The SPARTA Lab is currently looking for self-motivated students seeking a Ph.D. in Computer Science and interested in pursuing research in topics related to computational social science, online privacy, and Internet measurement. Send an email to "rishab[-]nithyanand[at]uiowa[dot]edu" with the subject "you NEED to hire me!" if you're interested in working with us and have a demonstrably strong background in any of the following areas: computer networking, statistics, text analytics, or experiment design.

Team

Faculty

Rishab Nithyanand

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. students

Hussam Habib

Fall 2019 -

Maaz Bin Musa

Fall 2019 -

Hammas Bin Tanveer

Fall 2019 -

Adnan Ahmed

Fall 2021 -

Sarmad Chandio

Fall 2021 -

M.Sc. students

Lucas Ausberger

Spring 2022 -

B.Sc. students

Alumni

John Thiede

M.Sc. and B.Sc. researcher (2019-22)

Next: Ph.D. @ UMass Amherst

Yiqing Zhu

Graduate (M.Sc.) researcher (2019-21)

Mert Erdemir

Graduate (M.Sc) researcher (2020-21)

Next: Ph.D. @ Georgia Tech

Piotr Smietana

Undergraduate researcher (2020-21)

Next: Software Engineer @ Pegasystems

Daniyal Dar

Ph.D. student (2019-21)

Next: Ph.D. @ University of Iowa (advised by Omar Chowdhury)

Xiao Song

Undergraduate researcher (2018-19)

Next: Ph.D. @ University of Southern California

Xiaoyu Xing

Graduate (M.Sc.) Researcher (2019-20)

Next: Software engineer @ Amazon

Yao Wang

Undergraduate researcher (2019-20)

Next: M.Sc. @ Georgia Institute of Technology