By Tony Fitzpatrick
April 6, 2001
Two University computer science doctoral candidates --one an alum, the other a former exchange student from Stuttgart, Germany --have received prestigious fellowships from two different agencies.
Christine Julien, a Kansas City native who earned a bachelor's degree from the University in May 2000, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowship. An advisee of Catalin Roman, Ph.D., professor and chair of computer science, Julien will receive a stipend of $18,000 per year for three years. In addition, NSF provides the cost of tuition and fees for Julien.
With the aid of the fellowship, Julien will be working on mobility, specifically algorithms, formal models and middleware for mobility. Julien works in the Mobile Computing Group in the computer science department.
Each year, NSF offers scholarships to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences.
Tilman Wolf, whose adviser is Jonathan Turner, Ph.D., Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science, has received an IBM Research Fellowship to support him for his dissertation. His thesis topic is "Design and Performance of a Scalable Gigabit Active Router," which addresses network processor design issues. Network processors attempt to process network traffic in software rather than in hardware, the traditional way. This provides flexibility and the possibility of deploying new protocols and services dynamically.
IBM provides Wolf tuition and fees plus a stipend of $15,000 per year. The IBM fellowships are competitive awards given to outstanding Ph.D. students researching areas of interest to IBM.
In his fourth year at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, Wolf came to Washington University as an exchange student in 1996-97 after receiving a Fulbright Scholarship, which gave him freedom to choose any university. Wolf chose the University because St. Louis is the sister city of Stuttgart. He knew many people in the St. Louis area, and he'd heard favorably of the University.
Wolf returned to Germany, earned a bachelor's degree and returned in fall 1998 to the University, where he earned a master's in computer science that December. He also earned a master's in computer engineering in August 2000.
"The reason I came back was that the Washington University computer science department has a really strong networking group and a very pleasant work environment," Wolf said.
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