PhD Alumni

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: CIS Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA

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: 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

Advisor: Robert Grossman

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: Knowledge-Intensive Conceptual Retrieval of Biomedical Literature
Advisor: Clement Yu
Position: Senior BioNLP Engineer, Ingenuity Systems, Redwood City, CA

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: Computation of the Minimum Data Storage fro Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing Systems
Advisor: Florin Balasa Position: ARM Inc, Sunnyvale, CA

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: MySpace, Los Angeles, 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: Opportunity Map - A Visualization Framework for Fast Identification of Actionable Knowledge
Advisor: Bing Liu
Position: Motorola, Schaumburg, IL

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: Protocol Modeling, Analysis and Design Using Fuzzy-Timing High-Level Petri Nets
Advisor: Tad Murata
Position: Sun Microsystems

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: Efficient Implementation of Partial Integrated Network Barriers
Advisor: Jon Solworth

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: Gene Expression Programming and Rule Induction for Domain Knowledge Discover and Management
Advisor: Pete Nelson
Position: Motorola Laboratories

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: A Fuzzy Rule-Based Enhancement on Routin in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Advisor: Carl Chang

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: Ygdrasil: Composing Networked Vitual Environments
Advisor: Tom DeFanti
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Media Study, University of Buffalo

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