2010 Class of CIFellows
Jae-wook Ahn
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and (adaptive) social network information visualization
CIFellowship Mentor: Ben Shneiderman
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Current Title: Research Staff Member
Current Affiliation: IBM Research
Alvin AuYoung
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of California at San Diego
Research Interests: Distributed systems, with a focus on resource allocation and scheduling
CIFellowship Mentor: Partha Ranganathan
CIFellowship Host Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs
Current Title: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: Hewlett-Packard Labs
Aruna Balasubramanian
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Interests: Systems and networking
CIFellowship Mentor: David Wetherall
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Washington
Robert Bocchino
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Programming language design, type theory, formal verification, and concurrency
CIFellowship Mentor: Jonathan Aldrich
CIFellowship Host Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Current Title: Engineer
Current Affiliation: NASA/CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lillian Chang
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Control, human motion simulation, humanoid robotics, and manipulation
CIFellowship Mentor: Dieter Fox and Joshua Smith
CIFellowship Host Organization: Intel Corporation and University of Washington
Current Title: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Intel Corporation
Yanhua Chen
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Wayne State University
Research Interests: Data mining, machine learning, and biomedical/health informatics
CIFellowship Mentor: Peter X.-K. Song
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Michigan
Marc Chiarini
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Tufts University
Research Interests: Provenance-aware troubleshooting, performance analysis, system configuration management, and tools for system adminstration
CIFellowship Mentor: Margo Seltzer
CIFellowship Host Organization: Harvard University
David Choffnes
Ph.D.-Granting College/University:Northwestern University
Research Interests: Practical approaches for improving Internet realiability and performance
CIFellowship Mentor: Tom Anderson
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Washington
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Northeastern University
Tamara Clegg
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Educational technology
CIFellowship Mentor: Allison Druin
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park
Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Formal methods, tools, and algorithms for the verification, analysis, synthesis, and repair of software systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Rajeev Alur
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Current Title: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Toyota Technical Center
Xiaoning Ding
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: The Ohio State University
Research Interests: Operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, and database systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Phillip Gibbons
CIFellowship Host Organization: Intel Labs – Pittsburgh
Current Title: Assistant Professor – Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: New Jersey Institute of Technology
David Doty
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Iowa State University
Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, particularly algorithmic information theory and computational complexity
CIFellowship Mentor: Erik Winfree
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California, Davis
Jenny Rose Finkel
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Stanford University
Research Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, and probabilistic graphical models
CIFellowship Mentor: Michael Collins
CIFellowship Host Organization: Columbia University
Current Title: Research Engineer
Current Affiliation: Prismatic
S. Dov Gordon
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Maryland at College Park
Research Interests: Theoretical cryptography and practicial applications of secure computation in modern computing environments
CIFellowship Mentor: Tal Malkin
CIFellowship Host Organization: Columbia University
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: George Mason University
Elena Grigorescu
Ph.D.-Granting College/University:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Theoretical aspects of computer science, particulary property testing, sublinear algorithms, codes, and complexity theory
CIFellowship Mentor: Chris Peikert and Santosh Vempala
CIFellowship Host Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Purdue University
Haryadi S. Gunawi
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Interests: Cloud reliability and cloud storage
CIFellowship Mentor: Joseph M. Hellerstein
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Chicago
David Harmon
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Columbia University
Research Interests: Physical simulation, contact mechanics, numerical methods, modern geometry, and computing animation
CIFellowship Mentor: Denis Zorin
CIFellowship Host Organization: New York University
Current Title: Co-Founder
Current Affiliation: Startup
Timothy Havens
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Missouri
Research Interests: Pattern recognition and machine learning, with an emphasis on classification and clustering in large-scale and hetereogenous data
CIFellowship Mentor: Anil Jain
CIFellowship Host Organization: Michigan Technological University
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Michigan Technological University
Michael Hay
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Interests: Developing practical tools for privacy-preserving data analysis
CIFellowship Mentor: Johannes Gehrke
CIFellowship Host Organization: Cornell University
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Colgate University
Houman Homayoun
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of California at Irvine
Research Interests: Computer architecture including CAD and VLSI circuit design
CIFellowship Mentor: Dean M. Tullsen
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at San Diego
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: George Mason University
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 Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: City University of Hong Kong
Shaili Jain
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Harvard University
Research Interests: Incentives in peer production and crowdsourcing systems, network economics, mechanism design, and contract theory
CIFellowship Mentor: Joan Feigenbaum
CIFellowship Host Organization: Yale University
Current Title: Software Engineer
Current Affiliation: Google
Saket Joshi
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Tufts University
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, particularly at the intersection of decision theoretic planning, knowledge representation, and machine learning
CIFellowship Mentor: Prasad Tadepalli
CIFellowship Host Organization: Oregon State University
Current Title: Technical Staff
Current Affiliation: Cycorp
Thomas R. Kiehl
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience
CIFellowship Mentor: Scott Tenenbaum
CIFellowship Host Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Current Title: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: Neural Stem Cell Institute
Samantha Kleinberg
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: New York University
Research Interests: Causality, inference from complex data, and biomedical informatics
CIFellowship Mentor: George Hripcsak
CIFellowship Host Organization: Columbia University
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Stevens Institute of Technology
J. Zico Kolter
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Stanford University
Research Interests: Applying machine learning and control techniques to problems in energy and sustainability
CIFellowship Mentor: Russ Tedrake
CIFellowship Host Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Lukas Kroc
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Cornell University
Research Interests: New techniques and approaches for solving hard combinatorial problems, especially with application in artificial intelligence
CIFellowship Mentor: Allon Percus
CIFellowship Host Organization: Claremont Graduate University
Current Title: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: SpaceX
Vijay S. Kumar
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: The Ohio State University
Research Interests: High-performance computing, distributed systems, performance modeling and evaluation, and big data
CIFellowship Mentor: Jay Wylie
CIFellowship Host Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs
Current Title: Computer Scientist
Current Affiliation: GE Global Research
Homin K. Lee
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Columbia University
Research Interests: Computational learning theory, combinatorics, and computational complexity
CIFellowship Mentor: Adam Klivans
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Texas at Austin
Current Title: Data Scientist
Current Affiliation: Datadog
Yuliya Lierler
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, particulary in the areas of knowledge representation, automated reasoning, declarative problem solving, and natural language understanding
CIFellowship Mentor: Miroslaw Truszczynski
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Kentucky
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Xiaojuan Ma
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Princeton University
Research Interests: Augmented human-human and human-robot interactions
CIFellowship Mentor: Jodi Forlizzi
CIFellowship Host Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Amon Millner
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Human computer interaction, tangible user interface design, community organizing, and the learning sciences
CIFellowship Mentor: Lynn Andrea Stein
CIFellowship Host Organization: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Current Title: Visting Assistant Professor/Visiting Scientist
Current Affiliation: Olin College/MIT Media Lab
Arifa Nisar
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Northwestern University
Research Interests: High performance I/O systems, parallel I/O, and file systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Ethan Miller
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Santa Cruz
Current Title: Technical Staff
Current Affiliation: Salesforce.com
Amit Pande
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Iowa State University
Research Interests: Various aspects of multimedia systems including compression, communications, security, and architectures
CIFellowship Mentor: Prasant Mohapatra
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Davis
Current Title: Data Scientist/Researcher
Current Affiliation: Target/University of California, Davis
Sharoda A. Paul
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, social computing, and healthcare informatics
CIFellowship Mentor: Ed Chi and Peter Pirolli
CIFellowship Host Organization: Google and Palo Alto Research Center
Current Title: User Experience Researcher
Current Affiliation: Facebook
Brian Price
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Brigham Young University
Research Interests: Computer vision
CIFellowship Mentor: Scott Cohen
CIFellowship Host Organization: Adobe Systems
Current Title: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Adobe Systems
Dustin Reishus
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Southern California
Research Interests: Self-assembly and self-organization with emphasis on the theoretical foundations, fundamental limits, and potential applications of self-organizing systems
CIFellowship Mentor: Nikolaus Correll
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Colorado
Ricky J. Sethi
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of California at Riverside
Research Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, social computing, collaborative intelligence, financial modelling, science learning, and physics education research
CIFellowship Mentor: Jennifer Wortman Vaughan and Yolanda Gil
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Los Angeles and University of Southern California, Information Science Institute
Current Title: Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Current Affiliation: Fitchburg State University
Saurabh Srivastava
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Maryland at College Park
Research Interests: Theory and tools for program synthesis and program verification
CIFellowship Mentor: Rastislav Bodik
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Current Title: Founder and CEO
Current Affiliation: 20n
Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Cornell University
Research Interests: Cryptography and complexity, with focus on building theoretical foundations and techniques to secure protocols in the Internet, i.e., concurrent security
CIFellowship Mentor: Yevgeniy Dodis
CIFellowship Host Organization: New York University
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: State University of New York at Rochester
Erin Walker
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Adaptive technology for influencing student learning from collaboration
CIFellowship Mentor: Winslow Burleson
CIFellowship Host Organization: Arizona State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor (effective winter 2013)
Current Affiliation: Arizona State University
Susan P. Wyche
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Research focuses on human-computer interaction, interaction design, and cultural studies of technology
CIFellowship Mentor: Steven Harrison
CIFellowship Host Organization: Virginia Tech
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Michigan State University
Yinglong Xia
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Southern California
Research Interests: High performance computing, parallel algorithm design, and their applications in sparse solvers, graphical models, and machine learning problems
CIFellowship Mentor: Anshul Gupta
CIFellowship Host Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Current Title: Big Data Architect and Sr. Data Scientist
Current Affiliation: Huawei Research America, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Yang Xiang
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Kent State University
Research Interests: Biomedical informatics, computational biology, algorithms, graph theory, data mining, databases, and networks
CIFellowship Mentor: Kun Huang
CIFellowship Host Organization: The Ohio State University
Current Title: Research Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Cem Yuksel
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Computer graphics
CIFellowship Mentor: Doug James
CIFellowship Host Organization: Cornell University
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Utah
Ting Zhu
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Energy-aware computing, embedded systems, network protocols and architecture, mobile computing, smart-grid, security, and wireless sensor networks
CIFellowship Mentor: Don Towsley
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Current Title: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Caroline Ziemkiewicz
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Interests: Information visualization for structuring a user’s thinking process
CIFellowship Mentor: David Laidlaw
CIFellowship Host Organization: Brown University
Current Title: Associate research engineer
Current Affiliation: Aptima
