People
Faculty
Current Students
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Adam Keener is a MS student working with Dr. Ekstrand on applying Bayesian analysis to recommender systems. In his spare time, Adam spends time with his wife and two children, and enjoys reading sci-fi and fantasy novels.
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Amifa Raj is a third year PhD student in Computer Science at Boise State University. She is working with Dr. Michael Ekstrand on research involved recommender systems. The main focus of her research is on bias in recommender systems. She is currently working on identifying and understanding biases introduced by the technique that exploit reviews in developing recommender systems. She completed her Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has been an active member of the People and Information Research Team (PIReT) from Fall 2018. Her personal website can be found at https://amifaraj.github.io/.
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Christine Pinney is an undergraduate student pursuing a second Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. She completed her first Bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Idaho in May 2020. Her initial interest in linguistics has grown into a greater passion for Natural Language Processing and ethical Machine Learning. She is currently working with Dr. Ekstrand on exploring the use of gender in recommender systems.
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Lawrence Spear is a PhD student in Computer Science, working with Dr. Maria Soledad Pera. Before joining the PIReT Team, he had worked in industry for 20 years. Throughout his career, he has done R&D in the latest techniques in the industry whether it is more process oriented, such as Agile, Behavior Driven Development and Continuous Deployment; or more technical oriented, such as Machine Learning, Infrastructure as Code or .Net Core. His general research interest is information retrieval, such as how children discover new information and how different search engines have to handle non-Latin-based languages. He also has an intense passion for learning new knowledge and broadening his horizons.
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Ngozi Ihemelandu is a second year PhD student in Computing with an emphasis in Data science at Boise State University. She received her Master’s in Software Engineering from Texas State University, San Marcos and she is currently working with Dr. Michael Ekstrand on Recommender Systems.
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Srabanti Guha is an MS student in Computer Science in Boise State University. She received Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh in 2018. She is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Michael Ekstrand for her MS thesis. Her research interest is fairness in information retrieval. At her free time, she enjoys watching movies, listening to songs and cooking.
Additional Students
- Jason Hall (MS)
Alumni
- Sharon Guo (B.S.)
- Samantha Anguiano (B.S.)
- Abel Almeida (B.S.)
- Devan Karsann (M.S. 2022)
- Garrett Allen (M.S. 2021)
- Ashlee Milton (B.S. 2019, M.S. 2021)
- Michael Green (M.S. 2021)
- Connor Wood (B.S. 2021)
- Carlos Segura (M.S. 2020)
- Sanda Ambriz (B.S. 2020)
- Ion Madrazo Azpiazu (M.S. 2016, Ph.D 2019)
- Mucun Tian (M.S. 2019)
- Oghenemaro Anuyah (M.S. 2018)
- Patrick Cullings (B.S. 2018)
- David McNeill (B.S. 2016)
- Nevena Dragovic (M.S. 2016)