CS Visiting Scholars/Paid Direct Postdocs, 2011
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Tamiko George
253 Cory Hall, 510-643-4976
tamiko@eecs
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Kashif Ali
Host: James O'Brien
Dr. Ali received his Master’s degree in Computer Science in 2006. He will complete the requirements for his Ph.D. in Computer Science in August 2011at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ali will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of Enabling Ultra Large-scale Radio Identification Systems. The research is expected to yield results in the area of Computer Science.
Appt: November 1, 2011 through October 30, 2013.
e-mail: kashif@eecs
Office: 4th floor CITRIS lab, Sutardja Dai Hall
Shuaifu Dai
Host: Dawn Song
Mr. Dai received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Peking University, in Beijing, China in July 2008. He is currently a doctoral student at Peking University, in Beijing, China expecting to complete the degree in July 2013. Mr. Dai will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of trust computing and software analysis, specifically in ubiquitous secure technology.
Appt: October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012
e-mail: daishuaifu@gmail.com
Office: 441 Soda Hall
Maryam Mehri Dehnavi
Host: James Demmel
Mrs. Dehnavi received her Master’s degree in Computer Architecture from the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada in October 2007. She has been a doctoral student at McGill University in Electrical Engineering since January 2008. Mrs. Dehnavi will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of implementing "communication-avoiding" Krylov subspace methods on graphic processing units and heterogeneous processors including the design of parallel preconditioners and sparse solvers.
Appt: October 10, 2011 through April 5, 2012
e-mail: mmehride@eecs
Office: Par Lab, Soda Hall
Ryan Farrell
Host: Trevor Darrell
Dr. Farrell holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland - College Park, MD received in May 2011 and December 2006, respectively. Dr. Farrell is currently a paid “postdoctoral fellow employee” at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).Dr. Farrell will conduct research on computer vision.
Appt: September 15, 2011 through May 31, 2013.
email: farrell@icsi
Office: ICSI
Hany Farid
Host: James O'Brien
Professor Farid is currently a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College. Since 1999, he has also held the position of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor, and William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College. Dr. Farid will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of digital forensics, image analysis, computer vision, and human perception.
Appt: September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2012.
email: farid@cs.dartmouth
Office: VSC Lab, Cory Hall
Sergio Guadarrama
Host: Lofti Zadeh
Professor Guadarrama is currently an Affiliated Professor at the University of Madrid, Spain. In addition, he holds the position of “Juan de la Cierva” Researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres, Spain since 2008. Dr. Guadarrama will develop computational models that capture some aspects of language used by specific users in specific contexts.
Appt: October 20, 2010 through October 20, 2012.
email: sguada@eecs
Office: 415 Soda Hall
Dorgival Guedes
Host: Scott Shenker
Professor Guedes holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Arizona, Tucson, earned in 1995 and 1999, respectively. Professor Guedes is currently a “visiting scholar” at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). With a joint EECS alliance with Professor Shenker, research will be on distributed systems, operating systems, computer networks, and network/system administration. He will be independently focused on scalability problems in particular.
Appt: March 14, 2011 through February 15, 2012.
email: dorgival@dcc.ufmg.br
Office: RAD Lab
Hidehiko Hasegawa
Host: James Demmel
Professor Hasegawa is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies at the University of Tsubuka, Japan. Since April 1996, he has also held the position of Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies at the University of Tsubuka, Japan. Professor Hasegawa will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of making a guideline or a decision tree to select iterative solvers for a given problem.
Appt: July 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012.
e-mail: hasegawa@eecs
Office: Par Lab, Soda Hall
Oscar Ibanez Panizo
Host: Lofti Zadeh
Dr. Ibanez Panizo is currentlya research assistant in the European Centre for Soft Computing, a research center in Mieres, Spain. Dr. Ibanez Panizo holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He also holds Masters degrees in Health Computer Science and Telemedicine from U.N.E.D. (September 2007), in Computer Vision and Robotics from The University of Alicante (June 2006) and and in Computer Science from the University of La Coruna (February 2006). Dr. Ibanez Panizo will research soft computing, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, image registration, image segmentation, deformable models, medical image, and craniofacial superimposition.
Appt: November 15, 2011 through January 31, 2012.
e-mail: oscar.ibanez@softcomputing.es
Office: 415 Soda Hall
Rei Kawakami
Host: Ruzena Bajcsy
Dr. Rei Kawakami received her Master’s and her Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in March 2005 and March 2008, respectively. Dr. Kawakami will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of color analysis, application of IT technologies as it relates to agriculture.
Appt: April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2013.
e-mail: reikawakami@
Office: CITRIS Lab, 475 Hearst Mining Building
Patrick Lam
Host: Ras Bodik
Professor Lam has held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada since 2008. Professor Lam will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of synthesis and code generation for high-performance parallel programs.
Appt: November 25, 2011 through May 30, 2012.
email: p.lam@ece.uwaterloo.ca
Office: ParLab, Soda Hall
Yu Lin
Host: John Wawrzynek
Mr. Lin is a Ph.D. graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, expecting to receive his degree in 2012. Mr. Lin will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of FPGA reconfigurable computing, in particular high levelsynthesis tools for FPGA-based reconfigurable computers.
Appt: October 15, 2011 through January 31, 2012.
email: linyu@eee.hku.hk
Office: BWRC
Yasuhide Okamoto
Host: Ruzena Bajcsy
Dr. Okamoto received his Master’s and his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in March 2006 and March 2010, respectively. Dr. Okamoto will pursue research with Professor Bajscy aiming toward a deeper understanding of the Development of Cloud-based Applications for Monitoring and Archiving the Real World.
Appt: March 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012.
e-mail: yokamoto@
Office: CITRIS Lab, 475 Hearst Mining Building
Daniele Perito
Host: Dawn Song
Dr. Perito received his Ph.D. in Computer Security from INRIA, Grenoble France in October 2011. He received his M.Sc. and B.Sc.in Computer Science from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy in August 2008 and May 2005, respectively. Dr. Perito will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of networked and embedded systems used in medical devices.
Appt: November 24, 2011 through April 30, 2013.
e-mail:perito@eecs
Office: TRUST Center, Cory Hall
Nils Peters
Host: David Patterson
Dr. Peters received his Ph.D. in Musical Technology from McGill University in 2010. He has a posdoctoral appointment with ICSI. With a joint EECS alliance with Professor Patterson, research will focus on the development of audio processing agorithm for large scale microphone arrays.
Appt: February 11, 2011 through October 30, 2012.
e-mail: nils@icsi
Office: Rad Lab, Soda Hall
Ekaterina Saenko
Host: Trevor Darrell
Dr. Saenko received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. With a Postdoctoral Fellowship from ICSI, she will collaborate with Professor Darrell on research on computer vision algorithms that enable the transfer of object models between visual domains and/or datasets. She will also be involved in the Mind's Eye project, developing novel approaches to activity detection in videos based on a probabilistic model composed of action primitives.
Appt: July 15, 2010 through July 15, 2012.
e-mail: saenko@eecs
Office: 750 Sutardja Dai Hall
Ameet Talwalkar
Host: Michael Jordan
Dr. Talwalkar received his his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Courant University, New York University in May 2010. He received his B.S in Computer Science from Yale University in 2002. . Talwalkar will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of the development of automatic methods for assigning molecular function to proteins. The research is expected to yield results in the area of development of scalable machine learning algorithms.
Appt: September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2013.
e-mail: ameet@eecs
Office: 465 Soda Hall
Nguyen Tran
Host: Dawn Song
Mr. Tran received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from the New York University in 2008. He is currently a doctoral student at the same university. Under the guidance of Professor Song, Mr. Tran will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of distributed systems and networking.
Appt: June 3, 2011 through May 12, 2012.
e-mail: trandinh@cs.nyu.edu
Office: TRUST Center Cory Hall
Jiannan Wang
Host: Michael Franklin
Mr. Wang received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China in June 2008. He is currently a doctoral student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China expecting to complete the degree in June 2013. Mr. Wang will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of efficient auto-completion, type-ahead search, approximate string searching, similarity join and top-k query processing.
Appt: August 22, 2011 through February 22, 2012.
e-mail: jnwang@eecs
Office: RADLab, Soda Hall
Wenchang Xu
Host: Dawn Song
Mr. Xu received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in July 2009. He is currently a doctoral student at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, expecting to complete the degree in July 2014. Mr. Chen will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of human computer interaction, pervasive computing, and mobile social networking.
Appt: September 30, 2011 through September 29, 2012.
e-mail: wencxu@gmail.com
Office: 441 Soda Hall