Thesis & Dissertations List

Dissertation Title: Resistance Distance, Kirchhoff Index, Foster's Theorems, And Generalizations
PhD Student: Yadav, Mamta
Chair: Dr. K. Thulasiraman

Dissertation Title: Parallel Processing Of Top-K Trajectory Similarity Queries On Big Data Using GPUS
PhD Student: Leal Gonzalez, Eleazar
Chair: Dr. Gruenwald

Dissertation Title: Sla-Based Performance Tuning Techniques For Cloud Databases Abstract
PhD Student: Li, Liangzhe
Chair: Dr. Gruenwald

Thesis Title: Multi-Objective Query Optimization For Mobile-Cloud Database Environments Based On A Weighted Sum Model
MS Student: Helff, Florian
Chair: Dr. Gruenwald

Thesis Title: Study of Matrices Related To Discrere Logarithm In Kummer Extensions
MS Student: Chen, Xuecheng
Chair: Dr. Cheng

Dissertation Title: Translating Clojure To ACL2 For Verification
PhD Student: Ralston, Ryan
Chair: Dr. Page and Dr. Hougen

Dissertation Title: Phenotype Operators For Improved Performance Of Heuristic Encoding Within Genetic Algorithms
PhD Student: Carlson, Benjamin
Chair: Dr. Hougen

Dissertation Title: Design And Development Of Carrier Assignment And Packet Scheduling In LTE-A And Wi-Fi
PhD Student: Narman, Husnu
Chair: Dr. Atiquzzaman

Dissertation Title: Forecast Uncertainty Quantification Using Monte Carlo, Polynomial Chaos Expansion And Unscented Transformation Methods
PhD Student: Hu, Junjun
Chair: Dr. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title: An Analysis Of Link Based Web Search Algorithm
MS Student: Jiao, Ziliang
Chair: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan

Dissertation Title: NURTURING PROMOTES THE EVOLUTION OF LEARNING IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS
PhD Student: Shah, Naveed
Chair: Dr. Hougen

Thesis Title: On Compressing Massive Streaming Graphs with Quadtrees
MS Student: Nelson, Michael
Chair: Dr. Radhakrishnan

Dissertation Title: Learning Action-State Representation Forests for Implicitly Relational Worlds
PhD Student: Palmer, Thomas
Chair: Dr. Fagg

Thesis Title: Parallel Compression and Indexing on Large-Scale Geospatial Raster Data on GPGPUS
MS Student: Kaligirwa, Nathalie
Chair: Dr. Gruenwald

Thesis Title: Gensynth: Collaboratively Evolving Novel Synthetic Musical Instruments on the Web
MS Student: Rice, David
Chair: Dr. Trytten

Thesis Title: Analysis of Low-Order Box Models for a Class of Ocean Circulations
MS Student: Nguyen, Trung
Chair: Dr. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title: Time-, Energy-, and Monetary Cost-Aware Cache Design for a Mobile-Cloud Database System
MS Student: Perrin, Mikael
Chair: Dr. Gruenwald

Thesis Title: Global Water Body Mapping from 1984 to 2015 Using Global High Resolution Multispectral Satellite Imagery
MS Student: Menarguez, Michael
Chair: Dr. Lakshmivarahan

Dissertation Title: Parallel Algorithms For Counting Problems On Graphs Using Graphics Processing Units
PhD Student: Chaterjee, Amlan
Chair: Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Dissertation Title: Framework For Improving Performance of Protocols Foro Reading Radio Frequency Identification Tags
PhD Student: Satyavolu, Chandrika J. 
Chair: Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Dissertation Title: Prediction Models For Estimating The Efficiency Of Disturbed Multi-Core Systems (pdf)
PhD Student:    Hasan, Khondker Shajadul
Chair:                 Dr. J. Antonio

Dissertation Title:   LEARNING RELATIONAL CONCEPTS WITH THE SPATIOTEMPORAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL RELATIONAL FRAMEWORK (pdf)
PhD Student:     Bodenhamer, Matthew
Chair:                 Dr. A. Fagg

Dissertation Title:  APPLICATION OF THE FORWARD SENSITIVITY METHOD TO DATA ASSIMILATION OF THE LAGRANGIAN TRACER DYNAMICS (pdf)
PhD Student:     Jabrzemski, Rafal
Chair:                 Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title:  ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK-ASSISTED HEURISTIC TREE SEARCH IN COMPUTER DOMINION (pdf)
MS Student:    Fenner, Chris
Chair:                 Dr. D. Hougen

Thesis Title:  ON THE COMPLEXITY OF TIPPING IN SUPER-MODULAR GAMES (pdf)
MS Student:      Cremeans, Brian
Chair:                 Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan, Co-Chair; Dr. S. Dhall, Co-Chair

Thesis Title:  STUDIES ON DEEP HOLES AND DISCRETE LOGARITHMS (pdf)
PhD Student:     Zhuang, Jincheng
Chair:                   Dr. Q. Cheng

Thesis Title:  AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS IN NUMERICAL WEATHER SIMULATIONS (pdf)
MS Student:     Lucidarme, Thibault
Chair:                   Dr. A. McGovern

Thesis Title: LEARNING ENSEMBLES OF LINEAR GAUSSIAN NETWORKS FOR NONLINEAR AND SPATIAL DATA (pdf)

MS Student:     Robertson, Morgan   
Chair:                 Dr. A. McGovern

Thesis Title:     VERIVIS:  EFFECTIVE SPAM VERIFICATION USING HIGHLY INTERACTIVE MLTI-DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION
MS Student:      Dibay, Mohammad
Chair:                  Dr. C. Weaver

Thesis Title:     DYNAMIC DATABASE VERTICAL PARTITIONING ON SINGLE COMPUTERS AND CLUSTER COMPUTERS
MS Student:     Li, Liangzhe
Chair:                Dr. L. Gruenwald

Thesis Title:     PREDICTING MUSCLE EMG AND WRIST FORCES FROM CORTICAL ACTIVITY
MS Student:      Craig, Michael
Chair:                  Dr. A. H. Fagg

Thesis Title:   MODELING APRORI COMPLEX 3D GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES USING FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES
MS Student:     Bellam, Ravi
Chair:                 Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title:  PROOF PAD:  AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ACL2 THEOREM PROVER
MS Student:     Eggensperger, Caleb
Chair:                 Dr. R. Page

Thesis Title:   FINITE FIELD ELEMENTS OF HIGH ORDER FROM SUBSPACE POLYNOMIALS
MS Student:     Hoang, Nha
Chair:                 Dr. Q. Cheng

Thesis Title:   ENSEMBLE METHODS FOR DATE ASSIMILATION - A SURVEY
MS Student:      Hu, Junjun
Chair:                 Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title:   ONLINE DETECTION OF OUTLIERS FOR DATA STREAMS
PhD Student:     Sadik, Shiblee
Chair:                   Dr. L. Gruenwald

Thesis Title:   A RISK AND TRUST SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR THE PERVASIVE MOBILE ENVIRONMENT
PhD Student:     Sanchez, Carlos
Chair:                   Dr. A. McGovern

Thesis Title:   TOPOLOGY LEARNING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS:  ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS
MS Student:     Tabassum, Parisa
Chair:                 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Thesis Title:   REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SCHEDULER FOR HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS
MS Student:     Yan, Xiaolei
Chair:                 Dr. A. McGovern

Thesis Title:    IMPROVING CLIENT AND CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT IN IPTV MULTICAST
MS Student:      Bailey, Daniel
Chair:                 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Thesis Title:    ON MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DELIVERY AND MULTICASTING
PhD Student:      Chen, Yuh-Rong
Chair:                   Dr. S. Dhall and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Thesis Title:   SURVIVABILITY, SCALABILITY, AND SECURITY FOR MOBILITY PROTOCOLS
PhD Student:      Hossain, Shohrab
Chair:                   Dr. M. Atiquzzaman

Thesis Title:    SURVIVABLE LOGICAL TOPOLOGY DESIGN UNDER MULTIPLE CONSTRAINTS IN IP-OVER-WDM NETWORKS
PhD Student:      Lin, Tachun
Chair:                   Dr. K. Thulasiraman

Thesis Title:   EXPERT MOVE PREDICTION FOR COMPUTER GO USING SPATIAL PROBABILITY TREES
MS Student:      Tidwell, Zack
Chair:                 Dr. A. McGovern

Thesis Title:  ENERGY-EFFICIENT PROTOCOL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
PhD Student:      Zheng, Tao
Chair:                   Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Thesis Title:    TEACHING RECURSION THROUGH INTERACTIVE MEDIA
MS Student:      Hulsizer, Andrew
Chair:                 Dr. D. Trytten

Dissertation Title:    SEXUAL SELECTION, RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION, AND GENETIC DRIFT IN SIMULATED ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION
PhD Student:     Woehrer, Mark K.
Chair:                  Dr. D. Hougen

Thesis Title:    IMPROVING ZAP TIME AND BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION IN IPTV NETWORKS
MS Student:     Long, Matthew
Chair:                Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Thesis Title:    FINDING MINIMUM GAPS AND DESIGNING KEY DERIVATION FUNCTIONS
PhD Student:      Li, Yu-Hsin
Chair:                   Dr. Q. Cheng

Dissertation Title:    AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT CONCURRENCY CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK DATABASES
PhD Student:      Xing, Zhaowen
Chair:                   Dr. L. Gruenwald

Thesis Title:    ANALYSIS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC MODELS
MS Student:     Ramasamy, Srinivasa Ragavan
Chair:                Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title:    DATA ASSIMILATION IN THE ECOSYSTEM CARBON POOL MODEL USING THE FORWARD SENSITIVITY METHOD
MS Student:     Phan, Dung
Chair:                Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title:    ADAPTIVE ART THROUGH ASYMMETRIC HEBBIAN LEARNING
MS Student:     Kafle, Kiran K.
Chair:                Dr. A. Fagg

Thesis Title:    AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATION IN ACL2
MS Student:     Reid, Peter
Chair:                Dr. R. Page

Thesis Title:    INTERNET CONNECTIVITY FOR IPV6-BASED MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS USING CROSS-LAYER APPROACH
MS Student:     Huq, Syed Maruful
Chair:                Dr. M. Atiquzzaman

Thesis Title:    EVALUATION OF ASIAN OPTIONS:  A SPECTRAL EXPANSION APPROACH
MS Student:     Phillips, Timothy R.
Chair:                Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title:    THE GOZER WORKFLOW SYSTEM
MS Student:     Madden, Jason
Chair:                Dr. J. Antonio

Thesis Title:    OUTLIER DETECTION FOR DATA STREAMS
MS Student:     Sadik, Shiblee
Chair:                Dr. L. Gruenwald

Thesis Title:    ENHANCED SPATIO-TEMPORAL RELATIONAL PROBABILITY TREES AND FORESTS
MS Student:    Troutman, Nathaniel
Chair:                Dr. A. McGovern

Thesis Title:    LEARNING ENSEMBLES OF BAYESIAN NETWORK STRUCTURES USING RANDOM FOREST TECHNIQUES
MS Student:     Utz, Christopher
Chair:                Dr. A. McGovern

Thesis Title:    INFORMATION SHARING ON THE WEB: ARCHITECTURE, POLICIES AND COMPLAINCE
MS Student:     Joshi, Sourabh R.
Chair:                Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Thesis Title:    DEADLOCK AVOIDANCE IN DISTRIBUTED SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES
MS Student:     Martin, John Matthew
Chair:                Dr. J. Antonio

Thesis Title:    ANALYSIS OF DEFAULT PROBABILITY OF CORPORATE BONDS WHEN THE INTEREST RATES ARE STOCHASTIC
MS Student:     Tokgoz, Emre
Chair:                Dr.  S. Lakshmivarahan

Dissertation Title:    KALMAN FILTER BASED TECHNIQUES FOR ASSIMILATION OF RADAR DATA
PhD Student:    Yussouf, Nusrat
Chair:                 Dr.  S. Lakshmivarahan

Thesis Title:    A CORRECTIVE MOVEMENT-BASED APPROACH TO THE ONLINE  ADAPTATION OF NEURAL DECODERS FOR PROSTHESIS CONTROL
MS Student:     Goossaert, Emmanuel
Chair:                Dr. A. Fagg

Thesis Title:    SCHEDULING WORKFLOWS ON A CLUSTER OF MEMORY MANAGED MULTICORE MACHINES
MS Student:     Shrestha, Hira K.
Chair:                Dr. J. Antonio