23 PhD Students graduated under my supervision (2004-2022):

Mamoun Al-Mardini PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2018 malmardini@ufl.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Reduction of Readmissions to Hospitals Based on Actionable Knowledge Discovery and Personalization.	Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, Gainesville

Pierre Arbajian PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2019 pierrenclt@yahoo.com Website PhD Dissertation: Disfluent Speech Segments Detection and Remediation.	Director at MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.), Charlotte, NC

Arunkumar Bagavathi PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2019 abagava@okstate.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Distributed Actionable Pattern Mining. (under the supervision of A. Tzacheva & Z.W. Ras)	Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater

Konrad Ciecierski PhD, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, Spring, 2014 konrad.ciecierski@gmail.com Website PhD Dissertation: Decision Support System for Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease. (The best 2014 PhD thesis in the area of AI in Poland)	Chair of Bioinformatics and Machine Recognition Department at NASK, and Neurophysiological Data Analyst at Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

Amanda Cohen-Mostafavi PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2014 babybogart@gmail.com Website PhD Dissertation: Personalized Indexing of Music by Emotions.	Senior Data Engineer at LexisNexis, Raleigh, North Carolina

Agnieszka Dardzinska PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences, Spring, 2004 DSc (Habilitation), Polish Academy of Sciences, Spring, 2013 Agnieszka.Dardzinska@gmail.com Website PhD Dissertation: Chase Method Based on Dynamic Knowledge Discovery for Predicting Values in Incomplete Information Systems.	Vice Chancellor for Education (Prorektor) & Associate Prof. in the Institute of Mechanics and Informatics at Bialystok Univ. of Technology, Poland

Bryan Dobbs PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2022 dobbsbt@wofford.edu & btdobbs@uncc.edu Website1 & Website2 PhD Dissertation: Art Authentification in an Untagged Art Database.	Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Yuehua Duan PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2022 yduan2@uncc.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Recommender System for Improving Churn Rate.	Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Management and Information Systems, Kent State University

Jacek Grekow PhD, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Fall, 2009 DSc (Habilitation), Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Summer, 2019 grekowj@ii.pb.bialystok.pl Website Jacek Grekow's CD: Southern Impressions PhD Dissertation: Automatic Detection and Visualization of Emotions in Music.	Associate Prof. in Comp. Science Dept. at Bialystok Univ. of Technology, Poland

Ayman Hajja PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2013 hajjaa@cofc.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Object-Driven and Temporal Action Rules Mining.	Assistant Prof. of Computer Science & C. Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Co-Chair at the College of Charleston, SC

Wenxin (Mike) Jiang PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2009 wjiang2@fhcrc.org Website PhD Dissertation: Polyphonic Music Information Retrieval Based on Multi-Label Cascade Classification System.	Software Engineer at Ozette Technologies in Seattle, Washington

Joon Jung (Seunghyun Im) PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2006 a261@outlook.com Website PhD Dissertation: Data Safekeeping against Knowledge Discovery.	Patent Examiner at US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), U.S. Department of Commerce, Alexandria, Virginia

Jieyan Kuang PhD, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Spring, 2016 jieyan.kuang@bankofamerica.com Website PhD Dissertation: Hierarchically Structered Recommender System.	Vice President at Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Elzbieta Kubera PhD, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Spring, 2011 elzbieta.kubera@up.lublin.pl Website PhD Dissertation: The role of temporal attributes in identifying instruments in polytimbral music recordings.	Assistant Prof. at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

Rory Lewis PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2008 rlewis@eas.uccs.edu Website Rory Lewis's CD "Songs for Friday" Latest Book PhD Dissertation: Mining Emotions in a Non-Tagged Music Database.	Associate Prof. in Computer Science Department at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Laurel Boykin Powell PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Summer, 2020 lpowel28@uncc.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Developing a Recommender System for Pricing Contemporary Fine Art.	Lecturer in Computer Science Department at UNC-Charlotte

Jaishree Ranganathan PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2020 jranganathan@mtsu.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Emotion Mining from Text and Actionable Pattern Discovery. (under the supervision of A. Tzacheva & Z.W. Ras)	Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department at Middle Tennessee State University

Katarzyna Tarnowska PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2018 k.tarnowska@unf.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Customer Loyalty Improvement Recommender System (CLIRS)	Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at University of North Florida, Jacksonville

Pamela Liberty Thompson PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2011 pthompso@catawba.edu Website Pamela's IPROMISE Project on YouTube PhD Dissertation: Mining for Knowledge to Build Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tinnitus.	Associate Prof. of Information Systems, Ketner School of Business at Catawba College

Hakim Touati PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2014 h.touati1@gmail.com Website PhD Dissertation: Automated Meta-actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments.	Lead Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Aktana, San Francisco, California

Li-Shiang Tsay PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2005 ltsay@ncat.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Discovering Extended Action Rules (DEAR).	Associate Prof. of IT at North Carolina A&T State University

Angelina A. Tzacheva PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2004 atzacheva@nu.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Action Rules: Feasibility and Lowest Cost Reclassification.	Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, Department of Computer Science and CyberSecurity, National University, San Diego, CA

Cynthia Xin Zhang PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2007 xin.zhang@uncp.edu Website PhD Dissertation: Cooperative Music Retrieval Based on Automatic Indexing of Music by Instruments and Their Types.	Associate Prof. of Comp. Sci. at University of North Carolina, Pembroke

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