Dan Weld
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 & Engineering at the University of Washington.
Prospective students should click here for more information.
Current Students:
- Jonathan Bragg
- Lydia Chilton (Co-advised with James Landay)
- Mitchell Koch
- Chris Lin (Co-advised with Mausam)
- Xiao Ling
- Congle Zhang
Graduated Ph.D. Students:
- Andrey Kolobov (Co-advised with Mausam) Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA)
- Raphael Hoffmann Interactive Learning of Relation Extractors with Weak Supervision (Co-advised with Luke Zettlemoyer). Stealth Starup (Seattle, WA).
- Peng Dai Decision Making under Uncertainty: Scalability and Applications (2011) (Co-advised with Mausam).
Honorable Mention: 2012 ICAPS Dissertation Award. Google (Mountain View, CA). - Stefan Schoenmackers Inference over the Web (2011) (Co-advised with Oren Etzioni), Decide.com (Seattle, WA).
- Fei Wu Machine Reading: from Wikipedia to the Web, (2010). Google (Mountain View, CA).
- Eytan Adar Temporal Informatics of the WWW, (2009) Assistant professor, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MIT).
- Krzysztof Gajos, Automatically Generating Personalized User Interfaces (2008). (Co-advised with Jacob Wobbrock). Assistant Professor, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).
- Mausam, Stochastic Planning with Concurrent, Durative Actions (2007).
Honorable Mention: 2008 ICAPS Dissertation Award.. 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).
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Contact
Office: CSE588
Email:
weld
cs
Phone: (206) 543-9196
Fax: (206) 543-2969
Mail:
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle WA 98195-2350
Assistant:
Alicen Smith
asmith
cs
(206) 685-2695
