Postdocs on the job market 2014-2015

Ben Ransford (ransford@cs.washington.edu) Postdoc advisor: Luis Ceze and Josh Smith Postdoc research topic: Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems PhD university: UMass Amherst PhD advisor: Kevin Fu PhD topic: Transiently Powered Computers (2013) Employment preference: academic or startup On the job market: Now

Simon Peter (simpeter@cs.washington.edu) Postdoc advisor: Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy Postdoc research topic: Operating Systems and Networks PhD university: ETH Zurich PhD advisor: Timothy Roscoe PhD topic: Resource Management in a Multicore Operating System (2012) Employment preference: academic On the job market: Now

Byron Boots (bboots@cs.washington.edu) Postdoc advisor: Dieter Fox Postdoc research topic: Machine Learning and Robotics PhD university: Carnegie Mellon University PhD advisor: Geoffrey J. Gordon PhD topic: Spectral Approaches to Learning Predictive Representations (2012) Employment preference: academic On the job market: Now

Tom Erez (etom@cs.washington.edu) Postdoc advisor: Emo Todorov Postdoc research topic: optimal control for articulated robots PhD university: Washington University in St. Louis PhD advisor: Bill Smart PhD topic: Optimal Control for Automonous Motor Behavior (2011) Employment preference: academic (teaching/research) On the job market: now

Andrzej Pronobis (pronobis@cs.washington.edu) Postdoc advisor: Dieter Fox Postdoc research topic: Integrated World and Language Understanding for Mobile Robots PhD university: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden PhD advisor: Patric Jensfelt, Barbara Caputo, Henrik I. Christensen PhD topic: Semantic Mapping with Mobile Robots (Dec 2011) Employment preference: academic On the job market: Now

Adam M. Smith (amsmith@cs.washington.edu) Postdoc advisor: Zoran Popović Postdoc research topic: design automation for educational games (aka. applied AI) PhD university: UC Santa Cruz PhD advisor: Michael Mateas PhD topic: Mechanizing Exploratory Game Design (2012) Employment preference: academic research/teaching On the job market: to start Autumn 2013

Niranjan Balasubramanian (niranjan@cs.washington.edu) Postdoc advisor: Oren Etzioni Postdoc research topic: Semantic n-grams for Machine Reading: Reading large volumes of text to better understand small pieces of text. PhD university: University of Massachusetts, Amherst PhD advisor: James Allan PhD topic: Query-dependent Selection of Retrieval Alternatives (2011) Employment preference: academic or industry On the job market: to start Autumn 2013