University of Washington -- Computer Science and Engineering

Professor Tom reviews the research literature with a new student.

One of the great things about doing computer science research for a living is that you get to work with really smart people, and you get to learn a lot at the same time. Both at UW (where I was a graduate student) and Berkeley (where I taught in the early 90's), and now back again at UW (where I returned for the weather), I have worked with a stellar group of colleagues and students, full of energy, insight and fresh ideas. Almost all the results we have had together are really due to them.

Current students and post-docs

Graduated students and post-docs

A test of a good advisor is how well their students do after they graduate: six of my students have received tenure (so far), several have won the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, three have won teaching awards, and collectively, they have graduated 55 Ph.D. students.

  • Mike Dahlin (Professor, UT Austin)
    Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2000
    ACM Fellow, 2010
    IEEE Fellow, 2010
    Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas-Austin College of Natural Sciences, 2011
    Award papers: SOSP 1995, 2005, 2007; WCW 2001, WWW 2001, 2003; USENIX 2007; SASO 2007

  • Doug Ghormley (Sandia)

  • Harsha Madhyastha (Assistant Professor, UC Riverside)

  • Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research)
    ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, 2009

  • Margaret Martonosi (Professor, Princeton)
    Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award, 2010
    IEEE Fellow, 2010
    ACM Fellow, 2009
    Howard B. Wentz Award, 1998

  • Jeanna Neefe Matthews (Associate Professor, Clarkson)
    SIGOPS Chair, 2011

  • Drew Roselli (Microsoft)

  • Stefan Savage (Professor, UC San Diego)
    Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
    Award Papers: USENIX 1996, SOSP 1997, USITS 1999, USENIX Security 2001, DSN 2005, OSDI 2008

  • Neil Spring (Associate Professor, Maryland)

  • Justine Sherry (Grad student, Berkeley)
    CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, 2010

  • Amin Vahdat (SAIC Professor, UC San Diego)
    Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2003
    Award Papers: OSDI 2000, 2008; USENIX 2002; NSDI 2007

  • Arun Venkataramani (Associate Professor, UMass)

  • Randy Wang (Microsoft Research Asia)
    ACM Eugene Lawler Award, 2007
    Best Teaching Award, Engineering Council, Princeton University, 2000

  • Xiaowei Yang (Assistant Professor, Duke)

Colleagues

I have had a great time working with other people's students, including: And I have worked with some great colleagues, most recently: