Students Supported by GAANN Fellowship:

Emmanuel Bello-Ogunu (Graduated with PhD in Summer, 2016)
e-mail: ebelloogunu@mitre.org or ebelloog.uncc@gmail.com
PhD Advisor: Mohamed Shehab, e-mail: mshehab@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4, Presentation 5
Current Position: Lead Cyber Security Engineer, MITRE

David Burlinson (Graduated with PhD in Summer, 2019)
e-mail: dburlins@uncc.edu or burlinsond2@gmail.com
PhD Advisor: KR Subramanian, e-mail: krs@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Link 1, Link 2, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4
Supported in 2018/19 by Lucille Giles Dissertation-Year Graduate Fellowship at UNC-Charlotte
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder

Brianna Chen (Graduated with MS in Computer Science, Fall, 2016)
e-mail: bche1132@gmail.com
PhD Advisor: Dewan Ahmed, e-mail: dahmed@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4, Presentation 5, Presentation 6
Current Position: Senior Visualization/Graphics Software Engineer at MITRE

Alvin Farrel (Graduated with PhD in Fall, 2016)
e-mail: farrela@email.chop.edu
PhD Advisor: Jun-tao Guo, e-mail: jguo4@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4, Presentation 5, Presentation 6
Current Position: Supervisory Bioinformatics Scientist in:
- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Andrew P. Kerr (Dropped GAANN program in Spring, 2016)
e-mail: apkerr@uncc.edu
PhD Advisor: Yuliang Zheng (moved to Univ of Alabama beginning Fall, 2015), e-mail: yzheng@uab.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation

Sterling McLeod (Defended PhD Thesis in Spring, 2019)
e-mail: smcleo12@uncc.edu
PhD Advisor: Jing Xiao, e-mail: jxiao2@wpi.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4, Presentation 5, Presentation 6
Current Position: Full time lecturer in CS Department at UNC-Charlotte

Stephen MacNeil (Graduated with PhD in Spring, 2019)
e-mail: smacneil@ucsd.edu
PhD Advisor: Celine Latulipe, e-mail: clatulip@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4, Presentation 5
Current Position: Postdoc, The Design Lab, Cognitive Science Department, University of California at San Diego

Laurel Powell (Expected to graduate with PhD in Summer, 2020)
e-mail: lpowel28@uncc.edu
PhD Advisor: Zbigniew Ras, e-mail: ras@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4, Presentation 5, Presentation 6
Position: Assistant Professor in the Ketner School of Business at Catawba College (beginning Fall'20)

Scott R. Spurlock (Graduated with PhD in Summer, 2015)
e-mail: sspurlock@elon.edu
PhD Advisor: Richard Souvenir, e-mail: souvenir@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Computing Sciences Department at Elon University

Amy Stonger (Dropped PhD program in Fall, 2018)
e-mail: astonger@uncc.edu
PhD Advisor: Jessica Schlueter , e-mail: jschluet@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4

Tyler William Thomas (Graduated with PhD in Spring, 2018)
e-mail: thomastyl@uwstout.edu
PhD Advisor: Heather Lipford, e-mail: richter@uncc.edu
Teaching Portfolio
Seminar: Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3, Presentation 4, Presentation 5
Current Position: Assistant Professor at UW-Stout