PhD Degrees Conferred

2023 PhD graduates outside at commencement
We are incredibly proud of our graduates and the impact they have after leaving URCS. The department's complete list of PhD recipients is below.
Graduates from 1980-Current
YearGraduateEmployer
2023Komail DharseeDraper Labs
2023Jing ShiResearch Scientist - Adobe
2023Georgiy PlatonovML Software Engineer- Google Cloud
2023Haosen WenSoftware Engineer
2023Sayak ChakrabortiResearcher
2023Wentao CaiSoftware Engineer - Google
2023Md Kamrul HasanResearch Scientist - Meta
2023Raiyan BatanU. South Florida - Asst Prof (soon)
2023Wesley SmithStartup
2023Fengzhou LiuQualcomm, Software Engineer
2023Jie ZhouPost-Doc U of R
2023Chen YuTikTok
2023Hatian ZhengAdobe Research, Research Scientist
2023Wei ZhuAWS, applied scientist
2023Rahman Chowdhury E M Wasifur (Wasif)
2023Zhiheng LiAmazon/ AWS Applied Scientist
2023Yu FengPost-Doc U of R
2023Yiming GanChinese Academy Science
2023Songyang ZhangAWS, applied scientist
2023Zhoujia ShenApple, Software Engineer
2023Lane LawleyGeorgia Tech - Postdoc
2022Lele ChenStaff Research Scientist, Innopeak Technology [May 2022]
2022Lisa JinResearch Scientist, Meta [July 2022]
2022Gene KimVisiting Assistant Professor, University of South Florida [February 2022]
2022Weijian LiApplied Scientist, Amazon [June 2022]
2022Divya OjhaSenior Computer Vision Architect, Nvidia [June 2022]
2022Andrew Read-McFarlandAssistant Professor of Instruction, University of Rochester [June 2022]
2022Yapeng TianAssistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas [June 2022]
2022Wei XiongResearch Scientist, Adobe [June 2022]
2021Tianlang ChenApplied Scientist, Amazon [June 2021]
2021Shupeng GuiResearch Scientist, Facebook [June 2021]
2021Zahra Razavi
2021Parker RileySoftware Engineer, Google [June 2021]
2021Samiha SamroseData Scientist, Read AI [June 2021]
2021Taylan SenAssistant Professor, Niagara University [September 2021]
2021Hanlin TangResearch Scientist, Tencent [July 2021]
2021Zhengyuan YangResearcher, Microsoft [June 2021]
2021Anis ZamanResearch Scientist, eBay [February 2021]
2020Rupam AcharyyaPostdoctorate, SUNY Buffalo [October 2020]
2020Mohammad Rafayet AliPostdoctorate, University of Rochester [July 2020]
2020Ritwik BoseVisiting Assistant Professor, Knox College [September 2020]
2020Brian DickinsonAssistant Professor, Grove City College [August 2020]
2020Nabil HossainAI Research Scientist, Intel [August 2020]
2020Yang FengSoftware Engineer, Google Cloud AI [June 2020]
2020Jansen OrfanLecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology [August 2020]
2020Haichuan YangResearch Scientist, Facebook [August 2020]
2020Xiong ZhangResearch Scientist, Facebook [October 2020]
2019Scott Ames
2019Dong ChenAssistant Professor, National University of Defense Technology (China) [August 2019]
2019Xiaowan DongSoftware Engineer, Google [July 2019]
2019Tianran HuAssistant Professor, College of William & Mary [August 2019]
2019Xiangru LianSenior Research Scientist, Kwai Inc [August 2019]
2019Haofu LiaoApplied Scientist, Amazon Web Services, Inc. [November 2019]
2019Linfeng SongSenior Research Scientist, Tencent Seattle [May 2019]
2019Sharanyan SrikanthanSoftware Development Engineer, Intel [May 2019]
2019Phyo ThihaGroupM [July 2019]
2019Ryan YatesAssistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Houghton College [August 2019]
2019Jianbo YuanApplied Scientist, Amazon Fashion Science [September 2019]
2018Jacob (Jake) BrockHPE [August 2018]
2018Joseph IzraelevitzAssistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder [August 2019]
2018Rahman Lavaee MashhadiGoogle [June 2018]
2018Xiaochang PengFacebook [July 2018]
2018Adam PurteeRochester Institute of Technology [2018]
2017Omid BakhshandehVerneek [May 2018]
2017Timothy R. KoppPivotal [June 2017]
2017Pengcheng LiEngineer, Google [August 2017]
2017Yuncheng LiResearch Scientist, Snap, Inc. [November 2017]
2017Hao LuoSoftware Engineer, Google [June 2018]
2017Nasrin MostafazadehSenior Staff Research Scientist, Elemental Cognition [June 2018]
2017Shibo WangSoftware Engineer, Google [August 2017]
2017Quanzeng YouResearcher, Microsoft [November 2017]
2016Zhuan ChenMicrosoft [January 2017]
2016Anna LoparevUser Experience Researcher, Waters Corporation [July 2017]
2016Iftekhar NaimSoftware Engineer, Google [May 2016]
2016Ian PereraResearch Scientist, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition [May 2016)
2016Young Chol SongData Scientist, GE Digital [June 2018]
2015Erin L. BradyAssistant Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis [August 2016]
2015Qing GuoCPU Architect, NVIDIA [June 2018]
2015Walter LaseckiAssistant Professor, University of Michigan [June 2018]
2015Li LuTechnical Staff Member, Hortonworks [August 2016]
2015Konstantinos MenychtasSoftware Engineer, Google [August 2016]
2015Lingxiang XiangResearch Scientist, Intel Labs [June 2018]
2015Yu ZhongSoftware Engineer, Google [August 2016]
2014Marzieh BazrafshanData Science Engineer, H5 [August 2016]
2014Chetan BholeSoftware Engineer, Google [June 2018]
2014Yi ChuNatural Language Understanding Research Engineer, Nuance Communications [August 2016]
2014Luke D'AlessandroResearch Associate, University of Washington [Feb. 2018]
2014Elif EyigozPostdoctoral Researcher, IBM [August 2016]
2014Amal FahadSoftware Development Engineer, Microsoft [August 2016]
2014Licheng FangSoftware Engineer, Google [June 2018]
2014Jonathan GordonVisiting Professor, Vassar College (Fall 2018) [June 2018]
2014Xiaoming GuSalesforce [June 2018]
2014Mehdi HafeziSoftware Engineer, Google [August 2016]
2014Tivadar PapaiStaff Software Engineer, Waymo [December 2018]
2014James (Stan) ParkStaff Kernel Engineer, Huawei Technologies [December 2016]
2014Xiaoya XiangSoftware Engineer, Google [June 2018]
2014Hongzhou ZhaoArchitect, NVIDIA [August 2016]
2013Bin BaoResearch Scientist, Huawei Technologies [August 2016]
2013Tagyoung ChungApplied Scientist, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning Team [August 2017]
2013Daphne LiuSoftware Engineer (SDE), Amazon Web Services [August 2016]
2013Satyaki MahalanabiaGoogle
2013Curtis MentonGoogle
2013Adam SadilekSenior Engineer, Google [June 2018]
2013Naushad Uz ZamanSenior Research Scientist, Nuance Communications [August 2016] and
2012Tongxin BaiAssociate Professor, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [June 2018]
2012Qi GeSoftware Engineer, Google [August 2016]
2012Ross MessingComputer Vision Researcher, Tandent Vision Science Inc. [August 2016] and
2011Carlos Gomez GalloNorthwestern University [Jan. 2018]
2011Philip MichalakDigital Reasoning Systems [May 2011]
2011Matthew PostJohns Hopkins University [Jan. 2018]
2011Arrvindh ShriramanSimon Fraser University [Jan. 2018]
2011Bin WeiAlibaba Group [May 2015]
2011Shaojun ZhaoFacebook [June 2018]
2010Ding LiuNuance Communication Inc [May 2011]
2010Hemayet HossainNVidia Corporation [May 2011]
2010Xiao ZhangGoogle [May 2011]
2009Paul ArdisDigital Twin Mission Leader, GE Global Research [June 2018]
2009Fabrizio MorbiniTact.ai [June 2018]
2009Michael SpearLehigh University [June 2018]
2009Benjamin Van DurmeJohns Hopkins University [Mar. 2018]
2008Manu ChhabraGoldman Sachs, London, UK [April 2008]
2008Piotr FaliszewskiAGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland [January 2018]
2008Ashwin LallDenison University [Jan. 2018]
2008Chuanpeng LiBloomberg L.P., NYC [December 2008]
2008Virendra MaratheOracle [Jan. 2018]
2008Christopher StewartThe Ohio State University [September 2009]
2008Hao ZhangGoogle, Inc. [August 2008]
2007Ellen CampanaKPMG [Jan. 2018]
2007Shan HeGoogle, Inc Mountain View, CA [June 2009]
2007Proshanto MukherjiFish & Richardson Law, Boston, MA [June 2009]
2007Chengliang ZhangGoogle, Seattle, WA [Jan. 2018]
2007Ming ZhongGoogle, CA [August 2007]
2006Xue GuTowers Perrin [Sept. 2006]
2006Athanasios PapathanasiouAmazon Web Services [May 2015]
2006William N. Scherer IIIHewlett-Packard [Jan. 2018]
2006Jonathan M. ShawShaw Technologies, Inc. [Aug. 2006]
2006Xipeng ShenNorth Carolina State [Jan. 2018]
2006Weilie YiVP of Data Science, Placed, Inc. [July 2017]
2005Nathan J. BlaylockSenior Manager, Nuance Communications [July 2017]
2005Matthew R. BoutellProfessor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. (Terre Haute, IN) [June 2018]
2005Bo HuGoogle, CA [Jan. 2017]
2005Grigorios MagklisARM [Aug. 2014]
2005Brandon C.S. SandersDexcom [Oct. 2015]
2005Joel R. TetreaultGrammarly [February 2018]
2005Rahul TripathiWalmart Technology [Jan. 2012]
2005Yutao ZhongGeorge Mason University [Jan. 2018]
2004David D. AhnGoogle [May 2012]
2004DeQing (Luke) ChenMicrosoft [Jan. 2006]
2004Yinhe ChengIBM Austin Systems Group [Jan. 2018]
2004Myroslava DzikovskaGoogle, London UK [Jan. 2018]
2004Tao Li (deceased)Florida International University
2004Umit RencuzogullariCicso [Jan. 2018]
2004Nathan R. SpragueJames Madison University [Jan. 2018]
2004Chunqiang TangFacebook [July 2013]
2004Kumar Mayur ThakurGoldman Sachs, NYC [Jan. 2018]
2004Chen YuU. Indiana, Bloomington, Cognitive Sci. Program [May 2005]
2003Rajeev BalasubramonianU. Utah School of Computing [Feb. 2018]
2003Alina Y. BeygelzimerIBM T.J. Watson Research Center [Feb. 2018]
2003Rahul BhotikaAmazon, Seattle [Feb. 2018]
2003Melissa DominguezGoogle [June 2016]
2003Christopher K. EvelandEyesOn.ai [June 2018]
2003Lucian GalescuFlorida Inst. for Human & Machine Cognition [March 2005]
2003Isaac A. GreenWink, Inc. [March 2018]
2003Christopher M. HomanRochester Inst. of Technology [March 2018]
2003Zuohua ZhangAmazon [Feb. 2018]
2003Shenghuo ZhuAlibab Group [Febuary 2018]
2002Donna K. ByronSenior Software Engineer, IBM Watson Software Group (Littleton, MA) [August 2017]
2002Gregory R. Wheeler (Joint Philosophy and CS Ph.D.)Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgt [Feb. 2018]
2001Jessica D. BaylissRochester Inst. of Technology [January 2018]
2001Rodrigo L. CarceroniGoogle, CA [July 2008]
2001Andrea (Selinger) SalgianThe College of New Jersey [January 2018]
2001Amit SinghalRossi Kimms & McDowell LLC [Feb. 2018]
2001Amanda J. StentBloomberg [June 2018]
2001Meghan HylandZillow [March 2018]
2000Mark G. CoreU. Southern Calif. Inst. Creative Technologies, [July 2017]
2000Aaron N. KaplanNewsCred (NY) [July 2017]
2000Srinivasan ParthasarathyOhio State U., Computer & Inf. Science Dept. [Feb. 2018]
2000Eric K. RinggerZillow [February 2018]
2000Amon B. SeagullMagic Leap, Inc [June 2016]
1999Gabriel Istratee-Austria Research Institute, Timisoara, Romania [Mar. 2018]
1999Robert J. Stets, Jr.Google (Palo Alto, CA) [Feb. 2018]
1998Louis J. HoebelRetired, GE Global Research Center [September 2017]
1998Galen C. HuntPartner Research Manager, Microsoft Corporation [July 2017]
1998Martin JägersandU. Alberta Dept. of Computing Science [Feb. 2018]
1998Bulent MurtezaogluYesil Ege Bilisim ve Internet Hizmetleri AS (Turkey) and Optimal PC Solutions [Dec 1998]
1998Rajesh P.N. RaoCJ and Elizabeth Hwang Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, University of Washington [July 2017]
1998Garbis SalgianDavid Sarnoff Corp. [Feb. 2018]
1998Choh Man TengInstitute for Human Machine Cognition [Feb. 2018]
1998James R. VallinoRochester Institute of Technology [January 2018]
1998Mohammed J. ZakiRensselaer Polytechnic Institute [Feb. 2018]
1997Michal J. CierniakGoogle [Aug. 2005]
1997L. Olac FuentesU. Texas, El Paso CSD [Feb. 2018]
1997Peter A. HeemanOregon Health and Science University [Feb. 2018]
1997Jonas KarlssonOverview Project [Feb. 2018]
1997Wagner Meira, Jr.Universidade Federale de Minas Gerais, Brazil [Feb. 2018]
1997Maged M. MichaelFacebook [Feb. 2018 ]
1997Justinian P. RoscaSiemens Corporate Research Center [Dec. 2005]
1996Leonidas I. KontothanasisGoogle, Inc. (Cambridge, MA); [July 2008]
1996Marc N. LightDirector of Data Science, BitSight Technologies, Cambridge, MA [July 2017]
1996Andrew Kachites McCallumUniversity of Massachusetts [Feb. 2018]
1996Polly K. PookAsian University for Women, Bangladesh [June 2009]
1996Ramesh R. SarukkaiLyft, Inc. [Feb. 2018]
1996Robert W. WisniewskiChief Software Architect Exascale Computing, Intel Corporation [July 2017]
1996Marius ZimandTowson University [Aug. 2005]
1995Ricardo BianchiniChief Efficiency Strategist, Microsoft Research [July 2017]
1995George M. FergusonUniversity of Rochester [February 2018]
1995Boris Goldowsky
1995Joel Lachter (joint student, Psychology and Computer Science - Cognitive Science Program)Senior Research Associate, NASA [July 2017]
1995Ioan MacarieBloomberg [Feb. 2018]
1995Jeff SchneiderCMU Robotics Inst. /Uber ATC [Jan. 2018]
1995David R. TraumDirector for Natural Language Research, U. Southern California Inst. for Creative Technologies [September 2016] and Research Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department [September 2016]
1995Jack E. VeenstraDeceased
1994Corinna CortesGoogle (NY) [February 2018]
1994Mark E. CrovellaProfessor of Computer Science, Boston University [June 2018]
1994Virginia R. de SaU. Cal., San Diego, Cognitive Science Dept. [March 2018]
1994Yenjo HanDasan Networks, Inc. (Seoul) [June 2006]
1994Janet Marie Hitzeman(deceased)
1994Alice I. KyburgUniversity of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (Dept. of Philosophy) [Nov. 2007]
1994Massimo PoesioQueen Mary University of London, Dept. of Computer Science [June 2018]
1994Ramprasad PolanaInnominds[March 2018]
1994Raymond D. RimeyLockheed Martin Corp. (Littleton, CO) [February 2018]
1994Lambert E. WixsonClarifai [June 2018]
1994Ju ZhangJPMorgan Chase (New York, NY) [March 2004]
1993William J. BoloskyMicrosoft Corporation [June 2018]
1993Cezary Dubnicki9LivesData [February 2018]
1993Evangelos MarkatosFORTH ICS and U. Crete [February 2018]
1993Nathaniel G. MartinXerox Webster Research Center [June 2006]
1993Rajeev RamanU. Leicester, Dept. of Math. & Computer Science [March 2018]
1992David J. CoombsRaytheon [June 2018]
1992Alan L. CoxRice University [March 2018]
1992Nigel H. GoddardU. Edinburgh, Inst. for Adaptive & Neural Computation; and Axiope Ltd. (Edinburgh) [July 2004]
1992Brian D. MarshGoogle [February 2018]
1992Lata NarayananConcordia University [February 2018]
1992Jun TaruiUniversity of Electro-Communications, Tokyo [Feb 2000]
1992Steven D. WhiteheadRetired from Verizon [July 2018]
1991Lawrence A. CrowlInnergy Systems [August 2017]
1991Sanjay JainNational University of Singapore [Nov. 2005]
1991Cesar A. QuirozSamsung [August 2017]
1991Patrice Y. SimardMicrosoft Research [February 2018]
1990Peter C. DibbleGoogle (Custom Search) [June 2018]
1990Neal M. GafterMicrosoft [August 2017]
1990Leo B. HartmanCanadian Space Agency [July 2003]
1990Elizabeth A. HinkelmanGalactic Village Games [February 2018]
1990Michael J. Swainathenahealth (Watertown, MA) [August 2017]
1990Sue-Ken YapSilanna (Australia) [February 2018]
1989Paul R. CooperMDA Space Missions (Brampton, Ontario) [Aug. 2005]
1989Richard A. Floydretired [August 2004]
1989Stuart A. FriedbergMentor Graphics, a Siemens company [July 2017]
1989Johannes A. KoomenRetired [January 2018]
1989John Mellor-CrummeyRice University CSD [January 2018]
1989Thomas J. OlsonARM Media Processing Division [January 2018]
1989Laura A. SanchisDeceased, April 2006
1989Jay WeberCode for Thought [June 2018]
1989Susan Hollbach WeberU. Stanford School of Medicine [June 2018]
1988Paul Bao-Luo ChouIBM T.J. Watson Research Center [October 2002]
1988Mark A. FantyNuance Communications, Inc. [June 2006]
1988George HauserPacific Lutheran University [January 2018]
1988Ronald P. LouiCivicFeed (Springfield, IL) [June 2018]
1988Richard N. PelavinCo-Founder and CTO, Reactor8, Inc [October 2016]
1988David B. SherNassau Community College, Garden City, NY [January 2018]
1988Josh D. TenenbergU. Washington, Tacoma [January 2018]
1987John AloimonosUniversity of Maryland [January 2018]
1987Amit BandopadhayFannie Mae [January 2018]
1987Alan M. FrischUniversity of York [January 2018]
1987Henry A. KautzUniversity of Rochester [January 2018]
1987Richard E. NewmanUniversity of Florida at Gainesville [January 2018]
1986Diane J. LitmanU. Pittsburgh, Computer Science Dept. [January 2018]
1986Lokendra ShastriSamsung R & D Institute Bengaluru [January 2018]
1985Garrison W. CottrellUniversity of California at San Diego [June 2018]
1985Daniel M. RussellGoogle (CA) [January 2018]
1984Sanjaya AddankiOmnibus Systems (London) [August 2002]
1984James HeliotisRochester Institute of Technology [January 2018]
1984Mark KahrsU. Pittsburgh, Electrical Engg. Dept. [January 2018]
1984Yuki WatanabeLehman Brothers (New York, NY) [August 2007]
1983John Eugene Ballretired [August 2002]
1983Joseph Bryan LylesOak Ridge National Lab [June 2016]
1982Arun Arya
1982Andrew HaasDeceased
1982Daniel SabbahDSabbah LLC [January 2018]
1982Robert SchudyMetropolitan College, Boston U. [January 2018]
1982Peter SelfridgeDARPA [January 2018]
1982Edward SmithConcentrick Sky Inc [January 2018]
1981Anil NigamIndependent Technology Advisor [January 2018]
1981Donald PerlisUniversity of Maryland [January 2018]
1981Uri ShaniRetired, IBM Haifa Research Lab, currently part-time consultant at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology [June 2018]
1980Ilya GertnerAerospace Corp. [July 2006]
1980Keith A. LantzPractive Health Inc [Jan. 2018]
1980Joseph T. MalesonDeceased
1980Richard F. RashidMicrosoft Research [Nov 2016]
1980Jonathan E. ShopiroIn*Sight Massage [January 2018]
1980Graeme J. WilliamsSelf Employed [January 2018]