Ross D. Shachter Associate Professor Management Science and Engineering Office: Terman 416 | Phone: 650-723-4525 | Fax: 650-723-1614 Email: shachter @ stanford.edu

Students

Although I have had the pleasure of working with many wonderful people, I have particularly enjoyed supervising the doctoral dissertations for the following people:

• Joseph A. Tatman
  Decision Processes in Influence Diagrams: Formulation and Analysis, 1985.
• C. Robert Kenley
  Influence Diagram Models with Continuous Variables, 1986
• Kazuo J. Ezawa
  Efficient Evaluation of Influence Diagrams, 1986
• Brad R. Farr
  Assessment of Preferences Through Simulated Decision Scenarios, 1991.
• John Mark Agosta
  Probabilistic Recognition Networks: An Application of Influence Diagrams to Visual Recognition, 1991.
• Brian Y. Chan
  Structural Controllability and Observability in Influence Diagrams, 1993.
• William B. Poland, III
  Decision Analysis with Continuous and Discrete Variables: A Mixture Distribution Approach, 1994.
• Geoffrey William Rutledge
  Dynamic Selection of Models, 1995.
• Donna Marie Edwards
  Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Potential Preventive and Therapeutic HIV Vaccines, 1995.
• Rebecca Lee
  An Examination and Treatment of Personal Distinctions for Decision Modeling, 1996.
• Malcolm Pradhan
  Focus of attention in anytime decision making, 1997.
• Mark Alan Peot
  Decision-Theoretic Planning, 1998.
• Cecil Huang
  Intelligent Alarms: Allocating Attention Among Concurrent Processes, 1999.
• Marcia Tsugawa
  Potential Helicobacter pylori Vaccine: Population Dynamics and Cost-Effectiveness, 1999.
• Daniel G. Shapiro
  Value-driven agents, 2001.
• Scott, George C.
  Using decision models to automate and individualize interactive decision support for patients, 2002.
• Ninomiya, Kazuhiro
  Valuing options with transaction costs: A generalized approach from a decision analytic perspective, 2003.
• Detwarasiti, Apiruk
  Team Decision Analysis and Influence Diagrams, 2005.
• Bhattacharjya, Debarun