UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Box 352350
Seattle, Washington 98195
(206) 543-1695

PHD CANDIDATES FOR 2009-2010

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


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