Graduating PhDs in 2011-2012
Mohammad Al-Fares
Advisor: Amin Vahdat
Dissertation Title: A Scalable, Adaptive, and Extensible Data Center Network Architecture
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, California; Software Engineer
home page Email: malfares at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Raid Ayoub
Advisor: Tajana Rosing
Dissertation Title: Temperature and Cooling Management in Computing Systems
Current Employment: Intel; Hillboro, Oregon; Research Scientist
home page Email: rzayoub at gmail dot com
Boris Babenko
Advisor: Serge Belongie
Dissertation Title: Training Discriminative Computer Vision Models with Weak Supervision
Current Employment: Anchovi Labs, Inc.; San Diego, CA; President
home page Email: bbabenko at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Natalie Castellana
Advisor: Vineet Bafna
Dissertation Title: Proteogenomics: Applications of Mass Spectrometry at the Interface of Genomics and Proteomics
Current Employment: Digital Proteomics; San Diego, CA; Chief Technology Officer
home page Email: ncastell at ucsd dot edu
Stephen Checkoway
Advisor: Hovav Shacham
Dissertation Title: Low-Level Software Security: Exploiting Memory Safety Vulnerabilities and Assumptions
Current Employment: John Hopkins University; Baltimore, MD; Asst. Research Professor
home page Email: s at ucsd dot edu
Youngmin Cho
Advisor: Lawrence Saul
Dissertation Title: Kernel Methods for Deep Learning
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; GSR
home page Email: yoc002 at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Joel Coburn
Advisor: Rajesh Gupta & Steven Swanson
Dissertation Title: Providing Fast and Safe Access to 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 Title: Verification of Business Process Specifications with Arithmetic and Data Dependencies
Current Employment: Microsoft; Seattle, WA; Program Manager
home page Email: elio at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Matt DeVuyst
Advisor: Dean Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Efficient Use of Execution Resources in Multicore Processor Architectures
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: mdevuyst at gmail dot com
Peng Du
Advisor: Chung Cheng
Dissertation Title: Power Network Verification and Optimization at Planning Stages
Current Employment: Google; San Jose CA; Software Engineer
Email: pedu at ucsd dot edu
Toshiya Hachisuka
Advisor: Henrik Wann Jensen
Dissertation Title: Robust Light Transport Simulation Using Progressive Density Estimation
Current Employment: Aarhus University; Denmark; Assistant Professor
home page Email: toshiya at cs dot au dot dk
Diane Hu
Advisor: Lawrence Saul
Dissertation Title: Probabilistic Topic Models for Automatic Harmonic Analysis of Music
Preferred Employment: TBA
home page Email: dhu at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Chris Kanich
Advisor: Geoff Voelker & Stefan Savage
Dissertation Title: Characterizing Internet Scams through Underground Infrastructure Infiltration
Current Employment: University of Illinois; Chicago; Assistant Professor
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 Title: Generating Functions of Tandem Mass Spectra and Their Applications for Peptide Identifications
Current Employment: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland, WA; Staff Scientist
home page Email: sak008 at ucsd dot edu
Kaisen Lin
Advisor: Rajesh Gupta
Dissertation Title: Toward a Sensor-Actuation Software Platform
Preferred Employment: TBA
home page Email: kal004 at ucsd dot edu
Wan-Yen Lo
Advisor: Henrik Jensen & Matthias Zwicker
Dissertation Title: Interactive Motion Planning with Motion Capture Data
Current Employment: Google Switzerland; Zurich, Switzerland; Software Engineer
Email: walo at ucsd dot edu
Dionysios Logothetis
Advisor: Kenneth Yocum
Dissertation Title: Architectures for Stateful Data- intensive Analytics
Current Employment: Telefonica Research; Barcelona, Spain; Associate Researcher
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
Brian McFee
Advisor: Gert Lanckriet
Dissertation Title: More like this: Machine Learning Approaches to Music Similarity
Preferred Employment: Industry
home page Email: bmcfee at cs dot ucsd
Marti Motoyama
Advisor: Stefan Savage, George Varghese, & Geoffery M. Voelker
Dissertation Title: 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; Fort Collins, CO; Post Doc.
Email: crmills at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Shengjun Pan
Advisor: Alon Orlitsky (ECE)
Dissertation Title: On the Theory and Application of Pattern Maximum Likelihood
Current Employment: Experian; San Diego CA; Scientist
home page Email: s1pan at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Qian Peng
Advisor: Pavel Pevzner
Dissertation Title: Computational Methods and Analyses in Comparative Genomics and Epigenomics
Current Employment: Research Associate, Scripps Research Institutue, San Diego CA
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; Saratoga Springs, NY; Assistant Professor
home page Email: leporter 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: SoC Architect Qualcomm; San Diego, CA; Staff Engineer
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: Qualcomm; San Diego, CA; Staff Engineer
Email: ashayana at ucsd dot edu
Michael Benjamin Stepp
Advisor: Sorin Lerner
Dissertation Title: Equality Saturation: Engineering Challenges and Applications
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer,
home page Email: mstepp at ucsd dot edu
Cynthia Taylor
Advisor: Joe Pasquale
Dissertation Title: The Networked Device Driver Architecture: A Solution for Remote I/O
Current Employment: Oberlin College; Oberlin, OH; Assistant Professor
home page Email: cbtaylor at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Alexander Tsiatas
Advisor: Fan Chung Graham
Dissertation Title: Diffusion and Clustering on Large Graphs
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
home page Email: atsiatas at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Didem Unat
Advisor: Scott B. Baden
Dissertation Title: Domain-Specific Translator and Optimizer for Massive On-Chip Parallelism
Current Employment: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Berkeley, CA; Post Doc. Fellow
home page Email: dunat at ucsd dot edu
Avinash Vyas
Advisor: Alin Deutsch
Dissertation Title: Policy- Aware Sender Anonymity in Location-Based Services
Current Employment: Alcatel-Lucent; Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs
home page Email: avyas at cs dot ucsd dot edu
So Yamaoka
Advisor: Falso Kuester
Dissertation Title: Visual Analytics in Scalable Visualization Environments
Current Employment: Apple Inc.; Cupertino, CA; Software Engineer
Email: syamaoka at ucsd dot edu
Wenbo Zhao
Advisor: Fan Chung Graham
Dissertation Title: Ranking and Sparsifying Edges of a Graph
Current Employment: Two Sigma Investments, LLC; New York; Software Engineer
home page Email: w3zhao at eng dot ucsd dot edu
