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Graduating PhD Candidates

This list is not comprehensive and includes only those candidates who have requested their information be listed here.

David Alber (alber@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Luke Olson
Advisor: Paul Saylor
Research Area: Scientific Computing
Expected Graduation: May 2007
Thesis Topic: Efficient Setup Algorithms for Parallel Algebraic Multigrid
Position Sought: Academia, Research Lab, Industry


David Bunde (bunde@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Jeff Erickson
Research Area: Theory (Scheduling)
Expected Graduation: Oct 2006
Thesis Topic: Scheduling and Admission Control
Position Sought: Academia, Research Lab


Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (braz@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Dan Roth
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence, Automated Reasoning and Machine Learning
Expected Graduation: May 07
Thesis Topic: Lifted first-order probabilistic inference
Position Sought: Academia, Research Lab, Industry.


Sathish Gopalakrishnan (sgopalak@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Marco Caccamo
Advisor: Lui Sha
Research Area: Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Expected Graduation: May 2006
Thesis Topic: Resource Management for Real-Time Environments
Position Sought: Academic, Industry [Labs]


Changhao Jiang (cjiang@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Marc Snir
Research Area: computer architecture, performance tuning
Expected Graduation: May 2007
Thesis Topic: Automatic software performance optimization on modern architectures
Position Sought: Research and development position in industry


Chengkai Li (cli@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
Research Area: Database and Information Systems
Expected Graduation: Summer 07
Thesis Topic: RankSQL: A RDBMS Supporting Ranking Queries
Position Sought: academia and research position in industry


Zhenmin Li (zli4@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Yuanyuan Zhou
Research Area: System Architecture
Expected Graduation: Summer 2006
Thesis Topic: Using Data Mining Techniques to Improve Software Reliability
Position Sought: Academia and research labs


Chetan Shankar (chetan@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Roy Campbell
Research Area: Distributed systems management
Expected Graduation: Fall 2006
Thesis Topic: Enabling deterministic policy-based systems management using specification-enhanced policies
Position Sought: Research labs and industry


Samarth Swarup (swarup@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Sylvian R. Ray
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence (Language Evolution)
Expected Graduation: October 06
Thesis Topic: Agent Interaction Topologies and Language Evolution
Position Sought: Academia, Research Lab


Predrag Tosic (p-tosic@cs.uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Gul Agha
Research Area: formal methods, theory, distributed AI
Expected Graduation: August 2006
Thesis Topic: Mathematical and computational theory of large-scale multi-agent systems
Position Sought: Academia, Research labs, R&D in industry


Weerasak Witthawaskul (witthawa@uiuc.edu)
Advisor: Ralph Johnson
Research Area: Software Engineering
Expected Graduation: October 06
Thesis Topic: Middleware Independent Modeling and Transformation Framework
Position Sought: Industry


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