Graduating PhDs in 2010-2011

James Anderson

Advisor: Amin Vahdat 
Dissertation Title: Consistent Cloud Computing Storage as the Basis for Distributed Applications
Employment: Thesys Technologies; New York, NY; Software Engineer
home page   jwanderson@cs.ucsd.edu


William Beaver

Advisor: Yoav Freund 
Dissertation Title: "Machine Learning and the Quantitative Analysis of Confocal Microscopy with an Application to the Embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster"
Preferred Employment: Industry 
home page   wbeaver@ucsd.edu


Bridget Benson

Advisor: Ryan Kastner 
Dissertation Title: The Design of a Low-Cost Underwater Acoustic Modem for Dense Sensor Networks 
Employment: Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks, University of Massachusetts; Amherst, MA; Postdoc 
home page  bridget.benson@umb.edu


Ryan Braud

Advisor: Amin Vahdat
Dissertation Title: Query-based Debugging for Distributed Systems
Employment: Thousand Eyes; San Francisco, CA; Software Engineer
home page   rbraud@cs.ucsd.edu


Chih-Chieh Cheng

Advisor: Lawrence Saul
Dissertation Title: Online Learning of Large Margin Hidden Markov Models for Automatic Speech Recognition
Employment: Stanford Research Institute; San Diego, CA; Computer Scientist
home page   chc028@cs.ucsd.edu


Pietro Cicotti

Advisor: Scott Baden
Dissertation Title: Tarragon: A Programming Model for Latency-Hiding Scientific Computations
Employment: San Diego Supercomputer Center; San Diego; CA; Programmer Analyst 
pcicotti@cs.ucsd.edu


Lisa Cowan

Advisor: William Griswold
Dissertation Title: Lightweight Social Communication using Visual Media and Mobile Phones
Employment: University of California, San Diego; San Diego, CA; Temporary Lecturer in the CSE Department
home page   lgcowan@cs.ucsd.edu


Gaurav Dhiman

Advisor: Tajana Rosing
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Workload Characterization for Energy Efficient Computing
Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer 
home page   gdhiman@cs.ucsd.edu


 Evan Ettinger

Advisor: Yoav Freund
Dissertation Title: Audio Localization in the Automatic Cameraman
Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
home page   eettinger@cs.ucsd.edu


Carolina Galleguillos

Advisor: Serge Belongie
Dissertation Title: Beyond Appearance Features: Contextual Modeling for Object Recognition
Employment: University of California, San Diego; San Diego, CA; Post Doc
home page   cgallegu@cs.ucsd.edu


Jiahua He

Advisor: Allan Snavely and Jeanne Ferrante
Dissertation Title: PMap: Unlocking the Performance Genes of HPC Applications
Employment: Amazon; Seattle, WA; Software Developing Engineer
home page   j2he@cs.ucsd.edu


Daniel Knoblauch

Advisor: Falko Kuester
Dissertation Title: Content Oriented 3D Reconstruction from Image Streams
Employment: Qualcomm; San Diego, CA; Senior Software Engineer
dknoblau@cs.ucsd.edu


Samory Kpotufe

Advisor: Sanjoy Dasgupta 
Dissertation Title: The Curse of Dimension in Nonparametric Regression
Employment: Max Planck Institute; Tubingen, Germany; Post Doc Researcher
home page  skpotufe@cs.ucsd.edu


Shaofeng Liu

Advisor: Jurgen Schulze
Dissertation Title: Toward Petabyte Digital Content Transfer and Preservation Over Optical Networks 
Employment: Microsoft; Seattle, WA; Software Design Engineer
s8liu@cs.ucsd.edu


Michael McCracken

Advisor: Allan Snavely and Jeanne Ferrante
Dissertation Title: Simulation Analysis of Large-Scale computational Science Experiment Workflows
Employment: Sun Labs, Oracle; Austin, Texas; Staff Researcher
mike@cs.ucsd.edu


Kian Win Ong

Advisor: Alin Deutsch
Dissertation Title: Web Application Creation Made Easy: A SQL-Driven Rapid Development Framework and a Do-It-Yourself Platform
Employment: app2you Inc; San Diego, CA; Co-Founder & President

home page   k1ong@eng.ucsd.edu


Kevin Ponto

Advisor: Falko Kuester
Dissertation Title: Building a Foundation for Human Centric Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis
Preferred Employment: Academia
home page   kponto@cs.ucsd.edu


Thomas Ristenpart

Advisor: Mihir Bellare
Dissertation Title: New Approaches to the Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Hash Functions
Employment: University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, WI; Assistant Professor
home page   tristenp@cs.ucsd.edu


Iman Sadeghi

Advisor: Henrik Wann Jensen
Dissertation Title: Controlling the Appearance of Specular Microstructures
Employment: Google; Santa Monica, CA; Software Engineer
home page   isadeghi@cs.ucsd.edu


John Sampson

Advisor: Michael Taylor and Steven Swanson
Dissertation Title: Design and Architecture of Automatically-Generated Energy-Reducing Coprocessors
Employment: University of California, San Diego; San Diego, CA; Post Doctoral Researcher
home page  jsampson@cs.ucsd.edu


Honghao Shan

Advisor: Garrison Cottrell 
Dissertation Title: Computational Models of Early Visual Processing Layers
Employment: University of California, San Diego; San Diego, CA; Post Doctoral Researcher
home page   hshan@cs.ucsd.edu


Frank Uyeda

Advisor: George Varghese
Dissertation Title: Algorithms for Measuring and Enhancing Distributed Systems 
Employment: Google; Santa Monica, CA; Software Engineer
home page   fuyeda@cs.ucsd.edu


Ganesh Venkatesh

Advisor: Steven Swanson and Michael Taylor
Dissertation Title: Configurable Energy-Efficient Co-Processors to Scale the Utilization Wall
Employment: Intel; Portland, OR; Research Scientist
home page   ganesh.ven@gmail.com


Panagiotis Voulgaris

Advisor: Daniele Micciancio
Dissertation Title: Algorithms for the Closest and Shortest Vector Problems on General Lattices
Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
home page   pvoulgar@cs.ucsd.edu


Michael Vrable

Advisor: Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage
Dissertation Title: Migrating Enterprise Storage Applications to the Cloud
Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer

home page   mvrable@cs.ucsd.edu


Chengmo Yang

Advisor: Alex Orailoglu
Dissertation Title: Tackling Computation Uncertainty through Fine-Grained and Predictable Execution Adaptivity in Multicore Systems
Employment: University of Delaware; Newark, DE; Assistant Professor
home page   c5yang@cs.ucsd.edu