Ricardo Villamarín-Salomón
PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Dissertation

Chairs

  • Dr. José C. Brustoloni and Dr. Adam J. Lee (Computer Science)

Committee members:

  • Dr. Liz Marai (Computer Science)
  • Dr. James J. Joshi (Information Sciences)

Successfully defended on October 29th, 2009.

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Proposal

Chair

  • Dr. José C. Brustoloni (Computer Science)

Committee members:

  • Dr. Adam Lee (Computer Science)
  • Dr. Liz Marai (Computer Science)
  • Dr. Rebecca Hwa (Computer Science)
  • Dr. James J. Joshi (Information Sciences)

Successfully defended on December 16th, 2008.
 



Comprehensive Exam

Committee members:

  • Dr. José C. Brustoloni (chair).
  • Dr. Ahmed Amer.
  • Dr. James J. Joshi.

Attempted and passed on November 20th, 2007
 


Preliminary Exams

Attempted and passed:

  • Programming Languages. Fall 2004.
  • Operating Systems. Spring 2005.
  • Artificial Intelligence. Fall 2005.
  • Algorithms. Spring 2006.

Courses Taken
 

Fall 2007

  • CS3900. PhD Directed Study.

Summer 2007

  • No course taken. Got a position as student worker at Dr. Brustoloni's Network Systems Laboratory.

Spring 2007

  • CS2002: Research Experience in Computer Science.
  • CS2750: Machine Learning (Audit).
  • CS2990. Independent Study.

Fall 2006

  • CS3520: Performance Analysis.
  • CS2990. Independent Study.

Summer 2006

  • CS3900. PhD Directed Study.

Spring 2006

  • CS2150: Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
  • CS 3710: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence. Affective Spoken Dialogue Systems.
  • (CMU) SE17500: Usable Privacy and Security.
    Project. Improving User Decisions about Opening Potentially Dangerous Attachments in E-mail Clients.

Fall 2005

  • CS 2710: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence.
  • CS 2530: Computer and Network Security.
  • CS 2731: Introduction to Natural Language Processing.
    Project. Semantic Role Labeling using the Constituent-By-Constituent and Word-By-Word approaches.

Summer 2005

  • CS2990. Independent Study.

Spring 2005

  • CS2510: Computer Operating Systems.
    Project. APART: Automatic Pre-Allocation for Remote Transfer.
  • CS2310: Multimedia Software Engineering.
    Project. PocketPC-based thin client for the Virtual Classroom.
  • CS2990. Independent Study.

Fall 2004

  • CS2210: Compiler Design.
    Project. COOL: The Classroom Object-Oriented Language.
  • CS2001: Research Topics In Computer Science.
  • CS2990. Independent Study.