2012:
Jason Riesa
Thesis Title: Syntactic Alignment Models for Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation
Advisor: Daniel Marcu
Current position: Google Translate Team, Fall 2012
Rumi Ghosh
Thesis Title: Disentagling the Network: Understanding the Interplay of Topology and Synamics in Network Analysis
Advisor: Kristina Lerman
Current position: HP Labs, Post Doctoral
2011:
Steve DeNeefe
Thesis Title: Tree-adjoining Machine Translation
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Research Scientist, SDL Language Weaver
Sujith Ravi
Thesis Title: Deciphering Natural Language
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Research Scientist, Google
2010:
Anon Plangprasopchok
Thesis Title: Statistical Approaches for Inferring Category Knowledge from Social Annotation
Advisor: Kristina Lerman
Current position: National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Jonathan May
Thesis Title: Weighted Tree Automata and Transducers for Syntactic Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Research Scientist, Language Weaver
Victoria Fossum
Thesis Title: Integrating Parsing and Word Alignment in Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Advisors: Steven Abney and Kevin Knight
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at ISI
2009:
Michael Rubenstein
Thesis Title: Self-Assembly and Self-Healing for Robotic Collectives
Advisor(s): Wei-Min Shen
Current position: Harvard University, Post Doctorate Researcher
Rahul Bhagat
Thesis Title: Learning Paraphrases from Text
Advisor: Ed Hovy
Current position: Amazon
Matthew Michelson
Thesis Title: A Reference-Set Approach to Information Extraction from Unstructured, Ungrammatical Data Sources
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Fetch Technologies
2008:
Brent Lance
Thesis Title: Procedural Animation of Emotionally Expressive Gaze Shifts in Virtual Embodied Characters
Advisor: Stacy Marsella
Current Position: Institute for Creative Technologies/Army Research Laboratory-HRED
Martin Michalowski
Thesis Title: A General Approach to Using Problem Instance Data for Model Refinement in Constraint Satisfaction Problem
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Adventium Labs
Rattapoom Tuchinda
Thesis Title: Building Mashups by Example
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
2007:
Snehal Thakkar
Thesis Title: A Data Integration Approach to Dynamically Fusing Geospatial Sources
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Research Scientist, Google Research
Feng Pan
Thesis Title: Representing Complex Temporal Phenomena for the Semantic Web and Natural Language
Advisor: Jerry Hobbs
Current position: Natural Language Scientist at Powerset Inc.
Donghui Feng
Thesis Title: Factorizing Information Extraction from Text Corpora
Advisor: Eduard Hovy
Current position: AT&T Yellow Pages Research
Alexander M. Fraser
Thesis Title: Improved Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation
Advisor: Daniel Marcu
Current position: Research SCientist, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Namhee Kwon
Thesis Title: Text Understanding via Semantic Structure Analysis
Advisor: Eduard Hovy
2006:
Mark Carman
Thesis Title: Learning Semantic Definitions of Information Sources on the Internet
Advisor: Craig Knoblock and Paolo Traverso (PhD degree from the University of Trento)
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.
Dragos Stefan Munteanu
Thesis Title: "Exploiting Comparable Corpora"
Advisor: Daniel Marcu
Current position: Research scientist at Language Weaver, Inc.
Soo-Min Kim
Thesis Title: "Identification, Classification, and Analysis of Opinions"
Advisor: Eduard Hovy
Current position: Postdoctoral research associate at USC/ISI
Shou-de Lin
Thesis Title: Modeling, Searching, and Explaining Abnormal Instances In Multi-Relational Networks
Advisors: Hans Chalupsky and Kevin Knight
Current position: Assistant Professor at the National Taiwan University
Radu Soricut
Thesis Title: Natural Language Generation for Text-to-Text Applications using an Information-Slim Representation
Advisor: Daniel Marcu
Current position: Research scientist at Language Weaver, Inc.
Hal Daume III
Thesis Title: Practical Structured Learning for Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Daniel Marcu
Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Utah
Liang Zhou
Thesis Title: The Importance of Using Domain Knowledge in Solving Information Distillation Problems.
Advisor: Eduard Hovy
Current position: Postdoctoral research associate at USC/ISI
2005:
Ching-Chien Chen
Thesis Title: Automatically and Accurately Conflating Road Vector Data, Street Maps, and Orthoimagery
Advisor: Cyrus Shahabi and Craig Knoblock
Deepak Ravichandran
Thesis Title: Terascale Knowledge Acquisition
Advisor: Ed Hovy
Current position: Research scientist at Google Research
2003:
Philipp Koehn
Thesis Title: Noun Phrase Translation
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh
Jay Modi
Thesis Title: Distributed Constraint Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems
Advisor: Wei-Min Shen
Current position: Assistant Professor at Drexel University
Greg Barish
Topic: Speculative Plan Execution for Information Agents
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Scientist at Fetch Technologies
Benham Salemi
Topic: Distributed Control for Chain-Type Self-Reconfigurable Robots
Advisor: Wei-Min Shen
Current position: Research scientist at USC/ISI
2002:
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 Tulane University
Jafar Adibi
Thesis Title: Self-Similarity Models for Data Mining
Advisor: Wei-Min Shen
Current position: Research scientist at USC/ISI
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
Kenji Yamada
Thesis Title: A Syntax-Based Statistical Translation Model
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Research scientist at Language Weaver, Inc.
Yaser Al-Onaizan
Thesis Title: Translating Named Entities Using Bilingual and Monolingual Resources
Advisor: Kevin Knight
Current position: Research Scientist at IBM Watson Laboratory
2001:
Rogelio Adobbati
Thesis Title: Automated synthesis of software explanations
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: AssistMed
2000:
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
Naveen Ashish
Thesis Title: Optimizing informationmediatorsby selectively materializing data
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: NASA/Ames Research Center
1998:
Jose Luis Ambite
Thesis Title: Planning by Rewriting
Advisor: Craig Knoblock
Current position: Research Scientist at USC/ISI
1997:
Chin-Yew Lin
Thesis Title: Natural Language Summarization
Advisor: Eduard Hovy
Current position: Lead Researcher at Microsoft Research in Beijing
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:
Ben Smith
Thesis Title: Induction as Knowledge Integration
Advisor: Paul Rosenbloom
Current position: Research staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Others:
Richard Angros
Thesis Title: Learning What to Instruct: Acquiring knowledge from demonstrations
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
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
Randall W. Hill Jr.
Thesis Title: Impasse-Driven Tutoring for Reactive Skill Acquisition
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: Current position: Director of USC's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)
Lorna Zorman
Thesis Title: Requirements Envisaging by Utilizing Scenarios
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: mother (formerly HP Labs)
Kevin Benner
Thesis Title: Software Specification via Scenarios
Advisor: W. Lewis Johnson
Current position: CTO at a Minneapolis medical informatics company
Vibhu Mittal (1993)
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