Sep 2007 - Aug 2008 Ph.D. Graduates

Nidhi Aggarwal
Thesis advisor: Prof. James Smith and Kewal Saluja
Dissertation defense: May 13, 2008
Dissertation title: Achieving High Availability with Commodity Hardware and Software
Position accepted: Associate Consultant, McKinsey and Company

Lakshmi Bairavasundaram
Thesis advisor: Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
Dissertation defense: August 22, 2008
Dissertation title: Characteristics, Impact and Tolerance of Partial Disk Failures
Position accepted: NetApp, Inc.

Hector Corrada Bravo
Thesis advisor: Prof. Grace Wahba and Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Dissertation defense: August 7, 2008
Dissertation title: Graph-Based Data Analysis
Position accepted: Postdoctoral Researcher, Johns Hopkins University

Koushik Chakraborty
Thesis advisor: Prof. Gurindar S. Sohi
Dissertation defense: July 30, 2008
Dissertation title: Over-provisioned Multicore Systems
Position accepted: Assistant Professor, Utah State University

Bee-Chung Chen
Thesis advisor: Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Dissertation defense: November 28, 2007
Dissertation title: Cube-Space Data Mining
Position accepted: Yahoo!

Eric Chu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jeff Naughton
Dissertation defense: July 28, 2008
Dissertation title: Sparse Relational Data Sets: Issues and an Application Position accepted: Program Manager, Microsoft

Scott Diehl
Thesis advisor: Prof. Dieter van Melkebeek
Dissertation defense: April 17, 2008
Dissertation title: Time-Space Lower Bounds for Satisfiability and Related Problems on Randomized Machines
Position accepted: Assistant Professor, Siena College

Frank DiMaio
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jude Shavlik
Dissertation defense: September 18, 2007
Dissertation title: Probabilistic methods for interpreting electron-density maps
Position accepted: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington Biochemistry Department

Athula Gunawardena
Thesis advisor: Prof. Robert Meyer
Dissertation defense: December 21, 2007
Dissertation title: Approximating Optimal Partitions: Efficient Algorithms for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy and Higher Dimensional Domain Decomposition
Position accepted: Associate Professor, UW-Whitewater Math and Computer Science Department

Jiansheng Huang
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Naughton
Dissertation defense: July 7, 2008
Dissertation tTitle: On Interpreting and Debugging Results of Database Queries Over Imprecise Data
Position accepted: Rocket Fuel, Inc.

Michael Marty
Thesis advisor: Prof. Mark Hill
Dissertation defense: December 19, 2007
Dissertation title: Cache Coherence Techniques for Multicore Processors
Position accepted: Google, Madison,WI

Colin McCurdy
Thesis advisor: Prof. Charles Fischer
Dissertation defense: May 22, 2008
Dissertation title: A Dual-Address Space Architecture: Implementation and Evaluation
Position accepted: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Sean McIlwain
Thesis advisor: Prof. C. David Page
Dissertation defense: June 11, 2008
Dissertation title: Annotating Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Data for Qualitative and Quantitative Experiments
Position accepted: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington

Srinath Shankar
Thesis advisor: Prof. David DeWitt
Dissertation defense: August 19, 2008
Dissertation title: Data Processing and Workflow Scheduling in Cluster Computing Systems
Position accepted: Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab

Phillip Wells
Thesis advisor: Prof. Gurindar S. Sohi Dissertation defense: July 30, 2008
Dissertation title: Adapting to Dynamic Heterogeneity: Virtualization for the Multicore Era
Position accepted: Google, Madison, WI

Ted Wild
Thesis advisor: Prof. Olvi Mangasarian
Dissertation defense: May 6, 2008
Dissertation title: Optimization-Based Machine Learning and Data Mining
Position accepted: Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft