MS Degrees Awarded

Dates after affiliations represent the latest date the information was confirmed. Please send corrections and updates to jomarie@cs.rochester.edu.

For alumni who continued in the program past the M.S., please see Ph.D. Degrees Awarded by the Department of Computer Science.

2013

Shantonu Hossain

2012

Halley Orshan

2011

Aaron Gorenstein
Thomas B. Thomas

2010

Christopher Thomas Clingerman
Julia Ferraioli
Bryan Jacobs
Xu Han

2009

David Rim
Mark Veronda
Rongrong Zhong

2007

Girts Folkmanis
Google (Mountainview, CA) [March 2008]
Aditi Goswami
Yahoo! (Sunnyvale, CA) [July 2008]
Tanushree (Mittal) Ardis
University of Rochester [March 2008]
Jonathan Pearson
Sixnet LLC (Clifton Park, NY)[March 2008]
Vinod Sivasankaran
Knight Equity Markets [March 2008]

2005

Madhur Ambastha
Barclays Capital (NY, NY) [June 2009]
Shivashankar Balu
Bloomberg (NY, NY) [June 2006]
Rajeev Garg
Intel Corp. (Folsom, CA) [April 2006]
Abhinav Jalan
Fair Isaac (San Diego, CA) [Aug. 2005]
Chikita S. Purav
Qualys (Redwood Shores, CA) [Nov. 2005]
Wenzhao Tan
Microsoft Corp. [Oct. 2005]

2004

Grant T. Farmer
Bijun He
Google (Mountain View, CA) [August 2009]
Yu (Kathy) Zhao
Accenture (San Francisco) [March 2007]

2003

Nathanael W. Chambers
Stanford U. CSD Ph.D. program [Oct. 2006]
John L. Kramer
Quantel, Inc. (Portland, OR) [June 2006]
Sameer S. Tilak
San Diego Supercomputer Center [Oct. 2006]

2002

Xiangchuan (Samuel) Chen
EastCom Corp. (Nanjing, PRC) [July 2004]
Xiaochen (Harry) Du
MicroStrategy, Inc. (McLean, VA) [Feb. 2006]
Qi (Stephen) Li
U. Delaware Computer & Inf. Science Dept. (Ph.D. program) [Nov. 2005]
Abhiram Shandilya
Juniper Networks (Bangalore, India) [June 2004]
April Slayden Mitchell
HP Labs [July 2007]
Robert S. Swier
U. Toronto (Ph.D. program) [June 2006]
Yilian Zhang
U. South Carolina, Aiken [June 2006]

2001

Paul J. Ilardi
BAE Systems (Burlington, MA) [Jan. 2005]
Andrew W. Learn
U.S. Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB) [Nov. 2005]

2000

Eduardo Pinheiro
Google (Calif.) [Aug. 2005]

1999

Xianjie Lu
3CX (San Jose, CA) [Feb 2000]
R. Gregory Sharek
ARM, Inc., Austin [Aug 2007]
Yiyang Tao
Merrill Lynch, Hong Kong [Sept 2008]

1998

Zhenlei Cai
last known: OPNET Technologies, Inc. [Feb 2000]
Steve J. Haley
UCR Computers (Dayton, OH) [Feb 2000]
Sotirios Ioannidis
FORTH-ICS [July 2008]

1997

Anastassia Ailamaki
Carnegie Mellon U., Computer Science [August 2002]
Nikolaos Hardavellas
Carnegie Mellon U. CSD [Aug. 2005]
Zheng (John) Zhang
Corning, Inc. [July 2008]

1996

Yuxin (Denise) Deng
Microsoft (China) Co. [August 2001]
Alexandros Poulos
Narus, Inc. [Feb 2000]

1995

Shumin Guo
ADC Telecommuncations [Feb 2000]
George Kardaras
last known: Ph.D. program at USC [1997?]
Michael W. Marchetti
Xerox Webster Research Center [July 2004]
Mauricio Marengoni
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Sao Paulo, Brazil) [Oct. 2005]
Colm A. O'Riain
professional musician [March 2008]
Terry Riopka
Aware, Inc. (Boston) [Aug. 2005]

1994

James R. Muller
Google (CA) [June 2006]
Peter A. von Kaenel
PVI Virtual Media Services, LLC [May 2006]

1993

Hannah I. Blau
(location unknown)
Karen J. Bogucz Spina
Osmose, Inc. (East Syracuse) [July 2009]
Gavin R. Steyn
Oracle [June 2009]
Robert Szelepcsenyi
Slovak Academy of Sciences [Sept 1999]
Ed Yampratoom
(location unknown)

1992

Catherine Chronaki
FORTH Inst. of CS (Greece) [Aug 1999]
Prakash Das
(location unknown)
William E. Garrett, Jr.
GTE Labs, Inc. (Waltham, MA) [Feb 2000]
Zheng Jiang
(location unknown)
Jozef Vyskoc
VaF, s.r.o., Rovinka [July 2008]

1991

Sudhir K. Jha
last known: Intel Corporation [1995]

1990

Michael Ciaraldi
Ciaraldi Cybernetics and
Worcester Polytechnic Institute [June 2006]
S. Altan Ozcandarli
PRIMUS Managed Hosting Solutions [May 2000]
Brian M. Yamauchi
iRobot Corp. (Burlington, MA) [July 2004]

1989

Andrew J. Buckler
Philips Healthcare [July 2008]
Jonathan G. Dean, CFA, CMT
Hillsdale Investment Management (Toronto) [July 2004]
Keri J. Jackson
Cygnifi Derivatives Technology (New York, NY) [August 2001]
Kurt R. Jones
Information Directions, Inc. (Victor, NY) [August 2002]
Willian Luciw
Viewpoint West Partners LLC [June 2006]
John A. Mulac
TARGUSinfo [Sept. 2002]
Robert D. Potter
affiliation unknown [June 2006]
Neil G. Smithline
OneStopAppSecurity.com [June 2009]

1988

Barun Chandra
CSD, U. New Haven [Febr. 2001]
Steven Feist
Carnegie Mellon U. [Aug. 2005]
John Kerber
(location unknown)
Michael McInerny
Amazon.com (Seattle, WA) [July 2004]
Paul Turner
Yodlee, Inc. (Redwood Shores, CA) [June 2009]
Nancy Watts
Rochester Software Technologies [Febr. 2000]

1987

Art Altman
Electric Power Research Inst. (Palo Alto, CA) [Aug. 2005]
Rabindranath Dutta
last known: IBM Tivoli Div., Austin [Febr. 2000]
Takahide Ohkami
ChipWrights, Inc. (Newton, MA) [July 2002]
Isidore Rigoutsos
IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr. [June 2006]

1986

Liudvikas Bukys
Allworx, Consulting Division (Fairport, NY) [June. 2007]
John N. Costanzo
Factiva?
Bradford W. Miller
Raytheon (Portsmouth, RI) [July 2004]
Narayanan H. Narayanan
CSE, Auburn U. (Auburn, AL) [Febr. 2000]

1985

Thomas M. Blenko
last known: CSD, Yale U. (Ph.D. program) [1980s]
Douglas J. Ierardi
D.E. Shaw Research, LLC [May 2005]
John R. Sullins
CIS, Youngstown State U. [Febr. 2000]

1984

Steven Hammond
Nat'l Renewable Eneergy Laboratory (Golden, CO) [July 2008]
Stephen Kaufman
Sandia National Labs (Albuquerque, NM) [Febr. 2000]
Emil Rainero
Xerox Corp. (Webster, NY) [Febr. 2000]
Jeff Snyder
Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester) [May 2000]
Avadis Tevanian
Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) [Dec. 1999]
Shmuel Tomer
Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester) [Febr. 2000]

1983

Mark Brucks
J3S Inc. (Austin) [Aug. 2006]
James L. Mayer
Xerox Corporation (Webster, NY) [Nov. 2005]

1982

Donald Libes
NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) [July 2007]
Bernhard Stuth
affiliation unknown (Dusseldorf, Germany) [Febr. 2000]

1981

Lydia Hrechanyk
(deceased)
Peggy M. Irish
Laurel Technical Services (Redwood City, CA) [Febr. 2000]
Lee C. Moore
Xerox Webster (Webster, NY) [Aug. 2005]
Tamisra Sanyal
U. Cincinnati [June 2002]
Hiromi Tanaka
CSD, Ritsumeikan U. (Japan) [Febr. 2000]

1980

Michele J.A. Denber
retired from Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester) [June 2006]
Mark A.S. Peairs
Internet entrepreneur (Menlo Park, CA) [Febr. 2000]

1979

Klaus D. Gradischnig
DETECON, Inc. (Reston, VA) [Aug. 2004]
Clinton W. Parker
Parker-Hannefin, Inc. [July 2004]
P. Rajaram
(location unknown)

1978

Edward J. Burke
The Concord Consortium (Concord, MA) [Dec. 1999]
Jose Nabielsky
SMS Data Products Group, Inc. (McLean, VA) [Dec. 1999]
Ricardo E. Salas
affiliation unknown (Cambridge, MA) [Aug. 2001]
Michael D. Samuels
(location unknown)

1977

Clifford B. Meltzer
Cisco Systems [Sept. 2005]