2009 Class of CIFellows
Zlatan Aksamija
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign
Research Interests: Computational nanoscience
CIFellowship Mentor: Irena Knezevic
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Current Position: NSF Transformative Computational Science using Cyber Infrastructure (CITraCS) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Current Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Sitaram Asur
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Ohio State University
Research Interests: Social computing, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval
CIFellowship Mentor: Bernardo Huberman
CIFellowship Host Organization: Hewlett Packard
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: Hewlett-Packard
Paula Bach
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Human computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work.
CIFellowship Mentor: Michael Twidale
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Position: User Experience Researcher
Current Affiliation: Microsoft Research
Cindy L. Bethel
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of South Florida
Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, affective computing, social robotics, and cognitive science
CIFellowship Mentor: Brian Scassellati
CIFellowship Host Organization: Yale University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Mississippi State University
Carleton Bosley
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: New York University
Research Interests: Information assurance, security, privacy, cryptography
CIFellowship Mentor: Antonio Nicolosi
CIFellowship Host Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Current Position: Software Engineer
Current Affiliation: Google, New York
Quincy Brown
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Drexel University
Research Interests: Human computer interaction, mobile learning, intelligent supports in learning environments
CIFellowship Mentor: Allison Druin
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Bowie State University
Yuriy Brun
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Southern California
Research Interests: Software engineering with a particular focus on self-adaptation techniques
CIFellowship Mentor: David Notkin
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Washington
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
Scott Coull
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Statistical analysis, data mining and machine learning
CIFellowship Mentor: Michael Reiter
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: RedJack, LLC
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Human computer interaction and information visualization
CIFellowship Mentor: Mor Naaman
CIFellowship Host Organization: Rutgers University
Current Position: Research Fellow
Current Affiliation: Columbia University
Jeremy Fineman
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Algorithm design and analysis with a focus on parallel algorithms
CIFellowship Mentor: Guy Blelloch
CIFellowship Host Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Georgetown University
Davide Fossati
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, data mining, intelligent tutoring systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Mark Guzdial
CIFellowship Host Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor
Current Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Xin Fu
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Florida
Research Interests: Computer architecture, hardware reliability and the impact of nano-scale technology on multi-core processors
CIFellowship Mentor: Sarita Adve
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Kansas
Ronald Garcia
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Indiana University
Research Interests: Programming languages
CIFellowship Mentor: Frank Pfenning
CIFellowship Host Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Ragib Hasan
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Cloud computing, computer security, secure provenance, trustworthy databases and file systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Randal Burns
CIFellowship Host Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael Hines
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: State University of New York at Binghamton
Research Interests: Building and analyzing experimental, networked systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Jason Nieh
CIFellowship Host Organization: Columbia University
Current Position: Research Staff Member
Current Affiliation: IBM Research
Daniel C. Howe
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: New York University
Research Interests: Computation, literature, and education
CIFellowship Mentor: Andy van Dam
CIFellowship Host Organization: Brown University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: City University of Hong Kong
Yuho Jin
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Computer architecture, interconnection network, multicore architecture, parallel computing
CIFellowship Mentor: Timothy Pinkston
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Southern California
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: New Mexico State University
Jeffrey Johns
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Interests: Autonomous learning
CIFellowship Mentor: Ronald Parr
CIFellowship Host Organization: Duke University
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: U.S. Department of Defense
Dara Kusic
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Drexel University
Research Interests: Networks and operating systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Daniel Mosse
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Current Position: Application Developer
Current Affiliation: Coriell Institute for Medical Research
Yong Joo Kil
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of California at Davis
Research Interests: Algorithms and visualization
CIFellowship Mentor: Marshall Bern
CIFellowship Host Organization: Xerox PARC
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: Xerox PARC
Benjamin Lee
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Harvard University
Research Interests: Scalable technologies, power-efficient computer architectures and high-performance applications
CIFellowship Mentor: Mark Horowitz
CIFellowship Host Organization: Stanford University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Duke University
Katrina Ligett
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Online algorithms, algorithmic game theory, and data privacy
CIFellowship Mentor: Eva Tardos
CIFellowship Host Organization: Cornell University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: California Institute of Technology
Edgar J. Lobaton
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of California at Berkele
Research Interests: Robotics, computer vision, and sensor networks
CIFellowship Mentor: Ron Alterovitz
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Cristian Lumezanu
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Maryland at College Park
Research Interests: Networking, distributed systems, and security
CIFellowship Mentor: Nick Feamster
CIFellowship Host Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Position: Research Staff Member
Current Affiliation: NEC Laboratories
Niti Madan
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Utah
Research Interests: Computer architecture and systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Pradip Bose
CIFellowship Host Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Current Position: Product Development
Current Affiliation: Oracle
Victoria Manfredi
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Interests: Ad hoc networks, adaptive sensor networks, and machine learning
CIFellowship Mentor: Mark Crovella
CIFellowship Host Organization: Boston University
Current Position: Network Scientist
Current Affiliation: BBN Technologies
Damon McCoy
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Interests: Privacy and security
CIFellowship Mentor: Stefan Savage
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: George Mason University
Andrew McPherson
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Electronically-augmented instruments and creative expression
CIFellowship Mentor: Youngmoo Kim
CIFellowship Host Organization: Drexel University
Current Position: Lecturer
Current Affiliation: Queen Mary, University of London
Miriah Meyer
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Utah
Research Interests: Data visualization
CIFellowship Mentor: Hanspeter Pfister
CIFellowship Host Organization: Harvard University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Utah
Lilyana Mihalkova
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Arfificial intellgence and machine learning
CIFellowship Mentor: Lise Getoor
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Current Position: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Google, Santa Monica
Antonina Mitrofanova
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: New York University
Research Interests: Predictive modeling, bioinformatics, and computational biology
CIFellowship Mentor: Andrea Califano
CIFellowship Host Organization: Columbia University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Affiliation: Columbia University
Deidra Morrison
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Northwestern University
Research Interests: Data visualization and social computing
CIFellowship Mentor: Juan E. Gilbert
CIFellowship Host Organization: Clemson University
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Clemson University
Ifeoma Nwogu
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Interests: Image processing, biometrics, computational geometry, and large-scale databases
CIFellowship Mentor: Chris Brown
CIFellowship Host Organization: State University of New York at Rochester
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: State University of New York at Buffalo
Iris Oved
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Rutgers University
Research Interests: Arfificial intellgence
CIFellowship Mentor: Ian Fasel and Paul Cohen
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Arizona
Current Position: Director
Current Affiliation: The Paradox Center
Joyojeet Pal
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Social computing and social informatics
CIFellowship Mentor: John Bennett
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Colorado
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Michigan
Jeff Phillips
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Duke University
Research Interests: Algorithms for data analysis
CIFellowship Mentor: Suresh Venkatasubramanian
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Utah
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Utah
Sally Pias
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: New Mexico State University
Research Interests: High-performance computing for biomolecular simulations
CIFellowship Mentor: Carlos Simmerling
CIFellowship Host Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Anna Pyayt
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Washington
Research Interests: Biomedicine and computer architerctures
CIFellowship Mentor: Olav Solgaard
CIFellowship Host Organization: Stanford University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of South Florida
Emilee Rader
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Michigan
Research Interests: Understanding individual, group, and system level influences on information sharing in the cloud
CIFellowship Mentor: Darren Gergle
CIFellowship Host Organization: Northwestern University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Michigan State University
Ioan Raicu
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Chicago
Research Interests: Scientific computing, high performance computing, and data-intensive scalable computing
CIFellowship Mentor: Alok Choudhary
CIFellowship Host Organization: Northwestern University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Illinois Institute of Technology
Leena Razzaq
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Human computer interaction, human learning, and user modeling
CIFellowship Mentor: Beverly Woolf
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Current Position: Lecturer
Current Affiliation: Northeastern University
Lev Reyzin
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Yale University
Research Interests: Theory and practice of machine learning
CIFellowship Mentor: John Langford
CIFellowship Host Organization: Yahoo! Research
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Guy Rothblum
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Theoretical computer science and computer security
CIFellowship Mentor: Boaz Barak
CIFellowship Host Organization: Princeton University
Current Position: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Microsoft Research
Sushmita Roy
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Chicago
Research Interests: Computational learning theory
CIFellowship Mentor: Lisa Hellerstein
CIFellowship Host Organization: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Linda Sellie
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of New Mexico
Research Interests: Systems and biomedicine
CIFellowship Mentor: Aviv Regev
CIFellowship Host Organization: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Current Position: Part-time Instructor/Researcher
Current Affiliation: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Stelios Sidiroglou
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Columbia University
Research Interests: Systems, security, and programming languages
CIFellowship Mentor: Martin Rinard
CIFellowship Host Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: Massachusettes Institute of Technology
David Soloveichik
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Molecular programming
CIFellowship Mentor: Georg Seelig
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Washington
Current Position: Systems Biology Fellow
Current Affiliation: University of California at San Francisco
Veselin Stoyanov
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Cornell University
Research Interests: Machine learning and computational linguistics
CIFellowship Mentor: Jason Eisner
CIFellowship Host Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Current Position: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Julia Stoyanovich
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Columbia University
Research Interests: Modeling and data analytics
CIFellowship Mentor: Susan B. Davidson
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Visiting Scholar
Current Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Cui Tao
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Brigham Young University
Research Interests: Ontologies, standard terminologies, and the semantic web
CIFellowship Mentor: Christopher G. Chute
CIFellowship Host Organization: Mayo Clinic
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Mayo Clinic
Stephen Voida
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Human computer interaction and information systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Gloria Mark
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Irvine
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: University of California, Irvine
Lawton Verner
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and vision
CIFellowship Mentor: Simon DiMaio
CIFellowship Host Organization: Intuitive Surgical
Current Position: Research Engineer
Current Affiliation: Intuitive Surgical
David Van Horn
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Brandeis University
Research Interests: Reliable software construction
CIFellowship Mentor: Matthias Felleisen
CIFellowship Host Organization: Northeastern University
Current Position: Research Assistant Fellow
Current Affiliation: Northeastern University
Virginia Vassilevska Williams
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Theoretical computer science and computational social choice
CIFellowship Mentor: Satish Rao
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Current Position: Research Associate
Current Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Ilya Wagner
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Michigan
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and vision
CIFellowship Mentor: Shih-Lien Lu
CIFellowship Host Organization: Intel Corporation
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: Intel Corporation
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Machine learning, algorithmic aspects of economics, and social computing
CIFellowship Mentor: Yiling Chen
CIFellowship Host Organization: Harvard University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of California at Los Angeles
Weijun Xiao
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Rhode Island
Research Interests: Computer system and architecture, distributed systems, and high performance computing
CIFellowship Mentor: David J. Lilja
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Minnesota
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Virginia Tech
Liangjun Zhang
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Path planning, visual, and control algorithms for autonomous vehicles
CIFellowship Mentor: Jean-Claude Latombe
CIFellowship Host Organization: Stanford University
Current Position: Research and Development
Current Affiliation: Honda Research Institute
