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
Postdocs on the job market 2013–2014
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
Postdocs on the job market in the future
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