Awards and Honors Received by Department Alumni
| B.S. Alumni | ||
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Prabal Dutta B.S. `97 |
- NSF Graduate Fellowship |
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Rebecca Fiebrink B.S. `04 |
- NSF Graduate Fellowship |
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Susan Hohenberger B.S. '00 |
- NSF Graduate Fellowship - National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship - Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, 2008 |
| Dana Vantrease B.S. `02 |
- NSF Graduate Fellowship |
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Sarah Waterson B.S.`00 |
- NSF Graduate Fellowship |
| M.S. Alumni | ||
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Chris Jermaine M.S. '97 |
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of Florida - NSF Career Award, 2005 |
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Jeff Wolverton M.S. |
- Screenwriter, Academy Award winning short animated film "The Chubbchubbs!" - Effects Animator, Academy Award nominated films including Shark Tale, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, among others |
| Ph.D. Alumni | ||
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Chris Bailey-Kellogg Ph.D. '99 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Dartmouth College - NSF Career Award, 2002 - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships |
| Richard Baum Ph.D.`75 |
Vice President for Systems Architecture and Performance
IBM - IBM Fellow, 1991 |
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Guohong Cao Ph.D.`99 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsilvania State University - NSF Career Award, 2001 |
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Thomas A. Defanti Ph.D. `73 |
Distinguished Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago - ACM Fellow |
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Murat Demirbas Ph.D. `04 |
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
University at Buffalo, SUNY - NFS Career Award, 2008 |
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Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Ph.D. `85 |
Professor of Computer Science
Purdue University - NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1993 |
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Sonia Fahmy Ph.D.`99 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Purdue University - NSF Career Award, 2003 |
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Jason Hallstrom Ph.D.`04 |
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Clemson University, South Carolina - NSF Career Award, 2008 |
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Douglas Harms Ph.D.`90 | Professor of Computer Science
DePauw University - Fulbright Scholar, 2004 |
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Dave Haumann Ph.D.`89 |
Computer Graphics Researcher, Pixar Animation Studio
- Technical Director for the 1998 Academy Award winning Best Short Animated Film ("Geri's Game")
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Anil K. Jain Ph.D `73 |
University Distinguished Professor
Michigan State University - AAAS Fellow - ACM Fellow - IEEE Fellow - John Simon Guggenheim Fellow - IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award |
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Shivkumar Kalyanaraman Ph.D `97 |
Professor of Electrical Computer Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - MIT Technology Review's Top 100 Young Investigators Award, 1999 - NSF Career Award, 2001 |
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Shivnandan (Shiv) Kaushik Ph.D `95 |
Director, Systems Software
Intel Corporation - Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group |
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Ajay Kshemkalyani Ph.D. `91 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinios, Chicago - NSF Career Award, 1995 |
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Sandeep Kulkarni Ph.D.`99 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University - NSF Career Award, 2001 |
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Raghu Machiraju Ph.D. '96 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Ohio State University - NSF Career Award, 1998 |
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D. Manivannan Ph.D. '97 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Kentucky - NSF Career Award, 2000 |
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Jai Menon Ph.D.`81 |
Co-Director of the Storage Systems Institute
IBM - IEEE Fellow - IBM Fellow, 2001 - IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award, 2002 |
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Klaus Mueller Ph.D.`98 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Stony Brook University - State Univ of New York - NSF Career Award, 2001 |
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M. Tamer Ozsu Ph.D.`83 |
University Research Chair and Professor
University of Waterloo - ACM Fellow |
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Ravi Prakash Ph.D. '96 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Texas, Dallas - NSF Career Award, 1999 |
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J. Ramanujam Ph.D. '90 |
Ritter Distinguished Professor
Lousiana State University - NSF Young Investigator Award, 1995 |
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Douglas R. Roble Ph.D.`93 |
Computer Graphics Researcher, Digital Domain
- Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2008 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque), 2007 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Technical Achievement (Academy Certificate), 1998 |
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Amit P. Sheth Ph.D. '85 |
LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar for Advanced Data Management and Analysis
Wright State University - IEEE Fellow |
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Karansher Singh Ph.D. '95 |
Associate Professor
University of Toronto - Software R+D Director for the Academy Award winning animated short film Ryan in 2004 |
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Nigamanth Sridhar Ph.D. `04 |
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cleveland State University - NSF Career Award, 2008 |
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Sargur N Srihari Ph.D. `76 |
University Distinguished Professor
State University of New York, Buffalo - IEEE Fellow |
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Jun Xu Ph.D. '00 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - NSF Career Award, 2002 |
