2003:

Greg Barish
Topic: Speculative Execution for Information Agent Execution
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Scientist at Fetch Technologies

Philipp Koehn
Thesis title: Noun Phrase Translation
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at MIT Computer Science

Jay Modi
Thesis title: Distributed Constraint Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems
Advisor: Wei-Min Shen
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Benham Salemi
Topic: Distributed Control for Chain-Type Self-Reconfigurable Robots
Advisor: Wei-Min Shen
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at ISI

2002:

Jafar Adibi (2002)
Thesis title: Self-Similarity Models for Data Mining
Advisor: Wei-Min Shen
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at USC/ISI

Yaser Al-Onaizan
Thesis title: Translating Named Entities Using Bilingual and Monolingual Resources
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Research Scientist at IBM Watson Laboratory

Irene Langkilde-Geary
Thesis title: Automatic Sentence Generation Using a Hybrid Statistical Model of Lexical Collocations and Syntactic Relations
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University

Ion Muslea
Thesis title: Active learning with multiple views
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Researcher Scientist at SRI International

Sheila Tejada
Thesis title: Learning object identification rules for information integration
Advisor: Craig Knoblock/Steve Minton
Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of New Orleans

Kenji Yamada
Thesis title: A Syntax-Based Statistical Translation Model
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe

2001

Rogelio Adobbati
Thesis title: Automated synthesis of software explanations
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: AssistMed

2000
Richard Angros
Thesis title: Learning What to Instruct: Acquiring knowledge from demonstrations
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson

Naveen Ashish
Thesis title: Optimizing information mediators by selectively materializing data
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: NASA/Ames Research Center

Gal Kaminka
Thesis title: Execution Monitoring in Multi-agent Environments
Advisor: Milind Tambe
Current position: Assistant Professor at Bar-Ilan University

Marcelo Tallis
Thesis title: A Script-Based Approach to Modifying Knowledge-Based Systems
Advisor: Yolanda Gil
Current position: Research Scientist at Teknowledge

1998

Jose Luis Ambite
Thesis title: Planning by Rewriting
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Research Scientist at USC/ISI

1997

Ishuar Chander
Thesis title: Automatic Postediting of Documents
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Northrup Grumman

Ali Erdem
Thesis title: Task orientation and tailoring of interactive software explanations
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: Medical informatics company in San Diego

Randy Hill
Thesis title: Impasse-Driven Tutoring for Reactive Skill Acquisition
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: Research Scientist at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies

Chin-Yew Lin
Thesis title: Natural Language Summarization
Advisor: Eduard Hovy
Current position: Research Scientist at ISI

1996

Chunnan Hsu
Thesis title: Learning effective and robust semantic knowledge for database query optimization
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan

Jihie Kim
Thesis title: Bounding the Cost of Learned Rules: A Transformational Approach
Advisor: Paul Rosenbloom
Current position: Research Scientist at USC/ISI

1995

Kevin Benner
Thesis title: Software Specification via Scenarios
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: CTO at a Minneapolis medical informatics company

Ishuar Chander
Thesis title: Automatic Postediting of Documents
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Northrup Gruman

Ali Erdem
Thesis title: Task orientation and tailoring of interactive software explanations
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: Medical informatics company in San Diego

Randy Hill
Thesis title: Impasse-Driven Tutoring for Reactive Skill Acquisition
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: Research Scientist at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies

Ben Smith
Thesis title: Induction as Knowledge Integration
Advisor: Paul Rosenbloom
Current position: Research staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Lorna Zorman
Thesis title: Requirements Envisaging by Utilizing Scenarios
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: mother (formerly HP Labs)

1993
Vibhu Mittal
Thesis title: Generating Natural Language Descriptions with Integrated Text and Examples
Advisor: Cecile Paris
Current position: Senior Scientist at Google, Inc. and Adjunct Faculty at CMU LTI