Ph.D. Candidates for 2011-2012

AMERSHI, SALEEMA (samershi at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: James Fogarty
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Designing for Effective End-User Interaction with Machine Learning
Employment Preference: Industrial Research, Industry

ANDREW, ADRIENNE (aha at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Gaetano Borriello and James Fogarty
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2012
Dissertation Topic: The Design and Evaluation of a Pattern-Oriented Nutrition Diary
Employment Preference: Industrial research, industry

ANOKWA, YAW (yanokwa at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Gaetano Borriello and Tapan Parikh (UC-Berkeley)
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Providing Clinical Decision Support in Resource-Limited Settings
Employment Accepted: Nafundi, Seattle

BIRNBAUM, BENJAMIN (birnbaum at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Anna Karlin and Gaetano Borriello
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2012
Dissertation Topic: Improving Survey Data Quality for Mobile Data Collection
Employment Accepted: Google

BUETTNER, MICHAEL (buettner at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: David Wetherall
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2012
Dissertation Topic: Energy Efficient Computing and Network Protocols for RF-Powered Devices
Employment Preference: Industry

DEVIETTI, JOSEPH (devietti@cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Deterministic Multiprocessing
Employment Preference: Academic, Industrial research, Industry

EFFINGER-DEAN, LAURA (effinger at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dan Grossman
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Formal Approaches to Relaxed Memory Models
Employment Preference: Academic, Industry Research

FAN, SANDRA B. (sbfan at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Steve Tanimoto
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2012
Dissertation Topic: Roles in Online Collaborative Problem Solving
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Industry

HALPERIN, DANIEL (dhalperi@cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: David Wetherall and Tom Anderson
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2012
Dissertation Topic: An efficient and reliable network architecture for the wireless home
Employment Preference: Academic, Industrial Research, Industry

HARTUNG, CARL (chartung at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Gaetano Borriello
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Mobile Systems for Data Collection, Decision Support, and Education
Employment Accepted: Nafundi, Seattle

HOFFMANN, RAPHAEL (raphaelh at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Dan Weld and Luke Zettlemoyer
Expected Graduation Date: Winter 2012
Dissertation Topic: Weak Supervision and User Guidance for Learning Relational Extractors
Employment Preference: Industry Research

ISDAL, TOMAS (idsal at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2012
Dissertation Topic: Privacy and Performance in Social Overlay Networks
Employment Accepted: Google

JHA, ABHAY (abhaykj at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Dan Suciu
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Compiling Soft Constraints for Probabilistic Databases
Employment Preference: Industrial Research, Industry

KHOUSSAINOVA, NODIRA (nodira at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Magda Balazinska and Dan Suciu
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Leveraging Usage History to Enhance Database Usability
Employment Preference: Industrial Research, Industry

KWON, YONGCHUL (yongchul at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Magda Balazinska
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Scaling Complex User-Defined Operators in Large-Scale Data Analysis
Employment Preference: Industrial Research, Industry

PATEL, KAYUR (kayur at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: James Fogarty and James Landay
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Dissertation Topic: Lowering the Barrier to Applying Machine Learning
Employment Preference: Academic, Industrial research, Industry

PRINCE, CRAIG (cmprince at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Richard Anderson
Expected Graduation Date: Winter 2012
Dissertation Topic: Integrating Diverse Student Devices into the Digital Classroom
Employment Accepted: Google

ROBISON, TYLER (trobison at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Steve Tanimoto
Expected Graduation Date: Winter 2012
Dissertation Topic: Learning to Solve: Tools that Help Users Learn in Design and Problem-Solving Environments
Employment Preference: Industry

TSENG, HUEI-HUN ELIZABETH (lachesis at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Larry Ruzzo, Meredith Hullar (FHCRC), John Stamatoyannopoulos (Genome Sciences)
Expected Graduation Date: Winter 2012
Dissertation Topic: Non-Coding RNA Discovery and Metagenomics Analysis of Bacterial Species
Employment Preference: Industry Research or Academia

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