2004 College of Computing Ph.D. Graduates

Adhikari, Sameer
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sameera

Thesis Title: "Distributed Programming Idioms in Pervasive Computing"
Areas of Interest: Distributed Systems    
Advisor: Dr. Kishore Ramachandran
Expected Term of Completion: Fall 2004
Employment Preference:    Industry, Research, Academic

Carlson, Mark
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~carlson/

Thesis Title:  "Unified Simulation of Liquids and Solids"
Areas of Interest:  Animation, Simulation, Graphics in general
Advisor:  Dr. Greg Turk
Expected Term of Completion:  Fall 2004
Employment Preference:   Industry

Davies, Jim
http://www.jimdavies.org

Thesis Title: ”Visual Analogical Transfer”
Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science
Advisor:  Dr. Asok Goel and Dr. Nancy Nersessian
Expected Term of Completion:  Fall 2004
Employment Preference: Academic

Furcy, David A.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dfurcy

Thesis Title:  “Localizing Heuristic Search Under Time and Space Constraints”
Areas of Interest:  Artificial Intelligence
Advisor:  Dr. Sven Koenig
Expected Term of Completion:  Fall 2004
Employment Preference:  Academic

Hsi, Idris

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~idris

Thesis Title: "Analyzing Software Conceptual Coherence Using the Black Box Reverse Engineering
                    of Application Ontologies"
Areas of Interest: Software Engineering (requirements, maintenance), Human-computer Interaction,                                     Software Evolution, Information Systems, Data Modeling
Advisor: Dr. Colin Potts
Expected Term of Completion: Fall 2004
Employment Preference: Academic, Research

Krum, David Michael
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dkrum

Thesis Title: "Wearable Computers and Spatial Cognition"
Areas of Interest:  HCI, Wearables, Virtual Reality
Advisor:  Dr. William Ribarsky
Expected Term of Completion:  Fall 2004
Employment Preference: Academic


Kwatra, Vivek
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~kwatra

Thesis Title:  “Video Based Rendering for Textural Phenomena”
Areas of Interest:  Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Advisor:  Dr. Aaron Bobick and Dr. Irfan Essa
Expected Term of Completion:  Fall 2004
Employment Preference:  Academic, Research Lab

Lakshmanan, Subramanian
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/home/subbu

Thesis Title:  “A Secure Distributed Storage Service”
Areas of Interest:  Systems, Network Security, Distributed Systems, Storage, File Systems
Advisor:  Dr. Mustaque Ahamad and Dr. H. Venkateswaran
Expected Term of Completion:  Fall 2004
Employment Preference:  Research, Academic

Liston, Richard
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~liston

Thesis Title: "Measuring User-Perceived Internet Performance in Multiple Locations"
Areas of Interest: Networking, Systems, Software Engineering, HCI
Advisor: Dr. Ellen Zegura
Expected Term of Completion: Fall 2004
Employment Preference: Academic

Liu, Yaxin
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~yxliu

Thesis Title: “Decision-Theoretic Planning with Risk-Sensitive Planning Objectives”
Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Agents, Electronic Commerce, Theory
Advisor: Dr. Sven Koenig
Expected Term of Completion: Fall 2004
Employment Preference: Academic, Research


Riley, Marcia
http://www.his.atr.co.jp/~mriley

Thesis Title: Coaching Humanoid Robots:  A Novel, Natural Way to Program Complex Systems”
Areas of Interest: Humanoid Robotics, Computer Animation, Machine Learning
Advisor: Dr. Aaron Bobick
Expected Term of Completion: Summer 2004
Employment Preference: Academic, Industry, Research


Tacic, Ivan
Thesis Title:  "Efficient Synchronized Data Distribution Management in Distributed Simulations"
Areas of Interest:  Parallel and Distributed Systems, Parallel and Distributed Simulations, Computer Architecture, Programming
Advisor:  Dr. Richard Fujimoto
Expected Term of Completion:  Fall 2004
Employment Preference:  Research, Industry, Academic

Truong, Khai
http://khaitruong.com

Thesis Title: "Infrastructure for Capture & Access: Facilitating the Generation,
                       Preservation & Use of Memories from Everyday Life”
Areas of Interest: HCI, Ubiquitous Computing
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Abowd
Expected Term of Completion: Fall 2004
Employment Preference: Academic

Tullio, Joe
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jtullio

Thesis Title: “Augmenting Groupware with Intelligence: Supporting Informal
                       Commmunication, Trust and Persona Management”
Areas of Interest: HCI, Intelligent User Interfaces
Advisor:  Dr. Beth Mynatt
Expected Term of Completion: Fall 2004
Employment Preference: Industry, Research