Sep 2006 - Aug 2007 Ph.D. Graduates

Gogul Balakrishnan
Thesis advisor: Prof. Tom Reps
Dissertation defense: August 2, 2007
Dissertation title: WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute (Static Analysis of Executables)
Position accepted: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
Thesis advisor: Prof. Gurindar Sohi
Dissertation defense: May 18, 2007
Dissertation title: Demultiplexing: Data-flow Based Speculative Parallelization of Methods in Sequential Programs
Position accepted: Intel

Douglas Burdick
Thesis advisor: Prof. AnHai Doan, Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Dissertation defense: July 16, 2007
Dissertation title: OLAP over Uncertain and Imprecise Data

Jichuan Chang
Thesis advisor: Prof. Guri Sohi
Dissertation defense: April 26, 2007
Dissertation title: Cooperative Caching for Chip Multiprocessors
Position accepted: Research Scientist, HP Labs

Jiaqin Chen
Thesis advisor: Prof. Vadim Shapiro
Dissertation defense: April 24, 2007
Dissertation title: Shape Optimization Using Constructive Representations

Lei Chen
Thesis advisor: Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Dissertation defense: July 16, 2007
Dissertation title: Query Model and Processing Optimization for Composite Subset Measures

Mihai Christodorescu
Thesis advisor: Prof. Somesh Jha
Dissertation defense: July 16, 2007
Dissertation title: Behavior-Based Malware Detection
Position accepted: Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Nicholas Andrew Coleman
Thesis advisor: Prof. Marvin Solomon
Dissertation defense: July 31, 2007
Dissertation title: A Matchmaking Approach for Distributed Policy Specification and Interpretation
Position accepted: Asst. Professor, W. Virginia Univ. Inst. of Technology

Jesse Davis
Thesis advisor: Prof. David Page
Dissertation defense: August 2, 2007
Dissertation title: View Learning: A Statistical Relational Approach to Mining Biomedical Databases
Position accepted: Postdoctoral Researcher, Univ. of Washington

Qunfeng Dong
Thesis advisor: Prof. Suman Banerjee
Dissertation defense: May 18, 2007
Dissertation title: Efficient Schemes for Stateless Packet Classification

Vinod Ganapathy
Thesis advisor: Prof. Somesh Jha
Dissertation defense: July 12, 2007
Dissertation title: Retrofitting Legacy Code for Authorization Policy Enforcement
Position accepted: Asst. Professor, Rutgers Univ.

Mark Goadrich
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jude Shavlik
Dissertation defense: August 13, 2007
Dissertation title: Learning Ensembles of First-Order Clauses that Optimize Precision-Recall Curves
Position accepted: Broyles Chair in Computational Mathematics, Centenary College of Louisiana

Denis Gopan
Thesis advisor: Prof. Tom Reps
Dissertation defense: July 27, 2007
Dissertation title: Numeric Progam Analysis Techniques with Applications to Array Analyisis and Library Summarization
Position accepted: Grammatech, Inc.

Tochukwu Iwuchukwu
Thesis advisors: Prof. David DeWitt and Prof. Jeff Naughton
Dissertation defense: August 13, 2007
Dissertation title: Anonymization Techniques for Large and Dynamic Data Sets
Position accepted: Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto

Stephen T. Jones
Thesis advisors: Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
Dissertation defense: April 27, 2007
Dissertation title: Implicit Operating System Awareness in a Virtual Machine Monitor
Position accepted: Sandia National Laboratories

Ameet Kini
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Naughton
Dissertation defense: August 13, 2007
Dissertation title: Supporting Match Joins in Relational Database Management Systems
Position accepted: Oracle Corp.

Kristen Lefevre
Thesis advisors: Prof. David Dewitt, Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Dissertation defense: July 16, 2007
Dissertation title: Anonymity in Data Publishing and Distribution
Position accepted: Assistant Professor, EECS, Univ. of Michigan

Alexander Mirgorodskiy
Thesis advisor: Prof. Barton Miller
Dissertation defense: October 9, 2006
Dissertation title: Automated Problem Diagnosis in Distributed Systems
Position accepted: VMWare, Inc.

Michael Molla
Thesis advisor: Prof. Jude Shavlik
Dissertation defense: August 23, 2007
Dissertation title: Novel Uses for Machine Learning and Other Computational Methods for the Design and Interpretation of Genetic Microarrays
Position accepted: Center for BioDynamics Fellow, Boston Univ.

Keith Noto
Thesis advisor: Prof. Mark Craven
Dissertation defense: August 21, 2007
Dissertation title: Learning Expressive Computational Models of Gene Regulatory Sequences and Responses
Position accepted: Postdoctoral Fellow, CS&E, U.C.-San Diego

Christina Oberlin
Thesis advisor: Prof. Stephen Wright
Dissertation defense: August 20, 2007
Dissertation title: Techniques for Degenerate Problems in Nonlinear Equations and Nonlinear Optimization
Position accepted: Interactive Data Corporation

Irene Ong
Thesis advisor: Prof. David Page
Dissertation defense: June 13, 2007
Dissertation title: Computational Techniques for Inferring Regulatory Networks
Position accepted: Postdoctoral Researcher, UW-Madison

Florentina Irina Popovici
Thesis advisors: Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
Dissertation defense: April 27, 2007
Dissertation title: Data-Driven Models in Storage System Design
Position accepted: Google, Inc.

Rachel Heck Rose
Thesis advisor: Prof. Michael Gleicher
Dissertation defense: July 16, 2007
Dissertation title: Automated Authoring of Quality Human Motion for Interactive Environments
Position accepted: R&D Engineer, Industrial Light & Magic

Joel Sommers
Thesis advisor: Prof. Paul Barford
Dissertation defense: July 23, 2007
Dissertation title: Calibrated Network Measurement
Position accepted: Asst. Professor, Colgate University

Michael Thompson
Thesis advisor: Prof. Olvi Mangasarian
Dissertation defense: May 14, 2007
Dissertation title: Underestimation and Classification of Massive Datasets Via Mathematical Programming
Position accepted: Asst. Professor, Computer Science Dept., Loras College

Michael Wallick
Thesis advisor: Prof. Michael Gleicher
Dissertation defense: June 12, 2007
Dissertation title: Automatic Organization of Large Collections of Digital Photographs
Position accepted: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Hao Wang
Thesis advisor: Prof. Somesh Jha
Dissertation defense: December 20, 2006
Dissertation title: Detecting and Stopping Privacy Violations in Software
Positions accepted: Securitas Technologies, Madison.

Vinod Yegneswaran
Thesis advisor: Prof. Paul Barford
Dissertation defense: November 27, 2006
Dissertation title: Empirical Foundations for Network Defense
Position accepted: Computer Scientist, SRI International