Research Advisees

MS Students

Project / Thesis Student Course(s) University
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Graph Optimization Somana Veeramaneni CS 700B - Master's Project NJIT

BS Students

Project / Thesis Student Course(s) University
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Graph Optimization Rohit Karnik CS 488 - Independent Study; CS 489 - Computer Science Research Project NJIT
Shivansh Dutta CS 489 - Computer Science Research Project
Ali Elbeyali CS 488 - Independent Study

Dissertation Committees

Current

Student Title University Advisor
Hanzhang Fang Generative Spatial Deconvolution via Disentangled Latent Factors and Domain-Adaptive Decoder Transfer NJIT Dr. Zhi Wei
Yeqing Chen Cell-Cell Communication-aware Variational Autoencoder with Dynamic Graph Laplacian Constraints NJIT Dr. Zhi Wei
Yuanjie Zou Towards Better Representations in Single-Cell Foundation Models NJIT Dr. Zhi Wei

Qualifying Examination Committees

Student Title University Advisor Date
Mohith Oduru Spatially-Indexed Persistent Memory: A 3D-Indexed Latent Memory Module for Unsupervised Egocentric World Models NJIT Dr. Margarita Vinnikov 2026-05-15
Shameen Shrestha The Attribution Jacobian for decomposition of evidence in an image NJIT Dr. Kieran Murphy 2026-08-21
Xiaoliang Wu Evaluating Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval through Information-Seeking and Causal Attribution in Stock Price Dynamics NJIT Dr. Jing Li 2026-03-12
Xun Song MarkAug: Out-of-Distribution Detection in Single-Cell Annotation via Marker-Gene Augmentation NJIT Dr. Zhi Wei 2026-06-15

Thesis Committees

Current

Student Title University Advisor
Kadir Altunel Edge Co-occurrence Regularization for Node Classification NJIT Dr. Ioannis Koutis
Sabdha Ambati Benchmarking AI Understanding of Adolescent Digital Language NJIT Dr. Guiling Wang