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Ph.D. Candidates 2000

(prior graduates)
 
Alexander Dekhtyar (dekhtyar@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~dekhtyar
Research area: Logic Programming, Agent Systems
Employment Interests: Academia
Tentative dissertation title:Reasoning with Uncertainty and Time
Anticipated completion date: August 2000
 
Jeffrey Heflin (www.cs.umd.edu/~heflin)
Research area: Ontologies, Web Technogies
Employment Interest: Academia, or Industry Research
Tentative dissertation title:Knowldege Represenation on the Internet: Achieving Interoperablility in a Dynamic Distributed Environment
Anticipated completion date: December 2000
 
Thanarat Horprasert (thanarat@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/users/thanarat)
Research area: Vision, Pattern Recognition
Employment Interests: No preference
Tentative dissertation title:Real-Time 3D Vision System for Human Motion Capture
Anticipated completion date: December 2000
 
Vikrant Kobla (kobla@cs.umd.edu, www.cfar.umd.edu/~kobla)
Research area: Multimedia Processing, vision, pattern recognition
Employment Interest: Industry, Academia
Tentative dissertation title:Automated Analysis of MPEG Compressed Video
Anticipated completion date: May 2000
 
Yannis Kotidis (kotidis@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~kotidis)
Research area: Data Warehousing, multi-dimensional indexing
Employment Interest: Industry, Academia
Tentative dissertation title:A Framework for Mangament and Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Data Warehouse Aggregates
Anticipated completion date: May 2000
 
Sean Luke (seanl@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/users/seanl/)
Research area: Multiagent cooperation, Evolutionary Computation
Employment Interests: Academia
Tentative dissertation title:Self-Adaptive Evolution of Cooperative Teams
Anticipated completion date: May 2000
 
Songrit Maneewongvatana (songrit@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~songrit)
Research area: Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics
Employment Interests: Industry
Tentative dissertation title:Nearest Neighbor Searching in High Dimensional Spaces
Anticipated completion date: December 2000
 
Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez (manuel@cs.umd.ed, www.cs.umd.edu/users/manuel/)
Research area: Dataases, Java, XML
Employment Interests: Academia
Tentative dissertation title:Automatic Deployment of Application-Specific Functionality in Database Middleware Systems
Anticipated completion date: December 2000
 
Michael Murphy (murphy@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~murphy)
Research area: Computational Geometry
Tentative dissertation Geometric Algorithms in Control-Volume Meshing
Anticipated completion date:May 2000
 
Vasanth Philomen (vasi@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~vasi)
Research area: Vison, Intelligent Vision-based Navigation
Employment Interests: Industry
Tentative dissertation title: Real-Time Object Detection and Tracking for "Smart" Vehicles
Anticipated completion date:May 2000
 
Catalin Popescu (cpopescu@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~cpopescu)
Research area: Networking, Performance Evaluation
Employment Interests: Industry
Tentative dissertation title:Fast Evaluation of Intergrated-Services TCP/IP Networks
Anticipated completion date: August 2000
 
Manjit Ray (manjit@cfar.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~manjit)
Research area: Vision, Graphics
Employment Interest: Industry
Tentative dissertation title:Model-based Object Recognition Using Three-dimesional Invariants
Anticipated completion date: August 2000
 
Kyung Dong Ryu (kdryu@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~kdryu)
Research area: Distributed Systems, Network Capabilities
Employment Interests: Industry, Academia
Tentative dissertation title:Running Sequential and Parallel Jobs on a Non-dedicated Workstation Cluster
Anticipated completion date: December 2000
 
Sheiyao Su (su@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~su)
Research area: Virtual Reality, Visualization
Employment Interests: No preference
Tentative dissertation title:3D Gestural Input Support in Virtual Environments
Anticipated completion date: May 2000
 
K. Subramani (ksmani@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~ksmani)
Research area: Linear, non-linear programming
Employment Interests: Academia, Industry
Tentative dissertation title:Duality in the Parametric Polytype and its Application to a scheduling Problem
Anticipated completion date: May 2000
 
Kritchalach Thitikamol (kritchal@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~krichal)
Research area: Distributed and Parallel Systems
Employment Interests: Industry, Academia
Tentative dissertation title:Dynamic Software DSM Systems
Anticipated completion date: May 2000
 
Tolga Urhan (urhan@cs.umd.edu, www.cs.umd.edu/~urhan)
Research area: Databases, Query Processing on WANs, Distributed Databases
Employment Interests: Industry
Tentative dissertation title:Reactive Query Processing for Coping with Delays on Wide-Area Environments
Anticipated completion date: August 2000