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Prospective Research Students
I am currently seeking highly-motivated doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate students interested in high-impact research. Interested students may check out existing opportunities on specific projects. We may also discuss open topics if such opportunities do not apply or are unavailable. While such topics are open, research interests intersections may lie in the areas of Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Systems, and Data Science. For general, open topics, interested students may fill out this form.
This form does not serve as a “pre-application” process. Prospective students interested in attending the university should follow the appropriate application process. I cannot inform prospective students of their likelihood of being admitted to the program. Admission decisions are made by a committee and not an individual faculty member. This form should only be used for students interested in working with me that would like to discuss potential projects. Otherwise, prospective students should apply to the program directly. If desired, prospective students may list me as a faculty member they would like to work with.
Prospective Research Undergraduate Students
With approval, undergraduate students at Hunter College may register for sponsored research credits (credits count towards CS electives).
Current Research Students
Ph.D.
- Tatiana Castro Vélez (Ph.D. 2025, CUNY Graduate Center/Hunter College Computer Science Fellow)
- Benjamin Prud’homme (Ph.D. 2028, CUNY Graduate Center Fellow)
High School
- Ifra Ishaq (Stony Brook School, NY, NYU GSTEM 2023)
- Stephanie Yeh (Roslyn High School, NY, NYU GSTEM 2023)
Past Research Students
Ph.D.
- Yiming Tang (Ph.D. 2021, CUNY Graduate Center Full Science Fellow, now tenure-track Assistant Professor at RIT)
Master’s
- Manal Zneit (M.A. 2022, now a Ph.D. student at CUNY Graduate Center)
- Ye Paing (M.A. 2021, now Software Engineer at Squarespace)
- Allan Spektor (MA 2019, now Software Engineer at Kooick Inc.)
- Oren Friedman (MA 2019, Google Summer of Code 2018, now Software Engineer at Xandr)
Undergraduate
- Zhongwei Li (B.A. 2022)
- Walee Ahmed (BA 2019)
- David Morant (BA 2017, Undergraduate Initiative Fellow Spring 2016, now Software Engineer at New York Times)
- Walter Rada (BTech 2015, now Data Network Production Support Analyst Intern at TD Ameritrade)
- Olivia Moore (BTech 2016, NSF LSAMP scholar 2015-2016, now Process Improvement Engineer at New York Foundling)
- Md Arefin (BTech 2016, Google Summer of Code 2015, Emerging Scholar Fall 2015, 2016 valedictorian, now Software Engineer at J.P. Morgan)
- Egor Kozitski (BTech, Emerging Scholar Spring 2015, now Software Engineer at AD/FIN)
High School
- Medha Belwadi (Lynbrook High School, CA, NYU GSTEM 2022)
- Pranavi Gollanapalli (Dublin High School, CA, NYU GSTEM 2022)
- Annie Wang (Hunter College High School, NY, NYU GSTEM 2019, now student at Harvard University)
- Krishna Desai (Nutley High School, NJ, NYU GSTEM 2019)
[…] the poster will be presented later this year in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is the first author’s, Yiming Tang, a first-year PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center, first publication while at CUNY. Congrats, […]
[…] am pleased to announce that Oren has been selected to participate in the prestigious Google Summer of Code program this summer. […]
[…] entitled, “A Tool for Optimizing Java 8 Stream Software via Automated Refactoring” with Yiming Tang, Mehdi Beherdezeh, and Syed […]
[…] to the authors, particularly Yiming Tang, for having a publication appear in a top-tier conference only in the second year of her Ph.D. […]
[…] Krishna Desai and Annie Wang will be joining our research group this summer through the NYU GSTEM program. NYU GSTEM is a summer program for high school juniors that allows them to participate in research laboratories. The program is offered by the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and helps promote STEM to traditionally underrepresented groups, particularly, females and minorities. […]
[…] Annie Wang, a Hunter High School student, working in our lab, was just accepted to Yale University! We are very proud of Annie and her work. Annie worked with me during the NYU GSTEM program last summer and has continued her work into the Fall semester. Congrats, Annie! […]
[…] our paper entitled, “An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams” with Yiming Tang, Mehdi Beherdezeh, and Baishakhi Ray. The EAPLS (European Association for Programming Languages and […]
[…] to Allan Spektor for successfully defending his MA thesis, entitled Two Techniques for Automated Logging Statement […]
[…] am pleased to announce that my doctoral student Yiming Tang has successfully passed her second exam. She is now a Ph.D. candidate. Congrats, Yiming! And, thank […]
[…] research track at the 2021 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)! Congrats to Yiming, Mehdi, Rhia, Ajani, and Anita, and thank you for all of your hard […]
[…] Yiming has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) of Concordia University in Canada, which is a central research institution in the field of Software Engineering and Programming Languages research. Yiming will be working with Weiyi Shang. Congrats, Yiming! […]
[…] to Yiming Tang for successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Towards Automated Software Evolution of […]
[…] has been recommended for publication in Science of Computer Programming. Congrats to Yiming, Allan, and […]
[…] and the 2022 edition is scheduled to be held next March in Honolulu, Hawaii. Congrats to Yiming, Allan, and […]
[…] to Tatiana for being selected to participate in the 2022 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women! The NSF-funded […]
[…] (ICSE)! Out of 98 papers, 49 were accepted, amounting to a 50% acceptance rate. Congrats to Yiming, Allan, and […]
[…] special congratulations to Tatiana for publishing her first full conference paper as first-author in the second year of her Ph.D. […]
[…] Medha Belwadi and Pranavi Gollanapalli will join our research group this summer through the NYU GSTEM program. NYU GSTEM is a summer program for high school juniors that allows them to participate in research laboratories. The NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences offers the program and helps promote STEM to traditionally underrepresented groups, particularly females and minorities. Medha and Pranavi will be working on our recently funded NSF project on imperative Deep Learning system programming and evolution as part of the project’s broader impacts. […]
[…] Ph.D. student Yiming Tang will begin as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) […]
[…] to Tatiana, Mehdi, Nan, and Anita, and thank you for all of your hard […]
[…] Ifra Ishaq and Stephanie Yeh will join our research group this summer through the NYU GSTEM program. NYU GSTEM is a summer program for high school juniors that allows them to participate in research laboratories. The NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences offers the program and helps promote STEM to traditionally underrepresented groups, particularly females and minorities. Ifra and Stephanie will be working on a programming language project as part of our funded NSF project on imperative Deep Learning system programming and evolution‘s broader impacts. […]
[…] Tatiana will present at the Doctoral Forum of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023) next month in Luxembourg! The goal of the ASE 2023 Doctoral Forum is to provide PhD students the opportunity to present and discuss their doctoral research with senior researchers in the software engineering community. Tatiana will be presenting her ongoing work on analyzing and transforming imperative Deep Learning programs in Python. Congrats, Tatiana, for having your paper accepted! […]