Algorithms and Theory Group - Alumni List

• Tsz Wo (Nicholas) Sze (Larry Washington, Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently working at yahoo.
  Thesis title: "On Solving Univariate Polynomial Equations over Finite Fields and Some Related Problems."
• Guilherme Fonseca (David Mount, 2007), currently a postdoc in the department COPPE - Sistemas at UFRJ
  Thesis title: "Approximate Range Searching in the Absolute Error Model."
• Walid Gomaa (William Gasarch and David Kueker (Mathematics), 2007), currently at Alexandria University, Egypt.
  Thesis title: "Model Theory and Complexity Theory."
• Chiu-Yuen Koo (Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently at Google
  Thesis title: "Studies on Fault-Tolerant Broadcast and Secure Computation."
• Omer Horvitz (Jonathan Katz, 2007), currently at Techmeme
  Thesis title: "Expresiveness of Definitions and Efficiency of Constructions in Computational Cryptography."
• Nargess Memarsadeghi (David Mount, 2007), currently at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Thesis title: "Efficient Algorithms for Clustering and Interpolation of Large Spatial Data Sets."
• Srinivas Kashyap (Samir Khuller, 2007), currently at IBM T.J. Watson
• Julian Mestre (Samir Khuller, 2007), currently at Max Planck Institute
• Ruggero Morselli (Jonathan Katz, 2006), currently at Google
  Thesis title: "Lookup Protocols and Techniques for Anonymity."
• Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Aravind Srinivasan, 2006), currently at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Cengiz Celik (David Mount, 2006), currently at Bilkent University
• Yoo Ah Kim (Samir Khuller, 2005), currently at University of Connecticut
• Yung-Chun Justin Wan (Samir Khuller, 2005), currently at Google
• Nan Wang (Aravind Srinivasan, 2005), currently at Goldman Sachs
• F. Betul Atalay (David Mount, 2004), currently at Saint Joseph's University in Philly
• Rajiv C. Gandhi (Samir Khuller, 2003), currently at Rutgers University at Camden
• Michael Murphy (David Mount, 2002)
  Thesis title: "Delaunay Triangulations and Control-Volume Mesh Generation."
• Songrit Maneewongvatana (David Mount, 2001), currently at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Yoram Sussmann (Samir Khuller, 1999), currently at Iona College
• Evan Golub (William Gasarch, Spring 1999), currently at University of Maryland
  Thesis title: "Empirical Studies in Parallel Sorting."
• James Glenn (William Gasarch, Fall 1998), currently at Loyola College in Maryland
  Thesis title: "Implementing WS1S via Finite Automata."
• Andrew Lee (William Gasarch, Summer 1998), currently at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Thesis title: "On queries in computational learning theory and combinatorial problems."
• Randeep Singh Bhatia (Samir Khuller, 1998), currently at Bell Labs
• Fan-Tao Pu (David Mount, 1998), currently at Infozen
  Thesis title: "Data Structures for Global Illumination Computation and Visibility Queries in 3-Space."
• Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp (Uzi Vishkin, 1997), currently at Simon Fraser University
• Sunil Arya (David Mount, 1995), currently at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Gary Benson (Amihood Amir, 1992), currently at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Yossi Matias (Uzi Vishkin, 1992, *), currently at Tel Aviv University
• Katia Guimaraes (William Gasarch, Spring 1992), currently at Universdade Federal de Pernambuco (in Brazil)
  Thesis title: "On the quality of queries."
• Thomas Kao (David Mount, 1992)
  Thesis title: "Efficient/Practical Algorithms for Geometric Structures: Convex Hulls, Delaunay Triangulations and Voronoi Diagrams."
• Nathan Netanyahu (David Mount, Azriel Rosenfeld, 1991), currently at Bar-Ilan University
  Thesis title: "Computationally Efficient Algorithms for Robust Estimators."
• Martin Farach-Colton (Amihood Amir, 1991), currently at Rutgers University
• Omer Berkman (Uzi Vishkin, 1991, *)
• Mark Pleszkoch (William Gasarch, Spring 1990), currently at IBM
  Thesis title: "Machine Learning with Queries and Oracles."

* Ph.D. graduates of Tel Aviv University