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