UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Box 352350
Seattle, Washington 98195
(206) 543-1695

PHD CANDIDATES FOR 2008-2009

ADAR, EYTAN (eadar at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Dan Weld
Expected Graduating Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: Understanding and Enhancing Interactions with the Temporal Web
Employment Preference: Academia, Industry

ALEXANDRESCU, ANDREI (andrei at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Katrin Kirchhoff and Oren Etzioni
Expected Graduating Date: Winter 2009
Dissertation Topic: Applying global Graph-Based Learning to Speech Processing
Employment Preference: Academia, Industry

BANKO, MICHELE (banko at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Oren Etzioni
Expected Graduating Date: Winter 2009
Dissertation Topic: Open Information Extraction for the Web
Employment Accepted: Evri, Seattle

BIGHAM, JEFFREY P. (bigham at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Richard Ladner
Expected Graduate Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: Enabling End Users to Independently Build Accessibility into the Web
Employment Preference: Academia

CAFARELLA, MICHAEL (mjc at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Oren Etzioni and Dan Suciu
Expected Graduate Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: Managing Web-Embedded Data
Employment Preference: Academia, Industry (Research)

CHERNIAVSKY, NEVA (nchernia at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Richard Ladner and Eve Riskin (Electrical Engineering)
Expected Graduating Date: Winter 2009
Dissertation Topic: Activity Analysis of Sign Language Video
Employment Accepted: INRIA, Paris, France

GIOTIS, IOANNIS (giotis at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Anna Karln
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: Models for Keyword Auctions
Employment Preference: Not defined.

GROCHOW, KEITH (keithg at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Ed Lazowska
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Industrial Research

HAHN, SANGYUN (syhahn at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISORS: Richard Ladner and Mari Ostendorf (Electrical Engineering)
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: Speech Understanding in Multiparty Conversational Speech, and Semi-Supervised Learning
Employment Preference: Industrial Research

HILE, HARLAN (harlan at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Gaetano Borriello
Expected Graduation Date: Spring/Summer 2009
Dissertation Topic: Vision and Augmented Reality Applications on Camera Phones
Employment Preference: Industry

KO, JONATHAN (jonko at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dieter Fox
Expected Graduation Date: Autumn 2009
Dissertation Topic: Gaussian Processes for System Modeling
Employment Preference: Industry or Industry Research

KOBASHI, MASAHARU, (mkbsh at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Linda Shapiro
Expected Date of Graduation: TBA
Dissertation Topic: General Theory of Early Vision with Unified Architecture for Fundamental Vision Processes and Robotics
Employment Accepted: Industry or Academia

LI, NAN (annli at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Raimundo d'Ambrosio and Martin Tompa
Expected Graduate Date: Winter 2009
Dissertation Topic: AXES: a Workspace for Algorithmic Analysis of Electrophysiological Signals
Employment Preference: Industry

LIU, ALAN (aliu at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Gaetano Borriello
Expected Graduate Date: Summer 2009
Dissertation Topic: Developing a Wayfinding System for Individauls with Cognitive Impairment
Employment Preference: Industry

LOWD, DANIEL (lowd at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Pedro Domingos
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Academia

MOSHCHUK, ALEXANDER (anm at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Steve Gribble and Hank Levy
Expected Graduation Date: Summer 2009
Dissertation Topic: TBA
Employment Preference: Industry

RAGHAVENDRA, PRASAD (prasaad at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Venkat Guruswami
Expected Graduation Date: Spring-Summer 2009
Dissertation Topic: Limits to Approximability: Understanding the Power of Semidefinite Programming
Employment Preference: Industry, Academia

RE, CHRISTOPHER (chrisre at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISOR: Dan Suciu
Expected Graduating Date: Summer 2009
Dissertation Topic: Managing Large-Scale Probabilistic Databases
Employment Preference: Academia, Industry (Research)

REIS, CHARLES (creis at cs.washington.edu)
ADVISORS: Steve Gribble and Hank Levy
Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Topic: Web Browser Security and Robustness
Employment Preference: Industrial Research

SINGLA, PARAG (parag at cs.washington.edu>
ADVISOR: Pedro Domingos
Expected Graduation Date: Winter 2009
Dissertation topic: Markov Logic: Inference, Learning, Applications, and Extensions
Employment Preference: Industry (Research)

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