Alumni/Alumnae Home Pages

This is a partial listing of Computer Science alumni/ae. Where available, we have provided links to the web pages for these alumni/ae. (Note: The CS Department is not responsible for content found on these pages.)

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Computer Science Ph.D. Recipients in 2009

G. Michael Poor
(Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowling Green University)
Ph.D., February 2009, Advisor: Robert Jacob
Dissertation: The Effects of Varying Levels of Reality Based Interaction Styles on a Subject's Ability to Perform a 3-D Construction Task

Michael Horn
(Assistant Professor, Northwestern University)
Ph.D. May 2009, Advisor: Robert Jacob
Dissertation: Tangible Computer Programming: Exploring the use of Emerging Technology in Classrooms and Science Museums

Elena Jakubiak
(Visiting Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL))
Ph.D. May 2009, Advisor: Sarah Frisken
Dissertation: An Improved Representation for Stroke-Based Typefaces and a Method for their Creation

Gabriel Wachman

Ph.D. November 2009, Advisor: Roni Khardon
Dissertation: Kernel Methods and Their Application to Structured Data

Computer Science Ph.D. Recipients in 2008

Arthur Brady
Ph.D. 2008, Advisor: Lenore Cowen
Dissertation: Detecting High-Level Gene Function and Inferring Genetic Pathways

David W. Sculley
Ph.D. 2008, Advisor: Carla Brodley
Dissertation: Advances in Online Learning-Based Spam Filtering

Orit Shaer
(Assistant Professor, Wellesley College)
Ph.D. 2008, Advisor: Robert Jacob
Dissertation: A Visual Language for Specifying and Programming Tangible User Interfaces

Ning Wu
Ph.D. 2008, Advisor: Alva Couch
Dissertation: Minimizing the Cost of Configuration Changes in Self-Managing Systems Via Closures, Matchings, and Marriages

Recent Computer Science Ph.D. Recipients

Harold Andrews
Ph.D. 2001, Advisor:David Krumme
Dissertation: An Object Description Language for Distributed Discrete Event Simulations

Marta Arias
Ph.D. 2004, Advisor: Roni Khardon
Dissertation: Exact Learning of First Order Expressions from Queries

Karina Assiter
Ph.D. 2002, Advisor: Alva Couch
Dissertation: Projective Mapping: A Faithful Mapping Algorithm for the Layout of Multidimensional Data

Tamara Babaian
Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: Jim Schmolze
Dissertation: Knowledge Representation and Open World Planning Using ψ-forms

Georgios Christou
Ph.D. 2007, Advisor: Robert Jacob
Dissertation: CoDeIn: A Knowledge-Based Framework for the Description
and Evaluation of Reality-Based Interaction

Leonidas Deligiannidis
Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: Rob Jacob
Dissertation: DLOVE -- A Specification Paradigm for Designing Distributed VR Applications for Single or Multiple Users

Michael Jonas
Ph.D. 2003 Advisor: Jim Schmolze
Dissertation: Modeling Speech Using a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process

Sanpawat Kantabutra
Ph.D. 2002, Advisor: Alva Couch
Dissertation: Efficient Representation of Cluster Structure in Large Data Sets

Stephen Morrison
Ph.D. 1998, Advisor: Rob Jacob
Dissertation: A Specification Paradigm for Design and Implementation of non-WIMP Human-Computer Interactions

Eynat Rafalin
Ph.D. 2005, Advisor: Diane Souvaine
Dissertation: Algorithms and Analysis of Depth Functions Using Computational Geometry

Horn-yeu Shiaw
Ph.D. 2003, Advisor: Rob Jacob
Dissertation: 3D Focus + Content Interactive Visualization

Yizhan Sun
Ph.D. 2006, Advisor Alva Couch
Dissertation: Complexity of System Configuration Management

Vildan Tanriverdi
Ph.D. 2001, Advisor: Rob Jacob
Dissertation: VRID: a Virtual Reality Interface Design Model and Methodology

Chenggang Wang
Ph.D. 2007, Advisors: James Schmolze and Roni Khardon
Dissertation: First-Order Markov Decision Processes

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