Graduate Student Exams and Talks

Miro Enev

General Examination
Talk title:  TBA
Friday, September 13, 2013, 10:30 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisor: Yoshi Kohno

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Final Examination
Talk title:  Approximate Acceleration for a Post-Multicore Era
Monday, July 8, 2013, 2:00 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 303
Advisors: Luis Ceze and Doug Burger (MSR)

Jacob Nelson

General Examination
Talk title:  TBA
Friday, June 14, 2013, 12:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisors: Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin

Franzi Roesner

General Examination
Talk title:  TBA
Friday, June 14, 2013, 10:00 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisor: Yoshi Kohno

Brandon Lucia

Final Examination
Talk title:  Computer Architecture and System Support for Concurrent Program Correctness and Reliability
Friday, June 14, 2013, 8:00 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisor: Luis Ceze

Tony Fader

General Examination
Talk title:  TBA
Thursday, June 6, 2013, 13:00 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 403
Advisor: Oren Etzioni

Tom Bergan

General Examination
Talk title:  Avoiding State-Space Explosion in Multithreaded Programs with Input-Covering Schedules and Symbolic Execution
Friday, May 31, 2013, 1:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE  203
Advisors: Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman

Mohammad Moharrami

Final Examination
Talk title:  Applications of Metric Embeddings in Solving Combinatorial Problems
Friday, May 24, 2013, 9:30 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisor: James Lee

Erik Andersen

General Examination
Talk title:  Automatic Scaffolding for Procedural Learning
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 2:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 403
Advisors: Zoran Popovic and Sumit Gulwani (MSR)

Widad Machmouchi

Final Examination
Talk title:  Time-Space Tradeoffs and Query Complexity in Statistics, Coding Theory and Quantum Computing
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 3:00 p.m., Allen Center, AC 110
Advisor: Paul Beame

Shengliang Xu

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title: The Execution Engine for the Myria Big Data Management System
Thursday, May 16, 2013, 4:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 405 (DB Lab)
Advisors: Magda Balazinska and Dan Suciu

Igor Mordatch

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant Optimization
Thursday, May 16, 2013, 1:00 p.m., Allen Center, AC 128
Advisors: Zoran Popovic and Emo Todorov

Alan Ritter

Final Examination
Talk title:  Extracting Knowledge from Twitter and the Web
Thursday, May 16, 2013, 12:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 403
Advisors: Oren Etzioni and Mausam

Ivan Beschastnikh

Final Examination
Talk title:  Modeling Systems from Logs of their Behavior
Thursday, May 16, 2013, 10:00 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 303
Advisors: Tom Anderson, Mike Ernst, and Arvind Krishnamurthy

Dimitrios Gklezakos

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  On Revenue Maximization for Agents with Costly Information Acquisition
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 1:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisors: Anna Karlin and Anup Rao

Janara Christensen

General Examination
Talk title:  Towards Large-Scale Summarization
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 1:00 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 203
Advisor: Mausam

Irene Zhang

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  Simplifying Distributed Application Development for Mobile Devices and the Cloud using Sapphire
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 10:30 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 303
Advisors: Hank Levy, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Steve Gribble

Ezgi Mercan

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  The Use of Pseudo-landmarks for Craniofacial Analysis: A Comparative Study With L1-Regularized Logistic Regression
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 10:00 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisors:  Linda Shapiro and Su-In Lee

Austin Webb

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  Tractable Probabilistic Knowledge Bases with Existence Uncertainty
Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 1:00 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 110
Advisors: Pedro Domingos and Dan Weld

John Earls

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  JACoD: Molecular Phenotype Characterization of Distinct but Related Phenotypes in a Network Context
Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 12:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 674
Advisors: Nathan Price (ISB), Larry Ruzzo, Su-In Lee

Adrian Sampson

General Examination
Talk title:  Disciplined Approximate Programming
Monday, May 13, 2013, 2:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 303
Advisors: Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman

Brandon Blakeley

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  Mode of Locomotion Inference for Smartphones"
Monday, May 13, 2013, 9:00 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 624
Advisors: Alan Borning and Dieter Fox

Robert Thompson

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  A New Client for CoSolve and Framing Game Design as a Collaborative Problem
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 a.m., Allen Center, AC 128
Advisors: Steve Tanimoto and Linda Shapiro

Aaron Bauer

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  Automated Redesign of Local Playspace Properties
Thursday, May 2, 2013, 9:00 a.m., Allen Center, AC 128
Advisors: Zoran Popovic and Steve Tanimoto

Alexei Czeskis

General Examination
Talk title:  User Authentication and Authorization on the Web
Wednesday, May  1, 2013, 10:30 a.m., Allen Center, CSE 503
Advisor: Yoshi Kohno

Maxwell Libbrecht

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  Entropic Graph-based Posterior Regularization for Learening Probabilistic Models
Monday, April 29, 2013, 3:30 p.m. Mary Gates Hall, room 254
Advisors:  Bill Noble (Genome Sciences) and Martin Tompa

Travis Mandel

Qualifying Evaluation Project Presentation
Talk title:  Intelligent Adaptivity for Educational Videogames: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Friday, April 26, 2013, 2:30 p.m., Allen Center, CSE 403
Advisors:  Zoran Popovic and Emma Brunskill