{"id":854,"date":"2023-08-15T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/?page_id=854"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:21:32","slug":"scads-theses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/scads-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"SCADS Lab Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SCADS Lab Graduates<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>James Crabb, MS, Graduated December 2023.\n<ul>\n<li> Thesis Title: A Critical Review of Cybersecurity Education in the United States<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/publications\/JamesCrabbMsThesisAbstract.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Current Position: Postdoc at WSU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xu (Tony) Liu, PhD, Graduated July 2021. Tony was WSU-PNNL Distinguished Research Program (DGRP) fellow (first cohort), and was co-advised by Andrew Lumsdaine.\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thesis Title:&nbsp;<\/em>Structure Detection in Graphs and Hypergraphs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/publications\/TonyLiuPhDThesisAbstract.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Current Position<\/em>: SDE II at AWS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yunshu Du, PhD, co-advised with Matt Taylor. Graduated April 2021.\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thesis Title<\/em>: Transfer in Deep Reinforcement Learning: How an agent can Leverage Knowledge from Another Agent, a Human, or Itself<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/publications\/YunshuDuPhDThesisAbstract.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Current Position<\/em>: Data Scientists at Sony AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sayan Ghosh, PhD, Graduated April 2019.\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thesis Title<\/em>: Supporting Efficient Graph Analytics and Scientific Computation using Asynchronous Distributed-Memory Programming Models<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/publications\/SayanGhoshPhDThesisAbstract.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Current Position<\/em>: Staff Scientist at PNNL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ramyar Saeedi, PhD, Graduated July 2018.\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thesis Title<\/em>: Efficient Machine Learning Algorithms for Automatic Reconfiguration of Mobile Health Monitoring Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/publications\/RamyarSaeediPhDThesisAbstract.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Current Position<\/em>: ML Engineer at Uber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keyvan Sasani, MS, Graduated Dec 2018.\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thesis Title<\/em>: Machine Learning for Predicting Performance of Graph Algorithms with Applications in Graph Databases and Network Similarity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/publications\/KeyvanSasaniMSThesisAbstract.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><em>Current Position<\/em>: Data Engineer at Meta<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helen Catanese, MS, Graduated May 2017.\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thesis Title<\/em>: RepeatAnalyzer: A Tool for Analyzing and Managing Short-Sequence Repeat Data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/publications\/HelenCataneseMSThesisAbstract.pdf\">Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><em>Current Position<\/em>: Senior Software Engineer at Addium<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCADS Lab Graduates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5234,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"university_category":[],"location":[],"organization":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university_category?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}