Graduated PhD Students

• Donald S. Fussell, Dissertation Title: "Controlling Concurrency in Database Systems," Graduation: August 1980. Current Employment: Professor of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

• Krishna Kant, Thesis title: "Error Recovery in Concurrent Processes," Graduation: May 1981. Current Employment: Research Scientist, Bellcore Research Center, Morristown, NJ

• Laura Haas, Thesis title: "Two Approaches to Distributed Deadlock Detection," Graduation: August 1981. Current Employment: Research Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

• C. Mohan, Thesis title: "Strategies for Enhancing Concurrency and Managing Deadlocks in Data Base Locking Protocols," Graduation: December 1981. Current Employment: IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

• I.V. Ramakrishnan, Thesis title: "A Theory of Mapping Program Graphs onto Linear Arrays," Graduation: May 1983. Current Employment: Professor of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

• Raghu Ramakrishnan, Thesis title: "On the Implementation of Data Intensive Logic Programs," Graduation: May 1987. Current Employment: Professor of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

• Eliezer Levy, Thesis title: "Semantics-Based Recovery in Transaction Management Systems," Graduation: August 1991. Current Employment: Chief Architect, Infocyclone, Tel Aviv, Israel.

• Ernie Cohen, Thesis title: "Modular Progress Proofs of Asynchronous Programs," Graduation May 1992. Current Employment: Member of Technical Staff, Bellcore, Morristown, NJ.

• Sumit Ganguly, Thesis title: "Parallel Evaluation of Deductive Database Queries," Graduation: August 1992. Current Employment: Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, India.

• Rajeev Rastogi, Thesis title: "Concurrency Control in Multidatabase Systems," Graduation: May 1993. Current Employment: Executive Director of Bell Labs Research in Bangalore, India

• Sharad Mehrotra, Thesis title: "Failure-Resilient Transaction Management in Multidatabase Systems," Graduation: August 1993. Current Employment: Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California.

• Khien-Mien Chew, Thesis title: "The Recoverable-Persistent Virtual Memory Paradigm," Graduation: December 1993. Current Employment: Member of Technical Staff, Information Technology Institute (National Computer Board), Singapore.

• Nandit R. Soparkar, Thesis title: "Time-Constrained Transaction Management," Graduation: December 1993. Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• Banu Özden, Thesis title: "On the Storage and Retrieval of Continuous media data," Graduation: May 1995. Current Employment: Director, Computing Systems Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ.

• Robert Read, Thesis title: "Towards Multiresolution Data Retrieval via the Sandbag," Graduation: May 1995. Current Employment: Postdoc, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX