Dissertation title:

Software Design Guidance by Process-Scoped Inconsistency Management

Advisor:

Leon J. Osterweil

Research interests:

Software Engineering

Current Position:

Instructor / Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Union College

Graduation date:

February 2005

Email address:

acass@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Automatically Constructing Compiler Optimization Heuristics Using Supervised Learning

Advisor:

J. Eliot B. Moss

Research interests:

Java compilers, Machine Learning

Current Position:

Research Associate, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Graduation date:

February 2005

Email address:

cavazos@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Resource Allocation for Self-managing Server Systems

Advisor:

Prashant Shenoy

Research interests:

Systems: Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities

Graduation date:

February 2005

Email address:

abhishek@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Providing Incentives for Cooperation in Anonymity Systems

Advisor:

Donald F. Towsley

Research interests:

Computer Networks

Current Position:

Post-doc Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne

Graduation date:

May 2005

Email address:

ratton@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

A Generative Theory of Relevance

Advisor:

James Allan and W. Bruce Croft

Research interests:

Information Retrieval

Current Position:

Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, UMass Amherst

Graduation date:

September 2004

Email address:

lavrenko@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Foundations for Polylingual Systems

Advisor:

Jack C. Wileden

Research interests:

Programming language interoperation

Current Position:

Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University

Graduation date:

September 2004

Email address:

ridgway@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

High-Performance Copying Garbage Collection with Low Space Overhead

Advisor:

J. Eliot B. Moss

Research interests:

Memory management, Run-time systems, Java technologies

Current Position:

Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Labs

Graduation date:

May 2005

Email address:

naren@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Analysis of Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems

Advisor:

Brian N. Levine

Research interests:

Security and Privacy

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington

Graduation date:

May 2005

Email address:

mwright@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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