A Bumper Crop of PhDs

May 2006

This academic year the CS department graduated seven PhDs. The highest number in previous years was three in 2003. We congratulate all the graduates and the advisors.

The PhDs are as follows:

Songting Chen
"Efficient Incremental View Maintenance for Data Warehousing"
Advisor: Elke A. Rundensteiner

Jae Won Chung
"Congestion Control for Streaming Media"
Advisor: Mark L. Claypool

Maged F. El-Sayed
"Incremental Maintenance of Materialized XQuery Views"
Advisor: Elke A. Rundensteiner

Bin Liu
"Scalable Integration View Computation and Maintenance with Parallel, Adaptive and Grouping Techniques"
Advisor: Elke A. Rundensteiner

Hao Shang
"Exploiting Flow Relationships to Improve the Performance of Distributed Applications"
Advisor: Craig E. Wills

Hong Su
"Automaton Meets Algebra: A Hybrid Paradigm for Efficiently Processing XQuery over XML Stream"
Advisor: Elke A. Rundensteiner

Huahui Wu
"ARMOR - Adjusting Repair and Media Scaling with Operations Research for Streaming Video"
Advisor: Mark L. Claypool

and one near miss:

Iain Mackinnon Boyle, Manufacturing Engineering
"CAFixD - A Case-Based Reasoning Method for Fixture Design"
Advisors: Yiming Rong (Mfg), David C. Brown (CS)

(Source: http://www.wpi.edu/News/Commence/Awards/phd.html)

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