Prospective Students

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me by email with a resume and transcripts. 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 84th nationally by CSRankings.org (2015–2025).

Research Students

Ujunwa Mgboh
CS Ph.D. Candidate
Rafi Ibn Sultan
CS Ph.D. Candidate
Xiangyu Zhou
CS Ph.D. Candidate
Mohammad Amin Roshani
CS Ph.D. Candidate
Hui Zhu
CS Ph.D. Candidate
Saleh Zare Zade
CS Ph.D. Candidate
Yiannos Demetrious
M.D./Ph.D. Candidate
Md. Sajid Alam Chowdhury
CS Ph.D. Pre-candidate
Hao Liu
CS Ph.D. Pre-candidate
Harrison Lavins
M.S. Thesis
Supriya TS. Kumar
M.S. 2025Data Scientist @ General Motors
Ph.D. 2024 FacultyAsst. Professor @ Oakland University
Ph.D. 2024 Research Scientist @ Henry Ford Health
Xin Li
Ph.D. 2022Research Scientist II @ Bosch AI
Deng Pan
Ph.D. 2022Algorithm Engineer @ Alibaba Group
Xiangrui Li
Ph.D. 2020Senior Algorithm Engineer @ ByteDance
Milad Z. Nezhad
Ph.D. 2020Lead Data Scientist @ Ford Motor Company
Lu Wang
Ph.D. 2019 FacultyAsst. Professor @ U of Houston
Narjes S. Movahedi
Ph.D. 2015Senior Software Engineer @ MathWorks
Kristen Johnson
M.S. 2012 FacultyAsst. Professor @ Michigan State University

Courses Taught

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 · 2023
CSC 6580
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Winter 2015 · 2016 · 2017
CSC 8860
Seminar Topics in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Fall 2017