Jim Plank's students -- past and present

(Last updated 9/2018). If you should be on this list and you're not, please let me know. I used to have more information here rather than less, but it's too difficult to keep track of it.

PhD

Bryson Gullett. Started in 2024.
Nick Skuda. 2024. "Topology Modification and Training for Spiking Neural Networks."
Charlie Rizzo. 2024. "Exploration of Event-Based Camera Data with Spiking Neural Networks." As of 2024, Charlie is a research assistant professor in our group!
John Reynolds. 2019. "Reservoir Computing in an Evolutionary Neuromorphic Framework." John is a Machine Learning Engineer at LucD in Nashville.
Adam Disney. 2018. "Software Support for Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Arrays." Adam went to ORNL, and returned to UT to teach in our department in 2023.
Wael Elwasif. 2004. "The Internet Backplane Protocol: Shared storage for enhanced network infrastructure." Wael went to work at ORNL.
Kim Buckner. 2003. "Data Access in Wide Area Networks of Heterogeneous Workstations." After stints at Carson Newman and Oak Ridge, Kim settled at the University of Wyoming.
Youngbae Kim. 1996. Although Jack Dongarra was Youngbae's advisor, the three of us collaborated closely on Youngbae's dissertation, so I'm listing him.

MS

Ankush Patel. 2023. After graduating, Ankush went to spice.cloud.
ChaoHui Zheng. 2022. After graduating, ChaoHui went to Google.
Brent Hurst. 2020. After graduating, Brent went to teach Computer Science at Knoxville Christian School.
Grace Zhao. 2019. After graduating, Grace went to Google.
Ksenia Burova. 2018. After graduating, Ksenia went to RAM Laboratories (http://www.ramlabs.com/) in San Diego.
Jacob Davis. 2017. After graduating, Jacob went to Garmin.
Shawn Cox. 2016.
Bryan Burke. 2015. After graduating, Bryan worked here in IT.
Michael Jugan. 2013. After graduating, Michael went to Amazon.
Taylor Morris. 2013. After graduating, Taylor went to L3.
William Pierce. 2013. After graduating, Billy went to Cisco.
Scott Simmerman. 2009. After graduating, Scott went to the Remote Dana Analysis and Visualization Center at UT/ORNL. Scott is a very accomplished jazz pianist (I'll recommend his CD Notes that Rhyme).
Mayank Saraogi. 2006. After graduating, Mayank went to Adobe.
Rebecca Collins. 2004. After graduating, Rebecca went on to get her PhD at Columbia, and then to Google, NYC.
Linzhen Xuan. 2003.
Scott Atchley. 2002. Scott went to work for Myricom, and then to ORNL.
Haihang You. 2001. Haihang got his PhD with Jack Dongarra in 2009.
Ansel Robateau. 1999. After graduating, Ansel moved to Chicago to work there.
Rachel Huff (now Morgan). 1999. Rachel is Executive VP at ESC Spectrum in Pensacola.
Dorian Arnold. 1998. Dorian went to get his PhD at Wisconsin, and then to the University of New Mexico as an Assistant/Associate Professor. In 2017, he moved to Emory.
Lee Hamner. 1998. After graduating, Lee went to DeRoyal.
Michael Puening. 1997. After graduating, Mike went to work at Cardinal Solutions in Cincinnati.
Darryl Pace. 1997. After graduating, Darryl moved to Atlanta to work there.

Undergraduates

The years are the years in which I advised the students for research.

Jamin Hanna 2024.
Chris White 2024.
Daniel Mallett 2024.
Meghan Brandt 2022, 2023, 2024.
Dominic Kennedy 2023. (-> Graduate program at Utah)
Will Buziak 2023, 2024. (-> Graduate program at Colorado)
Jiawei Chen 2023. (-> Now a firmware engineer)
Anderson Walsh 2023.
Louise Fry 2022, 2023.
Alex Zhang 2022, 2023.
Kuba Zeligowski 2022.
Thomas Neuefiend 2022, 2023. (-> ORNL)
Bryson Gullett 2021, 2022, 2023. (-> MS program here)
Arden Davis 2021. (transferred from UT)
Katherine Huckabay 2021. (-> Texas Instruments in Knoxville)
John Carmack 2020, 2021, 2022. (-> Anaplan in San Francisco)
ChaoHui Zheng 2020, 2021. (-> MS program here)
Ankush Patel 2019, 2020, 2021. (-> MS program here)
Kody Bloodworth 2019, 2020. (-> PYA Analytics in Knoxville)
Syd Shelby 2019. (-> St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis)
Kirolos Shahat 2018. (-> Bluecore in NYC)
Chris Dean 2018. (-> PhD program at North Carolina)
Charlie Rizzo 2018, 2019. (-> PhD program here)
Jeremy Anantharaj 2018. (-> Amazon)
Leroy Todd 2018. (-> PhD program here under Dr. Jantz)
MaryBeth Burst 2017. (-> AmeriCorps VISTA)
Trevor Dixon 2017, 2018. (-> Pariveda in Dallas)
Michael Goin 2017, 2018, 2019. (-> NeuroMagic in the Boston Area)
Nick Skuda 2017 (Co-advised by Garrett Rose -> Phd program here).
Grace Zhao 2017, 2018 (Co-advised by Mark Dean -> MS program here).
Ksenia Burova 2017. (-> MS program here)
Phillip McKnight 2017. (-> Cisco)
Victoria Florence: 2016. (-> PhD Program at Michigan)
Grant Bruer: 2016, 2017, 2018 (-> PhD Program at Georgia Tech).
Alex Klibisz: 2015, 2016. (-> ORNL, then Avrio Analytics)
Aaron Young: 2016. (-> PhD program here, advised by Mark Dean)
Kelley Deuso: 2015. (-> Eastman)
John Burnum: 2013, 2015 Haslam Scholar Advisor.
John Reynolds: 2014, 2015. (-> PhD program here)
Shawn Cox: 2014. (-> MS program here)
Ben Arnold: 2013. (-> ArenaNet LLC, game development)
Allen McBride: 2013. (-> PhD program here, advised by Bruce MacLennan)
Adam Disney, 2012, 2013. (-> PhD program here)
Andrew LaPrise: 2012. (-> PYA Analytics)
Taylor Morris: 2012. (-> MS Program here)
Michael Jugan: 2011. (-> MS Program here)
Will Houston: 2011. (-> Netapp)
Parth Deshmukh: 2010, 2011. (-> MS program at Georgia Tech)
William Pierce: 2010, 2011. (-> MS program here)
Josh Chandler: 2010. (-> Cisco)
Devin Robison: 2009, 2010. (-> MS program at Utah, then FusionIO, then Oracle)
Catherine Schuman: 2008, 2009, 2010, Honors Thesis Advisor. (-> PhD program here, then ORNL)
Don Lopez: 2009.
Kevin Hudson: 2009.
John Garrison: 2005. (-> PhD program at Texas A&M, then to the Missile & Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, AL)
Isaac Charles: 2005. (-> PhD program at Brown)
Rebecca Collins: 2003. (-> MS Program here)
Stephen Soltsz: 2002. (-> PhD program at Princeton)
Matthew Allen: 2001. (-> PhD program at UC Santa Barbara)
Alex Cruikshank: 1995 (-> Epitonic LLC)