UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

David A. Wood

Professor

Picture of David Wood

Current Graduate Students:

Ph.D. Graduates:

  • Yasuko Watanabe
      Ph.D. December 2011
      On Power Proportional Processors
      first employment: AMD Research

  • Dan Gibson
      Ph.D. December 2010
      Scalable Cores in Chip Multiprocessors
      first employment: Google Labs (Madison)

  • Kevin Moore
      Ph.D. June 2007
      Log-based Transactional Memory
      first employment: Sun Microsystems Labs

  • Brad Beckmann

  • Alaa Alameldeen

  • Daniel Sorin
  • Babak Falsafi,
      Ph.D. December 1997,
      Fine-Grain Protocol Execution Mechanisms & Scheduling Policies on SMP Clusters,
      first employment: Purdue University.
      Ph.D. Graduates:
      • Brian Gold, PhD (first appointment at Sun Microsystems)
      • Nikos Hardavellas, PhD (first appointment at Northwestern University)
      • Jangwoo Kim, PhD (first appointment at Sun Microsystems)
      • Stephen Somogyi, PhD (first appointment at AMD)
      • Thomas Wenisch, PhD (first appointment at University of Michigan)
      • Se-Hyun Yang, PhD (first appointment at Samsung)
      • Il Park (CMU), first employment: IBM
      • Se-Hyun Yang (CMU), first employment: Samsung
      • An-Chow Lai (Purdue), first employment: Intel

  • Steve Reinhardt,
      Ph.D. December 1996,
      Mechanisms for Distributed Shared Memory,
      first employment: University of Michigan.
      Ph.D. Graduates:
      • Kevin Lim, PhD 2010. First employment: HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
      • Lisa Hsu, PhD 2009. First employment: AMD, Bellevue, WA.
      • Ali Saidi, PhD 2009. First employment: ARM, Austin, TX.
      • Nathan Binkert, PhD 2006. First employment: HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
      • Erik G. Hallnor, PhD 2004. First employment: Intel, Hillsboro, OR.
      • Steven E. Raasch, PhD 2004. First employment: Intel, Hudson, MA.
      • Wei-Fen Lin, 2002, first employment: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  • Alvin Lebeck,
      Ph.D. December 1995,
      Tools and Techniques for Memory System Design and Analysis,
      first employment: Duke University.
      Ph.D. Graduates:
      • Constantin Pistol (co-advised with C. Dwyer, Ph.D. 2009 First Employment Apple)
      • Jaidev Patwardhan (Ph.D. 2006 First Employment MIPS)
      • Tong Li (Ph.D. 2005 First Employment: Intel Research)
      • Xiaob Fan (Ph.D. 2004 First Employment: Google)
      • Heng Zeng (Ph.D. 2004 First Employment: Cisco)
      • Mithuna Thottethodi, 2002, first employment: Purdue University.
      • Srikanth Srinivasan, 2001, first employment: Intel MRL.
      • Chia-Lin Yang, 2000, first employment: National Taiwan University.

Academic Genealogy

  • Randy H. Katz
            Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1980
            Dissertation: Database Design and Translation for Multiple Data Models
  • Eugene Wong
            Ph.D. Princeton University 1959
            Dissertation: Vector Stochastic Processes in Problems of Communication Theory
  • John Bowman Thomas
            Ph.D. Stanford University 1955
            Dissertation: On the Statistical Design of Demodulation Systems for Signals in Additive Noise
  • Willis W. Harman
           
    Ph.D. Stanford University 1948
            Dissertation: Tunable Waveguide Cavity Resonators for Broadband Operation of Reflex Klystrons
  • Karl Ralph Spangenberg
            Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1937
            Dissertation:
    The Effect of Grid Current Flow Upon the Dynamic Characteristics of Vacuum Tube Power
  • William Littell Everitt
            Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1933
            Dissertation: The Calculation and Design of Alternating Current Networks Employing Triodes Operating During a Portion of a Cycle
  • Frederick Columbus Blake
            Ph.D. Columbia University 1906
            Dissertation: The Reflection and Transmission of Electric Waves by Screens of Resonators and by Grids
  • Ernest Fox Nichols
            Sc.D. Cornell University 1897
            Dissertation: Radiometric Researches in the Remote Infra-Red Spectrum
           
    <Copy of a letter regarding EF Nichols Sc.D. degree at Cornell>
  • Edward Leamington Nichols
            Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1879 Germany
            Dissertation: Ueber das von glühendem Platin ausgestrahlte Licht: Ein Beitrag zur allgemeinen Ausstrahlungslehr
            <Co-founded The Physical Review>
  • More ancestry information (collected by a distant academic cousin). This uses "academic influence", not just formal advisor/advisee relationships. For example, this lists Heinrich Rubens as a "co-parent" of Ernest Fox Nichols (Rubens was a co-author on two of the three papers that made up Nichols' thesis).

 

 
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