Outgoing Ph.D. Students
Samuel Ainsworth
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Advisor(s): Sidd Srinivasa
Research Area: Machine learning, robotics
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Jennifer Brennan
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Advisor(s): Kevin Jamieson
Research Area: Machine learning
Dissertation Topic: Improving Scientific Experimentation with Machine Learning and Experimental Design
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Research in national labs or scientific/academic institutes
Matthew Conlen
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Advisor(s): Jeff Heer
Research Area: Data visualization, Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Authoring and Publishing Interactive Articles
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Ayse Dincer
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Advisor(s): William Noble
Research Area: Computational biology
Dissertation Topic: Machine learning for solving problems in genomics and proteomics
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Farzam Ebrahimnejad
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Advisor(s): Shayan Oveis Gharan, James R. Lee
Research Area: Theory
Dissertation Topic:
Employment Preference: Academia - Research
Max Forbes
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi
Research Area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation Topic: Learning Physical and Social Commonsense with Language
Employment Preference: Consulting & Freelancing; later: Startup / Small Businesses
Christine Geeng
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Advisor(s): Franziska Roesner
Research Area: Usable Security/HCI
Dissertation Topic: Risks in Online Communications: Studying Sexting, Smarthomes, and Misinformation
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Academia - Teaching
Liang He
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Advisor(s): Jon Froelich
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Beyond Shape: 3D Printing Kinetic Objects for Interactivity
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Aleksander Holynski
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Advisor(s): Steve Seitz, Richard Szeliski, Brian Curless
Research Area: Computer Vision / Graphics / VR, AR
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Brian Hou
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Advisor(s): Sidd Srinivasa
Research Area: Robotics, motion planning, machine learning
Dissertation Topic: Online Learning for Robot Motion Planning Under Uncertainty
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Samia Ibtasam
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Advisor(s): Richard Anderson
Research Area: Computing for Development, Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Broadening Technological and Financial Inclusion: Designing Technology for Gender, Religion & Culture
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Dhruv Jain
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Advisor(s): Jon Froehlich
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Matthew Johnson
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Advisor(s): Kurtis Heimerl
Research Area: Computing for Development (ICTD), Mobile Networking
Employment Preference: Academia - Teaching, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Mandar Joshi
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Advisor(s): Dan Weld, Luke Zettlemoyer
Research Area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation Topic: Self-Supervised Representation for Natural Language Processing
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Martin Kellogg
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Advisor(s): Mike Ernst
Research Area: Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Dissertation Topic: Lightweight Verification via Specialized Typecheckers
Employment Preference: Academia - Research
Naveena Karusala
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Advisor(s): Richard Anderson
Research Area: Human-Computer interaction, computing for development (ICTD)
yEmployment Preference: Academia - Research
Beibin Li
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Advisor(s): Linda Shapiro
Research Area: Computer Vision; Machine Learning
Dissertation Topic: Adapting Data Shift for Low-Resource Learning
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Qisheng Li
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Advisor(s): Katharina Reinecke
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Kuikui Liu
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Advisor(s): Shayan Oveis Gharan
Research Area: Theory of Computing, Algorithms, Markov Chains, High-Dimensional Geometry
Dissertation Topic: Markov Chain Analysis Through the Lens of High-Dimensional Expanders
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Xin Liu
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Advisor(s): Shwetak Patel
Research Area: Machine Learning, Sensing, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Dissertation Topic: Towards Accessible, Equitable and Useful Non-Contact Health Sensing
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Yang Liu
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Advisor(s): Jeffrey Heer
Research Area: Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Multiverse analysis
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Kelvin Luu
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Advisor(s): Noah Smith
Research Area: Natural Language Processing
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Steven Lyubomirsky
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Advisor(s): Zach Tatlock
Research Area: Programming languages
Dissertation Topic: Compilers and runtime systems for deep learning applications
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Julian Michael
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Advisor(s): Luke Zettlemoyer
Research Area: Natural language processing
Employment Preference: Academia - Research
Phoebe Mulcaire
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Advisor(s): Noah Smith
Research Area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation Topic: Crosslingual Sharing for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing
Employment Preference: Industry - Research
Julie Newcomb
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Advisor(s): Ras Bodik
Research Area: Programming Languages
Dissertation Topic: Augmenting and Synthesizing Term Rewriting Systems
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Postdoc
Alex Okeson
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Advisor(s): James Fogarty
Research Area: Human Computer Interaction, Applied Machine Learning
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Chunjong Park
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Advisor(s): Shwetak Patel
Research Area: Ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction
Dissertation Topic: Approaches for improving data acquisition in sensor-based health applications
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Keunhong Park
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi, Steve Seitz
Research Area: Computer Vision, Graphics
Dissertation Topic: 3D Scanning for All
Employment Preference: Industry - Researc
Hao Peng
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Advisor(s): Noah Smith
Research Area: Natural Language Processing
Dissertation Topic: Rational Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Leah Perlmutter
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Advisor(s): Maya Cakmak
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction, Accessibility, CS Education
Employment Preference: Academia - Teaching
Krishna Pillutla
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Advisor(s): Sham Kakade, Zaid Harchaoui
Research Area: Machine learning, federated learning, natural language processing
Dissertation topic: Robustness, heterogeneity and optimization: From on-device federated learning to enormous structured models
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Junha Roh
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Advisor(s): Ali Farhadi and Dieter Fox
Research Area: Robotics, Embodied AI, Computer Vision
Dissertation Topic: Language grounded navigation, autonomous driving
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Manaswi Saha
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Advisor(s): Jon Froehlich, Jeffrey Heer
Research Area: Human-computer interactionI, urban informatics, accessibility, data visualization, computational social science
Dissertation Topic: Designing Interactive Computational Tools for Understanding Urban Accessibility at Scale
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Orgs doing research with Social Good focus (e.g., think tanks, national research labs)
Lucy Simko
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Advisor(s): Tadayoshi Kohno
Research Area: Security and privacy
Dissertation Topic: Security and privacy during changes in ontological security
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Sherry Tongshuang Wu
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Advisor(s): Jeffrey Heer, Dan Weld
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Human-AI Interaction
Dissertation Topic: Principles and Interactive Tools for Evaluating and Improving NLP models
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Rowan Zellers
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Advisor(s): Yejin Choi, Ali Farhadi
Research Area: Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI
Dissertation Topic: Learning Commonsense Understanding through Language and Vision
Employment Preference: Academia - Research
Eric Zeng
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Advisor(s): Franziska Roesner
Research Area: Security and Privacy
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Outgoing Postdoctoral Scholars
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
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UW Advisor(s): Maya Cakmak
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): Ana Paiva and Guy Hoffman, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and Cornell University
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Research Focus: Robotics, health, artificial intelligence
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Waylon Brunette
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UW Advisor(s): Richard Anderson
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): Richard Anderson, University of Washington
Research Area: Computing for Development (ICTD), Mobile Computing, HCI, Edge Computing
Research Focus: Open Data Kit 2: Building Mobile Application Frameworks for Disconnected Data Management that specifically target Global Humanitarian Organizations
Employment Preference: Academia - Research
Karthik Desingh
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UW Advisor(s): Dieter Fox
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): Chad Jenkins, University of Michigan
Research Area: Robotics, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
Research Focus: Perception and Reasoning for Mobile Manipulation; Representation Learning; Belief Propagation
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Pardis Emami-Naeini
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UW Advisor(s): Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): Lorrie Cranor and Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Area: Privacy, Security, Usability
Research Focus: Human aspects in security and privacy. Exploring people's understanding and concerns toward security and privacy of technology to inform the design of systems and policies.
Employment Preference: Academia - Research
Christoforos Mavrogiannis
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UW Advisor(s): Siddhartha Srinivasa
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): Ross A. Knepper, Cornell University
Research Area: Robotics
Research Focus: Human-robot interaction, multiagent navigation, robot planning, artificial intelligence
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research
Peter Ney
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UW Advisor(s): Luis Ceze, Yoshi Kohno
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): Yoshi Kohno, University of Washington
Research Area: Computer Security and Privacy
Research Focus: Network/cell-phone security, cyber-bio security, distributed measurement systems
Employment Preference: Industry - Research, Industry - Development
Dustin Richmond
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UW Advisor(s): Richard Anderson
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): Ryan Kastner, University of California, San Diego
Research Area: Computer Architecture, Hardware Security, Reconfigurable Systems
Research Focus: Secure, usable, reconfigurable systems
Employment Preference: Academia - Research
Soumyadip Sengupta
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UW Advisor(s): Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Brian Curless
Ph.D. Institution & Advisor(s): David W. Jacobs, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Area: Computer Vision & Graphics
Research Focus: Improve video communication by developing easily accessible content creation and editing tools.
Employment Preference: Academia - Research, Industry - Research