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Where have they gone?

The following computer science students have graduated with Ph.D.s from UMass Amherst within the past year:

Brendan Burns: “Exploiting Structure:  A Guided Approach to Sampling-Based Robot Motion Planning” (Oliver Brock, Advisor); Assistant Professor, Union College.
Jamieson Cobleigh: “Automating and Evaluating Assume-guarantee Reasoning” (Lori A. Clarke, Advisor); Software Engineer, The MathWorks.
Jiwoon Jeon: “Searching Question and Answer Archives” (W. Bruce Croft, Advisor); Software Engineer, Google Inc.
Purushottam Kulkarni: “SensEye: A Multi-tier Heterogeneous Camera Sensor Network” (Prashant Shenoy & Deepak Ganesan, Advisors); Assistant Professor, I.I.T. Bombay.
Wei Li: “Pachinko Allocation: DAG-Structured Mixture Models of Topic Correlations” (Andrew McCallum, Advisor); Senior Software Development Engineer, Yahoo! Inc.
Donald Metzler: “Effectively Modeling Term Dependencies in Information Retrieval” (W. Bruce Croft, Advisor); Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.
Hema Raghavan: “Tandem Learning:  A Learning Framework for Document Filtering” (James Allan, Advisor); Research Scientist, Yahoo! Applied Research.
Jiaying Shen: “Communication Management in Distributed Sensor Interpretation” (Victor Lesser, Advisor); Computer Scientist, SRI International.
Kyoungwon Suh: “Monitoring, Measurement, and Control of Multimedia Traffic in IP Networks” (James Kurose & Donald Towsley, Advisors); Assistant Professor, Illinois State University at Normal.
Xing Wei: “Topic Models in Information Retrieval” (W. Bruce Croft, Advisor); Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.
Xiaolan Zhang: “Routing in DTN: Performance Modeling, Network Coding Benefit and Real Trace Studies” (James Kurose & Donald Towsley, Advisors); Assistant Professor, Fordham University.

 

     


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