UMD CS Graduate Alumni

Graduate Alumni

As of September 2008, 173 students have graduated from UMD as Masters of Computer Science. Below is a list of their names, project or thesis titles, graduation dates, research advisers and whether they completed a thesis or a project. If the title is shown as a link (mostly for the recent entries) the thesis can be retrieved in PDF form by clicking on the link.

StudentThesis TitleDateAdviserType
Glenn Andreas Visual Navigation of the Search Process in a Clustered Document Space May 1989 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Hui-Liang Low Matrix-Multiplication Problem Using Parallel Processing May 1989 Keith Pierce Project
Chi-Cheng Lin Showing Profile Curves and Hidden-Line Removal Algorithms May 1989 Douglas Dunham Project
Bridget Rogers Modifying CAP to Provide Unix File Serving on a LAN of Mixed Macintoshes and DOS PCs May 1989 Mark Luker Thesis
Clyde Rogers Enhancements to Ziv-Lempel Data Compression May 1989 Clark Thomborson Thesis
Krishna Mohan Nareddy A Connectionist Model for Information Retrieval August 1990 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Paul Durrant The Distributed Appointment Manager September 1990 Mark Luker Thesis
Jeanne Dezell Clustering and Partitioning Techniques for Creating Rectilinear Steiner Trees October 1990 Linda Deneen Thesis
Ningjian Wang Intelligent and Visual Modeling of Linear Programming October 1990 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Ching Tsui A Backward Defeasible Reasoning System March 1991 Timothy Colburn Thesis
James Fenno Heuristic Control of Constraint-Based Scheduling June 1991 Timothy Colburn Project
Renato Milanesi Optimal Look-Ahead Adders July 1991 Clark Thomborson Thesis
I-Chang Wen A Study in Software Engineering - Maintenance, Restructuring and Interfacing August 1991 Douglas Dunham Project
Sree Rama Peyyety A Proposal for Measurement Study of Ethernet Traffic August 1991 Clark Thomborson Project
Bokyung Yang Automatic Query Extension in Information Retrieval September 1991 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Yanzhang Lu Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems by Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, and Neural Networks September 1991 Clark Thomborson Thesis
Sudhamsa Gottipati An Improved Algorithm for Drawing Grid Surfaces October 1991 Douglas Dunham Project
Amitabh Singhal Query Modification for Improved Information Retrieval March 1992 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Peter Tsai Rendering Objects in 3-Dimensional Hyperbolic Design Program May 1992 Douglas Dunham Project
Gary Anderson Maintenance and Interface Design for a Hyperbolic Design Program May 1992 Douglas Dunham Project
Xun Zhao An Interface for Transforming Information from TimberWolf to RanTer May 1992 Clark Thomborson Project
Shashikant Joshi Treasurers in an Art Gallery June 1992 Linda Deneen Thesis
Li Wei Displaying Three Dimensional Graphics with Contours and Hidden-Line Removal August 1992 Douglas Dunham Project
Kanaiya Vasani A Network Management Tool Based on a Simple Network Management Protocol March 1993 Donald B. Crouch Project
Srikanth Varanasi Surface Determination in 3-D Using Volume Rendering April 1993 Douglas Dunham Project
Paul D. Kopecky Parallel Programming Using RPC May 1993 Gary Shute Thesis
David D. Winslow A Neural Network Approach to the Prediction of S.E.C. Indictments May 1993 Timothy Colburn Project
Yi Sun Delay Optimization of Carry Lookahead Adders Using Dynamic Programming August 1993 Clark Thomborson Project
Craig Zwicky Restoring Files from the VMS/VAX February 1994 Mark Luker Project
Parul Jain Visible Surface Determination using Ray Tracing and Transparency June 1994 Douglas Dunham Project
Ravishanker Nandiwada A Tuning Algorithm for Fuzzy Modeling July 1994 Marian Stachowicz Thesis
Manjari Yalavarthy Distributed Fractal Generation Using Remote Procedure Calls July 1994 Gary Shute Project
Chaohui Yang A Fuzzy Neural Integrated System and Its Applications in Modeling and Control July 1994 Marian Stachowicz Thesis
Rajinder Singh Document Modification in a Connectionist Retrieval Model August 1994 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Randy Peterson Enhanced Associative Retrieval in a Connectionist Environment December 1994 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Harvinder Bhela Monitoring Network Traffic Using SNMP Queries April 1995 Gary Shute Project
Xiangsheng Xia Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree Problem July 1995 Gary Shute Thesis
David Axtell Neural Networks and Quantitative Structure-Activity July 1995 Timothy Colburn Thesis
Harry Gehring An Interactive Tool to Support the Teaching of Compiler Construction August 1995 Donald B. Crouch Project
Nanbo Li A Computer Program to Generate Semi-regular Hyberbolic Tessellations August 1995 Douglas Dunham Project
James Donohoe An OSDF/Motif Implementation of a Computer Graphic Program for Generating Repeating Patterns on the Hyperbolic Plane September 1995 Marian Stachowicz and Douglas Dunham Project
Jingwen Wang A Hyperbolic Design Program Using the Motif/X11 Interface November 1995 Douglas Dunham Project
Shiaoling Peng Studies of Parallel Programming February 1996 Donald B. Crouch Project
Pankaj Agrawal Non-Uniform Image Processing: Feature Based Image Compression and Sub-Pixel Image Interpolation March 1996 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Haichou Fan Adaptive Marching Cubes: A Fast 3D Surface Construction Algorithm April 1996 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Amit Jain Adaptive Marching Cubes April 1996 Douglas Dunham Project
Rahul Bora Information Retrieval and the TREC Database August 1996 Carolyn J. Crouch Project
Prathibha Gunaseelan Software Tools for a Compiler Project September 1996 Donald B. Crouch Project
N. R. Vaidyanathan Re-engineering MPI for a Multi-Homed Switched Network of Workstations January 1997 Gary Shute Project
William Reichelt Feature Selection in Neural Networks: An Examination of Three Algorithms February 1997 Tim Colburn and David Opitz Project
Ravi Potluri Machine Learning Techniques For Automated Information Filtering March 1997 David Opitz Project
Tong Chen Using Smart for TREC Research May 1997 Carolyn Crouch Project
Ewa Kusmierek Synchronization of Java Threads May 1997 Gary Shute Thesis
Yunjiang Luo Using Relevance Feedback on TREC June 1997 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Lei Chen Generating Kaleidoscope Patterns in the Hyperbolic Plane July 1997 Douglas Dunham Project
Bei Tang Decision-Theoretic Algorithms for Clustering Data September 1997 Marion Stachowicz Project
Xi (Cissy) Zhang A Comparison of Information Retrieval Methods with Machine Learning Approaches November 1997 Carolyn Crouch and Richard Maclin Thesis
Xing Li Generating Objects in the Hyperbolic Plane December 1997 Douglas Dunham Project
Vinod John Geometric Transformations of Motifs of Repeating Hyperbolic Patterns May 1998 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Sameer Pradhan A Generalized Approach to Computer Science Distance Learning May 1998 Donald B. Crouch Project
Xiong Wang Generating Improved Queries for the World Wide Web July 1998 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Pilapakam Ramji Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Environment July 1998 Richard Maclin Thesis
Zhiyu (Sonny) Zhan Fuzzy Mathematical Approach to Color Recognition August 1998 Marian Stachowicz Thesis
Rahul Naik Creating Classification Features for Biological Images September 1998 Richard Maclin Thesis
Norman Will Using the Web for Interactive Data Acquisition, Presentation and Analysis September 1998 Carolyn Crouch Project
Gang Wu Polygon Area Decomposition with Near-Minimal Perimeter May 1999 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Shakila Xavier Learning from Training Samples June 1999 Richard Maclin Thesis
Christopher Buck Applying Persistence to Priority Search Trees to Facilitate Multi-Dimensional Range Queries June 1999 Gary Shute Thesis
Qingyan Chen Improving the Retrieval Effectiveness of Very Short Queries September 1999 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Ravi Terala Streaming Audio Player in Java January 2000 Gary Shute Project
Jayaraman Manni A Study of Object Oriented Design Patterns in the Development of a Framework May 2000 Gary Shute Thesis
Vishwas Raman A High Throughput Computing System with User-Initiated Checkpointing May 2000 Richard Maclin Thesis
Karthik Ramakrishnan Building a Piece-Wise Ensemble of Decision Tree Classifiers May 2000 Richard Maclin Thesis
Purushottam Kulkarni Some Methods for Parallelizing Decision Tree Learning May 2000 Richard Maclin Thesis
Ramesh Kizhappali Valkyrie: A Distributed System for Graph Visualization June 2000 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Vidyasagar Krishnamoorthy Object Oriented Graph Framework with Searcher June 2000 Gary Shute Thesis
Haseen Alam Multi-channel Image Segmentation December 2000 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Hariprasad Bommaganti A Novel Feature Subset Selection Approach May 2001 Richard Maclin Thesis
Gan Chen Providing Dynamic Network Information to Distributed Applications May 2001 Masha Sosonkina Thesis
Xiaochun (Shirley) Liu Deterministic Conformant Planning with the Causal Calculator May 2001 C. Hudson Turner Thesis
Kiranmayee Nakka Object-Oriented Graph Framework May 2001 Gary Shute Thesis
Alark Joshi Interactive Visualization of Models of Hyperbolic Geometry June 2001 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Anand Nagarajan Distributed Graph Coloring Algorithms in Linear Systems June 2001 Masha Sosonkina Thesis
Milton Luoma A Realistic Bayes Net for Predicting Type 2 Diabetes June 2001 Carolyn Crouch Project
Steven Holtz Further Experiments in Improving Very Short Queries July 2001 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Shardul Vikram Some Experiments with Reinforcement Learning on Real World Robots September 2001 Richard Maclin Thesis
Aditi Paluskar User-Level Control of Scheduling in a Micro Kernel Operating System December 2001 Ted Pedersen Project
Kiranmai Kodukula Using Artificial Neural Networks to Predict Properties of Polypropylene Film June 2002 Timothy Colburn Project
Devdatta Kulkarni Using Dynamic Network Information to Improve the Runtime Performance of a Distributed Sparse Linear System Solution June 2002 Masha Sosonkina Thesis
Amit Lath Approximate Hyperbolic Splines and Their Transformations June 2002 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Kristy VanHornweder Extending the Application of Partial Order Bounding to Game Tree Search June 2002 Timothy Colburn Thesis
Srinivas Vadrevu Efficient Neural Network Training Using Subsets of Very Large Datasets June 2002 Richard Maclin Thesis
Inderjit Singh The Impact of Phrases on the Retrieval Effectiveness of Very Short Queries August 2002 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Zhuo Chen Determinizing in Conformant Planning October 2002 C. Hudson Turner Thesis
Nirish Dhruv Design of Large Scale Data Archival and Retrieval System for Transportation Sensor (Write-Once-Ready-Many Type) Data October 2002 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Abhijit Parsekar A Unified Data Representation and Visualization of Patterns Based on Regular Tessellations in the Three 'Classical' Geometries December 2002 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Satanjeev Banerjee Adapting the Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation to WordNet December 2002 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Nitin Varma Identifying Word Translations in Parallel Corpora Using Measures of Association December 2002 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Deepa Krishnamoorthy An Approach to Inclusion of Parallel Independent Sets in PARMS March 2003 Masha Sosonkina Thesis
Krishna Kotnana Conformant Planning as QBF Satisfiability August 2003 C. Hudson Turner Thesis
Sameer Apte Using the Extended Vector Space Model for Content-Oriented XML Retrieval August 2003 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Harsh Bapat Adapting the Extended Vector Space Model for Structured XML Retrieval August 2003 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Saif Mohammad Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation August 2003 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Siddharth Patwardhan Incorporating Dictionary and Corpus Information into a Context Vector Measure of Semantic Relatedness August 2003 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Sweta Sinha A Finite Domain Satisfiability Solver August 2003 C. Hudson Turner Thesis
Oleksandr Kosolapov The Effects of Category Information on Association Learning Tasks in Neural Network Models October 2003 Christopher Prince Thesis
Jayanta Nath Modeling Behavior Programming Language Design in a Rat Maze Simulator October 2003 Christopher Prince Project
Srikanth Varanasi Modeling and Simulating Scenarios for Testing the Effects of Information Technology in the Reduction of Medical Errors November 2003 Piotr Windyga Thesis
Krishna Chengavalli Wearable Computing in the Reduction of Medical Errors Committed by Registered Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit December 2003 Piotr Windyga Thesis
Anand Sivaraman Improving the Efficiency of a Color-Based Image Retrieval System December 2003 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Kiran Vuppla Evaluation and Documentation of Two Synchrony Detection Implementations April 2004 Christopher Prince Thesis
Samuel Storie Aspects of Communication Subsystem Analysis for Distributed Scientific Applications May 2004 Masha Sosonkina Thesis
Navdeep Kaur Empirical Analysis of Two Learning Techniques for Image Retrieval June 2004 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Ruinan Lu Parallel Algebraic Recursive Multilevel Solver to Tackle Difficult Sparse Linear Systems of Equations June 2004 Masha Sosonkina Project
Deodatta Bhoite A Traffic Data Warehouse and Visualization Scheme July 2004 Richard Maclin Thesis
Nan Zhang Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC) Special Events Traffic Flow Study July 2004 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Nitin Agarwal Extending the Stream Concept August 2004 Gary Shute Thesis
Yanhua Li Hyperbolic Spline Curves Using a Weighted Average August 2004 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Ashutosh Nagle A Finite Domain Satisfiability Solver with Negation August 2004 C. Hudson Turner Thesis
Prashant Rathi Development of Customizable Analytical Model of the Prostrate Anatomy for Training in Cryosurgical Related Procedures and Design of the Virtual Simulator August 2004 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Rashmi Kankaria A Tool for Constructing and Visualizing Tree Augmented Bayesian Networks for Survey Data August 2004 Richard Maclin Thesis
Amruta Purandare Unsupervised Word Sense Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts August 2004 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Anand Takale Constructing Predictive Models to Assess the Importance of Variables in Epidemiological Data Using a Genetic Algorithm System Employing Decision Trees August 2004 Richard Maclin Thesis
Archana Bellamkonda Automation of Content and Structure (or CAS) Query Processing September 2004 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Aniruddha Mahajan Flexible Retrieval in a Structured Environment September 2004 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Kailash Aurangabadkar Generating Subnets for Polyhedra October 2004 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Sachin Sharma Object Retrieval Based on Color Composition October 2004 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Suchitra Goopy Improving Usability of the Parallel Algebraic Recursive Multilevel Solver December 2004 Masha Sosonkina Project
Anushri Parsekar Blind Deconvolution of Vehicle Inductive Signatures for Travel Time Estimation December 2004 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Bridget Thomson-McInnes Extending the Log Likelihood Measure to Improve Collocation Identification December 2004 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Paul Gordon Using NICAN for the Monitoring and Reporting of Environmental Conditions on Multiple Nodes during the Execution of the Parallel Program GAMESS May 2005 Masha Sosonkina Project
Sumalatha Kuthadi Detection of Objects from High-Resolution Satellite Images May 2005 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Archna Yadav A State Space Approach to Arterial Travel Time Prediction May 2005 Carolyn Crouch Project
Ajit Datar Generating Hyperbolic Patterns for Regular and Non-Regular P-Gons July 2005 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Jason Michelizzi Semantic Relatedness Applied to All Words Sense Disambiguation July 2005 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Pratheepan Raveendranathan Identifying Sets of Related Words on the World Wide Web July 2005 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Nagendra Doddapaneni Effective Structured Query Processing August 2005 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Hemal Lal A Finite Domain Satisfiability Solver with Clause Leaning and Non-Chronological Backtracking August 2005 C. Hudson Turner Thesis
Sampanna Salunke Comparing Synchrony Detection Algorithms For Robotic Self-Other Discrimination August 2005 Christopher Prince Thesis
Tarun Kapoor Generating Repeating Hyperbolic Patterns based on {p,?} September 2005 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Sudip Khanna Design and Implementation of a Flexible Retrieval System September 2005 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Poorva Potnis Relevance Feedback in Flexible Retrieval Environment September 2005 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Anoop Parlapalli Reddy Analysis of Synchronous and Asynchronous Video Using the SenseStream Program March 2006 Christopher Prince Project
David Wicklund Making the Most of SQL Views July 2006 Carolyn Crouch Project
Sameer Atar Generating Repeating Patterns on Subnets of Polyhedra July 2006 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Kedar Bhumkar Interactive Visualization of Hyperbolic Geometry using the Weierstrass Model July 2006 Douglas Dunham Thesis
Saiyam Kohli Introducing an Object Oriented Design to the Ngram Statistics Package July 2006 Ted Pedersen Project
Anagha K Kulkarni Unsupervised Context Discrimination and Automatic Cluster Stopping July 2006 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Aditya Polumetla Machine Learning Methods for the Detection of RWIS Sensor Malfunctions July 2006 Richard Maclin Thesis
Kai Xu Deciding Strong Equivalence of Causal Theories July 2006 C. Hudson Turner Project
Vishal Bakshi Flexible Retrieval for the Semi-Structured Documents August 2006 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Satyanarayana Murthy Ganapathibhotla Query Processing in a Flexible Retrieval Environment August 2006 Carolyn Crouch Thesis
Mahesh Joshi Kernel Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation and Abbreviation Expansion in the Medical Domain August 2006 Richard Maclin and Ted Pedersen Thesis
Apurva Padhye Comparing Supervised and Unsupervised Classification of Messages in the Enron Email Corpus August 2006 Ted Pedersen Thesis
Lalit Nookala Weather Impact on Traffic Conditions and Travel Time October 2006 Donald B. Crouch Thesis
Aditya Mone Dynamic Element Retrieval for Semi-Structured Documents July 2007Carolyn CrouchThesis
Nachiket Kamat Impact of Untagged Text in Dynamic Element Retrieval August 2007Carolyn CrouchThesis
Vikram Malik Impact of Terminal Node Processing on Element Retrieval August 2007Carolyn CrouchThesis
Ajit Marathe Incorporating Points at Infinity in a Hyperbolic Drawing Program August 2007Doug DunhamThesis
Vinayak Patil Tile Coding Reinforcement Learning for RoboCup Soccer August 2007Rich MaclinProject
Amine Abou-Rjeili Solving Conformant Planning Using Chen's Determinizing Method May 2008Hudson TurnerThesis
Anagha H Kulkarni Further Evaluation of the Gogate et al Synchrony Measurement Algorithm June 2008Chris PrinceProject
Andrew Norgren GPU Based Particle Dispersion Modeling with Interactive Visualization Support for Real-time Simulation June 2008Pete WillemsenThesis
Darshan Paranjape Improving Focused Retrieval July 2008Donald CrouchThesis
Salil Bapat Improving Results for Focused and Relevance-in-Context Tasks August 2008Carolyn CrouchThesis
Prafulla Bhalekar A Web-Based System to Assist in Detecting RWIS Sensor Malfunctions August 2008Rich MaclinThesis
Umesh Maitipe Using Programable Graphics Hardware for Real Time Free Animation with Simulated Wind Patterns July 2007Pete WillemsenThesis
Sarika Mehta Finding the Best Entry Point August 2008Carolyn CrouchThesis
Ankur Nepalia Creating Repeating Patterns on Polyhedra August 2008Doug DunhamThesis
Shruti Pandey Methods for Approximating Forward Selection of Features in Information Retrieval Problems Using Machine Learning Methods August 2008Rich MaclinThesis
Anurag Jain Watched Literals in a Finite Domain SAT Solver September 2008Hudson TurnerThesis
Vishnu Pedireddi Large Scale Traffic Simulation on Graphics Hardware September 2008Pete WillemsenThesis