Ph.D. Candidates for 2012-2013

BESCHASTNIKH, IVAN (ivan at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Thomas Anderson, Michael Ernst, Arvind Krishnamurthy
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Dissertation Topic: Inferring Models of Distributed Systems from Logs of their Behavior.
Employment Preference: Academia, industry research, industry

CHANG, JESSICA (jschang at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Anna Karlin and Samir Khuller (U of Maryland)
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2013
Dissertation Topic: Scheduling to Minimize Energy
Employment Preference:  Industry, industry research

CZESKIS, ALEXEI (aczeskis at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Yoshi Kohno
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2013
Dissertation Topic: Computer Security, the Web, and User Authentication
Employment Preference:  Academia, industry research, industry

ESMAEILZADEH, HADI (hadianeh at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Luis Ceze and Douglas Burger (MSR)
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2013
Dissertation Topic: Neural Acceleration for General Purpose Approximate Programs
Employment Preference: Academia

HAHN, SANGYUN (syhahn at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Richard Ladner and Mari Ostendorf (EE)
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2013
Dissertation Topic: Automatic Annotation of Conversational Interactions Using Semi-Supervised Learning
Employment Preference: Industry research or industry

KOLOBOV, ANDREY (akolobov at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Dan Weld and Mausam
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Dissertation Topic: Expressive Markov Decision Process Models and Scalable Algorithms for Solving Them
Employment Accepted:  Microsoft Research

LAI, KEVIN (kevinlai at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dieter Fox
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2013
Dissertation Topic: 3D Scene Labeling of RGB-D Videos
Employment Preference: Industry research, industry

LU,HAO (hlv at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: James Fogarty
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2013
Dissertation Topic: Programming Touch Gestures by Demonstration and Augmentation
Employment Preference: Industry research, industry

LUCIA, BRANDON (blucia0a at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Luis Ceze
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Dissertation Topic: Debugging Errors and Avoiding Failures in Concurrent Software
Employment Preference: Academia, industry research

MACHMOUCHI, WIDAD (widad at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR:  Paul Beame
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Dissertation Topic: Time-Space Tradeoffs and Lower Bounds
Employment Preference: Academic or industry research

PHAM, PAUL (ppham at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR:  Aram Harrow
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Dissertation Topic: Low Depth Quantum Architectures
Employment Preference: Academic or industry (startup)

PRINCE, CRAIG (cmprince at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Richard Anderson
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Dissertation Topic: Integrating Diverse Student Devices into the Digital Classroom
Employment Accepted: Google

RITTER, ALAN (aritter at cs.washington.edu) 
ADVISORS: Oren Etzioni and Mausam
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Dissertation Topic: Open Domain Information Extraction in Twitter
Employment Preference: Academia or industry research

SCHILLER, TODD (tws at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Michael Ernst
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2013
Dissertation Topic: Reducing Usability Barriers to Specification and Verification
Employment Preference:  Industry, industry research

TOOMIM, MICHAEL (toomim at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: James Landay
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2013.
Dissertation Topic: Utility Design of Human-Computer Systems
Employment: Self

YANG, SHULIN (LYNN) (yang at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2013.
Dissertation Topic: Unsupervised Learning Model for Fine-Grained Object Recognition
Employment Preference: Industry research, industry

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