Frank Ruskey's Former and Present Graduate Students

Ph.D. Students

• Dominique Roelants van Baronaigien, 1989.
  Thesis: On the Generation of Combinatorial Objects.
• Yasunori Koda, 1991.
  (co-supervised with Mike Fellows)
  Thesis: Combinatorial Algorithms on Partially Ordered Sets.
• Gara Pruesse, 1992.
  (co-supervised with Derek Corneil)
  Thesis: Generating Linear Extensions by Transpositions.
• Patricia Evans, 1999.
  (co-supervised with Mike Fellows)
  Thesis: Algorithms and Complexity for Annotated Sequence Alignment.
• Kenny Wong, 1999.
  (co-supervised with Hausi Muller)
  Thesis: A Reverse-Engineering Notebook.
• Joe Sawada, 2000.
  Thesis: Fast Algorithms to Generate Restricted Classes of Strings Under Rotation.
• Stirling Chow, 2007.
  Thesis: Generating and Drawing Area-Proportional Euler and Venn Diagrams (download).
• Mark Weston, 2009.
  Thesis: Symmetries of Venn Diagrams on the Sphere.
  
• Aaron Williams, 2009.
  (co-supervised with Wendy Myrvold)
  Thesis: Shift Gray Codes.
• Jenni Woodcock, current student.
  (co-supervised with Wendy Myrvold)
  Thesis: TBA.
• Khalegh Ahmadi Mamakami, 2009-2013.
  Thesis: Searching For Simple Symmetric Venn Diagrams.
• Alejandro Erickson, 2009-2013.
  Thesis: Monomino-Domino Tatami Coverings.
• Bette Bultena, 2013.
  Thesis: Face-balanced, Venn and polyVenn diagrams.
• Veronika Irvine, 2013-.
  Thesis: TBA.

M.Sc. Students

• Dominique Roelants van Baronaigien, 1986.
  Thesis: Ordered Tree Generation Algorithms.
• Chun Wa Ko, 1986.
  Thesis: Generation of Permutations of Multisets.
• Kenny Wong, 1991.
  (co-supervised with Hausi Müller)
  Thesis: Techniques for Optimizing Fortune's Plane-Sweep Algorithm for Voronoi Diagrams.
• Ming Jiang, 1992.
  Thesis: Hamiltonicity of Certain Vertex Symmetric Graphs.
• Gang Li, 1996.
  (co-supervised with Dominique Roelants van Baronaigien)
  Thesis: Generation of Rooted Trees and Free Trees, (ps, pdf).
• Malcolm Smith, 1997.
  (co-supervised with Dominique Roelants van Baronaigien)
  Thesis: Generating Spanning Trees.
• Bette Bultena, 1998.
  Thesis: Venn Diagrams with Few Intersections.
• Scott Lausch, 1999.
  Thesis: Generating Some Restricted Classes of Permutations.
• Tao Cao, 2001.
  Thesis: Computing all the Simple Symmetric Monotone Venn Diagrams on Seven Curves.
• Scott Effler, 2002.
  Thesis: Enumeration, Isomorphism and Hamiltonicity of Cayley Graphs: 2-Generated and Cubic.
• Mark Weston, 2003.
  Thesis: On Symmetry in Venn Diagrams and Independent Families (gzipped download).
• Jenni Woodcock, 2006.
  (co-supervised with Wendy Myrvold)
  Thesis: A Faster Algorithm for Torus Embedding.
• Chris Deugau, 2006.
  Thesis: Algorithms and Combinatorics of Maximal Compact Codes.
• Tom Spreen, 2010-2013.
  (co-supervised with Ulrike Stege)
  Thesis: The Binary String-to-String Correction Problem.
• Sahand Saba, 2013-.
  Thesis: TBA.

Advice

• Peter Eades' great powerpoint presentation on how to be a successful Ph.D. student