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Doctoral Alumni of the School of Computational Sciences Brahim Akdim  - area of concentration: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Application of the NRL Tight-Binding Total Energy Method to sp Metals and Compounds,"  advisor: Dr. Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, date of defense: December 8, 1999, currently employed at: Naval Research Laboratory. Anjuli Bamzai - area of concentration: Climate Dynamics and Global Change, dissertation title: "Observational and Modeling Study of Snow and It's Relation to the Indian Summer Monsoon," advisor: Dr. Jagadish Shukla, date of defense: March 27, 1997, currently employed at: National Science Foundation. Michael Bear - area of concentration: Computational Physics, dissertation title: "Coupled Plasma/Solid-Surface Modeling Tool," advisor: Dr. John Guillory, date of defense: April 17, 1998, currently employed at: Lockheed Martin. Charles Bradshaw - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Very High Resolution Trigonometric Parallax and Structure Measurements of Scorpius X-1," advisors: Drs. John Wallin Bernard Geldzahler, date of defense: August 7, 2000, currently employed at: Mitre Corporation. Rolando Castro - area of concentration: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "System Reconstruction from Spike Trains," advisor: Dr. Timothy Sauer, date of defense: March 9, 2000. Juan Cebral - area of concentration: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Loose Coupling Algorithms for Fluid-Structure Interaction," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: June 11, 1996, currently employed at: George Mason University. Prachya Chalermwat - area of concentration: High-Performance Computing, dissertation title: "High Performance Automatic Image Registration," advisor: Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, date of defense: November 12, 1999. Amrut Champaneri - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Multivariate Density Estimation: Some Statistical Properties," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: January 8, 2001, currently employed at: U.S. Government. Juan Carlos Chaves - area of concentration: Computational Physics, dissertation title: "Transport Properties and Phase Diagrams for Aperiodic Fermion Systems," advisor: Dr. Indubala Satija, date of defense: October 16, 1996, currently employed at: Army Research Laboratory, MSRC. Chang-Hong Chien - area of concentration: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Dynamics and Electronic Structure of Neutral and Multiply Charged Clusters using Density Functional Theory," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: April 13, 2000. Glenn Easley - area of concentration: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "Computational Solutions to the Multi-Channel Deconvolution Problem via the Analytic Bezout Equation," advisor: Dr. David Walnut, date of defense: May 31, 2000. Karsten Engelmann - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Risk Assessment Informatics and Analysis for Toxic Chemical Release," advisor: Dr. Dan Carr, date of defense: March 21, 2001, currently employed at: U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency. Robert S. Erb - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Analysis and Modeling of Gene Expression Circuits," advisor: Dr. George Michaels, date of defense: March 24, 1999, currently employed at: George Mason University. Harry Erwin - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "A Computational Sensormotor Model of Bat Biosonar," advisor: Dr. Cynthia Moss, date of defense: November 5, 1999, currently employed at: Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland, England. Julia Faultleroy - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "The Effect of Alternative Measures of Distance in Distance-Weighted Smoothing Techniques for Spatial Data," advisor: Dr. Daniel Carr, date of defense: March 23, 1999, currently employed at: Center for Naval Analysis. Robert Fischer - area of concentration: Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Modeling Radiometric Effects on Airborne Multispectral Videography," advisor: Dr. Barry Haack, date of defense: November 14, 2001. Thomas Forbang - area of concentration: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Electron-Phonon Scattering Rates and Mobilities in GaAs/AlAs and GaN/AlN Quantum Wells," advisor: Dr. Cynthia McIntyre, date of defense: October 19, 1998, currently employed at: Synapsys, Inc. Robert Garian - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Prediction of Dimeric Structure of Proteins from Amino Acid Sequences," advisor: Dr. Patrick Gillevet, date of defense: January 15, 2000, currently employed at: Library of Congress. Bradley Graham - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Modeled Performance of a Compton Telescope Based on Planar Germanium Detectors," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: July 8, 1998, currently employed at: Naval Research Laboratory. Anil Khatri - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Validation of Patient Headache Care Education Systems Developed from a Software Resue Reference Model," advisor: Dr. David Rine, date of defense: January 10, 2000, currently employed at: Department of Commerce, Johns Hopkins University. Michael Keegan - area of concentration: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "New Methodology for Computationally Efficient Band Structure and Calculations and Database of Electronic Structure," advisor: Dr. Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, date of defense: December 17, 1998, currently employed at: Naval Research Lab. Jeffrey Krichmar - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "A Computational Model of Cerebellar Saccadic Control," advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: May 1, 1997, currently employed at: Krasnow Institute, George Mason University. Mohammed Lach-Hab - area of concentration: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Simulation of Aggregation Processes in Colloids," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: May 4, 1998, currently employed at: Virginia Tech. Jeongin Lee - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "The Cosmic Ray All-Particle Energy Spectrum," advisor: Dr. Robert Ellsworth, date of defense: March 27, 1998. Jonathan Levine - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Analysis of Variance When Interaction May Be Present: A Problem in Analyzing Multicenter Clinical Trials," advisor: Dr. John Miller, date of defense: May 6, 1998, currently employed at: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration. Shan-Chuan Li - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Nonparemetric Density Estimation With Wavelets and the Method of Sieves," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: January 17, 1997. Yibing Li - area of concentration: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Molecular Dynamics and Electron Structure of Metals: The Coloumb Fission of Highly Charged Metal Clusters," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten Barojas, date of defense: July 11, 1997, currently employed at: Network Solutions, Inc. Zuotao Li - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Data Management and Knowledge Discovery Approaches in On-Line Earth Science Data Information System Design," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: April 16, 1998, currently employed at: George Mason University. Gabriela Marani - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Statistical and Time Analyses of Gamma-Ray Bursts," advisor: Dr. Robert Nemiroff, date of defense: May 15, 1998, currently employed at: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. Connor McGrath - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Homology Modeling of Retroviral Zinc Fingers," advisor: Dr. George Michaels, date of defense: April 6, 2000. David Marchette - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "The Filtered Kernel Density Estimator," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: July 15, 1996, currently employed at: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. Jeffrey Mirick - area of concentration: Computational Chemistry, dissertation title: "A Study of Molecular Processes in Calcium Clusters, Sarin, and Calcium Carbonate Clusters," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: April 26, 2002. Sharon Moulden - area of concentration: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "Computational Methods for the Exact Linearization and Observer Linearization Problems for Nonlinear Systems," advisor: Dr. Andre Manitius, date of defense: February 2, 1999, currently employed at: GTE Internetworking. Rida Moustafa - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Fast Conceptual Clustering Algorithms for Data Mining and Visualization," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: June 18, 2001, currently employed at: George Mason University. Wendy Poston - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Optimal Subset Selection Methods," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: March 21, 1995, currently employed at: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. Elio Ramos-Colon - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "High-Energy Multifrequency Observations and Analysis of Blazars," advisor, Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: July 15, 1997, currently employed at: University of Puerto Rico. David Rose - area of concentration: Computational Physics, dissertation title: "Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Intense Charged Particle Beam Transport," advisor: Dr. John Guillory, date of defense: June 30, 1997, currently employed at: Naval Research Laboratory. Paul Salamonowicz - area of concentration: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "A Wavelet Based Gravity Model with an Application to the Evaluation of Stokes Integral," advisor: Dr. David Walnut, date of defense: June 7, 1999. Imran Shah - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Predicting Enzyme Function From Sequence," advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: November 11, 1998, current employment: Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, University of Colorado. Jeffrey Solka - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Matching Model Information Content to Data Information," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: March 21, 1995, currently employed at: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. Prasad Subramanian - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Tangled Magnetic Fields in Black Hole Accretion Disks: Implications for Viscosity and Particle Acceleration," advisor: Dr. Peter Becker, date of defense: August 4, 1997, current employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India. Thomas Sullivan - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Classification Methods for Augmented Arc-Weighted Graphs," advisor: Dr. James Gentle, date of defense: April 12, 2002. Barnabas Takacs - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Perception and Recognition of Human Faces," advisor: Dr. Harry Wechsler, date of defense: Sept. 3, 1996, currently employed at: Virtual Celebrity Productions; Director, Image/Vision Analysis, Los Angeles, CA. Navachat Tongvichit - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Web-Based Genographics Used in Federated Information Manager for Genome Analysis," advisor: Dr. George Michaels, date of defense: August 16, 1997. Jaroslaw Tuszynski - area of concentration: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Control of a Karman Vortex Flow By Rotational Oscillations of a Cylinder," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: May 12, 1998. Patrick Vandersluis - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Detecting Silent Ischemia: Enhanced Visualization of Cardiac Electrophysiology Using Virtual Leads," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: April 7, 1999, currently employed at: Source Data Corporation. Jearanai Vongsaard - area of concentration: Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Automatic Morphing Using Image Registration: Application to Continuous Tracking of Radar Rain Reflectivity Fields," advisors: Drs. Long Chiu and Tarek El-Ghazawi, date of defense: April 30, 2002. Jacob Waltz - area of concentration: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Unstructured Multigrid for Time Dependent Incompressible Fluid Flow," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: March 3, 2000. Jingfang Wang - area of concentration: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Modeling and Simulation of Dust Behaviors Behind a Moving Vehicle," advisor: Dr. Jim Chen, date of defense: November 6, 1998, currently employed at: George Mason University. Keun-Hang Yang - area of concentration: Computational Neuroscience, dissertation title: "Potassium Channels and PKC Activation Underlying Temporal Specificity of Classical Conditioning," advisor: Dr. Kim L. Blackwell, date of defense: July 7, 2000, currently employed at: Johns Hopkins University. Kwang-Su Yang - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Toward Refinements of Spatial Smoothers: Attending to Details in Computationally Intensive Settings," advisor: Dr. Daniel Carr, date of defense: December 15, 1998, currently employed at: George Mason University. Le Yi Yang - area of concentration: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Viscous Accretion Flows in General Relativistic Metrics," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: July 17, 2000. Timothy Yoder - area of concentration: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Time-Frequency-Aspect Analysis and Visualization of Acoustic Scattering from Elastic Shells Submerged in Water," advisor: Dr. Charles Gaumond, date of defense: October 29, 1999. Barry Zeeberg - area of concentration: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Whole Genome Information Analysis and Processing, " advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: June 22, 1999.

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