall 2021
• Dipto Das, Research Assistant, iSchool, Fall 2019
• Sarah Bratt, Research Practicum, iSchool, Spring 2018
• Alex Smith, Graduate Assistant, Teaching and Research Practica, iSchool (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
• Mahboobeh Harandi, iSchool, Research Practicum, Spring 2017
• Alain Shema, Graduate Assistant, Teaching and Research Practica (Fall 2016 - Spring 2018)

Master’s students

• Tzu-Yang (Peter) Huang, Faculty Engagement Scholar, iSchool, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022, now a Data Scientist at Amazon
• Jim Yi, iSchool, Spring 2021 - Fall 2021
• Hanlin Zhang, Computer Science, Fall 2019 - Spring 2021, now in Ant Group (China)
• Jian Jian, iSchool, Spring 2020 - Spring 2021, now Data Scientist at DeepCell
• Rashika Singh, Faculty Engagement Scholar, iSchool, Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
• Sourabh Ghosh, Faculty Engagement Scholar, iSchool, Fall 2019 - Fall 2020
• Megha Ramesh Jakhotia, Faculty Engagement Scholar, previously with prof. Yang Wang, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
• Ziyue (Alan) Xiang, Computer Science, Fall 2018 - Spring 2020, now Ph.D. student at Purdue University
• Ananth Raj GV, iSchool, Spring 2019 - Spring 2020, data scientist with Bank of America
• Omkar Buchade, Computer Science, since Fall 2018 (in Summer 2019 internship with CBS Interactive)
• Mengyu (Mike) Liu, Computer Science, Fall 2018 - Summer 2019
• Priya Matnani, iSchool (IM with CAS in Data Science), Faculty Engagement Scholar, Fall 2017 - Spring 2019 (Summer 2018 internship at Airbnb, San Francisco), data scientist at Airbnb
• Xinxuan Wei, iSchool, Spring 2018 - Spring 2019, data scientist in Shanghai, China
• Woojin Park, iSchool (Applied Data Science program), Faculty Engagement Scholar, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019, currently at CMU
• Zexin Yao, Computer Science, Spring 2018 - Spring 2019 (Summer 2018 internship at NetEase Games, Guangzhou City, China) - will be a software engineer for Google starting June, 2019
• Puzhen (Price) Qian, Computer Science, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
• Shloak Gupta, iSchool, Fall 2018
• Kartik Nagre, iSchool, Fall 2016 - Spring 2018, Data Scientist at NewtonX
• Ziyi Qiu, Computer Engineering, Summer 2017 - Spring 2018, looking for positions in Data Science
• Shengjun Zhang, MS (2017), iSchool, Bytedance Inc.
• Zhida Zhao, MS (2017), iSchool, looking for positions in Data Science
• Manas Sikri, MS (2017), iSchool, Goldman Sachs
• Shrutik Katchhi, MS (2017), iSchool, Ernst & Young

Undergraduate students

• Taeheun Lee, iSchool major, since Spring 2022 (SOURCE grant)
• Chen Qiu, Computer Science major, since Spring 2022 (SOURCE grant)
• Zachary Tyler Williams, iSchool major, since Fall 2021