I'm always interested in advising new students, whether on a one-time
basis or continuing towards a degree. However, for the most part, time
constraints dictate that I can only meet with students already
enrolled in the Computer
Science and Engineering at the University of
Washington.
Prospective students should click here for more information.
Current Students:
Graduated Ph.D. Students:
- Mausam,
Stochastic Planning with Concurrent, Durative Actions
(2007). Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
- Zack Ives, An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data
Integration (2002). (Co-advised with Alon
Halevy) Assistant Professor, University of
Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA).
- Corin Anderson, A Machine Learning Approach to Web
Personalization (2002). (Co-advised with Pedro Domingos)
Research Staff, Google (Mountain View, CA).
- Tessa Lau, Programming by
Demonstration using Version Space Algebra (2001) (Co-advised with
Pedro
Domingos) Research Staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
(Yorktown Heights, NY).
- Marc Friedman, Representation and Optimization for Data
Integration (1999)
(Co-advised with Alon Halevy)
Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation.
- Nick
Kushmerick, Wrapper Induction for Information
Extraction (1997). College Lecturer, Department of Computer
Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Keith Golden, Planning
with Incomplete Information (1997). Research Staff, NASA
Ames Research Labs.
- Anthony
Barrett, Hierarchical Task Network Planning with an
Expressive Action Language (1997). Research Staff, JPL.
- Franz Amador, Self-Explanatory Simulation for an
Electronic Encyclopedia (1994).
Senior Software Architect, Equator Inc.
- J. Scott Penberthy, Planning with Continuous Change (1993).
Technical Advisor to the Chairman, IBM.
Graduated M.S. Students
- Jiun-Hung
Chen. Naive-Bayes POMDPs (2005).
- Karthik
Gopalratnam, Extending Continuous-Time Bayesian
Networks (2005). (Co-advised with Henry
Kautz) Google, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
- Tal Shaked, Named-Entity Extraction and Statistical
Classification From the Web (2004).
Google, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
- Igor Tatarinov, Updating XML (2001).
(Co-advised with Alon Halevy;
subsequently received a Ph.D. with Alon Halevy)
Amazon.com. (Seattle, WA)
- Steve Wolfman, The
LPSAT Engine (1998). Subsequently received a Ph.D. with Richard
Anderson. Instructor, University of British Columbia.
- Cody Kwok, Planning to Gather Information (1996).
Subsequently received a Ph.D. with Dieter Fox.
Google (Mountain View, CA).
- Dave Christianson, Graphical Plan Debugging (1996).
Senior Software Engineer, Farecast, Inc.
- Ying Sun, Beyond Simple Observation: Planning to Diagnose
(1992). Senior Software Engineer, Go2Net.com.
- Adam Finkelstein,
Pika, the Evolution of a Simulator (1992). Subsequently
received a Ph.D. with David Salesin.
Associate Professor, Princeton University.
- Dorothy Neville, Analyzing Mechanisms (1991).