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Ph.D. Alumni Directory

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2009
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Anthony Diacco Gerd Infanger
Walter Murray		 Fixed-Income Portfolio Construction via Simulation and Stochastic Programming
Michael Atkinson Lawrence Wein MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF TERROR INTERDICTION
John Carlsson Yinyu Ye Map segmentation algorithms for geographic resource allocation.
Sheng Chen Oliver Fringer Adaptive error estimators for electromagnetic field solvers
Paul Constantine Gianluca Iaccarino SPECIALIZED METHODS FOR PARAMETERIZED MATRIX EQUATIONS.
Yi Ding Gunnar Carlsson TOPOLOGICAL ALGORITHMS MAPPING POINT CLOUD DATA.
William Fong Eric Darve MULTI-SCALE METHODS IN TIME AND SPACE FOR PARTICLE SIMULATIONS.
David Gleich Gene Golub
Michael Saunders		 MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR PAGERANK SENSITIVITY.
Hui Jiang Wing Wong COMPUTATIONAL AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES IN RNA SEQUENCING ANALYSIS
Kaustuv Walter Murray IPSOL: AN INTERIOR POINT SOLVER FOR NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS
Jeremy Kozdon Margot Gerritsen NUMERICAL METHODS WITH REDUCED GRID DEPENDENCY FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
Song Li Eric Darve FAST ALGORITHMS FOR SPARSE MATRIX INVERSE COMPUTATIONS.
Paul Lim James Harris LOW FREQUENCY NOISE AS A CHARACTERIZATION AND RELIABILITY TOOL FOR THE EVALUATION OF ADVANCED MOSFETS.
Qiqi Wang Parviz Moin
Gianluca Iaccarino		 UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION FOR UNSTEADY FLUID FLOW USING ADJOINT-BASED APPROACHES

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2008
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Cristina Green Alexander Kosovichev NUMERICAL MODELLING OF CONVECTIVE INSTABILITY IN A STRATIFIED SHEAR LAYER AND WAVE-LIKE PROPERTIES OF SOLAR SUPERGRANULATION
Hanh My Huynh Michael Saunders A LARGE SCALE QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING SOLVER BASED ON BLOCK_LU UPDATES OF THE KKT SYSTEM
Shalini Krishnamurthy Margot Gerritsen RELAXATION SCHEMES FOR MULTIPHASE, MULTICOMPONENT FLOW IN GAS INJECTION PROCESSES
Felix Kwok Hamdi Tchelepi Scalable Linear and Nonlinear Algorithms for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
Joy Rajiv Sunil Kumar Computing Bounds via Duality for Singular Stochastic Control Problems
Tamar Shinar Ron Fedkiw SIMULATION OF COUPLED RIGID AND DEFORMABLE SOLIDS AND MULTIPHASE FLUIDS
Gurjeet Singh Gunnar Carlsson Algorithms for Computational Topology and Their Applications

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2007
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Melissa Aczon Margot Gerritsen Stability and Error Estimation using Entropy Functions
Manas Baveja Lawrence Wein Biometric Analysis of the US-VISIT Program
Sou-Cheng Choi Michael Saunders Iterative Methods for Singular Linear Equations and Least-Squares Problems
Lek-Heng Lim Gene Golub
Gunnar Carlsson		 Foundations of Numerical Multilinear Algebra: Decompositions and Approximations of Tensors
Kourosh Modarresi Gene Golub A Local Regularization Method Using Multiple Regularization Levels
Yaakov Tsaig David Donoho Fast Solution of L1 Minimization Problems

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2006
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Pan-Chi Lee Stefanos Zenios Essays on Computational Models for Managing the Delivery of Dialysis Therapy
Yifan Liu Lawrence Wein Mathematical Models in Homeland Security
An Nguyen Leo Guibas Implicit bounding volumes and bounding volume hierarchies
Inam Rahman David Donoho Multi-Scale Decomposition of Manifold-Valued Data
Yaakov Tsaig David Donoho Fast Solution of L1 Minimization Problems

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2005
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Ofer Levi David Donoho Multiscale geometric analysis of three-dimensional data
Igor Neverov Ron Fedkiw Physics based modeling of the human face
Zheng Su Tze-Leung Lai
Michael Saunders		 Computational methods for least squares problems and clinical trials
Joseph Teran Ron Fedkiw Novel finite element algorithms with applications to skeletal muscle simulation
Xiaolong Yu Robert Tibshirani Regression methods for microarray data

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2004
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Stephen Bryson Doron Levy High-order central schemes for balance laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Maureen Doyle Walter Murray A barrier algorithm for large nonlinear optimization problems
Sepandar Kamvar Christopher Manning Personalized search in self-organizing data networks
Bradley Mallison Margot Gerritsen Streamline-based simulation of two-phase, multicomponent flow in porous media
Neil Molino Ron Fedkiw Mesh generation and fracture for deformable bodies

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2003
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Robert Bridson Ron Fedkiw Computational aspects of dynamic surfaces
Joel Franklin Sebastian Doniach Topics in macro-molecular dynamics integration
Paul Hamilton Hargrove Jim Plummer Efficient kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of annealing in semiconductor materials.
James Lambers Gene Golub Krylov subspace methods for variable-coefficient initial-boundary value problems
Kumar Muthuraman Sunil Kumar Computational schemes for stochastic singular control problems, with applications in portfolio optimization
Yong Sun Gene Golub The filter algorithm for solving large-scale eigenproblems from accelerator simulations
Jung Woo Eric Shaqfeh DNA chain dynamics and its applications to micro devices and scission

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2002
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Douglas Enright Ron Fedkiw Use of the particle level set method for enhanced resolution of free surface flows
Ian Mitchell Claire Tomlin Application of level set methods to control and reachability problems in continuous and hybrid systems
Hersir Sigurgeirsson Joseph Oliger Particle-field models: Algorithms and applications
Paul Tupper Gene Golub Topics in the numerical analysis of ordinary differential equations: Molecular dynamics and chemical kinetics

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2001
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Menelaos Karavelas Leo Guibas Proximity structures for moving objects in constrained and unconstrained environments
Gaofeng Wang Robert Dutton Coupled electromagnetic and device level investigations of metal-insulator-semiconductor interconnects

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2000
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
     
Volker Elling Tai-Ping Liu A Lax-Wendroff type theorem for unstructured grids
Aparna Gupta Walter Murray Optimum asset allocation with behavioral utilities: A plan for acquiring and consuming retirement funds
Roger Lee George Papanicolaou Implied and local volatilities under stochastic volatility
Nhat Nguyen Peyman Milanfar
Gene Golub		 Numerical algorithms for image superresolution
John Zhang Carlo Tomasi Computing camera heading: A study
Tony Zhang Gene Golub Methods for computational and statistical estimation with applications

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1999
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Erik Boman Walter Murray Infeasibility and negative curvature in optimization

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1998
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
William Behrman Walter Murray An efficient gradient flow method for unconstrained optimization
Michaela Vanderveen Arogyaswami Paulraj Estimation of parametric channel models in wireless communication networks
Xiaowei Zhan Gene Golub Parallel electromagnetic field solvers using finite element methods with adaptive refinement and their application to wakefield computation of axisymmetric accelerator structure

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1997
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Martin Gander Andrew Stuart Analysis of parallel algorithms for time-dependent partial differential equations
Margot Gerritsen Joseph Oliger Designing an efficient solution strategy for fluid flows
Ze-Kai Hsiau Robert Dutton Boundary movement in semiconductor etching and deposition simulation
Menelaos Karavelas Leo Guibas Proximity structures for moving objects in constrained and unconstrained environments
Hamid Samandari Andrew Stuart On a class of pattern formation equations
Tony Shardlow Andrew Stuart Topics in dissipative evolution equations
Ronnie Sircar George Papanicolaou Feedback effects and stochastic volatility in derivative pricing
Knut Solna George Papanicolaou Stable spreading of acoustic pulses due to laminated microstructure
Pok-Yin Yu David Donoho New developments in interpolating wavelet transforms

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1996
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Liliana Borcea George Papanicolaou Direct and inverse problems for transport in high contrast media
Jeremy Smith Andrew Stuart Analysis of moving mesh methods for dissipative partial differential equations
Shilpa Talwar Arogyaswami Paulraj Blind space-time algorithms for wireless communication systems
Xiaolei Zhu Joseph Oliger Composite adaptive grid methods for partial differential equations

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1995
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Oliver Ernst Gene Golub Fast numerical solution of exterior Helmholtz problems with radiation boundary condition by imbedding
Eldar Giladi Joseph Keller Hybrid numerical asymptotic methods
Marcus Grote Joseph Keller Nonreflecting boundary conditions
Carl Taswell Joseph Keller Algorithms for wavelet transforms and adaptive wavelet packet decompositions
Patrick Witting Joseph Oliger Numerical investigation of stratus cloud layer breakup by cloud top instabilities

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1994
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Dan Yang Robert Dutton Mesh generation and information model for device simulation

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1993
Name Advisor(s) Thesis Title
Hongyuan Zha Gene Golub The singular value decompositions: Theory, algorithms and applications

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