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Time & Place Student & Advisor Title
07/25/2023
11:00 AM CT
Online
Mikhail Mekhedkin Meskhi
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Learning to Learn via Meta-dataset Distillation
07/24/2023
11:00 AM CT
Online
Soodeh Atefi
Advisor: Dr. Amin Alipour (for Dr. Aron Laszka)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Prioritization In Sequential Decision-Making Under Uncertainty In Cybersecurity Applications
07/21/2023
12:00 PM CT
Online
Suyash Bakshi
Advisor: Dr. Lennart Johnsson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Computationally Efficient DNN Mapping Search Heuristic using Deep Reinforcement Learning
07/20/2023
3:00 PM CT
PGH 550
Brian Holtkamp
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok (for Dr. Chang Yun)
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Framework for Measuring and Improving VR Competency
07/19/2023
11:00 AM CT
Online
Steven Triplett
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: A Study on the Impact of Transfer Learning for Deception Detection
07/05/2023
9:00 AM CT
Online
Rishabh Sharma
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: Statistical Analysis and Deep Learning Techniques for Enhancing Low Quality Magnetic Resonance Imaging
06/09/2023
11AM CT
Online
Steve Aigbe
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Proposal: Development of Deep Learning Models for Depression Detection in Texts
05/30/2023
2PM CT
Online
Shanto Roy
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Cyber Deception against Adversarial Reconnaissance in Enterprise Network using Semi-Indistinguishable Honeypot
05/11/2023
5:00 PM CT
Online
Nicholas Troutman
Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi
Ph.D. Proposal: Improvements on Distributed Ledger Technology: Geospatial Localization, Pooled Mining, Task-Sharing Marketplaces, and DAG Analysis
04/19/2023
9:00 AM CT
Online
Vitalii Zhukov
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Convergence in Affective Sciences
04/17/2023
4:30 PM CT
Online
Aaron Welch
Advisor:
Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Dissertation: Extending the OpenSHMEM Communication Model Into the Exascale Era
04/13/2023
10:00 AM CT
Online
Yigeng Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Automatic Content Understanding for Safe and Positive Media Experiences
04/12/2023
5:00 PM CT
Online
Khadija Khaldi
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Person Re-Identification in Video Surveillance
04/03/2023
9:00 AM CT
Online
MD Rafiqul Islam Rabin
Advisor: Dr. Amin Alipour
Ph.D. Dissertation: Methodology for Evaluating the Generalizability and Interpreting the Prediction of Neural Code Intelligence Models
03/30/2023
10:30 AM CT
PGH 550
Qixin Deng
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Dissertation: 3D facial modeling with geometry wrinkles from images
03/06/2023
12:00 PM CT
Online
Amanveer Wesley
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: A Mixed Emotions Framework and Its Applications in Affective Computing Studies
12/15/2022
1:00 PM CT
Online
Siva Uday Sampreeth
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Proposal: Joint Detection of Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis using Extended Review Context
12/09/2022
3:30 PM CT
Online
Nassima Noufail
Advisor: Dr. Fatima Merchant
Ph.D. Proposal: 3D torso image retrieval of prior patient cases for enhancing consultation about breast reconstruction
12/09/2022
2:00 PM CT
Online
Urmila Sampathkumar
Advisor: Dr. Fatima Merchant
Ph.D. Proposal: Statistical shape modeling and post-operative shape estimation in reconstructive breast surgeries
12/09/2022
1:00 PM CT
Online
MD Tanim Hasan
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Investigating Cardiovascular Activation in Routine Driving Through Naturalistic Studies
12/05/2022
4:45 PM CT
Online
Soodeh Atefi
Advisor: Dr. Amin Alipour
Ph.D. Proposal: Principled Data-Driven Decision Support for Cyber-Forensic Investigations
11/29/2022
4:00 PM CT
Online
Shanto Roy
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Cyber Deception against Adversarial Reconnaissance in Enterprise Network using Semi-Indistinguishable Honeypot
11/28/2022
12:00 PM CT
Online
Suyash Bakshi
Advisor: Dr. Lennart Johnsson
Ph.D. Proposal: Computationally Efficient DNN Mapping Search Heuristic using Reinforcement Learning
11/21/2022
3:00 PM CT
PGH 550
Parisa Mehdi Gholampour
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: Study on Adversarial Robustness of Phishing Email Detection Models
11/17/2022
4:30 PM CT
Online
Ruchi Shah
Advisor: Dr. Panruo Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation: Highly Scalable and Accelerated Kernel Machine Training For Classification and Regression Problems
11/16/2022
9:00 AM CT
Online
Karima Elgarroussi
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
Ph.D. Dissertation: Density based Frameworks for Spatio-temporal Change Analysis
11/15/2022
1:00 PM CT
Online
S M Salah Uddin Kadir
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang
Ph.D. Proposal: AI Enhanced Design for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
11/14/2022
3:30 PM CT
Online
Shuguang Chen
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Named Entity Recognition on Social Media
11/11/2022
10AM CT
Online
Rishabh Sharma
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Proposal: Upscaling Low Quality MRI Images using Deep Learning
11/02/2022
1:30 PM CT
Online
Muhammad Naeem Akram
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Structure Simplification of Unstructured Quadrilateral Meshes
11/02/2022
1:00 PM CT
Online
Shaila Zaman
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Generalized Arousal Prediction through Machine Learning
09/30/2022
11:00 AM CT
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Daniel Biediger
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Dissertation: Pursuit and Evasion of Drone Swarms and Turrets
07/15/2022
11:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Poonam Beniwal
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Image Quality for Object Detection in Compressed Videos
07/07/2022
10:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Stuart Baxley
Advisor: Dr. Deniz Gurkan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Graph-based, Policy-driven Resource Mapping for Precise Allocations on Diverse Computer Networks
05/17/2022
5:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Yigeng Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Proposal: Automatic Content Assessment for Safe and Healthy Media Experiences
04/27/2022
10:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Ruchi Shah
Advisor: Dr. Panruo Wu
Ph.D. Proposal: Highly Scalable and Accelerated Kernel Machine Training On Diverse Computing Platforms
04/22/2022
3:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Siddhesh Singh
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok (for Dr. Edgar Gabriel)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Parallel I/O on Compressed Data Files
04/22/2022
12:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Raafat Feki
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok (for Dr. Edgar Gabriel)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Parallel I/O in Low Latency Storage Systems
04/22/2022
9:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin
Advisor: Dr. M. Amin Alipour
Ph.D. Proposal: Methodology for Evaluating and Interpreting Neural Code Intelligence Models
04/21/2022
1:00PM CT
TBA
Mouad Rifai
Advisor: Dr. Lennart Johnsson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Resource-Efficient Hardware-Software Co-Design for Voxelized 3D Point-Cloud's Indexing and Storage
04/21/2022
10:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Hoang Vo
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
M.S. Thesis: Design and Implementation of a City-based Model for Simulating COVID-19 Spread
04/20/2022
4:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Shaoshuai Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Panruo Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation: Matrix Computations on TensorCore GPU
04/19/2022
9:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Christos Smailis
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Action Labeling in Images and Video
04/18/2022
11:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Shaila Zaman
Advisoir: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: ML for Generalized Hyperarousal Prediction
04/18/2022
10:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Thomas Carroll
Advisor: Dr. Albert M. K. Cheng
B.S. Senior Honors Thesis: DUE-STR: A Heuristic Extension Of The Selfless Traffic Routing Model Utilizing Dynamic User Equilibrium
04/14/2022
10:30AM CT
Online/Virtual
Jose Velazco-Garcia
Co-Advisors: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos and Dr. Ernst Leiss
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Framework for Interactive Immersion into Imaging Data using Augmented Reality
04/12/2022
11:45AM CT
PGH 392 and Virtual
Sikder Tahsin Al Amin
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Efficient and Accurate Machine Learning Model Computation in Data Science Languages with Data Summarization via a Gram Matrix
04/08/2022
10:30AM CT
Online/Virtual
Kunpeng Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
M.S. Thesis: An Internet-based Telepresence Robotic Avatar System for Real-time Mediated Interpersonal Communication
04/05/2022
11:45AM CT
PGH 392
Xiantian Zhou
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Proposal: Extensible Graph Analytics for Large-scale Data Science
04/04/2022
5:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Keshav Kasichainula
Advisor: Dr. Weidong  (Larry) Shi
Ph.D. Dissertation: Adversarial Attacks On Machine Learning Models Using Face Warping
03/25/2022
4:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Guangli Dai
Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Resource Partitioning in Real-Time Virtualized Systems: Optimization, Implementation, and Application
03/25/2022
2:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Pavan Kumar Paluri Venkata
Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Hierarchical Real-Time Scheduling In Paravirtualized Systems: Design, Implementation, And Optimization
03/08/2022
4:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Allen Casey
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
M.S. Thesis: Performance of Serialization Libraries in a High Performance Computing Environment
02/03/2022
10:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Qixin Deng
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Proposal: Deep Learning based 3D Face Modeling with Fine Details from In-the-wild Images
02/02/2022
2:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Hadi Mansourifar
Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi
Ph.D. Dissertation: Adversarial and Non-Adversarial Approaches for Imbalanced Data Classification
12/14/2021
12:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Ayman El Aassal
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang
Ph.D. Proposal: Dynamic Analysis and Representation Learning For Malware Family Classification
12/13/2021
8:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Christos Smailis
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Action Labeling in Images and Videos
12/09/2021
3:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Mouad Rifai
Advisor: Dr. Lennart Johnsson
Ph.D. Proposal: Resource-Efficient Hardware-Software Co-Design for the Indexing and Storage of Voxelized 3D Point-Clouds
12/06/2021
11:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Poonam Beniwal
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Image Quality Assessment of H.264 Compressed Videos on Vision Algorithms
12/03/2021
2:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Khadija Khaldi
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Learning Discriminative Representations for Unsupervised Person Re-identification
12/03/2021
10:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Stuart Baxley
Advisor: Dr. Deniz Gurkan
Ph.D. Proposal: Graphpack: Graph-based Network Resource Allocation
12/03/2021
8:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Shaoshuai Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Panruo Wu
Ph.D. Proposal: Matrix Computations on TensorCore
11/30/2021
9:00AM CT
Online/Virtual
Karima Elgarroussi
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
Ph.D. Proposal: Density-based Frameworks for Spatio-Temporal Change Analysis
11/29/2021
11:30AM CT
Online/Virtual
Mudabbir Kaleem
Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi
M.S. Thesis: An event-driven smart contract platform design
11/23/2021
11:15AM CT
Online/Virtual
Nazanin Beheshti
Advisor: Dr. Lennart Johnsson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Classification of 4D images using ML, Focusing on resource efficiency: memory, “work”, energy
11/22/2021
3:30PM CT
Online/Virtual
Dwija Parikh
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
B.S. Senior Honors Thesis: Preprocessing for Code-Switching Models
11/19/2021
4:30PM CT
Online/Virtual
Mahsa Shafaei
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Detecting Objectionable Content in Online Media
11/03/2021
12:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Wenhui Chu
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: Novel Deep Learning Approaches for LV MRI Analysis and Simulations of Ferric Applicators for Therapeutic Interventions
10/29/2021
4:00PM CT
Online/Virtual
Keshav Kasichainula
Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi
Ph.D. Proposal: Adversarial Attacks On Machine Learning Models Using Face Warping
07/26/2021
3:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Parth Riddhish Sanghani
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
M.S. Thesis: Reinforcement Learning Approach For UH Leduc Poker (UHLPO)
07/22/2021
10:00AM CDT
Online/Virtual
Terry Hodgson
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Defining and Assessing a Novel Spatio-Chromatic Basis for Unsupervised, Class-Agnostic Scene Segmentation
07/16/2021
1:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Aobo Jin
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Object Oriented 3D Modeling from a Single View Sketch
06/09/2021
2:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Brian Holtkamp
Advisors: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok and Dr. Chang Yun
Ph.D. Proposal: A Framework for Measuring and Improving VR Competency
05/19/2021
10:30AM CDT
Online/Virtual
Sikder Tahsin Al Amin
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Proposal: Efficient Machine Learning on Data Science Languages with Data Summarization
05/18/2021
11:00AM CDT
Online/Virtual
Nazanin Beheshti
Advisor: Dr. Lennart Johnsson
Ph.D. Proposal: Classification of 3D images using ML, Focusing on resource efficiency: memory, “work”, energy
05/14/2021
3:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Pavan Kumar Paluri
Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng
Ph.D. Proposal: Hierarchical Real-Time Scheduling in Virtualized Systems: Design, Implementation and Optimization
05/07/2021
3:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Mohammad Rajiur Rahman
Advisors: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok and Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Visual Summarization of Lecture Videos to Enhance Navigation
05/07/2021
1:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Farah Naz Chowdhury
Advisors: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok and Dr. Thamar Solorio
M.S. Thesis: Identifying Important Predictor Variables in Keyword Generation for Lecture Videos
05/07/2021
12:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Shoumik Sharar Chowdhury
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Anomaly Detection from Videos using Graph Convolution Networks
05/07/2021
10:00AM CDT
Online/Virtual
Amirreza Shirani
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: NLP-enabled Design Assistance For Visual Communication
05/05/2021
1:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Elena Torre
Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng
B.S. Senior Honors Thesis: Fault Tolerance in a Two-State Regularity-Based Checkpointing System
04/30/2021
3:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Guangli Dai
Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng
Ph.D. Proposal: Resource Partitioning in Real-Time Virtualized Systems: Optimization, Implementation, and Application
04/30/2021
11:00AM CDT
Online/Virtual
Nour Smaoui
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Dissertation: Improving angle and time estimation for concurrent Ultra-wideband localization through transmitter-side techniques
04/27/2021
10:00AM CDT
Online/Virtual
Yifan Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Dissertation: Discover Fine-Grained Latent Information using Pre-Trained Language Models
03/22/2021
9:00AM CST
Online/Virtual
Jose Velazco-Garcia
Co-Advisor: Dr. Ernst Leiss
Co-Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Proposal: Platform for Interactive Immersion into Imaging Data with Augmented Reality Interface
12/08/2020
1:00 PM CST
Online/Virtual
Siddhesh Singh
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Proposal: Parallel I/O on Compressed Data Files
12/07/2020
9:00 AM CST
Online/Virtual
Raafat Feki
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Proposal: Parallel I/O in Low Latency Storage Systems
12/02/2020
10:00 AM CST
Online/Virtual
Miloud Aqqa
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Compression Artifact Removal for Improved Video Analytics
11/23/2020
10:00 AM CST
Online/Virtual
Zechun Cao
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang
Ph.D. Dissertation: Intrusion Detection Based on Network Packet Latency and Hacker's Behavior
11/19/2020
10:00 AM CST
Online/Virtual
Gustavo Aguilar Alas
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Neural Sequence Labeling on Social Media Text
11/16/2020
11:00 AM CST
Online/Virtual
Avisha Das
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
Ph.D. Dissertation: Proactive Defense through Automated Attack Generation: A Multi-pronged Study of Generated Deceptive Content
11/12/2020
2:30 PM CST
Online/Virtual
Nour Smaoui
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Concurrent UWB localization: a scalable, efficient, cost-effective and accurate approach
11/05/2020
10:00 AM CST
Online/Virtual
Daneil Biediger
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Proposal: Dynamic Shortest Hamiltonian Path with Variable Threat Weights in Countering Swarm Threats
11/05/2020
1:00 PM CST
Online/Virtual
Oluwamayowa Adeleke
Advisor: Dr. Deniz Gurkan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Application Agnostic Network Traffic Modeling for Realistic Traffic Generation
10/23/2020
3:00 PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Duong Nguyen
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Multi-scale Coherent Structure Extraction and Visualization for Flow Analysis
10/22/2020
1:00 PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Mohammed Alshair
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Proposal: Enhancing Therapists’ User Experiences in Utilizing Remote Virtual Communicator Immersive Therapy Tools for Patients with Autism
09/15/2020
2:30 PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Mohammad Rajiur Rahman
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Proposal: Visual Summarization of Lecture Video Segments for Enhanced Navigation
09/09/2020
4:00PM CDT
Online/Virtual
Yifan Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Proposal: Sentiment and Style Analysis via Pre-trained Language Models
07/17/2020
9:00 AM
Online
Tung Huynh
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
M.S. Thesis: Predicting Types of Drivers
07/14/2020
11:00 AM
Online
Nicholas Biddle
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: Challenges in Converting a Large Scale Proteomics Application to Another Programming Language
07/14/2020
10:00 AM
Online
Mohammed Emtiaz Ahmed
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Modeling Convergence Undercurrents in Brain Science via Statistics and Machine Learning
07/13/2020
1:00 PM
Online
Ha Le
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Illumination-invariant Face Recognition
07/13/2020
10:30 AM
Online
Shahryar Baki
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh M. Verma
Ph.D. Dissertation: You Are Not Alone: Helping Users Not to Fall for Phishing
07/13/2020
10:00 AM
Online
Lei Shi
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Human Detection in the Wild
07/06/2020
10:00 AM
Online
Fatima Zohra Daha
Advisor: Dr. Shishir K. Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Graph-based Approach for Anomaly Detection in Video Surveillance
05/29/2020
11:00 AM
Online
Giovanni Molina
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Proposal: From Medicine to Space Exploration, Intelligently Filling Gaps In Imaging Data
05/21/2020
2:00 PM
Online
Gustavo Aguilar
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Proposal: Neural Sequence Labeling on Social Media Text
05/21/2020
2:00 PM
Online
Aobo Jin
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Proposal: Contour-based 3D Modeling for Character Animation
05/20/2020
2:00 PM
Online
Hadi Mansourifar
Advisor: Dr. Weidong Larry Shi
Ph.D. Proposal: Self-Competitional Generative Adversarial Neural Networks
05/20/2020
1:00 PM
Online
Amirreza Shirani
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Proposal: Emphasis Selection For Textual Content
05/01/2020
11:00 AM
Online
Miloud Aqqa
Advisor: Dr. Shishir K. Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Compression Artifact Removal for Improved Video Analytics
04/30/2020
1:30 PM
Online
Niloofar Safi Samghabadi
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Automatic Detection of Nastiness and Early Signs of Cyberbullying Incidents on Social Media
04/27/2020
4:00 PM
Online
Ansh Dedha
Advisor: Dr. Shishir K. Shah
M.S. Thesis: Improved Genetic Algorithms for Route Optimization
04/23/2020
1:00 PM
Online
Anjana Kummari
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Computational Methods for Tweet Summarization and Emotion Extraction
04/22/2020
10:00 AM
Online
Levent Dane
Advisor: Dr. Deniz Gurkan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Web Application Performance Analysis with NetForager Geographically-Distributed Application Traffic Generator
04/17/2020
12:00 PM
Online
Aparna Budhavarapu
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Satpura: A Novel Framework for Density Estimation, Hotspot Discovery, Change Analysis, and Change-Based Alerts
04/16/2020
3:00 PM
Online
Luben Popov
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Simulation and Analysis of Drone Swarm Naval Assault
04/14/2020
3:00 PM
Online
Saba Khan
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: A Parallel Implementation of the Pandas Framework
04/13/2020
10:00 AM
Online
Sudipta Kar
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Automatic Characterization of Stories
04/10/2020
3:00 PM
Online
Milad Heydariaan
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Dissertation: Efficient and Scalable Localization with Ultra-Wideband Radios Through Concurrent Transmissions
04/10/2020
1:30 PM
Online
Marjan Hosseinia
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Dissertation: Content and Stylistic Models for Authorship, Stance and Hyperpartisan Detection
04/10/2020
1:00 PM
Online
John Rodgers
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: MPI Based Python Libraries for Data Science Applications
04/07/2020
1:30 PM
Online
Fan Yang
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Dissertation: False Textual Information Detection - Towards Building a Truth Machine
04/02/2020
2:30 PM
Online
Luming Ma
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Real-time Facial Performance Capture and Manipulation
03/23/2020
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Quang Tran
Advisor: Dr. Weidong Larry Shi
M.S. Thesis: Cross-Chain Trading Network Using Smart Contracts
03/23/2020
10:30 AM
Online
Kishansingh Rajput
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
M.S. Thesis: Anomaly Detection and Feature Alignment for Time Series Data
03/19/2020
2:30 PM
Online
Duong Nguyen
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Multi-Scale Coherent Structure Extraction for Flow Analysis
12/10/19
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Daniel Lee
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh M. Verma
Ph.D. Proposal: Adversarial Text Attacking Deep Neural Network Models
12/09/19
10:00 AM
HBS 317
Lei Shi
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Human Detection in the Wild
12/04/19
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Fatima Zohra Daha
Advisor: Dr. Shishir K. Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Dynamic Graphs for Abnormality Detection in Videos
12/04/19
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Avisha Das
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh M. Verma
Ph.D. Proposal: Proactive Defense through Automated Generation of Targeted Attacks
11/25/19
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Niloofar Safi Samghabadi
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Proposal: Automatic Detection of Nastiness and Early Signs of Cyberbullying Events on Social Media
11/22/19
11:00 AM
PGH 362
Xin Zhou
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh M. Verma
M.S. Thesis: Phishing Sites Detection from Web Developer's Perspective Using Machine Learning
11/22/19
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Shikha Tripathi
Advisor: Dr. Shishir K. Shah
M.S. Thesis: Privacy Preserving Face Matching Using Frequency Components
11/20/19
9:30 AM
HBS 317
Ali Memariani
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Analysis of Scanning Electron Microscopy Images with Illumination Inhomogeneity and Touching-Crossing Cells
11/18/19
12:00 PM
PGH 501D
Hosein Neeli
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
M.S. Thesis: Generation of Synthetic MRI with Deep Flow Field Estimation for Faster Imaging
11/18/19
11:00 AM
PGH 501D
Wenhui Chu
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Proposal: A Novel Deep Learning Approach for LV MRI Analysis in Short-Axis MRI
11/15/19
3:00 PM
MREB 222
Farinaz Pisheh
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Dissertation: Feature Selection in Classification Tasks
11/15/19
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Michael Yantosca
Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng
M.S. Thesis: ARTIC: An Adaptive Real-Time Imprecise Computation Pipeline for Audio Analysis
11/14/19
3:30 PM
PGH 501D
Lieyu Shi
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Lagrangian-Based Simplification and Feature Estimation for Flow Visualization
11/12/19
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Nguyen Dinh Pham
Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Probabilistic Models and Algorithmic Analysis of Network Problems
11/12/19
11:00 AM
HBS1 302
Mohammed Emtiaz Ahmed
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Predicting Brain Science Advances Through ML/Statistical Modeling of Cross-disciplinarity
11/11/19
3:00 PM
PGH 218D
Ian Fund
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
M.S. Thesis: Comparing Association Rules and Deep Neural Networks on Medical Data
11/11/19
11:00 AM
PGH 501D

Marzieh Berenjkoub
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen

Ph.D. Dissertation: Analysis and Visualizations of Vortices: Topological, Physics-based and Deep Learning Techniques
11/08/19
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Glenn Turner
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
M.S. Thesis: Visual Analytics System for Large-Scale Data Exploration
09/12/19
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Reza Fathi
Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Efficient Distributed Algorithms on Random Graphs
08/29/19
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Millad Ghane
Advisor: Dr. Margaret S. Cheung
Ph.D. Dissertation: Abstraction of Computation and Data Motion in High-performance Computing Systems
07/22/19
1:00 PM
Eng 2, W309
Pavel Govyadinov
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Segmentation, Analysis and Visualization of Large Microvascular Networks in the Mouse Brain
07/17/19
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Soumyottam Chatterjee
Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Achieving Efficiency, Robustness, and Security in Distributed Computing
06/28/19
4:00 PM
MREB 222
SaiKiranVarma Sirigiri
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: Hierarchical Classification of Variable Stars Using Neural Networks
06/26/19
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Anusha Nemilidinne
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Data-Driven Approaches for Water Level Prediction
05/24/19
11:00 AM
HBS 317
Ha Le
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Illumination-Invariant Face Recognition
05/13/19
10:00 AM
T2 200
Levent Dane
Advisor: Dr. Deniz Gurkan
Ph.D. Proposal: Geographically Distributed Orchestration System for Collection of Training Data: Enabling a Supervised Learning Engine for Service Identification
05/03/19
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Ayzha Ward
Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi
M.S. Thesis: The Implications of a DAO on Political Campaign Finance Regulations
05/01/19
12:00 PM
PGH 550
Sudipta Kar
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Proposal: Characterizing Movies Using Plot and Reviews
04/29/19
10:00 AM
PGH 218D
Milad Heydariaan
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Efficient and Scalable Localization and Communication with Ultra-Wideband Radios Through Concurrent Transmissions
04/25/19
2:30 PM
PGH 501D
Shahryar Baki
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
Ph.D. Proposal: End to End Analysis and Detection of Phishing Attacks
04/24/19
1:00 PM
PGH 501D
Thu Nguyen
Advisor: Dr. Jehan-François Pâris
M.S. Thesis: Disk Failure Prediction in Heterogeneous Environments Using Deep Neural Networks
04/24/19
11:30 AM
PGH 501D
Yashwanth Reddy Venati
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
M.S. Thesis: Counting Nodes In Ethereum Blockchain
04/22/19
4:30 PM
PGH 550
Akhil Talari
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Emotion-Weighted Density Estimation and its Application to Emotion Mapping
04/22/19
10:00 AM
HBS 317
Xiang Xu
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Face Recognition in the Presence of Variance in Pose, Expression, and Occlusions
04/18/19
3:00 PM
PGH 362
Justin Brown
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Object Detection Using Segmentation
04/17/19
2:00 PM
PGH 501D
Maksim Egorov
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
M.S. Thesis: Automatic Gap-Fill Question Generation for Video Lectures
04/17/19
1:00 PM
PGH 501D
Raga Shalini Koka
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Automatic Keyword Detection for Text Summarization
04/17/19
9:45 AM
PGH 218D
Siva Uday Sampreeth Chebolu
Advisors: Dr. Carlos Ordonez, Dr. Christoph F. Eick, Dr. Klaus Kaiser
M.S. Thesis: A General Summarization Matrix for Scalable Machine Learning Model Computation in the R Language
04/12/19
10:30 AM
HBS 317
Nikolaos Sarafianos
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D Dissertation: Person Search Using Identity Attributes
04/10/19
10:00 AM
PGH 218D
Xiantian Zhou
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
M.S. Thesis: Solving Connectivity, Diameter and Betweenness Centrality of Big Graphs Using Relational Queries
04/09/19
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Lieyu Shi
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Clustering-based Integral Curve Reduction and Feature Extraction for Flow Visualization
04/04/19
1:30 PM
PGH 501D
Fan Yang
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Proposal: Improving False Information Detection on Social Media
04/02/19
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Kaoji Xu
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Hexahedral Mesh Generation, Optimization, and Visualization
04/02/19
1:30 PM
PGH 550
Marjan Hosseinia
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Proposal: Content and Stylistic Models for Authorship, Stance and Hyperpartisan Detection
03/25/19
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Hessam Mohammad Moradi
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Dissertation: Scalable Indoor Localization Using Ultra-wideband Radios
01/25/19
10:30 AM
HBS 317
Mengjun Leng
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiairs
Ph.D. Dissertation: Improving Set-Based Face Recognition
01/18/19
9:45 AM
PGH 501D
Aaron Welch
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Proposal: Addressing Memory Allocation and Management in Exascale and Beyond
01/11/19
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Zechun Cao
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang
Ph.D. Proposal: Intrusion Detections Based on Network Packets Latency and Hacker’s Behavior
12/07/18
1:15 PM
T2 200
Oluwamayowa Adeleke
Advisor: Dr. Deniz Gurkan
Ph.D. Proposal: Realistic Traffic Generation Through Application-Agnostic Learning
12/06/18
10:00 AM
HBS 317
Ali Memariani
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Analysis of Scanning Electron Microscopy Images with Illumination Inhomogeneity and Touching-Crossing Cells
12/03/18
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Soumyottam Chatterjee
Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan
Ph.D. Proposal: Secure and Efficient Algorithms for Fundamental Distributed Computing Problems
11/30/18
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Reza Fathi
Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan
Ph.D. Proposal: Decentralized Algorithms for Community Detection
11/29/18
10:00 AM
PGH 218D
Nguyen Pham
Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan
Ph.D. Proposal: Improved Probabilistic Guarantees for Influence Maximization
11/26/18
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Navneet Pandey
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
M.S. Thesis: Jitters in Operating Systems for Internet of Things
11/19/18
4:00 PM
PGH 501D
Gandhimathi Velusamy
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Dissertation: Energy-Delay Aware Web Request Routing using Learning Automata
11/19/18
11:00 AM
PGH 218D
Yongli Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Dissertation: Density-contour Based Framework for Spatio-temporal Clustering and Event Tracking in Twitter
11/15/18
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Luming Ma
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Proposal: Real-Time Facial Performance Capture and Manipulation
11/14/18
2:00 PM
HBS 317
Yuhang Wu
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Face Recognition in Unconstrained Conditions: Improving Face Alignment and Constructing a Pose-Invariant Compact Biometric Template
11/12/18
3:00 PM
MREB 222
Dainis Boumber
Advisors: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta, Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Dissertation: Domain Adaptation using Deep Adversarial Models
11/07/18
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Marzieh Berenjkoub
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Quantify and Visualize Attribute Relations for Flow Analysis
10/31/18
11:00 AM
PGH 362
Millad Ghane
Advisor: Dr. Margaret S. Cheung
Ph.D. Proposal: Abstraction of Computation and Data Motion in HPC Systems
10/17/18
9:00 AM
PGH 550
Brijesh Patel
Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi
M.S. Thesis: Blockchain and Digital Signatures for Digital Self-Sovereignty
08/20/18
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Pavel Govyadinov
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Segmentation, Analysis and Visualization of Large Microvascular Networks in the Rat Brain
08/15/18
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Santosh K C
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Dissertation: Anomalous Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Consumer Review Websites
08/02/18
12:00 PM
PGH 550
Vibhu Sharma
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: Trend Analysis on Phishing Email Data using Natural Language Processing
07/20/18
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Devin Crane
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: Automatic Feature Extraction for Phishing Email Detection
07/20/18
2:30 PM
HBS 315
Dinesh Majeti
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Cross-disciplinary Dynamics and Scalable Visualization of Academic Careers
07/18/18
2:00 PM
HBS 302
Ashik Khatri
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Biofeedback Arrests Sympathetic and Behavioral Effects in Distracted Driving
07/16/18
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Carlos Alberto Rincon Castro
Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Real-time Systems Scheduling and Information Theory: From Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors
07/10/18
11:30 AM
PGH 550
Priyal Prasanna Kulkarni
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Design of a System for Multiple Route Selection in the Presence of Flooding
06/28/18
3:00 PM
PGH 362
Qian Qiu
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: PS-MWC: A scalable, distributed maximum weight clique algorithm using Apache Spark
04/30/18
12:00 PM
MREB 205B
Dainis Boumber
Advisor: Dr. Ricard Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Multi-Domain Adaptation and Generalization using Deep Adversarial Models
04/27/18
2:00 PM
PGH 501D
Manvi Saxena
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: Evaluation of mpi4py for Natural Language Processing Scenarios
04/27/18
11:00 AM
HBS 317
Xiang Xu
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Face Recognition in the Presence of Facial Expressions and Accessories
04/27/18
10:30 AM
MREB 222
Farinaz Pisheh
Advisor: Dr. Ricard Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Feature Selection in Classification Tasks
04/27/18
9:30 AM
HBS 317
Nikolaos Sarafianos
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Person Search Using Identity Attributes
04/26/18
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Calvin Raines
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang
M.S. Thesis: Attribute Selection and Machine Learning Algorithms for Intrusion Detection
04/24/18
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Irteza Nasir
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: A Study Of Visual Attention on Gestures and Motion During Infancy
04/24/18
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Prashanth Reddy Basani
Advisors: Dr. Shishir Shah & Dr. Xuqing Wu
M.S. Thesis: Online Multi Object Tracking using Reinforcement Learning
04/23/18
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Kinjal Kotadia
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Extracting Social Network Groups from Video Data Using Motion Similarity and Network Clustering
04/23/18
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Sidharth Sadani
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Analyzing Notions of Artistic Style Using Computer Vision Techniques
04/20/18
2:30 PM
PGH 362
Arjun Subramanyam Varalakshmi
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Transforming Point Data into Proximity Graphs
04/20/18
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Sarthak Sharma
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
M.S. Thesis: Device-Free Activity Recognition Using Ultra-Wideband Radio Communication
04/18/18
1:30 PM
PGH 501D
Ryan Long
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Development of a Video Analytics Suite for Indexed, Captioned and Searchable Videos
04/18/18
11:30 AM
PGH 501D
Prasha Shrestha
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Authorship Attribution for Realistic Scenarios
04/18/18
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Suraj Maharjan
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Dissertation: Stylistically Aware Representations of Books
04/18/18
9:00 AM
HBS 350
Kamil Khanipov
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis & Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
Ph.D. Dissertation: Using Computational Analysis of Frequencies and Genomic Locations of 6-8 Nucleotide Long Sequences to Improve Quality of DNA Amplification
04/16/18
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Kaoji Xu
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Hexahedral Mesh Generation, Processing, and Structure Analysis
04/13/18
2:00 PM
PGH 550A
Akshay Bhavani Kumar Kulkarni
Advisors: Dr. Thamar Solorio, Dr. Christoph Eick, Dr. Fabio Gonzalez
M.S. Thesis: Early Detection of Depression
04/11/18
11:00 AM
HBS 302
Georgios Panagopoulos
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
M.S. Thesis: Forecasting Markers of Habitual Driving Behaviors Associated with Crash Risk
04/09/18
9:00 AM
PGH 501D
Arko Barman
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Consensus-Based Decision-Making for Improving Person Re-Identification & Similar Systems
04/04/18
9:00 AM
PGH 550
Yaser Karbaschi
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Design and Implementation of Different Interaction Techniques for Object Rotation in Mobile Virtual Reality Applications
04/02/18
3:00 PM
PGH 501D
Nacer Khalil
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Dissertation: Occupant Detection and Tracking in Smart Buildings using Unobtrusive Sensing
03/26/18
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Nafisa Jassani
Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi
M.S. Thesis: Blockchain Application for Education
03/26/18
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Mahmut Unan
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: 3D Reconstruction of Tubular Structures Using MRI Projection Images
03/19/18
10:45 AM
HBS 317
Mengjun Leng
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Towards Improving Set-Based Face Recognition System
02/28/18
3:00 PM
PGH 501D
Gandhimathi Velusamy
Advisors: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok, Dr. Omprakash Gnawali, Dr. Edgar Gabriel, Dr. Ricardo Lent
Ph.D. Proposal: Cost Delay Aware Web Request Routing
02/26/18
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Shengrong Yin
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Dissertation: Heterogeneous Wireless and Visible Light Communication for the Internet of Things
02/26/18
9:30 AM
PGH 501D
Hessam Mohammadmoradi
Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Robust Indoor Asset Tracking using UWB Wireless Technology
02/23/18
11:00 AM
HBS 314
Yuhang Wu
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Robust 3D Model Registration Based Compact Face Template Learning for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition
12/11/17
1:00 PM
HBS 302
Ashik Khatri
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Biofeedback for Controlling Distractions in Transitional Vehicle Technology
12/11/17
11:00 AM
HBS 315
Dinesh Majeti
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Scalable Visualization of Scientific Careers and Cross-disciplinary Dynamics
11/29/17
3:00 PM
PGH 501D
Mohammad Tanvir Rahman
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel, Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Dissertation: Performance Models for Parallel Applications Under Failures
11/27/17
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Yue Cao
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick, Dr. Shishir Shah, Dr. Jian Chen
M.S. Thesis: Design and Implementation of a DAG-based Water Level Prediction Approach
11/27/17
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Carlos Alberto Rincon Castro
Advisor: Dr. Albert M. K. Cheng
Ph.D. Proposal: Real-Time Systems Scheduling and Information Theory: From Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors
11/20/17
12:30 PM
PGH 550
Yongli Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Proposal: A Density-Contour Based Framework for Spatio-temporal Clustering and Event Detection
11/16/17
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Zhimin Gao
Advisor: Dr. Weidong Shi
Ph.D. Dissertation: Performance Analysis in Blockchain and Smart Contracts
10/31/17
10:30 AM
PGH 575
Yiqun Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Multidimensional Aggregations in Parallel Database Systems
10/25/17
10:15 AM
HBS 317
Lingfeng Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Towards Improving Single Label and Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification
10/13/17
9:00 AM
HBS 302
Kamil Khanipov
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Using Computational Analysis of Frequencies and Genomic Locations of 6-8 Nucleotide Long Sequences to Improve Quality of DNA Amplification
10/11/17
1:00 PM
PGH 501D
Santosh K C
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Proposal: Anomalous Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Consumer Review Websites
09/25/17
11:00 AM
HBS 314
Pengfei Dou
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Single/Multi-View 3D Face Reconstruction for Pose-Robust Face Recognition
09/06/17
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Xin Liu
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Novel Transmission Mechanism for MRI Compatible Surgery Robot
08/09/17
9:00 AM
PGH 501
Olga Datskova
Advisor: Dr. Weidong Shi
Ph.D. Dissertation: Detection and Analysis of Operational Instability within Distributed Computing Environments
07/25/17
1:00 PM
PGH 563
Boris Chernis
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: Machine Learning Methods for Software Vulnerability Detection
07/25/17
12:00 PM
PGH 550
Seyyedeh Qazale Mirsharif
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Computational Study of Visual Attention on Objects and Gestures During Infancy
07/21/17
1:30 PM
PGH 501D
Mohammad Tanvir Rahman
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel, Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Proposal: Performance Models for Parallel Applications Under Failures
07/21/17
12:00 PM
HBS 302
Muhsin Ugur
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Integrating Mobile Psychometrics with Wearable Physiological Sensing in Longitudinal Studies: Design, Testing, and Clinical Benefits
07/19/17
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Behrang Mehrparvar
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Dissertation: Conceptual Domain Adaptation Using Deep Learning
06/22/17
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Xingliang Zou
Advisor: Dr. Albert M. K. Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Schedulability, Response Time Analysis and New Models of P-FRP Systems
06/12/17
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Lei Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Flow Visualization and Analysis: From Geometry to Physics
05/05/17
11:00 AM
PGH 501D
Prasha Shrestha
Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio
Ph.D. Proposal: Cross Domain and Open Set Authorship Attribution
04/28/17
1:30 PM
PGH 550
Zhimin Gao
Advisor: Dr. Weidong Shi, Dr. Stephen Huang, Dr. Guoning Chen, Dr. Lei Wu
Ph.D. Proposal: Shared-Ledger - Possibility and Improvement
04/28/17
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Shengrong Yin
Advisor: Prof. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Building Reliable and Robust Wireless System
04/25/17
4:00 PM
PGH 362
Karthik Bibireddy
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick, Dr. Nouhad Rizk
M.S. Thesis: Design and Implementation of Real-time Student Performance Evaluation and Feedback System
04/25/17
2:30 PM
HBS 317
Mohammad Mainul Islam
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
M.S. Thesis: An Augmented Reality Application for Visualizing Anatomical Data
04/25/17
1:00 PM
PGH 362
Thibault Kensicher
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V Tsekos
M.S. Thesis: Towards MRI-Guided and Actuated Tetherless Milli-Robots
04/25/17
11:00 AM
PGH 362
Mahmut Unan
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Proposal: 3D Reconstruction of the Tubular Structures Using MRI Projection Images
04/24/17
11:00 AM
PGH 520
Sonia Shirwadkar
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: An Evaluation of Key-value Stores in Scientific Applications
04/20/17
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Xi Lu
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang
M.S. Thesis: Malicious Apps May Explore a Smartphone’s Vulnerability to Detect One’s Activities
04/20/17
11:00 AM
PGH 516
Chen Shen
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: A Strategy for Mapping Threads to GPUs in a Directive-Based Programming Model
04/13/17
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Arko Barman
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Consensus-based Decision Making for Improving Person Re-identification Systems
04/11/17
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Shweta Jha
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Performance Tuning and Modeling of Communication in Parallel Applications
04/05/17
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Behrang Mehrparvar
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Conceptual Domain Adaptation using Deep Learning
03/30/17
3:00 PM
HBS 302
Muhsin Ugur
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Integrating Mobile Psychometrics with Wearable Physiological Sensing in Longitudinal Studies: Design, Testing, and Clinical Benefits
03/30/17
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Wellington M. Cabrera Arevalo
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Optimized Algorithms for Data Analysis in Parallel Database Systems
03/24/17
1:00 PM
HBS 350
Pengfei Dou
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Single/Multi-View 3D Face Reconstruction for Pose-Robust Face Recognition
02/22/17
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Nacer Khalil
Advisor: Prof. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Occupant Identification and Navigation Using Ultrasonic Sensing
01/10/17
9:00 AM
HBS 317
Lingfeng Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Towards Improving Single Label and Hierarchical Multi-Label Classifications
11/30/16
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Pradheebaa Srinivas
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V Tsekos, Dr. Weidong Shi
M.S. Thesis: Gray Scale Encoder - Design, Calibration and Statistical Analysis
11/30/16
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Yu Li
Advisor: Dr. Albert M. K. Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Theoretical Fundamentals of Real-time Virtualization from the Resource Management Perspective
11/29/16
2:30 PM
PGH 516
Huijie Li
Advisor: Kam-Hoi Cheng
M.S. Thesis: Using Reasoning to Answer to Decision Questions Involving an Adjective
11/29/16
11:00 AM
PGH 501D
Behnaz Sanati
Advisor: Dr. Albert Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: An Efficient Online Benefit-Aware SRT Multiprocessor Scheduling via Online Choice of Approximation Algorithms for QoS Enhancement
11/28/16
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Li Wei
Advisor: Dr. Shishir K. Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Contextual Information for Human Groups
11/22/16
1:00 PM
PGH 362
Marcus Hervey
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: Enhanced Debugging of Data Races in Parallel Programs Using OpenMP
11/22/16
11:30 AM
PGH 516
Can Cao
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: An Interactive Pedestrian Re-identification Tool with Semantic Based Re-identification
11/22/16
11:00 AM
PGH 501
Randal Staewen
Advisor: Dr. Changhoon Yun, Dr. Jaspal Suphlok
M.S. Thesis: You Are What You Eat: Analyzing the Relationships Between Video games, Play-styles, and Player Characteristics
11/21/16
12:45 PM
PGH 550
Fatih Akdag
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Computational Framework for Finding Interestingness Hotspots in Spatial Datasets
11/21/16
11:00 AM
PGH 501D
Arthur Dunbar
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: Detecting Phish Using Website Content and URL N-Gram Features
11/11/16
1:00 PM
HBS 350
Salah Taamneh
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: SubjectBook: Data Management and Visualization Methods for Affective Studies
11/08/16
3:45 PM
PGH 550
Siddhartha Jana
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Chapman, Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Optimizations for Energy Efficiency within Distributed Memory Programming Models
11/02/16
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Toan Nguyen
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Computational Image-Based Guidance System for Precision Laparoscopy
11/01/16
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Xin Liu
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Proposal: Solid Media Transmission for MRI Compatible Teleoperated Robotic System to Assist Interventions
10/17/16
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Lei Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Flow Visualization and Analysis: From Geometry to Physics
10/06/16
4:00 PM
PGH 501D
Abdulelah Altuaimi
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok, Dr. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Towards a New Directive-based Tasking API for Distributed Systems
09/12/16
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Yiqun Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Incremental Data Summarization For Parallel In-database Supervised/Unsupervised Learning
07/18/16
3:00 PM
HSBC 352
Kyeongan Kwon
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Scalable Data Visualization Methods for Academic Careers
07/18/16
10:00 AM
HSB 302
Levent Albayrak
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
Ph.D. Dissertation: Novel Alignment Based Clustering Algorithms for Pan Genome Analysis of Bacteria Species
07/15/16
11:00 AM
HSB 350
Kinjal Dhar Gupta
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Dissertation: Robust Domain Adaptation Using Active Learning
07/14/16
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Christariny Hutapea
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
M.S. Thesis: Computational Methods for Flood Forecasting
07/13/16
2:00 PM
PGH 501D
Peng Sun
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: High-Level Programming Model for Heterogeneous Embedded Systems using Multicore Industry Standard APIs
07/08/16
11:00 AM
HBS 350
Giulia Toti
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Dissertation: Association Rule Mining for Risk Assessment in Epidemiology
05/13/16
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Toan Nguyen
Advisor: Dr. Marc Garbey
Ph.D. Proposal: Image Guided Liver Resections Using Mechanical Model and Smart Trocar
05/10/16
11:00 AM
PGH 501
Seyyedeh Qazale Mirsharif
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Automated Analysis Oof Child’s Egocentric Video for Studying Visual Focus of Attention and its Role in Early Learning and Cognitive Development
05/04/16
10:00 AM
PGH 501
Li Wei
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Human Groups as Contextual Feature in Video Analysis
04/26/16
1:00 PM
PGH 501
Xingliang Zou
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
Ph.D. Proposal: Schedulability and Response Time Analysis of P-FRP Tasks
04/26/16
8:30 AM
HBSB 350
Kunal Parmar
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: An Effective Approach to External Cluster Assessment With an Application to WHAN Galaxy Classification
04/25/16
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Youcef Barigou
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Optimizing Communication-computation Overlap in High Performance Computing
04/22/16
10:00 AM
PGH 218
Xiaonan Tian
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Compiler Optimization Framework for Directive-Based GPU Computing
04/22/16
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Rohith Jidagam
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick, Dr. Nouhad Rizk
M.S. Thesis: Design and Implementation of Faculty Support System to Reduce Course Dropout Rates
04/21/16
4:00 PM
PGH 218
Pengfei Hao
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: A Checkpointing/Restart Approach for OpenSHMEM Fault Tolerance
04/21/16
10:00 AM
PGH 218
Cheng Wang
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: High-Performance Sparse Fourier Transform on Parallel Architectures
04/20/16
5:30 PM
PGH 550
Ming-Chih Shih
Advisor: Prof. Stephen Huang
Ph.D. Dissertation: Automated Analysis of Flow Cytometry Data for B-Cell Lymphoma
04/20/16
3:30 PM
PGH 218
Shiyao Ge
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Implementation and Evaluation of Additional Parallel Features of Coarary Fortran
04/20/16
10:00 AM
PGH 218
Rengan Xu
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Optimizing the Performance of Directive-based Programming Model for GPGPUs
04/19/16
1:00 PM
HBS 350
Renuka Pampana
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: A New Approach To Domain Adaptation Applied To Supernova Photometric Classification
04/14/16
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Junmo An
Advisor: Prof. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sensors and System Integration for Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)-Guided and Robot-Assisted Interventions
04/13/16
3:00 PM
HBSC 350
Salah Taamneh
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: SubjectBook: Hypothesis-Driven Ubiquitous Visualization for Affective Studies
04/11/16
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Xifeng Gao
Advisor: Prof. Guoning Chen and Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Towards High Quality Hexahedral Meshes: Generation, Optimization, and Evaluation
04/08/16
2:30 PM
PGH 362
Xi Wnag
Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi
M.S. Thesis: Social Interaction and Development Tools for Autism
04/08/16
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Madhur Rajendran
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
M.S. Thesis: A Personalized Avatar and Physical Activity Game
04/08/16
12:00 PM
PGH 550
Mayur Rajendran
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
M.S. Thesis: Academia Arcana: A Gamified and Game-based Review Tool
03/29/16
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Yiqun Zhang
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
M.S. Thesis: Scalable Machine Learning Algorithms in Parallel Database Systems Exploiting A Data Summarization Matrix
03/04/16
1:00 PM
HBS 352
Kinjal Dhar Gupta
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Robust Domain Adaptation Using Active Learning
02/26/16
11:00 AM
HSBC 302
Kyeongan Kwon
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Data Visualization Methods for Scientific Careers
01/15/16
8:30 AM
HBS 317
Zakariyya Mughal
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
M.S. Thesis: Converting a Neuron Morphology Reconstruction System: Open Science Design and Implementation
12/17/15
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Luis Moraes
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
Ph.D. Proposal: Analysis of Cryptographic Hash Functions
12/15/15
2:00 PM
PGH 501D
Olga Datskova
Advisor: Dr. Larry Shi
Ph.D. Proposal: Prescriptive Analytics Engine for Unstable Events in Distributed Environments
12/11/15
11:00 AM
PGH 501D
Shweta Jha
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Proposal: Performance Tuning of Parallel Applications
12/04/15
12:00 PM
PGH 550
Wellington Cabrera Arevalo
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Proposal: Optimized Algorithms for Data Analysis in Parallel Databases
12/02/15
1:00 PM
HBS 302
Levent Albayrak
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
Ph.D. Proposal: Novel Alignment Based Clustering Algorithms for Pan-Genome Analysis of Bacteria Species
12/01/15
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Hadi Montakhabi
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: HPX-RTE: A Lightweight Runtime Environment For Open MPI
11/30/15
12:00 PM
HBS 317
Zakariyya Mughal
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
M.S. Thesis: Converting a Neuron Morphology Extraction System for Open Science: Design and Implementation
11/30/15
10:00 AM
PGH 218
Jeremy Kemp
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Proposal: Extending Directive Based Tasking Models to Exascale
11/30/15
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Nirmala Rai
Advisor: Prof. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: A Multi-Pronged Approach to Phishing Email Detection
11/24/15
2:30 PM
PGH 218
Suyang Zhu
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: A Task-based Programming Methodology Using MCA Standards for Multicore Systems
11/24/15
1:30 PM
PGH 550
Puja Anchlia
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Aerosol Data Modeling & Similarity Assessment - A Probabilistic Approach
11/24/15
1:00 PM
PGH 218
Peng Sun
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Proposal: High-Level Programming Model for Heterogeneous Embedded Systems using Multicore Industry Standard APIs
11/24/15
11:15 AM
PGH 550
Paul Amalaman
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Dissertation: New Approaches to Hierarchical Modeling — Frameworks, Algorithms, and Applications
11/23/15
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Ahmad Qawasmeh
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Adaptive Task Scheduling Using Low-Level Runtime APIs and Machine Learning
11/23/15
9:00 AM
HBS 317
Panagiotis Moutafis
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Towards Improving Matching in Biometrics Systems
11/20/15
1:30 PM
HBS 350
Stanislav Yotov
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
M.S. Thesis: Towards a Change Detection in Laser Scanning Point Clouds
11/19/15
12:00 PM
HBS 315
Malcolm Dcosta
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sympathetic Loading in Critical Tasks
11/19/15
10:00 AM
HBS 352
Avinash Wesley
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Eustressed or Distressed? Combining Physiology with Observation in Stress Studies
11/06/15
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Pranav Mantini
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Contextual Human Trajectory Forecasting within indoor environments and its Applications
10/29/15
9:30 AM
PGH 550
Akshay Soni
Advisor: Dr. Victoria Hilford
M.S. Thesis: Scaling Up and Exploring Marsh Science
10/13/15
11:30 AM
PGH 218D
Naveen Namashivayam
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: OpenSHMEM as an Effective Communication Layer for PGAS Models
07/28/15
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Cedric Robinet
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
M.S. Thesis: Operating Room Awareness with the Smart Trocar: Innovative Laparoscopic Surgery
07/28/15
11:30 AM
PGH 550
David Chotard
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Motion Histograms for Action Recognition Using a Convolutional Neural Network
07/28/15
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Adrien Sitter
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Registration and Visualization of 3D Breast Images
07/24/15
5:00 PM
PGH 550
Gianluca Meloni
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey & Prof. Nuri F. Ince
M.S. Thesis: Space and Time Frequency-Dependent Interactions in Subthalamic Nucleus Local Field Potentials
07/24/15
3:30 PM
PGH 550
Valentina Simonetti
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
M.S. Thesis: A Multiscale Model for Breast Conservative Therapy: Computational Framework and Clinical Validation
07/24/15
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Alessio Buccino
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey & Prof. Ahmet Omurtag
M.S. Thesis: Development of a Hybrid EEG-NIRS Brain-Computer Interface for Multiple Motor Tasks
07/02/15
11:00 AM
PGH 501
Zeinab Kazemi
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
M.S. Thesis: Timing Analysis of the Abort-and-Restart Paradigm on a Scratchpad Memory-Based Execution Platform
05/14/15
9:00 AM
HBS 350
Giulia Toti
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Association Rule Mining for Risk Assessment in Epidemiology
05/13/15
9:00 AM
PGH 550E
Charu Hans
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Automated Segmentation, Analysis and Classification of Zebrafish Vasculature
05/05/15
12:30 PM
PGH 218
Rengan Xu
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Proposal: Optimizing the Performance of Directive-based Programming Model for GPGPUs
05/05/15
10:30 AM
PGH 218
Cheng Wang
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Proposal: Exploiting Data Locality for Irregular Applications on Shared Memory Multicore Architectures
04/29/15
2:30 PM
HBS 350
Paul Hernandez-Herrera
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: 3-D Morphology Extraction of Neurons
04/28/15
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Haripriya Ayyalasomayajula
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: An Evaluation of the Spark Programming Model for Big Data Analytics
04/24/15
3:30 PM
T2 304
Lijuan Zhao
Advisor: Prof. Fatima Merchant, Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Methods for Processing 3D Images for Breast Morphology
04/24/15
11:00 AM
PGH 218
Xiaonan Tian
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Proposal: Compiler Optimization Framework for Directive-based Accelerator Computing
04/24/15
10:00 AM
PGH 218D
Siddhartha Jana
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Proposal: Optimizations for Energy Efficiency of Distributed Applications
04/22/15
4:00 PM
PGH 501D
Tayfun Tuna
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Dissertation: Automated Lecture Video Indexing with Text Analysis and Machine Learning
04/22/15
9:30 AM
PGH 550
Vasanthi Vuppuluri
Advisor: Prof. Rakesh M Verma
M.S. Thesis: Textractor: A new approach for extracting N-grams, Collocations and Multi-Word Expressions
04/21/15
12:00 PM
PGH 550
David Sergio Matusevich
Advisor: Prof. Carlos Ordonez
M.S. Thesis: A Fast Clustering Algorithm Merging the Expectation Maximization Algorithm and Markov Chain Monte Carlo
04/20/15
12:00 PM
HBS 302
Ashik Khatri
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
M.S. Thesis: Effects of Prescriptive Design on the Usage of a Walking App
04/20/15
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Tao Feng
Advisor: Prof. Weidong Shi
Ph.D. Dissertation: Implicit and Continuous Approaches for Identity Management on Mobile Devices
04/17/15
11:00 AM
HBS 350
Roberto Valerio Molina
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Dissertation: Choosing the Right Kernel A Meta-Learning Approach to Kernel Selection in Support Vector Machines
04/14/15
1:00 PM
HBS 315
Nripun Sredar
Advisor: Prof. George Zouridakis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Examining In Vivo Changes in the Lamina Cribrosa in Non-human Primates with Experimental Glaucoma
04/13/15
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Xifeng Gao
Advisor: Prof. Guoning Chen and Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Proposal: Generation and Optimization of 3D Hexahedral Meshes
04/07/15
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Mahbubur Rahman
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Multi-Scale Computational Framework to Understand Vascular Adaptation
04/06/15
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Shyam Sunder Reddy Kundooru
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Generalized Framework For Time Sensitive Decision Support System
03/31/15
10:00 AM
HBS 350
Dallas Brittany Kidd
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: Using Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Classification of Classical Cepheids
03/03/15
1:00 PM
PGH 218
Deepak Eachempati
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Compiler and Runtime Approach for Supporting Efficient Execution of Coarray Fortran Programs
02/25/15
11:00 AM
HBS 317
Panagiotis Moutafis
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Towards Improving Matching in Biometrics Systems
02/06/15
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Fatih Akdag
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Proposal: A Hotspot Discovery and Summarization Framework for Spatiotemporal Datasets
12/11/14
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Youcef Barigou
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Proposal: Optimizing Non-blocking Collective Communication Operations
12/03/14
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Jinxin Yang
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: A Validation Suite For High-level Directive-based Programming Model For Accelerators
12/02/14
9:00 AM
PGH 550
Pooja Chitral
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Developing Accelerator Benchmark suite Using OpenACC Directives
11/24/14
2:30 PM
PGH 362
Qiang Li
Advisor: Prof. Omprakash Gnawali
M.S. Thesis: Concurrent Transmission with Adaptive Forwarder Set
11/24/14
1:30 PM
PGH 550
Mahima Joshi
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Evaluation of Speech and Text Based Indexing For Classroom Video Lectures
11/24/14
11:00 AM
PGH 501D
Dong Han
Advisor: Prof. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Dissertation: Energy Measurements and Analysis to Understand Computing Systems and Networks
11/20/14
2:45 PM
PGH 550
Daxiao Liu
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
M.S. Thesis: An Energy-Saving Approach For Real-Time Highway Traffic Estimation Using GPS-Enabled Smartphones
11/19/14
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Yu Li
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
Ph.D. Proposal: Theoretical Fundamentals of a Real-time Virtual Machine Monitor from the Resource Management Perspective
11/17/14
12:30 PM
PGH 550
Tao Feng
Advisor: Prof. Weidong Shi
Ph.D. Proposal: Continuous Mobile Identity Management Using Software and Hardware Solutions
11/11/14
9:30 AM
PGH 550
Wellington M. Cabrera
Advisor: Prof. Carlos Ordóñez
M.S. Thesis: Optimizing Bayesian Methods for High Dimensional Data Sets on Array-Based Parallel Database Systems
08/27/14
9:00 AM
HBS 317
Bassam Almogahed
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Towards Improved Classification of Imbalanced Data
07/30/14
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Wei Ding
Advisor: Prof. Stephen Huang
Ph.D. Dissertation: Detecting Network Intruders Connected Through Long Stepping-Stone Chains
07/29/14
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Ilyes Sghir
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Modeling Human Motion for Predicting Usage of Hospital Operating Room
07/23/14
11:00 AM
HBSB 350
Ushasi Ghosh
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: Extraction of Underlying Soil Structure from Seismic Data using Data Mining Techniques
07/21/14
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Tanmay Thakur
Advisor: Prof. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: Preventing Digital Identity Theft Using Fundamental Characteristics
07/21/14
10:00 AM
HSBC 302
Ilyas Uyanik
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Monitoring Walking Behavior with Mobile Computing
07/02/14
3:30 PM
PGH 501
Varun Koshy Varghese
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Development and Evaluation of Text-Based Indexing for Lecture Videos
06/26/14
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Remi Salmon
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
Ph.D. Dissertation: Modeling and Simulation for Breast Conserving Therapy
06/26/14
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Guillaume Joerger
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
M.S. Thesis: Operating Room Awareness and Supervision in the Context of Laparoscopy
06/12/14
1:30 PM
HBS 280
Nripun Sredar
Advisor: Prof. George Zouridakis
Ph.D. Proposal: Examining In Vivo Changes in Lamina Cribrosa in Non-human Primates with Experimental Glaucoma
06/09/14
2:10 PM
PGH 362
Xiaoxi Man
Advisor: Prof. Christoph Eick
M.S. Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Co-Location Analysis Tool
05/27/14
2:30 PM
PGH 501
Varun Koshy Varghese
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Development and Evaluation of Text-Based Indexing for Lecture Videos
05/27/14
11:30 AM
PGH 550
Shon Patil
Advisor: Prof. Leiss
M.S. Thesis: Fundamentals of Digital Watermarking
05/22/14
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Xu Yan
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Modeling Local Behavior for Multi-Person Tracking
05/22/14
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Shon Patil
Advisor: Prof. Leiss
M.S. Thesis: Fundamentals of Digital Watermarking
05/15/14
1:00 PM
HBS 303
Malcolm Dcosta
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Sympathetic Loading in Cognitive Tasks
05/12/14
11:00 AM
PGH 218
Ahmad Qawasmeh
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Proposal: Adaptive Scheduling for OpenMP Applications through A Similarity-Based System using Collector APIs
04/23/14
1:00 PM
HSBC 302
Kyeongan Kwon
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
M.S. Thesis: Interfacing Information in User Studies with Mixed Methods
04/23/14
11:30 AM
HSBC 302
Otto Dobretsberger
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Novel Algorithms for the Analysis and Manipulation of Short Genomic Sequences
04/23/14
11:00 AM
PGH 501D
Shuyu Xu
Advisor: Prof. Guoning Chen
M.S. Thesis: Efficient Visual Analysis of Steady Vector Fields based on Streamline Characterization
04/23/14
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Hongyang Zhang
Advisor: Prof. Stephen Huang
M.S. Thesis: Detecting Intruders by Examining Packet Crossovers in Network Connections
04/23/14
10:00 AM
HSBC 302
Meenakshi Sharma
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Novel Algorithms to Estimate Genome Coverage Using High Throughput Sequencing Data
04/23/14
9:00 AM
PGH 362
Owais Ahmed
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: Dataset Modification To Improve Machine Learning Algorithm Performance And Speed
04/22/14
2:30 PM
PGH 501D
Sujing Wang
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Dissertation: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Clustering
04/18/14
2:00 PM
PGH 362
Cheng Chen
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Deng
M.S. Thesis: Avatar Creation and Customization for Health Games
04/18/14
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Charu Hans
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Automated Analysis of Zebrafish Vasculature using Confocal Images
04/11/14
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Binh Huy Le
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Example-based Rigging and Real-time Animation of Characters with Linear Skinning Models
04/10/14
2:00 PM
HBS 350
Yen Hai Le
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Shape Priors for Segmentation of Mouse Brain in Gene Expression Images
04/09/14
1:30 PM
PGH 550
Swaroop S. Pophale
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Static Analysis Tool for Synchronization Analysis, Representation, and Optimizations for Applications Using OpenSHMEM
04/08/14
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Apurva Bedagkar-Gala
Advisor: Dr. Shishir K. Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Person Re-identification in Distributed Wide Area Surveillance
04/07/14
10:30 AM
PGH 218
Munara Tolubaeva
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Compiler Cost Model for Multicore Architectures
03/18/14
8:00 AM
HSBC 302
Ilyas Uyanik
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Monitoring Walking Behavior with Mobile Computing
02/11/14
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Waleed Faris
Advisor: Prof. Kam-Hoi Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Building a Natural Language Interface for ALPS
01/15/14
9:30 AM
PGH 550
Dong Han
Advisor: Prof. Omprakash Gnawali
Ph.D. Proposal: Energy Measurements and Analysis to Understand Computing Systems and Networks
12/11/13
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Pranav Mantini
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Context Based Human Trajectory Forecasting
12/04/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Junmo An
Advisor: Prof. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Proposal: Sensors and System Integration for Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)-Guided and Robot-Assisted Interventions
12/03/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Remi Salmon
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
Ph.D. Proposal: Modeling and Simulation for Breast Conserving Therapy
12/03/13
2:30 PM
PGH 551D
James LaGrone
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Enhancing the Expressivity of OpenMP API Through Task-to-Task Synchronization
12/02/13
2:00 PM
PGH 362
Mahmut Unan
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
M.S. Thesis: Modeling of Dual Modality Probe for Concurrently Collecting MR and Optical Spectra
11/18/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Anirup Dutta
Advisor: Prof. Omprakash Gnawali
M.S. Thesis: Large Scale Network Protocol Emulation On Commodity Cloud
11/15/13
11:30 AM
PGH 550
Md Tarikul Islam
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Efficient Message Logging to Support Process Replicas in a Volunteer Computing Environment
11/15/13
10:00 AM
PGH 563
Varun Shimoga Prakash
Advisor: Prof. Weidong Shi
M.S. Thesis: Resurrection: Rethinking Magnetic Tapes For Cost Efficient Data Preservation
11/11/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Bangsheng Sui
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: Information Gain Feature Selection Based on Feature Interactions
11/08/13
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Vishwanath Venkatesan
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Dissertation: On Scalable Collective I/O For High Performance Computing
11/08/13
11:00 AM
HSBC 302
Eswar Prasad
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
M.S. Thesis: Wearable Electrodermal Activity Sensing - A Validation Study
11/06/13
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Emil Bilgazyev
Advisor: Prof. Ernst L. Leiss
Ph.D. Dissertation: Reconstruction Models to Improve Image Quality
11/04/13
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Xiao Cheng
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Deng
M.S. Thesis: GPU-accelerated Crowd Simulation with User-Guidance and Multi-level Uncertainty
11/04/13
1:30 PM
PGH 550
Wei Cao
Advisor: Prof. Guoning Chen
M.S. Thesis: Analysis Supported SPH Fluid Simulation
11/01/13
9:00 AM
HSBC 302
Avinash Wesley
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Eustressed or Distressed? Combining Physiology with Observation in Stress Studies
10/25/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Sujing Wang
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Ph.D. Proposal: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Clustering
09/19/13
3:30 PM
PGH 501D
Tayfun Tuna
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
Ph.D. Proposal: Lecture Video Indexing and Keyword Search by using Text Extracted by OCR
09/19/13
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Manas Saha
Advisor: Prof. Venkat Subramaniam
M.S. Thesis: A Code Structure Visualization Tool for Groovy
08/30/13
9:00 AM
PGH 550
Son M. Hoang
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Pattern Recognition Approach to Learning Tracks of Heavy-Ion Particles in Timepix Detectors
07/22/13
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Ayodunni Aribuki
Advisor: Dr. Ernst Leiss
Ph.D. Dissertation: A High-Level Programming Model for Embedded Multicore Processors
07/18/13
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Jasmeet Kour
Advisor: Dr. Weidong Shi
M.S. Thesis: Security Risk Analysis of Google Play Applications
07/17/13
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Harshanand Nyshadham
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Deng
M.S. Thesis: Visual Comparison Model for Transportation Data of Great Britain
07/17/13
1:30 PM
PGH 563
Fang Liu
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
M.S. Thesis: An Energy Aware Management Technique for Real-time Multi-core Systems
07/15/13
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Varun Maheshwari
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Quantitative Comparison of Metrics for Human Pose Estimation
07/15/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Hakan Haberdar
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Video-based Change Detection
07/08/13
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Ziyi Liu
Advisor: Prof. Weidong Shi
M.S. Thesis: CPU Transparent Protection of OS Kernel and Hypervisor Integrity with Programmable DRAM
06/24/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Khai Tran
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Contextual Descriptors for Human Activity Recognition
05/16/13
9:00 AM
HBS 350
Paul Hernandez-Herrera
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Three-Dimensional Morphology Extraction of Tubular Structures
05/07/13
1:00 PM
HBS 350
Bassam Almogahed
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Classification of Imbalanced Data
05/06/13
9:00 AM
PGH 550
Wei Ding
Advisor: Prof. Barbara M. Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Similarity-Based Analysis Tool for Acientific Applications Porting
04/29/13
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Yuanfeng Wen
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
M.S. Thesis: Energy Efficient Hybrid Display for Embedded and Mobile Systems
04/26/13
3:00 PM
HBS 350
Yen H. Le
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Proposal: Shape Priors for Segmentation of Mouse Brain in Gene Expression Images
04/19/13
12:00 PM
PGH 550
Rohit Nirmal
Advisor: Prof. Chang Yun
M.S. Thesis: Digital Health Game on Cervical Health and its Effect on American Women's Cervical Cancer Knowledge
04/19/13
9:30 AM
PGH 501D
Wei Guo
Advisor: Prof. Rakesh Verma
M.S. Thesis: Integrating a Preprocessor Based on Unification in the Laboratory for Rapid Rewriting
04/18/13
9:00 AM
PGH 501D
Kshitij Mehta
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Parallel I/O for Shared Memory Applications
04/16/13
12:00 PM
PGH 362
Chrysanthi Chaleva Ntina
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Deng
M.S. Thesis: Stereo Calibration of Depth Sensors with 3D Correspondences and Smooth Interpolants
04/15/13
2:00 PM
HBS 350
Pengfei Guan
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: Pattern Recognition of Space Plasma Regimes
04/11/13
1:30 PM
PGH 501D
Carlos R. Vanegas
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: A Framework Architecture for Shared File Pointer Operations in Open MPI
04/05/13
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Zechun Cao
Advisor: Prof. Eick
M.S. Thesis: A Methodology for Finding Uniform Regions in Spatial Data and its Application to Analyzing the Composition of Cities
04/04/13
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Huy Nguyen
Advisor: Prof. Rong Zheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Interactions on Complex Networks: Inference and Applications
04/04/13
8:45 AM
HSBC 306
Duc Duong
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Dissertation: Spatiotemporal Breathing Function Reconstruction
12/14/12
2:00 PM
T2 323
Lijuan Zhao
Advisors: Prof. Fatima Merchant and Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Longitudinal Characterization of Breast Morphology During Reconstructive Surgery
12/07/12
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Xu Yan
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Modeling Local Behavior for Multi-Person Tracking
12/03/12
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Praveen Mala
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Application Development for the Network Nodes of Software-Defined Networks
11/30/12
12:00 PM
PGH 501D
Hsu-Wan Kao
Advisor: Dr. Jehan-François Pâris
M.S. Thesis: Proteus: A Portable Simulation Program for Estimating Data Loss Risks in Disk Arrays
11/30/12
10:00 AM
PGH 501D
Khuong Vu
Advisor: Prof. Rong Zheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Uncertainties in Sensor and Mobile Networks
11/30/12
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Roberto Valerio Molina
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Kernel Properties
11/28/12
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Nikhil V. Navkar
Advisors: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos and Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Visual Force-Feedback Interfacing for Image-Guided Telemanipulated Robotic Surgical System
11/28/12
11:15 AM
PGH 501D
Priyanka Ghosh
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Support For Dependency Driven Executions Among OpenMP Tasks
11/26/12
1:00 PM
PGH 550
Shailesh Mangrulkar
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
M.S. Thesis: Influence Of Runtime Parameters on the Performance of Parallel Applications
11/20/12
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Dat Chu
Advisors: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris and Prof. Shishir K. Shah
M.S. Thesis: Partial Face Recognition using Semi-Coupled Dictionary Learning
11/20/12
2:30 PM
SERC 4018
Mark M. Rojas
Advisor: Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
Ph.D. Dissertation: Computational Approaches to Detect Pathogens in the Presence of Complex Backgrounds
11/20/12
1:00 PM
SERC 4018
Georgiy Golovko
Advisor: Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
Ph.D. Dissertation: Effect of Repeatable Regions on Ability To Estimate Copy Number Variation in Human Genome By High Throughput Sequencing
11/19/12
10:00 AM
PGH 218D
Eduardo Gerardo Mendizabal Ruiz
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Ph.D. Dissertation: Lumen Segmentation From Intravascular Ultrasound Data
11/15/12
2:30 PM
PGH 218
Francisco Ocegueda-Hernandez
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Dissertation: An Empirical Study of the Suitability of Class Decomposition for Linear Classifiers
11/15/12
1:00 PM
SERC 4018
Rui Zhu
Advisor: Prof. Yuriy Fofanov
M.S. Thesis: Algorithms and Data Structures to Detect Oncoviruses in Human Cancer Using Next Generation Sequencing Data
11/12/12
9:30 AM
PGH 550
Daniel Biediger
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Enhancing Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation in MRI Images
11/09/12
3:30 PM
PGH 550
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Integrating and Analyzing Databases and Interrelated Documents
11/08/12
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Anand Arun Daga
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
M.S. Thesis: Accelerating Data-Intensive Computations Through Dynamic Network Traffic Optimization
11/07/12
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Son M. Hoang
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Ph.D. Proposal: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Tracks of Heavy-ion Particles in Timepix Detectors
10/22/12
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Binh H. Le
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Proposal: Skinning Decomposition:Approaches and Applications for Performance Capture
07/25/12
02:00 PM
PGH 550
Naveen Mohanam
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
M.S. Thesis: Integration of Linear Algebra Numerical Methods with a DBMS
07/20/12
11:00 AM
PGH 362
Rohan Nigam
Advisor: Prof. Lennart Johnsson
M.S. Thesis: Virtualization and High Performance Computing: A Quantitative Analysis of Xen and KVM
07/16/12
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Benjamin Soibam
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Dissertation: Quantitative Analysis of Exploratory Activity in Drosophila
07/16/12
09:30 AM
PGH 550
Arnaud Bonset
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: A Quantitative Comparison of Local Feature Based Alignment Methods for Three Dimensional Nuclear Mapping
07/09/12
02:00 PM
PGH 550
Marlene Gilles
Advisor: Dr. Marc Garbey
M.S. Thesis: Breast Conservative Surgery Pilot Study: Data Acquisition Design and Image Processing
06/08/12
10:00 AM
PGH 315
Daniele Farris
Advisor: Prof. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
M.S. Thesis: Left Ventricle Segmentation Based On Real Time MR Image Intensity Projections
05/10/12
01:30 PM
PGH 550
Munara Tolubaeva
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Compiler Cost Model for Many-core and Heterogeneous Architectures
05/09/12
02:00 PM
PGH 550
Vishwanath Venkatesan
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Towards High Performance Parallel I/O for Scientific Computing
05/07/12
03:00 PM
PGH 550
Sasi Kumar Pitchaimalai
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Efficient Incremental Bayesian Classification with SQL queries and UDFs
04/30/12
11:00 AM
PGH 550
Xiaohan Ma
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Perceptual Analysis and Modeling of Facial Animation
04/24/12
02:30 PM
PGH 550
Otto Dobretsberger
Advisor: Prof. Yuriy Fofanov
M.S. Thesis: Algorithms and Data Structures for Storage and Manipulation of Next Generation Sequencing Data
04/23/12
07:30 PM
PGH 200
Mustafa Sherazi
Advisor: Dr. Victoria Hilford
M.S. Thesis: Virtual Surgery Trainer for Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization of Brain Tumor Growth
04/23/12
07:30 PM
PGH 200
Pratik Hande
Advisor: Dr. Victoria Hilford
M.S. Thesis: Virtual Surgery Trainer for Simulation of Blood Flow in Carotid Bifurcation
04/20/12
02:30 PM
PGH 362
Chong Wang
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
M.S. Thesis: Protein Clustering and Function Identification
04/20/12
02:00 PM
PGH 550
Ashish Kapadia
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
M.S. Thesis: Comparative Analysis of Change Detection Models for Aerial Imagery
04/20/12
12:30 PM
PGH 362
Walid Ali Elkour
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Dragon2.1: Array Data Dependence Analysis
04/20/12
11:00 AM
T2 323
Arijit Bose
Advisor: Dr. Fatima Merchant
M.S. Thesis: Automated Alignment of 3D Torso Images
04/20/12
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Sayan Ghosh
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Energy Efficiency of Parallel Scientific Kernels
04/19/12
03:00 PM
PGH 550
Ricardo E. Mauricio
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Chapman
M.S. Thesis: Towards a Fault Tolerant OpenSHMEM
04/10/12
12:30 PM
PGH 501D
Ahmet E. Sonmez
Advisor: Prof. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Novel Approach for Multimodality Loco-Regional Robot-Assisted Biosensing
04/09/12
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Chaitanya Belwal
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Response Time Analysis and Scheduling for the Transactional Execution Model of a Functional Programming Paradigm
04/02/12
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Rakhi Anand
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Efficient Communication for Replicated Processes in Volunteer Environments
04/02/12
2:00 PM
PGH 501D
Longyi Qi
Advisor: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
M.S. Thesis: A Static Code Analysis Tool for Objective-C and Related Languages
01/30/12
9:00 AM
PGH 550
Khai Tran
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Contextual Descriptors for Human Activity Recognition
01/30/12
10:30 AM
PGH 550
Apurva Bedagkar-Gala
Advisor: Prof. Shishir K. Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Person Re-identification in Distributed Wide Area Surveillance
12/08/11
12:00 PM
550 PGH
Swaroop S. Pophale
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Optimized Collectives and Richer API for OpenSHMEM Programming Library
12/02/11
12:00 PM
550 PGH
Amrita Banerjee
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Dragon2011: OpenUH-Based Scalable Visualization Tool for Program Analysis
12/01/11
3:30 PM
550 PGH
Besar Wicaksono
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Dynamic and Transparent Support For Managing Memory Bottlenecks in OpenMP
12/01/11
2:00 PM
218 PGH
Tarun Wadhawan
Advisor: Prof. Yuriy Fofanov
Melanoma Screening On Smart Handheld Devices
12/01/11
1:30 PM
550 PGH
Naveen K R Ginne
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
A Simulation-based Experimental Study of Distributed Coalition Formation for Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems
11/29/11
2:30 PM
362 PGH
Panitee Charoenrattanaruk
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Computing Framework for the CLEVER Clustering Algorithm
11/29/11
2:30 PM
550 PGH
Mario Rincon-Nigro
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Cost-based Workload Balancing for Ray Tracing on a Heterogeneous Platform
11/29/11
11:30 AM
550 PGH
Hien Xuan Nguyen
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
An Execution Environment for Robust Parallel Computing on Volunteer PC Grids
11/29/11
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Eshwar Rohit Pedamallu
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
Design and Evaluation of Logging Mechanisms to Support Replication in a Volunteer Computing Environment
11/28/11
5:00 PM
550 PGH
Seifelnaser Hamed
Advisor: Prof. Rong Zheng
Using Mobile Phones to Predict Vehicle Fuel Consumption And Driving Patterns
11/28/11
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Malek Smaoui
Advisor: Dr. Marc Garbey
Genetic Optimization of Monte Carlo Applications with Volunteer Computing
11/28/11
8:00 AM
550 PGH
David Thanoon
Advisor: Dr. Marc Garbey
Computational Framework for Breast Cancer
11/22/11
1:00 PM
501 PGH
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Integrating and Querying Information in Relational Databases and Interrelated Documents
11/21/11
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Debjyoti Majumder
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Coarray Fortran Runtime Implementation in OpenUH
11/17/11
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Shaunak Vairagare
Advisor: Prof. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
A Flash Flood Warning System and Decision Support Tool
11/08/11
3:00 PM
550 PGH
Nikhil V. Navkar
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos and Dr. Zhigang Deng
Visual Force-Feedback Interfacing for Image-Guided Telemanipulated Robotic Surgical System
09/30/11
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Yan Zhou
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Deformable Collaborative Tracking Across Imaging Modalities
09/27/11
2:30 PM
550 PGH
Zhibo Chen
Advisor: Prof. Carlos Ordonez
Optimization and Generalization of OLAP Cube Processing In Relational Database Systems
08/10/11
2:00 PM
550 PGH
Philip C. Dasler
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
Playing Challenging Iterated Two-Person Games Well: A Case Study on The Iterated Traveler's Dilemma
08/05/11
12:00 PM
563 PGH
Xuqing Wu
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
A Segmentation Framework for Cytological Image Analysis and Its Application in Classifying Thyroid Nodules
07/29/11
11:00 AM
376 PGH
Oluwasoji Omiwade
Advisor: Prof. Rong Zheng
Data Recovery in Wireless Sensor Networks
07/28/11
8:30 AM
218 PGH
Olga Avila-Montes
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Segmentation of the Thoracic Aorta in Non-contrast Cardiac CT Images
07/28/11
1:00 PM
362 PGH
Mohammed Awad
Advisor: Prof. Ernst L. Leiss
Using Cryptography and Enhanced Verification to Safeguard Electronic Voting
07/27/11
11:00 AM
550 PGH
JaeChang Hong
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
OpenMP based runtime library using MCA APIs for Heterogeneous systems
07/26/11
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Chun-Sheng Chen
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Towards Better and Faster Spatial Clustering Algorithms
07/25/11
1:30 PM
550 PGH
Ruth Huang Miller
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
Framework and Algorithms for Extractions of Knowledge
07/22/11
11:00 AM
367 PGH
Pallavi Arora
Advisor: Prof. Rong Zheng
Sequential Learning for Optimal Monitoring of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks
07/20/11
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Ying-Wei Kuo
Advisor: Prof. Stephen Huang
Algorithms to Detect Stepping-Stone Intrusions in the Presence of Evasion Techniques
07/13/11
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Lei Zhao
Advisor: Prof. Yuriy Fofanov
Mavis: A Visualization Tool for Multiple Sequence Alignments
07/05/11
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Manish Limaye
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Extending ER Models to Capture Data Mining Transformations
06/24/11
12:00 PM
563 PGH
Ning Situ
Advisor: Prof. George Zouridakis
Melamoma Recognition Using Mid-level Features and High-level Annotations
05/25/11
1:00 PM
550 PGH
Benjamin Soibam
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Behavioral Analysis of exploration in Drosophila using open field arenas
05/24/11
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Qing Li
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Algorithms for Dendritic Spine Detection and Tracking in Time-Lapse Microscopy Neuron Images
05/19/11
01:00 PM
550 PGH
Waree Rinsurongkawong
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
Interactive Data Mining to Drive Experimental Plan
05/16/11
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Qin Gu
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Agent-based Approaches for Stylizing Motion Variations and Formations in Crowd Simulation
05/04/11
09:30 AM
550 PGH
Kshitij V. Mehta
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing
05/02/11
01:00 PM
550 PGH
Sandeep V Belure
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Combining Local Descriptors And Using LSH For Efficient Image Retrieval
05/02/11
09:00 AM
218 PGH
Tianhong Fang
Advisor: Prof. Kakadiaris
3D/4D Facial Expression Analysis
04/27/11
04:00 PM
550 PGH
Michael Robert Jahn
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Realtime Human Animation Control Using Tri-Axis Accelerometers
04/27/11
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Nathan Leach
Advisor: Dr. Kam-Hoi Cheng
Modeling the Recognition and Understanding of Time Terms in the ALPS System
04/25/11
04:00 PM
550 PGH
Liqi Yi
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Enabling Locality-aware Computations in OpenMP
04/20/11
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Yuichi Fujiki
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Physical Activity Patterns of Humans - Monitoring, Modeling, and Intervening
04/14/11
01:00 PM
218 PGH
Malcolm Dcosta
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Peri-Nasal Signal Extraction and its application in Deception Analysis
04/11/11
02:30 PM
550 PGH
Padmini Gorty
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
Class Reconstruction via Relabeling To Explain and Improve Predictive Performance
04/05/11
01:30 PM
362 PGH
Araly Barrera
Advisor: Prof. Rakesh Verma
Automated Extractive Single Document Summarization: Beating the Baselines
03/29/11
09:30 AM
550 PGH
Mohamad Chaarawi
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Optimizing Performance of Parallel I/O Operations for High Performance Computing
12/03/10
11:30 AM
501D PGH
Raja S. Kushalnagar
Advisor: Prof. Jehan-Francois Paris
Optimizing Video Presentations for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Participants in Mainstream Classrooms
12/02/10
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Paul DeCarlo
Advisor: Dr. Nouhad Rizk
A Web-Based Expert System for Evaluating College Courses
12/01/10
3:00 PM
501D PGH
Nivedita K Rai
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Frameworks and Algorithms to Mine Motion Patterns of Animals
12/01/10
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Fatih Akdag
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Algorithms for Creating Polygon Models for Spatial Clusters
11/30/10
11:30 AM
501D PGH
Tayfun Tuna
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
Search in Classroom Videos with Optical Character Recognition for Virtual Learning
11/30/10
9:00 AM
550 PGH
Bhargav Patel
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Chapman
Towards a High-level Programming Model for Heterogeneous Systems
11/29/10
10:00 AM
218D PGH
Deepak Roy Chittajallu
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Computational Methods for the Extraction of Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers from Non-contrast CT Data
11/23/10
12:00 PM
550 PGH
Sarat Chandra Poluri
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Recommendation System for Abstract Data and Communication Library
11/22/10
11:00 AM
218 PGH
Meng-Hung Wu
Advisor: Prof. George Zouridakis
An Effective Algorithm Using Granger Causality for Dynamic Multichannel Brain Connectivity Analysis
11/19/10
4:45 PM
550 PGH
David Thanoon
Advisor: Dr. Marc Garbey
Computational Framework for Breast Cancer
11/19/10
3:00 PM
550 PGH
Saber Feki
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Runtime Adaptation of High Performance Computing Applications
11/18/10
3:00 PM
550 PGH
Vadeerat Rinsurongkawong
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
On Non-traditional Spatial Clustering Framework
11/18/10
11:00 AM
362 PGH
Homa Niktab
Advisor: Prof. Albert Cheng
Timing Analysis of Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATs)
11/05/10
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Xiaohan Ma
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Perceptually Guided Computer Facial Animation
09/08/10
2:00 PM
550 PGH
Hakan Haberdar
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Video-based Patrolling using a Mobile Platform
08/19/10
1:00 PM
550 PGH
Waree Rinsurongkawong
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
Interactive Data Mining to Drive Experimental Plan
08/06/10
9:30 AM
563 PGH
Daquan Zhang
Advisor: Prof. Lennart Johnsson
Exploring MPI implementation for UHFFT
08/02/10
12:00 PM
550 PGH
Anshul Verma
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Design, Development & Evaluation of ICS Video Player
07/20/10
2:10 PM
218 PGH
E. Gerardo Mendizabal Ruiz
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Computational Methods for the Analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound RF Data
05/11/10
2:30 PM
550 PGH
Erol Yeniaras
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos V. Tsekos
A Computational System for Planning and Performing MRI-Guided and Robot-Assisted Aortic Valve Implantation Surgeries
05/11/10
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Avinash Wesley
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Contact-free Stress Monitoring for User's Divided Attention
05/06/10
9:00 AM
218 PGH
Tarun Wadhawan
Advisor: Prof. Yuriy Fofanov
Melanoma Detection using Embedded Handheld Devices
05/05/10
1:00 PM
550 PGH
Rakhi Anand
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Optimizing the Execution of Parallel Applications in Volunteer Environments
04/29/10
2:30 PM
550 PGH
Wei Ding
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang
Detecting Stepping-Stone Intruders With Long Connection Chains
04/29/10
11:30 AM
550 PGH
Ramachandra C Nanjegowda
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Adaptive Runtime and Dynamic Compilation for OpenMP
04/29/10
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Hyoungjoon Jun
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Implementation of OpenUH-CAF runtime system for Coarray Fortran
04/28/10
4:00 PM
550 PGH
Sara Chaarawi
Advisor: Prof. Jehan-François Pâris
Using Storage Class Memories to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays
04/28/10
9:30 AM
550 PGH
Divye Kumar
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Comparative Evaluation of Local Spatio-Temporal Features for Human Action Recognition
04/27/10
4:30 PM
550 PGH
Gautam Bhatt
Advisor: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
Efficient Automatic Indexing of Lecture Videos
04/27/10
12:30 PM
550 PGH
Anup Jaya Prakash
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel
Parallelization of a Graph Based Segmentation Algorithm
04/26/10
1:00 PM
218 PGH
Udit Patidar
Advisor: Prof. George Zouridakis
Efficient Methods for Large Multivariate Time Series Connectivity Analysis
04/20/10
12:30 PM
218 PGH
Eleni Sgouritsa
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Computer-Aided Planning for Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms
03/31/10
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Eric Stotzer
Advisor: Dr. Ernst Leiss
Complementary Compiler and Architecture Features for Embedded VLIW Processors
12/03/09
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Samir Sachdev
Advisor: Prof. Jehan-François Pâris
A Realistic Evaluation Of Data Survivability Of Fault-Tolerant Disk Arrays
11/30/09
2:30 PM
550 PGH
Chaitanya Bagaria
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
A Four-Stage Machine Learning Approach For Automatic Identification of Crater Components
11/30/09
11:00 AM
563 PGH
Waleed Faris
Advisor: Prof. Kam-Hoi-Cheng
Building a Natural Language Interface for ALPS
11/30/09
11:00 AM
401 SR2
Karthik Karra
Advisor: Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
Efficient Algorithms to identify Unique Signatures for silencing mRNA
11/30/09
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Troy P. LeBlanc
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Design and Evaluation of a Communications Library for Volunteer Computing Environments
11/30/09
10:00 AM
401 SR2
Ubaid Mustafa
Advisor: Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
An Algorithm For Encoding Genomic Patterns With Gaps And Its Application For Pattern Discovery
11/24/09
4:00 PM
563 PGH
Susu Liao
Advisor: Prof. Verma, Rakesh
Visual and Flexible control of LRR through RuleMaker for Rule-based Programming
11/24/09
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Zhengnan Wang
Advisor: Prof. Barbara Chapman
Hybrid Programming Model on SiCortex System
11/20/09
1:30 PM
200 PGH
Yusuf Yildiz
Advisor: Dr. Victoria Hilford
IMED Computational Desk for Surgeons
11/18/09
1:00 PM
550 PGH
Arun Chhetri
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rong Zheng
WiserAnalyzer: A Passive Monitoring Framework for WLANs
11/17/09
3:00 PM
218 PGH
Mark Paterson
Advisor: Prof. Ricardo Vilalta
Multivariate Mixture Models for High-Energy Physics Classification
11/16/09
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Oner Ulvi Celepcikay
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Regional Correlation and Regression Analysis Frameworks for Geo-referenced Datasets
11/10/09
2:00 PM
550 PGH
Qing Li
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Deng
Dendritic Spine Detection and Tracking in 3D Time-lapse Microscopy Neuron Images
10/29/09
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Yong woon Ahn
Advisor: Prof. Albert MK Cheng
Practical Solutions for QoS Assurance in Wireless Medical Device Network
10/28/09
9:00 AM
550 PGH
Qin Gu
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Data-Driven Methods for Animating Autonomous Characters in Crowd Simulation
10/26/09
4:00 PM
550 PGH
Nikhil V. Navkar
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Virtual Environment for Planning Surgical Incision with Straight Access
10/19/09
12:00 PM
550 PGH
Chaitanya Belwal
Advisor: Prof. Albert MK Cheng
Response Time and Power Analysis of P-FRP
10/13/09
2:30 PM
550 PGH
Mohammed Awad
Advisor: Prof. Ernst L. Leiss
The Ballot's Future: A Study in E-voting and Internet Voting
09/10/09
09:00 AM
218 PGH
Yan Zhou
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Tissue Tracking in Thermo-physiological Imagery through Spatio-temporal Smoothing
08/28/09
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Jian Lin
Advisor: Prof. Albert M. K. Cheng
Scheduling Real-Time Tasks on Battery-Operated Embedded Systems
08/28/09
10:30 AM
218D PGH
Deepak Roy Chittajallu
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Computational Methods Aiding the Extraction of Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers from Non-contrast CT Data
08/26/09
11:00 AM
563 PGH
Francisco Ocegueda-Hernandez
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Local-based Methods for Model Selection in Classification
08/18/09
03:30 PM
563 PGH
Behnaz Sanati
Advisor: Prof. Albert M.K. Cheng
Online Benefit-Aware Real-Time Multiprocessor Scheduling
08/03/09
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Sharu Gupta
Advisor: Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
Algorithms to select probes for filtration of non-genic DNA from human genome
08/03/09
02:00 PM
550 PGH
Benjamin Soibam
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah
Quantitative comparison of metrics for change detection in video patrolling applications
07/31/09
10:00 AM
563 PGH
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Linking and Exploring Database Metadata and Documents with SQL and UDFs
07/29/09
02:00 PM
563 PGH
Mario Navas
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Efficient Computation of PCA with SVD in a Relational Database System
07/27/09
01:30 PM
550 PGH
Kai Zhao
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez
Efficient Search of Constrained Association Rules in SQL
07/24/09
01:00 PM
563 PGH
Youngmi Lee
Advisor: Prof. Albert M. K. Cheng
Implementation of two Benefit-Based Algorithms
07/24/09
02:00 PM
563 PGH
Wei Song
Advisor: Prof. Albert M. K. Cheng
RealEnergy: a New Framework to Evaluate Power-Aware Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms
07/22/09
02:15 PM
550 PGH
Girish Nandagudi
Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
Simulating the Performance of Parallel Applications on Desktop Grids
07/22/09
01:00 PM
563 PGH
Eunjeong Ahn
Advisor: Prof. Kam-Hoi Cheng
A Program for Learning Knowledge about Actions
07/17/09
05:00 PM
563 PGH
Rachsuda Jiamthapthaksin
Advisor: Prof. Christoph F. Eick
Clustering with Plug-in Fitness Functions Frameworks and Algorithms
07/13/09
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Han-Ching Wu
Advisor: Dr. Stephen S. H. Huang
Network Intrusion Detection: Stepping-Stone and Masquerader Detections
07/08/09
03:00 PM
550 PGH
Jim Ras
Advisor: Prof. Albert M. K. Cheng
Real-Time Response Time Analysis
06/17/09
02:30 PM
550 PGH
Alex Metry
Advisor: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
Validating Internal Domain Specific Languages
05/11/09
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Zhibo Chen
Advisor: Prof. Carlos Ordonez
Efficient OLAP Inside a Database Management System
05/11/09
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Malek Smaoui Fek
Advisor: Prof. Marc Garbey
Volunteer Computing For Multimodal Function Optimization Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms
04/28/09
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Spoorthy Mareddy
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
Evaluating and Optimizing the Performance of Hierarchical Collective Operations
04/17/09
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Chang H. Yun
Advisor: Dr. Olin Johnson and Dr. Zhigang Deng
Improving Gaming Experience Using Real-time, Adaptive Game Difficulty Adjustments by Utilizing Physiological Feedback
04/16/09
9:30 AM
550 PGH
Chintu Kshitij V. Mehta
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
Exploring Parallel I/O for Multi-Threaded Applications using Posix Threads
04/01/09
10:30 AM
550 PGH
Anu Goyal
Advisor: Prof. Carlos Ordonez
An Incremental Bayesian Classifier based on the EM Algorithm
03/09/09
11:30 AM
550 PGH
Mohamad Chaarawi
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
Optimizing Performance of Parallel I/O Operations for High Performance Computing
03/09/09
10:00 AM
550 PGH
Saber Feki
Advisor: Prof. Edgar Gabriel
Runtime Adaptation of High Performance Computing Applications
02/27/09
11:00 AM
550 PGH
Krushita Shah
Advisor: Dr. Yuriy Fofanov
New Data Structures and Algorithms to support Next Generation Sequencing Technology
02/06/09
1:00 PM
564 PGH
Ross Wright
Advisor: Prof Ernst Leiss
Using Services Containers to Simplify Object-oriented Software Architectures
01/29/09
2:00 PM
563 PGH
Vadeerat Rinsurongkawong
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
A Framework for Analyzing Relationships between Spatial Clusters and its Application to Dual and Multi-Run Clustering and Change Analysis
01/16/09
2:45 PM
218 PGH
Ning Situ
Advisor: Prof. Zouridakis
Kernel Method for Medical Image Analysis
01/12/09
2:30 PM
550 PGH
Chun-Sheng Chen
Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
An Investigation of Density-based Spatial Data Mining Techniques