Personal Profiles

Below are short profiles of Graduates Anonymous group members (sponsors, if you will), so you know who the best person to ask your question might be. Perhaps someone sounds like they are or have been in a similar situation. If you would rather talk to the group as a whole, come to our next activity or contact us through our mailing list.

Artificial Intelligence

Name: Andrew Goldberg
Email: goldberg
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~goldberg
Area: Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Jerry Zhu
Year: 4th
Hometown: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Personal Note: Coming from a small liberal arts college to this giant university was intimidating at first, but I got over it. And so can you!
Name: Debbie Chasman
Email: chasman
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chasman
Area: Artificial Intelligence/Bioinformatics
Advisor: Mark Craven
Year: 2nd
Hometown: Mendota Heights, MN
Personal Note:

Computer Architecture

Name: Jayaram Bobba
Email: bobba
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bobba
Area: Computer Architecture
Advisor: Mark Hill
Year: 5th
Hometown: India
Personal Note: Intel Fellow, at the moment
Name: Dana Vantrease
Email: danav
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~danav
Area: Computer Architecture
Advisor: Mikko Lipasti
Year: 7th
Hometown: Dayton, Ohio
Personal Note:

Databases

Name: Allison Holloway
Email: ahollowa
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ahollowa
Area: Databases
Advisor: David DeWitt
Year: N
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Personal Note: My grad school path has been a little, ahem, circuitous. I'm also president of UW's chapter of the ACM Committee on Women.
Name: Sean Crosby
Email: smcrosby
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smcrosby
Area: Databases
Advisor:
Year: 1st Year
Hometown: Springville, Utah
Personal Note: While others will tell you how to succeed in your first year as a graduate student, I can tell you what it is like to be a first year graduate student.
Name: Akanksha Baid
Email: baid
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~baid
Area: Databases
Advisor: Jeff Naughton
Year: 5th
Hometown: India / Fremont, CA
Personal Note:

Programming Languages / Compilers

Name: Nicholas Kidd
Email: kidd
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kidd
Area: PL
Advisor: Tom Reps
Year: 7
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Personal Note: Outside of school, I enjoy bike riding. Sign up for the CS cycling list (contact pwells@cs)
Name: Tristan Ravitch
Email: travitch
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~travitch
Area: Programming Languages
Advisor: Ben Liblet
Year: Second
Hometown: Lancaster, PA
Personal Note: Official Field Crumpets Committee Chairman

Systems

Name: Nitin Agrawal
Email:
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nitina
Area: Systems
Advisor: Andrea and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
Year: 6
Hometown: Noida, India
Personal Note:
Name: Joe Meehan
Email: jmeehean
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmeehean
Area: Systems
Advisor: Miron Livny
Year: 6th
Hometown: Merrill, Wisconsin
Personal Note:
Name: Nate Rosenblum
Email: nater
Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nater
Area: Systems
Advisor: Bart Miller
Year: 4th
Hometown: Portland, Oregon
Personal Note:

Theory