Dissertation title:

A Computational Approach to Decentralized Control of Markov Decision Processes

Advisor:

Shlomo Zilberstein

Research interests:

AI: Planning Under Uncertainty, Resource-Bounded Reasoning

Current Position:

Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, UMass Amherst

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

bern@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Resource-Conserving Networked Multimedia Providers

Advisor:

James F. Kurose and Donald F. Towsley

Research interests:

Networked System Solutions

Current Position:

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Centre College

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

bradshaw@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

The Role of Representation and Abstraction in Stochastic Planning

Advisor:

Shlomo Zilberstein

Research interests:

AI: Planning under uncertainty

Current Position:

Software Engineer, Google

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

fengzz@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Multi-Agent Environments

Advisor:

Sridhar Mahadevan

Research interests:

AI and Machine Learning

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alberta

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

mgh@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

"Measurements-in-the-middle": Inferring end-end path properties and characteristics of TCP connections through passive measurements

Advisor:

James F. Kurose

Research interests:

Computer Networks, Network Measurements

Current Position:

Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs Research, Bangalore, India

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

sharad@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Control Models of Natural Language Parsing

Advisor:

Andrew Barto

Research interests:

Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Employment preference:

Industry

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

kalt@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Retrieval of Handwritten Historical Document Images

Advisor:

R. Manmatha

Research interests:

Image processing

Current Position:

Software Engineer, Google

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

trath@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Dynamic Resource Management in Internet Hosting Platforms

Advisor:

Prashant Shenoy

Research interests:

Computer Systems and Networks

Current Position:

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

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

bhuvan@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Priority and Realtime Data Transfer over the Best-effort Internet

Advisor:

James F. Kurose and Donald F. Towsley

Research interests:

Computer Networks and Multimedia

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department,
University of Connecticut

Graduation date:

September 2005

Email address:

bing@cs.umass.edu

Home page:

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

Dissertation title:

Scaleable Data Delivery for Networked Servers and Wireless Sensor Networks

Advisor:

James F. Kurose

Research interests:

Computer Networks

Current Position:

Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems, Bentley College

Graduation date:

February 2006

Email address:

dyates@bentley.edu

Home page:

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