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Thesis Students


(In chronological order, including non-Berkeley students for whom Berlekamp was principal outside examiner)

Ken Thompson, 1966 Berkeley EE, MS
Distinguished Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA
ken@google.com

Dilip Sarwate, 1970 Princeton EE, PhD
Electrical Engineering Department
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Yusuf Tayabjee, 1972 Berkeley EE, MS

Oscar Moreno, 1973 Berkeley math, PhD
Mathematics, University of Puerto Rico

Robert Li, 1974 Berkeley math, PhD
Department of Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Larry Carter, 1974 Berkeley math, PhD
Chairman, CSE Department, UCSD

Dennis Baggi, 1974 Berkeley EECS, PhD

Dean Hickerson, 1980 Berkeley math, PhD
Mathematics, UC Davis

David Richman, 1980 Berkeley math, PhD
Deceased 1991 (see GONC p. 437)

Po Tong, 1982 Berkeley math, PhD
Texas Instruments, San Jose, CA

Earl Cohen, 1982 Berkeley EECS, MS, PhD
CTO, Bit Microsystems

George Zunich, 1983 Berkeley EECS, MS
Mission Research Corporation

Shyam Parekh, 1984 Berkeley EECS, MS

Robin Pemantle, 1984 Berkeley math, honors BS
Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania

Jorge-Nuno Silva, 1991 Berkeley math, MS
Mathematics, University of Lisbon - Portugal

David Wolfe, 1992 Berkeley EECS, PhD
Mathematics & CS, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, MN

David Moews, 1993 Berkeley Math, PhD
IDA CCR, La Jolla, CA

Dan Garcia, 1995 Berkeley EECS, MS
CS Lecturer, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Yonghoan Kim, 1995 Berkeley Math, PhD
Asst VP/Financial Engineer, Derivatives and Financial Products Group, Société Générale.
ykim@korealife.com

Martin Müller, 1995 ETH Zurich CS, PhD
Computer Science Department, U Alberta
mmueller@cs.ualberta.ca

Kuo-Yuen Kao, 1996 UNCC (Charlotte), PhD
KAOS@fisonline.com

Amit Sahai, 1996 Berkeley math, Honors BS
Associate Professor of Computer Science, UCLA

Tan Swee Heng, 1999 Berkeley math, MS
thesweeheng@gmail.com

Katherine Scott, 2000 Berkeley math, MS
McKinsey and Company

Julia Kempe, 2001 Berkeley math, PhD
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), France
Computer Science Department, Tel Aviv University
kempe@lri.fr

David DesJardins, 2001 Berkeley math, PhD
Google, Mountain View, CA and Blachman/DesJardins Foundation

Bill Fraser, 2003 Berkeley math, PhD
US Customs Department

George Snatzke, 2004 Augsburg PhD

Aaron Siegel, 2005 Berkeley math, PhD
Postdoc at IAS, Princeton, NJ