Trustworthy AI Lab

Teaching & Students

I always look for working with and financially supporting highly motivated, hard-working, and well-qualified students who have a genuine interest in Trustworthy AI research and applications.

Prospective Students

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me by email with a resume and transcripts. Due to the large volume of requests, I cannot guarantee an individual response. Strong background in mathematics and programming is desirable. I financially support qualifying PhD students with research assistantships.

Wayne State University AI-related programs (AI, Computer Vision, ML, NLP, Information Retrieval) are ranked 77th nationally by CSRankings.org (2016–2026).

Research Students

Current — Trustworthy AI Lab
CS Ph.D. Candidate · Fall 2022
CS Ph.D. Candidate · Fall 2023
CS Ph.D. Candidate · Fall 2023
CS Ph.D. Candidate · Fall 2023
CS Ph.D. Candidate · Fall 2023
M.D./Ph.D. Candidate · Fall 2025
CS Ph.D. Pre-candidate · Winter 2026
CS Ph.D. Pre-candidate · Fall 2026
Shou-Tzu Han (co-advised by Sooin Kim)
CS Ph.D. Pre-candidate · Fall 2026
Alumni & Placements
Ph.D. 2026 FacultyAsst. Professor @ U of Wisconsin–Green Bay
Supriya TS. Kumar
M.S. 2025Data Scientist @ General Motors
Ph.D. 2024 FacultyAsst. Professor @ Oakland University
Ph.D. 2024 Research Scientist @ Henry Ford Health
Ph.D. 2022Research Scientist II @ Bosch AI
Ph.D. 2022Algorithm Engineer @ Alibaba Group
Xiangrui Li
Ph.D. 2020Senior Algorithm Engineer @ ByteDance
Ph.D. 2020AI/ML Lead @ JP Morgan Chase
Ph.D. 2019 FacultyAsst. Professor @ U of Houston
Jingwei Zhang
M.S. 2017Software Engineer @ AWS
Narjes S. Movahedi
Ph.D. 2015Senior Software Engineer @ MathWorks
Thair Judeh
Ph.D. 2014Bioinformatics Engineer @ Catalytic IP
Nan Deng
Ph.D. 2014Senior Research Bioinformatician @ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Lipi Acharya
Ph.D. 2012Senior Computational Biologist @ Corteva Agriscience
M.S. 2012 FacultyAsst. Professor @ Michigan State University
Guorong Xu
M.S. 2011Computational Biologist @ Baylor Medical Center Dallas
Sichu Li
M.S. 2009Staff Scientist @ MITRE Corporation
Patrick Trahan
M.S. 2009IT Professional @ LSU Health Sciences Center

Courses Taught

CSC 5991
CSC 8990
Seminar in Computer Science
Fall 2025 · Winter 2026
CSC 8800
Seminar in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Winter 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024
CSC 7825
Machine Learning
Fall 2014–2016 · Winter 2019–2022
CSC 5825
Introduction to Machine Learning and Applications
Winter 2017 · 2018 · Fall 2019–2025
CSC 6580
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Winter 2015 · 2016 · 2017
CSC 8860
Seminar Topics in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Fall 2017