Doug Oard's Students and Postdocs

Present Students, as Research Advisor

• Xin Qian
• Nate Rollings

Former Postdocs

Petra Galuscakova

2017-2021. Now and Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger.

Jiaul Paik

2013-2016. Now on the faculty at IIT Kharagpur.

William Webber

2011-2013. Now in Australia.

Earl Wagner

2010-2012. Now at Google.

Jianqiang Wang

2006. Now an Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Ryen White

2004-2006. Now at Microsoft.

Daqing He

2001-2004. Now a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Anton Leuski

2002-2003. Now at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

Gina Levow

1998-2002. Now an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.

Graduated Students, as Research Advisor, Co-Advisor, or Second Reader

• Kristine Rogers, Ph.D. in Information Studies, 2024.
• Joe Barrow, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023. (co-advised with Philip Resnik) (Now at Adobe Research)
• Suraj Nair, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023. (Now at Amazon)
• Behrooz Mansouri, Ph.D. in Computer Science from RIT, (co-advised with Richard Zanibbi) (Now an Assistant Professor the University of Southern Maine)
• Mahmoud Sayed, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2021. (Now at Microsoft)
• Han-Chin Shing, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2021. (co-advised with Philip Resnik). (Now at Amazon)
• Jake Bremerman, M.S. in Computer Science, 2021. (As advisor, now at USC.)
• Rashmi Sankepally (Master of Information Management, M.S. in Computer Science, 2020. (As advisor, now at Weber Shandwick)
• Jyothi Vinjumur, Ph.D. in Information Studies, 2018. (As Advisor. Now at CBRE.)
• Ning Gao, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2018. (As Advisor. Now at Microsoft.)
• Mossaab Bagdouri, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2017. (As advisor. Now at Walmart Labs.)
• Tan Xu, Ph.D., Information Studies, 2015. (As advisor. Now at Disney Streaming Advanced Research.)
• Lidan Wang, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2012. (As co-advisor.)
• J. Scott Olsson, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computation, 2009. (As advisor. Now an Associate Professor at Wyoming Catholic College.)
• Tamer Elsayed, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2009. (As advisor. Now an Associate Professor at Qatar University.)
• Yejun Wu, Ph.D., Information Studies, 2008. (As advisor. Now an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University.)
• Dina Demner-Fushman, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2006. (As advisor. Now at the National Library of Medicine.)
• Melanie Gnasa, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany, 2006 (As second reader. Most recently at Fraunhaufer IAIS, Sankt Augistin, Germany.)
• Jinmook Kim, Ph.D., Information Studies, 2006. (As co-advisor. Now a Professor at Kangnam University, Korea.)
• Jianqiang Wang, Ph.D., Information Studies, 2005 (As advisor. Now an Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.)
• Kareem Darwish, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 2003 (As co-advisor. Now at aiXplain.)
• Paul Hackett, M.L.S., 2000 (As Masters thesis advisor. Paul then completed a Ph.D. in Religion at Columbia University.)
• Ruth Sperer, M.S., Computer Science, 1999 (as co-advisor.)

• Marianna Martindale

Some Other Graduated Students With Whom I have Worked

• Travis Clark, M.S. Geography and M.L.S, 1999
• Jody Condit, M.L.S., 1999
• Anne Diekema, Ph.D., Syracuse, 2003
• Wei Ding, Ph.D., Library and Information Services, 1999
• Funda Ertunc, M.S., Computer Science, 2002
• Aaron Hallberg, B.S., Computer Science and Linguistics, 1999
• Julie Harding, M.L.S., 1999
• Anita Komlodi, Ph.D. Library and Information Services, 2001
• Katy Lawley, Ph.D., 2011
• Lynne Pletenberg, M.L.S., 2006
• Paul McNamee, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2008 (UMBC)
• Laura Slaughter, Ph.D., Library and Information Services, 2002
• Ian Soboroff, Ph.D., Compuuter Science, 2001 (UMBC)
• Tony Tse, Ph.D., Library and Information Services, 2003
• Skip Warnick, M.L.S, 1998
• Pengyi Zhang, Ph.D., Information Studies, 2009.
• Cynthia Zujko-Miller, M.L.S., 1998