2011 Class of CIFellows
Amin Ansari
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Michigan
Research Interests: Computer architecture with a focus on reliability, low-power design, and single-thread performance
CIFellowship Mentor: Josep Torrellas
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Position: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Qualcomm Research
Ferhat Ay
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Florida
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, epigenomics, and regulatory genomics
CIFellowship Mentor: William Noble
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Washington
Current Position: Institute Leadership Assistant Professor of Computational Biology
Current Affiliation: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Selina Chu
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Southern California
Research Interests: Machine learning, data mining, audio signal processing, and pattern recognition
CIFellowship Mentor: Thomas Dietterich
CIFellowship Host Organization: Oregon State University
Shay Cohen
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Computational linguistics and machine learning
CIFellowship Mentor: Michael Collins
CIFellowship Host Organization: Columbia University
Current Position: Chancellor’s Fellowship
Current Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Travis Deyle
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Novel sensor and actuator technologies, robotics, and wireless power harvesting
CIFellowship Mentor: Matt Reynolds
CIFellowship Host Organization: Duke University
Current Position: Co-Founder
Current Affiliation: Cobalt Robotics
David Feil-Seifer
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Southern California
Research Interests: Socially assistive robotics algorithms, systems for post-stroke rehabilitation, elder care, and therapeutic interaction.
CIFellowship Mentor: Brian Scassellati
CIFellowship Host Organization: Yale University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Nevada, Reno
Lakshmi Ganesh
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Cornell University
Research Interests: Scaling reliability and availability in large-scale distributed storage
CIFellowship Mentor: Mike Dahlin
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Texas at Austin
Current Position: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Facebook
Jonathan Huang
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Probabilistic reasoning and learning algorithms
CIFellowship Mentor: Leonidas Guibas
CIFellowship Host Organization: Stanford University
Current Position: Research Scientist
Current Affiliation: Google Inc.
Hemanta Maji
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Cryptography with emphasis on lower bounding techniques
CIFellowship Mentor: Amit Sahai
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Purdue University
David Mimno
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Interests: Extracting meaning from large document collections and topic modeling
CIFellowship Mentor: David Blei
CIFellowship Host Organization: Princeton University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Cornell University
Ankur Moitra
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Algorithms, learning, and convex geometry
CIFellowship Mentor: Avi Wigderson
CIFellowship Host Organization: Institute for Advanced Study
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rohan Murty
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Harvard University
Research Interests: Networking and distributed systems.
CIFellowship Mentor: Hari Balakrishnan
CIFellowship Host Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joshua Reich
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Columbia University
Research Interests: Software defined networking, virtualization, cloud computing, and green computing
CIFellowship Mentor: Jennifer Rexford
CIFellowship Host Organization: Princeton University
Current Position: Principal Member of Technical Staff
Current Affiliation: AT&T Research
Suchi Saria
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Stanford University
Research Interests: Data-driven solutions to improve the delivery and consumption of health care
CIFellowship Mentor: Kenneth Mandl
CIFellowship Host Organization: Harvard Medical School / Children Hospital Boston
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Erin Solovey
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Tufts University
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, including brain-computer interfaces, tangible interaction, and reality-based interaction
CIFellowship Mentor: Missy Cummings
CIFellowship Host Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Drexel University
Ian Stevenson
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Northwestern University
Research Interests: Improving statistical models of neurons in primary visual cortex as they respond to natural scenes
CIFellowship Mentor: Bruno Olshausen
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Connecticut
Mohit Tiwari
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of California at Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Program analysis, computer architecture, and system software
CIFellowship Mentor: Krste Asanovic
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: University of Texas, Austin
Kalliopi Tsota
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Purdue University
Research Interests: VLSI computer-aided design, reconfigurable computing, and numerical methods for large-scale optimization.
CIFellowship Mentor: Jason Cong
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of California at Los Angeles
Current Affiliation: The Aerospace Corporation
Lirong Xia
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: Duke University
Research Interests: Computing at microeconomics.
CIFellowship Mentor: David Parkes
CIFellowship Host Organization: Harvard University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hong-Sheng Zhou
Ph.D.-Granting College/University: University of Connecticut
Research Interests: Cryptography, both classical and quantum
CIFellowship Mentor: Jonathan Katz
CIFellowship Host Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
