UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Box 352350
Seattle, Washington 98195
(206) 543-1695
ADAR, EYTAN (eadar at
cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dan Weld
Expected Graduating Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: Understanding and Enhancing Interactions with the
Temporal Web
Employment Accepted: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
ATMOSUKARTO, INDRIYATI (indria at
cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: 3D Shape Analysis for Quantification, Classification,
and Retrieval
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry Resarch
CAVENDER, ANNA (cavender at
cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Richard Ladner
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Collaborative, Multimedia Solutions for Improving
Educational Access for Deaf Students
Employment Preference: Industry Resarch
CHEN,
JIUN-HUNG (jhchen at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Industry Research, Industry, or Academia
COOPER,
SETH (scooper at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Zoran Popovic
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Biochemical Discoveries through Video Games
Employment Preference: Video game related anywhere
DEIBEL, KATHERINE
(deibel at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Alan Borning and John Bransford (Education)
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Understanding and Supporting the Adopotion of
Assistive Technologies by Adults with Reading Disabilities
Employment Preference: Academia
FRIEDMAN, STEPHEN
(sfriedma at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Carl Ebeling and Scott
Hauck (EE)
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: Resource Sharing in Reconfigurable Architectures
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
FROEHLICH, JON
(jfroehli at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: James Landay
Expected Graduating Date: Autumn 2010
Dissertation Topic: Sensing and Feedback of Everyday Activities to Promote
Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors
Employment Preference: Industry, Industry Research or Academia
GROCHOW,
KEITH (keithg at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Ed Lazowska
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Industry Research
GUBANOV,
MICHAEL (mgubanov at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Graduation Date: TBA
Dissertation Topic: Modular Data Access and Integration
Employment Preference: Industry Research
HAHN,
SANGYUN (syhahn at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Richard Ladner and Mari Ostendorf (Electrical Engineering)
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: Speech Understanding in Multiparty Conversational
Speech, and Semi-Supervised Learning
Employment Preference: Industry Research
HARADA, SUSUMU
(harada at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: James Landay and Jacob Wobbrock
Expected Graduating Date: Winter 2010
Dissertation Topic: Harnessing the Capacity of the Human Voice for Fluidly
Controlling Computer Interfaces
Employment Preference: Post-doc (accepted position at IBM Research Tokyo),
Industy Research, or Industry
HILE,
HARLAN (harlan at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Gaetano Borriello
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: Vision and Augmented Reality Applications on Camera
Phones
Employment Preference: Industry
KATZ-BASSETT,
ETHAN (ethan at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: Measuring the Internet by Coordinating Distributed
Vantage Points
Employment Preference: Post-doc, then Academia or Industry
KO,
JONATHAN (jonko at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dieter Fox
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: Gaussian Processes for System Modeling
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
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
KOK, STANLEY
(koks at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Pedro Domingos
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Structure Learning in Markov Logic Networks
Employment Preference: Industry or Academia
LETCHNER,
JULIE
(letchner at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Magda Balazinska
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2010
Dissertation Topic: Warehousing Markovian Streams
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
LI, NAN
(annli at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Raimundo d'Ambrosio and Martin Tompa
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: AXES: a Workspace for Algorithmic Analysis of
Electrophysiological Signals
Employment Accepted: DNAStar, Madison, WI
LIU, ALAN
(aliu at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Gaetano Borriello and Henry Kautz
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Design of an Adaptive Wayfinding System for
Individuals with Cognitive Impairment
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Industry
LOWD,
DANIEL (lowd at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Pedro Domingos
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: Efficient Learning and Inference in Rich Statistical
Representations
Employment Accepted: University of Oregon
MIAO, XU
(xm at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Pajesh Rao
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preferred: Industry or Academia
MOSHCHUK,
ALEXANDER (anm at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Steve Gribble and Hank Levy
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: Understanding and Defending Agasint Web-Borne Security
Threats
Employment Accepted: Microsoft Research
PRINCE,
CRAIG (cmprince at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Richard Anderson
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Integrating Diverse Student Devices into the Digital
Classroom
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
RASTOGI, VIBHOR
(vibhor at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dan Suciu
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: Perturbation Techniques for Data Privacy
Employment Preference: Industry Research
SAPONAS,
SCOTT (ssaponas at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: James Landay
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Physiological Sensing for Computer Interfaces
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry Research
SIMON,
IAN (iansimon at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Steve Seitz
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: The Distribution of Online Images
Employment Preference: Industry or Academia
VAN ESSEN, BRIAN (vanessen at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Carl Ebeling and Scott Hauck (EE)
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: Improving Energy Efficiency of Coarse-Grained
Reconfigurable Arrays
Employment Preference: Industry Resarch
WELBOURNE, EVAN
(evan at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Magdalena Balazinska and Gaetano Borriello
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Enabling Non-Experts to Create and Debug Complex
Events for Location Systems
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
WU, FEI
(wufei at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dan Weld
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
WU, JIA-CHI
(jcwu at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Zoran Popovic
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Physics-Based Character Animation
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research
WYATT,
DANNNY (danny at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Jeff Bilmes (EE)
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Topic: Statistical Machine Learning Techniques Applied to
Social Network Analysis
Employment Accepted: Post-doc, Industry Research, or Academia
YLVISAKER, BENJAMIN
(ben8 at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Carl Ebeling and Scott Hauck (EE)
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Topic: Languages and Compilers for Parallel Accelerators
Employment Preference: College-level teaching