Current PhD and Post Doctoral Students
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Camelia Brumar (PhD)
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2020-
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Internship at Alife Health (2021)
Third place in the International Major League Hacking Hackathon (2020)
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Gabriel Appleby (PhD)
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2018-
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Internship at Novartis (2021)
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Brian Montambault (PhD)
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2020-
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Internship at SSI Group (2021)
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Ashley Suh (PhD)
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2018-
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
NSF Fellowship (2021)
Internship at Novartis (2021)
Internship at NERL (2018)
Loevner Fellowship (2018)
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Graduated PhD and Post Doctoral Students
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Wenbo Tao (PhD, MIT), co-advised with Mike Stonebraker
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2017-21
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Employment:
After graduation: Facebook
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Ab Mosca (PhD)
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2016-2021
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Employment:
After graduation: Teaching Assistant Professor at Northeastern University
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Internship at In-Q-Tel (2020)
Internship at NERL (2018)
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Dylan Cashman (PhD)
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2016-2020
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Employment:
After graduation: Novartis
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Best Paper Award (VIS Symposium on Visualization in Data Science, 2018)
Best Paper Award (VIS Workshop on Visual Analytics for Deep Learning, 2017)
Internship at PARC (2016)
Provost's Fellowship (2016)
Internship at MIT Lincoln Lab (2015)
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Marianne Procopio (PhD)
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2015-2020
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Employment:
After graduation: MIT Lincoln Lab
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
MIT Lincoln Scholar (2016)
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Michael Behrisch (PostDoc)
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2019-
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Employment:
After: Assistant Professor at Utrecht University (Netherlands)
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Shah Humayoun (PostDoc)
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2017-2019
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Employment:
After graduation: Assistant Professor at the San Francisco State University
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Mike Curry (PhD, MIT), co-advised with Daniel Hastings
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2013-2017
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After graduation: Draper
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Leilani Battle (PhD, MIT), co-advised with Mike Stonebraker
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2012-2017
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After graduation: Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland
Currently: University of Washington
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2020)
NSF Graduate Fellowship (2012)
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Alvitta Ottley (PhD)
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2011-2016
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Thesis: Toward Personalized Visualizations (pdf)
Committee: Rob Jacob, Sam Guyer, Holly Taylor, Cristina Conati
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Employment:
After graduation: Assistant Professor at University of Washington in St. Louis
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Heidelberg Laureate (Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation) (2016)
CHI Honorable Mention Best Paper Award (2015)
Kirk and Janelle Loevner Fellowship (Tufts) (2014)
Internship at IBM Research (Almaden) (2014)
Internship at IBM Research (Cambridge) (2013)
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Beste Yuksel (PhD), co-advised with Rob Jacob
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2011-2016
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After graduation: Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
CHI Best Paper Award (2016)
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Eli T. Brown (PhD)
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2010-2015
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Thesis: Learning from Users' Interactions with Visual Analytics Systems (pdf)
Committee: Rob Jacob, Gregory Crane, Misha Kilmer, Chris North
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Employment:
After graduation: Assistant Professor at DePaul University
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Internship at Microsoft Research (Redmond) (2014)
Internship at PNNL (2013)
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Lane Harrison (Post Doc)
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2013-2015
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Employment:
After graduation: Assistant Professor at WPI
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
Best Poster Award, InfoVis (2012)
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Dan Afergan (PhD), co-advised with Rob Jacob
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2011-2015
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After graduation: Google
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Evan Peck (PhD), co-advised with Rob Jacob
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2010-2014
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After graduation: Assistant Professor at Bucknell
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Jordan Crouser (PhD)
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2010-2013
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Thesis: Toward Theoretical Measures for Systems Involving Human Computation (pdf)
Committee: Rob Jacob, Ben Hescott, Mary Glaser, Matthew Schmidt
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Employment:
After graduation: MIT Lincoln Lab
Currently: Assistant Professor at Smith College
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Notable Awards and Distinctions:
IEEE VGTC PhD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (2014)
Internship at MIT Lincoln (2012)
Visualizing Research at Tufts Award: Illustrations (2011)
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Master's Students
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Melissa Iori
| 2018
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Draper Fellow (2016)
after graduation: TBD
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Maja Milosavlijevic
| 2017
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NSF Graduate Student Fellowship Honorable Mention (2016)
NSA Mathematics and Computer Science Scholarship (2016)
Google Lime Fellowship (2017)
Left before completing MS for a project manager position at Microsoft
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Erden Otkay
| 2017
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after graduation: Programmer Analyst at Tufts Medical School
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Filipe Barroso
| 2017
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after graduation: Programmer Analyst at Tufts Medical School
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Anzu Hakone
| 2017
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After graduation: software engineer at the Broad Institute
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Fumeng Yang
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2016
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After graduation: PhD student at Brown
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Stephen McDonald
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2015
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After graduation: GIS Fellow at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard
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Guvenc Usanmaz
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2015
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After graduation: Research/Teaching Assistant at the University of Tekirdag (Turkey)
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Jason Jacob
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2014
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After graduation: Draper Labs
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Helen (Jieqiong) Zhao
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2013
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After graduation: PhD student at Purdue University
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Orkun Ozbek
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2014
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After graduation: Software Engineer at TripAdvisor
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Takao Tanizawa
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2011
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After graduation: Senior Software Engineer at Murata Machinery
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Jeremy Freeman
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2011
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After graduation: Java Engineer at Zoom Information
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Michael Degatano
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2011
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After graduation: Software Engineer at Pegasystems
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Daniel Kee
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2011
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After graduation: Software Engineer at iRobot
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Undergraduate Thesis & Project
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Shana Friedman
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2015
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After graduation: Apple
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Liz Salowitz
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2013
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After graduation: Project Manager at Microsoft
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Daniel Kass
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2013
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After graduation: Technology Lead at Layerframe
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Connor Gramazio
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2012
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NSF Graduate Student Fellowship (2011)
Honorable Mention, CRA Undergraduate Research Award (2011)
After graduation: PhD student at Brown University
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PhD Thesis Committee
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Dereck J Toker (University of British Columbia)
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2019
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Thesis advisor: Cristina Conati
After graduation: TBD
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Sam Hincks (Tufts)
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2019
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Thesis advisor: Rob Jacob
After graduation: TBD
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Zhe Wang (Arizona)
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2019
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Thesis advisor: Carlos Scheidegger
After graduation: ASML
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Sara Amin (Tufts)
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2019
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Thesis advisor: Soha Hassoun
After graduation: TBD
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Rafael Veras Guimaraes (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
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2019
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Thesis advisor: Christopher Collins
After graduation: TBD
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Qing Chen (Hong Kong University Science and Technology)
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2018
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Thesis advisor: Huamin Qu
After graduation: PostDoc at INRIA
Currently: Assistant Professor at Tongji University (China)
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Michael Shah (Tufts)
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2017
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Thesis advisor: Sam Guyer
After graduation: Lecturer at Northeastern University
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Robert D'Angelo (Tufts ECE)
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2017
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Thesis advisor: Sameer Sonkusale
After graduation: Draper
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Jessica Zeitz Self (Virginia Tech)
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2016
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Thesis advisor: Chris North
After graduation: Assistant Professor at University of Mary Washington
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Gordon Briggs (Tufts)
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2015
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Thesis advisor: Matthias Scheutz
After graduation: Naval Research Lab
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Steven Gomez (Brown)
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2015
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Thesis advisor: David Laidlaw
After graduation: MIT Lincoln Lab
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Jingjing Liu (Tufts)
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2014
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Thesis advisor: Carla Brodley
After graduation: Software Engineer at ZenMarketing
Currently: Google
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Amelio Vazquez-Reina (Tufts ECE)
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2012
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Thesis advisor: Eric Miller
After graduation: BBN / Raytheon
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James Won (Tufts Human Factors)
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2012
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Thesis advisor: Dan Hannon
After graduation: MIT Lincoln Lab
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Erin Solovey (Tufts)
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2011
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Thesis advisor: Rob Jacob
After graduation: NSF CI Fellow at MIT
Currently: Assistant Professor at Drexel
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Thomas Butkiewicz (UNC Charlotte)
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2010
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Thesis advisor: Bill Ribarsky
After graduation: Research Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire
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