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:

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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