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 77th nationally by CSRankings.org (2016–2026).
Research Students
Current — Trustworthy AI Lab
Ujunwa Mgboh
Rafi Ibn Sultan
Xiangyu Zhou
Mohammad Amin Roshani
Hui Zhu
Saleh Zare Zade
Yiannos Demetrious
Md. Sajid Alam Chowdhury
Mahbub Islam Mahim
Harrison Lavins
Alumni & Placements
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 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 · 2023
CSC 6580
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Winter 2015 · 2016 · 2017
CSC 8860
Seminar Topics in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Fall 2017