STUDENTS
Current PhD students
Graduated PhD students
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Naveen Parihar. Received PhD December 2009 for thesis: Parallel Viterbi
Search for Continuous Speech Recognition on a Multi-core Architecture.
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Rong Zhou. Received PhD August 2005 for thesis:
Memory-Efficient Graph Search Applied to Multiple Sequence Alignment.
Currently a member of the research staff at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC),
Palo Alto, CA.
Graduated MS thesis students
- Anas Mahmoud. Received MS August 2009 for thesis:
Estimating Short-Link Travel Time using an Artificial Neural Network.
Enrolled in the PhD program at Mississippi State University.
- Osama Abu Omar. Received MS August 2007 for thesis:
Artificial Neural Network Modeling of Flow Stress Response as a Function
of Dislocation Microstructures. Employed as a Software Engineer for
Ecommerce Pioneer, in Roswell, GA.
- Gaurav Marwah. Received MS August 2005 for thesis:
Algorithms for Stochastic Finite-Memory Control of
Partially Observable Systems. Employed as a CAD Engineer for
Cypress Semiconductors, Inc in Starkville, MS.
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Simon Richards. Received MS December 2004 for thesis:
Symbolic Bidirectional Breadth-First Heuristic Search. Employed
by Dynetics in Huntsville, AL.
- Rong Zhou. Received MS August 2001 for thesis:
An improved grid-based approximation algorithm for partially
observable Markov decision processes. Continued in PhD program - see above.
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Zhengzhu Feng. Received MS August 2000 for thesis: Dynamic programming
for partially observable Markov decision processes using a
factored representation. Earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst in 2005. Employed by Google in Mountain View, CA.
Graduated MS project students
- Fengjie Li. Received MS December 2006 for project: A search-based
approach for solving constrained Markov decision processes.
Enrolled in PhD program in Computer Science at Michigan State University.
- Xiaoying Tan. Received MS May 2004 for project: A k-group
generalization of A* for multiple sequence alignment. Enrolled
in MS program in Statistics at Mississippi State University.
- Zhijie Guan. Received MS December 2003 for project: Simultaneous
multiple sequence alignment and phylogeny reconstruction. Enrolled
in PhD program at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
- Ming Yan. Received MS August 2002 for project: Improving a stochastic
finite-state controller for POMDPs by gradient ascent: Some
experiments. Subsequently earned an MS in Statistics from the
University of North Texas. Employed as a Programmer/Analyst
for Quintiles Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA.
- Muhammed Tareque. Received MS August 2002 for project:
Programming an autonomous robot to navigate an agricultural
field. Enrolled in PhD program at University of Arkansas.
- Sean Taylor, Received MS August 2001 for project: Automatic adjustment of
parameters in a knowledge-discovery system. Employed as Software
Engineer for Northrop Grummen in Annapolis, Maryland.
- Guibin Qiao. Received MS December 2000 for project: Experiments with
memory-bounded AO*. Employed as Senior Software Engineer for Hyperion
Solutions Corporation, in Sunnyvale, CA.