Paul Jacobs, Ph.D. September 1989, thesis entitled ``Planning Robot Motion with Dynamic Constraints'' (nominated by UCB CS Division for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award).
Greg Heinzinger, Ph.D. April 1990, thesis entitled ``Reliable Robot Motion Planning''.
Dinesh Manocha, Ph.D. May 1992, thesis entitled ``Algebraic and Numeric Techniques in Modeling and Robotics''.
Ming Lin, Ph.D. January 1994, thesis titled ``Efficient Collision Detection for Animation and Robotics''.
Ioannis Emiris, Ph.D. December 1994, thesis titled ``Sparse Elimination and Applications in Kinematics''
Aaron Wallack, Ph.D. May 1995, thesis titled ``Algorithms and Techniques for Manufacturing''