PhD Dissertators

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Carolyn Allex

Thesis Title: Adapting Trained Neural Networks when their Task Environment Changes: Case Studies in DNA Sequencing
Advisor: J. Shavlik
Areas of Interest: computational biology, DNA sequencing, artificial intelligence, knowledge transfer, machine learning, neural networks

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Gareth Bestor

Thesis Title: Structure from Motion - The Inverse Projection Problem
Advisor: C. Dyer
Areas of Interest: artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics

Paul Bradley

Thesis Title: Mathematical Programming Approaches to Machine Learning
Advisor: O. Mangasarian
Areas of Interest: mathematical programming, machine learning, neural networks

Scott Breach

Thesis Title: Design and Evaluation of a Multiscalar Processor
Advisor: G. Sohi
Areas of Interest: computer architecture and instruction-level parallelism

Douglas Burger

Thesis Title: Memory Hierarchies for Future Microprocessors
Advisor: J. Goodman
Areas of Interest: computer architecture, memory systems, parallel discrete-event simulation, multiprocessor operating systems

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Satish Chandra

Thesis Title: Software Techniques for Customizable Distributed Shared Memory
Advisor: J. Larus
Areas of Interest: programming languages, compilers parallel computer systems

Su-Hui Chiang

Thesis Title: High-Performance Processor and Memory Allocation for Parallel Computers
Advisor: M. Vernon
Areas of Interest: performance evaluation, multiprocessor scheduling

Trishiul Chilimbi

Thesis Title: Cache-Conscious Data Structures
Advisor: J. Larus
Areas of Interest: programming languages, compilers, and architectures for parallel computing

Sun Chung

Thesis Title: Parallel Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms
Advisor: A. Condon
Areas of Interest: parallel computation, theoretical computer science

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Manuvir Das

Thesis Title: Partial Evaluation using Dependence Graphs
Advisor: T. Reps
Areas of Interest: programming languages and compilers, database

Prasad Deshpande

Thesis Title: Efficient Database Support for OLAP Applications
Advisor: J. Naughton
Areas of Interest: OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing), data warehousing, parallel systems

William Donaldson

Advisor: R. Meyer
Areas of Interest: math programming

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Babak Falsafi

Thesis Title: Scheduling Communication on a Multiprocessor Node Parallel Machine
Advisor: D. Wood
Areas of Interest: computer architecture, performance modeling

David Finton

Thesis Title: Importance-Based Feature Extraction for Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Y. Hu
Areas of Interest: machine learning, reinforcement learning, knowledge representation, feature extraction

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Minos Garofalakis

Advisor: Y. Ioannidis
Areas of Interest: resource scheduling, query optimization, and query processing in parallel and multimedia database systems

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Amy Hauth

Thesis Title: Development of Computational Algorithms and Software to Identify Biological Classes of Repetitive Elements
Advisor: D. Joseph
Areas of Interest: computational biology, analysis of DNA sequences

Jeffrey Horn

Thesis Title:Exploiting Structure in Solving Mathematical Programs
Advisor: M. Ferris
Areas of Interest: complementarity, computational geometry, molecular modelling, parallel optimization

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Navin Kabra

Thesis Title: Extensible Query Optimization and Query Optimization Techniques for Relational and Object-Relational Database Systems
Advisor: D. DeWitt
Areas of Interest: query optimization in relational and object-relational database systems, query processing, parallel database systems

Alain Kagi

Thesis Title: Mechanisms for Efficient Synchronization
Advisor: J. Goodman
Areas of Interest: computer architecture, parallel processing, performance evaluation, database systems

Karen Karavanic

Advisor: B. Miller
Areas of Interest: operating systems, performance tools for parallel programming environments

Stefanos Kaxiras

Advisor: J. Goodman
Areas of Interest: distributed vector architecture shared-memory multiprocessing, scalable coherent interface

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Andreas Moshovos

Advisor: G. Sohi
Areas of Interest: Architectures and compilation techniques for exploiting instruction level parallelism, VLSI design and operating systems

Shubu Mukherjee

Thesis Title:A Simulation Study of Network Interface Design Alternatives
Advisor: M. Hill
Areas of Interest: parallel architecture, network interface, shared memory protocols

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Tia Newhall

Thesis Title:Measuring the Performance of Interpreted Code
Advisor: B. Miller
Areas of Interest: operating systems, performance tools

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Subbarao Palacharla

Thesis Title: Complexity-Effective Superscalar Microarchitectures
Advisor: J. Smith
Areas of Interest: computer architecture, processor microarchitectures, memory systems

Jignesh Patel

Thesis Title: Efficient Database Support for Spatial Applications
Advisor: D. DeWitt
Areas of Interest: geographic information systems, parallel database systems and multi-dimensional databases

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Marc Shapiro

Thesis Title: Fast and Accurate Flow-Insensitive Points-To Analysis
Advisor: S. Horwitz
Areas of Interest: programming languages, pointer analysis

Ioannis Schoinas

Thesis Title: Fine Grain Distributed Shared Memory Systems on Clusters of Workstations
Advisor: M. Hill
Areas of Interest: parallel systems, operating systems, computer systems architecture, system area networks

Steven Seitz

Thesis Title: Image-Based Transformation of Three-Dimensional Scenes
Advisor: C. Dyer
Areas of Interest:computer vision, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, motion analysis

John Shafer

Thesis Title: Parallelization of Data Mining Operators
Advisor: M. Carey
Areas of Interest: data mining, parallel systems, machine learning

Uri Shaft

Thesis Title: The Effects of Image Data Modeling on an Image DBMS
Advisor: R. Ramakrishnan
Areas of Interest: databases(image databases and multidimensional indexing), computer graphics

Michael Siff

Thesis Title: Reengineering C Programs to Produce C++ Programs
Advisor: T. Reps
Areas of Interest: modern programming languages, software reverse engineering, logic and types, theoretical computer science

James Skrentny

Thesis Title: Esthetics and Human-Computer Interaction
Advisor: L. Uhr
Areas of Interest: human-computer interaction, computer mediated interaction, user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and time arts

Suzan Stodder

Thesis Title: Parallelization of Strassen's Algorithm
Advisors: J. Strikwerda and S. Huss-Lederman
Areas of Interest: numerical analysis, parallel numerical linear algebra, women in computer science

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Athanassios Tsiolis

Thesis Title: Request Scheduling in a Multimedia Storage Server
Advisor: M. Vernon
Areas of Interest: modeling and performance analysis of computer systems, request scheduling on multimedia storage servers

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Ayse Unat

Thesis Title: Motion Understanding in Multi-resolution Framework
Advisor: L. Uhr
Areas of Interest: computer vision, human vision, artificial intelligence

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T. Vijaykumar

Thesis Title: Compiling for the Multiscalar Architecture
Advisor: G. Sohi
Areas of Interest: computer architecture

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John Watrous

Advisor: E. Bach
Areas of Interest: quantum computation, theoretical computer science

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Jie-Bing Yu

Advisor: D. DeWitt
Areas of Interest: tertiary storage support, parallel and object-oriented database management systems, geographic information systems

Liang-Yin Yu

Advisor: C. Dyer
Areas of Interest: computer vision

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Matthew Zeidenberg

Thesis Title: Learning Visual and Temporal Concepts and Lexical Semantics
Advisor: L. Uhr
Areas of Interest: artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, computational linguistics

Yihong Zhao

Advisor: J. Naughton
Areas of Interest: object-relational DBMS, OLAP, parallel databases