Ph.D. Directory
This directory allows for the easy search of graduate students nearing degree completion by graduation date, advisor or research area. A simple keyword search of the student's current research work is also available.

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Name: Ali Bagherzandi
Graduation Date: 0
Research Area: 0
Advisor: 0

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Name: Sushil Bajracharya
Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Research Area: Software Engineering
Advisor: Cristina Lopes

Current Research:
Software Engineering, Programming Environments and Tools, Mining Software, Search Technology, Information Retrieval, and Human Factors in Software Engineering

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Name: Eric Baumer
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Human Computer Interaction
Advisor: Bill Tomlinson

Current Research:
HCI, CSCW, Technologies for Critical Thinking, Computational Metaphor Identification, Readership in Social Media

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Name: Marco Cesarano
Graduation Date: Winter 2009
Research Area: Compilers and Operating Systems
Advisor: Alexandru Nicolau

Current Research:
Distributed operating systems, System virtualization, Computer security.

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Name: Chaitanya Chemudugunta
Graduation Date: Winter 2009
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Advisor: Padhraic Smyth

Current Research:
Machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, graphical models, topic models.

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Name: Tara Prasad Choudhury
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Research Area: Network and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Lichun Bao

Current Research:
My research experience and interests : - Content Delivery Networks - Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) - Peer-to-Peer Networks - Data Management.

I also work on building traditional enterprise applications.

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Name: Tara Prasad Choudhury
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Research Area:
Advisor: Lichun Bao

Current Research:
My experience and interests : - Content Delivery Networks - Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) - Peer-to-Peer Networks - Data Management.

I also work on building traditional enterprise applications.

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Name: Tara Prasad Choudhury
Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Research Area:
Advisor: Lichun Bao

Current Research:
My research experience and interests : - Content Delivery Networks - Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) - Peer-to-Peer Networks - Data Management.

I also work on building traditional enterprise applications.

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Name: Yasser Ganjisaffar
Graduation Date: Spring 2011
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Advisor: Cristina Lopes

Current Research:
Text & Web Mining Web Search Engines Information Retrieval Data Mining

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Name: Douglas Grimes
Graduation Date: Winter 2008
Research Area: Social Informatics
Advisor: Mark Warschauer

Current Research:
My goal is to improve education with open-source software and improved instructional methods. To that end, I do research and development of educational software, primarily for middle school students. My field research uses both qualitative and quantitat

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Name: Ashok Halambi
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Embedded System Design
Advisor: Nikil Dutt

Current Research:
Major areas of interest: 1) Retargetable, parallelizing compilers 2) Processor modeling for design space exploration, software tool-kit generation 3) Virtual Platforms for Embedded Software Development

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Name: Jonathan Hutchins
Graduation Date: Fall 2008
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Advisor: Padhraic Smyth

Current Research:
Graphical models, sensor networks with time-series count measurements, Markov-Poisson models, traffic modeling, statistical machine learning and data mining.

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Name: Yonghyun Hwang
Graduation Date: Summer 2009
Research Area: Embedded System Design
Advisor: Daniel Gajski

Current Research:
Embedded System Design Methodology, Heterogeneous MPSoC for Real-time Multimedia Applications, Estimation Framework of Transaction Level Models, Real-time Operating System, Compiler

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Name: Hojjat Jafarpour Gharagozi Mola
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Network and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Sharad Mehrotra

Current Research:
Distributed Systems, Content Dissemination, Data Management, Middleware, Large Scale Stream Processing, Middleware for Sensor Networks, Databases, Peer to Peer overlays, Publish/Subscribe middleware, Semantic Stream Processing

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Name: Sara Javanmardi
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Advisor: Cristina Lopes

Current Research:
Data Mining Web Mining Trust and Reputation Systems Collaborative Applications

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Name: Ming Kin Lai
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Network and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Lubomir Bic

Current Research:
Parallel programming on distributed-memory systems

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Name: Patricia Lee
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Research Area: Statistics
Advisor: Ian Harris

Current Research:
My research is in the area of Software for Embedded Systems and Behavioral Design Validation. I am currently investigating issues related to Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS), stack overflow problems in embedded systems, and techniques comparing simulati

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Name: Di Ma
Graduation Date: Summer 2009
Research Area: Security Privacy and Cryptography
Advisor: Gene Tsudik

Current Research:
information/data security in networked systems, multimedia systems and databases, applied cryptography

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Name: Leila Naslavsky
Graduation Date: Summer 2009
Research Area: Software Engineering
Advisor: Debra Richardson

Current Research:
Model-driven software testing

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Name: Eugen Nistor
Graduation Date: Winter 2008
Research Area: Software Engineering
Advisor: Andre van der Hoek

Current Research:
Concern-based software development environments, software architecture, software evolution.

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Name: Rishab Nithyanand
Graduation Date: Winter 2010
Research Area: Security Privacy and Cryptography
Advisor: Gene Tsudik

Current Research:
Applied Cryptography, Privacy Preserving Data Mining, RFID and Usable Security.

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Name: Rabia Nuray-Turan
Graduation Date: Fall 2009
Research Area: Databases and Information Management
Advisor: Sharad Mehrotra

Current Research:
Data Cleaning, Entity Resolution, Object consolidation, Web People Search, Web Search, Web Mining, Data Mining, Clustering, Expectation Management, Performance Evaluation

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Name: Sameer Patil
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Computer Supported Collaborative Work
Advisor: Alfred Kobsa

Current Research:
CSCW, HCI, Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-mediated Communication

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Name: Babak Salamat
Graduation Date: Fall 2009
Research Area: Compilers and Operating Systems
Advisor: Michael Franz

Current Research:
Software Security, Virtualization, Compilers, Computer Architecture

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Name: Anita Sarma
Graduation Date: Winter 2008
Research Area: Software Engineering
Advisor: Andre van der Hoek

Current Research:
Research interest: Configuration Management systems; Coordination in software development, and, Collaborative tools for global software development

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Name: Francisco Servant
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Software Engineering
Advisor: Andre van der Hoek

Current Research:
Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Configuration Management, Computer Supported Collaborative Work

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Name: Roberto Silva Filho
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Software Engineering
Advisor: David Redmiles

Current Research:
CSCW, Software Engineering, and Middleware.

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Name: Love Singhal
Graduation Date: Winter 2009
Research Area: Embedded System Design
Advisor: Elaheh (Eli) Bozorgzadeh

Current Research:
FPGA physical placement and floorplanning. Reconfigurable hardware and designs. Task allocation and scheduling under process variations.

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Name: Shyam Srinivasan
Graduation Date: Winter 2009
Research Area: Scientific Computing
Advisor: Wayne Hayes

Current Research:
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Name: Charu Srivastava
Graduation Date: Fall 2008
Research Area: Embedded System Design
Advisor: Alexander Veidenbaum

Current Research:
Software programming , Compilers , Computer Architecture , Embedded Systems design ,Virtual Machine.

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Name: Jelena Trajkovic
Graduation Date: Winter 2009
Research Area: Embedded System Design
Advisor: Alexander Veidenbaum

Current Research:
Embedded Processor Design and Optimization, Automatic Application Specific Processor Generation, Design Automation, Memory Subsystem Optimization, Power Optimization, C-to-Hardware Methodologies

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Name: Kevin Wortman
Graduation Date: Fall 2008
Research Area: Theory of Computing
Advisor: David Eppstein

Current Research:
Computational geometry, graph drawing, algorithm design and analysis.

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Name: Bo Xing
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Research Area: Network and Distributed Systems
Advisor: Nalini Venkatasubramanian

Current Research:
Wireless ad-hoc, mesh, hybrid, and disruption-tolerant networks, Mobile wireless networking middleware, wireless content dissemination, Mobile applications and deployments

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Name: Guy Yosiphon
Graduation Date: Winter 2009
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Advisor: Eric Mjolsness

Current Research:
Scientific computing, machine learning, numerical methods, artificial intelligence, computer vision

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