An important measure of my success is whether my advisees/mentees can compete with the those from the top universities in their career choices (most of them have chosen from academia, research, entrepreneurship). Below are some of the objective measures that demonstrate that they do. Equally important is the progress in their earlier career, which demonstrate their well rounded capabilities that include communication skills, social and networking, innovation, teamwork, mentoring, and leadership skills; for that see other tabs.

Nearly half of my former PhD advisees (11 out of 23 as of July 2016) have over 1,000 citations each; three of them—Jorge Cardoso, Kunal Verma, and Vipul Kashyap have > 5,000 citations each (Kunal's position in WWW, 10-year impact). Some had 1,000 around the time they defended their dissertation. Here is a list (Nov. 2014, see latest citations).

• Former advisee(s) with > 1,000 citations (As of 11/2016)

  Student	Citations
  Jorge Cardoso	6,214
  Vipul Kashyap	6,059
  Kunal Verma	5,858
  Cory Henson	2,533
  Satya Sahoo	2,034
  Pablo Mendes	2,012
  Meena Nagarajan	1,747
  Karthik Gomadam	1,584
  Kemafor Anyanwu	1,565
  Cartic Ramakrishnan	1,406
  Ajith Ranabahu	1,314

  : Kunal Verma, Jorge Cardoso, Vipul Kashyap, Meena Nagarajan, Karthik Gomadam, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Satya Sahoo, Cory Henson, Kemafor Anyanwu, Pablo Mendes, and Ajith Ranabahu.
• Former advisee(s) with > 500 citations: Christopher Thomas
• Former mentee(s) with > 1,000 citations: Eduardo Mena, Boanerges Aleman- Meza, and Farshad Hakimpour.
• Average citations of 1,800+ and a mean of 1,378 for his 19 PhD advisees (07/2016).

• Cory Henson gave the keynote at the 2012 Semantic Interoperability Workshop in Venice, Italy. [Slides.]
• Meena Nagarajan gave the keynote at the Social Data on the Web Workshop, collocated with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2009. [Slides, introduction, and the first few minutes.]

• Hemant Purohit won the UN agency ITU's Telecom World Young Innovators Competition 2014 on Open Source Technologies for Disaster Management, based on ideas from his research. He was awarded on August 2014 from among the 150 applications received worldwide. [Brochure.]
• Pramod Anantharam was selected for the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship for Summer 2014.
• Hemant Purohit received a Google, USAID, and ICT4Peace fellowship for CrisisMappers ICCM-2013 at UN Nairobi, and he was selected to be one of eight international fellows, Oct 2013. [Ignite talk: video, slides.]
• Ajith Ranabahu (and the Kno.e.sis team), technology award at the 2012 Fukuoka Ruby Award Competition awarded by the Fukuoka Center for Overseas Commerce in America. Competition judged by Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language. Only academic entry out of 81 to get this prestigious award.

• Pavan Kapanipathi gave an invited talk at the IBM's invitational workshop on Frontiers of Cloud Computing and Big Data, 2014.

• Hemant Purohit (with Carlos Castillo and Fernando Diaz): Leveraging Social Media and Web of Data for assisting Crisis Response Coordination , SIAM Int'l Conf on Data Mining (SDM-2014), Apr. 2014 [Details and slides]
• Hemant Purohit (with Patrick Meier, Carlos Castillo, Amit Sheth): Crisis Mapping, Citizen Sensing and Social Media Analytics: Leveraging Citizen Roles for Crisis Response, the Seventh International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-13), Jul. 2013 [Details and slides].
• Pramod Anantharam (with Payam Barnaghi and Amit Sheth): Data Processing and Semantics for Advanced Internet of Things (IoT) Applications: modeling, annotation, integration, and perception at WIMS 2013, Madrid, Spain, Jun. 2013
• Cory Henson (with Payam Barnaghi and Wei Wang): Data Modeling and Knowledge Engineering for the Internet of Things, at 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (2012): presentation.
• Cartic Ramakrishnan, Meena Nagarajan, Amit Sheth: Text Analytics for Semantic Computing - the good, the bad and the ugly, Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Aug. 2008.
• Kunal Verma (with Amit Sheth): Using SAWSDL for Semantic Service Interoperability, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, May 21, 2007.

• Hemant Purohit, Co-chair for the AAAI Spring Symposium 2015: Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect fit or Overkill?, Jul. 2014.
• Cory Henson, Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on the Web of Things , IEEE Intelligent Systems, Nov/Dec 2013.
• Cory Henson, Co-Chair of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (held at ISWC 2013).
• Delroy Cameron, Program Co-Chair of the 1st International Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Literature-Based Discovery (SWLBD 2012).
• Cory Henson, Co-Chair of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Network (held at ISWC 2012).
• Meena Nagarajan, Invited Panel Presentation at the Search in Social Media Workshop, collocated with the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2010.

Students activities have appeared in many influential media articles and influential posts: Time.com, Daily Mail (UK), Fast Company, La Croix, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, MIT Technology Review, Tech President. See more here.

• Hemant Purohit: Computational Social Scientist, 11/2014.
• Pramod Anantharam, Researcher’s work with European Union gains international notice, 11/2013.
• Cory Henson: Data Master: student researcher fusing Web, sensors to create thinking, life saving devices, 03/2013.

• Hemant Purohit, Invited as subject matter expert by the DHS S&T institute, for bridging socio-technical communication gap between technologists and emergency managers during emergency response exercise of federal agencies at JIFX, Feb. 2014.
• Cory Henson, final report co-editor, key participant/co-organizer for W3C XG on Semantic Sensor Networking, 2010-2011.
• Karthik Gomadam and Ajith Ranabahu were co-editor of the W3C Member submission, SA-REST: Semantic Annotation of Web Resources.
• Satya Sahoo developed Provenir ontology for semantic provenance which was one of the key inputs to W3C’s PROV specifications, including the PROV Ontology (PROV-O); Satya was active and key participant. 2009-2011.
• Kunal Verma, key participant in/contributions to Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL), W3C recommendation, 2006-2007. Ajith Ranabahu was the primary author of the SAWSDL4J reference implementation for SAWSDL, 2007.
• Christopher Thomas was the key developer of GLYDE II standards that is adapted worldwide by complex carbohydrate research community. 2005-.
• Meena Nagarajan and Kunal Verma (with R. Akkiraju, J. Farrell, J.Miller, M. Nagarajan, M. Schmidt, A. Sheth), Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S, W3C Member Submission (which was the primary input to the resulting W3C’s SAWSDL recommendation/standard), 2005.

Students are frequent co-inventors on patents (appox. one per year) and IP disclosures filed through Wright State University. On average 2-3 patents are filed per year based on inventions resulting from student's internships at companies such as IBM, Samsung, Bosch, etc. Their participation in industry sponsored research at Kno.e.sis have also led to commercial products such as one from edDI. Recent patent(s):

• Nehal Shah, Amit Sheth, Shreyansh Bhatt, Raxit Goswami, Vatsal Shah, Rahil Kanani, Amrish Patel, Parth Pathak: Data Processing System and Method for Computer-Assisted Coding of Natural Language Medical Text, US 2016/0132648 A1, May 12, 2016.
• Amit Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Meena Nagarajan: Methods And Systems For Analysis Of Real-time User-generated Text Messages, US 8688791 B2, April 1, 2014.

• Ajith Ranabahu, Presidential Commendation for Excellence in co-Curricular activities awarded by President David R. Hopkins, 2011-2012. [Certificate, Plaque.]
• Hemant Purohit, Outstanding Student Award, Computer Science department, Wright State Univ., Apr. 2014.
• WSU Graduate Student Excellence Award for Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (basically the best student in our CS program as selected by a faculty committee): Cory Henson, 2013; Prateek Jain, 2012; Ajith Ranabahu, 2011; Meenakshi Nagarajan, 2010; Karthik Gomadam, 2009.
• Ashwin Manjunatha, Best MS Student Award in Computer Science, Graduate School, Wright State University, 2011.

Lu Chen (WebSci-2014, SocInfo-2014, SocInfo-2013), Pramod Anantharam (WWW 2015, ISWC 2014, ), Hemant Purohit (ICWSM 2015, ISCRAM 2015, HICSS 2014, WWW 2014, SocInfo-2014/2013), Cory Henson (ESWC 2010/2011/2012/2013, ISWC 2013, EKAW 2012 ), Meena Nagarajan (ISWC 2007, CIKM 2007, WSDM 2009, ICWSM 2010, ESWC 2010), …

Several PhD students have been invited for and served on over 15 PCs before graduating.

Too many to list. Practically all my students have received these and often have received multiple travel awards/fellowships. For additional details, visit http://www.knoesis.org/aboutus/thesis_defense.