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CDO Alumni

Congratulations to the students who have earned a Master of Science (S.M.) degree in Computation for Design and Optimization. The alumni are listed below, along with their year of graduation, thesis research topic, and contact information. (As of June 2008, 38 students have graduated from the program.)

To view alumni theses, click on a thesis title to go the MIT DSpace CDO community web page.
(Note: some CDO master's theses are not available at this time.)

Name Year Thesis Title Contact
Jonathan Birge 2008 A Preconditioned Newton-Krylov Method for Computing Steady-State Pulse Solutions of Mode-Locked Lasers birge@mit.edu
Ram Bala Chandran 2007 Development of Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Nonlocal Linear Elasticity rambc@mit.edu
Weirong Jeremy Chen 2007 Computational Issues and Related Mathematics of an Exponential Annealing Homotopy for Conic Optimization cvx_set@alum.mit.edu
Sudhir Chiluveru 2007 Computational Modeling of Crack Initiation in Cross-roll Piercing sudhirc@mit.edu
Shawn Choo 2006 The Crane Split and Sequencing Problem with Clearance and Yard Congestion Constraints in Container Terminal Ports shawnc@psa.com.sg
Sohan Dharmaraja 2007 An Analysis of the TR-BDF2 Integration Scheme sohan@mit.edu
Jiachuan (Joshua) Ding 2007 A Multiple Secretary Problem with Switch Costs dingjia3@alum.mit.edu
website: www.dingjia3.com
Laslo Tibor Diosady 2007 A Linear Multigrid Preconditioner for the Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations Using a Discontinuous Galerkin Discretization diosady@mit.edu
Yong Ning Foo 2007 A Diagnostic Analysis of Retail Out-of-Stocks yongning@alum.mit.edu
Justin Fox 2007 Fully-Kinetic PIC Simulations for Hall-Effect Thrusters foxj@mit.edu
Revanth Garlapati 2006 Reduced Basis Method for Boltzmann Equation revanth@alum.mit.edu
Sha Hu 2006 Semidefinite Relaxation Based Branch-and-bound Method for Nonconvex Quadratic Programming husha@alum.mit.edu
Mohammad Tariq Hussain 2008 Cheeger Sets for Unit Cube: Analytical and Numerical Solutions for L∞ and L² Norms mtariq@mit.edu
Vinay Kumar 2007 A Nonsmooth Exclusion Test for Finding All Solutions of Nonlinear Equations vinayk@MIT.EDU
Stephen Leibman 2008 A Generalized Precorrected-FFT Method for Electromagnetic Analysis sleibman@mit.edu
Zhengyi Lian 2007 Discontinuous Galerkin Solution of the Boltzmann Equation in Multiple Spatial Dimensions zylian@alum.mit.edu
Jiajie Liang 2006 Enhancements and Computational Evaluation of the Hit-and-Run Random Walk on Polyhedra jiajieliang@alum.mit.edu
Rhea Patricia Liem 2007 Surrogate Modeling for Large-Scale Black-Box Systems rpliem@MIT.EDU
Yun (Leon) Lu 2007 Robust Transportation Network Design under User Equilibrium leonlu@MIT.EDU
Ho Man Lui 2006 Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Boltzmann Equation luihm@alum.mit.edu
Jing (Rebecca) Ma 2007 Recovery of Primal Solution in Dual Subgradient Schemes jingma@MIT.EDU
Han (Abby) Men 2006 Efficient Reduced-Basis Approximation of Scalar Nonlinear Time-Dependent Convection-Diffusion Problems, and Extension to Compressible Flow Problems abbymen@mit.edu
Anshul Mohnot 2008 Solution of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems using a Discontinuous Galerkin Technique anshulm@mit.edu
Ardavan F. Oskooi 2008 An Investigation of the Perfectly Matched Layer for Inhomogeneous Media ardfar@mit.edu
Harish Peruvamba Sundaresh 2007 Must Linear Algebra be Block Cyclic? and Other Explorations into the Expressivity of Data Parallel and Task Parallel Languages harishps@mit.edu
Sandeep Sethuraman 2006 Domain Partitioning to Bound Moments of Differential Equations Using Semidefinite Optimization sandeeps@alum.mit.edu
Amit Soni 2008 An Analysis of Scientific Computing Environments: A Consumer's View amitsoni@mit.edu
Hua Su 2006 Robust Fluid Control of Multiclass Queueing Networks huasu@alum.mit.edu
Jia Li Sun 2006 Low Rank Decompositions for Sums of Squares Optimization jialisun@mit.edu
Wei Sun 2006 Price of Anarchy in a Bertrand Oligopoly Market sunwei@mit.edu
Yong kwang (Alex) Tan 2006 Reduced Basis Method for 2nd Order Wave Equation: Application to One-Dimensional Seismic Problem alextyk@mit.edu
Joline Ann Villaranda Uichanco 2007 Data-Driven Revenue Management uichanco@alum.mit.edu
Qian (Cherry) Wang 2007 Pre-bid Network Analysis for Transportation Procurement Auction under Stochastic Demand qwang@alum.mit.edu
Sonja Wogrin 2008 Model Reduction for Dynamic Sensor Steering: A Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems wogrin@mit.edu
Song Xu 2007 A Shifting Method for Dynamic System Model Order Reduction xs@alum.mit.edu
Sai Hei Yeung 2008 Analysis of the Projective Re-Normalization Method on Semidefinite Programming Feasibility Problems saihei@mit.edu
Lei (Kevin) Zhang 2006 Multi-Period Pricing for Perishable Products: Uncertainty and Competition zhanglei@alum.mit.edu
Lei (Ryan) Zhang 2007 A Fast 3D Full-Wave Solver for Nanophotonics zhangl@mit.edu

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