Alumni Fellowship Recipients
The Computer Science Alumni Fellowship is awarded annually to a Ph.D. candidate (or candidates), in the final year of study, allowing the student(s) to work full time on dissertation research. Generous contributions to the Alumni Trust Fund, made by alumni and friends of the Department of Computer Science, help to make this fellowship possible.
Current Fellowship Holder
2014-2015
Recipient: Jacob Bartel
Dissertation: “Automatic Difficulty Detection”
Advisor: Prasun Dewan
Choosing with whom to communicate can be a high effort task. Users must ensure they do not leave out important individuals and do not leak sensitive information, while at the same time accomplishing certain goals. As the scale of communication grows, this task may require so much effort that users are unable to complete it correctly on their own. To reduce this effort, our goal is to develop a number of automated approaches that assist with this task. To meet our goal, we have developed approaches that (1) group users with whom to communicate, (2) identify additional recipients for messages, and (3) predict when a response will occur.
Past Recipients
2013-2014
Recipient: Jason Cater (Ph.D. 2014)
Dissertation: “Automatic Difficulty Detection”
Advisor: Prasun Dewan
2012-2013 (2 recipients)
Recipient: Haohan Li (Ph.D. 2013)
Dissertation: “Scheduling Mixed-Critically Real-Time Systems”
Advisor: Sanjoy Baruah
Recipient: Sachin Patil (Ph.D. 2013)
Dissertation: “Closed-Loop Planning and Control of Steerable Medical Needles”
Advisor: Ron Alterovitz
2011-2012
Recipient: Stephen Olivier (Ph.D. 2012)
Dissertation: “Locality Awareness for Task Parallel Computation”
Advisor: Jan Prins
2010-2011
Recipient: Rahul Narain (Ph.D. 2011)
Dissertation: “Visual Simulation of Multiscale Phenomena”
Advisor: Ming Lin
2009-10 (3 recipients)
Recipient: Gennette Gill (Ph.D. 2010)
Dissertation: “Analysis and Optimization for Pipelined Asynchronous Systems”
Advisor: Montek Singh
Recipient: Xiaoxiao Liu (Ph.D. 2010)
Dissertation: “Shape-correlated Statistical Modeling and Analysis for Respiratory Motion Estimation”
Advisor: Stephen Pizer
Recipient: Jason Sewall (Ph.D. 2010)
Dissertation: “Efficient, Scalable Traffic and Compressible Fluid Simulations Using Hyperbolic Models”
Advisor: Ming Lin
2007-08
Recipient: Aaron Block (Ph.D. 2008)
Dissertation: “Adaptive Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems”
Advisor: James Anderson
Spring 2007
Recipient: Eli Broadhurst (Ph.D. 2008)
Dissertation: “Compact Appearance in Object Populations Using Quantile Function Based Distribution Families”
Advisor: Stephen Pizer
Fall 2006
Recipient: David Borland (Ph.D. 2007)
Dissertation: “Flexible Occlusion Rendering for Improved Views of Three-Dimensional Medical Images”
Advisor: Russell M. Taylor
2005-06
Recipient: Jun “Luke” Huan (Ph.D. 2006)
Dissertation: “Graph-based Pattern Discovery in Protein Structures”
Advisor: Jan Prins and Wei Wang
Spring 2005
Recipient: Olufisayo Omojokun (Ph.D. 2006)
Dissertation: “Interacting with Networked Devices”
Advisor: Prasun Dewan
2004-05
Recipient: Miguel Otaduy (Ph.D. 2004)
Dissertation: “6-DoF Haptic Rendering Using Contact Levels of Detail and Haptic Textures.”
Advisor: Ming Lin
2003-04
Recipient: Philip Holman (Ph.D. 2004)
Dissertation: “Implementation of Pfair-scheduled Multiprocessor Systems.”
Advisor: James Anderson
2002-03
Recipient: Michele Weigle (Ph.D. 2003)
Dissertation: “Investigating the Use of Synchronized Clocks in TCP Congestion Control”
Advisor: Kevin Jeffay
2001-02
Recipient: Paul Yushkevich (Ph.D. 2003)
Dissertation: “Statistical Shape Characterization Using the Medial Representation”
Advisor: Stephen M. Pizer
2000-01
Recipient: Nicholas Vallidis (Ph.D. 2002)
Dissertation: “WHISPER: A Spread Spectrum Approach to Occlusion in Acoustic Tracking”
Advisor: Gary Bishop
1999-00
Recipient: Voicu Popescu (Ph.D. 2001)
Dissertation: “High-Quality Forward Reconstruction for 3D Warping Efficiently Implementable in Hardware”
Advisor: Anselmo Lastra
1998-99
Recipient: William R. Mark (Ph.D. 1999)
Dissertation: “Post-Rendering 3D Image Warping: Visibility, Reconstruction, and Performance for Depth-Image Warping”
Advisor: Gary Bishop
1997-98
Recipient: Stephen M. Goddard, Jr. (Ph.D. 1998)
Dissertation: “On the Management of Latency in the Synthesis of Real-Time Signal Processing Systems from Processing Graphs”
Advisor: Kevin Jeffay
1996-97
Recipient: Jacob D. Furst (Ph.D. 1999)
Dissertation: “Height Ridges of Oriented Medialness”
Advisor: Stephen M. Pizer
1995-96
Recipient: Mark Moir (Ph.D. 1996)
Dissertation: “Efficient Object Sharing in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors”
Advisor: James Anderson
1994-95
Recipient: John Menges (M.S. 1990)
Dissertation: Still in progress
Advisor: Kevin Jeffay
Recipient: Donald L. Stone (Ph.D. 1995)
Dissertation: “Managing the Effect of Delay Jitter on the Display of Live Continuous Media”
Advisor: Kevin Jeffay
1993-94
Russell M. Taylor II (Ph.D. 1994)
Dissertation: “The Nanomanipulator: A Virtual-Reality Interface to a Scanning Tunneling Microscope”
Advisor: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
1992-93
Recipient: Ross Whitaker (Ph.D. 1993)
Dissertation: “Geometry-Limited Diffusion”
Advisor: Stephen M. Pizer
1991-92
Recipient: James Chung (Ph.D. 1993)
Dissertation: “Intuitive Navigation in the Targeting of Radiation Therapy Treatment Beams”
Advisor: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.