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
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