Graduate Alumni
2009
Paul Calamia
Adviser: Funkhouser, ThomasDegree: PhD, 2009 , Thesis: Advances in Edge-Diffraction Modeling for Virtual-Acoustic Simulations (thesis)
Tony Capra
Adviser: Singh, MonaDegree: PhD, 2009 , Thesis: Algorithms for the Identification of Functional Sites in Proteins (thesis)
Eden Chlamtac
Adviser: Arora, SanjeevDegree: PhD, 2009 , Thesis: Non-Local Analysis of SDP-Based Approximation Algorithms (thesis)
John Halderman
Adviser: Felten, EdwardDegree: PhD, 2009 , Thesis: Investigating Security Failures and their Causes: An Analytic Approach to Computer Security (thesis)
2008
Chad Myers
Adviser: Olga TroyanskayaDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Context-sensitive Methods for Learning from Genomic Data (thesis)
Matthew Bridges
Adviser: August, DavidDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: The VELOCITY Compiler: Extracting Efficient Multicore Execution from Legacy Sequential Codes (thesis)
Frances Perry
Adviser: Walker, DavidDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Reasoning about Software in the Presence of Transient Faults (thesis)
Zafer Barutcuoglu
Adviser: Schapire, RobertDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Using Structural Information in Machine Learning Applications (thesis)
Guilherme Ottoni
Adviser: August, DavidDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Global Instruction Scheduling for Multi-Threaded Architectures (thesis)
Philip Shilane
Adviser: Funkhouser, ThomasDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Shape Distinction for 3D Object Retrieval
Yury Makarychev
Adviser: Charikar, MosesDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Approximation Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (thesis)
Matthew Hibbs
Adviser: Olga TroyanskayaDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Analysis and Visualization of Large-Scale Gene Expression Microarray Compendia (thesis)
Konstantin Makarychev
Adviser: Charikar, MosesDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Quadratic Forms on Graphs and their Applications
Limin Jia
Adviser: Walker, DavidDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Linear Logic and Imperative Programming
Ge Wang
Adviser: Cook, PerryDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: The ChucK Audio Programming Language "A Strongly-timed and On-the-Fly Environ/mentality"
Bolei Guo
Adviser: August, DavidDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Shape Analysis with Inductive Recursion Synthesis (thesis)
Joshua Podolak
Adviser: Rusinkiewicz, SzymonDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: The Symmetry Transform and its Applications (thesis)
Ruoming Pang
Adviser: Peterson, LarryDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Towards Understanding Application Semantics of Network Traffic (thesis)
Seshadhri Comandur
Adviser: Chazelle, BernardDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Sublinear Distributed Reconstruction (thesis)
Neil Vachharajani
Adviser: August, DavidDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Intelligent Speculation for Pipelined Multithreading (thesis)
Benedict Brown
Adviser: Rusinkiewicz, SzymonDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Registration and Matching of Large Geometric Datasets for Cultural Heritage Applications (thesis)
Erich Schmidt
Adviser: Jaswinder SinghDegree: PhD, 2008 , Thesis: Query-Independent Ranking for Large-Scale Persistent Search Systems
2007
Mark McCann
Adviser: Nicholas PippengerDegree: PhD, 2007 , Thesis: Memory in Media with Manufacturing Faults (thesis)