cs.washington.eduCurrent Students
- Kyle Deeds
- Dong He
- Nicole Sullivan
- Guorui Xiao
- Enhao Zhang
Former PhD Students, First Employment, and Thesis
- Maureen Daum, 2023, Numbers Station
Thesis on Data Storage and Exploration in a Video Data Management System - Walter Cai, 2021, Snowflake
Thesis on Novel Data Summaries for Join Query Optimization - Parmita Mehta, 2020, Microsoft
Thesis on Large Scale Analytics on Scientific Image Data - Brandon Haynes, 2020, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab
Thesis on Data Models, Query Execution, and Storage for Traditional & Immersive Video Data Management - Laurel Orr, 2019, Stanford (postdoc)
Thesis on Building and Querying Probabilistic Models for Open World Database Systems - Jennifer Ortiz, 2019, Google
Thesis on Performance-Based Service Level Agreements for Data Analytics in the Cloud - Jingjing Wang, 2018, Facebook
Thesis on Runtime Optimizations for Large-Scale Data Analytics - Kristi Morton, 2015, Startup
Thesis on Interactive Data Integration and Entity Resolution for Exploratory Visual Data Analytics - Prasang Upadhyaya, 2015, Twitter
Thesis on Managing Premium Data - Emad Soroush, 2014, GraphLab
Thesis on Multi-versioned Data Storage and Iterative Processing in a Parallel Array Database Engine - Nodira Khoussainova, 2012, Twitter
Thesis on Leveraging Usage History to Enhance Database Usability - YongChul Kwon, 2012, Microsoft Bing Search
Thesis on Managing Skew in the Parallel Evaluation of User-Defined Operations - Julie Letchner, 2010, Microsoft Bing Mobile
Thesis on Lahar: Warehousing Markovian Streams - Evan Welbourne, 2010, Nokia Research Palo Alto
Thesis on Enabling End-User Speci cation and Debugging of Complex Events for Location Systems
Former Master's Students & First Employment
- Helga Gudmundsdottir, 2018, Facebook
- Tomer Kaftan, 2018, Google Brain
- Shengliang Xu, 2015, Pure Storage
- Brendan Lee, 2015, Tableau
- Ryan Maas, 2018, University of Washington
Former Postdocs & First Employment
- Dongfang Zhao, Prof. at the University of Nevada, Reno
- Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Petrobras and Prof. at the Institute of Computing at the Fluminense Federal University
- Jake VanderPlas, University of Washington eScience Institute