Current Visiting Scholar: 

• Shulei Wu, Hainan Normal University, China

Ph.D. Students: 

1. Kasturi Chatterjee
   • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006), December 11-13, 2006, San Diego, CA, USA
   • Strategic Initiative Teaching Award, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University (2007)
   • Excellence Award, School of Computing & Information Sciences, FIU, 2007-2008
   • 2008 Global CyberBridges Fellowship Award, NSF
   • PIRE IBM Fellowship, 2008
   • First Place in Poster Presentation, 6th LA Grid Summit, October 30-31, 2008
2. Zheng Cui
   
3. Michael Armella
   
   • GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education
4. Hsin-Yu Ha
5. Yudan Li
6. Jose Cartaya
   
7. Jeff Strickrott

Current MS Students:

1. Jason Dettbarn
   
2. Hardik Pinakinbhai Dave
3. Priyanka Satish Bansal
4. Michael Calleiro
   
5. Jesus Bello
   

Current Undergraduate Students:

1. Fausto Fleites
2. Seychelles Martinez
3. Ronald Ocampo
4. Jeremy Conn
5. Joesph Rivera
6. Jairo Pava
7. Juan Duarte
8. Yunior Betancourt
9. Enzo Alvarez

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision Completed

1. Chengcui Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Computer and Information Sciences (August 2004).
   • Thesis title: A Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Framework for Multimedia Database Systems
   • The Best Graduate Student Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2002)
   • Presidential Fellowship, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (2000-2003)
2. Min Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Montana, Department of Computer Science (May 2007).
• Thesis title: Knowledge Assisted Data Management and Retrieval in Multimedia Database Systems
• Outstanding PhD Graduate, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University (2007)
• Deans Award, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University (2007)
• Presidential Fellowship, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (2004-2006)
• The Outstanding Graduate GPA Award within the Field of Information and Technology, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2003)
• The Best Graduate Student Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2004)
• The Dissertation Year Fellowship, Florida International University (2007)
• Outstanding Academic Performance Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (2006)
3. Jianhua Yan, eBay Inc. (PayPal) (December 2007)
   • Thesis title: A Framework for Automatic Feature Extraction from Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Data
4. Na Zhao, Assistant Vice President, State Street Corporation (December 2007)
   • Thesis title: DiMuse: An Integrated Framework for Distributed Multimedia System with Database Management and Security Support
   • Presidential Fellowship, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (2007)
   • The Dissertation Year Fellowship, Florida International University (2007)

Post MS Students: (With Thesis)      

1. Xinran Wang (August 2000)
2. Qiong Chen (May 2001)
3. Xia Jin (Interval International, May 2001)
4. Cui Zheng (International Hurricane Center, August 2001)
5. Xiaoming Chen (May 2002)
6. Liping Li (August 2002)
7. Lin-Lin Luo (August 2002)
8. Irina Gray (December 2002)
9. Wenhui Liao (May 2003)
10. Meiling Zhang (May 2003)
11. Yi Xu (August 2003)
12. Murong Sun (August 2003)
13. Cassian Dcunha (December 2003)
14. Avinash Mittapalli (December 2003)
15. Paresh Gupta (May 2004)
    
16. Arpit Bhatnagar (December 2004)
    
17. Kasun Wickramarathna (December 2005)
    
18. Dianelys Moreira (May 2006)