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Deepali Aneja

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Dissertation title

Learning-Based Techniques for Facial Animation

Advisor

Linda Shapiro

Destination

Research Engineer, Adobe Research

Hessam Bagherinezhad

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Dissertation title

Towards Better Generalization: Model, Data, and Explicit Knowledge

Advisor

Ali Farhadi

Destination

Machine Learning Research Engineer, Apple

Antoine Bosselut

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Dissertation title

Understanding Natural Language with Commonsense Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Simulation

Advisor

Yejin Choi

Destination

Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

Gabriel Cadamuro

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Dissertation title

Prediction and Inference on Big Data in Development

Advisors

Sham Kakade and Joshua Blumenstock

Destination

AI Engineer, Atlas AI

Daniel Gordon

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Dissertation title

Learning by Watching and Learning by Doing

Advisors

Ali Farhadi and Dieter Fox

Destination

Researcher, Third Wave Automation

Brandon Haynes

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Dissertation title

Data Models, Query Execution, and Storage for Traditional & Immersive Video Data Management

Advisor

Magdalena Balazinska

Destination

Senior Scientist, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab

Jane Hoffswell

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Dissertation title

Languages and Visualization Tools for Data-Centric End User Programming of Interactive Visualization Designs

Advisor

Jeffrey Heer

Mohit Jain

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Dissertation title

Making Chatbots More Transparent and Applicable to New Demographics

Advisor

Shwetak Patel

Destination

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research

Ravi Karkar

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Dissertation title

Designing Personal Health Technologies

Advisor

James Fogarty

Destination

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Niel Lebeck

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Dissertation title

Simplifying High-Performance Data Management for Distributed Applications

Advisors

Irene Zhang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Hank Levy

Destination

Software Engineer, Google

Ming Liu

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Dissertation title

Building Distributed Systems Using Programmable Networks

Advisors

Arvind Krishnamurthy and Luis Ceze

Destination

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Liang Luo

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Dissertation title

Towards Efficient Communication in Distributed Learning Systems

Advisors

Luis Ceze and Arvind Krishnamurthy

Destination

Researcher, Facebook

Parmita Mehta

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Dissertation title

Large Scale Analytics on Scientific Image Data

Advisors

Magdalena Balazinska and Su-In Lee

Siva Natarajan Ramamoorthy

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Dissertation title

Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity from Information Theory, Algebra and Combinatorics

Advisor

Anup Rao

Destination

Researcher, Theorem

Jacob Schreiber

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Dissertation title

Latent Modeling of the Human Epigenome

Advisor

William Noble

Destination

Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University

Jessica Schroeder

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Dissertation title

Goal-Directed Self-Tracking in the Management of Chronic Health Conditions

Advisors

James Fogarty and Sean Munson

Destination

Evidation Health

Minjoon Seo

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Dissertation title

Neural Interface for Web-Scale Knowledge

Advisors

Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Ali Farhadi

Destination

Assistant Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Helgi Kristvin Sigurbjarnarson

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Dissertation title

Push-Button Verification of Systems Software

Advisor

Xi Wang

Amanda Marie Swearngin

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Dissertation title

Expanding Interface Design Capabilities through Semantic and Data-Driven Analyses

Advisors

Amy Ko and James Fogarty

Destination

Research Engineer, Apple

Kyle Matthew Thayer

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Dissertation title

Practical Knowledge Barriers in Professional Programming

Advisors

Amy Ko and Katharina Reinecke

Destination

Lecturer, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle

Robert Haven Thompson

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Dissertation title

HAWK/KW: An Online System for Studying Dyslexic Children’s Reading, Writing, and Programming

Advisor

Steve Tanimoto

Destination

Instructor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

Robbie Weber

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Dissertation title

Paring Things Off: Counting Stable Matchings, Finding Your Ride, and Designing Tournaments

Advisors

Anna Karlin and Shayan Oveis Gharan

Destination

Assistant Teaching Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

Cong Yan

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Dissertation title

Understanding and Improving Database-Backed Applications

Advisor

Alvin Cheung

Destination

Researcher, Microsoft Research