Professors

EdwardAFox

Edward A. Fox

Professor, Director

2160G Torgersen Hall

fox@vt.edu

(540) 231-5113

Personal Page

Current Students

bipasha

Bipasha Banerjee

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

bipashabanerjee@vt.edu

LinkedIn Page

 

XinyueWang

Xinyue Wang

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

xw0078@vt.edu

 

Eman Abdelrahman

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

emanh@vt.edu

 

 

William A. Ingram

Bill Ingram

Ph.D. Student

Assistant Dean & IT Director, University Libraries

waingram@vt.edu

bipasha

Ola Karajeh

Ph.D. Student

okarajeh@vt.edu

 

Satvik Chekuri

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

satvikchekuri@vt.edu 

 

 

Graduates

Palakh Jude

Palakh Mignonne Jude

M.S. Student

2030 Torgerson

jpalakhmignonne@vt.edu

LinkedIn Page

 

prachant

Prashant Chandrasekar

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

peecee@vt.edu

Personal Page

ziqian

Ziqian Song

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

ziqian@vt.edu

 

sina

Amirsina Torfi

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

amirsina.torfi@gmail.com

Personal Page

 

Xuanzhang

Abhinav Kumar

M.S. Student

2030 Torgerson

abhinavk@vt.edu

GitHub

 

bipasha

Adithya Upadhya

M.S. Student

adithyau@vt.edu

LinkedIn Page

 

Liuqing

Liuqing Li

Ph.D. Student

2030 Torgerson

liuqing@vt.edu

Personal Page

Saurabh Chakravarty

Ph.D. Student

saurabc@vt.edu 

 

 

 

sampanna_kahu

Sampanna Kahu

M.S. Student

sampanna@vt.edu

LinkedIn Page

Abigail Bartolome

M.S. Recipient 2018

abijbart@vt.edu 

Ashish Baghudana

M.S. Student

2030 Torgerson

ashish@vt.edu 

Personal Page

 

siyu

Siyu Mi

M.S. Student

2030 Torgerson

siyu6@vt.edu

 

yufeng ma

Yufeng Ma

Ph.D. Recipient 2019

2030 Torgerson

yufengma@vt.edu

Google Scholar Page

Xuanzhang

Xuan Zhang

Ph.D. Recipient 2018

xuancs@vt.edu

Ph.D. Degrees Awarded

  1. Liuqing Li, "Event-related Collections Understanding and Services", final Ph.D. dissertation defense 2/18/2020, Virginia Tech, Computer Science, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/97365
  2. Yufeng Ma, "Going Deeper with Images and Natural Language", final defense 2/20/2019, Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Science
  3. Xuan Zhang, "Product Defect Discovery and Summarization from Online User Reviews", final defense 8/31/2018, Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Science, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/85581
  4. S.M.Shamimul Hasan, "A Semantic Web-Based Digital Library Infrastructure to Facilitate Computational Epidemiology", final defense Aug. 10, 2017, ETD approved 9/15/2017, Ph.D. dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/88386
  5. Yinlin Chen, "A High-quality Digital Library Supporting Computing Education: The Ensemble Approach", final defense July 27, 2017, Ph.D. dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/78750
  6. Sunshin Lee, "Geo-Locating Tweets with Latent Location Information", Ph.D. dissertation, defended December 2016, published 2017-02-13 in VTechWorks: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/75022
  7. Mohamed Magdy Gharib Farag, "Intelligent Event Focused Crawling", Ph.D. dissertation, 23 September 2016, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/73035
  8. Tarek Ghaze Kanan, "Arabic News Text Classification and Summarization: A Case of the Electronic Library Institute SeerQ (ELISQ)", June 2015, Ph.D. dissertation, published 2015-07-21 in VTechWorks: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/74272
  9. Eric Noel Fouh Mbindi (2015) 
  10. Seungwon Yang, "Automatic Identification of Topic Tags from Texts Based on Expansion-Extraction Approach", Jan. 2014, Ph.D. dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/25111
  11. Monika Akbar, "Integrating Community with Collections in Educational Digital Libraries", Jan. 2014, Ph.D. dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/25139
  12. Sung Hee Park, "Discipline-Independent Text Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Styled References Using Knowledge from the Web", June 2013, Ph.D. dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/52860
  13. Jonathan Paul Leidig, "Epidemiology Experimentation and Simulation Management through Scientific Digital Libraries" September 2012, Ph.D. dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/28759
  14. Uma Murthy, "Digital Libraries with Superimposed Information: Supporting Scholarly Tasks that Involve Fine Grain Information", April 2011, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/26866
  15. Seonho Kim, "Visualizing Users, User Communities, and Usage Trends in Complex Information Systems Using Implicit Rating Data", May 2008, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/27286
  16. W. Ryan Richardson, "Using Concept Maps as a Tool for Cross-Language Relevance Determination", July 2007, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/28191
  17. Yuxin Chen, "A Novel Hybrid Focused Crawling Algorithm to Build Domain-Specific Collections", Feb. 2007, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/26220
  18. Shahrooz Feizabadi, "Garbage Collection Scheduling for Utility Accrual Real-Time Systems", Dec. 2006, PhD dissertation, co-advisors Godmar Back and Edward A. Fox, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/30233
  19. Wensi Xi (2006) 
  20. Baoping Zhang, "Intelligent Fusion of Evidence from Multiple Sources for Text Classification", June 2006, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/28198
  21. Rao Shen, "Applying the 5S Framework To Integrating Digital Libraries", April 2006, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/27099
  22. Marcos Andre Goncalves, "Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, and Societies (5S): A Formal Digital Library Framework and Its Applications", Nov. 2004, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/29942
  23. Fernando Adrian Das Neves, "Stepping Stones and Pathways: Improving Retrieval by Chains of Relationships between Documents", Sep. 2004, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/29419
  24. Hussein Suleman, "Open Digital Libraries", Nov. 2002, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/29712
  25. Robert Karl France, "Effective, Efficient Retrieval in a Network of Digital Information Objects", Nov. 2001, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/29754
  26. Ohm Sornil, "Parallel Inverted Index for Large-Scale, Dynamic Digital Libraries", Jan. 2001, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/26131
  27. Ghaleb Abdulla, "Analysis and Modeling of World Wide Web Traffic", May 1998, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/30470
  28. Amjad M. Daoud, "Efficient data structures for information retrieval", Aug. 1993, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/40031
  29. QiFan Chen, "An object-oriented database system for efficient information retrieval applications", March 1992, PhD dissertation, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/27976
  30. Lucy Terry Nowell (1997) 

Master's Degrees Awarded

  1. Ashish Malpani, "Tweets Clustering and Visualization", ECE 5904 MS Project and Report, June 2019
  2. Pranavi Rambhakta, "A Large Collection Learning Optimizer Framework", ECE 5904 MS Project and Report, June 2019
  3. Ashish Baghudana, "A Web Framework for Text Extraction, Segmentation, and Summarization of Long Documents", CS5974 MS Project and Report, June 2019, Computer Science
  4. Adithya Upadhya, "A general web platform for summarizing text and documents", CS5974 MS Project and Report, June 2019, Computer Science
  5. Supritha Patil, "Analysis of moving events using tweets", June 2019, MS thesis, Computer Science, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/90884
  6. Abhinav Kumar, "SensAnalysis: A Big Data Platform for Vibration-Sensor Data Analysis", May 2019, MS thesis, Computer Science
  7. Raja Venkata Satya Phanindra Chava, "Natural Language Processing techniques for comprehending legal depositions", ECE 5904 MS Project and Report, April 2019
  8. Abigail Bartolome, "Describing Trail Cultures through Studying Trail Stakeholders and Analyzing their Tweets", June 2018, MS thesis, Computer Science, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/84528
  9. Nikhil Komawar, "SOLR supported search on an OpenStack metadata service", August 2017, MS independent study report, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science, DLRL Technical Report, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/78741
  10. Shivam Maharshi, "Performance Measurement and Analysis of Transactional Web Archiving", May 2017, MS thesis, Computer Science, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/78371
  11. Matthew Bock, "A Framework for Hadoop Based Digital Libraries of Tweets", May 2017, MS thesis, Computer Science, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/78351
  12. Saurabh Chakravarty, "A Large Collection Learning Optimizer Framework", June 2017, MS thesis, Computer Science, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/78302
  13. Saket Dilip Vishwasrao, "Performance Evaluation of Web Archiving Through In-Memory Page Cache", June 2017, MS thesis, Computer Engineering, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/78252
  14. Andrej Galad, "ArchiveSpark - MS Independent Study Final Submission", December 2016, MS independent study report, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science, DLRL Technical Report, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/77457
  15. Mohamed Magdy Gharib Farag, "Intelligent Event Focused Crawling", Ph.D. dissertation, 23 September 2016, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/73035
  16. Kiran Chitturi, "Building CTRnet Digital Library Services using Archive-It and LucidWorks Big Data Software", March 2014, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/46865
  17. Noha Ibrahim ElSherbiny, "Secure Digital Libraries", June 2011, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/33842
  18. Alexander Joel Dacara Alon, "The AlgoViz Project: Building an Algorithm Visualization Web Community", July 2010, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/34246
  19. Logambigai Venkatachalam, "Scalability of Stepping Stones and Pathways", May 2008, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/32326
  20. Douglas Gorton, "Practical Digital Library Generation into DSpace with the 5S Framework", April 2007, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/31914
  21. Johnny L. Sam Rajkumar, "ETANA-CMV: A coordinated multiple view visual browsing interface for ETANA-DL", Dec. 2006, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/30817
  22. Vikram Raj Vidya Sagar, "A Digital Library Success Model for Computer Science Student Use of a Meta-Search System", Aug. 2006, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/30995
  23. Devdutta Bhosale, "AlcoZone: An Adaptive Hypermedia based Personalized Alcohol Education", May 2006, MS thesis, Fox as co-chair, committee chair Sandeep Shukla, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/32913
  24. Ananth Raghavan, "Schema Mapper: A Visualization Tool for Incremental Semi-automatic Mapping-based Integration of Heterogeneous Collections into Archaeological Digital Libraries: The ETANA-DL Case Study", May 2005, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/32950
  25. Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan, "Prototyping Digital Libraries Handling Heterogeneous Data Sources - An ETANA-DL Case Study", April 2004, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/31938
  26. Aaron Krowne, "An Architecture for Collaborative Math and Science Digital Libraries", July 2003, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/20137
  27. Rohit Dilip Kelapure, "Scenario-Based Generation of Digital Library Services", June 2003, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/33634
  28. Ye Zhou, "Reengineering PhysNet in the uPortal Framework", May 2003, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/33491
  29. Kunal Garach, "CITIDEL Collection Building", May 2003, MS independent study report, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report TR-03-14, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/20130
  30. Ganesh K. Panchanathan, "Digital library logging and analysis using XML", May 2003, MS independent study report, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report TR-03-17, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/20094
  31. Aniket Prabhune, "XML for ETDs", Dec. 2002, MS independent study report, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report TR-02-28, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/20115
  32. Qinwei Zhu, "5SGraph: A Modeling Tool for Digital Libraries", Nov. 2002, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/35832
  33. Srikanth Koneru, "Open Peer to Peer Technologies", Sept. 2002, MS independent study report, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report TR-02-09, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/20086
  34. Li Wang, "Crawling on the World Wide Web", June 2002, MS independent study report, Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report TR-02-10, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/20052
  35. Jun Wang, "VIDI: A Lightweight Protocol Between Visualization Systems and Digital Libraries", May 2002, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/33845
  36. Jianxin Zhao, "Making Digital Libraries Flexible, Scalable and Reliable: Reengineering the MARIAN System in JAVA", June 1999, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/78146
  37. Binzhang Liu, "Characterizing Web Response Time", April 1998, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/36741
  38. David R. DeVaux, "A Tutorial on Authorware", April 1996, MS project report, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/37163
  39. Lucio Cunha Tinoco, "Online Evaluation in WWW-based Courseware: The QUIZIT System", Jan. 1996, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/36881
  40. Kaushal R. Dalal, "Database manager for Envision", Aug. 1994, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/42322
  41. Sangita Betrabet, "A query language for information graphs", Dec. 1993, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/45365
  42. Ghaleb Abdulla, "An image processing tool for cropping and enhancing images", Dec. 1993, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/46362
  43. Eskinder Sahle, "Development of a user interface for MARIAN and CODER systems", 1993, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/42318
  44. Richard Dee Barnhart, "The naval message analyzer", Dec. 1992, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/41159
  45. John D. Bozarth, "Requirements of the Navy's Tomahawk Theater Mission Planning system relating to object-oriented technology", Nov. 1992, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/41823
  46. James Robert Johnson, "Interface design for an audio-based information retrieval system", July 1992, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/42448
  47. Arun Narasimhan, "Design of the integrator to work with HyTime", 1992, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/42616
  48. Sanjeev Datta, "Implementation of a Perfect Hash Function Scheme", March 1988, MS project report, released as Computer Science Technical Report TR 89-9, March 1989, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/19495
  49. Marybeth Therese Weaver, "Implementing an intelligent information retrieval system: the CODER system, version 1.0", Feb. 1988, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/44097
  50. Whay C. Lee, "Experimental comparison of schemes for interpreting Boolean queries", 1988, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/80010
  51. R. C. Wohlwend and E. Fox, "Creation of a Prolog Fact Base from the Collins English Dictionary", M.S. report, TR-88-24, VPI&SU Comp.Sci. Dept., 1988, Blacksburg, VA, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/19817
  52. Sheila G. Winett, "FOCES: An experimental expert system to select appropriate foster care homes for children", 1987, MS thesis, https://hdl.handle.net/10919/80055