Dissertation title:

Interest-based Content Retrieval and
Dissemination in Distributed Environment

Advisor:

James F. Kurose and Donald F. Towsley

Research interests:

System, Networks

Current Position:

Senior Technical Staff Member
AT&T Labs - Research

Graduation date:

September 2003

Email address:

gezihui@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/~gezihui

Dissertation title:

Dynamic Computational Complexity

Advisor:

Neil Immerman

Research interests:

Theory: Computational Complexity Theory

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clarkson University

Graduation date:

September 2003

Email address:

whesse@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www.cs.umass.edu/~whesse/

Dissertation title:

Performance Modeling and Protocol Design for Large-scale Data Communication Networks

Advisor:

James F. Kurose and Donald F. Towsley

Research interests:

System, Networks

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Math Department
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Graduation date:

September 2003

Email address:

jiping@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/~jiping

Dissertation title:

Language Models in Hierarchical Summarization

Advisor:

W. Bruce Croft

Research interests:

Information Retrieval

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Loyola College

Graduation date:

September 2003

Email address:

lawrie@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www-ciir.cs.umass.edu/~lawrie/

Dissertation title:

Design and Performance Modeling of Wireless Networks

Advisor:

Donald F. Towsley

Research interests:

Computer Networks

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
City College of New York of the City University of New York

Graduation date:

September 2003

Email address:

benyuan@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/~benyuan

Dissertation title:

A Mediation-Based Approach to Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving

Advisor:

Victor Lesser

Research interests:

AI: Multi-Agent Systems, Distributed Problem

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

Graduation date:

May 2004

Email address:

mailler@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~mailler/

Dissertation title:

Harmonic Modeling as an Effective Foundation for Polyphonic Music Retrieval

Advisor:

W. Bruce Croft

Research interests:

Information Retrieval

Current Position:

FX Palo Alto Labs

Graduation date:

May 2004

Email address:

jeremy@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www.cs.umass.edu/~jeremy

Dissertation title:

Advisor:

Research interests:

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Software and Information Systems
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Graduation date:

Email address:

Home page:

Dissertation title:

An Algebraic approach to Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning

Advisor:

Andrew G. Barto

Research interests:

AI: Reinforcement Learning, Abstraction

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Graduation date:

February 2004

Email address:

ravi@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www-anw.cs.umass.edu/~ravi/

Dissertation title:

Learning the Structure of Activities for a Mobile Robot

Advisor:

Paul R. Cohen

Research interests:

AI: Machine Learning

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Astronomy, UMass Amherst

Expected graduation date:

May 2004

Email address:

schmill@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www.cs.umass.edu/~schmill/

Dissertation title:

New Directions in Optimization-Based Congestion Control

Advisor:

Donald F. Towsley

Research interests:

Systems: Computer Networks

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University

Graduation date:

September 2003

Email address:

jshapiro@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/~jshapiro/

Dissertation title:

Compiler-driven Techniques to Improve Next-generation Cache and Memory Performance

Advisor:

Kathryn S. McKinley

Research interests:

Compiler and Computer Architecture

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Michigan Technological University

Graduation date:

February 2004

Email address:

zlwang@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

http://www.cs.umass.edu/~zlwang