PH.D's Granted: September 1995 - August 1997

Joseph Albert

Thesis Title: Schema and Data Integration in Heterogeneous Multidatabase Systems
Advisor: R. Ramakrishnan
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University

Todd Austin

Thesis Title: Hardware and Software Mechanisms for Reducing Load Latency
Advisor: G. Sohi
Current Employment: Intel, Hillsboro, OR

Ioannis Christou

Thesis Title: Distributed Genetic Algorithms for Partitioning Uniform Grids
Advisor: R. Meyer
Current Employment: Transquest Information Solutions, Holmdel, NJ

Mark Craven

Thesis Title: Extracting Comprehensible Models from Trained Neural Networks
Advisor: J. Shavlik
Current Employment: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Susan Hert

Thesis Title: Computational Geometry for Multiple-Robot Motion Planning
Advisor: V. Lumelsky
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, Knox College

R. Bruce Irvin

Thesis Title: Performance Measurement Tools for High-Level Parallel Programming Languages
Advisor: B. Miller
Current Employment: Informix Software, Portland

Steven Kurlander

Thesis Title: Approaches to Interprocedural Register Allocation
Advisor: C. Fischer
Current Employment: Mathematical and Computing Research Group, Oxford University

Alvin Lebeck

Thesis Title: Tools and Techniques for Memory System Design and Analysis
Advisor: D. Wood
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University

Mark McAuliffe

Thesis Title: Storage Management Methods for Object Database Systems
Advisor: M. Solomon
Current Employment: DataXel Corporation

Jussi Myllymaki

Thesis Title: Concurrent Data Streams with Heterogeneous Devices
Advisor: M. Livny
Current Employment: Union Bank of Switzerland

Robert Olsen

Thesis Title: Using Dynamic Packet Scheduling to Support Services with Delay as the QOS Metric
Advisor: L. Landweber
Current Employment: Cisco Systems, San Jose

Harish Patil

Thesis Title: Efficient Program Monitoring Techniques
Advisor: C. Fischer
Current Employment: Hewlett Packard, Chelmsford, MA

Dionisios Pnevmatikatos

Thesis Title: Incorporating Guarded Execution in Existing Instruction Sets
Advisor: G. Sohi
Current Employment: Institute of Computer Science, Crete

Viswanath Poosala

Thesis Title: Histogram-Based Estimation Techniques in Database Systems
Advisor: Y. Ioannidis
Current Employment: Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

James Pruyne

Thesis Title: Resource Management Services for Parallel Applications
Advisor:M. Livny
Current Employment: Hewlett Packard Research Laboratory

Viresh Ratnakar

Thesis Title: Quality-Controlled Lossy Image Compression
Advisor: M. Livny
Current Employment: Epson Palo Alto Laboratory

Steven Reinhardt

Thesis Title: Mechanisms for Distributed Shard Memory
Advisor: D. Wood
Current Employment: Dept. of EE & CS, University of Michigan

Bradley Richards

Thesis Title: Memory Systems for Parallel Programming
Advisor: J. Larus
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College

Bradley Rubin

Thesis Title: Information Retrieval Using a Combined Object-Oriented Database/File System
Advisor: J. Naughton
Current Employment: IBM, Rochester, MN

Praveen Seshadri

Thesis Title: Management of Sequence Data
Advisor: R. Ramakrishnan
Current Employment: Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University

Ambuj Shatdal

Thesis Title: Architectural Considerations for Parallel Query Evaluation Algorithms
Advisor: J. Naughton
Current Employment: NCR, San Diego

Ramakrishnan Srikant

Thesis Title: Fast Algorithms for Miing Association Rules and Sequential Patterns
Advisor: J. Naughton
Current Employment: IBM Almaden Research Center

Shivakumar Venkataraman

Thesis Title: Global Memory Management for Multi-Server Database Systems
Advisor: J. Naughton
Current Employment: IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory

Guhan Viswanathan

Thesis Title: New Techniques for Compiling Data-Parallel Languages
Advisor: J. Larus
Current Employment: Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA

Markos Zaharioudakis

Thesis Title: Highly Concurrent Cache Consistency for Client-Server OODB Systems
Advisor: M. Carey
Current Employment: IBM Almaden Research Center

Armand Zakarian

Thesis Title: Nonlinear Jacobi and Epsilon Relaxation Methods for Parallel Network
Advisor: R. Meyer
Current Employment: Transquest Information Solutions, Holmdel, NJ

Tian Zhang

Thesis Title: Data Clustering and Density Estimation for Very Large Datasets Plus Applications
Advisor: R. Ramakrishnan
Current Employment: IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory