2008-2009 Ph.D. Candidates

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