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Current Graduate Students

Eujean Byun - MCS PhD 

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Eujean Byun started her doctoral studies in Management of Complex Systems at the University of California, Merced in Fall 2020. She received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Dongduk Women’s University in Seoul and received her Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Korea University Business School. Before joining to the UC Merced, she had been worked as a researcher at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul.

Her research area is human behaviors in online communities, especially she focuses on cyberbullying, which is an unjust behavior caused by the characteristics of the Internet environment. She studies the motivations of cyberbullying from various perspectives and systematic ways to mitigate cyberbullying.

 

Steven Sun - MCS PhD

Undergraduate Students

 

  • Nancy Ooi

Jasmine Camacho

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Jasmine Camacho started her undergraduate journey at the University of California, Merced in Fall 2021, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science. As a research assistant in the Yeo Lab, she conducts data wrangling for the preliminary analysis of online harassment research led by Eujean Byun. Additionally, Jasmine is working with Dr. Ayat Hatem at California State University Stanislaus, applying graph analytics to analyze aviation data using machine learning.

Jasmine Camacho | LinkedIn

Past Students

Theo Crouch, II

  • PhD Student, Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced
  • MS Quantitative & Systems Biology, UC Merced
  • BS Computer Science, CSU San Marcos

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 Juan Hernandez

Juan Hernandez is an upcoming 3rd year undergraduate student, planning on acquiring a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Merced. For his research assistant role in the Yeo Lab, he conducts literature analysis and review in order to identify potential gaps and new information in the given research topics of data value in agriculture and IoT4Ag.
Currently, he is also working within the UROC program to conduct research regarding automation of vehicles in the agricultural space.

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 Calvin Hoang

Calvin Hoang began studying at University of California, Merced in Fall 2021. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Management and Business Economics, and planning to minor in Cognitive Science. Before coming to UC Merced, Calvin dual-enrolled into his local community college while he was in high school, where he studied Business and Statistics.

For his Research Assistant role, Calvin conducts literature analysis and review to identify potential gaps and new information in data value in agriculture and IoT4Ag. Currently, he is doing research on the economic value of data in the data value chain of precision agriculture for IoT4Ag Project 31, while also aiding in the creation of visualizations with his colleagues.

Calvin Hoang | LinkedIn

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Alisha Nesslage

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Alisha Nesslage graduated UC Merced expected in the Spring of 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science.

Alisha worked in Thrust 3 of IoT4Ag on Project 31, led by Dr. Lisa Yeo and Dr. Catherine Keske, where she examined the intersection of information security and privacy within the agricultural sector. She presented a poster entitled Ag Data Value: A Scoping Literature Review at the 2022 IoT4Ag Annual Conference in Purdue. Presently, she pursues research on how the ethical principles proposed by the Belmont Report lend themselves to mitigating the social and environmental harms caused by function creeping of IoT technologies within precision ag. In addition, she is working on a project to identify how ethical principles can be used to advance climate resilience as it relates to the development, deployment, and accessibility of digital technologies.

Alisha Nesslage | LinkedIn