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Advisees (1998-Present)

	Melanie K. Hughey MS Graduate, Spring 1998 Thesis Title: An Implementation of kd-Trees for Improved Query Matching with Latent Semantic Indexing Employer: International Network Services (INS)		Luojian Chen MS Graduate, Spring 1998 Thesis Title: Feature Extraction and Retrieval Using DICE: Dendronic Image Characterization Environment Employer: Yahoo!
	Dax M. Westerman MS Graduate, Spring 1998 Thesis Title: The Design and Application of ICAT: Interactive Cluster Analysis Toolkit Employer: Coinstar		Eric P. Jiang PhD Graduate, Summer 1998 Dissertation Title: Information Retrieval and Filtering Using the Riemannian SVD Employer: University of San Diego (Asst. Professor)
	Stefen O. Howard MS Graduate, Fall 1998 PILOT Topic: gtp: General Text Parser Software (C++) Employer: Mars Hill College (Asst. Professor)		Kanchan Madhukar MS Graduate, August 1999 PILOT Topic: An Online Searchable Index for the Daily Beacon (UTK Student Newspaper) Employer: Computing & Academic Services UTK
	Xiaoyan (Kathy) Zhang MS Graduate, December 1999 Thesis Title: Level Search Techniques for Scalable Information Retrieval Employer: Netegrity		Min Liang MS Graduate, December 1999 PILOT Topic: High Performance SVD for the Octave Programming Environment Employer: Motorola (GSM Software Dept., Arlington Heights, IL)
	Haibin Tang MS Graduate, December 1999 PILOT Topic: GTP Software Integration - Text Parsing with SVD and SDD Employer: Pinnacle Systems, Inc.		John S. Warden MS Graduate, May 2000 PILOT Topic: WWW Interface for College of Human Ecology Databases Employer: College of Human Ecology UTK
	Brian L. Baker MS Graduate, May 2000 PILOT Topic: Web Presence Indexing Software Employer: Applied Semantics		Shama Y. Quazi MS Graduate, May 2000 PILOT Topic: UTK/CS Student Resume Search Engine Project Software: Resume Search
	Yaser M. Ali MS Graduate, August 2000 PILOT Topic: Comparison of Cognitive Maps Employer: Lockheed Martin		Richard D. Thursby MS Graduate, December 2000 PILOT Topic: Query Analysis of the UTK Website Employer: TBA
	David Guo MS Graduate, May 2001 Thesis Title: Knowledge-Enhanced Latent Semantic Indexing: Algorithms and Applications Employer: Allstate Insurance		John D. Eblen MS Graduate, May 2001 PILOT Topic: The Intensive Internet Investigation (III) System Employer: Genomix
	Anne-Scott (Scotti) Whitmire MS Graduate, August 2001 PILOT Topic: PHP Scripting with a PostgreSQL Database Server Employer: DeRoyal		Colton A. Smith MS Graduate, December 2001 Thesis Title: Using Yeast to Implement DNA-Based Algorithms Concept Presentation Thesis Game Employer: MPLN, Inc.
	Alphons Immanuel MS Graduate, August 2002 Thesis title: A Parallel Implementation of ALFISH: Simulating Hydrological Compartmentalization Effects on Fish Dynamics in the Florida Everglades Thesis Employer: WellCare		Patrick A. Lynn MS Graduate, December 2002 Thesis title: Evolving the General Text Parser (GTP) Utility into a Usable Application Via Interface Design Thesis Employer: Windrock Enterprises
	Justin T. Giles MS Graduate, December 2002 PILOT Topic: An Implementation of the GTP (General Text Parser) Query Module Employer: Vanderbilt University		Svetlana Y. Mironova MS Graduate, May 2003 Thesis Title: Integrating Network Storage Into Information Retrieval Applications Presentation Thesis Employer: Int'l Paper
	John C. England III MS Graduate, May 2003 PILOT Topic: A Robust Interface to the Stanford Microarray Database (SDM) Presentation Report Employer: UTK/CS		Wade H. Spires BS CS/BS Math, May 2004 Senior Thesis: Liblantiff: Software for the Creation of GEOTIFF Image Files from Landscape Objects (Software, Poster) Employer:Automated Trading Desk
	Farial Shahnaz MS Graduate, August 2004 Thesis title: A Clustering Method Based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Text Mining Presentation Thesis Internship: Yahoo! Research		Shakhina A. Pulatova MS Graduate, August 2004 Thesis title: A Whole Genome Phylogeny Using Truncated Pivoted QR Decomposition Presentation Thesis Employer: National Instruments
	Joshua K. Lothian MS Graduate, August 2004 PILOT Topic: Techniques for Using Wild-Card Characters for Automated Peptide Extraction in Phylogeny Presentation Employer: ORNL		Kevin E. Heinrich MS Graduate, August 2004 Thesis Title: Finding Functional Gene Relationships Using the Semantic Gene Organizer (SGO) Presentation Thesis PhD Program: UTK/CS
	Michael J. Harmon MS Graduate, December 2005 PILOT Topic: An Exchange Object for Parallel Multimodeling Presentation Employer: The E.W. Scripps Company		Kristen J. Bains MS Graduate, December 2006 PILOT Topic: A Cellular Automata Implementation of a Wildfire Spread Model Presentation Report Employer: Federal Express
	Kevin E. Heinrich PhD Graduate, May 2007 Dissertation Title: Automated Gene Classification Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization on Biomedical Literature Dissertation Presentation Dissertation Employer: Computable Genomix		Barry L. Britt MS Graduate, May 2007 PILOT Title: Document Classification Techniques using LSI Presentation Report Employer: ICL/UTK
	Nicholas A. Buchanan MS Graduate, May 2007 PILOT Title: ModelViewer: A Distributed Framework Interface for GIS-Integrated Environmental Modeling Presentation Report Employer: ESRI		Matthew L. Aldridge PhD Graduate, May 2008 Dissertation Title: A Finite State Machine Approach to Cluster Identification Using the Hoshen-Kopelman Algorithm Presentation Dissertation Employer: BeliefNetworks, Inc.
	Gregory L. Shutt MS Graduate, December 2008 PILOT Title: Text Visualization Using FutureLens Announcement Presentation, Report Employer: TBD		Elina Tjioe PhD Graduate, May 2009 Dissertation Title: Discovering Gene Functional Relationships Using a Literature-based NMF Model Presentation, Dissertation Employer: UCSF/BSPS
	Tabitha K. Samuel MS Graduate, August 2009 PILOT Title: Performance Evaluation of the Matlab PCT for Parallel Implementations of Nonnegative Tensor Factorization Announcement Presentation, Report, Tutorial Employer: NICS