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

PHD CANDIDATES FOR 2007-2008

ALEXANDRESCU, ANDREI (andrei at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Katrin Kirchhoff and Oren Etzioni
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2008
Dissertation Topic: Applying global Graph-Based Learning to Speech Processing
Employment Preference: Acdemia, Industry

DONTCHEVA, MIRA (mirad at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Michael Cohen (MSR) and David Salesin
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2007
Dissertation Topic: Automating Collecting and Organizing Web Content
Employment Accepted: Adobe Research

DOWNEY, DOUGLAS (ddowney at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Oren Etzioni
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry

GAJOS, KRZYSZTOF (kgajos at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Daniel S. Weld and Jacob O. Wobbrock (iSchool)
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: Personalized Adaptive Interfaces
Employment Preference: Academia, possibly Industry (Research)

HILE, HARLAN (harlan at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Gaetano Borriello
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2008
Dissertation topic: Vision and Augmented Reality Applications on Camera Phones
Employment Preference: Industry

MERCALDI KIM, MARTHA (mercaldi at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Mark Oskin
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2008
Dissertation Topic: Low Cost Silicon Manufacturing
Employment Preference: Academia

KIM, MIRYUNG (miryung at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: David Notkin
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: Discovering and Representing the Logical Structure of Code Change
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry Research

KO, JONATHAN (jonko at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dieter Fox
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: Gaussian Processes for System Modeling
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research

KOBASHI, MASAHARU, (mkbsh at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Date of Graduation: Summer 2008
Dissertation Topic: General Theory of Early Vision with Unified Architecture for Fundamental Vision Processes and Robotics
Employment Accepted: Industry or Academia

LI, WILMOT , (wilmotli at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: David Salesin
Expected Date of Graduation: Autumn 2007
Dissertation Topic: Interactive Visualization Techniques for Exploring Complex Geometric Models
Employment Accepted: Adobe Research

MADHYASTHA, HARSHA (harsha at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Tom Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Arun Venkataramani (UMass Amherst)
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: Building an Internet-Wide Information Plane
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry Research

PENTNEY, WILLIAM (bill at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Jeff Bilmes, EE, and Matthai Philipose, Intel Research
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2007
Dissertation Topic: Common Sense Reasoning about the Everyday Human Environment
Employment Preference: Industry or Academia

REIS, CHARLES (creis at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Steve Gribble and Hank Levy
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2008
Dissertation Topic: Web Browser Security and Robustness
Employment Preference: Industrial Research

RODRIG, MAYA (rodrig at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: David Wetherall and John Zahorjan
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Industry

SANG, TIAN (sang at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Paul Beame and Henry Kautz
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: Complete Search Algorithms for Model Counting, Inference and Optimization
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry

SHENOY, PRADEEP (pshenoy at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Raj Rao
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication and Computation
Employment Preference: Academia or Industrial Research

SINGLA, PARAG (parag at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Pedro Domingos
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation topic: Markov Logic: Inference, Learning, Applications, and Extensions
Employment Preference: Industry (Research)

SNAVELY, NOAH (snavely at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Steven M. Seitz and Richard Szeliski
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2008
Dissertation topic: Scene Reconstruction and Visualization from Large Photo Collections
Employment Preference: Academia, Industry

TREUILLE, ADRIEN (treuille at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Zoran Popovic
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2007
Dissertation topic: TBA
Employment Accepted: Carnegie Mellon University

YAO, ZIZHEN (yzizhen at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Larry Ruzzo
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2007
Dissertation Topic: Genome Scale Search of Noncoding RNAs
Position Accepted: Academia or Industry

YASUHARA, KEN (yasuhara at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Richard Anderson and Denise Wilson (EE)
Expected Graduation Date: Winter 2008
Dissertation Topic: Viewpoints from the Doorstep: Pre-major Interest in and Perceptions of Computer Science
Employment Preference: Academia (teaching-focused) or Industry

YNGVE, GARY (gyngve at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Graduating Date: Autumn 2007
Dissertation Topic: Visualizing Models, Simulations, and Ontologies for Bioinformatics
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry

ZHENG, KE COLIN (kzheng at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: David Salesin and Brian Curless
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2008
Dissertation Topic: Digital Photography/Video
Employment Preference: Academia or Industry

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