Baris Arslan
Advisor: Alex Orailoglu
Dissertation Title: Adaptive Test Cost and Quality Optimization Through an Effective Yet Efficient Delivery of Chip Specific Tests
Current Employment: Sehir University, Computer Science and Engineering Dept.; Istanbul, Turkey; Asst Prof.
Email: barslan at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Elizabeth Bales
Advisor: William Griswold
Dissertation Title: Supporting Implicit Mobile Communitcation: Harnessing Ubiquitous Sensors for Context and Content to Support Social Connection
Current Employment: Google; Seattle, WA; Software Engineer
home page Email: earrowsm at ucsd dot edu
Christopher Barngrover
Advisor: Ryan Kastner
Dissertation Title: Automated Detection of Mine-Like Objects in Side Scan Sonar Imagery
Current Employment: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific; San Diego, CA; Computer Scientist
home page Email: cbarngrover at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Garo Bournoutian
Advisor: Alex Orailoglu
Dissertation Title: Architectural and Software Optimizations for Next-Generation Heterogeneous Low-Power Mobile Application Processors
Current Employment: Qualcomm; San Diego, California; Staff Engineer
home page Email: garo at ucsd dot edu
Ravi Chugh
Advisor: Ranjit Jhala
Dissertation Title: Nested Refinements for JavaScript
Current Employment: University of Chicago; Chicago, IL; Assistant Professor
home page Email: rchugh at cs dot uchicago dot edu
Arup De
Advisor: Rajesh Gupta
Dissertation Title: A Compute Capable SSD Architecture for Next-Generation Non-Volatile Memories
Current Employment: HGST Inc,Western Digital Company; San Jose, CA; Research Staff
Email: arup dot de at gmail dot com
Anshuman Gupta
Advisor: Michael Taylor
Dissertation Title: Software and Hardware Techniques for Attacking the Multicore Interference Problem
Current Employment: Google; Mountainview, CA; Software Engineer
Email: a2gupta at eng dot ucsd dot edu
Matthew Jacobsen
Advisors: Ryan Kastner
Dissertation Title: Smart Frame Grabber: A Hardware Accelerated Computer Vision Framework
Current Employment: Google; Irvine, CA; Software Engineer
Email: matt dot jacobsen at gmail dot com
Sriram Keelveedhi Ravinarayanan
Advisor: Mihir Bellare
Dissertation Title: Encryption When Messages and Keys Are Related
Current Employment: Google; San Francisco, CA; Security Engineer
home page Email: skeelvee at ucsd dot edu
Jason Kimball
Advisor: Falko Kuester
Dissertation Title: A Scalable Streaming Framework for Video-Driven Collaborative Visualization Environments
Current Employment: Self Employed; Los Angeles, CA; owner
Email: jkimball at ucsd dot edu
Christos Kozanitis
Advisors: Vineet Bafna & George Varghese
Dissertation Title: Compressing and Querying the Human Genome
Current Employment: UC Berkeley; Berkeley, CA; Postdoc
home page Email: kozanitis at berkeley dot edu
Sarah Meiklejohn
Advisor: Mihir Bellare
Dissertation Title: Flexible Models for Secure Systems
Current Employment: University College London Dept. Computer Scinece; London, UK; Asst. Professor Tenure-Track
home page Email: s dot meiklesohn at uc dot ac dot uk
Jason Oberg
Advisors: Ryan Kastner
Dissertation Title: Testing Hardware Security Properties and Identifying Timing Channels
Current Employment: Tortuga Logic,Inc; San Diego,CA; CEO&Co-Founder
Email: jason at tortugalogic dot com
Yonghahk Albert Park
Advisors: Roger Levy & Garrison Cottrell
Dissertation Title: Whole Sentence Spelling and Grammar Correction Using a Noisy Channel Model
Current Employment: LG Electronics; Seoul, Korea; Chief Research Engineer
Email: yapark at ucsd dot edu
Kim Son Pham
Advisor: Pavel Pevzner
Dissertation Title: Genome Assembly and Comparison
Current Employment: SALK Institute; San Diego, CA.; Postdoc
home page Email: kspham at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Andreas Pitsillidis
Advisors: Stefan Savage & Geoffrey Voelker
Dissertation Title: Spam Value Chain: Defensive Intervention Analysis
Current Employment: Google; NY, NY; Software Engineer
home page Email: apitsill at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Sivasankar Radhakrishnan
Advisor: Mohammed Vahdat
Dissertation Title: Network Performance Improvements For Web Services - An End-to-End View
Current Employment: Forward Networks; Mountain View, CA; Member of Technical Staff
home page Email: ssradhak at ucsd dot edu
Filippo Seracini
Advisor: Ingolf Krueger
Dissertation Title: A Proactive Top-Down Approach to Dynamic Allocation of Resources in Data Centers
Current Employment: Microsoft; Redmond, WA; System Center group: Program Manager
home page Email: fiseraci at microsoft dot com
Richard Strong
Advisors: Tajana S. Rosing & Dean Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Low-Latency Techniques for Improving System Energy Efficiency
Current Employment: Google; Irvine, CA; Software Engineer
home page Email: r dot d dot strong at gmail dot com
Matus Telgarsky
Advisor: Sanjoy Dasgupta
Dissertation Title: Duality and Data Dependence in Boosting
Current Employment: Univ. of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI; Postdoc
home page Email: mtelgars at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Daniel Turner
Advisors: Alex Snoeren & Stefan Savage
Dissertation Title: Opportunistically Reconstructing a Network's Failure History
Current Employment: Turbo Squid; New Orleans, LA; Software Engineer
home page Email: djturner at cs dot ucsd dot edu
Catherine Wah
Advisor: Serge Belongie
Dissertation Title: Leveraging Human Perception and Computer Vision Algorithms for Interactive Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
Current Employment: Google; Venice, CA; Software Engineer
home page Email: catherine dot wah at gmail dot com
Kevin Webb
Advisors: Alex Snoeren & Ken Yocum
Dissertation Title: A Network Control Platform for Performance Isolation and Modular Composition
Current Employment: Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, PA; Asst. Professor
home page Email: kcwebb at cs dot swathmore dot edu
Ting-Fan Wu
Advisors: Javier Movellan & Gary Cottrell
Dissertation Title: Machine Learning for Humanoid Robot Modeling and Control
Current Employment: Institute of Human Machine and Cognition; Pensacola, FL; Postdoc
home page Email: t3wu at cs dot ucsd dot edu