Doctor Doctor
The Computer Science Department recently awarded its eighth Ph.D. degree to Dr. Marton E. Balazs. The advisor was David Brown.
On Dec. 15, Marton successfully defended his thesis in public before the Ph.D. committee. His thesis, "Design Simplification by Analogical Reasoning", addressed the issue of reducing the complexity of an object or artifact by using analogies with previous object simplifications.
Marton began his academic journey in computer science at WPI in the fall of 1994, having already received his Ph.D. in mathematics. The joke in the AI Research Group, of which he was a member, is that he's now called "Doctor Doctor Balazs"!
Since October 1999 he's been employed as a Research Associate in the Engineering Design Center at the University of Cambridge in England.
Since the inception of its Ph.D. program in 1983, the Computer Science Department has awarded seven other Ph.D. degrees. The recipients were:
- Zhiquiang Tan, 1986, Semantic Upgradability of Universal Relations Systems - Advisor: T-C. Ting;
- Jeffrey McConnell, 1988, Botanical Image Generation Using Attributed Graph Grammars for Modeling Growth - Advisor: Mark Ohlson;
- Leon Tabak, 1989, Operators for Modifying Polyhedra - Advisor: Stanley Selkow;
- Xiannong Meng, 1990, Delay Analysis of a Ring-Based Metropolitan Area Network with Multiple Classes of Traffic - Advisor: Bob Kinicki;
- Jingwen Liu, 1993, The Compilation of Design Decomposition Knowledge - Advisor: David Brown;
- Yuhong Zhang, 1994, Supporting Scientific Data Analysis in a Visual Environment - Advisor: Matt Ward;
- Stephen Taylor, 1995, The Capitalist Method: An Approach to Analytic Modeling of Multidimensional File Structures - Advisors: Nabil Hachem & Stanley Selkow.
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