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Author:

Petracca, Giuseppe

Title:

Regulating Programs’ Access To Privacy-Sensitive Sensors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

User Privacy
Privacy-Sensitive Sensors
Privacy Violations
Privacy Protection Mechanisms
System Sensors Abuse
Graphical User Interface Attacks
User-Initiated Operations
Confused Deputy Attacks
Mobile Systems Security

File:

Download Petracca_Dissertation_Document.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Thomas Laporta, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Chia, Nai Hui

Title:

Quantum Reductions from Hard problems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

quantum comoutation
cryptographically primitives
dihedral coset problem
worst-case to average-case reduction
quantum interactive proof
subset sum problem

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis-6.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Hallgren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Weiling

Title:

APPLICATIONS OF CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS TO ENTITY RESOLUTION AND HUMAN GENOME VARIATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

data mining
clustering
entity resolution
crowdsourcing
polymorphic HERV-K
human genome variation

File:

Download Weiling_Li-Dissertation-v1.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Acharya, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Outside Member

Author:

Iyengar, Anirudh Srikant

Title:

ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SECURE DESIGNS OF SPINTRONIC MEMORY: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Spintronics
Security
Camouflaging
PUF
NVFF
Secrecy and Privacy
Modeling

File:

Download Anirudh_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

Author:

Geng, Yeli

Title:

Energy-efficient Computation Offloading in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy consumption
Cellular phones
Computation offloading
Wireless communication.
Wireless communication

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Outside Member

Author:

Funk, Christopher A

Title:

On a Computation Model for Human and Machine Symmetry Perception

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Symmetry
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Wallpaper Groups
Topology Comparison
EEG

File:

Download ChristopherFunk-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanxi Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Chen

Title:

Scalable and Accurate Algorithms for Search in Genomic Big Data and Analysis of Genetic Variants

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Algorithm
Big Data
Database
Genomics
Probabilistic Data Structures
Data Mining
Parallel Computing
Bioinformatics
Genetic Variants
SNP
Computational Biology

File:

Download ChenSun_dissertation_v0830.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Michael Degiorgio, Outside Member

Author:

Rengasamy, Vasudevan

Title:

Engineering high performance workflows for end-to-end acceleration of genomic applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Variant detection
Metagenome assembly
Word2Vec
High performance computing

File:

Download vasudevan-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Yu San

Title:

Machine-Learning-Based Approaches for Learning Marketing Strategies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
deep learning
probabilistic generative model
marketing
crowdfunding
menu design
competition
word worth
reward
kickstarter

File:

Download yusan-Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Shan, Yuquan

Title:

Resource Management and Security in Distributed Computing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Resource Scheduling
DDoS Attack

File:

Download Yuquan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Chiara Lo Prete, Outside Member