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Author:

Ghurye, Akshay Dattatraya

Title:

DETECTION AND EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

parallel programming
community detection
overlapping
social networks
complexity

File:

Download AkshayGhurye-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar R. T. Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Masihtehrani, Behdad

Title:

Stochastic Analysis of Disruption in Supply Chain Networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal inventory policy
Copula and vine-copula
Supermodular and orthant dependence orders
Multi-source and assembly structures
Dependent supply disruptions
Performance bounds
Numerical analysis

File:

Download Behdad_Dissertation_vf.pdf

Committee Members:

Drs Soundar Kumara And Susan Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Xu, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

Author:

Achampong, Christina

Title:

An Evolutionary Game Model of Self-Deception and the Effect of Belief on Performance

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

collaboration
competition
hawk-dove
evolutionary dynamics
game theory
self-deception

File:

Download Christina__Achampong_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eli Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cavdur, Fatih

Title:

Network Mining: Applications to Business Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

networks
network mining
asset graphs
business networks
financial systems
stock markets

File:

Download phd_thesis_fc.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Jung-Woon

Title:

A MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR SEMANTIC WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION WITH APPLICATION TO MODULAR PRODUCT DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

k-best solution approach
Web service composition
Semantic Web
Integer Programming
quality of service

File:

Download Yoo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Member

Author:

Cui, Liying

Title:

Mathematical theory of service composition and service networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

dynamic programming
service composition
complex networks
mathematical theory
concept service (CS) network matrix
goal programming
enterprise integration

File:

Download LiYingCui_DissertationApril1111_AdvisorRevised.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Hong Xu, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Yukish, Michael

Title:

Algorithms to Identify Pareto Points in Multi-Dimensional Data Sets

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Pareto frontier
efficient frontier
dominance
nondominance
multi-objective
design optimization

File:

Download yukish_PhD_thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Asikoglu, Oyku

Title:

A New Method for Evaluating Design Dependencies in Product Architectures

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product design
change propagation in design
design dependencies
product architectures
component interfaces
design flexibility metric

File:

Download OYKU_ASIKOGLU-PHD_FINALDISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Special Member

Author:

Caliz Ospino, Rodrigo Alberto

Title:

A Nonlinear Queueing-Based Planning and Scheduling Framework for Multi-Product Supply Networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Production Planning
Robust Scheduling
Multi-class Stochastic Networks
Optimal Control

File:

Download Rodrigo_Caliz-PhD_Dissertation_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Constatino Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alberto Bressan, Committee Member
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

Author:

Bilsel, Ragip Ufuk

Title:

Disruption and Operational Risk Quantification and Mitigation Models for Outsourcing Operations

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

chance constraints
multicriteria optimization
Supply chain risk
extreme vale distributions

File:

Download RUB-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Douglas J Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Kettebekov, Sanshzar

Title:

A Prosody Based Approach for Automated Understanding of Coverbal Gestures

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

gesture recognition
multimodal
HCI

File:

Download thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rajeev Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ernest Emory Enscore Jr., Committee Member
Richard Donovan Koubek, Committee Member
Rangachar Kasturi, Committee Member
Mohammed Yeasin, Committee Member

Author:

Yilmaz, Serkan

Title:

MULTI LEVEL OPTIMIZATION OF BURNABLE POISON UTILIZATION FOR ADVANCED PWR FUEL MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Burnable Poison
Genetic Algorithm
Gadolinium
Nuclear
Optimization
Fuel Management

File:

Download Serkan_Yilmaz_PhD_Thesis_ETD_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yousry Azmy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Samuel H Levine, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Moussa Mahgerefteh, Committee Member

Author:

Raghavan, Ushanandini

Title:

CLUSTERING AND CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS IN COMPLEX NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

networks
social networks
community detection
wireless sensor networks
clustering
connectivity

File:

Download Raghavan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Arvind Rangaswamy, Committee Member

Author:

Sudit, David M

Title:

HARD AND SOFT SENSOR INFORMATION FUSION USING COGNITIVE INJECTION PROCESS FOR DECISION MAKING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Information Fusion
Human Fuser
Cognitive
Uncertainty
Sensors

File:

Download David_Sudit_Final_Diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Hall, Committee Member
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member

Author:

Mandala, Supreet Reddy

Title:

Scalable and robust algorithms for clustering large scale networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Social Networks
Clustering
Optimization
Data Mining

File:

Download Thesis_Mandala.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member

Author:

Hadka, David M

Title:

Robust, Adaptable Many-Objective Optimization: The Foundations, Parallelization and Application of the Borg MOEA

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

borg
moea
multiobjective
optimization
many-objective
evolutionary
algorithm

File:

Download Hadka_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member

Author:

Meimand Kermani, Amir Hossein

Title:

DIFFERENTIAL STACKELBERG GAMES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO DYNAMIC PRICING, PRODUCTION PLANNING NETWORK DESIGN, AND LOGISTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

DYNAMIC GAMES
STACKELBERG GAMES
DIFFERENTIAL GAMES
DYNAMIC PRICING
PRODUCTION PLANNING NETWORK DESIGN
LOGISTICS

File:

Download Amir-Meimand-PhD-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Terry Lee Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Alberto Bressan, Committee Member

Author:

Odewade, Taiwo Oiuwaseyi

Title:

An Application of a Thesaurus Process Model to Human Resource Business Process Modeling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Business Process Model
Business Process Modelling

File:

Download MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eli Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Madireddy, Manini

Title:

Efficient Evacuation For Disaster Management

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Evacuation
Congestion
Social Networks
Diffusion
Shadow Evacuation
Departure time choice Models
Traffic control

File:

Download ManiniMadireddy-DISSERTATION_PHD.PDF

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Jean Medeiros, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member
Maja Vukovic, Special Member

Author:

Windham, Andrew Winsome

Title:

A Multi-agent Decision Process for Controlling Heating, Ventilation, and Air-conditioning Systems

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Building Automation
Multi-Agent Systems
Conditional Game Theory
HVAC
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Distributed Control

File:

Download WindhamA_DissertationFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen James Treado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen James Treado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
John Messner, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Hui

Title:

User Centered Design of Visual Analytics and its Applications in Healthcare

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

User Centered Design
Visual Analytics
Information Visualization
Healthcare Informatics

File:

Download Dissertation-Hui_Yang.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Committee Member
Ravi Singareddy, Special Member

Author:

Hutchison, Kenneth M

Title:

Spectral Top-n:a Computationally Efficient Top-n Algorithm for Big Data Analytics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Big Data
Statistics
Computer Science
Top-N
Recommender Systems
Spectral Analysis

File:

Download psuthesis710.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Daniel Antion Finke, Special Member

Author:

Guo, Sijia

Title:

Predictive Analytics of Patient Hospital Adverse Events after Colorectal Surgery

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Regression
Readmission
Mortality
Length of Stay
Complication

File:

Download Sijia_Guo_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bastian, Nathaniel Drew

Title:

Multiple Criteria Decision Engineering to Support Management in Military Healthcare and Logistics Operations

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

multi-criteria decision engineering
resource allocation under uncertainty
performance measurement
healthcare
logistics

File:

Download Bastian_ND_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul M Griffin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet Black Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul M Griffin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Terry Paul Harrison, Committee Member
Lawrence V Fulton, Special Member

Author:

Prabhala, Bhaskar

Title:

PbMFS - Periodicity based Mobility Forecasting System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobility
MANETs
Next-Place Predictions
Forecasting
Opportunistic Networks
Periodicity

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Chonde, Seifu John

Title:

A Methodology of Machine Learning in Automated Entity Summarization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

text mining
network science
diversity
science of science
entity summarization

File:

Download SeifuChonde-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Joey W Storer, Special Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Paul M, Griffin, Committee Member
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Sung Woo

Title:

Bisociative design: concept exploration by mining design associations across multiple products

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

engineering design
product design
new product development process
text mining

File:

Download dissertation_final_Kang_IEPHD.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Slota, George Michael

Title:

Irregular Graph Algorithms on Modern Multicore, Manycore, and Distributed Processing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graph mining
high performance computing
graph partitioning
subgraph isomorphism

File:

Download slota-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Special Member

Author:

Chang, Fangle

Title:

Prediction of human assessments of dairy odor using instruments by sensor fusion and Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

hedonic tone
electronic nose
zNose
ANNs
feature selection
PCA
gamma test
forward selection
multi-sensor data fusion
prediction

File:

Download Fangle_Chang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Heinz Heinemann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Herschel Adams Elliott, Committee Member
Robin C Brandt, Special Member
Eileen Eilzabeth Fabian, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Julaiti, Juxihong

Title:

Simplifying Large Scale-free Networks by Optimizing The Information Content and Incomprehensibility

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Scale-free Networks
Simplification
Shannon Entropy

File:

Download FINAL_MSTHESIS_JUXIHONG.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seifu Chonde, Committee Member
Janis Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Chris Songjin

Title:

DATA DEPENDENT OPTIMIZATION VISION ARCHITECTURE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Image processing
Region of interest
Object detection
Computer architecture
Vision pipeline
Accelerator

File:

Download Chris_Dissertation_13.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member
Kevin Irick, Special Member

Author:

Varan, Burak

Title:

Energy and Signal Cooperation in Competitive Wireless Networks with Energy Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Wireless networks
Energy harvesting
Cooperation
Game theory
Optimization
Resource allocation

File:

Download Varan_dissertation_v2_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aylin Yener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aylin Yener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Viveck Cadambe, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member

Author:

Agrawal, Deepak

Title:

ESSAYS IN HEALTHCARE MODELING AND ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

appointment scheduling
healthcare analytics
preference based scheduling
markov decision process
no-show
multi-priority
network model
risk prediction
physician scheduling

File:

Download Deepak_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rajendran, Suchithra

Title:

Platelet Inventory Management in Blood Supply Chains

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Platelet wastage
stochastic integer programming
heuristic ordering policies
blood supply chain
genetic algorithm

File:

Download Suchi_Rajendran_Dissertation_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

A. Ravi Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Ravi Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vittal Prabhu, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Jeanne Lumadue, Outside Member

Author:

Nadig, Adithya

Title:

Distributed Control of a Parcel Delivery System through Crowdsourcing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Crowdsourcing
Parcel Delivery System
Auction
Genetic Algorithm
Distributed Algorithm
Distributed Arrival Time Controller

File:

Download Nadig_Thesis_Crdsrcing_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Latorella, Marc Duane

Title:

Evolving Intelligent Control Rules For A Collaborative Multi-Agent Manufacturing Cell

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-Agent Systems
Collaborative
Evolutionary Learning
Intelligent Control

File:

Download 120417-Latorella-EvolvingICMAS.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodon Pang, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Michael Saunders, Outside Member

Author:

Mohan, Tharun

Title:

Improve Food Supply Chain Traceability using Blockchain

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

food supply chain
food tracebility systems
blockchain

File:

Download Improve_Food_Supply_Chain_Traceability_using_Blockchain.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Harrison, Committee Member
Janis Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Kan, Chen

Title:

Dynamic Network Modeling and Analysis of Large-scale Internet of Things with Manufacturing and Healthcare Applications

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Internet of Things
Process monitoring
Dynamic network
Cardiovascular diseases
Parallel computing
Control chart
Statistical process control
ultraprecision machining
Medical automation
Smart and connected health

File:

Download Dissertation_ChenKan_20180105.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Jingjing Li, Committee Member
Lin Lin, Outside Member

Author:

Achleitner, Stefan

Title:

SECURITY IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING - AN ANALYSIS OF NEW ATTACK AND DEFENSE VECTORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network Security
Software Defined Networking
Cyber Security
Computer Networks

File:

Download StefanAchleitner-PhD-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member

Author:

Lim, Sunghoon

Title:

EVENT DETECTION AND PREDICTION USING ONLINE USER GENERATED DATA

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Text Mining
Social Media Analytics
Online Data Analytics
Event Detection
Event Prediction

File:

Download Dissertation_SunghoonLim_IEPHD.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Nilam Ram, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Lawrence

Title:

Blockchain Smart Contracts in Megacity Logistics

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

blockchain
ethereum
hyperledger
bitcoin
cryptocurrency
megacity
supply chain
traceability
smart contracts
tracking
transparency
negotiation
procurement
hyperledger sawtooth
permissioned
permissionless
immutability
security

File:

Download Blockchain_Smart_Contracts_in_Megacity_Logistics_4_.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Nicklaus A Giacobe, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Kaisheng

Title:

Self-powered Internet-of-Things Nonvolatile Processor and System Exploration and Optimization

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nonvolatile Processor
Self-powered
Internet-of-Things
Architecture Exploration
Energy Harvesting
Fog Computing

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John (Jack) Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Outside Member

Author:

Dhamodharan, Aswin

Title:

Product Life Cycle Optimization Models for Closed Loop Supply Chains

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

closed loop supply chains
network design
optimization models
pricing strategy
product life cycle
bass model
capacity planning

File:

Download Dissertation_AswinDhamodharan.pdf

Committee Members:

A Ravi Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A Ravi Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Member
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Outside Member

Author:

Smith, William Thomas

Title:

Scheduling Analysis of Stored Combat Load Retrieval Using Monte Carlo Sampling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Scheduling
Monte Carlo
Ammunition
Stored Combat Load
Parallel Machine Scheduling
Army
Military

File:

Download Smith_William__IndEng_PhDV2_August2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Michael Andrew Yukish, Special Member

Author:

Li, Jingwen

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF VISUAL CUE USAGE IN A MULTIPLE-POINT TIME-TO-CONTACT TASK

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Time-to-contact
Search Strategy
Visual cue usage
Scanpath
Machine Learning

File:

Download Jingwen_Li_-Dissertation_V2.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Outside Member

Author:

Jennings, Connor Patrick

Title:

Forecasting Technical and Functional Obsolescence for Improved Business Processes

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

obsolescence
life cycle
obsolete
DMSMS
machine learning
obsolescence risk
ROC
Receiver operating characteristic
cell phone
camera
screens

File:

Download Connor_Jennings_-_Penn_State_Dissertation_2018__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Janis P Terpenny, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member

Author:

Hoffman, Michael L

Title:

Condition-based Maintenance Policy Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms and Gaussian Markov Improvement Algorithm

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

condition-based maintenance
maintenance optimization
genetic algorithm
gaussian markov improvement algorithm

File:

Download Hoffman_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eunhye Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Brundage, Committee Member

Author:

Chumongkhon, Visanu

Title:

ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEW ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text Classification
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modeling
Online Review Analytics
Support Vector Machine
Convolutional Neural Network
VADER

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Visanu_Chumongkhon.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sheth, Sureel Shreyas

Title:

Identifying and Mitigating Maverick Spend at Penn State Purchasing Services

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Maverick Spend
Purchasing Services
P-card
SRFC
Mitigation Strategies

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Harrison, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere: A Novel Distribution Manufacturing Framework

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Manufacturing process
Shape descriptor
Do-It-Yourself

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Bing

Title:

Physical-Statistical Modeling and Optimization of Complex Systems - Healthcare and Manufacturing Applications

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Physical-statistical modeling and optimization
Spatiotemporal regularization
Sequential decision making
Energy-efficient mobile sensing
Multifractal analysis
Quality control
Additive Manufacturing
Inverse ECG modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member
Soraya M Samii, Special Member

Author:

Na, Hyeong Suk

Title:

STUDIES IN LARGE-SCALE EVACUATION NETWORK FLOW STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION UNDER SOCIAL INFLUENCE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Cell transmission model
departure time choice model
social influence
large-scale hurricane evacuation
joint chance constrained program
sample average approximation
Large-scale evacuation network flow model
Cell Transmission Model
Joint chance constrained program
Sample average approximation
Departure time choice model
Social influence
Capacity drop
Hurricane evacuation strategy

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet Serhat Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Outside Member

Author:

Davaasuren, Dolzodmaa

Title:

Analysis of Opioid Related Adverse Events and Signal Detection with Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Opioid drugs
Adverse Drug Events
Adverse Drug Reactions
Drug-Drug Interaction

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Voigt, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Ning

Title:

DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data-Driven Modeling
Interpretable Machine Learning
Healthcare Analytics
Drug-Drug Interactions
Patient Satisfaction

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Runsang

Title:

Self-organizing network modelling of 3D objects

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Computer-aided design
Shape matching
Network modelling
object recognition

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member

Author:

Qiu, Zihang

Title:

markov decision-making process for risk reduction strategies in breast cancer

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Markov Chain
Markov Decision Making Process
Breast Cancer
Hierarchical Gaussian Process
Missing Data Imputation
Treatment Policy
Transition Probability

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Sida

Title:

Sepsis Data Analytics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Machine learning
Deep learning
Sepsis
Healthcare
Unsupervised Learning
Data Mining

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member

Author:

Pei, Shenli

Title:

Data-driven learning and modeling of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite
micro X-ray Computed Tomography
microstructure informatics
mechanical property

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Outside Member
Danielle Zeng, Special Member
Jingjing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jingjing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Felemban, Noor

Title:

Information Retrieval From Images and Videos in Mobile Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

mobile networks
deep learning
neural networks
image retrieval
video retrieval
cloud computing
distributed systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meyers, Adam

Title:

Stochastic and Dynamic Network Analytics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

dynamical networks
resilience engineering
nonlinear time series analysis
quality control

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reka Albert, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Jing Yang, Outside Field Member

Author:

Yadav, Pranjali

Title:

DATA VIZUALIZATION WITH VIRTUAL REALITY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

virtual reality
data visualization
analytics

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Beom Ki

Title:

Machine Learning in Cardiac Diseases - Comparison of Performance of Selected Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Healthcare
Classification
Supervised Learning
Prediction
Data Analysis
Data Science
Cardiovascular

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Goda, Mit Piyush

Title:

Blockchain enabled vaccine supply chain provenance

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Vaccine Provenance
Blockchain
Vaccine Supply Chain

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Raval, Ronish Samir

Title:

STATE-OF-THE-ART DEEP LEARNING FOR MULTI-PRODUCT INTERMITTENT TIME SERIES FORECASTING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Time Series
Forecasting
Deep Learning
Statistical Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Hoffman, Michael L

Title:

Online Maintenance Prioritization via Monte Carlo Tree Search and Case-based Reasoning in Complex Manufacturing Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

maintenance optimization
condition-based maintenance
case-based reasoning
optimization via simulation
discrete event simulation
predictive maintenance
monte carlo tree search
artificial intelligence

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor
Russell Barton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Finke, Major Field Member
Michael Brundage, Special Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Eunhye Song, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Alotaik, Osama

Title:

Equitable Food Distribution - Modeling and Analysis of Food Banks Supply Chains Using Machine Learning and Recurrent Optimization-basedSimulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

food banks
supply chains
machine learning
simulation
food assistance
equitable distribution

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eunhye Song, Major Field Member
Saurabh Basu, Major Field Member
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Almasad, Abdullah

Title:

Sustainable Planet: Site Suitability Analysis for Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants Using Fuzzy MCDM and Network Science Based Approaches

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Geographical Information System
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process
Site Suitability Analysis
Graph Theory

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Major Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thamer Alquthami, Special Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Newton, Rob

Title:

Improving Equity in Decision Support Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Industrial Engineering
Operations Research
Equity
Decision Support Systems
Opioid Settlement
Facility Location
Deep Neural Network
Human Capital

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Jose Ventura, Major Field Member
Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Paul Griffin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Terry Harrison, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhou, Chen

Title:

Applications of Attention Networks in Healthcare and Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Deep learning
Transformer
Attention mechanism
Healthcare
Manufacturing

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jurado Guzman, Amanda Cristina

Title:

Data-Driven Detection and Characterization of Shocks in the Global Trade Network

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Supply chain
Resilience
Global trade
Trade shocks

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Christine Kirchhoff, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Leveraging Machine Learning for Analyzing Individual and Aggregate-Level Healthcare Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Healthcare
data analtics

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Unit & Field Member
Swaminathan P. Iyer, Special Member
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member
Kartik Ramakrishna, Special Member

Author:

Roh, Byeong Min

Title:

A V-Model Framework to Support Qualification of Metal Additive Manufacturing Parts Made with Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

V-ModelOntology
Sensors
V-Model
Quality Assurance
Metal Additive Manufacturing
Ontology
Data-Driven Modeling
In-Situ Monitoring
Sensor Selection
Printable Zone
Ontology-Driven Physics-Informed Neural Network
Monitoring and Quality Networks
Complex Systems

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Major Field Member
Paul Witherell, Special Member

Author:

Kumar, Vishnu

Title:

Supply Chain Resilience through Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Representation, Partnership Prediction, and Standardization using Graph Databases

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Supply Chain
Graph Database
Knowledge Graph
Machine Learning
Link Prediction
RDF
Manufacturing
BioPharma

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Outside Field Member
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Unit Member
Vijay Srinivasan, Special Member

Author:

Peck, William

Title:

Network Considerations for a Cloud Manufacturing Marketplace

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Industry 4.0
Cloud Manufacturing
Computer Vision
KAZE Descriptors
Discrete-Event Simulation
Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Major Field Member
Simon Miller, Outside Field Member
Russell Barton, Outside Unit Member
Daniel Finke, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dighe, Snehal Machhindra

Title:

Statistical and Deep Learning Time Series Forecasting for Inventory Optimization of Agricultural Products

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Time Series Forecasting
Demand Forecasting
SARIMA
MLP
LSTM
Inventory Optimization
Newsvendor Model
Exploratory Data Analysis
User Interface
Seasonality Study

File:

Download Thesis_MSIE_Snehal_Machhindra_Dighe.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Paul Griffin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kelly, Colin

Title:

NONUNIFORM APERTURE SAMPLING AND CENTER FREQUENCY RANDOMIZATION FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL RADAR IMAGING WITH SPARSE APERTURES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Synthetic Aperture Radar
3-D Radar Imaging
Sparse Apertures
Recursive Sidelobe Minimization
RSM-ACF
RSM
Ultra-Wideband Radar
Grating Lobe Suppression
Sidelobe Suppression

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven Bilén, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Phelan, Special Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Traian Dogaru, Special Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Ruimin

Title:

Data-driven Service Optimization and Quality Management in Cyber-physical Manufacturing Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Quality Management
Machine Learning
Service Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Yan Lu, Special Member

Author:

Idriss, Zacharie

Title:

Statistical and Computational Electromagnetic Approaches for the Feature Extraction of Buried Targets in Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Radar
Radar Imaging
Ground Penetrating Radar
Computational Electromagnetics
Feature Extraction
Waveform Design
Mutual Information
Matched Illumination
Compound Gaussian

File:

Download PhD_Disseration_Rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Raghu Raj, Special Member
Jesse Barlow, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gomez Sanchez, Michael Josue

Title:

Resilience, Vulnerability, and Fragility of the United States Supply Chains

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Resilience
Supply chain
Food systems
Network cascade model
Input-Output model
Food security

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Outside Field Member
James Shortle, Outside Unit Member
Alfonso Mejia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Caitlin Grady, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhu, Rui

Title:

Data-driven Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Sensor-integrated Complex Systems - Healthcare and Virtual Reality Applications

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Data-driven modeling
Sensor-integrated complex systems
Healthcare
Virtual Reality
Cardiovascular systems
Engineering problem solving

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Eunhye Song, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Faisal Aqlan, Special Member

Author:

Mathew, Vinay Saji

Title:

Unsupervised Embeddings and LLMs Based Methodology for Hypothesis Generation In Biomechanics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

NLP
Biomechanics
LLMs
Word2Vec
Hypothesis Generation

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Butler, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ayala, Harshita

Title:

Neural Embedded Optimization For Integrated Location and Routing Problems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Location Routing Problems
Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Mixed Integer Programming

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Committee Members:

Anirudh Subramanyam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair