Sep 2005 - Aug 2006 Ph.D. Graduates
Ahmed Ayad
Dissertation defense: July 26, 2006
Dissertation title: Optimization & Approximation Techniques
for Data Streaming Queries
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jeffrey F. Naughton
Position accepted: Microsoft
Alaa Alameldeen
Dissertation defense: January 30, 2006
Dissertation title:
Using Compression to Improve Chip Multiprocessor Performance
Thesis advisor: Prof. David Wood
Position accepted: Intel Corporation
Bradford Beckmann
Dissertation defense: August 15, 2006
Dissertation title:
Managing Wire Delay in Chip Multiprocessor Caches
Thesis advisor: Prof. David Wood
Position accepted: Microsoft
Jennifer L Beckmann
Dissertation defense: August 14, 2006
Dissertation title:
Relational Database Management System Support for Sparse Data Sets
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jeffrey F. Naughton
Position accepted: Microsoft
Pedro Bizarro
Dissertation defense: August 15, 2006
Dissertion title: Adaptive Query Processing:
Dealing with Incomplete and Uncertain Statistics
Thesis advisor: Prof. David DeWitt
Position accepted: University of Coimbra, Dept. of Informatics Engineering,
Portugal
Nathan C. Burnett
and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
Dissertation defense: June 30, 2006
Dissertation title:
Information and Control in File System Buffer Management /em>
Thesis advisors: Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau
Position accepted: VMware, Inc.
Timothy Denehy
Dissertation defense: June 14, 2006
Dissertation title: Information and Collaboration in the Storage Stack
Thesis advisor: Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
Position accepted: Google
Vuk Ercegovac
Dissertation defense: July 26, 2006
Dissertation title: Integrating Text Search and Relational Databases:
Functionality and Performance
Thesis advisors: Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan and Prof. David J. DeWitt
Position accepted: IBM Research
Shaohua Fan
Dissertation defense: May 6, 2006
Dissertation title: Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for
Physically Based Rendering
Thesis advisors: Prof. Steven Chenney and Prof. Charles Dyer
Position accepted: Quantitative Researcher, NY
Jonathon T. Giffin
Dissertation defense: July 25, 2006
Dissertation title: Model-Based Anomaly Detection System Design and
Evaluation
Thesis advisors: Prof. Somesh Jha, Prof. Barton P. Miller
Position accepted: Asst. Prof., Georgia Institute of Technology,
College of Computing
Guodong Guo
Dissertation defense: May 16 2006
Dissertation title: Face, Expression,
and Iris Recognition Using Learning-Based Approaches
Thesis advisor: Prof. Charles Dyer
Position accepted: Asst. Prof., North Carolina Central University,
Mathematics and Computer Science Dept.
Alan Halverson
Dissertation Date: July 26, 2006
Dissertation title: Storage and Query Processing Optimizations for
Hierarchically-Organized Data
Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey F. Naughton
Position accepted: Microsoft
Shiliang Hu
Dissertation defense: Feb. 28, 2006
Dissertation title:
Efficient Binary Translation for Co-Designed Virtual Machines
Thesis advisor: Prof. James E. Smith
Position accepted: Researcher, Intel, Santa Clara, CA
Alexey Loginov
Dissertation defense: August 17, 2006
Dissertation title:
Refinement-Based Program Verification via Three-Valued-Logic Analysis
Thesis advisor: Prof. Thomas Reps
Position accepted: IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY
Vijayan Prabhakaran
Arpaci-Dusseau
Dissertation defense: June 16, 2006
Dissertation title: IRON File Systems
Thesis advisor: Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi
Position accepted: Microsoft Research
Soumya Ray
Dissertation defense: December 1, 2005
Dissertation title: Learning from Data with
Complex Interactions and Ambiguous Labels
Thesis advisors: Prof. Mark Craven and Prof. David Page
Position accepted: Postdoc, EECS, Oregon State University
Shai Rubin
Dissertation defense: June 28, 2006.
Dissertation title:
Formal Models and Tools to Improve NIDS Accuracy
Thesis advisors: Prof. Somesh Jha and Prof. Bart Miller
Position accepted: Microsoft, Israel
Sechang (Sonny) Son
Dissertation defense: March 13, 2006
Dissertation title: Middleware Approaches to Middlebox Traversal
Thesis advisor: Prof. Miron Livny
Position accepted: Network Applications, CA
Mankyu Sung
Dissertation defense: November 14, 2005
Dissertation title: Scalable,
Controllable, Efficient and Convincing Crowd Simulation
Thesis advisor: Prof. Michael Gleicher
Position accepted: Senior Researcher, Electronics and Telecommunications
Research Inst.(ETRI)
Christopher Weaver
Dissertation defense: May 16, 2006
Dissertion title: Improvise: A User Interface
for Interactive Construction of Highly-Coordinated Visualizations
Thesis advisor: Raghu Ramakrishnan
Position accepted: Faculty Research Associate, Penn State Univ.
Dept. of Geography GeoVista Center
& Research Scientist at Northeast Visualization & Analytics Center
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