Marc Andrysco
Advisor: Ranjit Jhala
Dissertation Title: Towards Verified, Constant-Time Floating-Point Operations
Current Employment: Vakaros; Seattle, WA; Software Engineer
home page Email: mandrysc at ucsd dot edu
Armaiti Ardeshiricham
Advisor: Sicun Gao and Ryan Kastner
Dissertation Title: Verification and Synthesis of Information Flow Secure Hardware Designs
Current Employment: Apple Inc; Cupertino, CA; SoC Security Engineer
home page Email: armita dot ardeshiri at gmail dot com
Marco Carmosino
Advisor: Russell Impagliazzo
Dissertation Title: Connections between Complexity Lower Bounds and Meta-Computational Upper Bounds
Current Employment: Simon Fraser Univ (CS Dept); Vancouver, BC, CANADA; PostDoc
home page Email: mcamosi at ucsd dot edu
Peter Edge
Advisor: Vikas Bansal
Dissertation Title: Haplotype Assembly and Small Variant Calling using Emerging Sequencing Technologies
Current Employment: 10X Genomics; Minneapolis, MN; Applied Bioinfo Scientist
Email: edge dot peterj at gmail dot com
Cristin "Ailie" Fraser
Advisor: Scott Klemmer
Dissertation Title: Contextually Recommending Expert Help and Demonstrations to Improve Creativity
Current Employment: Adobe; Seattle, WA; Research Engineer
home page Email: ailie dot fraser8 at gmail dot com
Jiawei Gao
Advisor: Russell Impagliazzo
Dissertation Title: The Fine-Grained Complexity of Problems Expressible by First-Order Logic and Its Extensions
Current Employment: Google; Sunnyvale, CA; Software Development Engineer
home page Email: jig025 at ucsd dot edu
Quentin Gautier
Advisor: Ryan Kastner
Dissertation Title: Automatic Optimization of System Design for 3D Mapping of Archaeological Sites
Current Employment: Pretia, Inc; Tokyo, JAPAN; Computer Vision R&D Engineer
home page Email: qkgautie at ucsd dot edu
Joseph Geumlek
Advisor: Kamalika Chaudhuri
Dissertation Title: Sampling from Distributions under Differential Privacy Notions
Current Employment: TBA
Email: jgeumlek at ucsd dot edu
Nathan Goulding-Hotta
Advisor: Steven Swanson and Michael Taylor
Dissertation Title: Specialization as a Candle in the Dark Silicon Regime
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Hardware Engineer
home page Email: ngoulding at gmail dot com
Seyed Kaave Hosseini
Advisor: Shachar Lovett
Dissertation Title: Structure and Randomness in Complexity Theory and Additive Combinatorics
Current Employment: Carnegie Mellon Univ; Pittsburgh, PA; PostDoc
home page Email: skhossei at ucsd dot edu
Mohsen Imani
Advisor: Tajana Rosing
Dissertation Title: Machine Learning in IoT Systems: From Deep Learning to Hyperdimensional Computing
Current Employment: UC Irvine; Irvine, CA; Assistant Prof
home page Email: m dot imani at uci dot edu
Joseph Jaeger
Advisor: Mihir Bellare
Dissertation Title: Secure Messaging: From Systems to Theory
Current Employment: Univ of WA; Seattle, WA; PostDoc
home page Email: jsjaeger at ucsd dot edu
Wangcheng Kang
Advisor: Julian McAuley
Dissertation Title: Building Visually-aware, Dynamic, and Efficient Recommender Systems
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
home page Email: wckang at gmail dot com
Moein Khazraee
Advisor: Aaron Shalev
Dissertation Title: Reducing Development Cost for Customized Hardware Acceleration in the Cloud Infrastructure
Current Employment: MIT; Cambridge, MA; PostDoc
Email: moein at mit dot edu
Yeseong Kim
Advisor: Tajana Rosing
Dissertation Title: Efficient Learning in Heterogeneous Internet of Things Ecosystems
Current Employment: DGIST - Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (Info & Communication Eng); Daegu, South Korea; Assistant Professor
Email: myshepherd at gmail dot com
Jason Koh
Advisor: Rajesh Gupta
Dissertation Title: Metadata Models and Methods for Smart Buildings
Current Employment: Mapped Inc; Los Angeles, CA; Chief Data Scientist
Email: bk7749 at gmail dot com
Mikhail Kolmogorov
Advisor: Pavel Pevzner
Dissertation Title: Algorithms for Long-Read Assembly
Current Employment: UCSD; La Jolla, CA; PostDoc
Email: mkolmogo at ucsd dot edu
Kunal Korgaonkar
Advisor: Steve Swanson
Dissertation Title: Building Scalable Architectures Using Emerging Memory Technologies
Current Employment: TBA
home page Email: kkorgaon at ucsd dot edu
Nikolaos Koulouris
Advisor: Yannis Papakonstantino
Dissertation Title: Preventing Multiple Comparisons Problems in Data Exploration and Machine Learning
Current Employment: Amazon; Palo Alto, CA; Software Development Engineer
Email: nk dot nikoskoulouris at gmail dot com
Iljung "Sam" Kwak
Advisor: David Kriegman
Dissertation Title: Towards Solving Computer Vision Problems: Datasets, Labels, Algorithms, and Applications
Current Employment: Janelia Research Campus; Ashburn, VA; PostDoc
home page Email: iljung dot kwak at gmail dot com
Guo "Vector" Li
Advisor: Kirill Levchenko and Stefan Savage
Dissertation Title: An Empirical Analysis on Threat Intelligence: Data Characteristic and Real-World Uses
Current Employment: Google; San Francisco, CA; Software Engineer
Email: vectorpku at gmail dot com
Soohyun Nam Liao
Advisor: William Griswold and Leonard Porter
Dissertation Title: Early Identification of At-Risk Students and Understanding Their Behavior
Current Employment: Princeton Univ; Princeton, NJ; Non-Tenure Track Lecturer
home page Email: snam at ucsd dot edu
Amirsaman Memaripour
Advisor: Steven Swanson
Dissertation Title: Providing Easy to Use and Fast Programming Support for Non-Volatile Memories
Current Employment: MongoDB, Inc; New York, NY; Sr Software Engineer
home page Email: memarypour at gmail dot com
Jianmo Ni
Advisor: Julian McAuley
Dissertation Title: Personalized and Explainable Models of Text and Sequences
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
Email: nijianmo at gmail dot com
Vineet Pandey
Advisor: Scott Klemmer
Dissertation Title: Citizen-led Work using Social Computing and Procedural Guidance
Current Employment: Harvard University; Cambridge, MA; PostDoc
Email: vipandey at ucsd dot edu
Stefanos Poulis
Advisor: Sanjoy Dasgupta
Dissertation Title: TBA
Current Employment: TBA
Email: spoulis at ucsd dot edu
Andreas Prodromou
Advisor: Dean Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Achieving Accurate Predictions of Future Events under Hardware Heterogeneity
Current Employment: NVIDIA; Santa Clara, CA; Sr Architect
Email: aprodrom at ucsd dot edu
Yao Qin
Advisor: Gary Cottrell
Dissertation Title: Detecting, Diagnosing, Deflecting and Designing Adversarial Attacks
Current Employment: Google; New York, NY; Research Scientist
home page Email: yaoqindlut at gmail dot com
Igors Stepanovs
Advisor: Mihir Bellare
Dissertation Title: TBA
Current Employment: TBA
home page Email: istepano at ucsd dot edu
Mengting Wan
Advisor: Julian Mcauley
Dissertation Title: Modeling the Dynamics of Consumer Behavior from Massive Interaction Data
Current Employment: Airbnb; Seattle, WA; Data Scientist
home page Email: m5wan at ucsd dot edu
Shengye Wang
Advisor: Henrik Christensen
Dissertation Title: Reliability Engineering for Long-term Autonomous Service Robots
Current Employment: Waymo LLC; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
home page Email: shengye dot wang at gmail dot com
Yizhen "Eric" Wang
Advisor: Kamalika Chaudhuri
Dissertation Title: Robust Machine Learning in Adversarial Setting with Provable Guarantee
Current Employment: Visa Inc; Palo Alto, CA; Research Scientist
home page Email: yizhen dot wang dot ai at gmail dot com
Zexiang Xu
Advisor: Ravi Ramamoorthi
Dissertation Title: Sparse Sampling for Appearance Acquisition
Current Employment: Adobe Research; San Francisco, CA; Research Scientist
home page Email: zex014 at ucsd dot edu
Songbai Yan
Advisor: Kamalika Chaudhuri
Dissertation Title: Algorithms for Query-Efficient Active Learners
Current Employment: TBA
home page Email: soyan at ucsd dot edu
Jian Yang
Advisor: Steven Swanson
Dissertation Title: Building Distributed Systems with Non-Volatile Main Memories and RDMA Networks
Current Employment: Google; Sunnyvale, CA; Software Engineer
home page Email: jiy092 at ucsd dot edu
Zhaomo Yang
Advisor: Kirill Levchenko
Dissertation Title: Compilers and Software Security: Opportunities and Challenges
Current Employment: Google; Sunnyvale, CA; Information Security Engineer
home page Email: zhy001 at ucsd dot edu
Jiapeng Zhang
Advisor: Shachar Lovett
Dissertation Title: Discrete Fourier Analysis and Its Applications
Current Employment: Harvard Univ; Cambridge, MA; PostDoc
home page Email: jpeng.zhang at gmail dot com
Lu Zhang
Advisor: Steven Swanson
Dissertation Title: Building Reliable Software for Persistent Memory
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Hardware Engineer
home page Email: luz017 at ucsd dot edu