Instruction & Academic Services

Major Professor for the students

1. Vipul Kashyap, PhD, "Information Brokering over Heterogeneous Digital Data," October 1997. (Note: Student's degree is from Rutgers University, NJ, but Dr. Sheth is his research advisor.)
2. Devashish Worah, MS, "Error Handling and Recovery for the ORBWork Workflow Enactment Service in METEOR," June 1997.
3. Srilekha Mudumbai, MS, "ZEBRA Image Access System," June 1997.
4. Selvam Velmurugan, MS, "Collaborative Tele-Consulting for Healthcare," September 1997.
5. Krishnan Parsuraman, MS, "Agent Support in the InfoQuilt System," December 1998.
6. Clemens Bertram, MS, "Metadata and Ontology Based Query Processing in the InfoQuilt System, December 1998.
7. Vineet Mahajan, MS, " A Multi-Agent System for Metadata Management and Information Brokering ", December 1999.
8. Subrajit Ray, MS, "Ontology-based Media Independent Correlation of Information Across Heterogeneous Distributed Sources", December 1999.
9. Subhrajit Ray, MS, "Ontology-Based Media Independent Correlation of Information Across Heterogeneous Distributed Resources," July 1999.
10. Mukesh Guntamadugu, MS, "METIS: Automating Metabase Creation from Multiple Heterogeneous Sources," July 2000.
11. Dilpreet Singh, "An Agent Based Architecture For Query Planning And Cost Modeling Of Web Sources," July 2000.
12. Sriram Lakshminarayan, "Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries using Inter-Ontological Relationships," July 2000.
13. Narayan Palsena, MS, "A Collaborative Approach to Learning using Information Landscapes". Masters Thesis. University of Georgia, 2000.
14. Zhongqiao Li, MS, "Using Collaboration Task in OrbWork Enactment System for METEOR Workflow Management System," August 2000.
15. Zhongwei Luo, PhD, "Knowledge sharing, coordinated exception handling, and intelligent problem solving for cross-organizational business processes," January 2001.
16. Sanjeev Thacker, MS, "Knowledge Modeling for Study of Domains and Inter-domain Relationships - A Learning Paradigm," July 2001.
17. Shuchi Patel, MS, "Planning and Optimizing Semantic Information Requests on Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Semantically Modeled Domain and Source Characteristics," July 2001.
18. Wonjung Kim, MS, "Knowledge Based Personalization," December 2001.
19. Madhan Arumugam, MS, "The Peer-to-Peer Semantic Web : A Distributed Environment for Sharing Semantic Knowledge on the Web", December 2001.
20. Jorge Cardoso, PhD, Quality of Service and Semantic Workflow Composition, August 2002.
21. Kaarthik Sivashanmuga, MS, (co-advisor: J. Miller), "The METEOR-S Framework for Semantic Web Process Composition. August 2003.
22. Abhijit Patil, MS, METEOR-S Web Service Annotation Framework, December 2003.
23. Rohit Aggrawal, MS, (co-advisors: Ram Gopal, Alok Gupta and Ramesh Sankaranarayanan), "Essays on Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM): Effect on Firms and Influence on Venture Capitalists' Investment Decisions," August 2004. (co-advisor).
24. Swapna Onudhakar, MS, December 2004.
25. Willie Milnor, MS, "Discovering Informative Subgraphs in RDF Graphs," December 2005.
26. Nicole Oldham, MS, "Semantic Web-Agreement Partner Selection," April 2006.
27. Ravi Pavagada, MS, IR based Search in Semantic Web, Summer 2006. *
28. Bilal Gonen, MS, Semantic Browser, Summer 2006. *
29. Kunal Verma, PhD, (co-advisor), Configuration and Adaptation of Semantic Web Processes, July 2006.
30. Cartic Ramakrishnan, PhD, "Extracting, Representing and Mining Semantic Metadata from Text: Facilitating Knowledge Discovery in Biomedicine," September 2008.
31. Matthew Perry, PhD, "A Framework to Support Spatial, Temporal and Thematic Analytics over Semantic Web Data," July 2008.

External Academic Advising

1. Member of Ph.D. dissertation committee for Ph.D. candidate Haibo Zhao, Universuity of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2009.
2. Member of Ph.D. dissertation committee for Ph.D. candidate Fabian M. Suchanek, Automated Construction and Growth of a Large Ontology, ax-Plank Institute for Computer Science, December 19, 2008. .
3. External expert reviewer for Ph.D. candidate Manual Garcia Solaco, Facultat d'Informatica de la Universitat Politechica de Cataluna, Barcelona, 1994.
4. External advisor and dissertation committee member for Ph.D. student George Karabatis, Univ. of Houston, "Management of Interdependent Data ub a Multidatabase Environment: A Polytransaction Approach", May 1995.
5. Member of Ph.D. dissertation committee for Quiang Zhu, "Estimating Local Cost Parameters for Global Query Optimization in a Multidatabase System", University of Waterloo, Canada, August 1995.
6. Member of Ph.D. dissertation committee (Jury) for Philippe Thiran, Legacy database federation. A combined forward-Reverse approach, Institut d'Informatique, F.U.N.D.P. (Univ. of Namur), Belgium, September 2003.

Supervised research of Eduardo Mena (Ph.D. candidate, Basque State University, Spain) during his one year work at LSDIS Lab, UGA in 1996 (12 months).
Supervising research of Isabel Scheiding (Ph.D. candidate, University of Frankfurt, Germany) during her work at LSDIS Lab, UGA between July 1997 and December 1997.
Supervised research of Tascisio Lima (Ph.D. student, University of Brazil) during his work at LSDIS Lab, UGA, August 1998- June 2000.