Spotlight on Alumni

***Positions Held by Selected Program Alumni (Ph.D. Unless Noted)
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  • 1973
  • Ben Shneiderman, Professor, University of Maryland
    Barbara Simons(MS), Ex-President, ACM, CA
    Richard Schantz, BBN Technologies, MA
    Katamuri Ekanadham, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY
  • 1974
  • Isaac Nassi, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at SAP
  • 1975
  • Scott Abbey, Advisory Board at VMTurbo, Inc.
    Robert A. Schwartz (BS), Chief Technical Officer at GlobeOp Financial Services
  • 1976
  • Avi Silberschatz, Professor, Yale University
  • 1977
  • John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
    Nii Quaynor, Director of ICANN
  • 1978
  • Fred Schneider, Professor, Cornell University
    Sam Kamin, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1981
  • James Robert Ensor, AT&T, NJ
  • 1983
  • David Gelernter, Professor, Yale University
  • 1984
  • Divyakant Agrawal, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
    Mustaque Ahamad, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Laxmikant Kale, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Professor, University of Utah
    Suzanne Wagner Dietrich, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
  • 1986
  • Saumya Debray, Professor, University of Arizona
  • 1987
  • Rajiv Gupta, Site Miner, Massachusetts General Hospital
    Jawahar Malhotra(MS), Vice President, Office of the CTO, Yahoo! Inc.
    Soumitra Sengupta, Faculty, Columbia University
  • 1989
  • T. Krishnaprasad, Professor, Wright State University
    Rakesh Verma, Professor, University of Houston
  • 1990
  • Yeh-Heng Sheng, Architect at IBM
  • 1991
  • Daniel Cohen, Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    Sanjiva Prasad, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, India
    Roni Yagel, Vice President, InSightec, Haifa, Israel
    R. Sekar, Professor, Stony Brook University
  • 1992
  • Maria Bonacina, Professor, University of Verona, Italy
    Eugene Joseph, Motorola, Holtsville, NY
    Chi-Chang Jou, Associate Professor at Tamkang University
    Yuh-Jzer Joung, Professor, National Taiwan University
    James Wu, CTO, BroadVision, Inc.
  • 1993
  • Ai Li, Renaissance Technologies, NY
    Gudjon Hermannsson, Partner, Renaissance Technologies, NY
    Jianying. Hu, RSM, IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
    Lori Scarlatos, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
  • 1994
  • Richardo Avila,(MS), Director, Kitware, Inc., NY
    Lisa Sobierajski, Vice President, Kitware, Schenectady, NY
  • 1995
  • Chih-Long Lin, Bell Corp. Research, NJ
    C.R. Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
    Steven Dawson, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
    Sidney Wang, Sony, CA
    Shipei Zhang, Morgan Stanley, NY
  • 1996
  • Karen Bernstein, Founder, Forall Systems Inc., IL
    Hanspeter Pfister, Professor, Harvard University
    Konstantinos Sagonas, Associate Professor, National Technical University of Athens
    Claudio Silva, Professor, University of Utah
    Oleg Sokolsky, Research Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
    Chitra Venkatramani, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY
    Manish Verma, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
    Michael Vernck, Bell Labs, NJ
    Michael Wynblatt, Director, Venture Technology, Siemens, CA
  • 1997
  • Ting Chen, Associate Professor, University of Southern California
    Juliana Freire, Associate Professor, University of Utah
    Lichan Hong, Palo Alto Research Center, CA
    Prasad Rao, HP Labs, Princeton, NJ
  • 1998
  • Francine Evans, Schlumberger GeoQuest, Houston, TX
    Kevin Hunter, Co-Owner, Silver Bay Software LLC
    Cristian Mata, Renaissance Technologies, NY
    H.W. Shi, UBS Warburg, NY
  • 1999
  • Baoquan Chen, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China
    Jihad El-Sana, Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel
    Pedro Alexandre Ferreira Do Souto, University of Porto, Portugal
  • 2000
  • Baoqiu Cui, IBM Silicon Valley Lab, San Jose, CA
    Xiaoqun Du, Google, Inc., NY
    Tulika Mitra, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
    Abhik Roychoudhury, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
    Asish Tiwari, SRI, Menlo Park, CA
    Srinidhi Varadarajan, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
  • 2001
  • Barry Cohen, Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Prashant Pradhan, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson
    Research Center, NY
  • 2002
  • Frank Dachille, Google, Inc., CA
    Hasan Davulcu, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
    Vladimir Filkov, Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis
    Kevin Kreeger, Hologic, Inc., CA
    Anindya Neogi, IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India
    Pavel Sumazin, Assistant Professor, Portland State University
    Guizhen Yang, Facebook, CA
  • 2003
  • Samik Basu, Associate Professor, Iowa State University
    Luis de Castro, Google, Inc., NY
    Yifei Dong, Founder at Openseed Institute
    Kartik Gopalan, Assistant Professor, Binghamton University
    Lan Huang, Research Staff, IBM Almaden Research Center, CA
    Delia Osgood, Asset Management Business Technology, Credit Suisse Group AG
    Vinhthuy Phan, Associate Professor, University of Memphis
    Bikram Sengupta, IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India
  • 2004
  • Jing Hua, Associate Professor, Wayne State University
    Piyush Kumar, Associate Professor, Florida State University
    Sarang Lakare, Founder at ASMI Consulting
    Mahesh Marina, Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
    Huamin Qu, Associate Professor, University of Science and Tech., Hong Kong
    Hui Xie, Research Staff Member, Siemens Corporate Research, NJ
  • 2005
  • Yu-Sung Chang, Senior Research Engineer, Wolfram Research
    Saikat Mukherjee, Intuit, CA
  • 2006
  • Xiaohu Guo, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
    Ying He, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
    Saumyadipta Pyne, Research Associate, MIT Broad Institute, MA
    Liqiang Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
    Charles P. Wright, Research Staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    Ye Zhao, Assistant Professor, Kent State University
    Lei Zhang, Research Staff, Siemens Corporate Research, NJ
  • 2007
  • Katia Hristova, Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology
    Vishnu Navda, Research Staff Member, Microsoft Research, India
    Neophytos Neophytou, Scientist, Neuromatters LLC, NY
    Fang Xu, Scientist, Siemens Corporate Research
    Haitao Zhang, Software Engineer, NVIDIA, CA
  • 2008
  • Zhe Fan, Google, Inc., CO
    Miao Jin, Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Jalal Mahmud, Research Staff, IBM Almaden Research Center, CA
    Pei Ye, Knight Capital Group, NJ
  • 2009
  • Mikhail Bautin, Software Engineer, Facebook
    Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, NJ
  • 2010
  • Hui Wan, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson
  • 2011
  • Paul Fodor, Lecturer/Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University






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