Graduating PhDs in 2011-2012
Mohammad Al-Fares
Advisor: Amin Vahdat
Dissertation Title: Scalable, Adaptive and Extensible Data Center Networks
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, California
home page Email: malfares at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Dan Amelang
Advisor: Jim Hollan
Dissertation Topic: Design, Implementation and Application of the Nile Programming Language
Current Employment: Viewpoints Research Institute; Glendale, CA; Research Associate
home page Email: daniel dot amelang at gmail dot com
Raid Ayoub
Advisor: Tajana Rosing
Dissertation Title: Temperature and Cooling Management in Computing Systems
Current Employment: Intel Research
home page Email: rzayoub at gmail dot com
Boris Babenko
Advisor: Serge Belongie
Dissertation Topic: Training Discriminative Computer Vision Models with Weak Supervision
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: bbabenko at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Garo Bournoutian
Advisor: Alex Orailoglu
Dissertation Topic: Dynamic, Application-Aware Enhancement Techniques for Embedded Mobile Processors
Preferred Employment: Industry and/or Academic (teaching)
home page Email: garo at ucsd dot edu
Stephen Checkoway
Advisor: Hovav Shacham
Dissertation Topic: Computer Security
Preferred Employment: Academia: Tenure Track
home page Email: s at ucsd dot edu
Mingjing Chen
Advisor: Alex Orailoglu
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: Broadcom; Staff IC Design Engineer
home page Email: mjchen at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Youngmin Cho
Advisor: Lawrence Saul
Dissertation Topic: Kernel Methods for Deep Learning
Preferred Employment: Industry or Academia
home page Email: yoc002 at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Joel Coburn
Advisor: Rajesh Gupta & Steven Swanson
Dissertation Topic: Transaction Support for Next-Generation, Non-Volatile Memories
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: joel at ucsd dot edu
Elio Damaggio
Advisor: Alin Deutsch & Victor VianuAlin Deutsch
Dissertation Topic: Verification of Business Process Specifications With Arithmetic and Data Dependencies
Current Employment: Microsoft, Program Manager
home page Email: elio at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Barry Demchak
Advisor: Ingolf Krueger
Dissertation Topic: Policy Driven Development
Preferred Employment: Unknown
home page Email: bdemchak at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Matt DeVuyst
Advisor: Dean Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Efficient Use of Execution Resources in Multi-Core Processor Architectures
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: mdevuyst at gmail dot com
Frederic Doucet
Advisor: Rajesh Gupta & Ingolf Krueger
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
home page Email: fdoucet at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Peng Du
Advisor: Chung Cheng
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
Email: pedu at ucsd dot edu
Catherine Galleguillos
Advisor: Serge Belongie
Dissertation Title: Beyond Appearance Features: Contextual Modeling for Object Recognition
Current Employment: Computer Vision Scientist; HP; San Diego, CA
home page Email: cgallegu at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Geoffrey Gamble
Advisor: Robert Hecht-Nielsen & Gary Cottrell
Dissertation Topic: The Control of Movement by the Vertebrate Nervous System
Preferred Employment: Industry or Research Labs
Email: ggamble at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Saturnino Garcia
Advisor: Michael B. Taylor
Dissertation Topic: Dynamic Program Analysis for Multicore Programming
Preferred Employment: Tenure-Track Academic
home page Email: sat at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Toshiya Hachisuka
Advisor: Henrik Wann Jensen
Dissertation Title: Robust Light Transport Simulation using Progressive Density Estimation
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science; Aarhus University
home page Email: toshiya at cs dot au dot dk
To-Ju Huang
Advisor: Ingolf Krueger
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
Email: t3huang at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Donghwan Jeon
Advisor: Michael Taylor
Dissertation Topic: Predicting Parallel Speedup Estimation
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: djeon at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Md Kamruzzaman
Advisor: Dean Tullsen & Steven Swanson
Dissertation Title: Architecture Aware Software Techniques to Improve Application Performance in Parallel Systems
Preferred Employment: Research Labs
home page Email: mkamruzz at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Chris Kanich
Advisor: Geoff Voelker & Stefan Savage
Dissertation Topic: Inferring Underlying Economic Properties of Internet Scams by Infiltrating the Scammer’s Infrastructure.
Preferred Employment: Academia: Tenure Track
home page Email: ckanich at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Han Suk Kim
Advisor: Jurgen Schulze
Dissertation Title: Visual Exploration in Volume Rendering for Multi-Channel Data
Current Employment: Apple Inc.; Cupertino, CA, Software Engineer
home page Email: hskim at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Sangtae Kim
Advisor: Pavel Pevzner
Dissertation Topic: Computational Mass Spectrometry
Preferred Employment: Academia
home page Email: sak008 at ucsd dot edu
Vasileios Kontorinis
Advisor: Dean Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Adaptive Architecture for Peak Power Management
Preferred Employment: Research Labs / Industry
home page Email: vkontori at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Kaisen Lin
Advisor: Rajesh Gupta
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
home page Email: kal004 at ucsd dot edu
Wan-Yen Lo
Advisor: Henrik Jensen & Matthias Zwicker
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
Email: walo at ucsd dot edu
Dionysios Logothetis
Advisor: Kenneth Yocum
Dissertation Title: Architectures for Stateful Data-intensive Analytics
Current Employment: Associate Researcher, Telefonica Research; Barcelona, Spain
home page Email: dlogothetis at cs dot ucsd dot edu
William Matthews
Advisor: Russell Impagliazzo & Mohan Paturi
Dissertation Title: A Satisfiability Algorithm for Constant Depth Boolean Circuits with Unbounded Fan-In Gates
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, California, Software Engineer
home page Email: wgmatthews at cs dot ucsd dot edu
John C. McCullough
Advisor: Alex C. Snoeren
Dissertation Topic: Energy Efficiency and Distributed Systems
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: jmccullo at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Brian McFee
Advisor: Gert Lanckriet
Dissertation Topic: Learning Algorithms and Applications of Music Similarity
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: bmcfee at cs dot ucsd
Marti Motoyama
Advisor: Stefan Savage, George Varghese, & Geoffery M. Voelker
Dissertation Topic: Understanding the Role of Outsourced Labor in Web Service Abuse
Current Employment: Fitbit; San Francisco, CA, Software Engineer
home page Email: mmotoyama at gmail dot com
Catherine Olschanowsky
Advisor: Allan Snavely
Dissertation Title: HPC Application Address Stream Compression, Replay and Scaling
Current Employment: Colorado State University
Email: crmills at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Shengjun Pan
Advisor: Alon Orlitsky (ECE)
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
home page Email: s1pan at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Albert Park
Advisor: Roger Levy (LING)
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
Email: yapark at ucsd dot edu
Qian Peng
Advisor: Pavel Pevzner
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
home page Email: qpeng at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Leo Porter
Advisor: Dean M. Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Single Thread Performance in the Multi-core Era
Current Employment: Skidmore College, Assistant Professor
home page Email: leporter at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Patrick M. Rondon
Advisor: Ranjit Jhala
Dissertation Topic: Program Verification via Liquid Type Inference
Preferred Employment: Academia: Tenure Track or Industry
home page Email: prondon at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Shervin Sharifi
Advisor: Tajana Rosing
Dissertation Title: Accurate Temperature Sensing and Efficient Dynamic Thermal Management in MPSoCs
Current Employment: Staff Engineer, SoC Architect Qualcomm
home page Email: shsharif at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Amirali Shayan Arani
Advisor: Chung Cheng
Dissertation Title: System Level Design of Power Distribution Network for Mobile Computing Platforms
Current Employment: Staff Engineer; Qualcomm; San Diego, CA
Email: ashayana at ucsd dot edu
Michael Benjamin Stepp
Advisor: Sorin Lerner
Dissertation Title: Equality Saturation: Engineering Challenges and Applications
Current Employment: Google; Software Engineer, Mountain View CA
home page Email: mstepp at ucsd dot edu
Ross Tate
Advisor: Sorin Lerner
Dissertation Title: Effects in Programming Languages
Current Employment: Academia: Tenure-Track
home page Email: rtate at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Cynthia Taylor
Advisor: Joe Pasquale
Dissertation Topic: Networked Device Drivers: Supporting Remote I/O
Preferred Employment: Academia, Teaching
home page Email: cbtaylor at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Matthew Tong
Advisor: Garrison Cottrell
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Preferred Employment: TBD
Email: mhtong at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Cuong Tran
Advisor: Mohan Trivedi (ECE)
Dissertation Topic: Vision-Based Human Body Pose Estimation and Activity Analysis at Different Levels of Details for Interactive Applications
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: cutran at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Alexander Tsiatas
Advisor: Fan Chung Graham
Dissertation Title: Diffusion and Clustering on Large Graphs
Preferred Employment: Industry or Academia, SF Bay Area
home page Email: atsiatas at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Didem Unat
Advisor: Scott B. Baden
Dissertation Topic: Mint Programming Model for Emerging Heterogeneous Archtectures
Preferred Employment: Research and Development
home page Email: dunat at ucsd dot edu
Nakul Verma
Advisor: Sanjoy Dasgupta
Dissertation Title: Learning on data with low intrinsic dimension.
Preferred Employment: Industry Research
home page Email: naverma at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Avinash Vyas
Advisor: Alin Deutsch
Dissertation Topic: Policy-aware Sender Anonymity in Location-based Services
Current Employment: Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
home page Email: avyas at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Meg Walraed-Sullivan
Advisor: Amin Vahat & Keith Marzullo
Dissertation Topic: Distributed Systems Theory as Applied to Large Scale Network Fabrics
Current Employment: Academia: Tenure; Post-Doc First
home page Email: meg at cs dot ucsd dot edu
So Yamaoka
Advisor: Falso Kuester
Dissertation Title: Visual Analytics in Scalable Visualization Environments
Current Employment: HiperWorks; San Diego, CA, Software Engineer
Email: syamaoka at ucsd dot edu
Wenbo Zhao
Advisor: Fan Chung Graham
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: w3zhao at eng dot ucsd dot edu
