Graduation: Degrees Conferred for 2010-11
The Department congratulates our newest graduates who were awarded degrees for 2010-11 at commencement ceremonies on May 15.
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PhD Degrees
Ionut Constandache
Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
Sensor-Assisted Mobile Phone Localization
Mingyu Guo
Advisor: Vincent Conitzer
Computationally Feasible Approaches to Automated Mechanism Design
Joshua Robinson
Advisor: Alexander Hartemink
Modeling Time-Varying Networks with Applications to Neural Flow and Genetic Regulation
Samuel Slee
Advisor: John Reif
Developing Scalable Abilities for Self-Reconfigurable Robots
Gavin Taylor
Advisor: Ronald Parr
Feature Selection for Value Function Approximation
Bei Wang
Advisor: Herbert Edelsbrunner
Separating Features from Noise with Persistence and Statistics
MS Degrees
Fatma Bilgen Cetin
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Reusing Intermediate Data in MapReduce Computations
Liang Dong
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Optimization Opportunities for MapReduce Workloads
Ion Valentin Pistol
Advisor: Alvin Lebeck
A Case for Cohort Cores: Exposing Data Parallelism using Workload Similarity
Monika Schaeffer
Advisor: Ronald Parr
Efficient Selection of Disambiguating Actions for Stereo Vision
Ryan Scudellari
Advisor: Landon Cox
Protecting Login Credentials with Trustworthy UI Elements
Souvik Sen
Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
Physical Layer aware Wireless MAC Design
Ryan Tate
Advisor: Xiaowei Yang
Supplemental Authentication via Internet Fingerprinting
Vamsidhar Thummala
Advisor: Shivnath Babu & Jeffrey Chase
Balancing Energy, Performance, and Stability Tradeoffs Under Uncertainty
Xuting Zhao
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Workload-aware Data-Placement and Scheduling Policies to Improve MapReduce Performance under Cluster Hot Spots
Ying Zheng
Advisor: Herbert Edelsbrunner
Delicate Shape Reconstruction and Discovering Symmetric Patterns
Undergraduate Degrees
| First Major | ||
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Nikhil Arun Lucas Best Alex Beutel ††† Cassandra Carley Christopher Carlon Sophia Cui Ryan Echternacht Se-Gil Feldsott Wei Gan |
Benjamin Getson Nicholas Hawthorne Megan Heysham Matthew Jacobson Kostadin Kostadinov Hyung Lee Kyungmin Lee Elizabeth Liang † Joshua Lund |
Lakshya Madhok Matthew Prorok Henry Qin Samuel Robertson Jacob Schmidt Jonathan Su Antony Thomas Benjamin Waggoner, VI Shaolong Wang |
| Second Major | ||
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Wesley Brown Bingxin Chen † Haoyu Chen Shame Chikoro Mark Elstein Jeffrey Forte, Jr. Jacob Harer Gyushik Jang |
Ga-Young Joung Grigoriy Kerzhner Mikhail Lavrov Chengyu Li Vitor Olivier Philip Puryear Trevor Reid Daniel Sharkey |
James Shedlick, Jr. Maxim Sirenko Chen-Ling Cheney Tsai † Jeremy T. Walch Scott Adam Winleman James Lynn Wu |
| Minor | ||
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Nicolas Altemose Stephanie Chang Alan Xinyu Guo |
Zhichao Han Nils Hultgren John Ingalls |
Michael Kuo Ralph Nathan Chi Zhang |
† Graduation with Distinction
††† Graduation with Highest Distinction