PH.D's Granted: September 1997 - August 1998

Gareth Bestor

Thesis Title: Recovering Feature and Observer Position by Projected Error Refinement
Advisor: C. Dyer
Current Employment: Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Paul Bradley

Thesis Title: Mathematical Programming Approaches to Machine Learning and Data Mining
Advisor: O. Mangasarian
Current Employment: Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington

Scott Breach

Thesis Title: Design and Evaluation of a Multiscalar Processor
Advisor: G. Sohi

Satish Chandra

Thesis Title: Software Techniques for Customizable Distributed Shared Memory
Advisor: J. Larus
Current Employment: AT&T Research, Naperville, Illinois

Sun Chung

Thesis Title: Parallel Design and Implementation of Graph Algorithms for Minimum Spanning Tree, List Ranking and Root Finding
Advisor: A. Condon
Current Employment: University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse

Manuvir Das

Thesis Title: Partial Evaluation Using Dependence Graphs
Advisor: T. Reps
Current Employment: Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington

Babak Falsafi

Thesis Title: Fine-Grain Protocol Execution Mechanisms and Scheduling Policies
Advisor: D. Wood
Current Employment: Purdue University

Minos Garofalakis

Thesis Title: Query Scheduling and Optimization in Parallel and Multimedia Databases
Advisor: Y. Ioannidis
Current Employment: AT&T Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey

Stefanos Kaxiras

Thesis Title: Static, Dynamic, Address-Based and Instruction-Based Optimizations for High-Performance Scalable Shared Memory
Advisor: J. Goodman
Current Employment: AT&T Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey

Shubhendu Mukherjee

Thesis Title: A Simulation Study of Network Interface Design Alternatives
Advisor: M. Hill
Current Employment: Compaq, Shrewsburg, Massachusetts

Subbarao Palacharla

Thesis Title: Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processors
Advisor: J. Smith
Current Employment: Intel, Portland, Oregon

Jignesh Patel

Thesis Title: Efficient Database Support for Spatial Applications
Advisor: D. DeWitt
Current Employment: NCR, Madison, Wisconsin

Ioannis Schoinas

Thesis Title: Fine-Grain Distributed Shared Memory on clusters of Workstations
Advisor: M. Hill
Current Employment: Intel, Beaverton, Oregon

Steven Seitz

Thesis Title: Image-Based Tranformation of Three-Dimensional Scenes
Advisor: C. Dyer
Current Employment: Carnegie-Mellon University

John Shafer

Thesis Title: Parallelization of Data Mining Operations
Advisor: M. Carey
Current Employment: IBM, San Jose, California

Michael Siff

Thesis Title: Techniques for Software Renovation
Advisor: T. Reps
Current Employment: Wesleyan University

T.N. Vijaykumar

Thesis Title: Compiling for the Multiscalar Architecture
Advisor: G. Sohi
Current Employment: Purdue University

John Watrous

Thesis Title: Space-Bounded Quantum Computation
Advisor: E. Bach
Current Employment: University of Montreal

Yihong Zhao

Thesis Title: Performance Issues of Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis
Advisor: J. Naughton
Current Employment: Informix, Menlo Park, California