Graduation: Degrees Conferred for 2009-2010

May 16, 2010

The Department congratulates our newest graduates who were awarded degrees for 2009-2010 at commencement ceremonies on May 16.

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PhD Degrees

Fred Bower
Advisor: Daniel Sorin
Technology Impacts of CMOS Scaling on Microprocessor Core Design for Hard-Fault Tolerance in Single-Core Applications and Optimized Throughput in Throughput-Oriented Chip Microprocessors

Songyun Duan
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Simplifying System Management through Automated Forecasting, Diagnosis, and Configuration Tuning

Zheng Li
Advisor: Craig Henriquez
Non-Linear Adaptive Bayesian Filtering for Brain-Machine Interfaces

Amit Patel
Advisor: Herbert Edelsbrunner
Reeb Spaces and the Robustness of Preimages

Michael Sirivianos
Advisor: Xiaowei Yang
Toward Attack-Resistant Distributed Information Systems by Means of Social Trust

MS Degrees

Nedyalko Borisov
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Integrated Management of the Persistent-Storage and Data-Processing Layers in Data-Intensive Computing Systems

Abrita Chakravarty
Advisor: Alexander Hartemink
A New Epigenomic Pipeline for Computational Prediction of Imprinted Human Genes

Harish Chandran
Advisor: John Reif
Tile Complexity of Linear Assemblies

Ionut Constandache
Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
Using Mobile Phone Sensors for Pervasive Localization

Nihshanka Debroy
Advisor: Xiaobai Sun
Investigation Into Integrating Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transforms (NuFFTs) in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Linda Deng
Advisor: Landon Cox
LiveCompare: Grocery Bargain Hunting Through Participatory Sensing

Peter Franklin
Advisor; Vincent Conitzer
Internet-Based Fault Recovery for Home Wireless LANs

Zhiqiang Gu
Advisor: Carlo Tomasi
A Discriminative Constellation Model for Image Matching and Recognition

Xin Guo
Advisor: Alexander Hartemink
Alignment of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks and Deconvolution of mRNA Expression Measurements

Yang Liu
Advisor: Alvin Lebeck
Architectural Mechanisms for Reducing and Tolerating Critical Operation Latency in Nanoscale Self-organizing SIMD Architectures

Varun Marupadi
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
The Missing Link: Dynamic Virtual Networks

Susanna Ricco
Advisor: Carlo Tomasi
The Shape of Visual Motion

Matthew Sayler
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
Open Resource Control with Cloud Middleware

Gavin Taylor
Advisor: Ronald Parr
Feature Selection for Value Function Approximation

Jie Xiao
Advisor: Alvin Lebeck
Analysis of Directory-based Coherence Protocol Implementation

Yi Zhang
Advisor: Jun Yang
RIOT: A Framework for Efficient Statistical Computing

Undergraduate Degrees

First Major
Max Altman
Aron Anderson
Martin Azizyan
Maggie Bashford
Michael Bradley
Frederick Ehrsam II
Ulisses Gurgel
Phillip Jennings IV
Peter Linnartz
Benjamin McCormick
Ayanga Okpokowuruk
Zane Shannon
David Stecher
Rodrigo Tejedor
Caleb Vandenheuvel
Austin Weiss
Justin Wickett
Zexiao Yu
Second Major
Amos Barreto
John-Peter Cafaro
Wutichai Chongchitmate
Van Dang
Thomas Donnelly
Zachary Drillings
Alex Edelsburg
David Eitel
Andrew First
Jason Hsu
Xiaodi Huang
Scott Ings
Kevin Kauffman
Jack Li
Thomas Marmaduke
Ronald Murhammer
Daniel Shapiro
Peng Shi
Deepak Srinivasan
Alexander Trahey
Ziao Zhan Zheng
Minor
Shwetadip Chowdhury
Yilin Ding
Matthew Rognlie
Junyan Xu