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Recent and Upcoming Ph. D. Graduates

Jeremy Sheaffer jws9c@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Physical Challenges in Reliable Graphics Hardware Design
Advisors: Kevin Skadron and David Luebke
Committee: Kevin Skadron, David Luebke, Greg Humphreys, Mircea Stan, Sudhanva Gurimurthi, and John Owens
Job Interests: Academia
PHD Completed: 2007
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Shashi Prabh shashi@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Tarek Abdelzaher
Committee: John Stankovic, David Evans, Sang Son, and Gang Tao
Job Interests: Academia, Industry R&D
PHD Completed: 2007
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Kimberly S. Wasson kwasson@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Improving Validity Using Cognitive Linguistic Elicitation and Representation.
Advisor: John Knight
Committee: John Knight (advisor), Worthy Martin (chair), David Evans, Jack Davidson, Mark Elson (minor representative: linguistics)
Job Interests: Tenure track faculty position at a research institution
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Nicolas Christin nicolasc@cmu.edu

Dissertation Title: Quantifiable Service Differentiation for Packet Networks
Advisor: Jorg Liebeherr
Committee:
John Stankovic, Jorg Liebeherr, Tarek Abdelzaher, Alfred Weaver, Stephen Patek, and Victor Firoiu
Job Interests: Academia, Industry R&D, Consulting
PHD Completed: 2003
Current Position: Carnegie Mellon University, Information Networking Institute faculty and CyLab Systems Scientist
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David Coppit david@coppit.org

Dissertation Title: Elements of an Approach for Developing Sophisticated, Trustworthy Modeling and Analysis Environments
Advisor: Kevin Sullivan
Committee: Kevin Sullivan, Worthy Martin, John Knight, John Stankovic, Joanne Dugan
Job Interests: Academia
Current Position: William and Mary, Assistant Professor
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Gabriel J. Ferrer ferrer@grendel.hendrix.edu

Dissertation Title: Interruptible Plan Repair Using Locality
Advisor: Worthy Martin
Committee: John Knight, Jack Stankovic, Gabriel Robins, Dennis Proffitt (Psychology)
PhD Completed: 2002
Current Position: Hendrix College, Assistant Professor
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James P. Gunderson jpg3u@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Probability Aware Planning
Advisor: Worthy Martin
Committee: John Pfaltz (chair), Worthy Martin (advisor) Jack Stankovic, Dave Evans, Dennis Proffitt
Job Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
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John W. Haskins, Jr. jwh6q@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Accelerating Sampled Microarchitecture Simulations: Rapid Warm Up for Simulated Hardware State
Advisor: Kevin Skadron
Committee : John Knight (chair), John Stankovic, Marty Humphrey, Mircea Stan (ECE)
Job Interests : Microarchitecture design and research
Ph.D. Completed: 2003
Current Position: Institute for Defense Analyses Center for Computing Sciences, Research Staff Member
Publications: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~predator/

Tian He TianHe@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Hermes: A Scalable Sensor Network Architecture for Robustness, Time-Energy Awareness
Advisor: John A. Stankovic
Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, John A. Stankovic, Alfred Weaver, Song Son, Gang Tao
Job Interests: Industry R&D, Academica
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Timothy Highley tlh2b@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Enhanced File Prefetching for Delivery on Demand
Advisor: Paul Reynolds
Committee: Paul Reynolds, Advisor; Kevin Skadron, Chair; Sang Son; Marty Humphrey, Joanne Dugan
PhD Completed: December 2004
Current Position: LaSalle University, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Chenyang Lu cl7v@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Feedback Control Real-time Scheduling
Advisor: John Stankovic
Committee: Sang Son, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jorg Liebeherr, Marty Humphrey, John Stankovic, and Gang Tao.
PhD Completed: 2001
Current Position: Washington University in St Louis, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Assistant Professor
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Kyoung-Don Kang kk7v@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: qRTDB: QoS-sensitive Real-Time Database
Advisor: Sang Son
Committee: John Stankovic (chair), Sang Son, John Pfalz, Tarek Abdelzaher, Gang Tao (minor representative)
PhD Completed: 2003
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton
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Dimitrios Katramatos dkat@bnl.gov

Dissertation Title: Dynamic Resource Sharing Mechanisms for High Performance Heterogeneous Clusters
Advisor: Steve Chapin (Syracuse University), Marty Humphrey
Committee: Worthy Martin, Steve Chapin, Marty Humphrey, John Stankovic, Sang Son, Nikos Sidiropoulos
Job Interests: Academia and industry R&D
PhD completed: 2004
Current Position: Advanced Technology Engineer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, RHIC Computing Facility
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Christopher W. Milner cwm2n@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Pipeline Descriptions
Advisor: Jack Davidson
Committee: John Knight, James Cohoon, Ronald Williams, Alan Batson, Jack Davidson
PhD Completed: 2002
Current Position: University of Virginia, Assistant Professor, General Teaching Faculty
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Hridesh Rajan hr2j@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Unifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design
Advisor: Kevin J. Sullivan
Committee: Jack Davidson, David Evans, William Griswold (UCSD), John Knight, Mary Lou Soffa
Job Interests: Academic and industry research
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John Regehr regehr@cs.utah.edu

Dissertation Title: Using Hierarchical Scheduling to Support Soft Real-Time Applications on General-Purpose Operating Systems
Advisor: John Stankovic
Committee: Paul Reynolds, Sang Son. Michael Jones, Ron Williams, Marty Humphrey
PhD Completed: 2001
Current Position: University of Utah, Assistant Professor
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Kevin Scott jks6b@cs.virginia.edu

Dissertation Title: Value Flow Analysis For Software Dynamic Translators
Advisor: Jack Davidson
Committee: Kevin Skadron (chair), David Luebke, David Evans, Mircea Stan
Current Position: Google
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Chenxi Wang chenxi@cmu.edu

Current Position: Research Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering.