PhD Alumni

Dissertation: Visual Pattern Detection in High-dimensional Spaces
Advisor: Leland Wilkinson
Position: Researcher, Tableau Software

Dissertation: Automated Interference of Shilling Behavior in Online Auction Systems
Advisor: Sol Shatz
Position: Yahoo!, CA

Dissertation: Speech Recognition by Indexing and Sequencing
Advisor: Jezekiel Ben-Arie
Position:

Dissertation: An Inter-Operation Framework for Context-Aware Access Control
Advisor: Isabel Cruz
Position:

Dissertation: Articulate: Creating Meaningful Visualizations From Natural Language
Advisor: Jason Leigh
Position: Microsoft

Dissertation: A Platform for Estimating the Relevance of Information in VANET Applications
Advisor: Ouri Wolfson
Position:

Dissertation: Scalable Mining of Large Graphs and Its Applications
Advisor: Philip Yu
Position:

Dissertation: Query Processing in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
Advisor: Ouri Wolfson
Position:

Dissertation: Fast Encryption Techniques for Multimedia Contents
Advisor: Ashkfaq Khokhar
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, The Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan

Dissertation: Improving Web Security by Automated Extraction of Web Application Intent
Advisor: Venkat Venkatakrishnan
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, UIC

Dissertation: Modeling and Querying Multimodal Urban Transportation Networks
Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio
Position: Research Engineer, Sprout Social, Chicago

Dissertation: Genomic CIS-Regulatory Map Mining
Advisor: Robert Grossman
Position: Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com

Dissertation: Immersive Empathic Design for Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Advisor: Andrew Johnson
Position: Software Engineer, Pixar Animation Studios

Dissertation: Enhancing the Reliability of Concurrent Systems Using Supervisory Control
Advisor: Ugo Buy
Position: Knight Capital Group, Jersey City, NJ

Dissertation: Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Microsimulation System for Transportation, Wireless, and Traveler Behavior
Advisor: Peter Nelson
Position: Vice President, Northern Trust Bank

Dissertation: Collaborative Interaction and Display Space Organization in Large High-Resolution Environments
Advisor: Andrew Johnson
Position: Human-Computer Interaction Engineer, Intel Corp.

Dissertation: Measuring and Mining Dynamic Networks
Advisor: Tanya Berger-Wolf
Position: Research Scientist,Facebook

Dissertation: Sampling and Inference in Complex Networks
Advisor: Tanya Berger-Wolf
Position: Research Staff, Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA)

Dissertation:
Advisor: Peter Nelson
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto

Dissertation: Location-Integrated Indexing and Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Aris Ouksel
Position: Attorney, Young Basile, Troy, MI

Dissertation: Opinion and Entity Mining on Web Content
Advisor: Bing Liu
Position: The Find Inc.

Dissertation: A Framework for Transparently Accessing Deep Web Sources
Advisor: Clement Yu
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Dissertation: Review Spam and Reviewer Behavior Analysis
Advisor: Bing Liu
Position:

Dissertation: Knowledge Representation and Related Problems
Advisor: Robert Sloan
Position: Adjunct Faculty, Stern College of Yeshiva University

Dissertation: Local Sampling and Remote Sensing of Sensor Fields Data Using Mobile Devices
Advisor: Sol Shatz
Position: Software Engineer, Yahoo!.

Dissertation: Design and Validation of a High Performance Continuous Curvilinear Capsulorhexis Simulator
Advisor: Prashant Banerjee (MIE)
Position: Epic Systems, Madison, WI

Dissertation: Energy-Aware Memory Allocation Framework for Embedded Data-Intensive Signal Processing Applications
Advisor: Florin Balasa
Position: American International Radio, Rolling Meadows, IL

Dissertation: SongRecommend: A Music Recommendation System with Fine-Grained Song Reviews
Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio
Position: Versay, Chicago, IL

Dissertation: Towards Safer Rendering of Untrusted Third-Party Content in Existing Browsers
Advisor: Venkat Venkatakrishnan
Position: Network Security Research Engineer, LGS Innovations, Bell Labs

Dissertation: Supervisory Control of Time Petri Nets Using Net Unfoldings
Advisor: Ugo Buy
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Accenture

Dissertation: Knowledge Co-construction and Initiative in Peer Learning Interactions
Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio
Position: Assistant Professor, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Dissertation: Automatic Modeling of Procedural Knowledge and Feedback Generation in a Tutoring System for Computer Science
Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio
Position: Assistant Professor, CMU Qatar

Dissertation: Visualcasting - Scalable Real-Time Image Distribution in Ultra-High Resolution Display Environments
Advisor: Jason Leigh
Position: Staff Scientist, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, TX

Dissertation: Combinatorial Methods for Sibling Reconstruction
Advisor: Tanya Berger-Wolf & Ashfaq Khokhar
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, LIX, École Polytechnique, France

Dissertation: LambdaRAM: A high-performance, multi-dimensional, distributed cache for data-intensive applications over high-speed networks
Advisor: Jason Leigh
Position: Argonne Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory

Dissertation: Exploring Topologies of Genetic Networks for Better Reconstruction
Advisor: Ying Dai (BIOE)
Position: Software Engineer, Verizon Telecom, Inc., Waltcham, MA

Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Clustering Framework in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Advisor: Peter Nelson

Dissertation: Physically-Coupled Replication and Resynthesis
Advisor: John Lillis

Dissertation: Planetary-scale Terrain Composition
Advisor: Jason Leigh
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University

Dissertation: PACE: A Framework for Personalized Visualization and Scalable Human Computer Interaction
Advisor: Robert Kenyon
Position: Senior Research Engineer, Motorola

Dissertation: Kernelsec: An Adaptive Authorization Model for an Operating System Kernel
Advisor: John Solworth
Position: Member of Technical Staff II, VM Ware Inc., Palo Alto, CA

Dissertation: Discourse Parsing: A Relational Learning Approach
Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio
Position: Scientist, Yahoo! Labs, Silicon Valley, CA

Dissertation: Multi-Layered Approach to Aligning Heterogeneous Ontologies
Advisor: Isabel Cruz
Position: Senior Software Engineer, Compact Solutions LLC, Oakbrook, IL

Dissertation: Querying Sensor Networks Using Ad-Hoc Mobile Devices: A Two Layer Networking Approach
Advisor: Sol Shatz
Position: Quantitative Analyst, Partner, Nautilus Capital LLC

Dissertation: Energy-Efficient Query-Informed Routing for Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Advisor: Sol Shatz and Ajay Kshemkalyani
Position: Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA

Dissertation: Opinion Retrieval and Classification in Blogs
Advisor: Clement Yu
Position: Software Engineering, Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Dissertation: Automatic Extraction of Outbreak Information from News
Advisor: Bing Liu & Pete Nelson
Position: Senior Systems Engineer, Yahoo, Inc.

Dissertation: A Point-Based Remote Visualization Pipeline for Virtual Reality

Advisor: Andrew Johnson & Dan Sandin
Position: Visualization Consultant, Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University

Dissertation: Withindows: A Framework for the Development of Unified Immersive and Workstation Interfaces
Advisor: Andrew Johnson
Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Augmented Environments Laboratory, Georgia Tech

Dissertation: A Component-Based Multi-Agent System Modeling Methodology
Advisor: Sol Shatz
Position: Amazon, Seattle, WA

Dissertation: Expert Tutoring and Natural Language Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio
Position: Northside Inc, Montreal, Canada

Dissertation: Dynallax: Dynamic Parallel Barrier Autostereoscopic Display
Advisor: Andrew Johnson & Dan Sandin
Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Argonne National Laboratory

Dissertation: An Adaptive Automatically Tuning Intrusion Detection System
Advisor: Jeff Tsai

Dissertation: OptiStore - A Data Management Middleware for Very Large Scale Data Visualization
Advisor: Jason Leigh
Position: Software Engineer, FactSet, Chicago, IL

Dissertation: Exploiting Commutativity and Symmetry in Model Checking
Advisor: Prasad Sistla
Position: Amazon, Seattle, WA

Dissertation: Movement Data Management
Advisor: Ouri Wolfson Position: Microsoft

Dissertation: AR-PIN/PDC: Flexible Advance Reservation of Intradomain and Interdomain Lightpaths
Advisor: Jason Leigh
Position: Performance Engineer, Performance Application Engineering, Sun Microsystems

Dissertation: Feature-Based Opinion Analysis and Summarization
Advisor: Bing Liu
Position: Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Dissertation: Mechanisms for Tighter Integration of Placement Routing
Advisor: John Lillis
Position: Intel

Dissertation: Mining Community Structure of Named Entities from Free Text
Advisor: Bing Liu
Position: Microsoft

Dissertation: Self-Emergence of Structures in Gene Expression Programming
Advisor: Peter Nelson
Position: Paypal/Ebay, San Jose, CA

Dissertation: Unstructured Search on Structured Databases
Advisor: Clement Yu
Position: Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Dissertation: Improve Text Retrieval Effectiveness and Robustness
Advisor: Clement Yu
Position: Ask.com, NJ

Dissertation: Topological Placement with Symmetry Constraints for Analog Layout Design
Advisor: Florin Balasa
Position: Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Dissertation: Security and Monitoring in Ad-Hoc and Peer-to-Peer Networks
Advisor: Ajay Kshemkalyani
Position: Semihalf

Dissertation: Search and Prefetching Mechanisms in the Web and Peer-to-Peer Systems
Advisor: Ajay Kshemkalyani
Position: InStep Software

Dissertation: Query Processing for Heterogeneous Data Integration Using Ontologies
Advisor: Isabel Cruz
Position: Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Dissertation: Machine Learning for Automatic Text Summarization: From Extracting to Abstracting
Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio
Position: Yahoo, Burbank, CA

Dissertation: Managing Uncertainity and Imprecision in Spatio-Temporal Databases
Advisor: Ouri Wolfson
Position: Verizon

Dissertation: Structured Data Extraction from the Web
Advisor: Bing Liu
Position: Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Dissertation: Run-Time Predicate Monitoring in Distributed Systems
Advisor: Ajay Kshemkalyani
Position: Siemens

Dissertation: Optimal Sequential Planning in Partially Observable Multiagent Settings
Advisor: Piotr Gmytrasiewicz
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

Dissertation: UDT: A High Performance Data Transport Protocol
Advisor: Robert Grossman
Position: Postdoctoral fellow, National Center for Data Mining, UIC

Dissertation: Generating Net-Based Models from UML Diagrams to Support Design Simulation and Analysis
Advisor: Sol Shatz
Position: Morningstar

Dissertation: Extraction of the Neurovascualr Scaffold in Multimodal Images
Advisor: Francis Quek & Rashid Ansari
Position: Senior Research Associate, Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute and Wright State University

Dissertation: A Formal Framework of a Secure Mobile Agent System Based on Extended Elementary Object System
Advisor: Jeff Tsai
Position: Siemens

Dissertation: Real-Time 3D Head Position Tracker System With Stereo Cameras Using a Face Recognition Neural Network
Advisor: Tom DeFanti
Position: Staff Software Research Engineer, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Dissertation: Tree Optimization and Synthesis Techniques with Applications in Automated Design of Integrated Circuits
Advisor: John Lillis
Position: Advisory Software Engineer, Routing & Signal Integrity Group, IBM Microelectronics - EDA, New York, NY

Dissertation:
Advisor: Pete Nelson
Position: Exava Inc, Mountain View, CA

Dissertation: A Layered Architecture Supporting the Collaborative Design of Virtual Environments for Science Inquiry
Advisor: Tom Moher
Position: Assistant Professor, Sangmyung University, Korea

Dissertation: Learning Algorithms For Large Datasets
Advisor: Pete Nelson & Simon Kasif
Position: Senior Research Scientist, Ask Jeeves, NJ

Dissertation: A Quality-Centric Approach to Identify and Integrate Legacy Assests Into a Platform Architecture
Advisor: Carl Chang
Position: Senior Consultant, TrueScope Technologies, Inc

Dissertation: Enhancing Cooperative Work in Amplified Collaboration Environments

Advisor: Andrew Johnson
Position: Assistant Professor, Dankook University, Korea

Dissertation: Real-Time View Morphing of Video Streams
Advisor: Tom DeFanti
Position: Software Engineer, GE Medical Systems

Dissertation: A Model-Based Approach For Development of Multi-Agent Software Systems
Advisor: Sol Shatz
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Dissertation: Agent Based Requirements Evolution Over the Internet
Advisor: Carl Chang

Dissertation: Data Management Support for Distributed Data Mining of Large Data Sets Over High Speed Area Networks
Advisor: Robert Grossman
Position: Microsoft

Dissertation: Robust Requirements Traceability for Handling Evolutionary and Speculative Change
Advisor: Carl Chang
Position: Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, DePaul University

Dissertation: Managing Moving Objects Databases With Uncertainity
Advisor: Ouri Wolfson
Position: Research Assistant Professor, EECS Department, Northwestern University

Dissertation: Content Based Image Retrieval Using Evidence Combination
Advisor: Clement Yu
Position: Adjunct Main/Faculty Member, Prairie View A&M University

Dissertation: Hyper-Programmed Agents for Virtual Environments
Advisor: Andrew Johnson
Position: Director of Research Programming, Visualytics, Naperville, IL

Dissertation: Hybrid Techniques For Standard Cell Placement
Advisor: John Lillis
Position: Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, Dong-A University, Puson, Korea

Dissertation: I-cube: An Architecture-driven Component-based Software Development Methodology
Advisor: Carl Chang

Dissertation: Power Analysis Attacks and Countermeasures for Cryptographic Algorithms
Advisor: Robert Sloan
Position: Motorola Labs

Dissertation: Virtual Reality Vitrectomy Simulator
Advisor: Tom DeFanti
Position: Research Associate, The Simulation Group, Massachusetts General Hospital, CIMIT and Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation: Design Support for State-Based Distributed Object Software
Advisor: Sol Shatz

Dissertation: Formalization of Application Development for Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Advisor: Carl Chang
Position: Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University