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<li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~malekian/ Azarakhsh Malekian] (Samir Khuller, 2009), currently working at Northwestern University (postdoc). <br>Thesis title: "Combinatorial Optimization and Electronic Commerce." | <li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~malekian/ Azarakhsh Malekian] (Samir Khuller, 2009), currently working at Northwestern University (postdoc). <br>Thesis title: "Combinatorial Optimization and Electronic Commerce." | ||
| − | <li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~szetszwo/ Tsz Wo (Nicholas) Sze] (Larry Washington, Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently working at [http://www.yahoo.com | + | <li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~szetszwo/ Tsz Wo (Nicholas) Sze] (Larry Washington, Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently working at [http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo]. <br>Thesis title: "On Solving Univariate Polynomial Equations over Finite Fields and Some Related Problems." |
<li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fonseca/ Guilherme Fonseca] (David Mount, 2007), currently a postdoc in the department [http://www.cos.ufrj.br/ COPPE - Sistemas] at [http://www.ufrj.br/ UFRJ] | <li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fonseca/ Guilherme Fonseca] (David Mount, 2007), currently a postdoc in the department [http://www.cos.ufrj.br/ COPPE - Sistemas] at [http://www.ufrj.br/ UFRJ] | ||
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<li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cykoo/ Chiu-Yuen Koo] (Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently at [http://www.google.com/ Google] | <li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cykoo/ Chiu-Yuen Koo] (Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently at [http://www.google.com/ Google] | ||
<br>Thesis title: "Studies on Fault-Tolerant Broadcast and Secure Computation." | <br>Thesis title: "Studies on Fault-Tolerant Broadcast and Secure Computation." | ||
| − | <li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~horvitz/ Omer Horvitz] (Jonathan Katz, 2007) | + | <li>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~horvitz/ Omer Horvitz] (Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently at [http://www.techmeme.com/ Techmeme] |
<br>Thesis title: "Expresiveness of Definitions and Efficiency of Constructions in Computational Cryptography." | <br>Thesis title: "Expresiveness of Definitions and Efficiency of Constructions in Computational Cryptography." | ||
Revision as of 00:20, 16 September 2012
Algorithms and Theory Group - Alumni List[edit]
- Saeed Alaei (Samir Khuller, 2012), currently a postdoc at Cornell.
Thesis title: "Mechanism design with general utilities." - Barna Saha (Samir Khuller, 2011), currently working at AT&T Labs.
Thesis title: "Approximation Algorithms for Resource Allocation." - Azarakhsh Malekian (Samir Khuller, 2009), currently working at Northwestern University (postdoc).
Thesis title: "Combinatorial Optimization and Electronic Commerce." - Tsz Wo (Nicholas) Sze (Larry Washington, Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently working at Yahoo.
Thesis title: "On Solving Univariate Polynomial Equations over Finite Fields and Some Related Problems." - Guilherme Fonseca (David Mount, 2007), currently a postdoc in the department COPPE - Sistemas at UFRJ
Thesis title: "Approximate Range Searching in the Absolute Error Model." - Walid Gomaa (William Gasarch and David Kueker (Mathematics), 2007), currently at Alexandria University, Egypt.
Thesis title: "Model Theory and Complexity Theory." - Chiu-Yuen Koo (Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently at Google
Thesis title: "Studies on Fault-Tolerant Broadcast and Secure Computation." - Omer Horvitz (Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently at Techmeme
Thesis title: "Expresiveness of Definitions and Efficiency of Constructions in Computational Cryptography." - Nargess Memarsadeghi (David Mount, 2007), currently at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Thesis title: "Efficient Algorithms for Clustering and Interpolation of Large Spatial Data Sets." - Srinivas Kashyap (Samir Khuller, 2007), currently at IBM T.J. Watson
- Julian Mestre (Samir Khuller, 2007), currently at Max Planck Institute
- Ruggero Morselli (Jonathan Katz, 2006), currently at Google
Thesis title: "Lookup Protocols and Techniques for Anonymity." - Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Aravind Srinivasan, 2006), currently at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Cengiz Celik (David Mount, 2006), currently at Bilkent University
- Yoo Ah Kim (Samir Khuller, 2005), currently at University of Connecticut
- Yung-Chun Justin Wan (Samir Khuller, 2005), currently at Google
- Nan Wang (Aravind Srinivasan, 2005), currently at Goldman Sachs
- F. Betul Atalay (David Mount, 2004), currently at Saint Joseph's University in Philly
- Rajiv C. Gandhi (Samir Khuller, 2003), currently at Rutgers University at Camden
- Michael Murphy (David Mount, 2002)
Thesis title: "Delaunay Triangulations and Control-Volume Mesh Generation." - Songrit Maneewongvatana (David Mount, 2001), currently at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Yoram Sussmann (Samir Khuller, 1999), currently at Iona College
- Evan Golub (William Gasarch, Spring 1999), currently at University of Maryland
Thesis title: "Empirical Studies in Parallel Sorting." - James Glenn (William Gasarch, Fall 1998), currently at Loyola College in Maryland
Thesis title: "Implementing WS1S via Finite Automata." - Andrew Lee (William Gasarch, Summer 1998), currently at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Thesis title: "On queries in computational learning theory and combinatorial problems." - Randeep Singh Bhatia (Samir Khuller, 1998), currently at Bell Labs
- Fan-Tao Pu (David Mount, 1998), currently at Infozen
Thesis title: "Data Structures for Global Illumination Computation and Visibility Queries in 3-Space." - Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp (Uzi Vishkin, 1997), currently at Simon Fraser University. University of Maryland Computer Science Department Distinguished Alumnus in 2012
- Sunil Arya (David Mount, 1995), currently at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Gary Benson (Amihood Amir, 1992), currently at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Yossi Matias (Uzi Vishkin, 1992, *), currently at Tel Aviv University
- Katia Guimaraes (William Gasarch, Spring 1992), currently at Universdade Federal de Pernambuco (in Brazil)
Thesis title: "On the quality of queries." - Thomas Kao (David Mount, 1992)
Thesis title: "Efficient/Practical Algorithms for Geometric Structures: Convex Hulls, Delaunay Triangulations and Voronoi Diagrams." - Nathan Netanyahu (David Mount, Azriel Rosenfeld, 1991), currently at Bar-Ilan University
Thesis title: "Computationally Efficient Algorithms for Robust Estimators." - Martin Farach-Colton (Amihood Amir, 1991), currently at Rutgers University
- Omer Berkman (Uzi Vishkin, 1991, Ph.D. graduates of Tel Aviv University)
- Mark Pleszkoch (William Gasarch, Spring 1990), currently at IBM
Thesis title: "Machine Learning with Queries and Oracles."
