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Recent PhD 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Vitae 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications 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 Home Page, Publications Chenxi Wang chenxi@cmu.edu Current Position: Research Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering.