PH.D's Granted: September 1994 - August 1995

Stephen Billups

Thesis Title: Algorithms for Complementarity Problems and Generalized Equations
Advisor: M. Ferris
Current Employment: Dept. of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Denver

Gregory Brewster

Thesis Title: The Impact of Propagation Delays on the Performance of Distributed Queue Dual Bus Networks
Advisor: M. Vernon
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Kurt Brown

Thesis Title: Goal-Oriented Memory Allocation in Database Management Systems
Advisor: M. Carey
Current Employment: IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, San Jose, CA

Chunhui Chen

Thesis Title: Smoothing Methods in Mathematical Programming
Advisor: O. Mangasarian
Current Employment: Continental Airlines, Houston, TX

Michael Cheng

Thesis Title: Visual Exploration of Large Amounts of Record-Based Sequence Data
Advisor: M. Livny
Current Employment: IBM, Austin, TX

Craig Freedman

Thesis Title: Spiffi--A General Purpose Scalable Parallel File System
Advisor: D. DeWitt
Current Employment: Informix Software, Portland, OR

Eben Haber

Thesis Title: Visual Schema Management for Database Systems
Advisor: Y. Ioannidis
Current Employment: Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA

Joseph Hellerstein

Thesis Title: Optimization and Execution Techniques for Queries with Expensive Methods
Advisor: J. Naughton
Current Employment: Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley

William Hibbard

Thesis Title: A Lattice Theory of Data Display
Advisor: C. Dyer
Current Employment: Space Sciences and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Kiriakos Kutulakos

Thesis Title: Exploring Objects by Controlling the Point of Observation
Advisor: C. Dyer
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Walter Ludwig

Thesis Title: Algorithms for Scheduling Malleable and Nonmalleable Parallel Tasks
Advisor: E. Bach

Richard Maclin

Thesis Title: Learning from Instruction and Experience: Methods for Incorporating Procedural Domain Theories into Knowledge-Based Neural Networks
Advisor: J. Shavlik
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Manish Mehta

Thesis Title: Resource Allocation in Parallel Shared-Nothing Parallel Database Systems
Advisor: D. DeWitt
Current Employment: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

David Opitz

Thesis Title: An Anytime Approach to Connectionist Theory Refinement: Refining the Topologies of Knowledge-Based Neural Networks
Advisor: J. Shavlik
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Mikhail Solodov

Thesis Title: Nonmonotone and Perturbed Optimization
Advisor: O. Mangasarian
Current Employment: Instituto de Matematica Pura e Applicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Madhusudhan Talluri

Thesis Title: Use of Superpages and Subblocking in the Address Translation Hierarchy
Advisor: M. Hill
Current Employment: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA

Odysseas Tsatalos

Thesis Title: The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence
Advisor:M. Solomon
Current Employment: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

Janet Wiener

Thesis Title: Algorithms for Loading Object-Oriented Databases
Advisor: J. Naughton
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Golbon Zakeri

Thesis Title: Multi-Coordination Methods for Parallel Solution of Block-Angular Programs
Advisor: R. Meyer
Current Employment: Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand