Graduating PhDs in 2006-2007

Jeannie Albrecht home page
Advisor:Amin Vahdat and Alex Snoeren
Dissertation Title: Distributed Application Management
Current Employment: Williams College; Williamstown, MA; Assistant Professor -Tenure Track
jalbrecht@cs.ucsd.edu

John Bellardo home page
Advisor:Stefan Savage
Dissertation Title: Secure and Efficient Wireless Networks
Current Employment: California Polytechnic State University; San Luis Obispo, Ca; Assistant Professor tenure; www.csc.calpoly.edu.
bellardo@csc.calpoly.edu

Kristin Branson home page
Advisor:Serge Belongie
Dissertation Title: Tracking Multiple Mice through Severe Occlusions
Current Employment: Caltech University; Pasadena, Ca; Postdoc in Electrical Engineering
kbranson@cs.ucsd.edu

Hongyu Chen home page
Advisor:C.K. Cheng
Dissertation Title: On-Chip Interconnect Architectures: Perspectives of Layout, Circuits, and Systems
Current Employment: Synopsys, Inc.; Sunnyvale, CA; Senior Research and Design Engineer
hchen@cs.ucsd.edu

Weihaw Chuang home page
Advisor:Brad Calder
Dissertation Title: Maintaining Safe Memory for Security, Debugging, and Multi-Threading
Current Employment: Peakstream Inc.; Redwood Shores, CA; Technical Staff
wchuang@cs.ucsd.edu

Craig Donner home page
Advisor:Henrik Wann Jensen
Dissertation Title: Toward Realistic Image Synthesis of Scattering Materials
Current Employment: UCSD; San Diego, CA; Postgraduate Researcher
cdonner@cs.ucsd.edu

Douglas Harrell home page
Advisor:Geoffrey Voelker
Dissertation Title: Theory and Technology for Computational Narrative: An Approach to Generative and Interactive Narrative with Bases in Algebraic Semiotics and Cognitive Linguistics
Current Employment: Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA; Assist Professor - tenure track
redfox@cs.ucsd.edu

Alejandro Hevia home page
Advisor:Daniele Micciancio
Dissertation Title: Anonymity and Independence in Multiparty Protocols
Current Employment: University of Chile; Santiago, Chile; Assistant Professor
ahevia@cs.ucsd.edu

Yuanfang Hu home page
Advisor:Chung-Kuan Cheng
Dissertation Title: On-Chip Interconnection Architecture Optimization Using A Multicommodity Flow Approach
Current Employment: Mentor Graphics; San Jose, CA; Senior Software Engineer
yhu@cs.ucsd.edu

Hector Jasso home page
Advisor:Garrison Cottrell
Dissertation Title: A Reinforcement Learning Model of Gaze Following
Current Employment: SDSC-UCSD; La Jolla, CA; Researcher
hjasso@cs.ucsd.edu

David Kauchak home page
Advisor:Charles Elkan
Dissertation Title: Contributions to Research on Machine Translation
Current Employment: Adchemy Inc; Redwood City, CA; Research Scientist and Stanford University; Palo Alto, CA; Assistant Professor- Summer School
dkauchak@cs.ucsd.edu

Rakesh Kumar home page
Advisor:Dean Tullsen
Dissertation Title: Holistic Design for Multi-Core Architectures
Current Employment: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chicago, Il; Assistant Professor tenure-track
rakumar@cs.ucsd.edu

Jeremy Lau home page
Advisor:Brad Calder
Dissertation Title Predicting Performance Across Compilations
Current Employment: Google; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
jl@cs.ucsd.edu

Jianhua Liu home page
Advisor: Chung Cheng
Dissertation Topic Contemporary Data Path Design Optimization
Current Employment: Altera; San Jose, CA; Software Engineer
j11liu@cs.ucsd.edu

Jia Mao home page
Advisor:Ron Graham
Dissertation Title: On the Design and Worst-Case Analysis of Certain Interactive and Approximation Algorithms
Current Employment: Goldman Sachs; New York, NY; Strategist - Associate
jiamao@cs.ucsd.edu

Sean Peisert homepage
Advisor:Sidney Karin
Dissertation Title: A Programming Model for Automated Decompostition on Heterogeneous Clusters of Multiprocessors
Current Employment: UC Davis; Davis, CA; PostDoc
peisert@sdsc.edu

Erez Perelman home page
Advisor:Brad Calder
Dissertation Title: Characterizing Time Varying Program Behavior for Efficient Simulation
Current Employment: Cypress Semi Conductors; San Diego, CA; PHD Coop
eperelma@cs.ucsd.edu

Kiran Tati home page
Advisor:Geoffrey Voelker
Dissertation Title: Exploiting Heterogeneity in Peer-To-Peer Systems
Current Employment: VM Ware; Palo Alto, CA; Technical Staff
ktati@cs.ucsd.edu

Xinran (Ryan) Wu home page
Advisor:Andrew Chien
Dissertation Title: Distributed Fair Bandwidth Sharing for Lambda Networks
Current Employment: Microsoft; Redmond, WA; Sr. Software Design Engineer
xwu@cs.ucsd.edu

Huaxia Xia home page
Advisor:Andrew Chien
Dissertation Title: RobuSTore: A Distributed Storage Architecture with Robust and High Performance
Current Employment: Google Inc.; Mountain View, CA; Software Engineer
hxia@cs.ucsd.edu

Xu Xu home page
Advisor:Andrew B. Kahng
Dissertation Title: Optimizations of Manufacturability and Manufacturing in Nanometer-Era VLSI
Current Employment: Magma Design Automation; San Jose, CA; Consulting Staff
xuxu@cs.ucsd.edu

Xianan (Shannon) Zhang home page
Advisor:Keith Marzullo
Dissertation Title: Fault-Toleramt Grid Services
Current Employment: VM Ware; Palo Alto, CA; Technical Staff
xzhang@cs.ucsd.edu