Advising
PhD Dissertation Committee Member
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 |
PhD Qualifying Exam Committee Member
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Yuanjie Zou | Hierarchical Conformal Risk Control for Ontology-Guided Cell-Type Annotation | NJIT | Dr. Zhi Wei | 2026-06-17 |
MS Thesis Committee Member
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 |