MSSE 2003 Graduates

Christopher Aburime, EdMentor Corporation
Casey Allen, UNISYS Corporation
Brian Basel, 3M Company
Venkatesh Bashyam, Best Buy Company Inc.
Jeremy Bauer, IBM Corporation
Charles Betz, Best Buy Company Inc.
Sthitie Bom, Seagate Technology
Chris Butzow, Self-employed
Richard Davies, Retek Inc.
Anupa Dhar, IPCS
Peggy Dora, Guidant Corporation
Yvon Drolet, Tek Systems Inc.
Chowdhury Ekram, Best Buy Company Inc.
Sean Goggins, Guidant Corporation
Luis Herrera-Calderon, Keane Inc.
Quang Hong, General Dynamics Information Systems Inc.
David Johnson, UNISYS Corporation
Bryan Kamrath, Medronic Inc.
Amar Kanade, AST Fire Protection Company
Pratik Khetiya, MSI Group Inc.
 Amber Kocemba, MetLife
Dewi Koe, Retek Retain Solutions
Robert Lach, Lach and Associates
Ning Liu, IBM Corporation
Michael McMaster, XIOtech Corporation
Hector Meneses, Navitaire Inc.
Brian Muras, IBM Corporation
Karl Narveson, Self-employed
Geok Moi Ng, West Group
Erica Ngai, BMAC-RFC
Cuong Nguyen, University of Minnesota
James Pichler, Digital River, Inc.
Natasha Poppler, UNISYS Corporation
Chandrasekhar Pydi, Mentor Automation Technology
Jude Rajan, Analysts International
Ryan Reuss
Brian Rootes, Hutchinson Technology Inc.
Madhuri Veena, IBM Corporation
Rajiv Wanasinghe, Syntegra Inc.

Ph.D. graduates with Advisors and Dissertation
Titles 7/02 - 5/03

Abdelkader Baggag
Advisor: Yousef Saad & Ahmed Sameh
"Linear System Solvers In Particulate Flows"

Brian Bailey
Advisor: Joseph A. Konstan
"DEMAIS: A Behavior-Sketching Tool for Early Multimedia Design"

Ionut Cardei
Advisor: Ding-Zhu Du
"Resource Management in Wireless Networks"

Mihaela Cardei
Advisor: Ding-Zhu Du
"Resource Efficient Approaches in Wireless Networking"

Taisheng Chang
Advisor: David H. C. Du
"On Several Design Issues of Intelligent High-Performance Storage Systems"

Sangyeun Cho
Advisor: Pen Chung Yew & Gyungho Lee
"A High-Bandwidth Memory Pipeline for Wide Issue Processors"

John Collins
Advisor: Maria Gini
"Solving Combinatorial Auctions With Temporal Constraints in Economic Agents"

Xiao Huang
Advisor: Ding-Zhu Du
"Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks"

Mahesh Joshi
Advisor: Vipin Kumar & R. K. Agarwal
"Learning Classifier Models for Predicting Rare Phenomena"

Jian Liu
Advisor: Eugene Shragowitz
"A Computational Framework for IP Selection in Soc Designs"

Bradley Miller
Advisor: John Riedl & John V. Carlis
"Toward a Personal Recommender System"

Robert Miller
Advisor: Anand Tripathi
"The Guardian Model for Exception Handling in Distributed Systems"

Doug Perrin
Advisor: Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
"Vision-Based Tasks and Dynamic Contours"

Alexei Safonov
Advisor: Joseph Konstan & John Carlis
"A Model and System for Automating User Tasks on the World-Wide Web"

Pang Ning Tan
Advisor: Jaideep Srivastava & Vipin Kumar
"Discovery of Indirect Association and Its Applications"

Wei Li Wu
Advisor: Shashi Shekhar
"Modeling Spatial Dependencies for Data Mining"

Weiwen Xie
Advisor: Wei-Tek Tsai
"A Study of Developing Secure and Scalable Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Systems"