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Current Students

• David Alexander

• Nicole Sullivan

• Guorui Xiao

• Enhao Zhang

Former PhD Students, First Employment, and Thesis

• Kyle Deeds, 2025, Boston University XXX Add Thesis XXX

• Dong He, 2024, Meta
  Thesis on Data Systems for Explainable AI and Incorporating AI Infrastructure into Data Systems

• Maureen Daum, 2023, Numbers Station
  Thesis on Data Storage and Exploration in a Video Data Management System

• Walter Cai, 2021, Snowflake
  Thesis on Novel Data Summaries for Join Query Optimization

• Parmita Mehta, 2020, Microsoft
  Thesis on Large Scale Analytics on Scientific Image Data

• Brandon Haynes, 2020, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab
  Thesis on Data Models, Query Execution, and Storage for Traditional & Immersive Video Data Management

• Laurel Orr, 2019, Stanford (postdoc)
  Thesis on Building and Querying Probabilistic Models for Open World Database Systems

• Jennifer Ortiz, 2019, Google
  Thesis on Performance-Based Service Level Agreements for Data Analytics in the Cloud

• Jingjing Wang, 2018, Facebook
  Thesis on Runtime Optimizations for Large-Scale Data Analytics

• Kristi Morton, 2015, Startup
  Thesis on Interactive Data Integration and Entity Resolution for Exploratory Visual Data Analytics

• Prasang Upadhyaya, 2015, Twitter
  Thesis on Managing Premium Data

• Emad Soroush, 2014, GraphLab
  Thesis on Multi-versioned Data Storage and Iterative Processing in a Parallel Array Database Engine

• Nodira Khoussainova, 2012, Twitter
  Thesis on Leveraging Usage History to Enhance Database Usability

• YongChul Kwon, 2012, Microsoft Bing Search
  Thesis on Managing Skew in the Parallel Evaluation of User-Defined Operations

• Julie Letchner, 2010, Microsoft Bing Mobile
  Thesis on Lahar: Warehousing Markovian Streams

• Evan Welbourne, 2010, Nokia Research Palo Alto
  Thesis on Enabling End-User Specification and Debugging of Complex Events for Location Systems

Former Master’s Students & First Employment

• Helga Gudmundsdottir, 2018, Facebook

• Tomer Kaftan, 2018, Google Brain

• Shengliang Xu, 2015, Pure Storage

• Brendan Lee, 2015, Tableau

• Ryan Maas, 2018, University of Washington

Former Postdocs & First Employment

• Dongfang Zhao, Prof. at the University of Nevada, Reno

• Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Petrobras and Prof. at the Institute of Computing at the Fluminense Federal University

• Jake VanderPlas, University of Washington eScience Institute