u may check this professor : http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~chandra/
See this guy. u may write to his supervisor Rahul Shah: http://csc.lsu.edu/~mpatil/resume.pdf
See the profile. He took some students with industry experience: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~dasgupta/
some good notes: http://duda.imag.fr/Comer/essay.phd.html