The Department congratulates our newest graduates who were awarded degrees for 2011-12 at commencement ceremonies on May 13.

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PhD Degrees

Shashidhara Ganjugunte
Advisor: Pankaj Agarwal
Geometric Hitting Sets and Their Variants

Herodotos Herodotou
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Optimizing Analytical Workloads in Data-Intensive Computing Systems

Yang Liu
Advisor: Alvin Lebeck
Architectures for Memristor-based Storage Structures

Justin Manweiler
Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
Building Blocks for Tomorrow's Mobile App Store

Amre Shakimov
Advisor: Landon Cox
Basis of Trust in the Online Social Networking Services

Chittaranjan Tripathy
Advisor: Bruce Donald
Analytic Solutions and Algorithms for Protein Structure Determination using Orientational Restraints from NMR Data

Lirong Xia
Advisor: Vincent Conitzer
Computational Voting Theory: Game-Theoretic and Combinatorial Aspects

Jianyang Zeng
Advisor: Bruce Donald
Novel Algorithms for Automated NMR Assignment and Protein Structure Determination

Yi Zhang
Advisor: Jun Yang
RIOT: A framework for I/O-efficient statistical computing

MS Degrees

Eduardo Cuervo
Advisor: Landon Cox
CrowdLab: An Architecture for Volunteer Mobile Testbeds

Azbayar Demberel
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
Utility-directed Reflective Control: Dynamic Elasticity for Science Workflows in the Cloud

Fei Dong
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Extending Starfish to Support the Growing Hadoop Ecosystem

Alexandru Dutu
Advisor: Alvin Lebeck
Diligent Microprocessors

Matthew Fulmer
Advisors: Jeffrey Chase & Julian Lombardi
Massive Live Broadcast of 3D Virtual Events

Prateek Jaipuria
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
Building GENI Authorization with a Distributed Trust Management Framework

Dongtao Liu
Advisor: Landon Cox
Protecting User Privacy in the Mobile and Social Network Era

Gang Luo
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Processing SQL-like Declarative Queries in a MapReduce Framework

Jun Pang
Advisor: Alvin Lebeck
Architectures for Resonance Energy Transfer Optical Computing

Tianqi Song
Advisor: John Reif
Simulating Stochastic Linear Assemblies

Xixi Wang
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Declarative Data Stream Analysis on Storm

Jie Xu
Advisor: Uwe Ohler
Discovering RNA-Protein Interaction Sites Spanning an Splice Junction from PAR-CLIP Deep-Sequencing Data

Ke Xu
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
Programmable Packet Service in a Multi-Domain Network Infrastructure

Zihang Yin
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
SafeSets: A cloud-based object store supporting authentication and set operations

Wuzhou Zhang
Advisor: Pankaj Agarwal
Nearest-Neighbor Searching Under Uncertainty

Muzhi Zhao
Advisor: Jeffrey Chase
Share Virtual Appliances and Credentials in the Cloud

Yunjia Zhou
Advisor: Jun Yang
Exploring One-of-the-Few Claims from Data

Xuanran Zong
Advisor: Xiaowei Yang
Predicting Application Performance in the Cloud

Undergraduate Degrees

First Major
Nicholas Bodnar Sophia Cao* David Crowe Sterling Dorminey Mallika Dutta John Egan Daphne Ezer ††† Alexander Galonsky Lisa Gutermuth	Charlie Hatcher Carrie Ho Javier Hollingsworth ◊ Nathan Klug Cody Kolodziejzyk Alexander Kritchevsky Joseph Levy †† Patrick Lu Cameron McCallie	Trevor Narayan Samuel Paderewski Andrea Scripa †† Brent Sodman Drew Sternesky Trevor Terris †† Devon Townsend Michael Yu Jordan Zaslav
Second Major
Michael Ansel Sami Boghos Scott Brothers Dennis Chao Zhuiyang Chen Siyang Chen ††† Aaron Choi Shun Fan Cody Freeman Hareesh Ganesan Hui Gao Julian Genkins ††	Yong-Hui Goh† Justin Goldsmith David Herzka Abhay Jaipuria Justin Klaassen John Kline Daniel Koverman Lindsay Kubasik Geoffrey Lawler Donovan Lee Marcus Molchany Catherine Moon	Keunyoung Oh Vijay Ram Tanner Schmidt †† Brian Simel Heidi Slater Alex Sloan Amberly Tenney Kevin Wang Grant Warman Anne Weng Jiaqi Yan Junliang Zhu
Minor
Alexander Advani ‡ Victoria Arendt ‡ Ben Bellis	Michael Ge Keshav Himatsingka	Jason Lou Faith Xu

† Graduation with Distinction
†† Graduation with High Distinction
††† Graduation with Highest Distinction
* Interdepartmental Major in Computer Science & Philosophy
◊ Interdepartmental Major in Computer Science & African and African American Studies
‡ Minor in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics