& AWARDS PRESENTATION

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

GraduationCelebration

2020

Congratulations on this wonderful achievement! All of us at the Computer Science Department

are extremely proud of your success. We have seen first-hand how much effort you put into

your learning. Those countless hours trying to debug that SEGFAULT, or trying to understand

that 10-page project specification - it has all finally paid off. You represent those who have

excelled in their academic pursuits, research endeavors, teaching roles and in helping others.

Overcoming today’s uncommon circumstances due to COVID-19 should make you and your

loved ones proud of you.

Education is the most powerful tool with which you can change the world. We hope you use it

to pursue your dreams and accomplish your goals as you move forward. Do stay in touch with

us - we already miss seeing you in person in class.

Best for a bright future ahead.

congratulations

Huzefa RangwalaProfessor and ChairComputer ScienceLawrence Cranberg Research Faculty FellowGeorge Mason University

Mark SnyderAssoc. Professor and Associate ChairComputer ScienceGeorge Mason University

Elizabeth WhiteAssoc. Professor and Associate ChairComputer ScienceGeorge Mason University

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Computer Science

Information Technology

Qian HuDissertation Title: Machine Learning for Student Modeling and Forecasting

Dissertation Director: Huzefa Rangwala, PhD

Georgios GeorgakisDissertation Title: 3D Model-Assisted Learning for Object Detection and Pose Estimation

Dissertation Director: Jana Kosecka, PhD

Nasrin AkhterDissertation Title: Summarization, Visualization, and Mining of Molecular Landscapes

Dissertation Director: Amarda Shehu, PhD

Uma TadakamallaDissertation Title: FogQN-AC: Autonomic Resource Management and using Analytic Models

for Fog/Cloud Computing

Dissertation Director: Daniel Menasce, PhD

Steven MecklDissertation Title: Cybersecurity Incident Response Orchestration using Agile Cognitive Assistants

Dissertation Director: Gheorghe Tecuci, PhD

Rohan KhadeDissertation Title: A Framework for Finding Patterns in Mixed and Streaming Data

Dissertation Director: Jessica Lin, PhD

Mohammad RezaeiradDissertation Title: Methods for Reducing Threat Intelligence Pollution: An Empirical Study

on Remote Access Trojan Ecosystem

Dissertation Director: Damon McCoy, PhD

Ryan JohnsonDissertation Title: Automatic Program State Exploration Techniques for Security Analysis of Android Apps

Dissertation Director: Angelos Stavrou, PhD

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Applied Computer Science, BS

Computer Science, BSDistinguished Academic Achievement

Ahmed Ali

Saleh Amireh

Timothy Baker

Sarah Binsalman

Aster Bodden Pineda

Benjamin Carver

Tram-Anh Nguyen

Tiernan Orourke

Stuti Polra

Satyasaarika Putla

Ashwath Rashi

Quang Vo

Outstanding Academic AchievementAbdullah Alaqeel

Oleg Menyaylenko

Grace Forbes

Christopher Gallarno

Carlos Guerra

Andrew Hrdy

Sharon Jose

Jesse McCandlish

Outstanding Academic AchievementIsabel Bennett

Mohammad Butt

Sean Cannan

Jagroop Chahal

Sam Crater

Paul Doody

Hannah Oentung

Risheek Rajolu

Jordan Summers

Joshua Westhoven

William Yu

Jae-moon Hwang

Anish Kandumalla

Ki Woong Kim

Isaiah King

Elaine Ly

Kevin Ly

Undergraduate

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Graduate

Computer Science, MS Software Engineering, MSDistinguished Academic Achievement

Hemankur Bhardwaj

John Dituro

Mohammadjavad Esfandiari

Taylor Henderson

Katherine Hough

Jordan Murphy

Outstanding Academic AchievementRishita Guduru

Nikhil Koneru

Goby Roland

Anjani Kumar Tetali

Distinguished Academic AchievementDerek Luong

Outstanding Academic AchievementCassandra Bailey

Daniela Eidelman

Pravin Gurung

Bhargavi Mavintop

Joseph Schlupf

Harry Stine

Harry Trebing

Yang Kyu Yoo

Information Securityand Assurance, MS Information Systems, MS

Distinguished Academic AchievementVladimir Corja

Chadia Habib

Joshua Koyeerath

Outstanding Academic AchievementBrian Hession

Jonathan Torchia

Distinguished Academic AchievementRyan Billings

Sravishtta Kommineni

STUDENT AWARDS

Outstanding Undergraduate Student AwardJesse McCandlish

Outstanding Doctoral Student AwardYifeng Gao

Distinguished Undergraduate Research AwardBenjamin Carver

Yuanqi Du

Andrea Solis Castellanos

Outstanding Undergraduate Research AwardNicci Casenas

Ross Kinsey

Abhinav Kumar

Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Assistant AwardIsabel Bennett

Yuanqi Du

Sarad Pant

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award

TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARDS

Undergraduate

Evan Baker

Sam Crater

Tawhidul Islam

Vandana Keshava Murthy

Zachary Perkins

Jake Sanchez

Prakreet Singh

Distinguished Graduate Teaching Assistant AwardHamza Mughal

Tim Ren

Sabiha Salma

Yongqi Zhang

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Graduate

Michael Crawshaw

Archange Destine

David Gonzalez Samudio

Daniel McVicker

Abhishek Roy

Lekha Sarangapani

Sulabh Shrestha

Hao Yan

Hengrun Zhang

FACULTY & STAFF AWARDS

Outstanding Faculty Research AwardCarlotta Domeniconi

Jana Kosecka

Outstanding Teaching AwardKevin Andrea

Raven Russell

Outstanding Service AwardPaul Ammann

Liz White

Outstanding Adjunct Faculty AwardDmitri Kaznachey

Rob Pettit

Outstanding Staff AwardRyan Lucas

Michele Pieper

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Industrial Advisory BoardBarbie S. Bigelow

Jacobs Engineering

Alan Harbitter

Harbitter Consulting, LLC

Mark Hartong

Federal Railroad Administration

(retired)

Laurel Fielding

NetComm, Inc.

Hadi Rezazad

Orchid Technologies & Management

Kenneth E. Nidiffer

Software Engineering Institute

Dennis V. Pereira

Data Works, Inc.

Robert G. Pettit, IV, Sr.

The Aerospace Corporation

Sriram Rajaraman

Apple

Ken Smith

Center for Innovative Computing

& Informatics, The MITRE Corporation

Jim Stanley

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Marc Surette

Palo Alto Networks

Sheri Cymrot

Metron, Inc.

Sundar Vaidyanathan

Karsun Solutions

Brian Ziman

Google (retired)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

FacultyDr. Jan Albeck

Dr. Paul Ammann

Prof. Kevin Andrea

Prof. Ivan Avramovic

Dr. Hakan Aydin

Dr. Foteini Baldimtsi

Dr. Daniel Barbara

Dr. Jonathan Bell

Dr. Alex Brodsky

Dr. Jim X. Chen

Dr. Songqing Chen

Dr. Yue Cheng

Dr. Ping Deng

Dr. Socrates Dimitriadis

Dr. Carlotta Domeniconi

Dr. Zoran Duric

Dr. Yotam Gingold

Dr. Ana Loreto Gonzalez Hernandez

Dr. Dov Gordon

Dr. Dana Richards

Prof. Katherine Russell

Dr. Sanjeev Setia

Dr. Amarda Shehu

Dr. Robert Simon

Dr. Mark Snyder, Associate Chair

Dr. Arun Sood

Dr. Shvetha Soundararajan

Dr. Angelos Satvrou

Dr. Gheorghe Tecuci

Dr. Pearl Wang

Dr. Xinyuan Wang

Dr. Harry Wechsler

Dr. Elizabeth White, Associate Chair

Dr. Duminda Wijesekera

Dr. Craig Yu

Dr. Yutao Zhong

Dr. Jonathan Katz

Dr. Larry Kerschberg

Dr. Jana Kosecka

Dr. Maya Larson

Dr. Thomas LaToza

Dr. Fei Li

Dr. Jyh-Ming Lien

Dr. Jessica Lin

Dr. Sean Luke

Tamara Maddox, Esq.

Dr. Daniel Menasce

Dr. Ami Motro

Prof. Michael Neary

Dr. Jeff Offutt

Dr. Eric Osterweil

Prof. John Otten

Dr. Parth Pathak

Dr. Mark Pullen

Dr. Huzefa Rangwala, Chair

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Adjunct FacultyProf. Ahmed Yousef Abu Jbara

Prof. Larry Bailey

Prof. Raymond Curts

Prof. Vinod Dubey

Prof. William Ellis

Prof. Laurel Fielding

Prof. Fred Geldon, Esq.

Prof. Harold Greenwald

Prof. Kenneth Nidiffer

Prof. Erika Olimpiew

Prof. Robert Pettit

Prof. Michael Reep

Prof. Paul Seymer

Prof. Aaron Styx

Prof. David Wheeler

Prof. Lei He

Prof. Marcel Katz

Prof. Dmitri Kaznachey

Prof. Duane King

Prof. Naren Kodali

Prof. Gerald Kowalski

Prof. Robert Kurtz

Prof. John McDowall

StaffJoshua Fletcher

Evan Frejo

Cecelia Kimes

Ryan Lucas

Student Workers:

Willow Hasley-Velez

Alyssa Tsukamoto

Naomi Williamson

Michele Pieper

Beth Posocco

Linda Sheridan

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