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Alumni in Academia

Michigan alumni with PhDs in CSE, as well as Michigan PhDs in other disciplines who were advised by CSE faculty, can be found in faculty positions at institutions of higher learning around the world. Many of them are listed here with the degrees they earned at Michigan.

American University of Beirut – Lebanon

  • Ayman Kayssi – PhD 1992

American University of Sharjah

  • Fadi Ahmed Aloul – MS 1999, PhD 2003

Arizona State University

  • Krishnendu Chakrabarty – MS 1992, PhD 1995

Asian Institute of Technology – Thailand

  • Sumanta Guha – MS 1990, PhD 1991

Auburn University

  • Drew Springall – MS 2015, PhD 2018

Bogazici University – Turkey

  • Arzucan Özgür – PhD 2010

Bond University – Australia

  • Padmanabhan Krishnan – MS 1987, PhD 1989

Boston College

  • Hsin-Hao Su – PhD 2015

Boston University

  • Allison McDonald, PhD 2022

Brigham Young University

  • David Wingate – PhD 2008

Carnegie Mellon University

  • Shawn Blanton – PhD 1995
  • Greg Ganger – BS 1991, MS 1993, PhD 1995
  • Peter Lee – BS 1982, MS 1982, PhD 1987 (now at Microsoft)
  • William (Bill) Sanders – BSE 1983, MSE 1985, PhD 1988
  • Akshitha Sriraman – PhD 2021

Chapman University

  • Andrew Moshier – BS 1983, MS 1984, PhD 1988

Chungbuk National University – South Korea

  • HyungWon Kim – PhD 1999

City University of New York

  • Scott Dexter – MS 1996, PhD 1998

Clemson University

  • Richard Groff – PhD 2003

Columbia University

  • Tanvir Ahmed Khan – PhD 2023

Davidson College

  • Bryce Wiedenbeck – MS 2011, PhD 2015

Delft University of Technology

  • Gabriel Lopes – PhD 2008

DePaul University

  • Craig Miller – PhD 1993

Dominican University

  • Mark Hodges, BS 2004, MS 2006, PhD 2010

Drexel University

  • Nagarajan Kandasamy – PhD 2003

Duke University

  • Landon Cox – MS 2001, PhD 2005 (now at Microsoft Research)

Eastern Michigan University

  • Susan Makrouhee Haynes – PhD 1990

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  • Brian Davis – MS 1994, PhD 2001

Georgia Institute of Technology

  • David Devecsery – BSE 2011, MS 2013, PhD 2018
  • Brian Magerko – MS 2001, PhD 2006
  • Shamkant Navathe – PhD 1976

Grove City College

  • Britton Wolfe – MS 2005, PhD 2009

Hanyang University – Korea

  • Yongjun Park – PhD 2009

Harvard University

  • James Mickens – MS 2003, PhD 2008

Harvey Mudd College

  • James Boerkoel – MS 2008, PhD 2012
  • Erin Talvitie – MS 2001, PhD 2010

Hongik University – Korea

  • Jang Ho Lee – PhD 1999

IE University – Spain

  • Lee Newman, PhD 2009

Illinois Wesleyan University

  • Mark Liffiton – MS 2005, PhD 2009

Indiana University

  • Andrew Lukefahr – MS 2011, PhD 2016

Iowa State University

  • Zhu Zhang – PhD, 2005

Johns Hopkins University

  • Noah Cowan – PhD 2001
  • Avi Rubin – BS 1989, MS 1991, PhD 1994

Kettering University

  • James Huggins – BS 1989, MS 1991, PhD 1995

Khon Kaen University

  • Kanda Runapongsa Saikaew – MS 1999, PhD 2003

King Saud University

  • Shurug Ali Al-Khalifa – MS 2000, PhD 2005

Kwangwoon University – South Korea

  • Hyunseok Lee – PhD 2007
  • Joonhwan Yi – MS 1998, PhD 2002

Lafayette College

  • Lauren Biernacki – MS 2019, PhD 2023

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Michael Stonebraker – MS 1966, PhD 1971

McMaster University

  • Charlie Welch – MS 2015, PhD 2021

Michigan Technological University

  • Charles Wallace – PhD 1999

Middle Eastern Technical University

  • Uluc Saranli – MS 1998, PhD 2002

Middlebury College

  • Laura Biester – MS 2020, PhD 2023

Montana State University

  • John Paxton – MS 1987, PhD 1990

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  • Douglas Van Wieren – PhD 1999

Nanyang Technological University

  • Yi Li – MS 2010, PhD 2013

National Chengchi University – Taiwan

  • Chao-Lin Liu – PhD 1998

National Taiwan University

  • Pei-Chun Lin – PhD 2005
  • Ya-Yunn Jodie Su – MS 2004, PhD 2009

National University of Singapore

  • Yi-Jun Chang – PhD 2019

New York University

  • Austin Rovinski – BSE 2016, MSE 2017, PhD 2022

Northeastern University

  • Nate Derbinsky – MS 2008, PhD 2012

Northern Michigan University

  • Andrew Poe – MS 1994, PhD 1999

Northwestern University

  • Bryan Pardo – PhD 2005

Oakland University

  • Steven Wilson – PhD 2019

Oberlin College

  • Patrick Simen – MS 2001, PhD 2004

Ohio State

  • Arnab Nandi – MS 2007, PhD 2011

Occidental College

  • Justin Li – PhD 2016

Peking University

  • Yuqing Kong – PhD 2018

Pennsylvania State University

  • Trent Jaeger – MS 1993, PhD 1997

Pomona College

  • Yuqing Wu – PhD 2004

Portland State University

  • Melanie Mitchell – PhD 1990

Princeton

  • Jennifer Rexford – MS 1993, PhD 1996

Purdue University

  • Tom Hacker – MS 1993, PhD 2004

Rutgers University

  • David Pennock – PhD 1999
  • Xintong Wang – PhD 2021

St. Lawrence University

  • Kevin A. Angstadt – PhD 2020

Seattle University

  • Eric Larson – MS 2001, PhD 2004

Seoul National University

  • Suhwan Kim – PhD 2001

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Biaoshuai Tao – PhD 2020

Sharif University of Technology

  • Ali Movaghar – BSE 1977, MSE 1979, PhD 1985

Singapore Management University

  • Shih-Fen Cheng – PhD 2006

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

  • Ye Du – MS 2006, PhD 2009

Srinakharinwirot University

  • Nuwee Wiwatwattana – MS 2003, PhD 2007

Stanford University

  • Zakir Durumeric – MS 2013, PhD 2017
  • Kunle Olukotun – BS 1985, MS 1987, PhD 1991
  • Mary Wooters – PhD Math 2014

Stony Brook University

  • Dongyoon Lee – PhD 2013
  • Amir Rahmati – MSE 2014, PhD 2017

Suffolk University

  • Beverly Kahn – PhD 1979

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

  • Shaul Markovitch – MS 1984, PhD 1989

Texas A&M University

  • Francis Quek – PhD 1990

Tsinghua University

  • Ran Duan – PhD 2011

United States Air Force Academy

  • David Merritt – PhD 2016

University at Albany – State University of New York

  • Yelin Kim – MS 2013, PhD 2016

University College Dublin – Ireland

  • Joao Paolo Marques-Silva – PhD 1995

University of Arizona

  • Bernard Zeigler (emeritus) – PhD 1968

University of California – Berkeley

  • Michael Stonebraker (emeritus) – MS 1966, PhD 1971

University of California – Davis

  • Hussain S. Al-Asaad – PhD 1998
  • Sam King – MS 2003, PhD 2006

University of California – Irvine

  • Qi Alfred Chen – PhD CSE 2018

University of California – Riverside

  • Zhiyun Qian – MS 2009, PhD 2012

University of California – San Diego

  • Earlence Fernandes – MSE 2014, PhD 2017
  • Xinyu Zhang – PhD 2012

University of Colorado Boulder

  • Eric Wustrow – PhD 2015

University of Connecticut

  • Dong-Guk Shin – PhD 1985

University of Delaware

  • Haining Wang – PhD 2003

University of Florida

  • Kyla McMullen – MS 2007, PhD 2012

University of Illinois – Chicago

  • Shantanu Dutt – PhD 1990
  • Piotr Gmytrasiewicz – PhD 1992
  • Leilah Lyons – BS 2000, MS 2004, PhD 2008

University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign

  • Tarek F. Abdelzaher – PhD 1999
  • Gul Agha – MS 1985, PhD 1985
  • Michael Bailey – PhD 2006
  • Katie Cunningham – PhD 2020
  • David Goldberg – PhD 1983
  • Nan Jiang – PhD 2017
  • Nam Sung Kim – PhD 2004
  • Fan Lai – PhD 2022
  • Olgica Milenkovic – MS 2001, PhD 2002
  • Yongjoo Park – MS 2013, PhD 2017
  • Sanjay Patel – BS 1990, MS 192, PhD 1999
  • William Sanders – BS 1983, MS 1985, PhD 1988

University of Louisville

  • Amir Amini – PhD 1990

University of Maryland

  • Bruce Jacob – MS 1995, PhD 1997
  • William Rand – BS 1999, MS 2001, PhD 2005
  • Xiaodi Wu – MS 2010, PhD 2013

University of Massachusetts – Amherst

  • Andrew Barto – PhD 1975
  • Mark Corner – PhD 2003

University of Massachusetts – Lowell

  • Michael Geiger – MS 2002, PhD 2006

University of Michigan

  • William Arthur – BS 2010, MS 2011, PhD 2016
  • Jonathan Beaumont – PhD 2019
  • Jennifer Boes – BS 1985, MS 1988, PhD 1994
  • Laura Burdick – MS 2017, PhD 2020
  • Andrew DeOrio – BS 2006, MS 2008, PhD 2012
  • Ronald Dreslinski – BS 2002, MS 2004, PhD 2011
  • Mark Guzdial – MS 1986, PhD 1993
  • James Juett – PhD 2015
  • John Kloosterman – MS 2015, PhD 2018
  • Sindhu Kutty – PhD 2015
  • John Meyer (emeritus) – PhD 1967
  • Chris Quintana – MS 1995, PhD 2001
  • Jeff Ringenberg – BS 2000, MS 2002, PhD 2008

University of Minnesota

  • Karthik Desingh – PhD 2020
  • Feng Qian – MS 2009, PhD 2012

University of Nevada – Las Vegas

  • Jisoo Yang – MS 2004, PhD 2010

University of New Mexico

  • Stephanie Forrest – MS 1982, PhD 1985

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

  • Andrew Kwong – PhD 2023
  • Yue Wang – PhD 2018

University of Pittsburgh

  • Rob Rutenbar – MS 1979, PhD 1984

University of Portland

  • Andrew Nuxoll – PhD 2007
  • Chenliang Xu – PhD 2016

University of San Francisco

  • Christopher Brooks – PhD 2002

University of Seoul – South Korea

  • Jaeho Lee – PhD 1997

University of South Carolina

  • José Vidal – PhD 1998
  • Qi Zhang – PhD 2020

University of Southampton

  • Adriane Chapman – PhD 2008

University of Southern California

  • Murali Annavaram – PhD 2001
  • Kenneth Zick, BS 1992, PhD 2010

University of Texas – El Paso

  • Christopher Kiekintveld – BS 2002, MS 2004, PhD 2008

University of Toronto

  • Tarek S. Abdelrahman – PhD 1989

University of Tulsa

  • Sandip Sen – PhD 1993

University of Virginia

  • Brad Campbell – BS 2011, PhD 2016

University of Washington

  • Eric Klavins – MS 1998, PhD 2001
  • Vivesh Sathe – MS 2004, PhD 2007

University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

  • Elizabeth Ernst – MS 2003, PhD 2009

University of Wisconsin – Madison

  • David Dewitt (emeritus) – MS 1971, PhD 1976
  • Kassem Fawaz – PhD 2017
  • Patrick McDaniel – PhD 2001

Vanderbilt University

  • Daniel Fabbri – PhD 2013
  • Yu Huang – PhD 2021

Virginia Tech

  • Ella Atkins – MS 1995, PhD 1999
  • Dongyoon Lee – MS 2009, PhD 2013
  • Sang Won Lee – MS 2014, PhD 2018
  • Leyla Nazhandali – MS 2002, PhD 2006

Washington State University – Vancouver

  • Scott Wallace – MS 2002, PhD 2003

Washington University in St. Louis

  • Yevgeniy Vorobeychik – MS 2004, PhD 2008

Western Michigan University

  • Wuwei Shen – PhD 2001

Yale University

  • Smita Krishnaswamy – BS 2002, MS 2004, PhD 2008

Yonsei University – South Korea

  • Songkuk Kim – PhD 2006
  • Kibok Lee – PhD 2020
  • Sun Ju Park – PhD 1999

Zhejiang University

  • Zonghua Gu – PhD 2004