Graduating PH.D. Students
CHEN, XIAOYU
(xchen at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: William Noble (Genome Sciences) and Martin Tompa
Expected Graduate Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Academia
COOPER,
SETH (scooper at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Zoran Popovic
Expected Graduation Date: Summer or Autumn 2011
Dissertation Topic: Biochemical Discoveries through Video Games
Employment Preference: Video game related anywhere
DIXON, COLIN
(ckd at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Expected Graduating Date: Summer or Autumn 2011
Dissertation Topic: Scalable Distributed Network Management in
Homes and Enterprises
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Academia
FAN, SANDRA B.
(sbfan at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Steve Tanimoto
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Roles in Online Collaborative Problem Solving
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Industry
FRIEDMAN, STEPHEN
(sfriedma at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Carl Ebeling and Scott
Hauck (EE)
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2011
Dissertation Topic: Resource Sharing in Reconfigurable Architectures
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
FROEHLICH, JON
(jfroehli at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: James Landay and Shwetak Patel
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Sensing and Feedback of Everyday Activities to Promote
Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors
Employment Preference: Industry, Industry Research or Academia
GEAMBASU,
ROXANA (roxana at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Hank Levy, Steve Gribble, and Yoshi Kohno
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Regaining Control over Data in the Cloud
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry Research
HUYNH,
TRINH (trinh at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Paul Beame
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Analysis Technique and Applications of Multiparty
Communication Complexity
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Academia
JAYANT,
CHANDRIKA (cjayant at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Richard Ladner
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Camera Focalization for Blind and Low-Vision People on
Mobile Devices
Employment Preference: Industry Research, Industry or Academia
JOHN, JOHN
P. (jjohn at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Studying Malicious Activity on the Web
Employment Preference: Industry Research, Industry Research or Industry
KATZ-BASSETT,
ETHAN (ethan at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Identifying, Analyzing, and Avoiding Internet Routing
Problems
Employment Preference: Industry, Industry Research, or Academia
KOBASHI, MASAHARU (mkbsh at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Graduation Date: TBA
Dissertation Topic: General Theory of Early Vision with Unified
Architecture for Fundamental Vision Processes and Robotics
Employment Accepted: Industry or Academia
LERNER,
BEN (blerner at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Dan Grossman and Steve Gribble
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Language Support for Composable, Compatible Browser
Extensions
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry Research
MIAO, XU
(xm at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Rajesh Rao
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Fast and Consistent Structured Prediction by
Margin-based Object Networks
Employment Preferred: Industry or Academia
NGUYEN, THACH
(nthach at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Anna Karlin
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preferred: Academica, Industry Research or Industry
POON, HOIFUNG
(hoifung at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Pedro Domingos
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Markov Logic in Machine Reading
Employment Preferred: Academia or Industry Research
PRINCE,
CRAIG (cmprince at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Richard Anderson
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Integrating Diverse Student Devices into the Digital
Classroom
Employment Accepted: Google
ROBISON,
TYLER (trobison at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Steve Tanimoto
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Dissertation Topic: Learning to Solve: Tools that Help Users Learn in
Design and Problem-Solving Environments
Employment Preference: Industry
TSENG,
HUEI-HUN ELIZABETH (lachesis at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Larry Ruzzo, Meredith Hullar (FHCRC), John Stamatoyannopoulos
(Genome Sciences)
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2011
Dissertation Topic: Non-Coding RNA Discovery and Metagenomics Analysis of
Bacterial Species
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Academia

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