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LAC Alumni Party!

The First LAC Alumni Party was held Nov. 13, 2005 in Seattle, WA and was a great success. Thanks to everyone who could make it.

Please update your information on the LAC Wiki. If you forgot your password, please email connelly@uic.edu.

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Staff Alumni

  • Stuart Bailey-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Infoblox.
  • Jennifer Barba Okonma - Univ. of Chicago Fundraiser; 2010 - UIC Graduate Entry program in College of Nursing.
  • Emory Creel (Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare; 2010 - Hamilton Numbers, Ltd.)
  • Waheed Hussain
  • David Turkington (Dave's blog)

Postdoctoral Research Associates

  • Donald Hamelberg (2003) (Univ. of California at San Diego)
  • Xinwei Hong (Microsoft)
  • Marco Mazzucco (FalconStor, Italy)
  • Martin (Georg) Reinhart (Skarven Enterprises)

Undergraduate students:

  • Anakany Alvarez (raising 1 great kid in Chicago)
  • Anabel Garza - 2010 - Northwestern
  • Erin and Eloy Martinelli - raising 3 great kids, in Cleveland, Ohio. Erin's blog.
  • Eugene Sadhu M.D. (2008) (CEO at AlephKnot, Inc)
  • Joe Verdin - 2010 - Chicago Police Department
  • Marcin Widlak - 2010 - Citigroup

PhD students

  • Charles Qin (1994) (Magnify, Inc.)
    1994. Applications of Persistent Object Managers to Scientific Computing.
  • Andrei Turinsky (2003) (Visual Genomicsi, 2010: SickKids Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)
    2002. Balancing Cost and Accuracy in Distributed Data Mining.
  • Sivakumar Harinath (Microsoft)
    2002. Data Management Support for Distributed Data Mining of Large Datasets Over High Speed Wide Area Networks.
  • Jorge Levera (2003) (Paraguay; 2010 - Telecom Personal Paraguay) (Paraguay: 2010 - Professor at Facultad Politcnica UNA) personal site.
  • Yunhong Gu (LAC, 2010: Founder: VeryCloud)
    2006. UDT: A High Performance Data Transport Protocol.
  • Chetan Gupta (2007) (HP, Austin)
    2007. Algorithms to Identify Clusters and Outliers Based on Dyadic Decompositions with Applications to Streams.
  • Yong Mao (2009) (Ebay)
    2009. FastPara and PeerRing: two Systems in Support of Data Parallel Computing.
  • Wenxuan Gao (2010)
  • Jia Chen. (2011) "2011: Genomic CIS-Regulatory Map Mining"
  • Li Lu (2011)
  • Rajmonda Sulo (2011)
  • Damian Roquerio (2011)

Master's students:
List of all graduated students and their last known employers.

  • Sadak Thamby Shaik Abdul (1998) (I2 Technologies)
    1998. Software Tools for Interfacing Data Mining Systems with Predictive Modeling Systems using the Predictive Model Markup Language.
  • Anushka Anand (2006)
    2006. Graph-Theoretic Scagnostics.
  • Asvin Ananthanarayan (2002) (Microsoft)
    2002. Analyzing Earch Science Data Using Data WEbs.
  • Neil Araujo (1994) (Netright)
    1995. High Performance Event Store.
  • Ashish Arora (Bluestone Consulting)
    1993. Database Computing for Persistent Stores of Trajectories.
  • Suvarna Ayyagari (1997) (Motorola)
    1995. Development of a MetaServer to achieve transparency for distribution of data for a persistent object manager, PTool.
  • Rajiv Balachandran (2002) (SBC Ameritech; 2010 - TIBCO Software Inc., Spotfire Division)
    2002. Data Space Transfer Protocol Web Client Framework.
  • Ananta K. Bardhan (1996) (unknown)
    1996. An Implementation of Hybrid System using K-D Tree indexing method and Comparison of Query Execution Time and Accuracy vis-a-vis Grid Hashing indexing method.
  • Suma Batchu (2000) (Motorola)
    2000. Tele-Immersive Data Mining Environment (TIDE) - A Library Implementation).
  • Jingyu Cao (2001) (Hull)
    2001. Stress Testing and Load Balancing DSTP Servers.
  • Bharath Chakravarthy (2000) (Nokia)
    2000. Efficient transfer and correlation of data across Wide Area Networks using JPSockets.
  • Thangam Chandrakumar (1994) (unknown)
    1994. Data Mining Tool for Database Containing Tabular Data Using PTool.
  • Mene Doffou (1995) (Sybase)
    1996. Computing Invariants of System of Differential Equations Using Trees.
  • Cheryl Fernandes (2000) (Sapient)
    2000. Integration of Statistical Packages into the Data Space Environment.
  • QiYing (Ann) Fu (1996) (Fluid Dynamics, Inc.)
  • Kartik Ganeshan (1998) (GE Medical Systems)
    1998. Web-Enabled Visualization Systems for Data Mining.
  • Liang Gu (1996) (unknown)
    1996. An Experimental Study of Path Planning for Hybrid Systems.
  • Swapna Guddanti (2004) (Microsoft)
    2003. Performance Analysis of Storage and Retrieval of Census Data Using a Web Services Implementation of the DWTP Protocol.
  • Vandana Gummuluru (2003) (Pursuing PhD, Univ. of FL)
  • Eric Ho (2007) (HP, Colorado)
  • Hui Huang (2003)
    2003. Census Data Web: Exploratory Analysis and Mining of Data.
  • Guoping Jiang (1997) (unknown)
  • Tejal Joshi (2001) (Microsoft)
    2001. High Performance Data Crawler.
  • Jayakumar Kadirvelu (2000) (CISCO)
    2000. Security Suite for Data Space Transfer Protocol.
  • Pavan Kasturi (2003) (Microsoft)
    2004. An Empirical Study of the Universal Chemical Key Algorithm to Assign Unique Keys to Chemical Compounds.
  • Mukund Krishnamurthy*
  • Parthasarathy (Babu) Krishnaswamy (LAC)
    2004. Open DMIX Data Browser: A Tool for Visual Browsing of Remote and Disbtibured Data.
  • Ramasamy (Ravi) Krishnaswamy (1998) (Microsoft)
    1998. Data Warehousing and Data Mining.
  • Aziz Lalani (2001) (NORC, Univ. of Chicago)
    2001. JDBC-DSTP Server.
  • Zoe Likoudis (1994) (Banking in Greece)
    1994. Persistent Object Stores of Vortex Motion in Two Dimensional Flows.
  • Naichen Liu (1999) (unknown)
  • Balinder Mahli (1998) (Microsoft)
    1998. Providing Support for Resource Management Tools in a Wide Area High Performance Distributed Data Mining System.
  • Premal Mehta (1996) (Motorola)
    1996. An Experimental Study of Rule-Based and Data-Intensive Approaches to Modeling Hybrid Systems.
  • Chris Miller (1996) (unknown)
    1996. A Case Study in User Centered Design in a High Traffic World Wide Web Virtual Community.
  • Shitij Mutreja (1996) (Global Consultants; 2010 - Microsoft, Washington, D.C.)
    1996. Video Server - Digital Library.
  • Hareesh Nagarajan (2006) (Senior Software Engineer at Google)
  • Rajeet Nair (2003) Microsoft)
    2003. Performance Analysis of Storage and Retrieval of Earth Science Data Using DataSpace3.
  • Vijay Natarajan (1999) (Microsoft)
    1999. Distributed Correlation Transfer Protocol (DCTP) - A GUI Client Implementation.
  • Greeshma Neglur (2006) Morningstar
    2006. A Case Study of Unique Smiles Algorithm and an Efficient Technique for Searching Metabolic Pathways.
  • Yiting "Jessie" Pan (2001) (Hull, 2010: Union Bank of California)
  • Karthik Radhakrishnan (2006) VMWare (California)
    2007. A Pure and Strong Authentication Model for Distributed Systems.
  • Priya Raghunath (2002) (Pursuing PhD, Univ. of Houston)
    2002. Predicting Available Bandwidth and Application to PSockets.
  • Krishna Rajagopalan (2006) Motorola
    2006. SOAP* (SOAP STAR): A High Performance Web Service.
  • Hariharan Ramamoorthy (1994) (unknown)
    1994. A Visualization Tool for the U.S. Federal Budget for Returning Queries and Object Stores.
  • Meenakshi Ramamurthy (2000) (Oracle)
    2000. Network Weather.
  • Govind Ramanathan (2000) (Microsoft)
    2000. A Software Tool for Working with Statistical Models using the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML).
  • Ashok Ramu (1998) (ExaGrid Systems)
    1998. Incorporating Transportable Software Agents into a Wide Area High Performance Distributed Data Mining System.
  • Gokulnath B. Rao (2004) (Optiver; 2010 - International Trading Group, Glenview, IL)
    2003. PMML Based Scoring Engine and Associated Data Transformations Library.
  • Shiwani Samberey (2007) (Verdiem, Seattle, WA)
    2007. Knowledge Base for Network Performance and Error Diagnosis for SECTOR.
  • Arvind Sethuraman (2002) (Ameritech)
    2002. Analysis of Techniques for Meta-Data Retrieval for Huge Data Sets.
  • Gutti Srinath (1998) (Infoblox)
    1999. An Adaptive Scheduler for Papyrus Data Space Transfer Protocol Servers.
  • Guruvayurappan (Guru) Subramanyam (1999) (NET www.net.com, Fremont, CA)
    1999. Distributed Correlation Transfer Protocol - A DCTP Server Implementation.
  • Muqu Sun (2000) (Lucent)
    2000. Terabyte Challenge Ooperation Center.
  • Suresh Sundararajan (2001) (AT&T Services, Analyst. Chicago; 2010 - Amdocs, Inc.)
    2001. Making Value Representation and Handling for DSTP Infrastructure.
  • Anand Sundaram (1994) (Reuters)
    1994. A Prototype of a Digital Library for Tabular Data: An Application to the U.S. Federal Budget.
  • Radha Sundaram (1997)
    1997. Interface Definition Language.
  • Makio Tamura (2006)
  • Deepali Tekmalker (2000) (Microsoft)
    2000. Data Crawler.
  • Chandrika Tripathy (2000) (Netscape/AOL)
    2000. Data Space Transfer Protocol Modular Client.
  • Dimitrios Valsamis (1994) (Banking in Greece)
    1994. Persistent Object Stores of Trajectory Segments for Hybrid Systems.
  • Jason Vroustoris (2006) (Nielsen Media Research)
    2006. SkyBrowser: Leveraging Tools in Geography for Large Spatial Datasets in Astronomy.
  • Juan A. Varela (1996) (unknown)
    1996. The Interconnection Network Simulator System InetSim.
  • Bhaskar Venkateswaran (2000) (Hull)
    2000. Virtual Data Warehouse.
  • Chuan Wang (2002) (Infoblox)
  • Baifang (Jessica) Wu (1997) (unknown)
  • Xing (Susan) Yin (1997) (Motorola)
  • Mohamed Zaheer (2000) (Motorola)
  • Pei Zhang (2005)
    2005. Identification and Prediction of Highway Accidents using Decision Trees.
  • Qiao Zhang (2002) (unknown)
  • Ying (Lisa) Zhao (1997) (Motorola)

Missing Alumni: We don't have current email addresses for the following people. If you have current information, please email it to connelly A T uic edu:

Ashish Arora, Ananta K. Bardhan, Bharath Chakravarthy, Thangam Chandrakumar, Mene Doffou, QiYing (Ann) Fu, Kartik Ganeshan, Liang Gu, Aziz Lalani, Naichen Liu, Premal Mehta, Shitij Mutreja, Hariharan Ramamoorthy, Meenakshi Ramamurthy, Guruvayurappan (Guru) Subramanyam, Muqu Sun, Chandrika Tripathy, Bhaskar Venkateswaran, Baifang (Jessica) Wu, Xing (Susan) Yin, Mohamed Zaheer, Qiao Zhang
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