More on my adviser, Nico Habermann, and my advising and mentoring style below
Harold: You sure have a way with people.
Maude: Well, they're my species! [Harold and Maude, 1971]
Notkin: My favorite subspecies are my family and my students.
Current students
Post-doctoral researchers
- Reid Holmes (Waterloo)
- Yuriy Brun (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Jochen Wuttke
Ph.D. graduates
- Doug Wiebe (Apple)
- Gail Alverson (Cray)
- Sung K. Chung, with E.D. Lazowska
- Bill Griswold (UCSD)
- Kevin Sullivan (UVA)
- Marty Sirkin (Leaf Holdings), with D. Batory
- Kingsum Chow (Intel)
- Gail C. Murphy (UBC)
- Yoshi Yamane (Tsuneishi)
- Michael VanHilst (Florida Atlantic University)
- William Chan (1972-1999), with R.J. Anderson and P. Beame
Honorable Mention, 2000 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Contest - Amir Michail
Michael Ernst (UW), with W.G. Griswold
Honorable Mention, 2000 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Contest - Jonathan Aldrich (CMU), with C. Chambers
- Tao Xie (North Carolina State University)
- Will Portnoy (Microsoft)
- Vibha Sazawal, with G. Borriello
- Tapan Parikh (Berkeley), with E.D. Lazowska
- Miryung Kim(U. Texas at Austin)
M.S. graduates
- Owen Beckley (Fox River)
- Jake Cockrell (AOL)
- Lea Fester
- Dennis Gentry (Google)
- Kimiko Gosney (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium)
- Frits Habermann (PopCap)
- Michael Hanson (Straightface)
- Yasushi Kambayashi (Nippon Institute of Technology)
- Erica Lan (Microsoft)
- William Mains
- Tomson McCabe
- Robert Mitchell (Lincoln Financial)
- Marianne Mueller (Western Horticulture)
- Mark Niehaus (Microsoft)
- Marius Nita
- Bruce Oberg (Sucker Punch)
- Richard Schulte (Amazon)
- Peter Sparks (Morgan Stanley)
- Sharon Tuttle (Humbolt State U.)
Nico Habermann
1932-1993
My philosophy about working with students is taken from my adviser, Nico Habermann:
Focus on the students, since graduating great students means you'll produce great research, while focusing on the research may or may not produce great students.
Nico's influence along with the fantastic students I've been fortunate enough to work with are what made it possible for me to win the 2000 University of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.
Here is a copy of an email message I sent to my students before they attended their first software engineering conference (very mildly edited).