Allison L. Holloway
ahollowa@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. David J. DeWitt
Expected graduation date: SUMMER 2009
Dissertation title/topic: A Study of Storage Techniques for
Database Systems
Employment preference: ACADEMIA/RESEARCH LAB/INDUSTRY
Nicholas Kidd
kidd@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Thomas Reps
Expected graduation date: Spring 2009
Dissertation title/topic: Analysis of Concurrent Programs with
Formalisms Based on
Pushdown Systems
Employment preference: Academia / Industry
Akash Lal
akash@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Thomas Reps
Expected graduation date: Spring 2009
Dissertation title/topic: Interprocedural analysis of concurrent
programs
Employment preference: Industry / Research Lab
Yu-Chi Lai
yu-chi@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Charles Dyer
Expected graduation date: SUMMER 2009YEAR
Dissertation title/topic: Photorealistic Animation Rendering with
Population Monte Carlo Energy Redistribution
Employment preference: ACDEMIA
Burr Settles
bsettles@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Mark Craven
Expected graduation date: Fall 2008
Dissertation title/topic: Curious Machines: Reducing Labeling
Effort for Information Management Tasks Through Active
Learning
Employment preference: Undecided
Adam Allen Smith
aasmith@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Mark Craven
Expected graduation date: Spring 2009
Dissertation title/topic: Classification and Alignment of Time
Series for Toxicogenomics
Employment preference: Academia/Reseach Lab
Lisa Torrey
ltorrey@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jude Shavlik
Expected graduation date: Spring 2009
Dissertation title/topic: Transfer in Reinforcement
Learning
Employment preference: Academia
Luke Yen
lyen@cs.wisc.edu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Mark D. Hill
Expected graduation date: SPRING 2009
Dissertation title/topic: Signatures in Transactional Memory
Systems
Employment preference: INDUSTRY