Samer Barakat, Purdue University

Thesis: Interactive Visual Analysis of Ultrascale Flow Phenomena on Manycore Architectures

Dmitry Berenson, Carnegie Mellon University

Thesis:  Manipulation Planning For Personal Robotics

Miklos Bergou, Columbia University

Thesis: Simulation and Control of Curves and Surfaces

 Jiawen Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Thesis: Efficient Data Structures for Representing Piecewise-smooth Visual Information

 Jike Chong, University of California, Berkeley

Thesis: Efficient Application Frameworks for Domain Experts to Productively Program Manycore Platforms

 Mark Cianchetti, Cornell University

 Thesis:

 Novel interconnect architectures exploiting emerging silicon nanophotonic devices

 Elizabeth Goodman, University of California, Berkeley

Thesis: Designing ubiquity: producing commercial ubiquitous computing

 Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Purdue University

Thesis: Modeling & Device-circuit Co-optimization of Heterostructure FETs with low short channel effects

 Vishakha Gupta, Georgia Tech

Thesis: Coordinated System Level Resource Management for Heterogeneous Many-core Platforms

 Daniel Halperin, University of Washington

Thesis: Enabling the realistic design of next generation wireless systems

 Jenny Hu, Stanford University

Thesis: Experimental Demonstration of High Performance III-V MOSFETs for Digital Logic Applications

 Ehtesham Islam, Purdue University

Thesis:  Theory of Defect Formation and Its Implication in Variability of Nanoscale Transistors

 Seungchul Lee, University of Illinois, UC

Thesis: Digital calibration of nonlinear memory errors in sigma-delta A/D converters

 Michael Lentine, Stanford University

Thesis: Scalable methods for physically based simulation and animation

 Patrick Mercier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: Highly-Digital Wireless and Wired Communication Circuits for Medical Monitoring Applications

 Emily Mower, University of Southern California

Thesis: Creating Human-Centric Expressive Interfaces: Linking Perceptual Evaluations to the Engineering Design of Synthetic Multimodal Communication

 Aneesh Nainani, Stanford University

Thesis: III-V devices with high hole mobility:Optimum channel materials, device design and effect of strain 

 Rahul Narain, University of North Carolina, CH

Thesis: Multi-Level Simulation of Complex Phenomena

 Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Thesis: A multi-level parallel programming system for real-time graphics and heterogeneous applications

 Pradeep Ramachandran, University of Illinois, UC

Thesis: Low Cost Solutions to Hardware Reliability

 Parmoon Seddighrad, Universityof Washington

Thesis: Energy-Efficient High-Linearity Multi-Standard RF Transmitters in Nanometer CMOS

 Jennifer Stein, University of Southern California

Thesis: Storytelling In Situ: Using pervasive technologies for ambient storytelling in physical space

 M. Ater Suleman, University of Texas, Austin

Thesis: Hardware/Software Symbiosis for Asymmetric Chip-Multiprocessors

 Hsin Yu (Sidney) Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: Overcoming the Far-Field Diffraction Limit via Absorbance-Modulation Imaging

 Kathleen Tuite, University of Washington

Thesis: Active World Reconstruction through a Real-world Multiplayer Game

 Ling Yang, Stanford University

Thesis: Domain-specific programming languages for many-core processors

 Xiaochun Yu, Carnegie Mellon University

Thesis:  Controlling IC quality through diagnosis based adaptive test

 Shuang Zhao, Cornell University

 Thesis: Scalable Interactive Rendering