Alumni News
M.S. and Ph.D. Alumni
John H. Crawford (M.S. 1977) was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum “for his seminal work on industry-standard microprocessor architectures”, along with Lynn Conway and Irwin Jacobs.
Steve Bellovin (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1982) was named the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and was elected to the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame.
Robert Lewis (M.S. 1981) was the overall Chair for the ACA conference held at Fordham University July 9 - 12, 2014.
Ray Van Dyke (M.S. 1989) was re-appointed Chair of the Greater Washington, DC and Northern Virginia Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society. He was also appointed Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee for the Bar Association of Montgomery County Maryland, and continues to teach his Intellectual Property and Technology course in the Computer Engineering Department at SMU. Ray was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the ACM.
Bill Oliver (M.S. 1990) was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Medical Examiners. He completed the first phase of a National Institutes of Justice grant studying the ability of forensic pathologists to interpret photographs of patterned injuries of the skin. He also spoke at the World Congress on Infant Head Trauma, discussing biomechanical modeling of abusive head trauma, and at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences on inferring 3D shape from 2D wound images.
Ronald Azuma (M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1995) was part of a large team that created the Leviathan Augmented Reality demonstrations that Intel presented at CES in January 2014. These demonstrations brought to life fantasy creatures from the book Leviathan and transported them into our world, in front of thousands of attendees.
Terry Yoo (A.B. 1985, M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1996) won the very prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Award for Service to America. The award was bestowed upon him by the Department of Health and Human Services for his leadership in open science through his work on public software that has become the standard for 3-dimensional biomedical image analysis in both commercial and academic communities.
Andy Wilson (A.B. 1997, M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2002) was promoted to Principal Member of Technical Staff this year at Sandia National Laboratories.
Jun (Luke) Huan (Ph.D. 2006) was promoted to full professor in the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas, effective fall 2014.
Todd Gamblin (B.A. 2002, M.S. 2005, Ph.D. 2009) received a DOE Early Career Award worth $2.5 million over 5 years. One of 35 proposals selected out of 750, Todd’s project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory focuses on modeling the performance of simulations on future supercomputers.
Tabitha Peck (Ph.D. 2010) started this fall as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Davidson College.
Undergraduate Alumni
Sahil Parikh (B.S. 2001) started a cloud-based project management software Brightpod.com from Mumbai, India.
Joseph Barnes (B.S. 2002) finished his Ph.D. in Philosophy at UC Berkeley and will be working for the foreseeable future in Berlin as a Wissenscheftlicher Mitarbeiter (Assistant Professor) at Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin.
Amy Rae Fox (B.S. 2004) is currently pursuing a dual master’s degree (MA/MEd) in Cognitive Visualization at California State University, Chico in collaboration with the University of Koblenz and Landau and Pierre Mendes-France University. She is studying the way that graphical representations of information influence the way humans think, feel, and behave. After completing a master’s degree, Amy plans to pursue to doctorate in psychology.
Brad Davis (B.S. 2005) has been promoted to Senior Manager with Red Hat.
Erik Andersen (B.S. 2007) started as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University in August.
Friends of the Department
Kelli Gaskill, former Communications Manager, graduated in May 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing. She served as Communications Manager from October 2002 - January 2013.
Comp Sci Gmail Accounts Available for Alumni
The Computer Science department provides alumnus accounts, including accounts in the department’s Google Apps domain, to graduates of this department who either received a Masters or PhD degree from this department, or received a Bachelor’s degree from this department and have worked for the department for at least two semesters.
Having an alumnus account allows you to log in and see how things are going on our systems and to maintain a small web page, perhaps with pointers to another site. These accounts are limited to 400 MB of home directory space. The accounts do not include cvs, playpen, or ftp space. Optionally, they can include an account on the department’s Google Apps domain, including an email account. These include a 25 GB email quota and the ability to control your email forwarding.
Graduate alumni from previous years who are interested in setting up an alumnus account or adding Google to their existing alumnus account should send email to help at cs.unc.edu. Graduate alumni from the current year will simply keep their Google mail account, with no changes.
Undergraduate alumni from previous years who are interested in setting up an alumnus account or adding a department Google account, including Google mail, to their existing alumnus account, should send email to help at cs.unc.edu. Undergraduate alumni from the current year who wish to have Google mail enabled for their account should send email to help at cs.unc.edu.