Community

Faculty

Students

Name

Dept

Faculty
Advisor

Funding
Period

Expected

Graduation Date

Ben Adams

Comp Sci

Hollerer

07-08

PhD: Jun 2012

Bo Bell

MAT

Kuchera-Morin

05-08

PhD: Jun 2009

August Black

MAT

Legrady

03-05

PhD: Jun 2009

Monica Bulger

Education

Mayer & Almeroth

06-08

PhD: Dec 2008

Drew Dara-Abrams

Geog

Clarke

05-07

PhD: Jun 2010

Julie Dillemuth

Geog

Clarke

03-05

PhD: Dec 2008

Barbara Drescher

Psych

Eckstein

03-05

PhD: Dec 2008

Angus Forbes

MAT

Legrady

06-08

PhD: Jun 2010

Karl Grossner

Geog

Goodchild

06-08

PhD: Sep 2009

Rama Hoetzlein

MAT

Legrady

06-08

PhD: Mar 2009

Swapna Joshi

ECE

Manjunath

06-08

PhD: Mar 2010

Peter Khooshabeh

Psych

Hegarty

04-05

PhD: Jun 2009

James Kleban

ECE

Manjunath

05-08

PhD: Dec 2009

Stephen Mangiat

ECE

Gibson

06-08

PhD: Dec 2010

Justin Muncaster

Comp Sci

Turk

05-07

PhD: Jun 2009

Emily Moxley

ECE

Manjunath

05-08

PhD: Jun 2009

Matt Peterson

Psych

Eckstein

05-07

PhD: Jun 2010

Lance Putnam

MAT

Kuchera-Morin

06-08

PhD: Dec 2009

Wesley Smith

MAT

Legrady

04-06

PhD: Dec 2009

Bob Sturm

ECE

Shynk

04-06

PhD: Dec 2008

Jonathan Ventura

Comp Sci

Turk

06-08

PhD: Jun 2010

Graham Wakefield

MAT

Roads

06-08

PhD: Jun 2010

Jason Wither

Comp Sci

Hollerer

07-08

PhD: Dec 2008

Alumni (PhD)

Name

Dept

Faculty
Advisor

Funding
Period

Graduation

Date

Michael Quinn

ECE

Manjunath

04-08

PhD: Sep 2008

Dissertation:

Where Now:

Nhat Vu

ECE

Manjunath

03-08

PhD: Aug 2008

Dissertation: Image Segmentation with Semantic Priors: A Graph Cut Approach

Where Now: Fair Isaac, San Rafael, CA

Laura Boucheron

ECE

Manjunath

03-05

PhD: Dec 2007

Dissertation: Object- and Spatial-Level Quantitative Analysis of Multispectral Histopathology Images for Detection and Characterization of Cancer

Where Now: U. New Mexico, Las Cruces

Dan Overholt

MAT

Roads

04-06

PhD: Dec 2007

Dissertation:

Where Now: VR Media Lab, Denmark

Steve DiVerdi

Comp Sci

Hollerer

03-05

PhD: Jun 2007

Dissertation: Towards Anywhere Augmentation

Where now? Adobe

John Thompson

Music

Kuchera-Morin

03-05

PhD: Jun 2006

Dissertation: Aesthetic and Technical Considerations Integral to the Composition of Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin

Where now? Georgia Southern University

Alex Villacorta

Stats

Jammalamadaka

03-05

PhD: Jun 2006

Dissertation: Information Diffusion in Multimedia Environments

Where now? Senior Statistician at Clear Capital, Truckee, CA.

Alumni (MS)

Name

Dept

Faculty
Advisor

Funding
Period

Graduation

Date

Joriz DeGuzman

Comp Sci

Manjunath

05-08

MS: Jun 2008

Thesis: Identifying Relevant Web Search Results with a Domain-Specific Ontology

Where now? Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania

Brent Hecht

Geog

Clarke

05-07

MS: Jun 2008

Where now? Northwestern University

Maria Alvarez Rohena

Comp Sci

Krintz

05-07

MS: Jun 2007

Where now? Microsoft

Tony Boughman

Geog

Fabrikant

03-05

MS: Jun 2005

Thesis: Realism and Connotations of Data Quality in Computer Displayed Maps

Where now? City of Santa Barbara Planning Department

Other Trainees

Name

Dept

Faculty
Advisor

Funding
Period

Where Now?

John Roberts

Comp Sci

Hollerer

05-06

Industry

Carlos Castellanos

MAT

Legrady

04-05

San Jose State University

Ethan Kaplan

MAT

Legrady

03-04

Warner Bros. Entertainment