Past PhD Recipients
- Al Drees, Asma Ayed S. Promoting Universal Access to E-government Services --- A Comprehensive Conceptual Framework from Citizens’ Perspective. Advisor: Denis Gracanin.
- Ahuja, Aman. Analyzing and Navigating Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Advisor: Ed Fox.
- Alsafwan, Khadijah Ahmad. Toward Better Understanding and Documentation of Rationale for Code Changes. Advisor: Francisco Javier Servant.
- Bhuiyan, MD Momen. Combating Problematic Information Online with Dual Process Cognitive Affordances. Advisors: Sang Won Lee and Tanushree Mitra.
- Bu, Jie. Achieving More with Less: Learning Generalizable Neural Networks With Less Labeled Data and Computational Overheads. Advisor: Anuj Karpatne.
- Choudhary, Nurendra. Multimodal Representation Learning for Textual Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs. Advisor: Chandan K. Reddy.
- Elhamod, Mohannad. Understanding The Effects of Incorporating Scientific Knowledge on Neural Network Outputs and Loss Landscapes. Advisor: Anuj Karpatne.
- Guo, Zhen. Understanding and Combating Online Social Deception. Advisor:
- Keith Norambuena, Brian Felipe. Narrative Maps: A Computational Model to Support Analysts in Narrative Sensemaking. Advisor:
- Lu, Feiyu. Glanceable AR: Towards a Pervasive and Always-On Augmented Reality Future. Advisor: Doug Bowman.
- Mohanty, Vikram. Designing Human-AI Collaborative Systems for Historical Photo Identification. Advisor: Kurt Luther.
- Zhang, Da. Memory Turbo Boost: Architectural Support for Using Unused Memory for Memory Replication to Boost Server Memory Performance. Advisor: Xun Jian.
- Zhu, Ming. Neural Sequence Modeling for Domain-Specific Language Processing: A Systematic Approach. Advisors: Ismini Lourentzou and Danfeng Yao.
- Afrose, Sharmin. Methodology Development for Improving the Performance of Critical Classification Applications. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
- Aldaihani, Reem A A H S. Identifying The Structure Of Genomic Islands In Prokaryotes. Advisor: Lenwood Heath
- Arachie, Chidubem. Learning with Constraint-Based Weak Supervision. Advisor: Bert Huang
- Bhatti, Neelma. Technology and International Student Parenting: Implications for Research and Design of Digital Childcare Technologies. Advisor: D. Scott McCrickard
- Bian, Yali. Human-AI Sensemaking with Semantic Interaction and Deep Learning. Advisor: Chris North
- Biswas, Subhodip. Spatial Optimization Techniques for School Redistricting. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan
- Datta, Debanjan. A Framework for Automated Discovery and Analysis of Suspicious. Trade Records. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan
- Fu, Xinwei. Detecting Application-specific Non-volatile Memory Bugs by Inferring Likely-correctness Conditions from Programs. Advisor: Ali Butt
- Han, Jingoo. Towards a Resource Efficient Framework for Distributed Deep Learning Applications. Advisor: Ali Butt
- Ji, Taoran. On Modeling Dependency Dynamics of Sequential Data: Methods and Applications. Advisor: C.T. Lu
- Jin, Xianhao. Cost-saving in Continuous Integration: Development, Improvement, and Evaluation of Build Selection Approaches. Advisor: Francisco Javier Servant Cortes
- Li, Fengjiao. Online Learning for Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: Fairness, Communication Efficiency, and Data Privacy. Advisor: Bo Ji
- Li, Yuan. Assisting Spatial Referencing for Collaborative Augmented Reality. Advisor: Doug Bowman
- Lisle, Lorance Richard. Immersive Space to Think: Immersive Analytics for Sensemaking with Non-Quantitative Datasets. Advisor: Doug Bowman
- Muralidhar, Nikhil. Science Guided Machine Learning: Incorporating Scientific Domain Knowledge for Learning Under Data Paucity & Noisy Contexts. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan
- Nagy, Stefan. Practical Feedback and Instrumentation Enhancements for Performant Security Testing of Closed-source Executables. Advisor: Matthew Hicks
- Popov, Andrey Anatoliyevich. Combining Data-driven and Theory-guided Models in Ensemble Data Assimilation. Advisor: Adrian Sandu
- Pu, Jiameng. Defending Against Misuse of Synthetic Media: Characterizing Real-world Challenges and Building Robust Defenses. Advisor: Bimal Viswanath
- Venkatagiri, Sukrit. Supporting and Transforming High-Stakes Investigations with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing. Advisor: Kurt Luther
- Wang, Xinyue. Large Web Archive Collection Infrastructure and Services. Advisors: Ed Fox and Zhiwu Xie
- Xiao, Ya. Neural Network-based Methodologies for Securing Cryptographic Code. Advisor: Danfeng Yao
- Zilevu, Kobla Setor. Human Computer Interaction for Complex Machine Learning. Advisors: Aisling Kelliher and Thanassis Rikakis
- Ahmed, MD Salman. Quantitative Metrics and Measurement Methodologies for System Security Assurance. Advisor: Danfeng Yao
- An, Kijin. The Client Insourcing Refactoring to Facilitate the Re-engineering of Web-Based Applications. Advisor: Eli Tilevich
- Chandrasekar, Prashant. Continuously Extensible Information Systems: Extending the 5S Framework by Integrating UX and Workflows. Advisor: Ed Fox
- Dahshan, Mai. Visual Analytics for High Dimensional Simulation Ensembles. Advisors: Nicholas Polys and Chris North
- Dantas Cruz, Breno. Promoting Systematic Practices for Designing and Developing Edge Computing Applications via Middleware Abstractions and Performance Estimation. Advisor: Eli Tilevich
- Gautam, Ashkash. Designing Socio-Technical Systems to Illuminate Possibilities for a Vulnerable Population. Advisor: Deborah Tatar
- Kotut, Lindah. Amplifying the Griot: Technology for Preserving, Retelling, and Supporting Underrepresented Stories. Advisor: Scott McCrickard
- Liu, Yin. Methodologies, Techniques, and Tools for Understanding and Managing Sensitive Program Information. Advisor: Eli Tilevich
- Lu, Yen-Cheng. Relational Outlier Detection: Techniques and Applications. Advisor: C.T. Lu
- Lu, You. Modeling Structured Data with Invertible Generative Models. Advisors: Bert Huang and Naren Ramakrishnan
- Mohammed, Mostafa Kamel Osman. Teaching Formal Languages through Visualizations, Machine Simulations, Auto-Graded Exercises, and Programmed Instruction. Advisor: Cliff Shaffer
- Muthiah, Sathappan. Design and Maintenance of Event Forecasting Systems. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan
- Oh, Min. Deep Learning for Enhancing Precision Medicine. Advisor: Liqing Zhang
- Roberts, Steven Byram. Multimethods for the Efficient Solution of Multiscale Differential Equations. Advisor: Adrian Sandu
- Sarshar, Arash. Time stepping methods for multiphysics problems. Advisor: Adrian Sandu
- Shi, Tian. Novel Algorithms for Understanding Online Reviews. Advisor: Chandan Reddy
- Tabassum, Anika. Explainable and Network-based Decision Support Framework for Emergency Management. Advisor: Bodicherla Aditya Prakash
- Tao, Rongrong. Anomalous Information Detection in Social Media. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan
- Wang, Ping. Automatic Question Answering and Knowledge Discovery on Electronic Health Records. Advisor: Chandan Reddy
- Yao, Sirui. Evaluating, Understanding, and Mitigating Unfairness in Recommender Systems. Advisors: Bert Huang and Naren Ramakrishnan
2020
Adhikari, Bijaya, Domain-based Frameworks and Embeddings for Dynamics over Networks. Advisor: B. Aditya Prakash.
Adhinarayanan, Vignesh, Models and Techniques for Green High-Performance Computing. Advisor: Wu-chun Feng.
Ahmadian, Mansooreh, Hybrid Modeling and Simulation of Stochastic Effects on Biochemical Regulatory Networks. Advisors: Young Cao and John J. Tyson.
Bharadwah, Aditya, Mixed-Initiative Methods for Following Design Guidelines in Creative Tasks. Advisors: T. M. Murali and Kurt Luther.
Chang, Tyler, Mathematical Software for Multiobjective Optimization Problems. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.
Chen, Zhiqian, Graph Neural Networks: Techniques and Applications. Advisor: C.T. Lu.
Cui, Xuewen, Directive-Based Data Partitioning and Pipelining and Auto-Tuning for High-Performance GPU Computing. Wu-chun Feng.
Dash, Sajal, Exploring the Landscape of Big Data Analytics Through Domain-Aware Algorithm Design. Wu-chun Feng.
Davis, James, On the Impact and Defeat of Regular Expression Denial of Service. Advisor: Dongyoon Lee.
Dowling, Michelle, Semantic Interaction for Symmetrical Analysis and Automated Foraging of Documents and Terms. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Elsherbini, Noha. Applying Curricular Alignment to Improve the Effectiveness of CS Education. Advisor: Stephen H. Edwards.
Forouzesh, Negin, Efficient Biomolecular Computations Towards Applications in Drug Discovery. Advisor: Alexey Onufriev.
Glandon, Steven, Time Integration Methods for Large-scale Scientific Simulations. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.
Gusukuma, Luke, Misconception Driven Student Analysis Model: Applications of a Cognitive Model in Teaching Computing. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.
Hu, Hang, Characterizing and Detecting Online Deception via Data-Driven Methods. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Islam, Mohammad, Detecting and Mitigating Rumors in Social Media. Advisor: C.T. Lu.
Jan, Steve, Robustifying Machine Learning based Security Applications. Advisors: Gang Wang and Bimal Viswanath.
Kazerouni, Ayaan Mehdi. Measuring the Software Development Process to Enable Formative Feedback. Advisors: Clifford A. Shaffer and Stephen H. Edwards.
Lahn, Nathaniel, A Separator-Based Framework for Graph Matching Problems. Advisor: Sharath Raghvendra.
Li, Liuqing, Event-related Collections Understanding and Services. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.
Li, Tianyi, Solving Mysteries with Crowds: Supporting Crowdsourced Sensemaking with a Modularized Pipeline and Context Slices. Advisors: Christopher L. North and Kurt Luther.
Lux, Thomas, Interpolants, Error Bounds, and Mathematical Software for Modeling and Predicting Variability in Computer Systems. Advisors: Layne T. Watson and Yili Hong.
Masiane, Moeti, Insight Driven Sampling for Interactive Data Intensive Computing. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Paul, Arnab Kumar, An Application-Attuned Framework for Optimizing HPC Storage Systems. Advisor: Ali Butt.
Pratapa, Aditya, Algorithms for Regulatory Network Inference and Experiment Planning in Systems Biology. Advisor: T.M. Murali.
Rahaman, Sazzadur, From Theory to Practice: Deployment-grade Tools and Methodologies for Software Security. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Shukla, Manu, Algorithmic Distribution of Applied Learning on Big Data. Advisor: C.T. Lu.
Song, Zheng, Self-Adaptive Edge Services: Enhancing Reliability, Efficiency, and Adaptiveness under Unreliable, Scarce, and Dissimilar Resources. Advisor: Eli Tilevich.
Song, Ziqian, The Impact of Corporate Crisis on Stock Returns: An Event-driven Approach. Advisors: Edward A. Fox and Weigao Fan.
Techapalokul, Peeratham, Automated Identification and Application of Code Refactoring in Scratch to Promote the Culture Quality from the Ground up. Advisor: Eli Tilevich.
Torfi, Amirsina, Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Medical Data Generation with Deep Learning. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.
Zhang, Ruide, Hardware-Aided Privacy Protection and Cyber Defense for IoT. Advisors: Wenjing Lou and Ning Zhang.
Zhao, Nannan, Towards a Flexible High-efficiency Storage System for Containerized Applications. Advisor: Ali Butt.
2019
Arango Argoty, Gustavo Alonso, Computational Tools for Annotating Antibiotic Resistance in Metagenomic Data. Advisor: Liqing Zhang.
Bortz, Brennon Christopher, Using Music and Emotion to Enable Effective Affective Computing. Advisor: R. Benjamin Knapp.
Cedeno, Vanessa Ines, Pipelines for Computational Social Science Experiments and Model Building with Exemplars of Collective Identity and Anagram Games: Mechanistic and Data Driven Modeling. Advisor: Madhav V. Marathe and Christopher L. North.
Chen, Minghan, Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Biochemical Systems. Advisor: Young Cao and Layne T. Watson.
Edmison Jr, Kenneth Robert, Turning Up the Heat!: Using Fault-Localizing Heat Maps to Help Students Improve Their Code. Advisor: Stephen H. Edwards.
Fan, Shuangfei, Deep Representation Learning on Labeled Graphs. Advisor: Bert Huang.
Hasan, Mohammad Shabbir, Identifying and analyzing indel variants in the human genome using computational approaches. Advisor: Liqing Zhang.
Keneshloo, Yaser, Addressing Challenges of Modern News Agencies via Predictive Modeling, Deep Learning, and Transfer Learning. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan and Chandan Reddy.
Ma, Yufeng, Going Deeper with Images and Natural Language. Advisor: Weiguo Fan and Edward A. Fox.Ekhtiari Amiri, Sorour, Task-specific summarization of networks: Optimization and Learning. Advisor: B. Aditya Prakash.
Narayanamurthi, Mahesh, Advanced time integration methods with applications to simulation, inverse problems, and uncertainty quantification. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.
Niu, Shuo, Investigating Awareness-Supporting Techniques in Co-located Sensemaking. Advisor: D. Scott McCrickard.
Pumma, Sarunya, Scalability Analysis and Optimization for Large-Scale Deep Learning. Advisor: Wu-chun Feng.
Raisi, Elaheh, Weakly Supervised Machine Learning for Cyberbullying Detection. Advisor: Bert Huang.
Tibau Benitez, Javier Alejandro, Exploring and Promoting Family Connections at a Distance Through FamilySong. Advisor: Deborah G. Tatar and Steven R. Harrison.
Tithi, Saima Sultana, Computational Analysis of Viruses in Metagenomic Data. Advisor: Liqing Zhang.
Wenskovitch Jr, John Edward, Dimension Reduction and Clustering for Interactive Visual Analytics. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Yu, Run, Designing Coherent Interactions for Virtual Reality. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.
Yu, Xiaodong, Algorithms, and Frameworks for Accelerating Security Applications on HPC Platforms. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Zhang, Tong, Designing Practical Software Bug Detectors Using Commodity Hardware and Common Programming Patterns. Advisor: Changhee Jung and Dongyoon Lee.
Zhang, Zuchao, Scalable Robust Models Under Adversarial Data Corruption. Advisor: Chang-Tien Lu.
2018
Anwar, Ali, Towards Efficient and Flexible Object Storage Using Resource and Functional Partitioning. Advisor: Ali R.A. Butt.
Chen, Liangzhe, Segmenting, Summarizing and Predicting Data Sequences. Advisor: B. Aditya Prakash.
Cheng, Long, Program Anomaly Detection Against Data-Oriented Attacks. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Du, Changlai, Exploring the Sensing Capability of Wireless Signals. Advisor: Wenjing Lou.
Elbery, Ahmed, Large-Scale Modeling of Smart Cities Considering the Mutual Impact of Transportation and Communication Systems. Advisor: Madhav V. Marathe.
Esakia, Andria, Smartwatch Centered System for Facilitating Group Processes of Small Teams in a Statewide Health Promotion Program. Advisor: D. Scott McCrickard.
Guo, Jia, Trust-based Service Management of Internet of Things Systems and Its Applications. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.
Handosa, Mohamed Hussein Hafez, Supporting User Interactions with Smart Built Environments. Advisor: Denis Gracanin and Hicham G. Elmongui.
Hou, Kaixi, Exploring Performance Portability for Accelerators via High-level Parallel Patterns. Advisor: Wu-chun Feng.
Khandpur, Rupinder, Augmenting Dynamic Query Expansion in Microblog Texts. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Krishnan, Siddharth, Seeing the Forest for the Trees: New approaches to Characterizing and Forecasting Cascades. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.
Li, Bo, Modeling and Runtime Systems for Coordinated Power-Performance Management. Advisor: Kirk W. Cameron.
Ning, Yue Maassen, Modeling Information Precursors for Event Forecasting. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Porter, Jacob, Mapping Bisulfite-Treated Short DNA Reads. Advisor: Liqing Zhang.
Santos Lages, Wallace, Walk-Centric User Interfaces for Mixed Reality. Advisor: Doug Bowman.
Saraf, Parang, A Cost-Effective Semi-Automated Approach for Comprehensive Event Extraction. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Stewart, Michael Clark, CoListen. Advisor: Deborah Tatar.
Sun, Wenhai, Towards Secure Outsourced Data Services in the Public Cloud. Advisor: Wenjing Lou.
Tian, Ke, Learning-based Cyber Security Analysis and Binary Customization for Security. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Umar, Miriam, Energy and Performance Models Enabling Design Space Exploration for High Performance Computing. Advisor: Kirk W. Cameron.
Wang, Nai-Ching, Supporting Historical Research and Education with Crowdsourced Analysis of Primary Sources. Advisor: Kurt Luther.
Xu, Luna, A Workload-aware Resource Management and Scheduling System for Big Data Analysis. Advisor: Ali R. Butt.
Zavar Moosavi, Azam Sadat, Probabilistic and Statistical Learning Models for Error Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.
Zhang, Xuan, Product Defect Discovery and Summarization from Online User Reviews. Advisors: Weiguo Fan and Edward A. Fox.
2017
Altarawy, Doaa A., DeTangle: A Framework for Interactive Prediction and Visualization of Gene Regulatory Networks. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.
Apostolellis, Panagiotis, Evaluating Group Interaction and Engagement using Virtual Environments and Serious Games for Student Audiences in Informal Learning Settings. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.
Bart, Austin C., Motivating Introductory Computing Students with Pedagogical Datasets Advisors: Clifford A. Shaffer and Eli Tilevich.
Bhuiyan, Md Hasanuzzaman, Parallel Algorithms for Switching Edges and Generating Random Graphs from Given Degree Sequences using HPC Platforms. Advisor: Madhav V. Marathe and Maleq Khan.
Cadena, Jose E., Finding Interesting Subgraphs with Guarantees. Advisor: Anil Vullikanti.
Chen, Yinlin, A High-quality Digital Library Supporting Computing Education: The Ensemble Approach. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.
Cheng, Yue. Workload-aware Efficient Storage Systems. Advisor: Ali R.A. Butt.
Eid, Fatma Elzahraa S., Predicting the Interactions of Viral and Human Proteins. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.
Elmarakeby, Haitham A., Deep Learning for Biological Problems. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.
Ghosh, Saurav, News Analytics for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishan.
Hasan, S.M. Shamimul, A Semantic Web-Based Digital Library Infrastructure to Facilitate Computational Epidemiology. Advisors: Madhav V. Marathe and Edward A. Fox.
Hua, Ting, Topics, Events, Stories in Social Media. Advisor: Chang-Tien Lu.
Kalim, Umar, Cognizant Networks: A Model and Framework for Session-based Communications and Adaptive Networking. Advisor: Wu-Chun Feng.
Krommydas, Konstantinos Towards Enhancing Performance, Programmability, and Portability in Heterogeneous Computing Advisor: Feng, Wu-chun
Leal, Anamary, Negotiating Material Description Through Technology. Advisor: Steven R. Harrison.
Liu, Fang. Mining Security Risks from Massive Datasets. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Mohammed, Ayat M., High-dimensional Data in Scientific Visualization: Representation, Fusion and Difference. Advisor: Nicholas F. Polys.
Parikh, Nidhi K., Behavior Modeling and Analytics for Urban Computing: A Synthetic Information-based Approach. Advisors: Madhav V. Marathe and Samarth Swarup.
Reach, Andrew. Smooth Interactive Visualization. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Seyam, Mohammed S., Multifaceted Approach for Teaching Mobile Software Development: Class Experiences with Lectures, Tutorials, and Pair Programming. Advisor: D. Scott McCrickard.
Tabataba, Farzaneh, On the 3 M's of Epidemic Forecasting: Methods, Measures, and Metrics. Advisors: Madhav V. Marathe and Bryan Lewis.
Torkey, Hanaa A., Machine Learning Approaches for Identifying microRNA Targets and Conserved Protein Complexes. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.
Wang, Wei, Event Detection and Extraction from News Articles. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Wang, Yao, Exploring the Role of Prospective Memory in Location-Based Reminders. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.
Warren, Andrew S., Methods for Analysis of Prokaryotic Genome Architecture. Advisors: Joao Setubal and Lenwood S. Heath.
Wu, Sichao, Computational Framework for Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis and Experimental Design of Network-based Computer Simulation Models. Advisor: Madhav V. Marathe and Henning Mortveit.
Zhang, Jing, Transforming and Optimizing Irregular Applications for Parallel Architectures. Advisor: Wu-Chun Feng.
Zhang, Yao, Optimizing and Understanding Network Structure for Diffusion. Advisor: B. Aditya Prakash.
2016
Alam, Md Maksudul, HPC-based Parallel Algorithms for Generating Random Networks and Some Other Network Analysis Problems. Advisors: Madhav V. Marathe and Maleq Khan.
Arifuzzaman, S.M., Parallel Mining and Analysis of Triangles and Communities in Big Networks Advisors: Madhav V. Marathe and Maleq Khan.
Aslan, Serdar, Digital Educational Games: Methodologies for Development and Software Quality. Advisor: Osman Balci.
Attia, Ahmed M., Advanced Sampling Methods for Solving Large-Scale Inverse Problems. Adivsor: Adrian Sandu.
Chakraborty, Prithwish, Data-Driven Methods for Modeling and Predicting Multivariate Time Series using Surrogates. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Deodhar, Suruchi, Data Integration Methodologies and Services for Evaluation and Forecasting of Epidemics. Advisor: Madhav V. Marathe.
El Meligy Abdelhamid, Sherif H. Providing High Performance Computing based Models as a Service: Architecture and Services for Modeling Contagions on Large Networked Populations. Advisors: Madhav V. Marathe and Christopher Kuhlman.
Farag, Mohamed Magdy Gharib. Intelligent Event Focused Crawling. Advisors: Edward A. Fox and Riham H. Mansour.
Farghally, Mohammed F., Visualizing Algorithm Analysis Topics. Advisor: Clifford A. Shaffer.
Hossain, K S M Tozammel, Modeling Evolutionary Constraints and Improving Multiple Sequence Alignments using Residue Couplings. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Jin, Fang, Algorithms for Modeling Mass Movements and their Adoption in Social Networks. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Kamal, Tariq, Computational Cost Analysis of Large-Scale Agent-Based Epidemic Simulations. Advisor: Ali R.A. Butt.
Khadivi, Pejman, Online Denoising Solutions for Forecasting Applications. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Lee, Sunshin, Geo-Locating Tweets with Latent Location Information. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.
Momtazpour, Marjan, Knowledge Discovery for Sustainable Urban Mobility. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Nabiyouni, Mahdi, How Does Interaction Fidelity Influence User Experience in VR Locomotion? Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.
Radics, Peter J., A Novel Approach to Modeling Contextual Privacy Preference and Practice. Advisor: Nicholas F. Polys.
Saha, Sudip, Containing Cascading Failures in Networks: Applications to Epidemics and Cybersecurity. Advisor: Anil S. Vullikanti.
Sawyer, Blake A., The Physical-Social Context in Information Refinding. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.
Self, Jessica A., Designing and Evaluating Object-Level Interaction to Support Human-Model Communication in Data Analysis. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Shao, Huijuan, Temporal Mining Approaches for Smart Buildings Research. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Shu, Xiaokui, Threat Detection in Program Execution and Data Movement: Theory and Practice. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Sun, Maoyuan, Visual Analytics with Biclusters: Exploring Coordinated Relationships in Context. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Tranquilli, Paul J., Lightly-Implicit Methods for the Time Integration of Large Applications. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.
Wang, Bing, Search over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing. Advisor: Wenjing Lou.
Wang, Shuo, Analysis and Application of Haseltine and Rawlings's Hybrid Stochastic Simulation Algorithm. Advisor: Young Cao.
Wang, Yating, Trust-Based Service Management for Service-Oriented Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Its Application to Service Composition and Task Assignment with Multi-Objective Optimization Goals. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.
Zhang, Ning, Attack and Defense with Hardware-Aided Security. Advisor: Wenjing Lou.
Zhao, Liang, Spatio-temporal Event Detection and Forecasting in Social Media. Advisor: Chang-Tien Lu.
Zheng, Yao, Privacy Preservation for Cloud-Based Data Sharing and Data Analytics Advisor: Wenjing Lou.
2015
Aji, Ashwin M., Programming High-Performance Clusters with Heterogeneous Computing Devices Advisor: Wu-Chun Feng.
Bacim de Araujo e Silva, Felipe, Increasing Selection Accuracy and Speed through Progressive Refinement. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.
Badr, Eman M., Identifying Splicing Regulatory Elements with de Bruijn Graphs. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.
Bradel, Lauren C., Multi-Model Semantic Interaction for Scalable Text Analytics. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Chang, Hung-Ching, Measuring, modeling, and optimizing counterintuitive performance phenomena in power-scalable, parallel systems. Advisor: Kirk W. Cameron.
Chung, HaeYong, Designing Display Ecologies for Visual Analysis. Advisor: Christopher L. North.
Elish, Karim, User-Intention Based Program Analysis for Android Security. Advisor: Danfang Yao.
Elshahali, Mai H., Real-Time Processing and Visualization of 3D Time-Variant Datasets. Advisor: Denis Gracanin.
Fouh Mbindi, Eric N., Building and Evaluating a Learning Environment for Data Structures and Algorithms Courses. Advisor: Clifford A. Shaffer.
Hamouda, Sally M., Enhancing Learning of Recursion. Advisors: Clifford A. Shaffer and Hicham G. Elmongui.
Hanrahan, Benjamin V., Getting Lost in Email: How and Why Users Spend More Time in Email than Intended. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.
Hebbur Venkata Subba Rao, Vishwas, Adjoint based solution and uncertainty quantification techniques for variational inverse problems Advisor: Adrian Sandu.
Kan'an, Tarek G., Arabic News Text Classification and Summarization: A Case of the Electronic Library Institute SeerQ (ELISQ). Advisor: Edward A. Fox.
Khasymski, Aleksandr S., Accelerated Storage Systems. Advisor: Ali R.A. Butt.
Khater, Shaymaa, Personalized Recommendation for Online Social Networks Information: Personal Preferences and Location Based Community Trends. Advisors: Denis Gracanin and Hicham G. Elmongui.
Kumaraswamy Ravindranathan, Krishnaraj, Exploiting Heterogeneity in Distributed Software Frameworks. Advisor: Ali R.A. Butt.
Li, Fei, Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Reaction-Diffusion Biochemical Systems. Advisor: Young Cao.
Liu, Mingming, Predicting the Functional Effects of Human Short Variations Using Hidden Markov Models. Advisor: Liqing Zhang.
Nino Ruiz, Elias D., Efficient formulation and implementation of ensemble based methods in data assimilation. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.
Pu, Yang, The Art of Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Biochemical Systems. Advisors: Young Cao and Layne T. Watson.
Rahman, Md Ahsanur, Unstable Communities in Network Ensembles. Advisor: T.M. Murali.
Robinson, Ashley R., The Attitudes of African American Middle School Girls Toward Computer Science: Influences of Home, School, and Technology Use. Advisors: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones and Glenda Scales.
Shams, Zalia, Automated Assessment of Student-written Tests Based on Defect-detection Capability. Advisor: Stephen H. Edwards.
Su, Chun-Yi, Energy-aware Thread and Data Management in Heterogeneous Multi-Core, Multi-Memory Systems. Advisor: Kirk W. Cameron.
Subramaniam, Balaji, Metrics, Models and Methodologies for Energy-Proportional Computing. Advisor: Wu-Chun Feng.
Tuli, Gaurav, Modeling and Twitter-based Surveillance of Smoking Contagion. Advisor: Madhav V. Marathe and Samarth Swarup.
Wei, Shiyi, Practical Analysis of the Dynamic Characteristics of JavaScript. Advisor: Barbara G. Ryder.
Zhang, Hao, Discovery of Triggering Relations and Its Applications in Network Security and Android Malware Detection. Advisor: Danfeng Yao.
Aguilar Huacan, Boris Abner, Improving the Accuracy and Efficiency of Implicit Solvent Models in Biomolecular Modeling. Advisor: Alexey Onufriev.
Akbar, Monika, Integrating Community with Collections in Educational Digital Libraries. Advisor: Clifford A. Shaffer.
Al-Hamadi, Hamid H., Dynamic Redundancy Management of Multisource Multipath Routing Integrated with Voting-based Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.
Branham, Stacy, Designing Technologies for Empathic Communication. Advisor: Steve R. Harrison.
Buffardi, Kevin John, Modeling Student Software Testing Processes: Attitudes, Behaviors, Interventions, and Their Effects. Advisor: Stephen H. Edwards.
Butler, Patrick Julian Carey, Knowledge Discovery in Intelligence Analysis. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Chakraborty, Promita, A Computational Framework for Interacting with Physical Molecular Models of the Polypeptide Chain. Advisors: Ronald N. Zuckermann and Alexey Onufriev.
Chhabra, Meenal, Studies in the Algorithmic Pricing of Information Goods and Services. Advisors: Sanmay Das and Anil K.S. Vullikanti.
Deshpande, Shubhangi Govind, Advances in aircraft design: multiobjective optimization and a markup language. Advisors: Layne T. Watson and Robert A. Canfield.
Dos Santos, Raimundo, Effective Methods of Semantic Analysis in Spatial Contexts, Advisor: Chang-Tien Lu.
Easterling, David Robert, Solution of Constrained Clustering Problems through Homotopy Tracking. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.
Gad, Samah H., Expressive Forms of Topic Modeling to Support Digital Humanities. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.
Hafeez, Abdul, A Software Framework For the Detection and Classification of Biological Targets in Bio-Nano Sensing. Advisor: Ali R.A. Butt.
Kwon, Young-Woo, Effective Fusion and Separation of Distribution, Fault-Tolerance, and Energy-Efficiency Concerns. Advisor: Eli Tilevich.
Laha, Bireswar, Immersive Virtual Reality and 3D Interaction for Volume Data Analysis. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.
Li, Min, A resource management framework for cloud computing. Advisor: Ali R.A. Butt.
Nikolaev, Ruslan, Design and Implementation of the VirtuOS Operating System. Advisor: Godmar V. Back.
Scogland, Thomas R.W., Runtime Adaptation for Autonomic Heterogeneous Computing. Advisor: Wu-Chun Feng.
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