Karsten Schwan (August 21, 1952 – September 28, 2015) was an American computer pioneer, academic who had held the position of Professor of Computer Science and the director of Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He won the 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award and is elected IEEE Fellow at 2016 posthumously.
He has advised a number of notable Ph.D. candidates, including:
Hasan Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandip Agarwala, IBM Almaden
Hrishikesh Amur, Google
Emily Angerer, Virginia Tech
Tom Bihari, Nationwide
Ben Blake, Cleveland State University
Win Bo, Trilogy
Fabian Bustamante, Professor at Northwestern University
Zhongtang Cai, Oracle
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Dilma Da Silva, CS Chair at Texas A&M
Jai Dayal, Intel
Subramanya Dulloor, Intel Labs
Greg Eisenhauer, Georgia Tech
Naila Farooqui, Intel Labs
Harold Forbes, Baylor University
Ivan Ganev, Intel Labs
Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech
Ahmed Gheith, IBM Austin
Prabha Gopinath, Honeywell
Anshuman Goswami, NVIDIA
Weiming Gu, IBM Austin
Vishal Gupta, VMware
Vishakha Gupta, Intel
Kaushik Ghosh, Juniper Networks.
Qi He, IBM Software Group
Liting Hu, Florida International University
Daniela Ivan-Rosu, IBM T.J. Watson
Minsung Jang, ATT Labs
Byron A Jeff, Georgia State University
Sudarsun Kannan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mukil Kesavan, VMware
Carol Kilpatrick, St. Johns Group
Jiantao Kong, Google
Robin Kravets, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, IBM
Sanjay Kumar, Intel Labs
Vibhore Kumar, IBM T.J. Watson
Min Lee, Intel Labs
Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Labs
Mohammed Mansour, Microsoft
Alexander Merritt, Intel Corporation
Bodhi Mukherjee, Google
Ripal Nathuji, NeoTek Labs
David Ogle, IBM
Beth Plale, Indiana University
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame
Himanshu Raj, Microsoft Corp.
Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University, NSF
Adit Ranadive, VMware
Marcel Rosu, Bloomberg
Phyllis Schneck, Homeland Security
Dipanjan Sengupta, Intel Labs
Sangeetha Seshadri, IBM Almaden
Balasubramanian Seshasayee, Intel Labs
Priyanka Tembey, VMware
Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Chengwei Wang, ATT Labs
Rich West, Boston University
Patrick Widener, Sandia Labs
Mary Jean Willshire, University of Portland
Fang Zheng, IBM T.J.Watson
Dong Zhou, Apple
Hongyi Zhou, Sycamore Networks
