Jeannie Albrecht
Advisor: Amin Vahdat and Alex Snoeren
Dissertation Title: Distributed Application Management
Current Employment: Williams College; Williamstown, MA; Assistant Professor -Tenure Track
home page jalbrecht@cs.ucsd.edu
John Bellardo
Advisor: Stefan Savage
Dissertation Title: Secure and Efficient Wireless Networks
Current Employment: California Polytechnic State University; San Luis Obispo, Ca; Assistant Professor tenure; www.csc.calpoly.edu.
home page bellardo@csc.calpoly.edu
Kristin Branson
Advisor: Serge Belongie
Dissertation Title: Tracking Multiple Mice through Severe Occlusions
Current Employment: Caltech University; Pasadena, Ca; Postdoc in Electrical Engineering
home page kbranson@cs.ucsd.edu
Hongyu Chen
Advisor: C.K. Cheng
Dissertation Title: On-Chip Interconnect Architectures: Perspectives of Layout, Circuits, and Systems
Current Employment: Synopsys, Inc.; Sunnyvale, CA; Senior Research and Design Engineer
home page hchen@cs.ucsd.edu
Weihaw Chuang
Advisor: Brad Calder
Dissertation Title: Maintaining Safe Memory for Security, Debugging, and Multi-Threading
Current Employment: Peakstream Inc.; Redwood Shores, CA; Technical Staff
home page wchuang@cs.ucsd.edu
Craig Donner
Advisor: Henrik Wann Jensen
Dissertation Title: Toward Realistic Image Synthesis of Scattering Materials
Current Employment: UCSD; San Diego, CA; Postgraduate Researcher
home page cdonner@cs.ucsd.edu
Douglas Harrell
Advisor: Geoffrey Voelker
Dissertation Title: Theory and Technology for Computational Narrative: An Approach to Generative and Interactive Narrative with Bases in Algebraic Semiotics and Cognitive Linguistics
Current Employment: Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA; Assist Professor - tenure track
home page redfox@cs.ucsd.edu
Alejandro Hevia
Advisor: Daniele Micciancio
Dissertation Title: Anonymity and Independence in Multiparty Protocols
Current Employment: University of Chile; Santiago, Chile; Assistant Professor
home page ahevia@cs.ucsd.edu
Yuanfang Hu
Advisor: Chung-Kuan Cheng
Dissertation Title: On-Chip Interconnection Architecture Optimization Using A Multicommodity Flow Approach
Current Employment: Mentor Graphics; San Jose, CA; Senior Software Engineer
yhu@cs.ucsd.edu
Hector Jasso
Advisor: Garrison Cottrell
Dissertation Title: A Reinforcement Learning Model of Gaze Following
Current Employment: SDSC-UCSD; La Jolla, CA; Researcher
home page hjasso@cs.ucsd.edu
David Kauchak
Advisor: Charles Elkan
Dissertation Title: Contributions to Research on Machine Translation
Current Employment: Adchemy Inc; Redwood City, CA; Research Scientist and Stanford University; Palo Alto, CA; Assistant Professor- Summer School
home page dkauchak@cs.ucsd.edu
Rakesh Kumar
Advisor: Dean Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Holistic Design for Multi-Core Architectures
Current Employment: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chicago, Il; Assistant Professor tenure-track
home page rakumar@cs.ucsd.edu
Jeremy Lau
Advisor: Brad Calder
Dissertation Title: Predicting Performance Across Compilations
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
home page jl@cs.ucsd.edu
Jianhua Liu
Advisor: Chung Cheng
Dissertation Topic: Contemporary Data Path Design Optimization
Current Employment: Altera; San Jose, CA; Software Engineer
home page j11liu@cs.ucsd.edu
Jia Mao
Advisor: Ron Graham
Dissertation Title: On the Design and Worst-Case Analysis of Certain Interactive and Approximation Algorithms
Current Employment: Goldman Sachs; New York, NY; Strategist - Associate
home page jiamao@cs.ucsd.edu
Sean Peisert
Advisor: Sidney Karin
Dissertation Title: A Programming Model for Automated Decompostition on Heterogeneous Clusters of Multiprocessors
Current Employment: UC Davis; Davis, CA; PostDoc
homepage peisert@sdsc.edu
Erez Perelman
Advisor: Brad Calder
Dissertation Title: Characterizing Time Varying Program Behavior for Efficient Simulation
Current Employment: Cypress Semi Conductors; San Diego, CA; PHD Coop
home page eperelma@cs.ucsd.edu
Kiran Tati
Advisor: Geoffrey Voelker
Dissertation Title: Exploiting Heterogeneity in Peer-To-Peer Systems
Current Employment: VM Ware; Palo Alto, CA; Technical Staff
home page ktati@cs.ucsd.edu
Xinran (Ryan) Wu
Advisor: Andrew Chien
Dissertation Title: Distributed Fair Bandwidth Sharing for Lambda Networks
Current Employment: Microsoft; Redmond, WA; Sr. Software Design Engineer
home page xwu@cs.ucsd.edu
Huaxia Xia
Advisor: Andrew Chien
Dissertation Title: RobuSTore: A Distributed Storage Architecture with Robust and High Performance
Current Employment: Google Inc.; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
home page hxia@cs.ucsd.edu
Xu Xu
Advisor: Andrew B. Kahng
Dissertation Title: Optimizations of Manufacturability and Manufacturing in Nanometer-Era VLSI
Current Employment: Magma Design Automation; San Jose, CA; Consulting Staff
xuxu@cs.ucsd.edu
Xianan (Shannon) Zhang
Advisor: Keith Marzullo
Dissertation Title: Fault-Toleramt Grid Services
Current Employment: VM Ware; Palo Alto, CA; Technical Staff
home page xzhang@cs.ucsd.edu
Haikun Zhu
Advisor: Chung Cheng
Dissertation Title: High-Performance Low-Power VLSI Design
Current Employment: Qualcomm Inc; San Diego, CA; Senior Design Engineer
home page hazhu@ucsd.edu